I am imprisoned in Kaifeng Mansion

Seeing this, everyone immediately tried to separate the straw sandal boy from Han Qi, but the straw sandal boy grabbed Han Qi's robe and refused to let go.Cui Tao immediately drew out the yamen servant's knife, and cut off Han Qi's burning robe, revealing the white silk mid-sole that he was wearing inside.

When Wang Zhao saw the fire, he instinctively looked for water, so he found a teapot to put out the fire. When Cui Tao cut off his robe, a pot of herbal tea was poured on Han Qi.The weather in Quanzhou is hot, and the coat is thin and white, and the water soaks through when splashed, and the tea leaves are hung.

Cui Tao was going to ask Han Qi if he had any burns, but when Han Qi turned his back to him, he realized that 'men and women are different'.She immediately turned around and told Zhang Chang to take care of Han Qi, it was best to change clothes in time to check the wound, and apply medicine as soon as possible to avoid infection.

"There are me and Inspector Wang here, please rest assured, Officer Han Tui."

Hearing a low 'um' from behind, Cui Tao immediately went to check on the situation of the straw sandal boy.

The yamen servants had put out the fire on the straw-sandal boy with water. The fire started on the sleeves, and there were severe burns on the arms and waist, but the injuries were not fatal.The straw sandal boy had fallen into a coma. Cui Tao checked his head and found a large red swelling. He should have kowtowed when he fell to the ground.

Then everyone moved the straw sandal boy to the couch for diagnosis and treatment. The doctor first applied medicine to the wound, and Cui Tao then administered the needle.

The straw sandal boy woke up at this moment, looked at Cui Tao with half-closed eyes weakly, and moved his lips.

Seeing that he was eager to speak, Cui Tao moved her ears closer to listen.

The straw sandal boy's lips moved twice again.

"Swear allegiance to the death and never repent."

Then the person passed out again.

I struggled hard for a long time, just to say such a sentence.

The sudden sight of the straw sandal boy just now had already surprised everyone, but now that he was seriously injured and endured the pain, and he persisted like this, everyone couldn't help marveling at the will of the straw sandal boy.Such a young child is willing to suffer, to show his absolute loyalty until his death.

"Although he is a criminal, his dedication to swear to death is admirable." A yamen servant whispered with emotion, which immediately attracted the echo of many yamen servants around him.

"Admiration?" Cui Tao sneered, apparently disagreeing.

The yamen servant explained to Cui Tao: "We didn't agree that he did the right thing. We just admired him for his dedication to swear allegiance to the death at such a young age. Adults may not be able to do it. Could it be possible to feel this way? What's wrong?"

Several yamen servants followed suit, and the prisoner should be punished as it should be, but the boy's persistence without fear of death is indeed amazing.

"Of course it's wrong, it's wrong."

The spirit of loyalty until death is admirable, but look at the child lying on the ground, how old is it?They were only seven or eight years old, and those children in Anding Village all started doing life-threatening jobs at a young age.They are still children, how much can they understand?Do they really know what the world is like?What is true loyalty and filial piety?

These children, young and inexperienced in the world, were deliberately instilled with a life of "no choice" when they were still a blank slate in terms of cognition.Like puppets on a string, they have no ego, no thoughts, they are at their disposal, and they don't even take their own lives seriously.

Isn't it an extremely sad and terrible thing when this happens to people, especially children?

This is not a respectable spirit of loyalty at all, but an abominable spirit of instigation and control.

"What is spiritual instigation and control?" Wang Zhao somewhat understood the words, but still wanted an accurate explanation.

"Using various immoral mental manipulation methods such as instigation, temptation, and coercion, to persuade others to change according to their own wishes, and to obey their own command and control. Those women who were kept as slaves by Lin Sanlang in the case of Jiao Corpse, Then there was the situation of being mentally controlled. There is also the boy Wanzhong who committed suicide in front of the Kaifeng mansion, he was instigated by Lin Sanlang, so he thought of committing suicide for a while."

After listening to Cui Tao's explanation, everyone realized the seriousness of the problem. They only lamented the behavior of the straw sandal boy who was not afraid of death, but ignored the truth behind the boy and how dark it was.

"Well, think about it, how can a child who doesn't even have his own real name be a normal person."

"The two situations just exemplified are still relatively light instigation and control. As long as they are rescued in time, they can wake up. The method described in "Que Yingshu" is a deep instigation and control method. Long-term control People in that situation are not so easily awakened."

Cui Tao looked down at the unconscious straw sandal boy.

"Even if the fire burns my body, I can't wake up."

In the past three days, everyone has tortured the people arrested in Anding Village, but they are all like logs. No matter how you interrogate them, it is difficult to get anything out of their mouths.In the end, it took a lot of effort, and finally asked for some evidence, but it was just superficial and not very useful.

""Que Yingshu" was burned." Han Qi changed into a green shirt and entered the door.

"Burn?" Wang Zhao looked at Han Qi in surprise, "How could it be burned? Before we came to the warehouse, didn't we put it on the public case intact? Could it be that there were traitors among the guards who stayed in the house and tampered with it? "

Therefore, Wang Zhao thought of Sun Zhixiao, who hated traitors the most, and wished he could tear them apart with his own hands.Because Han Tuiguan wanted to go fishing through him for a long time, he just endured and did not touch him.

"No one came close, it burned by itself, just like this child." Han Qi approached, looked at the situation of the straw sandal boy, and asked Cui Tao if he knew the reason for his spontaneous combustion.

Cui Tao: "Generally, this kind of situation is mostly related to the fire sickle."

Most of the straw-sandal boy's clothes had been burned and splashed with water, so it was impossible to find any remnants of the scythe.

"The "Que Yingshu" on the public case ignited spontaneously when the sun hit the table. The fire on his body started from the cuffs, which must have hidden a scythe in the cuffs. When writing, he took the opportunity to mix the scythe into the ink. The ink characters absorb more heat after being exposed to light, which causes the paper to spontaneously ignite." Han Qi explained.

"What a wonderful move!" Wang Zhao and others couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

As long as the paper is exposed to light, or a little friction causes the local temperature to rise, the written Que Yingshu will spontaneously ignite.The hot weather in Quanzhou can easily cause the scythe to ignite spontaneously. The straw-shoe boy didn't want to hand over "Que Yingshu" at all, but because he wanted to make a bet with Han Qi, he was sure that Han Qi would lose a lot of people by opening the coffin, so he had to take out a part of Que Yingshu Make bait.If they failed, they jumped over the wall in a hurry, started a fire, and pulled a back.

"Let him rest for a good night, and he must not be exposed to the wind, otherwise he will easily get hot." After applying the medicine to the straw sandal boy, the doctor instructed Wang Zhao and others.

Wang Zhao immediately led people to close the doors and windows, and locked them from the outside, and sent more than 30 people to guard outside the courtyard to ensure that not a single mosquito could fly in.

After a night of heavy wind and heavy rain, many branches in the government office were broken.

After the rain stopped, Cui Tao brought the doctor to change the straw sandal boy's dressing, and smelled a faint smell of paste before entering the door.

"What's the smell?" Cui Tao frowned and asked.

"I smelled this smell before dawn. This place is close to the kitchen. It's probably the smell of burning pig wool when they were busy cooking."

The yamen servant guarding the courtyard was wet from the rain and was not yet dry, and his nasal voice was a bit heavy when he spoke. It can be seen that he was exposed to the rain when he was guarding last night, and he was a little bit cold.Cui Tao asked the kitchen to make some ginger soup, and let them drink it when they changed shifts.

The doctor pondered for a moment, then hurriedly said that something was wrong, "The villain was making medicine in the kitchen early in the morning, and he just came from the kitchen. The kitchen didn't make these this morning."

Cui Tao sniffled, feeling that the smell was coming from the room.The yamen servant has a stuffy nose, and it was windy last night, so he probably didn't notice the unusual smell.

She kicked the door open, and a more intense burnt smell wafted out from inside.There was a pile of ashes in the center of the ground, and the skull could be clearly identified. The bones of the limbs and torso showed signs of carbonization. One of the leg bones was broken, and the bone marrow inside was flowing out.

Wang Zhao was shocked when he saw this, and went to look at the bed where the straw-sandal boy should have been lying, but the person and the quilt were gone.

"This...is this escape?" Wang Zhao immediately called the guards outside the courtyard to come in and question.

The guards shouted their grievances, and assured them again and again: "The subordinates are all guarding outside without blinking. It is absolutely impossible for someone to come in and out without noticing."

"That person can't escape." Cui Tao checked the windows of the house, they were all locked and there were no traces of man-made damage. "This pile of ashes is him."

"How is this possible? There is not even a firewood in the house, and he was burned to ashes lying on the ground alone, with no flesh left? Impossible, absolutely impossible! If you want to burn people like this The whole room should be on fire."

Wang Zhao had never seen such a strange thing, he couldn't believe it.

"Why did the lamp burn out?"

Wang Zhao was taken aback by Cui Tao's rhetorical question, "What does this have to do with oil lamps?"

"Of course it has something to do with it. His burning is similar to that of an oil lamp. The sebum is cracked by burning, and the melted oil soaks the clothes. This is like the lamp oil in the oil lamp. It is used to support the wick to burn slowly until it is completely burned out. until."

Because the house was already lit with lights, it was very bright, and the smoke from the slow burning was scattered by the wind and rain outside. In addition, the guards were guarding in the rain outside the courtyard, their eyes were often wet by the rain, and they did not notice the house. The situation here is not surprising.Afterwards, when the wind and rain stopped and the bodies were almost burnt out, it was even harder to notice.

Cui Tao pointed to some yellow sticky matter left next to the ashes, and told Wang Zhao that these were the grease flowing from people's bodies, because they did not get on the clothes and quilts, so they were not completely burned and remained.

The yamen servants present were horrified when they heard Cui Tao's description, especially when they saw the yellow slime, their stomachs couldn't help but start to churn.It's not that they haven't seen more horrific death scenes, but they can't imagine that this kind of death is happening to a child under their guard, it is too cruel.

"Why does he have to do this?"

"I just want to die, think about it."

Because the clothes were burned and the wounds were treated with medicine, the straw-sandal boy did not wear any clothes.So when he woke up, he probably went down to the ground wrapped in a quilt, trying to burn himself with an oil lamp.The lamp oil soaked into the quilt, and after burning, it caused his burnt wound to crack, and then formed the wick effect.

Wang Zhao immediately went to Han Qi to make amends, blaming himself for not arranging properly, and should have kept someone in the house to guard him.

"If you are weak like that, you want to die. Even if you avoid this time, there will be a next time. If a person really wants to die, no one can stop him." Han Qi sorted out the silently written things and handed them to Cui Tao, said to Wang Zhao, "However. You did have negligence this time, so write it down first, and you will be punished if you commit the crime again."

Wang Zhao quickly thanked him for agreeing.

Cui Tao took what he wrote from Han Qi's hand, and after a closer look, it turned out to be "Que Yingshu".Unexpectedly, Han Qi watched it for a while and remembered all the content.

"Han Tuiguan really has a photographic memory!" Cui Tao immediately praised.

Han Qi shook his head, "It's just that I have memorized a lot of books and my memory is good. Some parts are not in the original text, so I take the general meaning."

"That's amazing!" Cui Tao took advantage of the situation and continued to praise.

Han Qi couldn't help twitching the corner of his mouth, and took a special look at Cui Tao.

"But this child really...doesn't even cry out in pain." Wang Zhao didn't pay attention to the interaction between the two, and was still sighing about the scene he had just seen.

"Sometimes the mental torture is far more cruel and terrifying than the physical one. This "Que Yingshu" should not be preserved."

Cui Tao frowned after carefully reading the two pages.Before, she just glanced at it roughly, not looking carefully enough, but now the more she looks at it, the more she realizes how terrifying this thing is.The purpose of this book is to first destroy people's original will, and constantly use brainwashing methods to make them rebuild a "belief" of self-sacrifice, thus cultivating one after another killing tools that don't feel pain and are not afraid of death.It is also very particular about selecting people, and it is best to select those children who have a simple experience but have perseverance.

"It just so happened that the only person who knew about it died. We only have the first half, so we just burn it." Wang Zhao said immediately.

Cui Tao shook her head, "But not necessarily, don't forget there is still a 'Baozhu'."

"cough--

Keke cough—"

Han Qi coughed suddenly, Cui Tao was about to ask him what's the matter, when he saw another sharp cough with blood on the corner of his mouth.