Li Ziyu felt a cold air creeping up her back and shivered involuntarily. There are thousands of kinds of activities in the world, ranging from plundering, deception to murder. The most terrifying thing is the harvesting and cutting.
The so-called "picking and cutting" is the most vicious and vicious form of professional beggars. Artificially creating some cripples or "monsters" as a guise to win sympathy from the world, or soliciting publicity to obtain a large amount of money from passers-by.
"Collect" means to take and collect; "sheng" means raw material, raw materials, usually children with normal development; "cut" means to chop with knife and axe. To put it simply, it is to capture a normal living person, especially a child, and use knives, axes, and other methods to turn him into a strange and disabled monster.
When Li Ziyu was a child, she heard many similar things said by her elders, such as a beggar who used an abducted child to make a deformed man with a big head: he bought a large vat and just put the child in it, with his head exposed at the bottom of the vat. Knock off a large piece for excretion. The child couldn't move inside, and after a few years the jar was smashed. The child only has a head but not a body. He looks like a big-headed baby. Because his limbs cannot move, they are completely atrophied. His arms and legs are as soft as cotton and can be manipulated at will. If you lure a monster, wherever you take it, it will attract a lot of curious onlookers. Even if he caught him, he couldn't do anything. He insisted that the child was his, and he was born like this.
There are also market legends of "creating animals" - piercing the skin of the human body, killing the animal, skinning it and wrapping it while it is hot, and then the human being is transformed into a living dog, monkey, etc., which is used to beg and perform in exchange for money. ―It even made Li Ziyu often have nightmares at night when she was young.
Later, he became a policeman, and in his spare time, he also heard about similar cases from his old boss. Doing this can be regarded as a "craft", and it is mostly passed down from generation to generation in the family. Those who work in this business must first find raw materials and raw materials. They mostly prey on the weak such as women and children. Women are called "Tiaozi" and children are called "Shitou". When "collecting raw materials", various deceptions are often used, such as a family member suffering from a serious illness, an emergency at home, or using items to lure women and children. Some also use drugs to "shoot flowers". With one move, several people took action at the same time, and immediately ran away after they succeeded. The methods of "cutting" are all bizarre and extremely cruel. The abducted people had their eyes blinded, or their faces were disfigured, or part of their limbs were cut off, or they were artificially made with various disabilities. Then they pretended to be a family and went around begging, making various pitiable appearances to get money and things.
This business is very profitable, but because the methods are extremely cruel, it has been a serious crime in all dynasties, and it has been punished by Lingchi since the Yuan Dynasty. However, due to the huge profits, this "craft" has never disappeared. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, a one-stop service of abduction-transportation-processing-sales was even formed.
Cases of harvesting and harvesting have also been uncovered in the past under the Guangzhou government. However, this is mostly due to chance and attracts the attention of the chief officer or the police. In most cases, as long as you are not "picking and cutting" on the ground, but just begging with the "products", the government will not interfere. On the one hand, if you ask the other party, you can insist that they are a family. The victim is often blind and mute, so it is difficult to ask the origin of the case; secondly, the government generally adheres to the principle that more things are worse than less things. Beggars must register at the Guandi Temple when begging, and the Guandi Temple pays filial piety on a monthly basis, so the police are generally not willing to bring shame on the people of the Guandi Temple.
"Even if I'm lying, this is a top-notch case." Gao Chongjiu said, "I'll be busy for a while."
Li Ziyu hurriedly said: "I would also like to ask Master Jiu for more support."
"Why are you so polite? We are all our own people." Gao Chongjiu said with a smile, "Don't worry about Ming Nu. I will ask people to continue looking for her!"
"Thank you Master Jiu."
A "brother" came over and saw Li Ziyu standing aside. He hesitated for a moment. Li Ziyu tried to avoid him, but Gao Chongjiu said: "Ayu is one of our own, but it doesn't matter."
He whispered: "Master Jiu, someone from Guandi Temple just came to say hello and said that a high-ranking person would like to greet you. He didn't dare to ask Master Jiu to show his respect. He only asked Master Jiu to take care of you."
Gao Chongjiu smiled: "This old boy, the news comes quickly!" He asked again, "How can Gao Tuantou respond?"
"Brother" nodded towards the few people tied up in the courtyard, "There is a rich man in there, and he is full of evil."
Gao Chongjiu smiled and said nothing.
"What should I do, Mr. Jiu?" This "brother" blinked and looked at the "boss". As long as the boss spoke, even if someone was watching, he would still call the prisoner "died of sudden illness."
"This thing can't be done." Gao Chongjiu said simply, "Go back to the people he sent. Now the rules are different from those of Fake Ming. I forgive my brother for not taking good care of him. Please take care of yourself and worry less. In a few days He will hold a birthday party next month, and I will go to celebrate his birthday."
"Brother" nodded and took the order and left. Li Ziyu was a little worried - he knew Gao Tianshi's name: he was a top figure in the city bureau. The leader of the Guandi Temple troops has amazing power in the city of Guangzhou. Less than half an hour after they rushed into the inn, he not only knew about it, but also sent out lobbyists. No wonder the security department is extremely interested in the situation of the Guandi Temple troops.
Thinking about this "Master Jiu", he also had amazing energy - he originally thought that Gao Chongjiu was just an experienced and well-connected old businessman, but he didn't expect that even someone like Gao Tianshi would call him a brother.
Not to mention, there were quite a few Kuaiban yamen who had friendships with Gao Tianshi, or even had deep friendships with them, but none of them were retained, and some were simply "liquidated." And Master Jiu was not only retained by Tai Tai, but he also quickly became an official criminal police officer - which shows that Australians also have considerable trust in him.
"This group of people is not simple. There is actually Gao Tuan who is behind the scenes." Gao Chongjiu said and touched his chin.
"Master Jiu!" A "brother" came over nervously and said, "Come over and take a look, this place is fucking unclean!"
Gao Chongjiu didn't seem surprised. He followed his "brother" into one of the thatched huts and saw an altar table in the middle, with incense burners and other items scattered around. A few sticks of incense sticks were not extinguished. It seems that there was a god in the room, but it is gone now. However, there are all kinds of "evil objects" scattered everywhere in the room: wooden seals with talismans carved on them, red and black ropes, various paper figures, Zhu books with talismans, and large and small There are seven or eight small gourds with a red-headed rope tied on them and wrapped with five-color velvet.
Li Ziyu looked at the items in the room with disgust and recited the Diamond Sutra silently in her heart. Gao Chongjiu looked solemn and looked at each item silently. After a while, he said, "No wonder the old guy Gao Tianshi is so anxious!" He pointed at these objects and said, "Do you know what these are?"
"They always use all kinds of evil things."
"Each of these seven or eight gourds contains a living soul." Gao Chongjiu breathed heavily, "This group of people is not just cutting and making livestock, they are gathering raw materials."
Li Ziyu was startled, and subconsciously leaned towards the door, stammering: "This, this, this, it doesn't matter, right? How about we invite a few Taoist monks to do a ritual ceremony first?"
Gao Chongjiu shook his head and said: "We will do the legal work later. Don't worry. It is a great merit for us to solve this case. These lonely ghosts who died unjustly will only be grateful to you," he sighed. He put his hands together and muttered a few rebirth mantras.
Gao Chongjiu said that "caisheng" in "picking and cutting" actually has another meaning: killing living people and harvesting their souls for driving purposes. There is a whole set of magic rituals when killing people. After killing a person, his soul is collected in the gourd and can be driven by the owner to cause trouble at any time.
Li Ziyu was horrified when he heard this. He never thought that there was such a spooky and terrifying thing in the world. He couldn't help but take a few steps closer to the door.
"I have been a police officer for more than 30 years, and I have only encountered this kind of case once." Gao Chongjiu sighed with emotion, "I didn't expect that you would encounter it within a year of being a police officer."
I don't know if this is lucky or unfortunate. Li Ziyu secretly laughed at himself. However, he also knows that the most important thing when handling cases is the accumulation of experience. Following a veteran policeman like Gao Chongjiu in handling cases, he has really gained a lot of knowledge. If it were anyone else, he would probably still be "not gay".
Gao Chongjiu had no intention of leaving. He checked the room carefully for a while, then suddenly walked to the door and asked, "The woman was talking about a boy, have you found it?"
"Brother" said: "No one was found."
"Call a few brothers to come and dig around in this house." Gao Chongjiu said, "I think the smell in this house is wrong."
After a while, two or three people came in. They did things in a very orderly manner. They first lifted up the bamboo couch next to the wall. One of the "brothers" twisted the soil on the ground with his fingers and said, "It's new soil!"
"dig!"
Gao Chongjiu gave an order, and several people started working together. They immediately dug up the soil under the couch. Without digging too deep, they dug out a large piece of purple-black soil - soaked with blood. A few people became energetic and worked harder. After a while, someone shouted: "Be careful! We have it!"
Several people slowly put down their shovels and soon dug out the bones of a child from the ground. It had probably not been long since the burial, and the body had not hardened yet. The body was covered with wet mud and sand. Gao Chongjiu asked him to place a reed mat outside and place the body on it.
Although the body was covered with sand and mud, one could still see the horrific conditions of the killing. The facial features, nose, mouth, lips, tongue, ear tips, and eyes were all cut off or gouged out. The tips of the hands and toes were also shaved off. The upper body was naked, and the chest The abdomen was cut open and filled with mud. I don’t know what organs were removed.
"Master Jiu, do you want some water to wash it off?" a "brother" asked.
"No need, this is a matter for others. Let's not touch the body." Gao Chongjiu said, "The Australians will send someone to do an autopsy."
Li Ziyu took one look and couldn't bear to watch anymore. When he fled to Zhaoqing, he also saw many corpses floating on the Xijiang River, but this was the first time he saw such a tragic scene.
"It's too bad," he murmured.
