Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen Zombie Wife Ghost Child

The deeds of Guo Deyou, the god of the river, after adding more oil and vinegar, spread like a rumor with legs, and spread quickly after liberation, and an unexpected person came to his door. The Public Security Bureau rode home. Since the Helong Temple Yizhuang was demolished, he moved to Guanshang Doumiao Temple Hutong. It was also a large one-story house that was not built until the 1930s and 1940s. Temple, so it is called Doumiao Temple Hutong. There are also the ruins of this temple in the alley before liberation. There are many temples and churches in the old Tianjin Wei Temple. Doumo Temple is one of them. It is also called Taiping Palace. Its full name is Huguo Taiping Pantao Palace. The temple, the so-called Wuxian God of Wealth, refers to five sworn brothers with different surnames and a character in their names. They were rich in wealth during their lifetime, and often donated money to the poor. They went to give ingots to poor families at night. The God of Wealth, in the past traditions, has the custom of burning incense and borrowing ingots from the second to fifth day of the Lunar New Year in the Temple of the Wealth God, and a temple fair is held every year when the temple opens on the second day of the first lunar month.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Temple of the God of Wealth of Wuxian was destroyed by floods, and the imperial court ordered a temple to be built here to worship the Queen Mother of the West and the Eight-armed Doulou. The Doumo Temple was built on an earthen platform. It is dedicated to the Dou Lao empress with three eyes, four heads and eight arms. There is also a Mount Ao in the main hall, which depicts the scene of immortals coming from all directions to visit the Queen Mother of the West in the palace. There was an endless stream of faithful men and women seeking heirs.

It is said that the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the birthday of the Queen Mother of the West, and a temple fair is held every year. The temple fair is in the late spring and early summer, and the weather is pleasant, so it is very lively. OK, there are many stalls on both sides of the road, and the shouts of selling medicine, sugar, and grilled jelly can be heard one after another, and one voice can be heard for two miles. It may be due to too much incense, a fire broke out at the temple fair in the year of Xinhai, and the whole Dou Lao Palace was burned. In the ruins, only a stone lion was left for the Queen Mother to guard the gate of the palace. In the 1930s, houses were built one after another. The stone lion is still at the entrance of Doumo Temple Hutong. This incomplete stone lion looks like a door pier, but unfortunately it is not a pair.

In the old days, in front of the house, there were mostly door piers carved from stone, which were placed on the door shafts, also called door pillows or door drums, and some places were called Baogu stones, which played the role of protecting the door shafts and town houses. The most common door piers It is in the shape of a lion, because the lion is the king of beasts, and the lion is homonymous with "shi, heir, and matter". Four lions are called four generations living together. Alluding to the prosperity of the descendants, there are many rumors. Master Guo likes the stone lion in front of his house very much. If Master Guo's master is still alive, he will not be as old as this stone lion. He often sits on this stone lion when he goes to enjoy the shade in the alley in summer. He slept soundly, but when he saw the stone lion at the door of his house one day, he was puzzled: "The lion at the door ran away by itself?"

Mr. Guo first pushed the bicycle into the house. Back then, the bicycle was the most valuable thing in the family. The unit issued it and couldn’t afford to throw it away. He didn’t dare to leave it at the door. He pushed the bicycle into the house and asked his wife, “Where is the lion at our house?” The daughter-in-law said: "During the daytime, the road was built at the entrance of the alley, and the workers were moved to fill the road hole." Master Guo said: "How could such a thing be destroyed? That stone lion is older than my master's master's master's master's master's master's master's age. Why let them use it to fill road holes?"

The daughter-in-law said, "It's not our family's property, and I don't care about it." Master Guo said: "It's a pity, I have to dig it out someday." The daughter-in-law said: "Old Guo, don't worry too much. Be careful that people will report you. Quickly wash your face and eat first. When you have free time, uprooting that pomegranate tree in the alley will be a serious matter." There is a pomegranate tree in the alley of Doumiao Temple, it is a dead tree, and it will not bear fruit long ago. People in old Tianjin Wei are superstitious and taboo to have a pomegranate tree in front of their house. A pack of pomegranates is full of seeds, also known as Baiziguo. The pronunciation of Baizi is the same as Bai, and Baizi means Baizi, which means never to be born.

Master Guo said that the old lady was superstitious, so he ignored it. He washed his face and ate. How could he know that the stone lion at the door was gone? At home that night for dinner, the daughter-in-law cooked lotus leaf porridge. In the past, common people liked to cook this kind of porridge in summer. The steaming white porridge turns light green, and the aroma of lotus leaves overflows. At this time, remove the fire and put the pot on, cover the pot and keep it stuffy until the aroma of lotus leaves disperses into the porridge. This kind of unique mellow, once you have a bite, you will never forget it. Serve it on the table with a plate of shredded radish mixed with vinegar and chili oil, and eat it with stick noodle pancakes. The master saw that the weather was humid even in rainy days, and the wall in the house had fallen off in several places. He wanted to find a free day and paper again. Thinking of this, he couldn't help feeling a few words with his wife. It is used to paste the wall and make cardboard boxes, and discuss with the daughter-in-law what to have for dinner tomorrow night. The daughter-in-law plans to make noodles with sesame sauce, and asks him to bring two catties of cut noodles on the way back from work, or else it is elm chaff corn bread, a common meal in summer It's nothing more than these.Master Guo said: "You are not in good health, so you can't eat these all the time. You have to eat some good supplements. In the future, I still expect you to give birth to a boy and a half girl. It doesn't matter whether it's a boy or a girl. With such a child, after we die , there must be someone who pays homage to the grave."

The couple were talking about the trivial matters of living at home, and they had long forgotten the stone lion. After eating, the daughter-in-law cleaned up the dishes, and it was raining outside. Master Guo sat in the front room pasting paper boxes and told the daughter-in-law that he would sell some tomorrow The white mutton head meat was brought to the family for dinner. Master Guo knew that there was a Ma Huihui who made the white water mutton head. It is as thin as paper, sprinkled with salt and pepper flour crumbs, it can be called endless taste. In summer, you pay attention to iced, and you don’t taste the taste. Just listening to his yelling can attract people’s souls. Master Guo loves to eat and knows how to eat , I just don’t have any money. Speaking of these things, I will buy the leftover white water lamb head meat from other people’s stalls tomorrow. Not only will it be much cheaper, but the taste will not be out of shape. The couple talked for a while, and Master Guo asked his wife to go to the back room to sleep first. , he wanted to paste a few more cartons, but before he knew it, in the middle of the night, the rain outside stopped, Master Guo yawned, there were still a dozen cartons left, he was so sleepy that he couldn’t keep his eyes open, he was so tired My back is sore and my arms are hurting, and I can’t see things clearly. I intend to save it until tomorrow morning when I wake up. At this time, I heard the door knocking lightly. It seems that someone wants to push the door in. Pushing very lightly, if it’s not for midnight, I won’t sleep. He would hear it, and he thought to himself: "Break into the house at night, rape or robbery, who is outside pushing the door of our house in the middle of the night?"

The night is too late. No neighbors will come to visit at this time. Even if someone comes to look for it, they should knock on the door instead of pushing the door secretly. The land of Doumiao Temple Hutong is clean. It was originally a place to burn incense and worship gods. It has been more than a hundred years There is no grave, so I don’t suspect it’s a ghost. There used to be a thief calling the door Chong’er, waiting for the dead of night when the chickens didn’t bark and the dog didn’t bite. They would quietly open the door from house to house. Pushing open the door, tiptoeing into the house in the dark, thieves don't leave empty space, they steal whatever they find, and sometimes use a knife to poke the door bolt, push the door bolt and then enter the house, the old people in the family used to never forget Tell the younger generation: "Be sure to close the door tightly when you sleep in the middle of the night, and don't let the door bugs sneak in!" dead.

Master Guo is a public security after all, and the public security on the water is also a public security. Of course, he is not afraid of "door worms". He dared to push the door while the light inside was still on, is that okay?" But there was an interrogator stuck in the door, and there was a bar against it, so he couldn't push it open from the outside. Went to intervene to pull open the door, and looked out with a stick. The rest of the houses in the alley had already gone to sleep, there were no street lights in this place, and it was dark outside the door, and there was no one.

Master Guo thought: "Isn't this strange? If the thief heard the door open and fled, it is impossible that there were no footsteps and went to the room?" Thinking of this, he raised his eyes to look up, it was too dark, and he looked at everything for a long time He couldn't see, and he couldn't feel anything. He felt bored in his heart. He was just about to close the door and go back to sleep when he heard the sound of "chi-chi-chi-chi-chi" from the opposite side. The sound was not loud, but it sounded very real late at night. The black lights are blind, although they are not far away, they can't see what is calling there. There is a door lamp in front of the house. Master Guo pulled down the lamp rope by the door. It was really strange. There was a big mouse with gray back hair at the door of the house. He didn't run away, just squatted there and looked at him. Master Guo knew that it was the big mouse pushing the door, so he waved to chase him away: "Go! There is no food for you in this room." Master Guo blew it a few times, and saw that the big mouse was still lingering, as if it wanted to do something, and he couldn't ask, and he couldn't figure it out. It was so puzzling. The temple is full of incense, and the back hall is dedicated to the eight-armed grandma, and every few days when the temple fair is held, hundreds of oil lamps will be placed in front of the statue of the grandma. At that time, many mice will come to the temple. Stealing the sesame oil from the oil lamps in the hall, and eating butter candles, the group of rats seems to have spirituality, never dare to go through the main entrance, always sneak in through the hole in the wall of the back hall, these rats will not appear when there is no temple fair, good men and women I think the mice are also immortals, and they come to the temple to pay homage to the Queen Mother of the West and the Empress Dou Lao, so I don't harm them, and I often turn a blind eye to their behavior of stealing oil and wax. Master Guo thought: "Ordinary mice should be afraid of people. Why would they come to push the door in the middle of the night? They don't run away when they see the lights? What's more strange is that they don't usually come, but today the lion guarding the door was moved to fill the road hole. This mouse dared to come, is it really the mouse fairy who stole lamp oil in the temple back then?" Master Guo recalled the legend of the temple mouse gnawing on candles. Such a big white-backed mouse was rare. Walk? Just wondering, the mouse turned around and walked along the wall. Master Guo thought he was thinking too much. Seeing the mouse left, he also wanted to go back to sleep, but the mouse stopped not far away, twisted Stare back at him. Master Guo said in his heart: "Are you asking me to follow?" He went back to the house and took the flashlight, then closed the door and followed the mouse, wanting to see what was going on. Baarmaomu Temple Hutong is half a suburb, and its location is quite remote. Going north from the entrance of the Hutong, it is a huge ash pit, the size of two stadiums combined, and there are no houses around. It was full of reed fields back then. When Doumo Temple burned reeds to collect soil, a large rectangular pit was formed. The soil quality in the pit was not good, and it was filled with dark gray silt, so it was called the ash pit. Two different things, the ash pit is full of water during the hot rainy season, and the stench is suffocating. Artemisia weeds as tall as a person grows on the mud at the bottom of the pit, and mosquitoes breed. There are no fish in the water, but there are many toad seedlings. Commonly known as toad seedlings, they are nothing more than tadpoles that grow up to become toads. After someone makes a small net with wire gauze, they squat to the edge of the pit to catch toad seedlings to play with. Both adults and children will slide down without paying attention. When they came up, they got stuck in the muddy and smelly water and drowned. At least two or three people died every year in the ash pit. Master Guo followed the mouse and walked to the edge of the ash pit. He couldn't find the mouse any more, maybe there was a hole somewhere, and he went along the hole. Seeing that the surrounding grass covered people, it was pitch black with no lights, and there was no one in the middle of the night. , There was not even the cry of toads in the field. This situation made him feel a little scared, and he heard the clock above Qiaolou striking three o'clock and three o'clock from a distance. Since the construction of Tianjin City in the Ming Dynasty, there have been Drum Towers and Bell Towers in the old city. The method of telling the time with morning bells and evening drums has continued for hundreds of years as a tradition, and it was gradually abolished after the 1950s. At that time, few people could afford watches. , People are used to listening to bells and drums telling the time. At that time, there were many bungalows, and the flat land was open, and the sound could be heard far away when there were a dozen watches on the drum tower. There are five shifts in one night, and each shift is an hour, and one hour is equivalent to two hours. One or nine o'clock in the evening is the fixed shift, and the third shift is around midnight. It will not affect the people's sleep. After dawn, the drums are played first and then the bells. When Master Guo heard that the drums in the city are beating the third watch, he said to himself: "I followed a mouse into the wilderness in the middle of the night. I am full." Do you hold it?" It was ridiculous to think about it, and turned to leave, when the flashlight shone on the water surface of the ash pit, and vaguely saw a white thing. That place is a dead corner of the Great Ash Pit. People who fish for toad seedlings usually don’t come here. Even if someone else sees it, they won’t be overwhelmed. But what are Master Guo’s eyes for? The thing in there was a dead body, floating face down and back up on the surface of the water. The ash pit was full of foul-smelling mud and water plants, and the water in the pit did not flow. This person has been in that untouched place since his death. The wormwood was half hidden, half exposed, swollen and fat because of the soaking. It was the hot season, and white maggots had grown on the body of the dead. Master Guo saw a dead body in the ash pit. It was hot and full of maggots, so he couldn't salvage it at night, so he had to go back first, and asked Ding Mao to go to the police station to find someone. When it was dawn, he tied a noose and dragged the body When I came up, there were clothes, shoes and socks on the body of the dead body. Residents who looked at the dead body identified the dead body as a young man who lived in Xiaowangzhuang, not far from the ash pit. He went out a few days ago and never came back. Slid into the ash pit and drowned. This place is so remote, how did Master Guo find it? Lao Liang from the Public Security Bureau was also surprised, and asked Master Guo how he found the dead man?Master Guo said it was a coincidence, last night there was a rat attack in our house, and we came here after chasing that big rat, only to see a dead man full of maggots in the ash pit. The old people living around said: This is no coincidence, who do you know is dead?The ancestor of this young man was a well-known Sun Shanren in the local area. He opened a Sun Ji grocery store. , the old shopkeeper of Sunji Miscellaneous Shop, devoted all his life to accumulating virtue and doing good deeds, sweeping the floor without hurting the lives of ants, and catching a lice on his body would not bear to crush him to death. There are many rats, and every year at the temple fair, they come to steal lamp oil and eat candles, and the fire workers who look at the incense in the temple are not forgiving, and they plan to clean up these rats. How many candles were bitten off and how much lamp oil was stolen, the old shopkeeper of Sun Ji's miscellaneous shop doubled the account and returned it to Huogongdao. Mouse, bring Master Guo here, otherwise, who would find this dead body in such a remote place?According to folklore, Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu and Hui belong to the five families, and the mouse is the Hui family, especially the mice that live in the temple all the year round. Who dares to say that they have no spirituality? People talked and talked, and they talked about causal superstition. Master Guo knew how many bowls of dry rice he had eaten, and when he saw Lao Liang's ashen face, he hurriedly asked everyone to stop talking.But those people are still talking about it, and they also said that there was a case of an old cow complaining about grievances in the Qing Dynasty. A villager was killed in a dispute with others. The murderer buried the body of the villager in the wild field on the road. The murderer thought that the old cow led by the farmer could see whoever wanted to kill and bury the corpse without anyone knowing. Later, the farmer's family took the old cow to plow the land. Every time they walked past the place where the corpse was buried, The old cow knelt down and wept, and refused to leave no matter how hard it was beaten. People felt that the old cow's behavior was abnormal. When they dug up the ground and saw the dead body of the victim, they reported to the official and solved the case. As a matter of fact, since there were old cows complaining about grievances in the past, it is not uncommon for this to happen now. After hearing this, Lao Liang was displeased, but he didn't want to talk to those people, so he called Master Guo aside, and he said that according to common sense, the dead in the big ashes pit probably accidentally fell into the muddy water and drowned. The weather is too hot and the corpse is highly decomposed. The specific reason will not be known until it is sent for an autopsy, which will take at least three days. , He thinks that the superstition in Master Guo's mind is deeply rooted, how can it be possible to tell whether a dead person has Yin Qi or resentment from a cigarette?He wanted Master Guo to light a cigarette on the spot to plead guilty, to see how the superstitious method that has been passed down in the corpse hunting team for hundreds of years, how to do it, it is better to be able to practice than to be able to speak, people who can only play tricks often say It's amazing, but it may not have any real skills. Lao Liang wanted to make it difficult for Master Guo. He believed that it was impossible to distinguish wrongdoing by watching cigarettes. He planned to let everyone watch in front of the crowd. This is a superstitious method of the old society after all. Master Guo didn't understand what Comrade Lao Liang meant. The water police usually only fished out floating corpses and never asked how people died, but today's incident happened strangely. He had to take responsibility. , I found that there was no cigarette in my pocket, so I had to ask Lao Liang to borrow it. Lao Liang had packs of Qianjin cigarettes, which were very common in the early days of liberation. He took them out and handed them to Master Guo, asking, "Old Guo, can this kind of cigarette work?" What he actually meant was: " Later, if your superstitious methods don't work, don't blame the cigarettes I gave you." He had heard from Master Guo before that when a rotten and swollen dead body was fished out of the river, the river patrol team would be able to tell if this person had grievances by lighting a cigarette, because a dead person has yin energy, so he fell into the water and drowned The most common one is violent death. After death, someone throws the body into the river. It would be too much to distinguish Yin Qi, Lao Liang firmly refused to believe it. Master Guo took the cigarettes and said, "You don't have to distinguish between good and bad, just cigarettes." He struck a match and lit the cigarette, then squatted next to the dead man, smoking one after another without even looking at the floating corpse. Lao Liang thought to himself that this was no different from my usual smoking, how could he see the Yin Qi?He asked Master Guo: "How is it? Do you see anything?" Master Guo didn't speak, he continued to smoke, and after finishing the cigarette, he stood up and said to Lao Liang: "There is a grievance, and someone must have thrown the body after death." The onlookers were in an uproar. They had all heard that the master of the river patrol team would look at cigarettes to judge grievances, but no one had seen it. Today, seeing Master Guo squatting next to the dead body smoking a cigarette, he stood up and said there was grievance. God. Lao Liang shook his head secretly, and said to himself: "It's a trick, I've been watching you smoking next to the dead body, why didn't I see any grievance?" The floating corpses salvaged from the sewage in the ash pit were quickly sent for inspection. Afterwards, Lao Liang called Master Guo and said, "You were really fooled last time." Master Guo said: "We are not fooled. Back then, the old master of the river patrol team passed down this method to look at the Yin Qi on the river drifter. At least nine out of ten can be identified, but there are officials on the official side. The regulations on the surface, we can’t make it to the surface with this local method, and we usually only look at it in private.” Lao Liang said: "Nonsense, you can tell whether a dead person is wronged by smoking a cigarette, so what do you need the police and forensic doctors for?" Master Guo said: "Our Wuhe corpse salvage team salvages countless floating corpses every year. We have seen this kind of thing too many times. Over the years, we have summed up some local methods. We don't tell the parents and don't pass on the children. People can't tell, only master to apprentice, generation after generation orally pass on memory." Old Liang was very stubborn: "If you don't make it clear, how can you see grievances from cigarettes? I can't trust you, so I can only think that you are a remnant of superstition." Speaking of this, Master Guo had no choice but to tell Lao Liang the truth about judging injustice by watching cigarettes. He smoked beside the dead, not because he looked at the shape of the smoke from the cigarettes, but after puffing clouds and mist. I can't even see ghosts. Lao Liang said: "Look, I said that smoking next to the dead can't see anything. If it's not pretending to be a ghost, what is it?" Master Guo said that you can’t see ghosts when you smoke, but you can really see if there is any grievance. What’s the matter? Tianjinwei is where the Jiuhe River enters the sea. People who drowned can die in various ways. Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the world has been chaotic, with various gangs and bandits everywhere, and there are many bandits. It is not uncommon to see corpses thrown in the river after murder. The corpse rescue team does nothing else all day long. Dealing with drifters, even though they don't care about solving cases, it can be seen that floating corpses have been seen a lot, and they have summed up a lot of experience. For example, it is not necessary to use cigarettes to judge innocence by looking at cigarettes. There were also burning yellow paper amulets back then, anyway, they can burn out ashes. , or soot, or paper ashes, or incense ashes, take this ash and sprinkle it on the dead person to see how much the soot can attach, the more Yin Qi attached, the heavier it is, and the heavier the Yin Qi indicates that there is grievance. This yin energy is hard to explain and indescribable, maybe you can feel it, but you can’t see it or touch it. The corpse hunting team said that the yin energy is heavy, which means that the river drifter must have grievances. If the corpse is thrown into the river after death, then The breath of the dead has been exhausted, and it is not the same as a person who drowned in the water. However, floating corpses appear in the river, mostly in hot weather. It is better to find them early, but they are swollen and rotted when they are discovered late, and their faces cannot be recognized. At the time of the Qing Dynasty, the government did not act, and the floating corpses that were fished out were first seen by the river patrol team, and then they reported to the officials when they found out that there was injustice. I did it by throwing cigarette ashes and paper ashes on the floating corpse to see if there was any injustice. The so-called injustice means that the person who entered the water was already dead. There were no people who were not superstitious back then. Some people believe that they have to say that the yin is strong. People will believe it. After the Republic of China, the judiciary gradually improved. This method is true. After listening to Master Guo's words, Lao Liang finally understood what was going on. He said, "You should really bring some apprentices in the future, and pass on the experience and methods of the corpse hunting team. It will be of great help to us in solving the case, but you You can’t mention any more negative grievances, it’s all feudal superstition.” After talking about the matter of looking at cigarettes to judge injustice, Lao Liang told Master Guo about the rotting corpse covered in white maggots in the ashes. Throwing corpses into ash pits. Since liberation, there have been seven or eight similar murders. From the perspective of the murder weapon and the modus operandi, it seems that the same person did it. The murder weapon was a very sharp iron weapon, not an axe. It is a horizontal mouth. It is estimated that the murder weapon is a planing adze used by a carpenter. This thing is like a hammer. One end of the iron head is flat like a duckbill, and the other end is blunt like a hammer. , It started in Heilongjiang outside the pass. The murderer usually chooses a remote place to attack in the middle of the night, taking advantage of the unsuspecting people walking in front, quickly follow up from behind, and hit the back of the person's head with a planing adze. This method is very Ruthless, also known as "smashing orphans", is more harmful than robbing with a sap stick, because the planing adze is sharp and heavy, and if it hits the head, it will either kill you or disable it, and you will be knocked down before you even have time to snort, walking alone at night There are no rich people, but only a little property can be robbed, and sometimes the victim has no money on him, only two sesame cakes, and his life is killed for these two sesame cakes, so planing and robbery are the worst victims It is not an exaggeration to catch the assailant and cut him to death. Later, with the change of the times, carpenters used planing adzes to do less and less work, and such things rarely happened. I did not expect that after liberation Unexpectedly, someone used a planing adze to rob. Although the public security personnel had clues about the murder weapon, they could not find the source. Therefore, these cases have not been solved.Lao Liang knew that Master Guo was familiar with the local conditions, so he wanted to ask him for help this time. Master Guo once heard about adze robbery. It was a rumor in the old days. In the past, when there was a case of adze robbery in some place, all the local carpenters were implicated. In order to avoid suspicion, the carpenters did not dare to use adze. It's time to work. Nowadays, planing adzes are hard to find, and it is impossible to search from house to house. He promised Lao Liang to search carefully. There is no unsolved murder case in the world. No matter how many years pass, there must be one. As a result, the mouse in the Doulao Temple knocked on the door late at night and led him to find the dead body in the ashes. Can you say that this is not revenge from ghosts? Master Guo had this idea, but he didn't dare to tell Lao Liang in front of him, so he began to pay attention to find out. You can see that Tianjin and Beijing are so close, but the folk customs of the two places are quite different. For example, the gangsters in Beijing are called Wanzhu, and the gangsters in Tianjin are called Wannao. Yes, there is a difference of one word, the difference is big, and it also reflects the characteristics of the people of the two places. There are too many idlers in Tianjin Wei who are following around and making fun of them, lest the world will not be chaotic. In the summer of 1953, A maggot-grown rotting corpse was fished out of the ash pit. According to the public security agency, it was a victim of a planing adze robbery. The dead body was discovered by the water policeman Guo Deyou and mobilized the masses to report clues. When people talk about the murder case of adze planing and robbery, they can't help embellishing it, making it extremely bloody and horrifying, and even code-named the perpetrator "Carpenter", saying that the carpenter is ruthless, and his whereabouts are elusive, and no matter how many police officers are dispatched, he can't catch him. He, until the God of the Dou Lao Temple complained of grievances, and led the river god Guo Deyou to find the dead body in the ash pit. Who is the second master Guo? It will fall into the hands of the river god Guo Deyou. Why are traditional folk arts such as storytelling and cross talk so popular in Tianjin?It's just because the local people like to hear these legendary stories, don't care if they are true or not, even if they are rumors, it's good to say something sensational. Originally, Lao Liang just asked Master Guo to help find relevant clues, but once spread ten, ten It was rumored that Master Guo was going to solve the robbery case. The words were terrifying, and the rumors seemed to be true. Those masters and apprentices who were doing carpentry work were all in danger, and they came to the door one after another. Master Guo told his innocence, and the whole family came and cried, "Who did our carpenter provoke?" Besides, it was rumored that the river god Guo Deyou was going to solve the robbery case, and the real perpetrator was also terrified. The murderer who planed and robbed was named Bai, who lived in the area of ​​Beizhan. He was in his thirties and less than forty years old. His name was Bai Sihu. He used to be a butcher who slaughtered pigs and cattle. A few years ago, I passed by a ghost market selling second-hand goods, and saw a street stall selling a flat-nosed hammer. The vendor didn’t know what it was, and their family even opened a coffin shop, so I often watched it from the sidelines. As a carpenter, I know planing adzes. I have also heard that someone outside the customs used planing adzes to smash people and rob property. Hammers, hammers and axes are not as good as planing adzes. If you smash an orphan, you will leave no one alive. You will buy it immediately. Before dawn, he went to the river and knocked down a person, robbed a bundle of furs, and kicked the dead body into the gutter. It was a war at that time, and no one cared about it. Bai Sihu tasted the sweetness and often went to When smashing orphans in the suburbs, sometimes they can rob money, sometimes they rob some food, and sometimes they are empty-handed. Bai Sihu is usually a man of few words and few words, he can't say a fart with three feet, and he doesn't talk to anyone when he goes out. Addicted, when he kills pigs and cattle, he always tortures the animals enough before killing them. Usually, he slaughters large animals before dawn, but the screams he makes when slaughtering pigs in the slaughterhouse last until dawn He just stopped, scaring the people living nearby so that they couldn't rest day and night. No one dared to buy his meat. Over time, he lost all his capital and had no means of living. After the founding of New China, military control was implemented in the city. The military control committee will arrest criminals who endanger social order, arrest those who should be arrested, and shoot those who should be shot. After the renovation, the law and order situation was much better than before, but when the moon was dark and the wind was high, Bai Sihu still dared to go out to commit crimes with a plane adze on his back. In the summer of 1953, Master Guo found it in the big ashes pit behind Doumo Temple. That rotting corpse was also the black hand of this person, and nothing was robbed. This Bai Sihu is a daring, desperate, and ruthless murderer. He never pays attention to the police. No one found out, but he heard rumors that Guo Deyou, the god of the river, was going to investigate the robbery case. Before liberation, he had heard how powerful Master Guo was. Thinking of the theory of karma, he couldn't help feeling panic and fear, and couldn't sleep well at night. , I always feel that I am being watched by others, as long as there is any trouble around me, I think it is the river god Guo Deyou who brought the police to the door. In 1954, the anti-revolutionary movement happened to be carried out. The whole city was raided. The military control committee, militia, and patrol teams were all mobilized. On the road, there were ten posts, one post and five steps. A suspicious person of unknown origin, and pointed out the murderer who was going to rob with a planing adze. However, considering the situation at the time, no matter how hard the police searched, they couldn't find Bai Sihu's head. No one was spared, who would have thought that he was the murderer who planed and robbed?Master Guo is working in the Corpse Squad again. He is busy outside the house every day, and he is not in charge of solving the case. It is just that Bai Sihu has a guilty conscience. Until 1954, the fourth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, every family made rice dumplings. Bai Sihu couldn't bear it anymore. He lay on the bed in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep. His daughter-in-law discussed: "I've been restless for the past two days. I'm afraid something will happen. I don't want to wait for Guo to come and arrest me. I just don't do anything. I'll go to his house and kill him. Our family of three can sleep soundly, do you think it will work?" His wife lay beside him without speaking, and Bai Sihu asked again: "If you don't speak, I will take it as your agreement?" His wife was still lying motionless. No sound, and it is impossible to speak, because this woman is not a living person. Bai Sihu, who planed and robbed, had a wife and a child, a family of three, but he was the only living person. His wife was dead, and his child was a kid. No one could see him except Bai Sihu. We have to explain how this happened. A few years ago, Bai Sihu met a woman on the road. She was walking alone in the middle of the night, and Bai Sihu knocked her down with a plane adze in the middle of the road.The more Bai Sihu looked at this woman, the better she looked. He regretted how he had been crushed to death. He had an evil thought in his heart, and he put the woman's body on the car and pushed him home. The residents didn't notice it, and when they returned home, the female corpse looked as if it was alive, and the blood was no longer bleeding from the back of the head, as if she had fallen asleep.Bai Sihu has been a bachelor for more than thirty years, and has never married a wife. He lies on the kang and sleeps with his arms around the dead. When he is not sleeping, he talks to the female corpse to amuse himself. to take care of.Strange to say, this woman is dead, but she is not rotten, and she can still drink soup. The folks call this a living corpse. She was pregnant, but gave birth in less than a month, and it was a stillbirth, but he called around the house every day, nicknamed Xiaohu, as if there really was a child running around in the family. Half a year later, the woman began to stink, and the broth could no longer be poured in. Before that, she was still a "living dead". Buried, but the smell of corpses could not be covered, and the weather was hot, and the smell of dead people was getting stronger and stronger. In a few days, the surrounding residents would have to find them. When he thought about what to do, he came up with a plan. Carried salt to the house in big bags, and pickled the female corpse with salt. When the neighbors saw it, they thought that Bai Sihu had a heavy mouth and liked salty food. Tianjin Wei is close to Haikou, and Lutai has produced salt since ancient times. No one thought it was strange. Dead bodies are tasteless, but you can't make out anymore, because it's too salty, and you can sell salt to death. Bai Sihu's mind was abnormal, he still regarded the female corpse as his wife, and imagined that the child was also there, and the family of three closed the door to live, and none of the neighbors noticed. He had murderous intentions at night, and said to his wife after dawn: "你在家好好看着孩子，我去找姓郭的，不在他脑袋上凿个窟窿，咱往后过不安稳，等我回来给你们娘儿俩买粽子吃。” 他自己叨叨咕咕，起身穿上衣服，先忙家里的活儿，阴历五月初五是端午节，当时还保持着旧俗，家家门楣上挂艾蒿，因为天时渐热，挂艾蒿的用意是驱除毒虫，百姓们用艾蒿搓成绳子，晒干后点燃了，可以赶蚊虫驱邪祟，老话说得好“端午不带艾，死了变妖怪”。 以前过端午，还把雄黄参到酒中，用雄黄酒给小孩画虎，就是蘸上雄黄酒，在小孩额头上画个王字，并且在口鼻耳目等处画圈，据说这样也可以防虫，并用红纸剪成五毒形象，糊在窗户墙角各处，这是五毒纸，在民间也叫除五毒，五毒是指蝎子、蜈蚣、长虫、蟾蜍、壁虎，根据地区不同，五毒也不完全一样，除五毒的日子多在清明谷雨前后，家里有孩子的，还要请老娘妇女用五彩丝线，做成小粽子小篦子小老虎等物，给小孩挂在脖子上，白四虎也按照过端午的习俗，在家里糊上五毒纸，又给那个根本不存在的儿子画虎，忙活到下午，将刨锛凶器塞到后腰，径直去找郭师傅。 可走到胡同口又转回来，别看白四虎以往砸孤丁时心黑手狠，到这会儿却不敢动手，心里真是怵，垂头丧气地回了家，刚是下午，天还没黑，但是关门闭户，也没点灯，屋里很暗，他蹲在墙角抱着脑地呜呜地哭，使劲揪自己的头发，一把一把的拽下来，满腔怨愤，又恨又怕又委屈，胸口好似要炸裂开来，想老老实实过日子怎么这么难，万一让那姓郭的拿住，媳妇和孩子怎么办？ 炕上的女尸忽然开口说道：“没用的东西，这点胆子都没有。” 女尸说话的声音很低，好像由于很多年没动，喉咙和舌头十分僵硬。 白四虎目瞪口呆，怔了半晌，说道：“你终于跟我说话了！” 您说白四虎头脑不正常，女尸说话是不是他自己想象出来的？不是，他当真是听到屋里有人说话，咱们是越说越渗人，可白四虎该怕的不怕，他听完这句话，两眼直勾勾地蹲在角落里，思前想后胡乱琢磨，为了老婆孩子，终于狠下心来，揣上刨锛出了门，一路去找过师傅，解放前他就听过郭师傅的名字，听得耳朵都起茧子了，事先打听准了，也看好了相貌身形，候到郭师傅下夜班，他悄么声地跟在后头，准备走到没人的地方一锛儿撂倒。 郭师傅半点也不知情，下班骑上自行车往家去，正过端午，五毒并出的日子，天一黑马路上就没人了，万没想到身后跟着个白四虎。 白四虎也没想到郭师傅骑自行车，他却是用两条腿跑，好不容易追上，远远跟到一条偏僻的马路，看左右无人，正可下手，他气喘吁吁地跑上去，抡起刨锛，朝着郭师傅脑袋后头便砸，可是跑得累了，脚步发沉，传出了抬腿落足之声。 郭师傅听到后边有人跑过来，以为有熟人找他，回头一看，却是个粗眉大眼的汉子，左耳边似乎有块青色淤痕，手里抡着什么东西从后赶来，瞧见他回头，惊得那人掉头便逃，郭师傅还没明白是怎么回事儿，只在昏暗的路灯底下，瞧见对方手里握的似乎是刨锛，心里也是打个激灵，寻思没准是刨锛打劫的案犯，急忙骑车去追，却不知那个人跑哪去了。 不提郭师傅，再说白四虎，端午节当天跟随郭师傅，跟到半路想要下手，哪知对方突然回头，他心里本来就怵，让郭师傅一看，惊得赶紧逃开，逃到家中顶上门，他自知一半天之内，必定有人找上门来拿他，悔得肠子都青了，他不怪自己，只怪郭师傅，越想越恨，蹲到屋里用脑袋咣咣撞墙。 白四虎家是祖上传下来的老房子，年头很多，不下五六十年，虽说只是普通的民房，房子却盖得很是规正，一明两暗三间正房，截去一间，等于是一明一暗两间屋，门在外屋，里屋在侧面，海漫的青砖铺地，老房子没有洋灰地面，都是在地上铺砖，地砖不平铺，而是竖起来码齐对正，这么铺叫海漫，因为砖头竖面窄，受力面积小，不容易踩坏，也不怕雨水浸泡，能用很多年，不过海漫铺要比平铺用的砖多，白四虎家这两间房不大，但全部是真材实料，地面和四壁用清一色的“磨砖”，磨砖即是古砖，头里咱们说过，早年间天津卫砖窑多，而且多为官窑，烧出来的大砖用于造城，一九零零八国联军逼迫清政府拆除天津的城墙城楼，有不少人捡拆城拆下来的城砖，拿车推回家盖房，在当称时旧城砖为一宝，有句俗话——“烂砖头垒墙墙不倒”，便是这么来的，屋瓦大多使用青板瓦，正反相扣，再用青灰抹顶。 据说白四虎家打祖上好几代开棺材铺，那时候有点钱，置下一座宅院，分为内外两院，进门有影壁，外院横长，内院竖窄，坐北朝南，正房只有三间，因为那时候还有朝廷，庶民房舍不过三间五架，不许用斗拱饰彩绘，封建社会有这么个制度。 正房两边是耳房，这样的格局叫做“纱帽翅”，有升官发财的意思，传到他这辈儿棺材铺开不下去了，家里仅留下两间小平房，加起来约有二十平米，在北站前身的一条胡同里，其余各间旧屋已是几经拆改，胡同院子房屋的格局全变了，白四虎他们家里屋是一间屋子半间炕，女尸放在炕上，用被子盖住，端午节这天半夜，他一个人蹲在外屋叫苦，此时只听炕上女尸又开口说道：“姓郭的死了吗？” 白四虎多年以来习惯了，在外头一句话没有，到家跟这女尸什么话都说，当下叹了口气，说道：“别提了，我跟那姓郭的走到半路，正要一锛砸倒他，怎知那厮好不警觉，听到我的脚步声便转过头来看我，我……我一时胆怯，没敢下手，却让他看见我了，唉，想来咱家这日子要过到头了，不出三两天，官衣儿定会找上门来拿我，我舍不得你跟孩子，我也不想蹲土窑吃黑枣。” 女尸出声说道：“我给你出个主意，你依我之言，保你平安无事，却准让那姓郭的死，你如此如此，这般这般……” 要说白四虎家里的女尸，死了有五六年，死尸用盐裹住，几年来一动不动地躺在炕上，此时突然开口说话，这不是见鬼了吗？她又给白四虎出了什么主意？这也是个扣子，咱们埋住这个话头，留到下回分解。