In the middle of the night, who would appear in the woods wearing costumes?
How is it possible for a person to be suspended in the air?
How could it float over again?
With this series of questions, the village director took a flashlight and called a few young and middle-aged villagers, and went to the grove with Bao Zhan and Su Mei. After receiving Su Mei's call, Hua Long also drove away with a team of criminal policemen.
arrive.
The car lights illuminated the small woods like daylight. The criminal police launched a search and soon found a body in the woods.
A man hanged in a shroud in the woods.
After identification by the village director, the deceased was the old woman named Zhang Tian. She carried a cane, a stool, a shroud and a roll of hemp rope. She came to the grove at night to hang herself. The old woman put on the shroud and then
It shows that she was determined to die. The on-site investigation showed that she committed suicide. The way of hanging was very strange. To be precise, she hanged herself on a clothesline.
Zhang Tian tied the hemp rope to two trees, making it look like a clothesline. She put on her shroud, put her belt on one end of the clothesline and tied it into a tight knot. She stood on a stool and put her head in
In the rope loop. After hanging herself, her body was blocked by the branches, and the moonlight cast the shadow of her head on the ground. Then, the wind blew the branches, and the old woman's body gradually slid from one end of the clothesline to the middle, with her hands hanging down.
, tilted his head, and floated over silently.
The village director's two sons were walking in the forest when they happened to see this scene. They were so horrified that they didn't even bother to pick up their pants and ran away. Su Mei and Bao Zhan happened to be passing by, and when they heard the screams, they stood frozen on the dirt road.
, both sides were shocked.
The author of this article has collected various weird ways of hanging. If a person is determined to die, sometimes he will be very creative. The final inspiration comes from the God of Death, just to end his own life.
A bizarre murder occurred in a community in Chengdu. What is horrifying is that the remains of the deceased were found on the trees in the community. The deceased were a man and a woman. They were hanged face to face on a branch three or four stories above the ground.
Some people speculated that they committed suicide in love.
On the Longhai Railway, a wage earner was hanged at the junction of two carriages. The tools used were a stick and a tie. The train with the corpse hanging passed through many cities and was witnessed by many people. That accidental glance
, and it remains in my memory as a horrifying scene.
There was a peasant woman in Xiangxi who lay down and hanged herself. It is very rare to hang herself lying down. She strangled her neck with an iron wire and tied it to the base of a corn thresher. There was also an iron wire tied to her ankle, connected to a stone mortar. She lay down
On the ground, he kicked the stone mortar into the well with his feet and strangled himself to death with the help of the falling stone.
Although the old woman Zhang Tian committed suicide, something strange happened. The special case team speculated that she might know the secret behind the serial disappearance of teenagers.
Bao Zhan said: In rural areas, it is not uncommon for some elderly people to make shrouds and prepare for their funerals.
Su Mei said: The old woman is so old, why did she commit suicide? After living all her life, why can't she suddenly think about it?
Hualong said: I think she might have really eaten human flesh.
Professor Liang said: If this is the case, the village director’s words
It may have stimulated her and reminded her of some painful memories.
Bao Zhan said: Where did those missing teenagers go?
Su Mei said: It's not kidnapping, it's not revenge, and it can't be trafficking. If they were all killed, what was the motive for the murder?
Hualong said: In addition to sexual motivation, there is another kind.
Professor Liang said: Cannibalism is also a motive for killing.
The special case team decided to thoroughly investigate whether Zhang Tian had eaten people. Early the next morning, the special case team came to Zhanghe Village. The village director summoned some old people and sat under the old willow tree at the entrance of the village. In order to avoid the old people
Because of his rejection, Professor Liang pretended to be a university teacher, claiming that he wanted to write the county annals, and asked about the events of that year in a casual way.
In 1960, Zhang Tian was 27 years old and gave birth to two daughters, the eldest daughter was six years old and the younger daughter was only one year old.
It was during the "three-year natural disaster" period, and several elderly people confirmed that Zhang Tian's Xiaoni died of starvation that year.
Professor Liang asked: What natural disasters were there at that time, drought or flood?
An old man recalled: No, the weather was good in those years and there were no disasters here.
Professor Liang said: Then why do people still starve to death?
The old people started chatting and talked endlessly about that not-so-distant era, when people starved to death in the village often happened. In those years, there were many people carrying baskets and searching in the fields by the river.
Figure. After all the wild vegetables were eaten, people began to eat grass roots and bark. According to some old people's memories, elm leaves are the most delicious and sweet, and can be made into elm leaf steamed bread. The elm bark can be dried and ground into flour. In those days, it was peeling elm bark.
There are many people fighting each other. Sophora japonica is also delicious, but its flowering period is short and not enough to eat. Poplar is unpalatable and bitter, and can poison people if not handled properly.
Old man A slapped the old willow tree with his hand and said: This tree was peeled off and eaten at that time.
Old Man B said: I also ate soil. At that time, I was so hungry that I was lying on the bed. There was only a piece of skin left in my stomach. I couldn’t open my eyes. I chewed up my sleeves. I was hungry.
I was anxious, so I took a big clay jar and filled it with some Guanyin soil and ate it as fried noodles.
Old man C pointed to a kind of stone with a soft texture and said: I have eaten stone noodles. I smashed the stone, ground it into flour, stirred in some leaves, and ate it on the pancake pan. Don’t eat too much of this. Eat too much.
I don’t know how to start.
Old Man Ding said: In those days, I was so hungry that I could not stand it, and there were some cannibals. I saw it with my own eyes...
The old man knew that he had made a mistake, and some other old men also chose to remain silent on this topic and left one after another. Professor Liang left the old man behind. The old man’s name was Zhang Youmin. He was still a five-year-old child in 1960. He hesitated and asked.
He made some excuses, claiming that he was too young at the time to remember, and refused to talk any more.
The village director once heard from his old father about Zhang Tian's cannibalism, and Professor Liang came to visit him.
The old father of the village director told some shocking things of that era. In 1960, many people couldn't bear the hunger and resorted to cannibalism. As soon as the starved corpses were buried in the ground, some people would dig up the graves at night and cut them.
The flesh of the dead. Some villagers whose children starved to death could not bear to eat their own children, so they exchanged them with their neighbors. Yi Zi
As for food, Zhang Tian and her neighbor Old Man Li exchanged their children for food. Zhang Tian's Xiao Ni starved to death, and Old Man Li's youngest son also starved to death. They discussed it and decided to let the other party help bury it.
She knew full well that the exchange of burials was actually for the other party to eat. At that time, the brigade cadres called the members for a meeting. Zhang Tian had just cooked Old Man Li's youngest son in a pot. She broke off a calf, put it in her arms and went to the meeting.
Already.
The oil lamp was dim, and the brigade cadres were preaching the top directive, which was to read a news article about "a yield of ten thousand catties per mu". The commune members were drowsy after listening to it. Zhang Tian sat in the corner, took out a small foot from his arms, and hid it.
In the sleeves, quietly nibbling.
Everyone turned around when they smelled the aroma of meat. Zhang Tian was weeping silently while eating.
This incident was widely spread at the time and was a household name. However, the brigade cadres were worried about being blamed by the superiors and warned the villagers that cannibalism was a rumor and no one was allowed to talk nonsense, otherwise it would slander the People's Commune.
Many years have passed, and people at that time chose to forget, but this painful memory has always remained in Zhang Tian's heart.
Eventually, she hanged herself.
On April 23, 1961, the Public Security Department of a certain province wrote a "Report on the Occurrence of Special Cases" (referring to cannibalism) to the provincial party committee. The report stated that "since 1959, a total of 1,289 cases have occurred." This is just one
There are more than a thousand cases of cannibalism in just one province. How many provinces are there in the country?
Hualong, Bao Zhan, and Su Mei went to Old Man Li's house. It was a typical rural home. There were pigsties and doghouses in the yard, a portrait of Chairman Mao hung in the hall, cobwebs were all over the corners, and all the furniture was crumbling.
, everything is so shabby. There is an incense burner on the Eight Immortals table in front of the portrait, and a teapot with broken porcelain, with a handful of plastic flowers inserted in it. The remaining words "Serve the People" on the teapot are vaguely legible.
Hua Long and the other three showed their identity as police officers and explained their purpose of coming.
Old Man Li said that although he and Zhang Tian were neighbors separated by a wall, they never interacted with each other and did not speak even if they met.
Su Mei asked: She is dead, have you heard?
Old Man Li said: This old lady will die if she dies, it has nothing to do with me.
Bao Zhan asked tentatively: Old uncle, did you have a little son who starved to death in 60 years?
Old Man Li's face was ashen and he said nothing. After a long time, he said: No.
The atmosphere was a bit awkward. The TV in Old Man Li's house was on, and "The Legend of Zhen Huan" was playing. The queen mother in the TV series said: "This time you only have a child, and next time you will lose yourself."
Hua Long and the others asked a few more questions. Old Man Li suddenly became furious and drove the three of them out of the door. He picked up a basin of wash water, cursed and wanted to throw it on the Hua Long and the others.
Old Man Li gritted his teeth and said: Gungungun, you are the police, I am not afraid of you, if you dare to ask nonsense again, I will fight with you. I have a cerebral hemorrhage and a heart disease, and I will blackmail you to death.
Hua Long and the other three hurriedly walked out. At this time, Old Man Li's dog ran back. It put down a bone in its mouth and barked. Everyone saw that it was a tibia, white and white.
The skin and flesh of the sole of the foot are still left at one end of the bone.
