◎Chapter 44 Boy Egg
A rotten hand suddenly appeared on the boy's mother's stomach. She was so scared that she trembled all over and fainted on the ground. Her husband hurriedly stepped forward to rescue him and shouted her name loudly. Professor Liang picked up the hand and everyone looked up at it at the same time. The hand was obviously falling from the sky.
Assistant Tang stood on the millstone, looked at the old tree and shouted: Who is on it?
Hualong took out his gun. Everyone thought there was a person hiding in the tree, so they threw down the hand. It was difficult to see clearly in the night. Hualong shot at the tree, and the two crows flew away with a few strange screams.
A woman from the neighbor's house heard the gunshots, curiously opened the window and looked at it.
Her man gritted his teeth and said: "Dog Woman, what are you looking at? Hurry up and close the window. A gun kills you. It's no good if the crow calls you."
Two crows circling around the old tree, making strange screams from time to time. Crows are often regarded as evil birds and like to build nests around desolate wilderness or cemeteries with deep yin energy. There is a crow nest on the lonely dead tree in front of the old house of the deceased boy. Hualong climbed up the tree, and a crow attacked him. Hualong aimed and fired a shot. The crow fell to the ground with its wings. When Hualong went down the tree, he poked the crow's nest down. Baozhan smelled it, and the crow's nest exuded the smell of carrion.
This rotten little hand should have fallen from the crow's nest.
A neighbor reported that the tomb of the boy in red was dug up, and a sudden heavy rain caused the work of identifying footprints in the cemetery to be ruined. Bao Zhan, assistant Tang and the neighbor who led the way looked at the empty tomb in a daze, and heavy rain in the wilderness.
Who dug up this grave and where did the body of the boy in red go?
Water was accumulated in the tomb, and all traces of crime disappeared with the heavy rain. It can be judged by the description of witnesses' neighbors that someone should have dragged the boy in red out of the tomb with a rope, which looked like a corpse crawling out of the tomb.
The boy's mother had woken up and claimed that she wanted to sell the old house and never come back. Professor Liang comforted the deceased's parents and said that the police would investigate the disappearance of the body until the truth was found out.
After returning to the Forest Public Security Police Station, the four members of the special case team were all soaked in a drool and exhausted. Assistant Tang took out a few clean clothes from the duty room and let them change into it. On this day, everyone experienced many strange things: First, they knocked on the door in the middle of the night, and a green corpse liquid handprint was left on the door. Then they went to the old house of the deceased boy to investigate, and another hand fell from the tree. When they rushed to the tomb to investigate, the body of the boy in red disappeared...
Assistant Tang brewed a pot of hot tea and took out a bag of roast chicken and canned beef. Everyone was unwilling to eat and just drank tea around the table.
Professor Liang held a cup that was rising with heat and said: This case is very strange, everything is so weird.
Assistant Tang said: There are not many cases of digging graves and robbing corpses here.
Su Mei said: If the child's body was buried shallowly, would it be that the grave was dug up by wild dogs, wild boars, or something?
Bao Zhan said: According to the scene, it was not like animals doing it. It was obvious that someone dug up the grave and dragged away the body.
Assistant Tang said: What is the purpose of stealing corpses? Or is there any other secret that cannot be told?
Bao Zhan suddenly said: I know what happened when I knocked on the door in the middle of the night.
Hualong said: Is it related to the crow?
Bao Zhan said: That's right, someone was making a fool, putting a rotten little hand on the nail of the door knocker, and then quietly leaving. The purpose of doing this was to intimidate us and let us withdraw from the case. The corpse was sticky and the smell of rotten flesh attracted a crow. The crow came to peck and made a knock on the door. When we opened the door, the crow flew away and took away the rotten little hand. The crow flew very fast and couldn't see clearly at night, so we thought someone was knocking on the door, but we couldn't see anyone after opening the door.
Professor Liang said: Crow is a carrion-eating bird. It pecks at the corpse and carries one hand back into the nest, which falls on the boy's mother's belly. Next, we need to figure out who this hand belongs to.
Assistant Tang said: You can compare DNA with the children who died bizarrely recently.
Professor Liang said: Does anyone know the whereabouts of our special case team?
Assistant Tang said: Many people know that some leaders are very concerned about the case. The leaders of the municipal government, the public security bureau, and the education committee are very concerned about the recent series of bizarre deaths of children. I have received many calls from inquiries.
In the history of crimes, there have been many cases of animal corpses searching for corpses.
A couple in western Yunnan had a conflict. The husband killed his wife and buried her in a remote drip puddle. Sugar cane was planted around it to cover up. There were many crows gathering around the pit every day. Later, there were more and more crows, with hundreds of crows, which attracted the attention of the villagers. The police determined that there were rot in the pit and eventually arrested the husband.
A man in Fengjie County strangled his 60-year-old mother to death after being drunk and buried her body on the dirt slope behind the house. Then, he lied to his family and neighbors that his mother was mentally ill and lost to her home. He did not expect that the yellow dog that his mother had been raising for nearly ten years barked at the dirt slope every day. When someone passed by the dirt slope, the old yellow dog kept moaning to others while digging, and the entire dirt slope was covered with dog scratches. The village chief became suspicious and ordered people to dig out the soil. A female corpse wrapped in a blanket appeared.
The next day, the special case team and Assistant Tang went to investigate the two drowned children. Both children were studying in Dongyang Primary School in the town. The boy was named Cai Mingliang and the girl was named Cai Xiaoxi. Both children were ten years old, in the third grade of elementary school, and were in the same class and deskmate.
The Forest Public Security Police Station is not far from Dongyang Primary School. After taking a walk around the winding mountain road, we will reach the town where the primary school is located.
The town was covered with sewage, filled with an unpleasant and strange smell, which made people suspect that the toilets of every household were poured on the street. Su Mei extracted the residue from the stomach of the dead crow last night, and together with the rotten little hand and the green corpse sample on the door, she asked Assistant Tang to send someone to the municipal bureau for testing and analysis. Although the smell in the town was disgusting, Su Mei didn't eat all night. She saw that there was a tea egg sold at the school gate and wanted to buy a few tea eggs to fill her stomach.
A basin of eggs sat on the small coal stove. The stall owner was a simple-dressed middle-aged woman. She cracked the eggshell and put it in and cooked it.
Su Mei asked about the price and actually sold one yuan, five yuan, which was more expensive than other tea eggs.
The stall owner said: Boy eggs are absolutely genuine.
Su Mei asked: What is a boy egg? Isn’t this a tea egg?
The stall owner saw that Su Mei was from another place and grinned and replied: It’s just tea eggs, okay
The eggs boiled with tea leaves are so fragrant.
The water for boiling eggs looked yellow and there was some foam floating on it. Baozhan sniffed it and said: It smelled a bit like urine.
The stall owner praised: This is an egg boiled by a boy's urine, which is a big tonic.
Hualong was furious and the eggs boiled in urine were sold on the street. He rushed forward to try to lift the middle-aged woman's pot. Assistant Tang and Bao Zhan stopped him. Professor Liang advised: Xiaolong, don't act recklessly, follow the local customs and respect other people's eating habits. Hualong then noticed that there were such stalls selling boy eggs at the market entrances and snack shops in the town, and diners were buying boy eggs in a constant stream.
Dongyang Town has a tradition of using boy's urine to boil eggs. It is said that boy's eggs have also declared intangible cultural heritage. They believe that eggs cooked with boy's urine are the best choice for nourishing.
The special case team entered Dongyang Primary School and found a red plastic bucket in the corridor of the classroom. They didn't know what it was for. After a while, the bell rang and the children rushed out of the classroom. Several elementary school students did not go to the toilet, but urinated directly in the plastic bucket.
A young teacher named Mao in the office received the special case team and Assistant Tang. Teacher Mao explained that eating boy eggs is an old local custom. Those vendors selling boy eggs or families who want to cook boy eggs themselves will carry plastic buckets to each primary school to collect boy urine. Both teachers and students are familiar with this. When boys in the first to third grades want to urinate, they will aim at the plastic buckets outside the classroom. The teacher will also remind the children that they should not pee in the plastic buckets during colds and illnesses.
Teacher Mao said: I eat two a day.
Bao Zhan asked: What does the boy egg taste like?
Teacher Mao said: It is very fragrant and a little salty. Even the egg yolks are salty. You can’t eat too much at a time. Eating two is the best.
Teacher Mao teaches mathematics and is also the head teacher of Cai Mingliang and Cai Xiaoxi. He said: The two children are very strange. They come to school together and walk together after school. No matter where they are, they are in pairs. Now they are drowned again. It's so strange.
Su Mei said: What's so strange about this? The two children are from the same village and take care of each other when they go to and from school.
Professor Liang said: Please tell us about the performance of the two children on the day of the incident, and when did they leave the school?
Teacher Mao said: The two of them had the same test scores and did not pass the exam. I suspected that they were cheating and plagiarizing each other, so they left them for a make-up exam. When they left school, it was dark.
Bao Zhan said: At that time, these two children were left in the school?
Su Mei said: The village where the two children are located is quite far from the school and it is a mountain road. Don’t you think you are responsible?
Teacher Mao said: If you fail the exam, you cheat, and you will get a student at the right time. Besides, these two children are different from other children. I think they are in love.
Bao Zhan said: Children are too precocious nowadays. Two ten-year-old children are in love?
Teacher Mao said: Cai Mingliang called Cai Xiaoxi a guest.
Assistant Tang said: Tangke means wife.
Teacher Mao said: The teachers and classmates in the school know that they have an improper relationship between men and women.
Professor Liang asked: Improper relationship between men and women?
Chapter completed!