Chapter 11: Harvesting and Cutting

Harvesting and cutting is the use of disabilities or deformities to beg.

 In the old days, it also meant killing people, cutting off their limbs, harvesting their ears, eyes, internal organs, etc., and using them to combine medicines, so as to deceive patients and achieve the purpose of defrauding money.

 According to "Qing Yu Lei Chao": During the Qianlong period, there were two people in Changsha City, leading a dog, which was slightly larger than an ordinary dog. The front two toes were longer than the dog's toes and claws, and the hind feet were like a bear, with a tail and small ears and nose. They are all like human beings...with dog hair all over their bodies. Able to speak human language and sing various ditties, all in tune. There was a crowd of spectators, vying for money to get a song.

 "Qingyi Leichao" records five deformed beggars in Yangzhou City: A man's upper body was like a normal person, but his legs were soft. If he had muscles and no bones, someone would hold his upper body and spin it like a noose. There is a baby lying on a man's chest. The skin and flesh are integrated into one body. All five senses are present and the baby can move and speak. A man's right arm is only five or six inches long. His right hand is as small as money, while his left arm is longer than his knees and his hand is as big as a palm fan. A man whose navel is larger than a cup can smoke tampa (a foreign transliteration of tobacco) by inserting a tube into his navel and the smoke will come out from his mouth. A woman has slender feet, high breasts, and a beard like a halberd under her chin. So there were many spectators.

 "Lan Fang's Notes" also records a similar situation: In the past, in the capital, every time I saw people making money with weird people... all kinds of strange shapes... A woman in the city bridge in Zhenze City, fifteen years old, beautiful but without feet, kneeling Begging for money.

 Two passengers who met by chance on a train had this conversation:

 One said: "In my place, there is a child with white hair and whole body. Everyone says that he was abandoned by his parents. He has been seen wandering around since he was about 5 years old. Now he has grown up. He is still homeless, and I often think that he may have been homeless all his life, and no one has ever taken care of him, even though almost everyone in our city knows him."

 Another said: "Last year, we saw a strange man on the street. His feet were swollen to the point of being completely transparent. It was estimated to be four times the size of normal feet. What was even weirder was his buttocks. He was in front, rolling around asking for money, and many people gathered around to watch."

 On April 26, 1983, someone threw a freak into the trash can next to the obstetrics and gynecology department of Huangbo District People's Hospital in Huacheng. The fetus has two heads, one big and one small.

 This monster is most likely the product of incest.

 The baby was still alive at that time, and thousands of people were watching. But in the early morning of the next day, when people went to see it again, they found that the freak was gone.

 About ten years later, the trash can was no longer there, and people had forgotten about it. An old beggar and a young beggar appeared at the bustling train station in Hwaseong. The young beggar had a big tumor on his neck. The tumor looked like a head, and his facial features were vaguely visible.

 His name is Han Shaojie, and many people call him Master Han. He is the freak in the trash can.

 There are many strange people hidden among the people. There is a voodoo cultivator in Yunnan who can poison handshakes, there is a traditional Chinese medicine doctor in Shijingshan, Beijing, who can turn men into women, a Taoist priest in Wudang Mountain can run six steps on the wall, and Qigong master Wu Chuanshun's palm pattern is the word "king".

 Master Han must have undergone a special kind of surgery. It is a miracle that he survived.

 We'll see a ghost below.

 On the morning of October 21, 1996, a man came to Huacheng carrying a big baggage. In the northeast corner of the train station, where there was still an iron fence that had not been demolished at that time, he put the baggage on the ground. There was everything in the baggage, including bedding, clothes, a thermos, half a bag of flour, a big rooster, and a child. Slowly crawling out of the baggage.

 That autumn, the sanitation workers swept the leaves into the corner, and the child sat on a pile of leaves, looking at a few white clouds in the distant horizon. His father squatted next to him, holding a teapot and drinking boiled water. After a while, the child's body began to twitch, his eyes closed tightly, and then suddenly opened, and he bared his teeth. His teeth were black, and his skin was also purple. He stretched out his hands vigorously, first put his five fingers together, and then stretched out his hands, making vigorous gestures with his two fingers.

 The expression on the child's face was extremely angry, his black teeth were bared, and he let out a low growl. Pedestrians passing by stopped to watch. The father handed the chicken to the child. The child grabbed it and bit the chicken's neck. The audience exclaimed. The child began to suck the chicken blood greedily, and the chicken wings flapped, and after a while, they drooped limply. After the child drank the chicken blood, he looked at the people around him blankly.

 "It's a vampire," an audience member shouted.

 "He is sick." The child's father replied, and after speaking, he extended the broken teapot from which he drank water to the audience. "Please help me with some money to treat the child. I have sold my house and land."

 "Rabies." A well-travelled driver said, but he was quickly denied by others because rabies is afraid of light, wind, and water, and it also bites people.

 "He also bites people," my father explained. "It's not rabies. He's been to big hospitals and no one can see clearly. It's hysteria, possessed by ghosts, and he likes to suck blood when he's sick."

 My father told people around him that he came from Chang'ao Village, Wangou Township, Jinta County, Shaanxi Province. His trousers were rolled up and he still carried the mud from his hometown. He came here across five provinces.

 The child's mother died young and he has lived with his grandmother since he was a child. The grandmother is withdrawn and has a coffin in the house all year round. Once, the child vaguely felt something blowing on his head in his sleep. He waved his hand and thought that what he touched was a human hand. The child saw his disheveled grandma sitting by the bed, staring at him, and stretched out her hands to slowly touch his face. The child couldn't help but opened his mouth wide in fright, and couldn't make any sound. The next day, the child asked about grandma, but grandma had no idea about it. Since then, grandma has done many strange things, such as pulling on the light switch cord in the middle of the night, or chopping on the cutting board with a knife at two in the morning, but there is nothing on the cutting board.

 Late one night, the child woke up in the middle of the night and saw a terrifying scene: Grandma was standing under the pepper tree in the yard, with her back to him, her head lowered, and her hair hanging down. The child called grandma, and grandma slowly turned her head, looked at him, and then began to cry - the cry was so terrifying, it was like a ghost crying or a wolf howling. A black cat jumped out of the corner in fright. Grandma was usually slow to move, but now she was extremely agile. She bent down and caught the black cat. The cat scratched her, and she bit the cat angrily<cite >?Neck, drinking blood in big gulps.

 After a while, grandma returned to the house with her arms stretched out, hopping like a zombie. Instead of getting on the bed, she opened the coffin and lay down straight inside.

 These strange behaviors all occurred during sleepwalking. After the death of the sleepwalking old lady, the child began to become dazed and did not say a word for the whole day. Every time the child gets sick, his hands and feet become stiff, his teeth bared, and he yells for blood. Once he sees blood, he licks it greedily. When the child was examined at Children's Hospital, his condition worsened. He jumped off the bed, stood with his feet together, stretched his hands forward horizontally, then jumped like a real zombie and bit anyone he saw.

 Over the past few years, the father and his son began to seek medical treatment. Eventually, the family fortune was gone and he lived on the street.

 Vampires are actually patients of a strange disease - porphyria. There are not many such strange diseases, and there are only about 100 cases in the world. A young man was caught in a village in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. He slashed a woman with a knife and then sucked her blood. A 17-year-old criminal named Hardman in the UK killed his female neighbor. Drained her blood. British doctor Lee Ellis discussed the characteristics of porphyria in detail in a paper titled "On the Causes of Porphyria and Vampires". This is a genetic disease that occurs due to the production mechanism of ferrous heme in the patient's body. Disorder, which causes the skin to turn white or black, and the teeth to turn dark brown. Patients with porphyria are accompanied by severe anemia. After blood transfusion, the condition will be relieved.

 In 1993, a shemale beggar appeared at Hwaseong Railway Station. She was a fat woman wearing a shirt. She spoke with a man's accent and had a beard. After many people rewarded her with money, she would take off her pants and show them to the audience.

 In 1996, Master Han became the darling of the train station. People rushed to see him and the big tumor on his neck. Almost everyone thought that the tumor was a head, that is to say, he had two heads.

 This is not simple begging, but a kind of performance. The crowds and commotion around the audience are not stingy. This is also one of the entertainments that the common people can enjoy. People nicknamed the vampire child a zombie doll. The zombie doll's father built a simple shelter using plastic sheeting and a few thin bamboo poles at the iron fence, a nest to protect him from the wind and rain. At that time, the Urban Management Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau had not yet been established, which meant that city cleanliness had not yet been based on the right to make a living. If someone had been to Hwaseong Railway Station in 1996, they would have seen a rickety child in a nearby illegally built shack. A mother might say that the child was about 6 years old, but in fact he was already 10 years old.

 There is never a shortage of spectators on the street. There is no pattern to the child's illness. As long as he turns into a zombie, jumps a few times, bites the chicken's neck and drinks blood, it will attract a large number of people to watch, and some people will even come from other places to see him. , which also gave his father a generous daily income.

 Since the zombie doll came to Hwaseong Railway Station, the money that Master Han got from begging became less and less. Master Han was beaten a lot. The one who beat him was an old man who picked him up from the trash can. He was raised and originally expected to use this deformed child to make a small fortune, but everything was disrupted by the zombie doll. The audience ran away, and the child from hell defeated the two-headed demon snake.

 We should remember this old man's name: Sanwen Qian.

 He looked like a murderer. His small eyes were almost hidden by his unkempt eyebrows, and he always had a fierce look in his eyes. He had a broad back, bandy legs, and strong muscles. His big, calloused hands showed that he had suffered a lot. This old man traveled through the world with a circus in his early years. He knew all kinds of ways to tie people and things, such as the mandarin duck knot, the poor man's knot, the jumping lice knot, the sailor's knot, the turtle shell tie, and the back hand tie. He told others a lot of anecdotes, including rocks in Changbai Mountain floating on the water, wood sinking at the bottom, crows liking to smoke, and eels changing gender.

 Starting around 1990, San Wenqian made a living by begging at Hwaseong Railway Station.

 On November 19, 1996, it rained, and Sanwen came to the zombie doll's shack. The zombie doll's father was cooking a pot of boiling porridge when San Wenqian kicked it over and said angrily: "This is my territory."

 "I don't know," the father replied.

 "Go away and go wherever you want." San Wenqian said.

 "I'm not going anywhere." The father held a stick in his hand. The stick was as thick as an arm. He snapped the stick into two pieces on his knees. "I can beat your face to pieces." He threw the stick and continued, "Empty hands will do."

 San Wenqian tilted his head and said, "Okay, you wait."

 The next night, Sanwen brought two beggars, and Master Han brought a rusty machete. They stood in front of the shack without saying anything. Zombie Doll's father quickly saw the situation in front of him clearly. During the wheat harvest season, there would be such a farmer in every field - he knelt down and said, "Please. , don't hit my baby, he is sick."

 "Hit me." He said holding his head.

 San Wenqian stood aside indifferently and watched. The machete in Master Han's hand was of no use and bent after a few cuts. The fists of the two beggars rained down on the father. One of them grabbed his father's hair and knocked him to the ground. There was a loud bang. After a while, the father fell to the ground motionless.

 "Stop." Three Wen Qian pulled away the middle-aged beggar.

 "Is he dead?" the beggar asked worriedly.

 "He's not dead," San Wenqian said after sniffing the father's breath. "He passed out."

 At this time, a child rushed out of the shack. This 10-year-old child stood in front of his father. His body was stooped, but his momentum looked more like a giant. He bared his teeth and exposed his black gums, which frightened a beggar to take two steps back. Master Han stepped forward with the useless knife, and the child punched Master Han's big tumor, making Master Han scream. Another beggar pushed the child to the ground. The child roared and bit the beggar's calf like a mad dog. Sanwen went up and pulled hard and kicked hard with his feet to free the beggar from the child's mouth.

 "Let's go." San Wenqian said.

 The child stood there, clenching his fists in both hands, and roared.

 A month later, the father saved enough money to send the child to the hospital for medical treatment, but the doctors were helpless about the disease. No abnormalities were found in CT, MRI and biochemical examinations, but problems were found in brain wave examinations. They resorted to exchange transfusion therapy, a risky treatment that worsened the child's condition and eventually led to his death.

 When the Chinese New Year was approaching, a middle-aged beggar appeared at the entrance of Hwaseong Railway Station. He wore a black cotton-padded jacket, with a telephone cord tied around his waist. He put his left hand into his right sleeve and his right hand into his left sleeve. He squatted on the ground, his face buried in his arms, and there was a broken bowl in front of him.

 Two people stopped in front of him, and one of them pulled the coins in the broken bowl with his hand: "That's it?"

 He looked up and saw Sanwen Qian and Master Han.

 "Where's your baby?" San Wenqian asked.

 "he died."

 "What's your name?"

 "Big monster."

 "Hey, it's cold enough. Big monster, I want to buy you a drink. Do you want to go?" San Wenqian asked him.

 The big monster looked at the three pennies, packed up his things silently, and the three of them walked into a food stall restaurant. That night, they were all drunk and talked a lot to each other. From that day on, an evil gang with beggars as its main members appeared here.