Chapter 59: A Heinous Crime
At this moment, the strange old man next to him suddenly became a little crazy. Lin Shuo didn't pay attention and let him struggle to get up.
Unexpectedly, the strange old man did not run away. Instead, he turned around and lay on the middle-aged man's legs, opened his mouth wide and drank his blood.
Seeing this, both the brother and sister were shocked. This strange old man actually drank human blood alive.
The middle-aged man was also stunned for a moment, and then began to scream: "Ah! It hurts! Let me go!"
It must be that the strange old man bit him hard, and the middle-aged man no longer cared about hierarchy, twisted his body, and tried to kick the strange old man away.
Lin Shuo quickly pinched the strange old man's neck and knocked him unconscious. Only then did the middle-aged man stop struggling.
"Can you tell me now? If you don't explain yourself, I will wake him up, untie him, and lock you two in this room. You'd better think carefully about what will happen then." Lin Shuo walked to the middle-aged man, looked down at him, and said.
A look of fear suddenly appeared on the man's face. He nodded vigorously and said, "I say, I say, don't lock us up together.
His name is Wei Hongye, the younger brother of Wei Daren, the prefect of Huizhou, and a wealthy man in Yongping Town. I am their housekeeper, and my surname is Wang.
Steward Wang looked at Wei Hongye, swallowed his saliva, and said, "About three years ago, he suddenly fell ill and couldn't see the sun. When he saw the sun, his body would blister and bleed.
I don’t know how many doctors he consulted, but none of them were of any use. The old man could only lie in a dark room every day.
Later, he gradually stopped eating, until one night, I saw him running to the kitchen to drink raw chicken and duck blood.
He said that after drinking the blood he felt better.
I was originally a servant, and he threatened me with selling me, asking me not to tell anyone about the incident, and also asked me to help him find more live chickens and ducks."
After hearing what Butler Wang said, Lin Shuo touched the goose bumps on his arm and asked Lin Qian, "Sister, could this Wei Hongye be a vampire? Look, he can't see the sun and likes to drink blood. Aren't these the symptoms of a vampire?"
Lin Qian shook her head. Before she traveled through time, she liked reading novels, and one of them had written about this symptom.
"He is not a vampire, but the disease he suffers from is called vampirism, and its scientific name is porphyria." Lin Qian explained.
Glancing at Butler Wang, Lin Qian asked, "What happened next? What happened to these children?"
Steward Wang continued, "The master gradually became dissatisfied with drinking only the blood of chickens and ducks, so I found other bloods for him: wolf blood, tiger blood, and deer blood.
But the more he drank, the less satisfied he became.
That day, a little maid accidentally broke the master's most beloved four treasures of the study. The master immediately became angry and in a rage, he accidentally killed the little maid.
Seeing the blood flowing from the maid's head, the master couldn't help but bite her neck.
Speaking of this, Steward Wang broke out in cold sweat. Whenever he woke up in the middle of the night, he would be awakened by the scene of Wei Hongye lying on the maid's neck and sucking blood.
"I have no choice. He said that if I don't help him, he will drink my blood.
After tasting human blood, he could no longer drink the blood of animals, and he began to order me to find human blood.
Later, I bought a few people from human traffickers, locked them up in the woodshed in the backyard, and drained a bowl of their blood every day for them to drink.
In fact, he himself knew that this was wrong, so he started looking for medical books and folk remedies, and finally found an ancient recipe.
Drain the blood of 49 pairs of boys and girls, add various precious medicinal herbs, and boil it into a bowl. After he drinks it, his illness will be cured.
We bought a lot of girls, but not many boys, so the master asked me to hire a group of murderous bandits to go out on the streets and kidnap children."
"Aren't you afraid that the government will come and investigate?" Lin Qian felt so angry when she heard this. How many innocent children's lives were lost because of this.
Steward Wang shook his head: "He is the prefect's younger brother, who would dare to investigate him?"
Lin Shuo asked, "How many boys and girls have you killed?"
"You two are the last couple."
Hiss! Lin Qian and Lin Shuo gasped. Including the eight people they had saved, Wei Hongye had killed a total of eighty-eight innocent children.
Shocking case! Wei Hongye must be put to death!
Lin Shuo glanced at Wei Hongye lying on the ground, raised his sword to kill him, but Lin Qian grabbed his hand.
"Don't be impulsive. Killing him like this would be too easy for him. He should get the punishment he deserves." Lin Qian said.
"Where are the bodies of those children?" Lin Qian asked Butler Wang.
Steward Wang said, "Bury it in the garden."
No wonder, no wonder the flowers in the garden are blooming so beautifully, it turns out there are so many children's bodies buried underground.
Lin Shuo then retracted his sword, tears welling in his eyes. "How can such a person be so hateful? Because of such a person, those children are so young and have no idea why others treat them like this. Sister! I feel so bad."
Lin Qian felt equally bad. She knocked Butler Wang unconscious, then hugged Lin Shuo, her tears streaming down her face.
"If, if someone could cure Wei Hongye's disease, would there not be so many children dying?" Lin Qian asked herself in her heart.
But no matter what, since he committed such a heinous crime, he should pay the price.
"Shuo Shuo, besides the two of us, there should be no one awake in this house now. Go write a note and tell the local government what Wei Hongye did.
I'll go get those kids out, and we'll make sure Wei Hongye has no chance of explaining himself."
Lin Qian didn't forget that Wei Hongye had a powerful background. What if the prefect got him out?
Lin Shuo nodded, and just as he was about to go out, he turned back and handed Lin Qian a sword. He also had one in his hand, so it looked like they were a pair.
"I just found this in his room, buried under a box. Use it for self-defense."
Lin Qian took it and pulled it out. This sword was different from the ancient long sword in Lin Shuo's hand.
The blade of her sword was as crystal clear as ice and very thin, and it was obvious that it was used by a woman.
Lin Qian sheathed her sword and nodded to Lin Shuo: "You should be careful too."
Lin Qian returned to the dungeon, put the eight living children into the space, and then placed them in front of the gate of Wei Mansion.
What she has to do now is to make the matter bigger than it actually is, to the point where no one can cover it up anymore.
Just as he put the children at the gate of Wei's house, a passerby passed by. He saw seven or eight children lying at the gate of Wei's house with wounds all over their bodies. He immediately screamed and turned around and ran away.
After a while, the passerby called many more passers-by, and word spread, and soon, the Wei Mansion was surrounded by people.
This was the scene he saw when the county magistrate arrived with the government office.
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