During the Republic of China period, there was a red man named "Swallow Li San", who achieved light feats, and the cornices walked on the wall like walking on the ground. He once did many things to rob the rich and help the poor, and was considered a "rogue" by the people. However, he was later caught by the police and put in prison. However, although Swallow Li San was caught, there were still cases of Swallow Li San committing crimes everywhere in society, and after investigation, the police found that it was really not someone who impersonated him, but indeed the case of Swallow Li San. The police went to the prison to see and found that Li San was well locked up. So, what's going on here? Could it be that Li San can split the body?
Li San's real name is Li Jinghua. In 1895, Li Jinghua was born into a poor family in Zhuozhou, Hebei Province. In order to make a living, he fled with his uncle to Cangzhou when he was young. Cangzhou people are fierce, and many people learn martial arts, and Li Jinghua is doing odd jobs there while also following others to learn martial arts.
To say, Li Jinghua is really a material for learning martial arts, he is thin, but his legs are stronger than ordinary people. And he is more intelligent, and he is very perceptive in learning martial arts, so he does not know the martial arts and leg skills, and his light skills are also good.
Unfortunately, Li Jinghua did not have ambition, let alone the perseverance to climb the peak of martial arts. Instead, he relied on the martial arts he had learned to walk the wall and started stealing. Interestingly, Li Jinghua called himself "Swallow Li San", and after each theft, he left a paper folded swallow to show that he had committed the crime, and after a long time, the fame of "Swallow Li San" became on fire.
Li Jinghua's courage is still very strong, and he has always only stolen rich businessmen and high-ranking officials. Because he was committing a crime, it was difficult for the police to catch him. However, what really made him famous was the theft of the belongings of the Luoyang garrison commander Bai Jianwu's family.
Bai Jianwu was a warlord, not only extremely arrogant, but also a fish-fleshed people. By looting, the family wealth is very impressive. However, it was very difficult to enter his house, because there were soldiers guarding the front and back of the house, and the security was extremely in place.
However, Li Jinghua successfully broke through the defense, and without knowing it, not only stole Bai Jianwu's belongings, but also stole the pistol he was wearing while he was asleep, hung it in the back garden of his home, and left a white swallow next to the gun, and wrote the words "Swallow Li San came here for a visit."
Li Jinghua's public provocation made Bai Jianwu jump like a thunderbolt. However, when he thought that the gun had been stolen by him, he was unconscious, and for the sake of Gu Quanzi, Bai Jianwu was not willing to be too vocal. But where in the world are there impermeable walls? Soon the news of the theft of Bai Jianwu's family spread, and those who hated him for a while all clapped their hands and applauded, and Li Jinghua was also regarded as a "rogue" and his reputation was greatly enhanced.
However, Li Jinghua also knows that he often walks by the river, where there is no reason to get wet shoes. Therefore, for a long time, he studied kung fu in the Shaolin Temple in anonymity. A few years later, when he reappeared on the rivers and lakes, his martial arts improved a lot.
At first, Li Jinghua was still active in Hubei and Henan, but later, after the rich merchants and high-ranking officials in that area were almost stolen by him, he went to the Beijing-Tianjin area. Duan Qirui, the warlord Zhang Zongchang, the warlord Zhang Zongchang, the prime minister Pan Fu and other politicians and soldiers who were serving as prime ministers at the time had all been stolen by him, but because of his high skill, the police could not do anything about him.
According to Cai Li's "Memories of My Being a Swallow Li San's Defense Lawyer", Li Jinghua would step on the point in advance every time he stole, and he not only carried a charming mind potion with him. And there was also a master key, and when he stole, he never made a sound, and his hands and feet were extremely light.
Li Jinghua's light skills are also very powerful, not only can he fly over the wall, but he can also walk quickly against the wall like a gecko head down. According to Li Jinghua, his move is called "scorpion climbing." In addition, his qigong is also quite good, even if he occasionally loses his hand and is caught, he can also perform the exercises, so that the heel bone of the foot shrinks, and the iron shackles fall off. Then he threw the iron hook he carried into the eaves or the tree, and when it was fixed, he could climb up the rope and escape in an instant.
Li Jinghua is very famous in the folk, on the one hand, he only steals officials and nobles, and never harasses ordinary people. On the other hand, he often takes a part of the stolen property to help the poor. Therefore, when people mention "Swallow Li San", they are full of praise, and for a while, the folk are spreading various wonderful stories of "Swallow Li San", and he has also become a well-known "rogue" because of robbing the rich and helping the poor.
In fact, compared with those real heroes in the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, Li Jinghua's character is really much inferior. Because of the ease with which money came, Li Jinghua never felt pain, and he spent money even more profligately, and most of the money was spent on pornography and gambling. Of course, when he was occasionally in a good mood, he would also allocate three melons and two dates from it to help the poor. And his inadvertent act made the poor grateful.
However, no matter how powerful the thief is, there are also times when he is caught.
In 1934, Li Jinghua was arrested by the police for stealing and sent to the Beiping Correctional Center. Because Li Jinghua had the ability to escape from prison, the prison guards kept a close eye on him, lest he lose his job after he escaped.
Li Jinghua was very calm, he could eat and sleep, and he meditated and practiced in his spare time. Slowly, after Li Jinghua became familiar with the prison guards, he gave the prison guards an idea, that is, to let him go out at night to steal, and during the day he returned to the correctional center. The condition is that some of the proceeds of theft be distributed to the prison guards.
The prison guards' salaries were meager, and when they heard About Li Jinghua's idea, they were thrilled, and since then, Li Jinghua has gone out to steal at night, and he will stay in prison to sleep during the day.
At this time, Li Jinghua was simply the god of wealth of the prison guards. Everyone was eager to offer him up, and Shi Haishan, the inspector of the correctional center, was even more worshipped as a brother with him, and the relationship was incomparably close.
One night in August of the same year, Li Jinghua went to the Hal Fei Theater to listen to a play. After the show, he followed Pan Guohua of Xidan Lihua Silk Satin Village home. After the Pan family fell asleep, he sneaked into the Pan family and stole a lot of belongings, including some satin and expensive clothes. After returning to the correctional center, he distributed the money he had received to Shi Haishan and others.
Who knows that not long after, Shi Haishan took one of the high-grade cashmere vests to the washing and dyeing shop to sell, and the result was recognized by the store and reported to Pan Guoying. It turned out that Pan Guoying not only reported to the police station, but he also greeted his peers and asked them to pay attention.
The stolen goods were all seized, and the detective team detained Shi Haishan at the headquarters of the detective team in Harrier Alley for interrogation. After Li Jinghua got the news, he performed light feats and crouched down on the beam of the interrogation room to eavesdrop. As a result, because he smoked opium, he actually fell asleep on the beam.
The next morning, the detective team found Li Jinghua snoring on the beam of the house, so they rushed up and arrested him. In order to prevent Li Jinghua from escaping from prison, the police station specially wore a wooden dog torture device for him. This kind of torture device is a kind of old wooden torture device, which is mainly locked between the prisoner's legs, so that the prisoner's legs cannot be freely stretched, which can be said to be an extremely cruel and barbaric torture device.
In January 1935, Li Jinghua was sentenced to 12 years in prison for "theft and violence." This result made Li Jinghua very dissatisfied, so he appealed to the Supreme Court. However, before the Supreme Court could reply, Li Jinghua fell ill and died in prison because of opium.
However, for Li Jinghua's death, the Beijing News also gave another result. It is said that after Li Jinghua was imprisoned, although he wore a "wooden dog", the police were still worried that he would escape, so they broke his ankle tendon. In the cold winter, Li Jinghua's wounds were not only not treated in time, but he was also thrown on the cold and damp cement floor after his torture. As a result, one night passed, and Li Jinghua actually froze to death.
No matter how Li Jinghua died, in short, after he died, because he had no relatives or friends, his body has been unclaimed, and finally ended up in a wilderness.
It can be seen that no matter when, people still have to take the right path, and crooked doors and evil ways are self-destructive.