Chapter 610 "The Innocence"

The Salem Witch Trial took place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, northeast of Boston, and Salem, Oregon, was founded by the Americans in 1842.

Salem is the same as the biblical name of the holy city Jerusalem. It means peace in both Arabic and Israeli Hebrew. It may be because of this that many cities take this name. Mr. Lin compares Salem with That Salem got confused.

Just like the name of this store, "Hu" and "WU" are not the same word, but there is no difference in the eyes of the British. The word "Hu" is a Chinese character, which is pictographic like the Egyptian characters. It looks like some kind of symbol.

The Eye of Horus and the Deathly Hallows Peverier badge are like eyes and both have the meaning of resurrection. Among the three Deathly Hallows, the Resurrection Stone can be said to be the most inconspicuous. Great, but in Albus's letter it said that if you have the resurrection stone, you can see ghosts, and it was the stone that took away Albus's life.

  He couldn't resist the temptation it brought. He met many people and participated in many funerals in his life, but the most regrettable thing was the death of Arianna.

She was attacked by three Muggle kids. She didn't even invite them to play with her. She just used a little "trick" in the garden. As a result, the Muggles got scared out of control and rushed into the yard to take her. Press her head in the bucket and use the "water test" method to test whether she is a witch.

At the end of the Salem Witch Trial, 19 people were hanged and one person was crushed to death by a pile of rocks. When some phenomenon exceeds the common sense of people and people do not have the ability to solve it, the unknown is not curiosity. It was pure fear.

The only thing that feared and helpless people can control when they face a situation out of control is the life and death of people who are weaker than them. Those "witches" who were killed said before death, "God knows that I am innocent. I am not involved in witchcraft".

  In Europe in the 16th century, most poor people could not see the future in their hometowns. They hoped to start again in that new continent.

Darkness is not true darkness, but caused by ignorance. Printing can bring knowledge that illuminates people's darkness and ignorance, and it can also bring information with ulterior motives. Not all knowledge is harmless, and not all education is. Can make people change their own destiny.

  The habits of Chinese characters are different from those in Europe. There are thousands of commonly used Chinese characters, while there are only 26 English characters, but the order of arrangement is different. This can be printed with movable type.

  Chinese characters are not suitable for printing with movable type. It takes a long time to just select the commonly used characters. With typesetting and mistakes, it takes more time.

There is a gap between theory and practice. Chinese writings have always used both letterpress and engraving. The earliest published engraving is the engraving of the Diamond Sutra of the Tang Dynasty. Mr. Lin believes in Buddhism. He is a vegetarian. He didn't touch the dazzling array of snacks on the table, and he kept talking about "things" with Severus.

  Not only are there frescoes in the Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang, but there are also frescoes in many tombs. Most of the people who can repair tombs and bury them are rich people, and rich people often have connections with wizards.

The ignorant are fearless. The more they know, the more they are afraid. The London Underground is the oldest subway in the world. There are many forgotten and abandoned platforms in the depths of the city, as well as secretly excavated facilities by the government. Many subway platform walls are covered by people. Hand-painted full of graffiti, that is actually a kind of mural.

  Those ghostly stations are sometimes considered by passengers to be the stations they want to get off. After getting off the train, those people disappear.

  Each city has its own urban legend. New York has underground crocodiles, and Chang'an and Luoyang in the Tang Dynasty also have them.

  According to legend, there is a "ghost market" near Wubenfang near Chang'an Guozijian. Whenever it is windy or rainy, people will be heard talking, but there is no one on the street.

  In Luoyang, there are Yin soldiers borrowing the way. In the late Tang Dynasty person Duan Chengshi's notes "Youyang Miscellaneous Cu", it is recorded that Tang Xuanzong was in the eastern capital Luoyang during the period when he was the "emperor of the emperor". It was June summer. Suddenly one day the people of Luoyang became agitated and ran around the street, and there was even a crowd trampling. It turned out that a group of Yin soldiers suddenly appeared in the air, reaching tens of thousands. The horses were noisy and the shadows overlapped, which was very scary.

And this kind of thing happened many times next, every time it appeared at night, walking all the way from the south bank of Luoshui and disappearing on the north bank of Luoshui, it was not explained by the meteorological spectacle of a mirage, so Tang Xuanzong asked someone to do it. Event, and placed offerings beside Luoshui, and finally made those Yin Soldiers disappear.

  It is the custom of Chinese people to display tribute. Sometimes it is rice, and wealthy people will also put wine and dishes. Of course, the dead cannot eat those things.

But the hungry people passing by can eat those foods. At the death party, the ghosts put a lot of disgusting food on the table. They are all rotten and smelly. The living people will definitely not eat them, but the dead lose their feelings. Experience the joy of being alive, even if it smells bad, he wants to try it.

In the famous Chinese story "The Blessing of Qi People", the Qi people who had one wife and one concubine went to the graveyard to eat the tribute of others. After returning, he told his wives and concubines that he was treated by a wealthy man for dinner. The wives and concubines followed him to find out what lies he had lied.

People eat food, and the people who sacrificed thought that the people who were sacrificed came, and the sacrifices will continue in the coming year. There is a certain spiritual connection between descendants and ancestors. Later generations sacrifice to ancestors, and ancestors give future generations "shadow". ", so that those who worship oneself can have good luck, in order to obtain "good luck", from the king to the common people, they value "feng shui" very much.

  Mountain’s south and water’s north are yang, and the mountains’ north and water’s south are yin. After archaeological excavation, the tomb of Qin Shihuang was found to be in the north of Li Mountain and south of the Weihe River, which is suitable for burying the dead.

  The Han Dynasty emperor’s mausoleum is the reverse, north of the Weishui River, where the terrain is higher, and in the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Chang’an City was planned to be south of Longshou Mountain.

In history, in addition to the Yellow River, the Weihe River is also a turbulent and changeable river. It has changed its course several times. Then, in the reign of Emperor Han Cheng, there was a rumor that the Weihe River was soaring that it was about to flood the city, and the people ran to the city wall. Take refuge, the emperor also intends to escape.

  The emperor can't just abandon the city and flee so easily. The nobles are the same. Common people can run, but they can't.

  When Justinian wanted to run, Theodora refused to escape. Once he escaped, he would no longer be a nobleman. No matter how rich he is, he doesn’t deserve to have a purple robe.

  She would rather use that purple robe as her shroud.

When it comes to the American aristocracy, the British will sneer. "Aristocracy" is related to money, but it is either rich or aristocratic. In the second half of the 19th century in the United States, emerging industries such as oil, railroads, automobiles, and Wall Street finance pushed up. A group of super-rich people, of course, want to have status if they have money, but the upper class in the United States looks down on these people who became rich overnight, mocking them as "nobles born yesterday", "fat guys who ate overnight", and "Wall Street." Gamblers, liars" and so on.

The "noble" class of American social circles claimed to be the first batch of pioneers who were the first to board the "Mayflower". They have pure Anglo-Saxon blood, so the etiquette and manners in the circle are old-fashioned. "British aristocracy" breath.

In their eyes, those who have just landed on bridges, roads, and gold pans are "Newmoney". Molly Brown is one of them. The old-school circles are closed to the upstarts, adopting no invitation, no communication, No intermarriage policy. But even they are not real nobles in front of European aristocrats, nobles shouldn't exist in the United States, so Americans will laugh when they say there are nobles in Britain.

Mr. Wen and Mr. Lin both set themselves very accurately. One of them is a gangster and the other is a "little businessman". They do not regard themselves as masters. They reveal the temperament of the older generation of overseas Chinese. The new generations who have received purely American and British education are different.

  They know more secrets than young people. Those are not the history recorded on paper, but the "story" passed on by word of mouth, but sometimes the "story" is spread as distorted as myth.

  California Chinese Exclusion Act, the owner of a Chinese laundromat obtained their legal rights by resorting to law. The Oregon Chinese Exclusion Massacre is different.

  In 1887, 10 Chinese workers were killed by white mobs in the Chinese gold mining area in Zhuoshuikeng near Losting, Oregon, and their bodies drifted on the river. Three of the corpses were found, and the local officials inspected them on the spot, and it was proved that they were all killed by knives, guns, hoes, and sickles. The mob robbed gold powder worth 5,000 to 10,000 U.S. dollars. After the incident, the US authorities arrested only four criminals. Except for one who died in prison, the other three were acquitted.

In the Godfather’s movie, the funeral home owner wanted to seek justice for his daughter through the law at the beginning, but this superficial judicial justice did not allow him to obtain “justice” because he is an Italian immigrant, even if he is white, and the same Those who believe in Christianity, and those who are acquitted, are the kids of rich people. Their ancestors may be poor people who ran to the New World to escape the Black Death, or they may be criminals who escaped religious trials. They have adapted to the "Free America". "Life, became a "successful person."

  Don’t think that taking advantage of bias can really last a long time. People have the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. California and New York are far ahead of other states in taxation. These two states have high prices and developed commerce. Oregon does not impose a consumption tax, but that state is far inferior to the neighboring California.

  Eliminating the Chinese does not mean that business will get better and better, on the contrary, it may become more and more sluggish. The former prosperous Chinatown of Salem is gone, only the Chinatowns of New York and California are still there.

  In fact, the biggest feature of Oregon is that there are many virgin forests, which are far less haunted than Pennsylvania, and there is no need for the Chinese to go.

  Fear is only one aspect. When the white road is blocked, the black power will “justify” and one of the four suspects will die in prison. The power of formal channels is limited to the embassy. Outside the embassy, ​​local laws must be abided by. If the law cannot give them justice, they have to find a different way.

  Although ordinary civilians have no force, they can pay money. Overseas Chinese and Hongmen have been in a symbiotic relationship after so many years. The Chinese left their homes because the Qing government was unable to provide justice, and the Oregon courts were unable to provide "justice", so they naturally followed the people who could support justice for them.

  The Americans drove away the Hongmen in New York’s Chinatown, there will be ABC, and when ABC is driven away, there will be a large circle of gang instead. Who pays the protection fee is not the same? This is the same as who the emperor has changed, and the common people don't care at all.

  But some things are already entrenched. The "ghost" government cannot protect the interests of the Chinese. Gangs are equivalent to civilian armed forces. Without force, they will be slaughtered at will. Everyone does not want to be a fish on the chopping board.

When the police wipe out a gang, new gangs will be supported. If San Francisco and New York cancel Chinatown, they will follow in Salem's footsteps. Without the Chinese business, there will be no life. "Business" needs competition to prosper. , Which politician wants a depressed city?

  Chinatown is a mixture of dragons and snakes. The chief of the police wants to drive away those "black sheep". It is impossible to leave only law-abiding citizens to create wealth and political achievements for themselves.

   There is a saying that there are no fish when the water is clear. There are many people who want to fish in troubled waters. If there is no troubled water, no one will come. No one will be abandoned even in the once prosperous city.

  Hongmen is not as good as before. Many of the big circle gangs are veterans. No matter how "organized crime" is, how can they be their opponents.

When Ivan and Valentina encountered a problem they couldn’t solve, they approached Ma Youjia for help. Mr. Lin didn’t ask him for help. Instead, he approached a British wizard to solve it. The "little boy" who looks very easy-going and talks about brotherhood. "Ma" does not seem to be as kind as he seems.

  Xingtang’s flower officer in London’s Chinatown has been enough to become Mr. Wen's object of vigilance.

  Ma Yourong is a "painter", but even the gang members are afraid of him, let alone Mr. Lin who is in legal business.

There are many differences between Western wizards and Eastern wizards. They are sometimes not friendly to Muggles. Even George and Fred used fat tongue toffee to prank Dudley, making his tongue a foot long. .

  The wizard found it interesting, but Muggles didn’t think so. Even if the Dessleys bullied Harry, the two of them did too much to avenge Harry.

  According to Severus, Ma Yurong seems to know something about the missing subway cases. He called this phenomenon "Shen Yin". If it is simple to understand, it is enough to get off the wrong station and wait for the next subway to go up again, or to go out of the passage from the abandoned station to the ground, but things really go so smoothly. ?

  Some people say that the most beautiful stage of love is when they are ambiguous. They test each other's breath, carefully discern the other party's release, and give each other a response without fear. Every small action seems to be full of meaning.

  Because there are too many uncertain factors, it adds a sense of adventure and excitement.

  Pomona looked at Severus’s profile. She was no longer interested in what Mr. Lin said, so her hand touched his thigh quietly...

  He stiffened all over, but he didn't stop her, as if he wanted to see her play tricks.

  "Mischief" is not what a good boy should do, but she is quite a "naughty" witch, she will not swear to be "not guilty" like those "witches" on trial.

  She loves magic and also participates in witchcraft, not to mention her hands are not clean anymore, because she likes to take care of those magic plants with dragon dung fertilizer.

  She doesn’t need to be clean and unsullied, because that kind of people really die very quickly, and they can easily be eaten as clean food.

  (End of this chapter)