Having been scolded and beaten by the people along the way, the scholar only had half a life left when he arrived at Caishikou, and his spirit was tortured to the point of near collapse by the illusion created by the magic wet grass planted by Lin Yi.
It was almost 3:30 when we arrived at Decaishikou, and the surrounding area was surrounded by people watching the execution.
Everyone wants to see this prisoner get the punishment he deserves.
The location of Caishikou is at the end of Mati Street and at the intersection of Pingbu Street.
On weekdays, ordinary people buy and sell grain, vegetables and meat on Pingbu Street.
The wooden pillars in Caishikou are usually used as a platform for the common people to slaughter fish and chickens. Once criminals are taken to Caishikou to be beheaded, those wooden pillars become theirs. guillotine.
Why behead people in a place like this?
The purpose is to prevent those prisoners who have committed crimes from being reborn as human beings in the next life, and to be converted into animals.
The person responsible for executions in this place today is the executioner, the first underworld gate in the Kirigakure Gate.
It is said that all the professions in the Wuyin Sect are very evil and deal with the dead all year round, but their inheritance is not simple, especially the executioner, who ranks first in the Yin Catching Industry.
There is an industry rule for executioners, which is called "Ninety-nine murders, and you must stop when the time comes." Otherwise, you will suffer retribution.
The person standing on the stage now is Deng Yan, the eldest disciple of the First Yinmen.
Due to the restriction of ninety-nine killings, Deng Yan rarely took action after beheading fifty people, and most executions were carried out by other disciples.
Only when he encounters the most heinous criminal will Deng Yan take action.
Deng Yan had heard about the prisoner being executed today, and since the county magistrate personally named him, he must be the one to be executed this time.
Deng Yan also had a master above him, named Deng Xian, who was also Deng Yan’s father. He was nicknamed the "Hundred Man Killer" and was the first executioner in Shoulin City to behead ninety-nine heads. The top person in the industry.
Someone asked, did he chop off ninety-nine heads or a hundred heads?
Hey, isn’t there just one person missing?
The killing of a hundred people is just a word of respect. After all, others have followed the rules. Do you really want them to break the rules?
Some things cannot be revealed until you see them through.
As mentioned before, the first four sects of the Kirigakure Sect pay special attention to inheritance, and this executioner is especially strict in hierarchy and pays attention to the inheritance of teachers.
Executioners who performed well and were able to serve were all under the jurisdiction of the prison department of the Yamen Punishment Department, registered in the register, and were considered to be eating from the Yamen.
When Mr. Deng had not retreated behind the scenes, he was very strict with his disciples.
Especially for his son Deng Yan, the training is extremely harsh.
To practice chopping winter melon during the day, first draw a horizontal line on the winter melon, then chop it casually, and the cut point must be exactly the same as the drawn line to be considered masterful.
In the evening, he was asked to practice chopping off the head of incense. He should focus on the shining point of the incense and use the knife to cut off the incense head.Being impartial just cut off the head of Huo Tan.
However, Deng Yan’s talent was excellent, and winter melons and fragrant heads were all a matter of course.
A dragon gives birth to a dragon, a phoenix gives birth to a phoenix, and mice give birth to babies that can burrow.
This is not true at all.
Soon, Deng Yan came out and became the successor of the eighth generation of the First Yinmen.
Some people say that there is something so great about this eighth generation executioner. He is just a beheader. Who can use a knife to chop heads?
Then what you said is wrong.
Don’t underestimate these skilled executioners. People who can do this are not ordinary people.
You can’t get into this industry without some courage and courage.
What they do all day is beheading.
Some skilled executioners can kill the prisoner with one blow without feeling any pain.
It can even connect the skin on the neck to the head when beheading, so that the criminal's entire head will not fall to the ground. This can be regarded as leaving a whole body for the condemned prisoner.
Not everyone can acquire these skills.
After Deng Xian quit the beheading business, the Yamen gave him a generous sealing fee. Together with the income from the business, it was enough for him to live comfortably for the rest of his life.
So I spent the whole day wandering around and having fun in the teahouses and restaurants of Shoulin City, and my life was quite fulfilling.
When he was full of wine and food, he would start chatting and tell the people around him vividly about the strange things he had experienced on the execution ground, sometimes even to the detriment of the storyteller.
Everyone in the teahouse listened to Deng Xian’s bragging, but the storyteller was not convinced and wanted to come forward to argue. After hearing it twice, he moved a chair and sat next to him to listen together. .
Within two days, Mr. Storyteller compiled these stories and used them in his own storytelling, which was quite popular.
So some little-known secrets about the executioner spread in Shoulin City.
For example, the number ninety-nine.
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At this moment, the crazy scholar was pressed onto the execution platform, with his head resting on the wooden pillar.
The torture meal before coming out was saved.
For such a heinous villain, the jailers still wanted to give him food, but they had to follow the rules.
So I got a bowl of rice with incense sticks on it, lit it up, and the meat was burnt. I put it in the bowl and let the scholar smell it. Even if he had eaten it, he would have eaten it. It's not like breaking the rules.
We walked out of Baihumen and then went to the execution platform.
Deng Yan stood next to the kneeling scholar, wearing coarse linen clothes and a red scarf on his head, holding a ghost-headed sword on his shoulder.
This ghost head sword has a heavy body and a ghost head carved on the handle. It is quite sharp and can cut gold and jade easily.
The supervisor looked up and saw that it was already three quarters to noon. He took out the red lottery from the bamboo tube., thrown to the ground.
Someone reported: "The time has come for execution!"
Why must the execution be executed at three quarters at noon?
In terms of yin-yang theory, at three quarters of noon, yang energy is at its strongest and yin energy dissipates immediately. The person who was killed has no yin energy and cannot even become a ghost.
Beheading at this time is a heinous crime.
Deng Yan picked up the bowl next to him, took a sip of wine, and then sprayed it on the blade.
It is a rule to drink and spray with a knife.
Drinking before killing someone is a way of worshiping heaven and earth, as well as ghosts and gods. It is not as simple as preventing the knife from becoming dull and rusty after being stained with blood.
The wine these executioners drank was mixed with child urine, dew, crow's blood, yellow milk, and snake fruit in order to block the resentment and prevent the resentment of the condemned from turning into ghosts after death. a measure.
Normally speaking, death row prisoners also drink alcohol, but the wine they drink is different. The Ministry of Punishment has long prepared wine mixed with rice wine and white wine. This wine is not very strong. Small, two sips can basically make people dizzy, so that the executioner can ease the pain of these death row prisoners with a quick knife.
But the scholar didn’t have to drink, so he also smelled the alcohol.
When Deng Yan raised his sword, perhaps because the end was approaching, the scholar suddenly woke up.
Seeing everything around him, he instantly understood his situation. This time he was on the execution ground and was about to be beheaded.
He smiled. Countless fantasy and horror scenes had made him understand that what he had seen before was an illusion, and it was the same this time.
"Illusion, everything is an illusion."
He can no longer distinguish between reality and illusion.
With these crazy words, his vision changed instantly.
After a moment of earth-shaking, he watched his headless body slowly slide down from the wooden pier.
No...
This time, it’s not an illusion...
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