Late Qing Dynasty Executioner

Chapter 105 Chen Kui's Choice
Liu Er was breathing weakly and lying motionless on the bed with a pale face, wrapped in white cloth like a dumpling.

Wang Wu sat at the door without saying a word. After Chen Gu and the other two came in, he just glanced at them and then fell into a daze again.

After Chen Gu entered the room and took a look at Liu Er's condition, he took a bowl, took off the gourd from his waist, dissolved some honey water, and moistened Liu Er's dry lips to make him feel more comfortable.

Unexpectedly, Liu Er opened his eyes, but after staring at Chen Kui for a while, his eyes finally came into focus, "Water!"

Chen Gu quickly fed Liu Er the honey water in the bowl.

After slowly drinking a bowl of honey water, Liu Er closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Then he opened his eyes again. There was a gleam in his eyes and his face became a little redder.

Chen Gu's face was full of bitterness. "Maybe there is still hope. Why bother playing tricks on him?"

"Stop talking nonsense and help me up!" Liu Er glared and cursed.

Hearing Liu Er's voice, Wang Wu hurried in, but did not get close.

Lao Piao bent down and picked up Liu Er, then wrapped a quilt around him and leaned him against the wall, letting Liu Er sit up wrapped in the quilt.

"Old man, you are as light as a feather now!" Lao Piao grinned, but his eyes were full of sadness.

"Stop talking nonsense, you two. Just listen to me!" Liu Er sighed and said, "Although I don't want you two to come, I know you two will definitely come, so I'm holding on to my last breath.

What happened is not important; what is important is how we change our future path.

Actually, I don't have much vision. I have lived my whole life as a fool. I am not as smart as you two, nor as great as you two, so there is not much I can tell you.

The Qing Dynasty is a centipede that is still alive and kicking, and it has occupied the world for more than a hundred years. Its foundation is incomparable to yours, so there is no time to rebel against it.

You are still young, you can take your time. After the commotion, just go back to the mountains. Remember to take Wang Wu's family with you. As for when I die, just throw them into the stinking ditch."

"That won't do. If our ancestor Emperor Gao, Liu Er, were to be buried in a stinking ditch, wouldn't he be laughed at by the whole world?" Chen Gu said with a smile, and at the same time looked deeply at Wang Wu.

"Haha, Emperor Gao of Shizu Liu Er, hahaha, with what you said, I was not wrong about you. Good, very good, hahaha~!"

After Liu Er laughed a few times, he lowered his head completely.

"Our great Emperor Taizong has passed away!" Chen the Judge smiled as he uncovered the quilt on Liu Er, laid him flat on the bed and covered him with the quilt. The moment he lowered his head, two hot tears rolled down his cheeks.

This old man was actually very nice to me, especially when I first came into this world, it was he who gave me a bowl of rice to eat.

Hearing what Chen Gu said, Wang Wu smiled bitterly, turned around and went out to sprinkle a handful of paper money into the air, and then burned a pile of paper money.

This is called fallen money, also known as fallen spirit money. It is said that when a person just dies, the soul is at its weakest when it leaves the body and is easily bullied by other wandering ghosts. Relatives can burn some fallen money to protect the soul of the deceased.

Chen Gu covered Liu Er with a blanket, and when he saw Wang Wu burning paper, he asked, "So, when you rushed towards me angrily, it was actually because you were jealous?"

“Big Brother!” Lao Piao bowed to Wang Wu and shouted, “Big Brother, please accept my condolences!”

Brothers who learn from the same school are called "senior brothers", but the son of the master needs to be called "senior brother", even if he is younger than himself, he still needs to be called "little senior brother", just like Chen Gu called Chen Tao and Chen Qi. When Liu Er specifically asked to take Wang Wu's family away, Chen Gu guessed it. Liu Er never said extra words, let alone before he died.

"If you are the eldest brother, why is he called Wang Wu?" Chen Gu asked with a frown.

"Master's wife's surname is Wang, and Master has four older brothers from other places!" Lao Piao explained.

Half father and half mother are separated by an ocean, while half mother and half father are separated by a mountain.

Chen Gu nodded, bowed to Wang Wu, and said, "Brother, please accept my condolences. We still have a lot of things to do next!"

"You decide on the arrangements. After all, you are the successor chosen by the old man. Who am I?" Wang Wu said coldly.

"Such a big grudge?"

Chen Gu couldn't help but sigh. Just as he was about to say something, with a "bang", the gate of the courtyard was violently pushed open from the outside.

A man dressed in yamen runner's uniform walked in. He was only slightly shorter than Lao Piao, but a lot taller than Lao Piao. Lao Piao weighed over 200 pounds, while the other man weighed at least 300 pounds. With such a conspicuous feature, if he was a real yamen runner, Chen Gu would have had an impression of him. However, Chen Gu had never seen this man before.

"The execution will be held at noon tomorrow at the vegetable market. The executioner Liu Eryi will be waiting there early!"

The other party had such an arrogant look on his face, he really looked like a yamen runner.

In the government office, the equally large Delentang sneered sinisterly, "That boy is really brave. He actually dared to enter the city with only one person."

Rong Zhao, who was sitting opposite Delentang, smiled and said, "Yes, it's really unexpected. I just wonder if he will pretend to agree to the order after receiving it from the government, or will he run away immediately out of fear?"

"Haha, he can't escape. Are you afraid that my 500 elite troops can't capture this little bastard of his?" Delentang laughed disdainfully.

"Haha, then let him chop off a few death row prisoners tomorrow, and then let him chop off his spies and that Zhang San. I just don't know if he can do it!" Rong Zhao said with a smile.

"That depends on how scared he is of death!" Delentang smiled and said with some regret, "It's a pity that too few people came. My five hundred elite troops have no place to use their skills. It will be troublesome to find and attack his stronghold again.

If there are really more than a thousand people in their stronghold, the five hundred elite battalions will suffer heavy losses in a strong attack, and the follow-up troops will arrive so quickly. If we capture that guy now, I'm afraid those bandits will scatter like birds and beasts."

"No rush, let's see what choice that kid makes first!" Rong Zhao said with a smile.

"What do you think Chen Gu will do after these people enter the city?" At the west gate, Han Yuanxiao asked Bian Shichun and Bai Wencheng beside him as he watched the people rushing into the city.

Bian Shichun shook his head and said, "Chen Jue always does things unexpectedly. No one knows what choice he will make. When he will take action and who he will attack are all unknown."

Bai Wencheng thought for a moment and said, "But Chen Gu is a rather impulsive person. I'm afraid he won't wait too long, and he can't afford to wait."

"Impulsiveness is just an appearance. Judging from the results, there is nothing wrong with his impulsiveness. If he were not impulsive, he would miss the opportunity. So it is too early to say whether he was really impulsive." Han Yuanxiao said with a smile.

In the small courtyard, Chen Ju couldn't help but laugh at the arrogant yamen runner in front of him. He pounced on him like a tiger and squeezed out a word from between his teeth, "Kill!"

(End of this chapter)