Pirate Song

Several men's voices came from inside the room, and one man cursed Zhang Cheng.

"Hey! Big brother! What is this? Those delicate girls are so fun to play! Isn't it a pity to kill them for nothing? My brother only has such a little hobby, let alone who would know that these things are done by us What about?

This time I fell in love with a family in Aojiazhuang. This family is considered a fat sheep. There is a lot of money in the family. His family has newly married a concubine. She is very charming! "A man interjected, with an indescribable obscenity in his words.

After Gao Huaiyuan listened, he knew that the person who spoke must be that Zhang Cheng, and now he was absolutely sure that the major cases that occurred in Daye County in the past year were definitely committed by these people, so his heart suddenly died. meaning.

There was a slapping sound from inside the room, and then the first man who spoke lowered his voice and cursed: "You bastard, I know you must have taken a fancy to someone else's woman again! I'm so famous!" I have been defeated by you. I think I, Cao Laosan, have always only killed people and not approached women, but now I have been corrupted by you! This time, please be honest with me. The county government has a new county lieutenant these days, a new official He took office three times, how many of us are he trying to catch? After we finish this vote, we have to take a break. , Tomorrow night, everyone should be smarter, act more swiftly, and don't leak any rumors, Zhang Cheng, if you dare to delay things because of playing with women, I will kill you!"

Several people in the room agreed aloud, but one person sneered and said, "Brother is too careful this time! I heard that the county lieutenant who took office this time is just a boy under twenty years old. How about us? What's more, we have never left anyone alive, and our actions are clean and neat. Who would have thought that we did these things? This time I want to see what the county lieutenant has to do to find us! He Don't you want to rely on those idiots who are the head of Xing? If they have the ability, a year has passed, and they won't be unable to catch us by now, fearing that they will be a bird!"

"Idiot! Shut up, be careful, so you haven't heard of the Wannian Ship? I've inquired about it. This newly appointed county lieutenant has a lot of background. He has been doing well in Daye County for the past two years. Don't Although he is not very old, he is highly valued by the county magistrate. The year before last, he led the soldiers to Xiangyang to join the army and made military exploits. This time he will be appointed as the county lieutenant of Daye County! And I also stepped on his Zhuangzi before. After a while, the defense there is very tight, otherwise, I would have attacked his Zhuangzi long ago! We can't underestimate that guy!

Within a few days after this kid took office, there was a lot of movement. He re-counted the household registration in the county and reorganized the archers!It seems that he is not an easy guy, let's be careful!Don't capsize in the gutter! "The guy who called himself Cao Laosan rebuked him again.

"I've heard that too. I heard that the newly appointed county captain's family is very rich. His father seems to be an official. He has a house in Gaojiazhuang with hundreds of acres of land! And this guy Another Zhuangzi was built in the past year, and it seems to be very rich, otherwise, let’s give him a chance, and after we’ve done this, go and mess with him and see what this guy can do to us.” Another person spoke.

"No! We can't fight against the government. What we've done is already too much. If we go to touch the officials again, the government will definitely recruit us to investigate and arrest me, not to mention that the county captain Zhuangzi is not good. That’s right, the Chang Huan group who had a lot of trouble a while ago fell into his farm, which must be not very simple! We can’t afford to mess with him! Let’s pick some easy deals to do!”

Then the group of people discussed how to do it. After Gao Huaiyuan heard this, his anger rose from his guts. These guys are absolutely ruthless. Thieves should not be hated, what is hateful is their indiscriminate and wanton killings, it is really a disaster for such scum to remain in the world.

At this time, Gao Huaiyuan heard a cuckoo call from outside the yard, and knew that Zhou Hao and the others had already arranged the outside of the yard, so he didn't hesitate any longer, stood up by the back window, and took the waist knife from behind. Pulling it out, he slashed vigorously on the window, splitting the window to pieces with one blow, exposing those bastards in the room.

Suddenly the rear window was split open with a knife. Such a big movement scared the people inside the room to death. They didn't expect that there was someone squatting outside the rear window when they were discussing secretly. Even though they were quite courageous, they were all frightened, and they were stunned for a while.

"What a thief! How long will you wait if you don't let me catch you?" Gao Huaiyuan jumped into Zhang Cheng's room, pointed the knife in his hand at these thieves, and yelled at them.

"Go! What a nonsense!" One of the guys reacted quickly, and immediately realized that their actions had been exposed, and immediately shouted at the few thieves who were still in a daze.

The thieves all reacted immediately, one of them rushed to the table and stretched out his mouth to blow out the candles on the table, the room was plunged into darkness, and then Gao Huaiyuan heard the choking knife being drawn There was a sound, and then someone grabbed a chair and slammed it towards where he was standing.

How could Gao Huaiyuan be plotted against by them, he also attacked while they were attacking, he didn't intend to be polite to these guys at all, he was the first to choose the person closest to him to attack, and when the lights went out, , Shaking his hands, he shot out the two throwing knives in his left hand, only to hear a scream from a person in the darkness, and then a chair smashed on the broken window.

Afterwards, there was a chaotic sound of ping, ping, pong, pong, and some people fell to the ground, while others snatched out of the house and jumped into the yard.

In the darkness, Gao Huaiyuan didn't quite understand how many people he had just hurt, so he immediately chased him out of the house, and then the moonlight in the sky saw several figures rushing towards the gate of the courtyard, intending to seize the door and get out of Taozhiyaoyao, but it seemed The other party was missing one person, probably injured by his throwing knife, and stayed in the house.

"What a thief! Where are you going! Leave it to me!" Gao Huaiyuan stopped using his throwing knife, jumped up and slashed at several thieves with his knife.

The thieves saw that something was wrong and Gao Huaiyuan was coming very aggressively, so they swung their knives and started fighting Gao Huaiyuan.

This time, Gao Huaiyuan found out that there were really two good players among the few people. After connecting with him a few times, he just didn't get hit and was chopped down. But in a hurry, these people were still killed by Gao Huaiyuan. Shouting and screaming for ideas.

Taking advantage of their panic, Gao Huaiyuan opened a knife that slashed at him, and kicked a guy flying upside down. The fellow flew straight to the courtyard wall like a rocket, and hit hard. On the courtyard wall, screamed and fell to the ground, rolling and howling all over the ground like killing a pig.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the remaining three guys didn't dare to confront Gao Huaiyuan any more, and rushed towards the courtyard door, intending to take the door away, but just as they opened the courtyard door, one guy was knocked down by a knife head-on On the ground, outside the yard, Zhou Hao, Xing Tutou and others rushed into the yard immediately, blocking the remaining two thieves back.

At this time, many people came in one after another from the walls around the yard, and immediately surrounded the thieves in the yard.

Naturally, there is no suspense about the next thing. Although the thieves are fierce and try to fight trapped beasts, after all, they are few in number and nervous in their hearts. He was also overturned to the ground, the knife was knocked out, and he was firmly held down by the captors who rushed forward, and his shoulders, head and arms were tied tightly with iron chains, one by one. Slaughtered like a pig, he could only lie on the ground and groan and curse.

Hearing these people still have the spirit to swear, the captives who hated them so much went up and used iron rulers to slap their mouths violently, and the thieves were beaten into dumb immediately, blood spurted from their mouths, and their teeth were smashed. The beating fell off, and no one yelled at me anymore.

After the lights in the room were lit, Gao Huaiyuan sat in the middle. Except for one of the five thieves who was hacked to death on the spot just now, and his corpse lay in the yard, the other four were brought to Gao Huaiyuan with wounds, kneeling in front of Gao Huaiyuan. on the ground.

Gao Huaiyuan sneered and said to the four people: "What else do you have to say now?"

One of the guys, who was beaten like a pig's head, twisted his neck and pretended to be a hero. He struggled and raised his head and shouted to Gao Huaiyuan indistinctly, "Why arrest us? What law have we violated?"

"Hey? Do you still dare to speak hard? I heard what you said just now. Do you still want to deny it? You are that Cao Laosan! You made it hard for us to find you! Today It's in my hands, let's see what else you have to say!" Gao Huaiyuan bowed slightly, and leaned towards the guy who questioned him.

"You... who are you?" The guy surnamed Cao asked Gao Huaiyuan with a look of horror in his eyes.

"Blind your dog's eyes! This is our trusted county captain of Daye County, why don't you just recruit him?" Xing Tuo stepped forward and kicked the man surnamed Cao.

After a search, the arresters quickly searched Zhang Cheng's house, and found several steel knives, as well as a lot of gold, silver and jewels. The guards beat them fiercely, took these guys away for interrogation separately, and beat them until they had to confess in the end.

It turned out that these guys were a gang of gangsters that Zhang Cheng made friends with outside. They lived separately in Daye County, and each had a family business. They were innocent people in the open, but they got entangled in secret, and they came out to make a vote every once in a while. , because the guy surnamed Cao used to be a deserter in the army. He was very skillful and thoughtful. It's over.

Next, Gao Huaiyuan ordered Xing Butou and others to search the houses of several guys overnight, and even arrested the family members of these guys. The crime was very simple, that is, the crimes of their other family members. It's covering up, especially the wives of the two guys, they all know what business their men are doing, so naturally they can't let them go, and they are all arrested.

At dawn, all the criminals were escorted to the county government office and handed over to Liu Zhi County for interrogation. By the time the case was handed over to Liu Zhi County, the evidence was already solid, and there was no room for a few people to argue again. The case will be concluded soon, and their confession will be confirmed, and an iron case will be settled, which will never be reversed.

And several guys were all sentenced to be thrown into the city. To put it bluntly, they were executed by lingering. He was severely punished, so he was sentenced by Liu Zhixian to serve as an example to others. Even the wives of two of them were guilty of the same crime as them because they did not report the knowledge, but they were sentenced to be beheaded together for a lesser crime. It can be said that All of a sudden, the five families were considered to be finished.

This incident immediately caused a sensation in the county. People in all townships and villages were put in danger by the crimes committed by these people during this period, but the government's delay in catching the culprit has already caused Some people were dissatisfied, but after hearing that the case was solved, the people immediately rushed to tell the truth, cheering, and repeatedly praised the trustworthy county captain. In just half a month, he personally arrested all the culprits and brought them to justice. All the people in the county clapped their hands and applauded the new Gao County Captain. No one dared to underestimate Gao Huaiyuan anymore.

Even those people in the county government who are not convinced by Gao Huaiyuan, after listening to the vivid description of Xing Butou and the gang of arresters, understand the process of solving the case, they can't help but admire Gao Huaiyuan's thoughtfulness , Gao Huaiyuan kicked him away from the head of the county government, and he was able to gain a foothold in the county government.

For these felons, Liu Zhixian chose a day, tied them to the prison car, and paraded them through the streets in the county to show the public. Rotten eggs are flying around, and what disgusting things are used to smash these guys. It can be seen that people hate such criminals to the extreme.

In the end, these people were escorted to the execution ground outside the city. Thousands of people in the county town of Daye County flocked to the execution ground to watch the beheading. For the people of Daye County, such a scene of beheading at a late hour is really rare. Many people came to watch the fun out of curiosity.

As a military official in Daye County, Gao Huaiyuan was responsible for maintaining the order of the execution ground, so he had to visit the scene to watch the execution, so he had to take a group of government servants to surround the execution ground and set up a cordon. No one else is allowed to approach the execution ground.

Regarding this kind of bloody punishment, Gao Huaiyuan has never heard of it before. Ling Chi's execution can be regarded as the most cruel and inhuman punishment in ancient times. He was very resistant to it before, but this time he didn't have anything to do with these guys. Sympathy, in his opinion, with the behavior of these guys, Ling Chi execution is what they deserve. As for their wives who did not report the knowledge and were sentenced to beheaded, Gao Huaiyuan felt that the sentence was a little heavier, but this is the ancient law , he can't help it either.

On the day of the execution, they could not be executed until three quarters in the noon. After swimming in the streets all morning, these criminals were also smashed to the ground by the common people. After the executioners washed them clean with clean water, they were tied to the prison. On stage, regarding the execution of these people, Gao Huaiyuan had to be on guard against someone who might come to rob the execution ground. After all, these people are also from the Jianghu. , so Gao Huaiyuan personally spread eyeliner around the court in the morning to prevent such a situation from happening.

But this time, Gao Huaiyuan was obviously overthinking a little bit, until [-]:[-] noon, there was no trouble. After the sound of the drum urging his death, the executioner in red, with his arms open and his chest hair exposed, walked up. After getting off the execution platform, the surrounding people cheered loudly, as excited as watching a play, Gao Huaiyuan was really puzzled sitting on the execution platform, is it so fun to kill people?I really can't figure out what these common people are thinking, not only are they not afraid of such a bloody scene, but they keep applauding, it's so strange!

Ever since he became the county lieutenant, Gao Huaiyuan has learned a lot of things. He didn't know why in ancient times he chose to be executed at [-]:[-] noon. After Xing Butou and his explanations, he finally understood this point. , At three o'clock in the afternoon, it is almost twelve o'clock in the noon, the sun hangs in the center of the sky, and it is the time when the shadow on the ground is the shortest.In the eyes of people at that time, this was the time of the day when the "yang energy" was at its peak.People in ancient China had a superstitious view that killing people was a "shady thing". No matter whether the person who was killed deserved his crime or not, his ghost would always come to haunt the judge who sentenced him, the official who supervised the beheading, the executioner who executed the execution, and his execution. staff.Therefore, execution when the yang energy is at its peak can restrain ghosts from appearing.This should be the main reason why the ancients used to execute executions at "three quarters of the noon".

And Gao Huaiyuan also learned that the punishment of this era is actually different from the punishment of Ling Chi in the later Ming Dynasty. It is not like what he thought, it would take more than a thousand knives to calculate it. The punishment of the era is far less cruel, it only needs 24 knives before and after to know the life of the prisoner, but even so, it can be regarded as a technical job. If you are not a professional, you really can't do this job!

Because according to the rules, when the criminal has not received 24 knives, if the executioner dies early, the executioner will be punished, so there are people who specialize in this kind of executioner in the government of every place, and among the people Their status is really not too low, and most people are still a little afraid of them.