Meet the best of him: Sihe of the World

Chapter 2

The master treats her well, and she also wholeheartedly serves her filially, but the secret cannot be discovered by others.How can there be a girl who learns from the executioner and will marry or not in this life?She also can't do anything, she has learned masonry and carpentry work, she can learn it early, and she has to work hard. She is a girl, how can she handle it?It was the nanny who accidentally mentioned that Wu Changgeng was good at workmanship and could do it until he was 60 years old.Beheading is like chopping melons and vegetables, effortless.Every year in the autumn, after the joint trial of the Dali Temple, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Ministry of Punishment, a group of people were asked to be executed before the winter solstice.Usually there is zero difference, and the hall official said "come, push it out and rectify the Fa on the spot", which is very rare.As for apprentices like them, they eat a little salary, and do nothing when they are free.

Anyway, it's a good job, but the first few times I saw blood and my eyes were dizzy.A person's body is like a water sac, the lid burst open, and the water inside was poured out all at once, making it impossible to pick it up.She had never seen so much blood. In the countryside, pigs were slaughtered with a basin, but there was no killing. The blood splattered five steps with one knife.At that time, her senior brother laughed at her, saying that she had a small butt and heavy, and she refused to move when she was pulled, but she was actually scared stupid.

Her senior brother, whose name is Xia Zhi, is a stupefied kid who likes to go sideways when doing things, and speaks the same sentence in the sky.When she came, he had been studying art for two years. Although he was unreliable, he was quite honest with his own people.For so many years, she has taken care of her everywhere. She first came to live with him, but when she grew up, she brought it up to the master twice, saying that he thought he would grind his teeth at night, and he cleaned out a room full of clutter and moved in by himself. The ears are quiet now.

But Xia Zhi couldn't be blocked by a door, he still came and went freely, just like today when the master was not there, he inserted the door to take a nap, and he was in a daze when he came in to wake her up.

As the sky was getting dark, she looked out, "Master hasn't come back yet?"

Xia Zhi murmured, "The cell leader married a daughter and followed the rules, it's a good thing if you don't eat. Are you hungry? Dinner is ready, get up and eat!"

She shook her head, "If you can't eat it, let's put it aside."

Xia Zhi poked the handle of the cattail fan into his neck and rubbed it against the side, asking, "Why do you always hear you calling your wife in your dreams? It's nothing more than a man thinking about his daughter-in-law at the age of twelve or thirteen. Don't you think it's too early?"

She ignored him and got up to fetch water from the well outside to wash her face.The bucket was put down to hit something, and when she looked at the moon in the sky, a human head was floating on the water, which shocked her.Looking carefully, it turned out that it was a melon with long vines, dragging like a braid.

She sighed and turned the wheel. The well water was cold in summer, and the handkerchief covering her face shivered, and her mind cleared up.

"The case of Anba Lingwu is a bit big," she said, sniffling, "and so many people are involved, and after a while, half of Daying's country is empty."

"No." Xia Zhi poked out a piece of strip of strips on the rattan chair to pick his teeth, and said while picking, "Even the emperor is afraid, why wait for the autumn, hurry up. The more you bite, the more you will find out. Do you still want to do business in the imperial court? Choose a few big heads, and the case is over. The old truth that when the water is clear, there will be no fish, Long Live Lord understands better than us."

She experienced family ruin when she was a child, and later entered this industry. She was used to seeing the ups and downs of the officialdom, and seemed not to care about anything. She turned her head and asked, "How much will you lose tomorrow?"

Xia Zhi raised three fingers, "Tomorrow will be my head, my heart..." He shook his head, "Master said that there will be a big situation, and there will be a middle court and a prince among the people who will be executed, and the job will be done well." If you don’t want to go out of the mountain, if you can’t do it well, even Master will lose face.”

"Don't you often say that you are the boss, your second child? What are you afraid of?" Dingyi patted him on the shoulder, "Master didn't tell you that, you worked hard on your own, made a name for yourself, and got out of the circle. That's great." Don’t waste your chance, when I am 20 years old, I may not have such a good luck! But you have to remember one case, how did Wai Dao Liu get the name of Wai Dao in the first place? You've cut off half of the man's brain, and the mourning family almost ate him alive. You have to keep your eyes open and smash the master's signboard, and I will be the first to not forgive you."

Xia Zhi was in a daze, and gave her a slap on the back of her head when she heard the words, "Little bastard, you are fat, and you are here to teach your senior brother a lesson, see if I don't play with you." The two senior brothers chased and beat them around the yard. It is a drama that must be performed every day.

I got up early the next morning, took a bath and burned incense, and my master Da Ma Jindao stood in front of the door. He was not small, blocking half of the sunlight, like the king of Zengchang in the temple.Wu Changgeng is in his 40s and is alone.Because he killed two wives one after another, he doesn't think about that kind of thing anymore.According to his words, "For those who eat our food, starting a family is a disaster. Hundreds of lives are on their backs. There is no crime in the yang world, but accounts are kept in the underworld!" He simply has no children and has two apprentices , and send it to him for funeral in the future.

The master drank a little too much the day before, didn't sleep well, and told Xia Zhi with two big swollen eyes, "You have to keep your heart straight and your hands steady, and let Xiaoshu prepare it later, with a piece of old ginger in it. Heavenly King and Lao Tzu will not come here." trembling."

Xia Zhi beeped loudly, but in fact, he felt sickly excited all morning.There are two other families living in their compound, who are also servants in Shuntian Mansion.There was a man named Sanqingzi, whose wife was pregnant just after passing the door. He was always teasing people, and when he went out, he would shout: "Sanqingzi, go back to the house and have a bite, sip milk and beans, it's time to go." When he fell, he knocked on the door and poured a basin of water, which made his shoes wet.

Dingyi stood beside him with a burden on his back and taunted him, "You should, who made you owe me!"

Wu Changgeng had a fiery temper, and rushed into the room, shouting: "San Qingzi, take care of your woman, do you know the rules? If you don't know your grandpa, I'll teach you!" Today he has to be on duty, and when he was about to leave the house, he was splashed with water by a woman and smeared. not good.

San Qingzi came out, nodded and bowed and said sorry, and asked Uncle Wu to calm down.The summer solstice is not a day or two, everyone is used to it.Dingyi listened impatiently to their quarrel, and went out under the sun to wait for someone. There was a century-old locust tree diagonally opposite, and July was the time when its branches and leaves were flourishing. Clusters of purple-red buds were hanging down, the air was flowing, and the fragrance was blowing. ten miles.

People living in this area are all low-level people, like dung pickers, pole lifters, briquette shakers... There are all walks of life.Dingyi sheltered from the shade under a tree. Someone was there earlier. It was an old woman who often sells glutinous rice peanuts at the head of Dongyue Temple with her grandson. There was a small pot in front of her. I don’t know what she was doing. Seeing her, he smiled, "Tree, do you have another errand today?"

The neighbors in the street are familiar with each other, so she answered yes with a smile.Looking closer, there are more than a dozen toad bones in the basin, and there are three tails in the bowl.The aunt put the bowl on the child's mouth, but the child didn't like it, so she coaxed and lied, "This is a good thing, do you know why the emperor can be the emperor? It's because he dares to eat this! The emperor said, whoever eats it for whom When you become a general, you lead troops, and you are rewarded with a big sword. That sword is beautiful, a hundred times stronger than your slingshot..."

Dingyi's throat is tight, the old people always have coups, it is said that eating toad bones will not cause sores, and I don't know if it is reliable.In short, it has been passed down from generation to generation, and almost all the children in the village swallowed it raw when they were young.

The child was moved by the words, and asked in a childish voice: "Really? Reward a big sword?"

His grandma nodded, "The emperor won't give it to grandma, you drink it, and we'll buy it right away."

The child listened to it and drank it.The thing was a living thing, and it struggled when it got in the mouth, the child didn't understand, so it naturally chewed it twice, Ding Yi was startled, only to feel that the bowl of porridge in the morning was churning in his throat, and he almost didn't spit it out.Turning his head quickly, seeing Master and Xia Zhi coming out, he quickly went up to meet him.

Shuntian Mansion is in the north of Gulou East Street, and there is Chengzi Road from Tongfu Road, and it takes two minutes to drive a car.Although the person to be beheaded today has been interrogated and approved by the palace, it is still necessary to go through the motions before the execution.

Dingyi followed the yamen servants into the classroom to nod their heads. The high-ranking ministers in the past have become prisoners today.When encountering such a prisoner, she always thinks of her father, and seeing the ragged people inside, she feels all kinds of feelings in her heart.

Now the yamen servant has become more polite in his speech, he opened the cell door and said, "Master An, the case is closed today, congratulations to you."

Anba Lingwu is the governor of the Jiangnan River, a second-rank official, who is responsible for the dredging and embankment of the Jiangsu River.Carrying rivers and building roads cost the most money, and the expenses were recorded in a muddled account, and I made some money myself. As a result, the rivers just built were flooded in summer, and the people on both sides of the strait were severely affected.The imperial court found out that the amount of greed was not small, and it was all about repaying the greed themselves, but they dared to "collaborate", not killing the emperor would not be enough to calm the rage of the emperor's father, so they didn't wait until the end of the autumn, they couldn't wait, they could kill him quickly.

After all, people who have seen the big scene did not act like crying and wiping away their tears.Anba Lingwu came out of the cell with shackles on his body and shackles on his feet, and stood at the door of the cell waiting for the handover.Holding the booklet, Dingyi asked, "What's your name?"

He informed his name and confirmed that it was correct, and the yamen servants outside did not delay, and directly came up to pick up the person, and made a fuss about it.

Going to the lobby, Shuntian Mansion had to ask again, but he didn't answer, and the yamen servants who escorted him would answer for him.The hall is busy making recruits, and the executioner is waiting under the eaves.Dingyi glanced at Xia Zhi, one of the three prisoners in the hall was assigned to him.He peeked several times, and the more he stared, the more empty, his legs were trembling under his trousers.

"Senior brother, are you afraid?" She turned her eyes to look at the bright sky outside the eaves, shook her head and said, "I'm afraid it will be too late, do it hard, don't make people suffer, it will be counted as your merit."

Xia Zhi stabilized his mind, feeling a little disillusioned, "Since I have chosen this career, there is no turning back, Xiaoshu, if you have the skills before the age of 20, you can change careers. This job...is not done by humans."

As long as there is a way, no one can do this.She was in a hurry to leave Sanhe County. The girl grew bigger and bigger and no one was protecting her. The nanny's brother's family had a stupid son.

There is a rule under her master's school that she must start her career at the age of 20. She is seventeen this year, and she can still play for three years.It's fine to do the trivial work, and it's definitely not good to go to the execution ground to inherit the mantle.Xia Zhi is right, it is time to find a way out, but where is the way out?She hasn't worn a skirt since she was six years old, she doesn't know how to do women's needlework, and she doesn't even dare to think about marrying someone to live a good life.

Serious person, who wants to marry a swordsman?

Think for yourself, but just smile.At this time, the movement inside became louder, and the prisoner was tied up and about to go on a red mission.Three cannons rang out from outside, and the prisoner went out from Baihumen. Outside the door was an Eight Immortals table, on which was the Ciyang rice prepared by the yamen, a bag of sauced elbows, and a catty of flatbread. He was invited to eat and drink.

I am about to die, who can eat it!If he couldn't eat it, it didn't hurt. The jailer wiped his mouth with the sauce elbow to show that he had eaten it.The chopsticks were broken and thrown away, and then they got into the prison car and headed for Caishikou.

Caishikou is outside Xuanwu Gate, and the ghost knife used by the executioner is on the gate of the city gate. Please use it if you want.Those who confiscated apprentices went to kowtow in person, and those who accepted apprentices had apprentices do it for them.Dingyi and Xia Zhi went upstairs together, leaned on the city wall and looked down, "Didn't you say that the prince supervised the beheading, why didn't anyone see it?"

Xia Zhi lit incense and offered tribute, and said: "Who likes to stare at death row prisoners? Go on stage and watch people's heads fall to the ground. It's not a fellow of He Nian Tang. Are you looking for bad luck by getting close? Princes are all Pay attention to people, don't enter the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion, go straight to the execution ground, sit under the big awning..." Hey, pointing to the distance, "Isn't this coming!"

Dingyi looked along, and saw a mighty team coming from a distance.Because the road was clear, the people who watched the excitement were blocked on both sides, and the people in the middle did not stop them, and they became more and more arrogant.Seeing these nobles, I think of Prince Zhuang who caught her father. He is a prince among the elders, and he seems to be a bit humane; now these are the sons and nephews of the Supreme Emperor, and the same generation as the current Emperor. They are all arrogant and indulgent. Can't cultivate any good character.

She took down the big knife and hugged it in her arms, feeling full of twists and turns.Wen Jiada has served the imperial court since the change of dynasty, and in the end, it was because of him that he prospered and died because of him. Looking back now, it is really sad.

(End of this chapter)