Chapter 70 Audacity, four taboos!
A pig butcher actually wants to change his career to become an executioner?
This made Deng Haisheng a little confused, and he couldn't help but wonder: "You guys are not here to tease Mengzi, are you? You make a lot of money from killing pigs in a month, why do you come to do such dirty work?"
"hehe!"
Wei Hong smiled and poured himself a glass of wine.
Although the executioner's profession is the same as that of the butcher, it involves killing.
But there are huge differences in many aspects.
After all, one kills people and the other kills pigs.
Although being a butcher is dirty and tiring, he makes a lot of money and is decent when he goes out.
The executioners committed murder all year round and were full of evil spirits. Most of them had bad tempers and were addicted to alcohol. It was also said that they suppressed their relatives and parents. Therefore, most of them could not even marry a wife and had to live alone all their lives.
At the same time, the executioner has contaminated too many human lives, and it is easy to encounter dirty things!
So being a butcher these days is enviable, but being an executioner is a low-level job. Going out will only make people hate you.
Deng Haisheng really couldn't understand why Wei Hong would jump into this pit of fire.
"You kid, don't act recklessly." Deng Haisheng couldn't help but advise: "You are only seventeen or eighteen years old this year, right? If you become an executioner, it will be difficult to get married in the future. Which good family would marry their daughter to a man who kills people every day? ?”
"I don't care about getting married!" Wei Hong smiled nonchalantly: "To be honest with Master Deng, I have actually suffered from bloodthirsty disease since I was a child. It is difficult to control my emotions without killing animals for a day, so I chose to become a butcher. But now Killing pigs is no longer satisfying, I want to kill someone!”
"hiss!"
Deng Haisheng took a deep breath and felt his scalp numb.
What kind of weird disease is this? Isn't he a born lunatic?
There are always some people in the world who are well-dressed but cruel and bloodthirsty. Unexpectedly, Wei Hong was also such a person, and Deng Haisheng felt a chill in his subconscious.
You can’t afford to offend this kind of person!
"Good nephew!" Deng Haisheng said with a smile: "It's not a good idea to be in our line of work. It's easy to offend people and get into trouble. You'd better think about it carefully before talking."
"Don't think about it, I just want to kill people!" Wei Hong was too lazy to talk nonsense and directly took out a hundred-tael silver note and slapped it on the table: "Master Deng, this small apprenticeship fee is not enough to show respect. You don't have to worry that I will get sick. After all, I just want to kill people openly and will not commit crimes."
"this?"
Deng Haisheng's expression changed for a while.
Finally, he smiled calmly and accepted the check.
"Okay!" Deng Haisheng nodded and said, "Since you want to learn, nephew, I will do my best to teach you."
After saying that, he couldn't help but take another sip of wine, and then sighed with a strange expression: "There are still people who are eager to be executioners these days? It's really strange. Who would do such dirty work if we weren't poor before."
"Everyone has his own ambitions!" Wei Hong chuckled.
"That's right, everyone has his own ambitions." Deng Haisheng said no more and said directly: "We executioners are nominally under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Punishment, but we have no rank or salary. We just register with the Ministry of Punishment and work at any time. ”
"Usually, you will be rewarded 2 taels of silver for beheading a person. If you meet the family of the prisoner who collects the body, you will be given some red envelopes, but there is no other income. Therefore, you live in poverty most of the time, and you have to find other ways to support yourself."
"If you want to be an executioner, it's easy. I'll find someone to record you on the list of the Ministry of Punishment. You can practice your skills first in the name of my apprentice."
Wei Hong smiled with satisfaction.
As the saying goes, money can make the world go round. The ancients did not deceive me! As long as you're willing to spend money, wouldn't it be easy to be a part-time executioner?
"My nephew, do you want to learn beheading or how to operate a knife?" Deng Haisheng asked again.
"What does it mean to operate a knife?"
"Beheading is a matter of effort, and operating a knife is a technical job." Deng Haisheng took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "You know that Lingchi is executed, right? A small knife cuts three thousand cuts on the prisoner's body, and he is not allowed to die during the period, otherwise the executioner will have to pay for it. People who don’t have family roots don’t dare to do it.”
"No need to go to such trouble." Wei Hong waved his hand nonchalantly: "I just want to behead him and see the blood, and I am not interested in operating Lingchi."
"That's fine!" Deng Haisheng breathed a sigh of relief: "If you want to learn how to do swordsmanship, for the sake of the one hundred taels of tuition, I really have to put some effort into teaching you the ancestral skills, and since you just want to learn how to chop, It’s a lot easier if you have a head.”
"You spend all day butchering pigs in a butcher's shop, and you are a martial arts practitioner. Your knife skills should be good at aiming at the head. When beheading, you only need to focus on the third section of the neck at the back of the head!"
Wei Hong raised his hand and touched his neck.
He probably had an idea in his mind that it would not be difficult to hit this place with his sword skills. When the custodian picks up the sword and drops it, the prisoner's head will fly up, and there won't be any delay at all.
"What if the prisoner is strong and his skin is invulnerable when beheading him?" Wei Hong continued to ask.
Deng Haisheng sneered while eating the braised beef: "No matter how strong you are, what can you do? On the first day after entering the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, you have to wear a chain through the pipa bone, and you have to destroy your hand tendons and hamstrings, and you have to be tortured in the prison for a period of time. Even if you are Those who are strong in the Xiantian realm can be neither humans nor ghosts."
"And when beheading, the black gold black iron ghost head sword specially made by the Ministry of Punishment is used. This thing cuts iron like clay, and no matter how strong the skin is, it can't stop the knife. Don't worry."
Next!
Deng Haisheng rambled on about many of the executioner's rules and taboos.
Rule 1: Don’t talk to the prisoner, and don’t look at the prisoner.
Rule 2: Before the execution, you must drink alcohol and spray the knife. The wine is a mixture of strong alcohol and black dog blood, which has the effect of blocking the resentment.
Rule 3: Worship heaven, earth, ghosts and gods before execution to avoid being entangled in karma.
Rule 4: After the execution, you should not look back all the way back to the Yamen. After arriving at the Yamen, go to the main hall and let the Yamen servants slap you with a board in order to beat away the guilty souls. Folks call this beating evil spirits.
"These are the rules left by the older generation." Deng Haisheng said with a serious face: "If you don't want to be entangled in weirdness, you'd better remember it, otherwise it's no joke to kill too many resentful souls and ask for their lives these days. Not many executioners die well."
Wei Hong's hair stood on end for no reason.
However, he was a bold man and was not intimidated by these words. Instead, he nodded solemnly and said: "Thank you, Master Deng, for your teaching. I have already written it down. I wonder when I can learn to behead people?"
"In a few days, you will have seen the recent situation." Deng Haisheng sneered: "Every time when the powerful are fighting openly and secretly, there will always be some unlucky guy who will be the scapegoat. There is no need to wait until the Queen of Autumn to ask for execution, someone will be killed every day. Landing."
"I'll find some connections in the past two days to make a list of your names. I'll notify you when it's time to behead. Don't worry there won't be anyone to behead. I'm afraid you'll be soft-hearted then."
"Are you soft-hearted?"
Wei Hong was stunned for a moment, and finally sighed silently.
He is a human but not a demon, how can he not be soft-hearted when killing people?
Feudal society frequently confiscated homes and exterminated families. Many women, children, old and young were guillotined despite being innocent.
Can he really take action then?
(End of chapter)