As soon as martial law was lifted, the people poured into the streets. Countless pairs of eyes stared at the few people tied up on the county government and the big ping, without saying a word, standing quietly there, with an inexplicable light flashing in their eyes.

The soldiers transferred from the province were very nervous, and the spears and guns around the execution ground were aimed at the onlookers, intentionally or unintentionally. Although the above order is to protect the safety of the prisoners and prevent the people from making trouble, if they really rebel, how can they have enough troops? The head of the thousand households of the Yamen looked at the crowded scene, and his heart went straight to the people in the sinking province, if he didn't come again, he wouldn't be able to hold back for long!

But this calm was soon shattered. First, the sergeant at the north gate opened the door, and then a dozen or so horsemen rushed into the city at a gallop, and the crowd on the north street suddenly surged, all wanting to see who the imperial court would send here to be the magistrate.

The head of the thousand households wiped the cold sweat on his head and shouted: "The people from the province have come!" Take control of the order! It is strictly forbidden to block the road and make trouble! ”

The soldiers turned their guns around and pointed them at the crowd in front of them, and the musketeers behind them shouted, "Stand back!" All back! "It's just that to no avail, the people in the front row want to go back, but the people in the back want to squeeze forward, and the crowd is still surging forward.

A group of officials rushed forward, each holding a bowl full of ink in their hands, and sprinkled it on the heads of the crowd with a very large pen. This is the local method, once the common people make trouble and cannot find the culprit, let the officials sprinkle ink on the heads of the crowd, and then directly arrest those who have ink on their heads, so as to greatly avoid the indiscriminate arrest of people in the mouths of the people.

The people on both sides of the north street were forced by the officers and soldiers to press to the side of the shops on both sides, and a passage was vacated in the middle.

Qin Mi appeared on the north street on horseback, and on both sides were soldiers brought from the province and thousands of households from the Yamen. But as soon as he walked into Daping, the crowd began to surge again.

Sprinkled ink didn't work at this time, so the officials moved a bench to stand on it, holding a leather whip in their hands, and whipped wildly at the crowd below: "You! It's you! Back off! ”

"If you don't retreat, you'll be locked up, and you'll be locked in prison, just like them!"

The crowd gradually stopped surging.

Qin Mi didn't look at the people around him, and walked straight to the county office with an expressionless face, but when he walked to the execution ground, he suddenly looked at the person who was tied up on the big pillar. That person was Wang Da Niu, his mouth was also tied with a strip of cloth, and he couldn't speak, but when he saw Qin Mi looking over, a sound came out of his throat, and he struggled desperately, but to no avail, but there seemed to be countless words to say in that gaze.

"Lord Qingtian is wronged! We don't have anyone to communicate with us, and we don't have anyone to communicate with us! An old man suddenly broke through the sergeants' defenses, and fell to his knees on the ground, crying out loudly. The faces of the surrounding sergeants changed greatly, and they rushed up, and without saying a word, they grabbed him and dragged him into the crowd, but the old man struggled endlessly, crying and shouting that he had been wronged. Shouts of injustice also began to appear in the crowd, and one after another, there was a tendency to touch it.

"Release!" Qianhu Tie gave the order with a blushing face. The soldier with the firearm leaned at the heads of the men, and suddenly there was a roar of fire, and the smoke rose from the fire, and the people were frightened, and then they regained their composure, and gradually retreated.

Qianhu hurriedly walked to the old man who was still struggling and said indifferently: "This is also an attempt to disrupt social order and incite people who don't know the truth to make trouble, arrest him!" ”

Several soldiers immediately dragged the old man to the empty cage to the side, opened the cage door and threw it in, and then locked a large iron lock on the cage door. The old man grabbed the iron railing of the cage and was still crying: "Wronged is really wronged!" We really don't have a tongwen! ”

The thousand households walked in front of Qin Mi in a few steps and bowed his hand to him: "The next surname is Xu is the head of the thousand households of the Yamen. Your Excellency just frightened you. ”

Qin Mi just glanced at him lightly, then at the old man in the cage, and turned around and walked towards the county government without saying a word.

Xu Qianhu was stunned for a moment, and his face suddenly turned red.

A petty official wearing an eight-grade uniform timidly opened the gate of the county government with a small slit, and his two eyes turned around and fixed on Qin Mi's body, and then opened the gate, and trotted over in a panic: "Subordinate Chun'an County Cheng Ma Guoxian welcomes the court!" ”

Qin Mi still didn't speak, raised his feet and walked to the door, leaving Ma Guoxian aside. He was stunned, glanced at Xu Qianhu with inquiring eyes, Xu Qianhu snorted coldly, turned his head, and Ma Guoxian, who was quite embarrassed, had no choice but to follow into the county office.

Xu Qianhu was angry for a while, and when he saw Jiang Qianhu coming with Qin Mi, he immediately strode over and shouted angrily: "Old Jiang, what is the origin of this bird county, Lao Tzu greeted him, and he even likes to ignore it, and the score is bigger than the governor!" ”

Jiang Qianhu saw the scene just now, saw Xu Qianhu walking over by himself, and said curtly: "I was about to tell you about this!" This person has some backgrounds, and he has choked up all the people in the governor's yamen hall, and he has already said hello at three o'clock in the afternoon, so he has to be forced to execute these people. Otherwise, we won't be able to make a difference. ”

Xu Qianhu nodded, still a little angry: "I know!" A bird knows that the county even dignified and inspected the adult, dare to stand up to this breath, let's go out for Lord He! Let him know what the rules are! ”

Jiang Qianhu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It's not just a matter of being angry, killing someone, you have to let him hurry up and buy fields and change rice to mulberry, we are ordered to do errands, but we can't be angry with this stunned Qing." Sooner or later, someone will clean him up! ”

Xu Qianhu smiled coldly: "When I came, the above only told me that killing people, releasing people, and changing rice to mulberry is a matter of this Niaozhi County, and it has nothing to do with me!" I'm not interested in participating! ”

"Of course these political affairs have nothing to do with us!" Jiang Qianhu also smiled: "The above has already said hello, and it is not our business to kill people at three o'clock in the afternoon, and there are soldiers guarding Boss Sun to buy the field." ”

"That's pretty much it!" Xu Qianhu's anger was only then subsided, but there was a commotion in the crowd behind him, and he turned his head and shouted: "Who is making trouble again?" Beat! Beat me to death! Kill one less one! ”

Looking at Ning Niang, who was stunned there, Yang Jinshan laughed softly again, pulled his feet out of the footbasin and dried them himself: "Then I'll pick it for you!" There will be no end to following Boss Sun. ”

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the time to kill people has arrived, and this rule is determined by heaven, and the emperors have changed countless times, but this rule has never changed.

Countless pairs of eyes waiting to watch the execution were staring at the execution ground. No matter what you feel in your heart, on the edge of the execution ground, watching killing people is the happiest thing in the world, only to see the executioner raise the knife and fall, a huge human head will roll out of the distance, and then blood will spurt out from the severed neck, spraying everywhere, everyone's heart will feel very refreshed and happy! Then wait to see the next scene, if there are some changes in the middle, such as someone robbing the law field and the like, it will be even more interesting**, everyone will have the capital to talk about the world. But today, it's a little strange, I didn't see the executioner with a big knife, it's just that the pillar with the prisoner is piled up with firewood, isn't it to burn people to death? People are even more excited, there are many people who have seen the beheading, but how many times have they seen the burning of prisoners?

But the relatives of the kidnappers were extremely painful in their hearts, seeing that they were about to be killed, but they could not do anything, a woman really could not bear the great grief and psychological pressure, and fainted.

The executioners came out in a line from the yamen, four trumpeters, and four soldiers with bowls and mouths went to both sides of the prison and beheading platform, and stood on both sides of the prison platform, and the people who blew the horns set up the horns and lit the torches.

The province set the stake and the cage hanging, a dozen executioners dressed in red did not hold a knife, two executioners with torches and oil drums walked to the pyre, and the ten hanged executioners walked to the cage and stood.

At the bottom of the cage, the cage floor that the prisoner is worried about is alive, and there is a ring-shaped handle at the back, as long as the bottom plate is pulled, it will be pulled out, and the neck of the person in the cage will be stuck in the round sleeve and stuck alive.

The people began to stir again. This cage hanging, it's too unattractive, it's not exciting at all, so let's hurry up and execute the stake! Otherwise, we will follow others to shout wrongs! The soldiers around the execution ground became even more nervous, and the leather whips kept pumping, and even the guns were lowered, aiming directly at the people.

Xu Qianhu was a little impatient, looked at the sun on his head, and then looked at the position on the prison beheading platform in front of the yamen, and the position on it was still empty until now, Qin Mi entered the gate of the county ya, and did not come out. When is this all this, what is this bird county still rubbing?

"Look at the person to death, and execute it on time at three o'clock in the afternoon!" He yelled at his subordinates, took a few steps, and ran to Jiang Qianhu, who was on the side of the prison platform, and said very dissatisfied: "It's already a quarter of noon, and no one has come out, what's the matter?" ”

Jiang Qianhu also looked up at the sky: "I can't wait any longer and call him out!" ”

"What if he doesn't come out?" Xu Qianhu lifted his hat and tightened his belt.

"If you don't come out, you have to come out! The province has already set a time for execution, and if he doesn't cut it out after the expiration date, then he won't be able to explain it to the province! Anyway, what we should do is this last step, he can not be killed, we can't not be killed! Drag him out and execute him, and if he can't drag him out, he will be executed! Jiang Qianhu gritted his teeth and said, Qin Zhixian himself is dead, it doesn't matter, but he can't put himself in it!