2. Punishment
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"Spring ploughing is coming, so it must be the busy season for farming, right?" Cheng Yuan thought weakly, remembering the scene he saw with his own eyes on the road in Dengzhou, which made him secretly afraid in his heart, what kind of unlucky era is it that the people are still abandoned in this season? The man who watched him in the morning finally brought another meal: brown rice, served with chopped lettuce. The bearded watchman beckoned two or three of the boys to "move". Cheng Yuan hesitated again and again, but decided to ask the sentence he was most concerned about:
"Dare to ask a few, what year is this year?
That's a good question. However, Cheng Yuan's idea is very clear, he needs the other party to report the imperial year name of this time and space, if the other party says the era name of the era that he is familiar with, it is really pitiful.
A short man beside him smiled and said, "The stars in the sky don't care what year the next life is?" It's a fairy who doesn't know the suffering of the people. ”
The bearded man who looked like a warrior scolded, "Mouthy! Cheng Yuan listened to the bearded man's voice as low as possible, and the hut that was not empty seemed to give birth to a sound.
The short man said: "My family handsome didn't allow me to wait for you to answer your question, but I think time is running out, so I told you: when you die, I'm afraid it will be this year of Wushen!" ”
Cheng Yuan had a sudden feeling in his heart, about the era he was in, he didn't ask what the real reason was, but he got bad news, it seems that the "festival handsome" doesn't like to consume, and he is really bad luck this time. He couldn't help but think: If I can go back to last night, I must change my words to the old man, and no longer be stubborn, God, God, this time I am born and I am ripe, can't you help me cross again?
Cheng Yuan was pushed into the ox cart again, and was dragged to the street in a leisurely manner, this time the carriage had been completely sewn up, and he couldn't even watch the street scene outside, but he could hear that the street was very quiet, and it was not interesting to think that even if he saw it with his own eyes. When the surroundings finally became lively, the carriage was opened, and Chengyuan was subconsciously closed by the sun, and when he opened it again, he found that this place was a bazaar, and the crowd was bustling. Several officials sat behind a long case, and opposite a big man with a white face was tied, which turned out to be an execution ground in a busy city. There is a platform not far away, on which a person is draped all over, with long eyes and long beards, and his eyes slightly closed, which is the person who talked to him yesterday.
Chengyuan had words in his mouth, and he wanted to say a few words of self-deprecation to calm himself: "History has changed me from a peaceful and prosperous era here, and I should have completed some earth-shaking feat, but I was arranged to be a "good man after 18 years", how can this be true!. ”
But how can you be calm at such times? He couldn't help trembling all over, and he couldn't stop praying in his heart, but fortunately, a few little people next to him led him to the platform where he was watching, instead of escorting him to the prisoner. Moved the bed from side to side, and asked him to sit with the man who interrogated him yesterday.
The other party slowly opened his eyes and squinted at him:
"Sit down, boy, what you wanted to see yesterday is the person in front of you."
Since he came to this era, the first thing that made Cheng Yuan tremble was this character, and when he thought that he would have to reply to him for a long time, he couldn't help but feel his heart go up and down. He carefully touched his ass to the edge of the chair and looked up at the man who was being bound.
The man was tied up with five flowers, and he was biting something in his mouth, but he didn't have any depressed expression before the death row prisoner left, but his eyes were wide open and he struggled. Cheng Yuan has seen many photos of death row prisoners on the Internet before they are executed, all of them are depressed, and none of them are struggling like this.
The big man turned his head, still as indifferent as he had interrogated him yesterday, and he stared at Chengyuan silently, obviously waiting for him to speak first.
Remembering that the subordinates in the detention place in the morning called him the festival marshal, Chengyuan asked very interestingly:
"Dare to ask the general ......"
"My surname is Liu."
"Hmm...... Dare to ask Liu Shuai what crime this person committed? To be beheaded? ”
"Gather a crowd to be thieves, kill officials, and kill people. He shall be beheaded. ”
Cheng Yuan saw that the prisoner waved his hand, and the two executioners next to him held a black thing in their hands and walked towards the prisoner.
Cheng Yuan was confused in his heart, and his thirsty throat led him to smack his lips a few times, and the person opposite saw that his lips were chapped, so he snorted and pointed to the tea on the table next to him. Cheng Yuan was like a treasure, and he was about to drink the tea, but he saw the executioner shake off the mass of things in his hand, and it was actually a fishing net! In the blink of an eye, the white-faced man who was tortured was tightly bound by the fishing net, and pieces of flesh protruded from the tightened nets. The prisoner suddenly struggled violently, with a look of horror and a look of pleading that naturally arose between despair.
"This ...... This...... Is it ......?"
Cheng Yuan only saw that sweat was raining down for a moment, and suddenly Liu Shuai beside him untied the sword on his waist, and pulled out the sword from the sheath with "Zeng Leng".
"This person not only gathered a crowd to be a coward, but also falsely claimed that Maitreya had come to the world! Lies confuse people, the token that will be given, when chop! ”
Spit out these words, and Liu Shuai threw the sword in his hand towards Chengyuan's sitting, and with a "bang", it was deeply pierced into the wooden board under Chengyuan's feet.
This guy made Cheng Yuan jump in shock, and then thinking about the meaning of his words, he felt that the breath of his whole body seemed to fall down his body along his blood, and it was actually a feeling of wanting to squirt feces and urine. The hilt of the sword in front of him trembled and swayed.
"Times...... Early morning...... to ......"
Drums were already beating around him, and the executioner wore a ghost-faced mask on his hand, and pulled out a shuddering thing, several meat knives of different shapes and sizes.
The first tragedy in the world was in front of Chengyuan's eyes at this time, and Chengyuan's frantic thoughts had already produced a divergent outpouring of thoughts. He thought of a TV series he had just watched before he crossed over, well, for his own consciousness, that was only a few days ago. It was in the absence of anesthetics that a Japanese doctor operated on a woman whose head was cut by a horseshoe, and the woman's mournful screams echoed in his ears when the blood vessels were sutured. And it was just a momentary operation.
Whenever he thought of Yuan Dushi after receiving the world's coolest 3,500 knives, he had a feeling of being reincarnated, and that feeling was like he had collapsed......
"...... One...... Knife ......"
Not far away, a loud voice began to count the prisoners.
"...... Two...... Knife ......"
Liu Shuai gently patted the palm of his left hand with the scabbard left in his hand and played with it. His eyes narrowed slightly, as if he was smashing his eyes with the screams of the prisoners.
"Sit down, boy, and keep replying to me."
Chengyuan was stunned, still standing stupidly, his eyes glazed. Liu Shuai saw that he didn't sit down, but he didn't say the same thing twice, this person is obviously the kind of person who doesn't like nonsense.
"Boy, according to what you can see, why does this bandit leader know that this fate will happen, but he does what he has done as before?"
"One...... Ten...... Three...... Knife ......"
The voice of the person who reported the number finally stopped Cheng Yuan's chaotic thoughts, Cheng Yuan tried his best to bring himself back to his senses, and in connection with yesterday's situation, this person may want to intimidate himself into thinking that he was at his mercy. Cheng Yuan thought he was a smart man, and he thought that if this person had decided to kill himself, then killing him would be, so why bother with all these words? But if you don't kill now, you may not kill in the future, if you don't kill at this time, you may not still kill after saying these few words. There are only two choices for his attitude, one of which is to wag his tail and beg for mercy and beg the other party, saying that he regrets it and is willing to obey all the so-called arrangements he made yesterday. But when he replaced the role with the surname Liu, he felt that his appearance was too ugly, and he really didn't look like a person worth taking advantage of.
Cheng Yuan still gambled on the other side - that is, try to "answer the right questions as well", this should not be a beg for mercy, but an interview - an interview before the death drive.
"It's ......a fluke to think about it," Chengyuan replied in a normal tone as much as possible.
"Nonsense...... The yamen has been tried, since this person lives in Lintuan and Neixiang counties, he must know that none of those who have committed a disaster in our realm can get rid of it! Liu Shuai paused and said, "The general does have this confidence, don't you believe it?" ”
Cheng Yuan was silent, he knew that it was useless to beg for mercy, and he had to muster up the courage and think carefully about how to answer before he could live. His thoughts stabilized a little more, so he sighed, sat down slowly, and replied: "Those who are hungry by the people are those who lose their land, and the so-called eight hundred lords of the thousand-year-old fields, if the people who have lost their land flow to other places because of the annexation, in this kind of world," Chengyuan pointed to the desolation in the distance, "It would have been collected by other local military town officials. Therefore, this person must not be the cause of annexation, but unbearable to the government, the harvest is weaker than plunder, Yu worked and Yu lost, so he abandoned the land. ”
"The era I live in calls this kind of land "negative equity," Cheng Yuan said secretly in his heart.
"Hmph...... I will guess the riddle......" Liu Shuai raised his eyebrows, "That's true, the world is undecided, the imperial court has to raise a forbidden army, and the local government has to use soldiers, so there is a matter of exhausting the water and fishing, then,"
Liu Shuai pointed to the tortured man and continued: "Even if you know that you are going to be tortured by such a beating, why do you still want to make trouble? Compared with these hundreds of knives, how can hunger be compared? ”
"Three...... Ten...... One...... The knife ......", and the voices of the people who reported the number were already slightly dumb.
At this time, Chengyuan suddenly felt a ball of blood surging in his heart, and his face was already flushed:
He suddenly remembered the tragedies in history, and every city besieged by soldiers and horses, the tragic scene was impressive. And the retaliatory massacre of the rebels on the day of the destruction of the city made even the people of the city feel - it was a relief. At this time, he gritted his teeth, and finally regained his energy to continue.
"The Duke of Ming has lived in China for a long time, and he is a man in armor, he is not unaware of the feelings of the hungry, has the general seen the people who have besieged the city and cut off food? I've definitely seen it. The government controls the number of the people, in order to try not to let those mothers eat their own children! Because the hungry parents are so hungry that they don't even have the strength to find their neighbors and change their children. ”
Chengyuan remembered the Great Siege of Leningrad under the pincer attack of the German army, in the days before the complete freezing of Lake Ladoga, the suffering of hunger caused the citizens to rush to participate in the cannon fodder charge without even distributing weapons, and they desperately advanced empty-handed, searching for the rifles dropped by their dead comrades, just to enjoy a meal of potato and beetroot soup before they died......
Chengyuan tried to maintain a flat tone, and if he was impassioned at this time, it would be quite bad. He paused, not daring to look the other man in the eye, for fear that he would not dare to continue.
"The general thinks carefully, waiting for the starving to die, how is the pain of not being able to die inferior to this torture?"
Liu Shuai stroked his long beard and snorted slightly: "The one who holds the son is the stomach of the father, is this fresh?" ”
"The general's words are clever words, children originally do not know etiquette, ignorant people, why not? Is this filial piety? Moreover, Ming Gong is the leader of the army, has he never seen his son cook an old man who is old and weak? After the Qin and Han dynasties, the son scorned his father with evil words, which was still a capital crime, "Chengyuan also remembered Hai Rui's crime of being sentenced to death after he went to "Public Security Shu" - the crime of the son insulting his father.
"What's more, my father? When people are extremely hungry, they will do something to kill their father, will they not know what will happen to them?"
Chengyuan actually didn't know if the hungry son devoured his father in the siege war, so he could only test it with questions to see if Liu Shuai had seen anything.
The person opposite was silent, he stared at the young man in front of him, and Chengyuan felt that there seemed to be an energy in Liu Shuai's eyes, which suddenly erupted. With a "snap", Liu Shuai patted the armrest of the Hu bed, and he stood up suddenly.
"Boy!" He stroked his beard again.
"You kid!"
Liu Shuai still stared at Cheng Yuan, his originally thin eyes widened slightly, and they were clearly a pair of wolf-like eyes-chilling eyes......
Cheng Yuan just gave birth to a force out of nowhere, stood up and talked eloquently, but at this time he began to be afraid, he sat on the Hu bed like a prostration, Liu Shuai saw that his neckline had already been soaked with sweat, so he beckoned left and right and said: "Come on, this son has drunk too much tea, wait for him to compliment!" ”
Cheng Yuan was like being pardoned, he walked to the thatched house, and almost vomited out his intestines with a wow, and he could hardly hold on in the face of the scene of chopping.
"For the time being, my life seems to have been sav......ed," Cheng Yuan thought, "This surnamed Liu is like a god, it seems that he still has to be soft after all, this kind of practice of answering question sentences with question sentences can only be done for a while, you can't play like this every day, this person's patience is not very bright...... "Cheng Yuan touched this person's personality slightly, this person can't be him, he is impatient, but he must not be coerced to the end, that will make him bullying, "stepping on the mouse" desire.
When Chengyuan came out, the slashing had already been carried out more than 300 times, and the Lang Zhong who surrounded the prisoners were showing their abilities in order to maintain the basic physiological functions of the prisoners. Liu Shuai watched it for a long time, and seemed to feel bored, so he beckoned the people around him to withdraw.
Suddenly, the stuff in the victim's mouth fell, and Lang Zhong beside him pinched his chin to confirm that the person was not caused by a dislocated jaw, so he stuffed the hemp ball back again.
The tortured man seemed to be muttering something. Seeing that the old man was about to seal the prisoner's mouth, Liu Shuai suddenly shouted: "Slow! ”
Liu Shuai pouted at the tortured man: "What did he say?" ”
Na Langzhong leaned over his ears and frowned: "The villain doesn't listen to it, it seems to be ...... What bet? What Lord? ”
The prisoner's voice suddenly became louder, and the voice gradually became much clearer:
"Money...... Money breaks ground again...... Renown...... My lord"