The voices of several men came from inside the room, and one man scolded Zhang Cheng.

"Hey, hey! Eldest brother! What's that? Those delicate women are so cool to play! Wouldn't it be a pity to kill it in vain? My brother is such a hobby, not to mention who would know that we do these things?

This time I saw a family in Aojiazhuang, this family is a fat sheep, there is a lot of money in the family, his family has newly married a concubine, and she is very delicate! A man spoke, and there was 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 completely sure that these major cases in Daye County this year were definitely committed by these few people, so he suddenly had murderous intent in his heart.

There was a snap of someone slapping the table in the room, and then the first man to speak lowered his voice and scolded: "Bastard, you know that you must be a woman who has fallen in love with someone else!" Lao Tzu's reputation is about to be ruined by you, I think I, Cao Laosan, have always only killed people and not approached women, but now I have ruined you! This time, you should be honest with Lao Tzu, the county government has newly appointed a county lieutenant these days, and the new official has taken office with three fires, he is probably trying to catch a few of us? After we finish this vote, we have to take a break, if not, we will go out to Pingjiang County to avoid the limelight, and do a few more votes there, tomorrow night everyone will be smart, and we must be a little sharper, and we can't show any rumors, Zhang Cheng, if you dare to delay things because of playing women, see that Lao Tzu will not kill you! ”

Several people in the room agreed, but one person sneered: "Big brother is too careful this time!" I heard that the county lieutenant who took office this time is just a boy under the age of twenty, how much ability can he have to catch us? What's more, we have always left no living mouths in our hands, and our movements are clean and neat, who would have thought that we would do these things? This time, I want to see what kind of skills that county lieutenant has to find us! Isn't he still going to rely on Xing Zhutou's bunch of fools? If they had the ability, a year has passed, and they won't be able to catch us now, I'm afraid they're birds! ”

"Stupid! Shut up for me, be careful so that the Ten Thousand Year Ship has not heard of it? I have inquired, this newly appointed county lieutenant is not small, in the past two years in Daye County mixed with the wind and water, don't look at the age, but is very important by the county master, the year before last also took the township soldiers to Xiangyang with the army, made military achievements, this time will become the county lieutenant of Daye County! And I have also stepped on his Zhuangzi before, where the defense is very tight, otherwise, Lao Tzu would have already attacked his Zhuangzi! We can't underestimate that guy!

Within a few days of this kid taking office, he made a lot of moves, re-taking the household registration in the county and reorganizing the archers! It seems that he is not a simple guy, but let's be careful! Don't capsize in the gutter! The guy who called himself Cao Laosan rebuked again.

"I also heard about it, I heard that this newly appointed county lieutenant's family is rich, and his father seems to be an official, and there is a house in Gaojiazhuang, hundreds of acres of land! And this guy has built a Zhuangzi in the past few years, and it looks like he's very rich, otherwise, let's just give him a dismount, and after this vote, go get him a little bit, and see what this guy can do to us? Another person spoke.

"No! We can't do it against the government, now what we have done is already excessive, if we go to the official family again, the government will definitely recruit the government to strictly investigate and arrest us, not to mention that the county lieutenant's Zhuangzi is not easy to get, Chang Huan, who was very happy some time ago, was planted in his Zhuangzi, presumably his Zhuangzi is not very simple! We can't afford to mess with him! Let's pick some good deals to do! ”

Then these people discussed how to do it, Gao Huaiyuan suddenly became angry after hearing it, these guys are absolutely ruthless, when a few people discussed, they didn't plan to leave any life for the bitter master's family, they can't be hated as thieves, what is hateful is that they kill people indiscriminately, such scum is really a scourge to stay in the world.

At this time, Gao Huaiyuan heard a cuckoo cry outside the yard, and knew that Zhou Hao and the others had already arranged it outside the yard, so he no longer hesitated, stood up in the back window, pulled out the waist knife from behind, and slashed it vigorously on the window, and split the window with one knife, revealing the bastards in the room.

Suddenly, the back window was suddenly split open, and such a big movement suddenly scared the people in the house, they didn't expect that when they were discussing secretly, there was actually a person squatting outside the back window, Rao is they are not small, and they are also frightened, and they are a little stunned for a while.

"Good thief! If you don't tie my hands and catch me, when will you wait? Gao Huaiyuan jumped into Zhang Cheng's room, pointed the knife in his hand at these thieves, and yelled at them.

"Let's go! ! One of the guys reacted relatively quickly, and at this time immediately realized that their deeds had been exposed, and immediately shouted at the few thieves who were still in a daze.

At this time, several thieves immediately reacted, and one person immediately rushed to the table and stretched out his mouth to blow out the candle on the table, and the room suddenly fell into darkness, and then Gao Huaiyuan heard the sound of choking knives, and then someone grabbed a chair and slammed it towards the place where he was standing.

How could Gao Huaiyuan be plotted by them, and launched an attack at the same time as they moved, he didn't plan to be polite to these guys at all, the first one chose the person closest to him to start, and at the same time as the lights went out, he shook his hand and shot out the two flying knives in his left hand, only to hear a scream from a person in the dark, and then a chair smashed on the broken window.

Then I heard the chaotic sound of ping-pong, some people fell to the ground, and some people snatched out of the house and jumped into the yard.

Gao Huaiyuan didn't know how many people he had injured just now in the dark, so he immediately chased out of the house, and then the moonlight in the sky saw several figures rushing towards the courtyard gate, intending to snatch the door and get out of the peach, but it seemed that the other party was missing one person, and it was estimated that he had been injured by his flying knife and stayed in the house.

"Good thief! Where to run! Leave it for the official! Gao Huaiyuan no longer used his flying knife, and jumped up and slashed at several thieves.

The thieves saw that things were not good, and Gao Huaiyuan was very menacing, so they reflexively waved their knives and fought with Gao Huaiyuan.

With this move, Gao Huaiyuan found that there were really two good hands among several people, and after connecting him with a few knives, they were cut down without being hit, but in a hurry, these people were still killed by Gao Huaiyuan and retreated again and again, shouting and shouting to pierce their hands.

Gao Huaiyuan took advantage of their panic, set up a knife that slashed at him, kicked a guy upside down, and the guy flew straight to the courtyard wall like a rocket, hit the courtyard wall heavily, screamed and fell to the ground, rolling and howling like killing a pig.

The remaining three guys saw that the situation was not good, and they didn't dare to touch Gao Huaiyuan again, so they rushed to the courtyard gate, intending to take the door away, but as soon as they opened the courtyard door, one guy was slashed to the ground by a head-on knife, and Zhou Hao, Xing Zhutou and others outside the courtyard immediately rushed into the courtyard and blocked the remaining two thieves.

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

The next thing is naturally no suspense at all, although the thieves are fierce, trying to do the battle of the trapped beast, but after all, they are few, and the heart is nervous, in a short time, the remaining two guys under the siege of everyone, they were also overturned to the ground, the knife was knocked off, and was held down by the trappers who pounced, wiped their shoulders and two arms tied with iron chains, one by one tied like pigs to be slaughtered, and could only lie on the ground and scold people.

Listening to these goods and the spirit of scolding, the hateful trappers went up and used an iron ruler to shine on their mouths with a fierce and pumping, and several thieves were suddenly beaten dumb, blood spurted from their mouths one by one, and their teeth were also beaten out and fell out, and no one scolded anymore.

After the lights in the house 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 was in the courtyard, the remaining four people were each injured and were escorted to Gao Huaiyuan and knelt 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, twisting his neck and pretending to be a good man, struggled to raise his head and shouted to Gao Huaiyuan indistinctly: "Why arrest us? What royal law have we committed? ”

"Yo? Do you still dare to be hard-mouthed? What you said just now, but the official heard it clearly, do you still want to deny it? You are the third Cao Laosan! You've made us look for it so hard! Today is in the hands of this official, see what else you have to say! Gao Huaiyuan bowed slightly, and leaned over to the guy who questioned him.

"You...... Who are you? This guy surnamed Cao looked at Gao Huaiyuan with a frightened look in his eyes and asked.

"Blind your dog's eye! This is the county lieutenant whom our Daye County trusts, and he hasn't recruited him from the truth? Xing Zhu stepped forward and kicked the person surnamed Cao with a.

Next, after a search, the trappers soon searched Zhang Cheng's house, and found a few steel knives one after another, as well as a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, no need to think that this was a thief, and as the trappers beat them up, they took these guys away for interrogation, and finally had to confess.

It turned out that these guys were a gang of murderers that Zhang Cheng made friends with outside, living separately in Daye County, each with a family business, and they were innocent in the white, but secretly a few guys were entangled, and they came out to do a vote every once in a while, and the guy surnamed Cao was a deserter in the army before, and he had a lot of kung fu at hand, and he was very careful in his thoughts, and he was ruthless, and he took a few Zhang Cheng and others to commit crimes this year, and today he has come to the end of the road.

Next, Gao Huaiyuan ordered Xing Zhutou and others to go to the homes of several guys overnight to conduct a search, and even arrested the families of these guys, the crime is very simple, that is, the crime of the families of the other few of them is to cover up, especially the wives of the two guys, they all know what their men are doing, so naturally they can't let them go, and they are also arrested.

By the time dawn came, all the criminals were taken to the county government and handed over to Liu Zhixian for interrogation, and when the case was handed over to Liu Zhixian, it was already ironclad evidence, and there was no room for a few people to quibble, and soon the case was concluded, and their confessions were settled, and an ironclad case was completed, which could no longer be overturned.

And several guys were all sentenced to be in the city, to put it bluntly, it was Ling Chi to death, and he had to suffer from a thousand knives before he could be killed, and in the Song Dynasty, it was only applicable to criminals who committed heinous crimes, and such murderers could only be punished with heavy punishments, so they were sentenced to punishment by Liu Zhixian to set an example, and even the wives of two of them were also convicted of the same as them because they did not report it, but the crime was slightly lighter and was sentenced to beheading, and it can be said that all five families were finished at once.

This incident immediately caused a sensation in the county, originally the people in all the townships and villages were all in danger of the cases done by this gang of people during this time, and the government was unable to catch the culprit for a long time, which has caused some people's dissatisfaction, but after hearing that the case was cracked, the people immediately rushed to tell each other, cheering everywhere, and praised again and again for this trust in the county lieutenant, and the previous delay in cracking these major cases, after he took office, in just half a month, he personally arrested all the culprits, so that the people in the county all applauded. Lian Zan is the new county lieutenant of Gao, and no one dares to underestimate Gao Huaiyuan anymore.

Even those people in the county government who were not convinced by Gao Huaiyuan, after listening to the colorful descriptions of the arresters of Xing Zhutou, and understanding the process of solving the case, they had to admire Gao Huaiyuan's thoughtfulness, so that Gao Huaiyuan kicked away in the county office, and he could be regarded as gaining a foothold in the county office.

For these felons, Liu Zhixian chose a day, tied them to the prisoner car, and paraded the streets in the county town to show the public, looking at the embarrassment of this gang of murderers, it could not arouse the sympathy of the people at all, where the prisoner car passed, rotten eggs flew around, and what disgusting smashed these guys, it can be seen that people hate such murderers to the extreme.

In the end, these people were escorted to the court outside the city for execution, and tens of thousands of people in Daye County flocked to the court to watch the beheading.

And Gao Huaiyuan, as a military official in Daye County, is responsible for maintaining the order of the law field, so he naturally has to come to the scene to watch the killing, so he had to take a group of officials to surround the law field and set up a cordon, so that idlers and miscellaneous people are not allowed to approach the law field.

For 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 inhumane punishment in ancient times, he used to be very resistant, but this time he did not have any sympathy for these guys, in his opinion, with the behavior of these guys, Ling Chi's execution is what they deserve, as for their wives who did not report it and were sentenced to beheading, Gao Huaiyuan felt that the sentence was slightly heavier, but this is the ancient law, and he can't help it.

On the day of the execution, it was not until three o'clock in the afternoon that the knife could be beheaded, after swimming the street all morning, these prisoners were also smashed by the common people and broke the blood, and the executioner washed them clean with water before they were tied to the torture table, for the execution of these people, Gao Huaiyuan also had to prevent someone from coming to rob the law field, after all, these people are also from the rivers and lakes, Qin Hui and the two of them are good, I am afraid that these people will have buddies to save them, so Gao Huaiyuan personally spread eyeliner around the law field in the morning to prevent such a situation.

But this time Gao Huaiyuan was obviously a little more worried, until three o'clock in the afternoon, there was no chaos, with the drums sounding, after the executioner wearing red clothes and exposing his chest hair walked up to the execution platform, the surrounding onlookers cheered loudly, as if they were as excited as watching a play, Gao Huaiyuan sat on the prison beheading platform and really wondered, is it so fun to kill people? I really can't figure out what these people are thinking, such a bloody scene, not only are they not afraid but they also applaud vigorously, it's strange!

Since becoming the county lieutenant, Gao Huaiyuan also learned a lot of things, he didn't know much why he chose to ask at three o'clock in the afternoon in ancient times, after Xing Zhutou and their explanation, he finally figured this out, three o'clock in the afternoon, almost twelve o'clock at noon, the sun hung in the middle of the sky, and it was the shortest time for shadows on the ground. At that time, people thought that it was the time of the day when the "yang energy" was at its peak. Ancient Chinese people had a superstitious belief that murder was a "shady thing", and that the ghost of the person who was killed would always haunt the judge, the executioner, the executioner, and those associated with his execution, regardless of whether the person who was killed deserved it. Therefore, the execution at the peak of yang energy can restrain ghosts from appearing. This should be the main reason why the ancients used to carry out executions at "three o'clock in the afternoon".

And Gao Huaiyuan also learned that the punishment of this era is actually different from the punishment of Ling Chi in the Ming Dynasty in later generations, and it is not as he thought, it takes more than a thousand knives to finish, and the punishment in this era is far from being so cruel, but it takes twenty-four knives before and after, and he understands the life of the prisoner, but even so, it is a technical job, not a professional, and he really can't do this job!

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