When everyone heard him say this, their curiosity was aroused again, and they hurriedly asked what kind of salvation it was.

"Is it possible to sew their heads and necks together?" A man dared to interject, raised his hand and made a stitching motion around his neck.

The others nodded, thinking the man was close to answering.

There's a reason why people think so. There are more anecdotes about beheading in the Caishikou than there are in the Caishikou. One of the most well-known is the rumor of stitching the neck.

It is said that the tailor shop at the entrance of the vegetable market did not dare to open the door rashly when it heard a knock in the middle of the night.

In the past, there was a tailor shop called "Seamless" at the entrance of the vegetable market, and the craftsmanship of this shop was particularly good, and the broken clothes made them sew out like new, and they could not see the patches and gaps, so it was called "Seamless". Due to the good craftsmanship, the business of this shop is particularly vigorous. Those who are near do not speak, but those who are far away would rather come here to make clothes, change clothes, and mend clothes.

One autumn, Caishikou slashed and killed a notorious leader of a rebellious party. That night, the shopkeeper of the tailor's shop was sleeping soundly when he suddenly noticed someone walking around the house. He thought to himself, this eighty percent of the thieves came in. But this tailor's shop was no more than any other, except for the needles and threads for sewing clothes, the thimbles for the fingers, and the baskets for clothes and loose tools, and nothing of value. So the shopkeeper squinted at the thief and let him rummage through the shop.

The thief fumbled for a while and then went out, and closed the door of the shop very carefully. It's as if a well-informed friend came to visit and saw that the owner was no longer gone.

The next day, the shopkeeper did not open the door to welcome customers as usual, but first checked everything in the shop to see if anything was missing. As soon as I cleaned up, it turned out that a basket with needle and thread was missing.

At this moment, someone outside shouted: "The shopkeeper should come out and have a look!" ”

The shopkeeper went out and followed everyone to the deserted countryside to see that the head and body of the man who had been beheaded yesterday were connected together, and there was a string of thin threads on his neck. There's a basket thrown right next to the corpse! The name of the store is written on the basket. That's the stolen basket from his shop!

In addition, there is a crane hall diagonally opposite the entrance of the vegetable market, and the knife wound medicine is famous. Every time the execution is completed, there are always "people" knocking on the door at night to buy stab medicine. Later, going to the Crane Year Hall to buy knife wound medicine also became a swear saying in old Beijing.

Because of these rumors, some people believe that if the executioner cuts well and the incision is smooth, the beheaded person still has the hope of being reborn after the head is picked up. Therefore, some people will give many benefits to the executioner before cutting off the head, so that they can be more clever when they drop the knife.

Otherwise, why did the dead have their necks stitched up and bought medicine for knife wounds?

Naturally, the crab executioner had also heard this kind of rumor, and when he saw the man gesture to his neck, he laughed and said, it seems that you all believe the rumors of Tianyi and Crane Year Hall!

When the people saw him like this, they asked, "Isn't it?"

The crab executioner said, the head is different, even if Hua Tuo is alive, he can't be saved, where can he buy some needlework and knife medicine to bring the dead back to life?

Everyone had doubts about this, and word of mouth was just to add a topic after dinner, and they didn't fully believe it.

The crab executioner was very pleased with this agreement, drank another glass of wine, and continued, I once saved a man who was wrongfully imprisoned. Before beheading, he asked someone to beg me to cut the knife sharply, probably because he thought like you guys that there was still hope for survival after death.

When the crowd heard him get to the point, they immediately fell silent.

The grandfather at the next table also listened more carefully.

The crab executioner said, the person who was entrusted with the gift and the message told me about the case before and after, saying that the person was indeed framed. I listened to the case and felt very sympathetic to the man, so I said that I would not accept money or gifts, but I still agreed to help him. I told the giver that as long as the head was cut off, it was impossible to save the incision if it was flattened, and that it was just a rumor from the outside. Then the giver asked me, "You promised to help him, and you said that if you cut off your head, you will definitely die, so how can you help?"

The crab executioner coughed lightly, signaled to the crowd that he was going to get to the point, and then said, "I say to the giver of the gift, go and tell the man who has been wronged, that he should eat a little more when he eats the road meal the night before, and that he will have enough strength to listen to my command the next day." After the executioner ordered me to draw the death card from the back of his head, I would secretly shout a password "Run" before I swung my knife but the blade had not yet touched my neck. As soon as he heard my command, he had to run forward as hard as he could, not looking back, not lingering, running as far as he could, and not coming back again, lest he be discovered. If anyone finds out he's alive, both he and I will suffer.

Someone in the audience couldn't wait and asked, "Do you really dare to let him go in front of the public?"

The crab executioner shook his head and said, of course I can't let him go, I have to cut off his head. Otherwise, who will save me? Besides, why don't you cut your head somewhere else, but at the entrance of the vegetable market? That's because there are the most people in the vegetable market, and the effect of killing chickens and setting an example to monkeys is the best. If the prisoner was allowed to run away in front of everyone, wouldn't it be a loss of face for the court? This robbery of the execution ground to save the condemned prisoner can only happen in the martial arts stories and commentaries that everyone hears, and it is impossible to happen in real life.

Someone said, "Then why did you promise to save him?" People are going to die, and you still lie to him?

The crab executioner shook his head again and said, Of course I won't lie to him. You don't believe it, do you? The man who was entrusted with the message didn't believe it either. He was stunned to see me raise my butcher's knife and cut off the prisoner's head. But he didn't bother me afterwards. He knew that if this kind of thing was stabbed, he would also implicate himself. But more than a decade later, he knew that I had indeed saved the prisoner and had not broken my promise. More than a decade later, at the southernmost tip of Yunnan, he met the condemned prisoner for whom he had interceded. The condemned prisoner lived a good life, married a wife and had children, and lived a very nourishing life.

Someone in the audience hurriedly said, didn't you cut him to death? How could he have appeared in Yunnan?

The crab executioner said, don't worry, listen to me slowly. The person who was entrusted asked the condemned prisoner, how did you come here to marry a wife and have children? The condemned prisoner said, "Thanks to you and the executioner who wanted to cut off my head." Back then, you told me that I had to eat enough for dinner, and when I heard the command, I got up and ran hard. Later, when I arrived at the execution ground, I heard the executioner secretly say to me "Run" when he raised his knife, and after waiting for a long time, I immediately jumped up from the ground and ran as fast as I could to the south. I was afraid that I would be caught and stabbed back, so I escaped and kept going south, and finally came here with nowhere to go, and then the sea was there, so I stopped and made a home here.

The crab executioner drank a little more wine to moisten his throat, and continued, the person who had been entrusted with it said to the condemned prisoner that this was not right. I saw that the executioner took the money and cut off your head with a knife! After the execution, I accompanied your father and mother to ask for your body to be buried. When the condemned prisoner heard his old friend say this, he immediately shuddered, grabbed his old friend's hand and asked, Did you really see me being hacked to death? The man said, it's true, even if I'm wrong, your father and mother won't misunderstand their own son. When the condemned prisoner heard this, his face suddenly turned ugly, and suddenly dissipated like a puff of smoke in front of the entrusted person.

Everyone was amazed.

The crab executioner said, and then the man who had been entrusted with it came to me, told me what had happened, and asked me what was going on. I explained to him that it was the obsession of the condemned prisoner who was alive. Before my blade could cut him, his obsession with survival was the strongest. When his body was in a different place, his obsession had escaped, thinking that he was not dead and continued to live as before. As long as no one tells him, he won't find out. But as soon as someone tells him the truth, he will be gone, and he will disappear from this world.

So as soon as the entrusted person told the truth, the rescued death row prisoner immediately disappeared? Someone in the audience asked.

Be. Said the crab executioner. His face showed a look of pity, and he drank the remaining wine from the glass in one gulp.

Everyone was amazed.

The crab executioner said, I have saved not only this one condemned prisoner, but the other condemned prisoners will live in seclusion after escaping, never mentioning the past. They kept it secret thinking that they would retreat with their whole body, for fear of being arrested again if it was leaked. This is precisely what makes them never know that they are dead.

Before his grandfather left Thrush Village, the grain officer told him that a person's life is not only about knowledge, but also about insight. Knowledge can be obtained by "reading ten thousand books", but insight cannot be obtained, and knowledge must not only "travel thousands of miles", but also see with the eyes and listen with the ears. In other words, knowledge is available to everyone, but knowledge is not necessarily available. The grain officer asked his grandfather to increase his knowledge outside.

Grandpa's obsession to save Abba Xu relied on knowledge.

When he met Abba Xu in the three provinces of Jiming, there was no one else to ask about, and there were no ancient books to consult, if Daddy blurted out the cause of Abba Xu's death, Abba Xu's obsession with survival would be as shattered as the executioner's mouth of the condemned prisoner.

In fact, it is not only the death row prisoner under the executioner's knife, Aba Xu who was plotted by the beggar, but also some people in life whose wishes have not been fulfilled will also have such a situation. They may have died, but they didn't realize it, and they still ate and did things according to their previous habits, but they gradually found that the people around them didn't care much about them, and finally remembered that they had died at such and such a moment.

Abba Xu's obsession with survival is strong enough to live like a normal person, which surprises Grandpa very much.

Daddy didn't know if Abba Xu would slowly wake up and disappear on his own, but Daddy decided to do his best to keep him.

So, Daddy decided to tell a lie.