In the early morning of the wax moon, it was cold and silent. Last night there was a lot of snow, and there was a thick layer of snow on the branches, on the roofs, and on the ground. It was supposed to be a snowy day shrouded in the joyful atmosphere of the New Year, but for me, there was no trace of joy and happiness, but full of inexplicable horror and uneasiness.

The thick snow on the street, under the feet of me and Zhang Butcher, made a creaking sound, and this originally small sound, echoing back and forth in the silent and uninhabited street, made me feel more and more like I was in a dream, I pinched my face, it hurt, it was indeed not a dream, but a living reality. But how I wish it was just a dream.

Walking to the gate of my yard, I took out the key, opened the lock on the door, and my heart jumped wildly, and my hands trembled violently, and I poked it several times before I poked the key into the keyhole. I don't know if it's because of the cold, because of the nervousness, or both.

When the courtyard door opened, I didn't have the courage to look at the horrific scene in the sheepfold, but I pointed out the direction of the sheepfold to Butcher Zhang with my hand. Butcher Zhang didn't say anything, first put the things in his hand on the ground, then took off his coat, handed it to me, and then picked up the red bag and butcher knife from the ground, and walked towards the sheepfold.

I stood behind me and didn't follow him.

Suddenly, I heard Zhang Butcher scolding from the sheepfold: "No matter what the fuck you are, I'm not afraid of you, no matter how much you dare to do anything, I will kill you at the cost of my life, and ask the mage to do it, so that you will never be reborn, aren't you harming people enough?" He was excited, but not loud, and I knew that he was trying to keep himself from shouting, because if he yelled so such a quiet morning, it would probably disturb the neighboring residents.

I tried to overcome my fear, and walked to the sheepfold, and yes, the scene in the sheepfold was not my hallucination, the feathers, the blood, and the remains of the chickens, and the sheep with its mouth covered in blood, were all there! What the butcher Zhang scolded bitterly was the sheep that ate chickens.

Zhang Tu's face was pale and out of breath at this time, and he could feel how excited his feelings were.

I hurriedly persuaded him: "Uncle Zhang, calm down, you have been slaughtering for so many years, have you ever encountered such a strange thing?" What the hell is going on? ”

As he spoke, he handed a cigarette to Butcher Zhang and helped him light it. He took a few sharp puffs, then grabbed a handful of snow from the ground and covered his face, painfully calming his feelings.

I knew that the scene in front of him must have reminded him of something terrible.

After about a minute, Zhang Butcher threw the snow in his hand to the ground, looked up, and I saw that his eyes were red and he was crying. I didn't rush to ask anything, but let him into the house and poured him a cup of hot tea. At this time, Zhang Butcher's love was basically restored to normal, he couldn't help but sigh, and then opened the conversation box and talked about some terrible past.

This skill of killing pigs and sheep started with the grandfather of Zhang Butcher. However, Zhang Butcher's grandfather, when he was young, did not kill pigs and sheep, but killed people, that is, the executioner, and it is said that he is still the most famous executioner in our area.

The executioner is not something that anyone can do. There are many executioners, and when they reach a certain age, they will become insane, nervous, and some will even go completely crazy. The older you are, the stricter the situation. Some people say that this is the executioner kills too much, karma, and there will inevitably be no good end, some people say that the more people kill, the easier it is to be harmed by yin, and when you are young, you may be able to resist the intrusion of yin, but as you get older, the yang energy in your body is slowly declining, and the resistance to yin is getting weaker and weaker.

The most obvious example is Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. In order to snatch the throne, Li Shimin not only killed his two brothers, but also killed ten nephews. When Tang Taizong reached old age, he often dreamed that these two brothers asked for his life, which made him very frightened, and finally almost had a nervous breakdown, and his health deteriorated rapidly.

Therefore, the executioner must not only cut off other people's heads, but also know how to protect himself, otherwise it will be very miserable. In the era of Grandpa Zhang, there were three famous bandits in our area, who were brothers, who killed people and goods, robbed men and women, and did many evils.

They are very cunning, they can always avoid the encirclement and suppression of officers and soldiers, and their power is becoming bigger and bigger, it is said that the three brothers, good at the art of Qimen Dunjia, their master is quite a Taoist priest. Therefore, although the officers and soldiers repeatedly carried out large-scale searches and suppressions, they had no effect, and no one knew how many of them were, where they were hiding, and what methods they used to avoid being searched and arrested by the soldiers.

The above was very angry, and the deadline was three months, and the magistrate was strictly ordered to arrest these three bandits. The magistrate tried his best and tried various methods, but it still had no effect. The three-month deadline is approaching, and the magistrate feels that this is over, and the black yarn hat will definitely not be able to keep it.

Late one night, just as he sighed, he suddenly heard something outside the door, he couldn't help but open the door to take a look, but he didn't see anything, and when he closed the door and turned around, he suddenly found a person standing in the house, he was so frightened that he almost got in his urethral pants, and wanted to call someone, but for some reason, he opened his mouth but couldn't make any sound. Through the light, the magistrate noticed that the man's actions and expression seemed to be a blind man.

The blind man told Zhixian not to be afraid, and told him that the eldest of the three bandits had been captured by him and placed in a cave in the back mountain, and said that the other two would soon be caught one after another. After saying this, the blind man ran out of the window and disappeared into the night.

When the magistrate came to his senses, he hurriedly sent someone to search the cave that the blind man said, and when the officials arrived at that place overnight, they found that the eldest of the three bandits was indeed inside. The bandit was tied to a boulder in a cave, and his tendons and tendons were all broken. Not only that, but ten fingers were also chopped off by Qi Brush, and when they were brought back for interrogation, it was discovered that the bandit boss's tongue had also been cut off.

The purpose of cutting out his tongue and not being able to speak, and chopping off his fingers and not being able to write, may only be one purpose to make the bandit boss completely lose his ability to speak, so as to prevent him from revealing to others how he was caught, and other relevant information.

After being identified by the relevant informants, the captured bandit was the eldest of the three, and after verifying the correct body, he decided to execute him on the spot. Originally, this qiē was carried out very smoothly, and there was no accident during the execution, no one came to rob the Dharma field or the like, and when the hour came, the executioner raised his knife and fell, and the head fell to the ground. The magistrate and the people breathed a sigh of relief. But then, something unexpected happened.