Chapter 1: Beheading
He slowly opened his eyes.
It was dark in front of me, I couldn't see anything clearly, and there seemed to be an erosion and damp straw mat underneath me, and I was sitting with my back against a rough wall, my back aching from the uneven hard stones, and the cold and damp air was filled with an unbearable stench.
There seemed to be walls on all sides, and on the left side of the wall was a small low door with a faint glimmer of light from the small window on the door, which was the only source of light.
"Crossed the ...... No, it should be said that the memory of the previous life has awakened, and this life is really called Lin Lan......"
He muttered, not feeling too surprised, after all, in his previous life, the moment he was killed by lightning, he had already known in advance that he would cross this matter.
In the dark, Lin Lan gently rubbed his temples, frowning and recalling the memories in his mind.
Although he knew that he was going to travel when he was electrocuted in his previous life, he thought that he would die early, but he didn't expect that not only did he not die, but he also lived to the present, and only awakened the memory of his previous life when he was twenty years old.
- This is exactly the same age as when he awakened his abilities in his previous life, maybe it's not a coincidence?
The awakening of the memory of his previous life is like an extra memory experience of more than 20 years out of thin air, although it is not really more than 20 years apart, but it also makes the memory of his current life a little distant and blurred.
As if he woke up from a dream, he became a prisoner in Yanshan County, Guannan County, Mingzhou, Dayu, who was about to be beheaded.
"Tomorrow?"
Lin Lan frowned, suppressed the instinctive emotions in his heart, and looked at the cell through the thin light that seemed to be nothing, while recalling the reason for becoming a prisoner in his mind.
It turned out to be because of fortune telling......
The ancestors of the Lin family once had a Taoist priest who was proficient in feng shui, but also knew how to read fortune telling, and it is said that he was also involved with Taoist cultivators, and returned to his hometown after dying of old age, although he was not a real practitioner, and there was no Taoist book, but after reading the feng shui fortune for the local rich merchant officials, he was also a little famous, so that the Lin family laid a foundation.
However, this generation has been passed down from generation to generation, but the descendants of the Lin family can't learn the art of the ancestors' hope, and it is difficult to use the art of feng shui to confuse people, so they can only fool people by looking at fortune telling, and reluctantly manage the signboard of the Lin family.
The ancestors still have some real skills, but the descendants of the Lin family are ninety percent fake, and they all rely on eloquence to talk nonsense.
Two years ago, Lin's father passed away, and Lin Lan hadn't learned much skill, and he was only seventeen or eighteen years old, not yet the crown, even if he was stained with a beard, he didn't look like a fortune teller with a fairy style, he only felt funny when he looked at it, how could he be convincing?
Therefore, after turning over the ancient books left by his ancestors, he made a decision that can be said to be bold-
Disguised as a disciple of a practitioner.
Nowadays, the status of cultivators is extremely high, and even Dayu, who respects the 'human sect', does not dare to neglect the two sects of Taoism and Buddhism now, and there are Taoist divisions and monk records divisions in various places.
If you enter the Taoist and monk status, you are a real cultivator, even if you are low, you are an official of the same eight grades.
Once you become a cultivator, it is naturally easy to make money.
Therefore, after Lin Lan's careful planning, he used some strange things and methods left by his ancestors to use the excuse that 'the master has a life, and the disciple should enter the world to practice until the crown, and then enter the Tao', which really made many people believe it.
If someone believes, there will naturally be money to be made.
In the past two years, Lin Lan has also made a lot of money, and originally thought that he would stop after the crown and go away directly, so that he could use this money to do some small business in the future.
But...... I often walk by the river, how can I not get my shoes wet.
Just two months ago, he met a down-and-out Taoist with a cloak at his fortune-telling stall, the other party did not wear a Taoist scarf or a Taoist crown, he thought that the other party had no Taoist status, just a wandering Taoist priest who ate and drank.
But the Taoist stared at him for a while, and then said that he was physically powerless, and he defended that the rules of the master were not allowed to cultivate mana, and the Taoist asked him to call the elders of the sect to come out, and he naturally could only defend that he could not disturb the elders of the sect, and then what he didn't expect was that the other party immediately showed the real spell, attracted officers and soldiers, and sent him to the government on the spot.
According to the law of Dayu, if you dare to pretend to be a Taoist practitioner and defraud your money and ruin the reputation of the Taoist, you will be punished with a rod of 50 at least and a beheaded.
Lin Lan's sin is not light, it is not serious, although he is in the name of a cultivator, but he does not really pretend to be a cultivator, he has long said that he has not yet entered the Tao, and under the pretext of entering the world, even if it is really exposed, it cannot be a capital crime.
But Zhang Hai and Zhang Zhongren, the county commander of Yanshan County, were originally greedy people, and they had long seen that Lin Lan had earned a lot of money in the past two years, but because he suspected that Lin Lan really had a teacher behind him, he didn't do anything under jealousy.
And now that he has seized the opportunity, how can he let go of this piece of fat that has been sent to his mouth?
That Zhang Zhongren was detained on a large number of charges in the county government, and Lin Lan was said to be heinous one by one, and he was sentenced to behead the prison on the spot, and the down-and-out Taoist seemed to be moved by Zhang Zhongren's words, and he also agreed to execute Lin Lan, and thought that this son ruined the reputation of Taoism, and asked not to make a statement, just ask for beheading in the county office.
Since this matter involves a Taoist cultivator, as long as the practitioner personally testifies, there is no need to repeat the sage, as long as the local state pastor handles it according to the law.
Therefore, even the rule of three plays and then the decision was thrown aside, and it was reported to the Mingzhou Governor in accordance with the regulations, involving Taoist masters, just pretending to review the regulations, and then they could be asked after the autumn.
At this time, it happened to be cold autumn, and it was the time to kill.
Lin Lan has been in prison for more than two months, and today is his last day.
Tomorrow at noon at three o'clock.
"The memory of the previous life has just awakened, and you are about to be killed?"
In the darkness, Lin Lan slowly closed his eyes, but he didn't have much fear in his heart.
Maybe it's because he just died once, maybe it's because the life and death situation in his previous life can't be changed, which makes him a little disheartened, or maybe because his relatives are gone, he doesn't have much attachment to this world......
In short, he was calmer than he had imagined.
Trapped in this dungeon, there is no way to escape, and there is no way to avenge the wrongs.
In this ancient dynastic world, the common people were already soft-spoken, and sometimes they were not even treated as human beings, and there was no way to survive against the officials, let alone cultivators with higher status.
And now that the official master and the Taoist master want him to die, what else can he do?
I don't know how long it took.
Suddenly, there was a sound of chains clashing outside the cell door, and then footsteps were heard, and the door of the cell was opened.
Lin Lan sat motionless in the cell, just opened his eyes and saw that there was only a faint light from a small window, but now after the door opened, it became a lot brighter.
Dressed in blue shorts, black trousers, and carrying a bamboo lunch box, it turned out to be a jailer.
"Boy, you're on your way in one hour."
The jailer squatted on the ground, put down the food box, and took out the wine and meat food that had long been out of heat, "It's the last meal, let's eat it." ”
Lin Lan leaned lazily against the corner of the wall, squinting at the jailer.
But in his mind, there was a sudden trance, and a small memory emerged.
In some illusory scenes, the jailer fell to the ground in embarrassment, looked in this direction with a frightened expression, and rolled backwards, but a long steel knife spun in the air and flew towards him, slashing through a cold arc of light, directly cutting off his head, the corpse separated, and blood gushed out.
Instantly, the picture shattered.
"Huh?"
Lin Lan was stunned at first, and then reacted, this is the ability to 'foresee the end'.
He didn't expect that even if he was reincarnated and crossed, this ability would still be there?
In the twenty years before the awakening of memory, this ability was nowhere to be found, but I didn't expect that until today, when the butcher's knife hangs around the neck, the memory of the previous life awakens, and this ability reappears.
Or is it ...... I was able to awaken the memories of my past life, also because of this ability?
There's no point in thinking about that now...... Lin Lan temporarily restrained these thoughts and turned to look at the jailer.
Judging by the endgame he foresaw, the jailer was probably going to die in the near future.
And judging from the picture, the place where the jailer died seems to be in the Yanan Prison of this county, and he also witnessed it with his own eyes, and the direction that the jailer looked in horror before he died seemed to be in his direction.
After all, the end of the foresight is also the memory of his own future, and it must be what he sees and hears.
But...... Who would dare to kill people in this county office?
Could it be that I killed this jailer? It's impossible...... Lin Lan didn't quite understand.
He knew very well that he had a few pounds and a few taels, he had never practiced martial arts to strengthen his body, and he was half-starved and half-full in prison, and he had been hungry and weak for two months, and with his arm strength, if he threw the long knife out, let alone cut off a person's head, it was a question of whether he could throw it so far.
"What are you looking at, boy?" The jailer tapped the ground with the bowl in his hand, and the rice grains in the bowl were shaken out quite a bit.
Lin Lan didn't answer, didn't speak, and didn't bother to remind the other party.
The ending is destined to be unchangeable, and there is no point in reminding it.
Not to mention...... The upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, and this jailer seems to have followed the greed of Zhang County's order.
If the prisoner in the prison asks his family to send money, the jailer will deliver the meal on time, a lonely and widowed person like Lin Lan has already been copied by the official, and no one can send the money to this prison, the jailer is not profitable, in the past two months, it is good to be able to deliver food once a day, and it is a spoonful of gruel brown rice that is not much better than clear water, and if you are lucky, you may be able to see a rotten vegetable leaf.
"Poor ghost...... Eat it. The jailer set the bowl in place, sneered, and departed with the food box.
Lin Lan glanced at it in the faint light, a small bowl filled with wine, and a large bowl filled with rice, covered with green vegetables and a piece of half-cooked stinky meat.
According to the laws and regulations of Dayu, the severed head meal should be based on the standard of three guan money, and even a hundred yuan of food and meat cannot be used for this meal, wine and meat.
You don't have to think about other money to know, so it's naturally greedy.
Lin Lan is not a feudal superstitious person, he casually threw this stinky meat aside, just picked up a few mouthfuls of rice and vegetables, and tasted wine, compared to the delicious taste he had tasted in his previous life, the taste was naturally nothing to say, just to fill his stomach.
Another hour passed.
The door of the prison opened again, and the jailer walked in with two errands from the torture room, and after verifying that he was right, he put shackles on Lin Lan and prepared to escort him to the public court.
"Huh?"
The jailer suddenly felt something under his feet, looked down at the ground, and realized that it was the half-baked piece of meat, and couldn't help but sneer: "Don't regret it when you get on the bridge." ”
Lin Lan thought to himself, this piece of meat should be prepared for yourself.
However, if he said this, he would inevitably receive a few punches and kicks, and he would not be as knowledgeable as a dead man.