Wang Qilin looked at Chang Wang: "Who is gone?"

Chang Wang frowned and showed a sad look, and said, "My second brother, my second brother is gone." ”

Xu Da went to the three sticks of incense very dignifiedly.

He complains on different occasions, and the occasions that should not be complained about are always very serious.

In the middle room there is incense smoke, but in the bedroom on the left there is the smell of medicine.

Wang Qilin entered the room and saw a middle-aged man with a fat head and big ears lying on the bed, he seemed to be asleep, his face was ruddy, and his lips were chapped.

Xu Da glanced at it and said, "This is an internal fire, he needs to vent the fire, he has urinated in the house for the past two days, right?"

Chang Wang asked in surprise, "How did the adults know?"

Xu Da rolled his eyes and said: "It has been snowing heavily in the past two days, how can your father go out to the thatched house like this? And the uncle is not blind, isn't there a urinal in the shoe hole under the kang? The most important thing is that the uncle smells the smell of urine." ”

Chang Wang was embarrassed and sued again and again.

Xu Da shook his head and said, "Has your father been urinating yellow for the past two days?"

Chang Wang nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"Huang is right, he just has a fire in his heart. ”

Chang Wang asked expectantly: "Do you know how to use medicine?" Then how should my father take medicine in this situation? I asked the doctor to see him, but after taking the medicine for two days, he didn't get better. ”

Wang Qilin shook his head and said: "You are looking for the wrong person to find the doctor, you should have come to us to listen to the heavenly prison earlier, your father is not cold, he is haunted by ghosts." ”

Chang Wang's eyes straightened on the spot: "My father was entangled by a ghost?"

Wang Qilin said: "Yes, tell me about the strange things you have encountered in your family in the past few days." ”

Chang Wang quickly glanced at his father on the kang and said with a sneer: "My lord, you misunderstood, where did our family encounter any strange things?"

Wu Xinzhi noticed his small movements, and said angrily: "Well, Chang Wang, you are so bold! When something happened to your family, I invited the official who listened to the heavenly prison to exorcise ghosts for you, but you didn't speak honestly, do you want to hide anything?"

Chang Wang was aggrieved and helpless, nodding again and again, but he just didn't say what happened.

Wu Xinzhi was furious, he tore Chang Wang's clothes and shouted: "You rented my house, and then you didn't know what to mess with, and made the house a murderous house for me, you said, what should I do about this? How can you compensate me?"

Wang Qilin ignored them, he had been looking at Changying on the kang, like looking at a sleeping beauty.

The gaze is intriguing.

Wu Xinzhi confessed to him: "Lord Wang, I can't help you, I invited you here to save this Chang family with good intentions, but it can be said that it is difficult to persuade the damned ghosts, since they don't accept your affection, it is better to let their family die here!"

Wang Qilin pointed at Chang Wang and said, "You tell me what you know." ”

Chang Wang hesitated for a moment, and Wu Xin waved his hand angrily to hit him.

At this time, a voice sounded at the door, saying: "My lord, if you want to know something, just ask the villain, the villain has experienced everything and knows this matter clearly." ”

"Don't embarrass Brother Ngawang with the martial arts, Brother Ngawang just had a child, and he has been busy with the child's affairs recently, so he really doesn't know about the store. ”

Wang Qilin walked out and opened the door, and a burly young man looked at him with blazing eyes.

"Who are you?"

The young man clasped his fists and saluted and said, "The villain's name is Mu Baijin, and he is the eldest disciple of Master Chang, and he has been following Master for six years. ”

Wang Qilin nodded and said, "Then you tell me what you know." ”

Mu Baijin hugged his fists and said: "Obey, the matter has to start five days ago." ”

"Let's know that our Chang's lo-mei and seishui are quite famous in the city, and the business is very good every day, so Master Chang and my brother get up before dawn every day to work, and then the business lasts until the evening. ”

"It's dark early in winter, business ends early, and we tend to close our shops an hour after sunset. ”

"But at midnight five days ago, someone suddenly patted on the door of my shop......

Mu Baijin is Changying's eldest disciple, he and Changying are fellow villagers, but his father died unexpectedly and his mother remarried, so he went out at a young age and began to work for others.

By chance, six years ago, he followed a truck convoy to Pingyang Mansion, and met Changying, who heard the local pronunciation from his mouth very kindly, and learned that he was struggling to survive without his father and mother, so he moved his compassion and took him in as an apprentice and helper.

Chang Ying is a kind person, Bao Da and Wu Xinzhi have told Wang Qilin about this, and it is precisely because of this that Wu Xinzhi is willing to help after his family encounters tricks.

This can also be seen on Mu Baijin, Changying is dedicated to his apprentices, unlike some masters, who are calculating, hiding and tucking, he not only tries his best to teach his apprentices the ability to make braised pork, but also feeds them tall and strong.

Therefore, the disciples of the Chang family worked diligently, and no one cheated and cheated.

In this case, Mu Baijin, as a big disciple, had to be more careful and serious, and he chose the nearest room across the front wing shop as a bedroom, so that he could know what was going on in the store so that he could know it at the first time.

In this way, at midnight five days ago, when the knock sounded on the door, Mu Baijin was the first to hear it and went out.

The snow had begun to brew that night, the weather was gloomy and the wind was gusting, and it stands to reason that no one would be happy to climb out of the warm quilt on this kind of day, but Mu Baijin knew that most of the people who came to buy braised meat and braised water at midnight were drunks.

The drunkards have to do their business, or they will keep knocking on the door until the whole family is tossed.

So Mu Baijin hurriedly went to open the door after hearing the sound of banging on the door, "At that time, it was very cold when the door opened, and a gust of wind came in directly, and I shivered when it blew." The strange thing is that there is no alcohol in the wind blowing in, this is not a drunkard!"

"What's even more bizarre is that he knocked on the door and didn't come in, but asked us at the door - are there any chicken heads?"

Xu Da interrupted him and asked, "Wait......"

"Leave him alone, you continue. Wang Qilin hurriedly said to Mu Baijin.

Xu Da was unhappy.

A heart is stirring......

Mu Baijin said: "How can we have chicken heads in our store?" So I told him if there were any, but he didn't care about me, so he asked again and again if there were any chicken heads. ”

"I saw that he didn't seem to be in a normal state of mind, and he was a little scared, so although there was no braised chicken head in the store, there was a chicken head left over from the usual killing of chickens, so I took one to him, and he really gave me the money, and then took the chicken head and left. ”

Wang Qilin asked, "Then do you see his appearance clearly?"

Mu Baijin shook his head and said: "I can't see clearly, he is wearing a big cotton coat, his head is surrounded by a towel, and he didn't enter the door, he was standing in the shadow outside the door and talking to me." ”

"Go on. Wang Qilin nodded.

Mu Baijin said: "The next day everything was as usual, but at midnight there was a knock on the door again, and I went to open the door, and the man appeared at the door again, and he asked me if I had a sheep's head this time. ”

"There was a braised sheep's head in the store, so I sold him a braised sheep's head. ”

"For two days in a row, such a person came inexplicably, and I began to beat the drum in my heart, and on the third day I reported the matter to my master. ”

"On the third night my master took me to wait in the shop, and sure enough, at midnight there was another knock at the door!

"There was a braised pig's head in the shop, and we sold it to him again - oh, when I saw the man that night, my master used to ask him who he was and what he was buying these heads for, but he didn't answer, but just asked again and again, 'Is there a pig's head?'" ”

"My master was angry and went up to tear him up, and then I didn't know what my master saw, and suddenly he came back with a gasp, and asked me to pick a big pig's head for him. ”

"The next day, the night before, the man came again, this time I don't know what happened, the master didn't let me be with him anymore, he waited in the shop by himself, prepared some paper money, paper figures, incense candles and other things. ”

"And then yesterday......"

Speaking of this, Mu Baijin's voice became low, "Yesterday, alas, there was nothing to do, but then my master knew about my little brother's trip to Goolan Courtyard, and my master got angry and scolded him, scolding and slapping him on the head!"

"His head fell off!"

Chang Wang squatted down and covered his face and cried.

Wang Qilin said: "Someone died, and no one reported to the official?"

Mu Baijin said excitedly: "I want to report to the official, and our brothers want to report to the official." In fact, I had to report to the official when that evil man came to buy a pig's head, but the master didn't allow it, he said that he would handle this matter and we were not allowed to interfere!"

Wang Qilin said: "You can't deal with it, this thing has already started to kill." ”

Xu Da said: "When this thing comes, he has to buy a chicken head, a sheep head, a pig head, does he have no head, so he came to buy a head for himself?

Wang Qilin said in a deep voice: "Don't guess, just ask Changying to know what's going on." ”

He walked into the bedroom and said, "Okay, don't pretend to be asleep, get up." ”

Chang Ying did not move, breathing evenly, as if he was still asleep.

Wang Qilin pulled open the futon, and his hands under the futon were clasped together......

Mu Baijin's words just now must have reminded him of the events of the past few days and the death of his young son yesterday, which stimulated him.

Wang Qilin said indifferently: "If you are bent on death, then you will commit suicide in front of that begging ghost, and it is here to find you, right?"

"But after you die, your family will not be at peace, it is clear that it came to your family, and it has killed your youngest son, followed by your eldest son, your daughter-in-law and grandson, and your disciples, and then the family will go to Huangquan Road together. ”

Xu Da nodded and said: "You won't be lonely on Huangquan Road together, you can be lively, which is also a blessing in misfortune." ”

Mu Baijin and several disciples gathered outside the room were stunned when they heard this.

Tears flowed from the corners of Chang Ying's eyes, he finally opened his eyes and sat up, and said in a hoarse voice: "My lord forgives your sins, the grass people deserve death, and they are trying to fool you." ”

Wang Qilin said unceremoniously: "Don't talk nonsense, let's get down to business, what did you do before, so that you provoked ghosts to come to the door?"

Bao Da, Wu Xinzhi and others came to him to ask about it, but he remained silent.

Until yesterday when he died, his son didn't choose to report to the official, and even heard that the heavenly prison was coming to help, and he pretended to be sick and deceitful.

Seeing his father get up, Chang Wang rushed up and knelt down and shouted: "Dad, the martial arts and the officials who listened to the heavenly prison are here, you can tell them the truth about what happens to our family, you have been honest and kind all your life, I haven't remembered what you have done since I was a child, and I don't believe that you have done anything wrong!"

Chang Ying said with tears in his eyes: "Dawang, you get up, my father was confused a few days ago, and my father wanted to take care of this matter by himself, but he didn't expect to kill your brother." Dad can't be confused anymore, he can't hurt your family anymore, and now I'll tell you what happened. ”

He wiped his tears and looked at Wang Qilin, and told a story from the past: "My lord, this matter has to start from eleven years ago, it was also a winter, and it was also after a heavy snowfall......

My name is Chang Ying, my ancestral home is Youzhou, and my family has been an executioner for three consecutive generations, and I was also an executioner before I came to Pingyang Mansion.

The executioner's job is not good, but it is indeed a good job, because it eats official food, and it can eat a bowl of stable and solid full rice regardless of the disaster year and famine.

Moreover, few people know that the executioner is still a job that can make extra money.

The big guys know that we executioners are responsible for cutting off people's heads.

But the big guy doesn't know that there is a trick to cutting off the head, and you can cut off the head with a single slash, but you can't cut off a person's head with a knife if you don't care about it.

For death row prisoners, death is already a certainty, and all they want is to die happily and without pain.

In this way, the families of some death row prisoners will secretly come to our executioners before their relatives are executed, and those who have money will stuff us with two pieces of money, and those who have no money will stuff us with some food, wine, and meat.

In fact, people are very angry before they die, and our executioners dare not delay the hour and toss the prisoner for no reason.

It's just that some people commit things that are too evil for Heaven to look down on, and at that time, our executioners were always inaccurate in their knives, which would make people suffer a lot of suffering before they died.

It's not for me to quibble, I've encountered such a stubble incident, and that time I was going to behead a human trafficker. This trafficker specializes in abducting and selling young girls.

He is very evil, every time he abducts the little girl, he has to spoil it himself, and then force the little girl to be a secret prostitute to make money for him, and then sell it to the mountains and fields to the poor man who can't marry a daughter-in-law.

This kind of little girl will be beaten to death in a few days after she gets married, because these poor men finally saved a few dollars to buy a daughter-in-law to inherit the lineage, but found that the daughter-in-law who bought them not only could not have children, but also infected themselves with willow disease, do you think they can give a little daughter-in-law a good one?

This trafficker was sentenced to death, and I will behead him. He was tied up and kneeled on the ground, and then I stabbed him in the neck.

But the first time I slashed him in the shoulder, cutting off half of his arm! I stabbed him a second time, this time I deliberately aimed at his neck and got the knife, and the result was? This man twitched in pain, and I slashed him on the other side of the arm!

Two stabs in a row did not kill people, but cut off two arms, this thing is a bit evil, so I drank wine and told him to stop moving, the more he moved, the more he suffered.

This time I aimed for the knife, and he didn't move, but I went up and cut off half of his skull!

The brains were all popping up, but he wasn't dead!

I went on to cut the man, this time on a wooden shelf, and I could cut off his head by stabbing against it.

You can't guess what's going on: I stabbed him right in the neck, but the blade just cut his skull!

In the end, I took nine slashes to cut off the man's head.

Why do I want to talk about this? Because this matter is very important, I cut this a big villain at that time, and the official master was very resentful of his behavior, so he misunderstood that I deliberately tortured him with nine knives before sending him on the road, and the official master said that I have good skills, and the head chopper can cut people without killing people with nine knives, which is a great skill.

In this way, I became the commander of our city executioners in a daze, and was promoted to a petty officer.

I became a little more powerful when I became this petty official, and then eleven years ago in the winter, a big man came to my door and gave me a huge sum of ten gold baht, wanting me to open up the net in the next execution, so as to leave a way for his cousin to live.

How do you leave a way to live?

He would give me a head to hide on my body in advance, and when I cut off his cousin's head, I would stick it to his relative's shoulder, so that there would be blood and head, and the person would fall to the ground at that time, and he would buy the servants who dragged the corpse, and the matter would be over.

Heavenly Master Mingjian, listen to the Heavenly Supervisor Master Mingjian, I haven't done this job, and I don't want to do it.

Although the money is moving, it is terrible money, and I dare not take it.

But I couldn't offend the big man who came to me, and he helped me and saved my life, so after hesitation, I decided to take over the tanuki for the prince!

But!

People are not as good as heaven!

Just one day before the execution, there was a heavy snowfall, and the snow was not as good as the snow of the past two days, and the mass grave that served as the execution ground was white, and the ground should have been covered with dead grass, and the heads were thrown into the weeds, and blood was sprayed into the weeds, so that it could be disguised.

The mess of dead grass has been buried in the flat snow, and now I have no choice, how can I hide it?

The prisoner is not blind, can it be the same to cut off a man's head in the snow as to throw away a head with a stab on his shoulder? Can the blood spurted out from the head be at least three feet long?

To make matters worse, there was a different prison officer that day!

Oh, I remembered when I saw the official uniforms of the adults, and the prison officer I got in exchange for at that time was your colleague, and he also wore a black robe like this.

In desperation, I had to temporarily change my mind and change to a quick knife to give the man a good time.

In order to cover up this, the big man chose the place of his cousin's execution next to a ravine in a mass grave, and he asked me to swing a knife and throw his head and kick his cousin into the ravine, so that the prisoner would not usually go down to check the situation himself.

I cut off the man's head with a knife, and the man fell headlong into the ravine, and then the prisoner of the heavenly prison came to take a look, nodded and praised my craftsmanship, and left.

I was scared and sorry when it happened, so I took the ten gold baht and wanted to send it back to the big guy. As a result, the big man was not at home and went to the house of his cousin, who was a death row prisoner.

I was nervous, and guessed that the big man had gone to comfort his family after knowing the result, so I inquired all the way to his cousin's house to return the money to him.

As a result, I was so scared that I almost peed my pants happened: the condemned prisoner who was clearly beheaded by me appeared at home safe and sound!

When he saw me, he kowtowed, and led his wife and son to kneel and thank me for their mercy.

But how dare I accept this? I took out the money in horror and threw it to them and told the truth, and the big man's face sank and he said that I was, and I desperately wanted to prove my words, so I told the truth what had happened before and after.

The family panicked, the big man said I was drunk and talking nonsense, and the condemned prisoner told me to get out.

I was so frightened that I went over the place of execution, and that the prisoner had seen his body.

And so the condemned man began to weep and shed tears, and he said to me, to me:

"Brother, I haven't offended you, so why do you have to force each other hard? Why did you tell me three times and twice that I had lost my head? Can't I spend the rest of my life unconsciously? Why do you force me to death?!"

With that, his head fell!

Blood spurted out three feet away and spurted all the way to me......

I'm looking at it!

He doesn't blink an eye!