Then when I got home, my grandfather opened the door and said, "You are in a hurry to pay, otherwise I know where to find the executioner's knife."
"Ah, the hangings are all out, that's it, you know where they are, let's go look for them, and if we find them, we can ask Dafeng Restaurant to take down the hanging orders for knives."
I thought for a moment, If you can find it yourself, you can save a hundred thousand.
"Okay, let me tell you, in fact, there are executioners everywhere, and we used to have executioners on Ludao.
It wasn't until the 1914 law came out that bullets were required for executions, and the executioners withdrew from the stage of history."
Grandpa said.
He said as he sat down, the two of us followed suit.
We cheered up and listened carefully to what Grandpa said.
He said: "In fact, for a long time, there was basically only one executioner in a place.
Unless this person quits or can't do it anymore, someone else will be replaced."
People, because as long as there is a way out, there is no Someone is willing to do this.
To do this, first of all, you must have courage, secondly, you must have a strong yang energy, and you must also be ferocious, cold and cruel.
I remember that our executioner in Ludao was also the last executioner in the late Qing Dynasty.
Yes, his name is Chen Guotai.”
"The name is quite good.
The country is peaceful and the people are safe, but he is an executioner."
I said with a sneer.
"Chen Guotai's hometown is Nanhai Village.
After 1914, Chen Guotai disappeared, taking his whole family with him.
Logically speaking, this executioner lived alone and was not supposed to have a wife and children, but he But there is an old one Mother-in-law, this is completely different from the fate of other executioners who end up alone.
This may be related to the fact that except for household expenses, all the money he earned as an executioner was distributed to the countryside to build bridges and roads.
"Grandpa stroked his beard. explain.
"Oh, he's still a good person."
I was a little surprised.
"He's not a good person.
He just dispersed the ill-gotten gains.
At that time, he was given four oceans for beheading a person, and there were also expenses given to him by the family members of the death row prisoners.
For example, the family members hoped that after the death row prisoners were beheaded, Cutting off the tendons and leaving the skin means that the neck has been cut off, but not completely broken.
There is still a section of skin attached.
This is what we mean when we say that there is a whole body after death, so the family members will pay some money for the care.
Yes, because this requires an executioner's knife skills, which must not only break the tendons and leave the skin, but also be able to hide it from the executioner.
If the force is too strong, even the skin will be broken, and there will be no extra money.
If the force is too weak, the head will be gone.
If you break it, you will lose face and your job will be lost, so it is a test of skills.
In addition, if you need rushes or bloody buns, you will also pay the executioner for your hard work."
Grandpa said.
"Rush Blood Buns" Yue Lan didn't understand.
"I know about blood steamed buns.
There is an article by Lu Xun in the primary school textbook that says blood steamed buns are stained with the blood left by the beheading of executed prisoners.
It is said that eating them can cure tuberculosis, but in fact it is useless.
It is all feudal superstition."
I said. .
"Yes, it's superstitious, and rushes are the same.
They use straw to soak the blood that flows out," Grandpa said.
Yue Lan's face looked a little ugly.
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Although she often saw blood, she probably couldn't accept these two things.
"Grandpa, please continue."
I held Yuelan's hand, comforted her, and turned to grandpa.
"Even if Chen Guotai spent all his money to build bridges and roads, he still felt guilty.
After all, he had killed so many people and had made enemies.
He was afraid of revenge, so he took his family and children and disappeared."
Grandpa thought for a while and said: "Always In 1950, after the founding of New China, a man took his wife The child returned to Chen Guotai's old house in Nanhai Village.
After decades, not many people in the village knew Chen Guotai.
Even if they knew him, they would probably have forgotten about him.
But it was not Chen Guotai who came back.
But his son Chen Minan, his wife, and their child Chen Jiashun."
"Where is Chen Guotai?"
I asked.
"He died a long time ago.
When Chen Minan came back, he also brought back the portraits of Chen Guotai and his wife, but no one knew where they were buried."
Grandpa said, "But not long after he came back, Chen Minan went crazy.
It is said that he kept talking about meeting him.
He was so frightened that he went crazy.
Not long after, this Chen Minan also died. " "This is a bit tragic.
Are the descendants of the executioner suffering retribution?"
I thought it was a bit strange.
"When Chen Min'an died, we were all still children.
When people die, children are very curious and like to join in the fun.
I also went over to join in the fun.
Then when I saw their old house, I felt eerie and chilled all over.
Then I saw that in addition to the portrait and the spiritual tablets on the altar table of the Chen family, there was also a statue of Master Guan.
There was a shelf in front of the statue of Master Guan, and on the shelf there was a statue of Master Guan.
He was holding a broken knife.
The tip of the knife was broken, but the blade and handle were still there.
The handle was about fifteen centimeters, and there was a ghost head at the bottom.
The top of the blade was about sixty centimeters. " Grandpa thought for a while and said. : "I heard the old people attending the funeral whispering, saying that it should be the butcher knife used by Chen Guotai as an executioner, and that it was Chen Jiashun's mother who asked Chen Jiashun to dig it out from his grandfather's grave."
"Why are you digging this?
This knife was buried with Chen Guotai.
Why are you digging another grave?
It's my grandfather's grave."
I can't understand it.
"It is said that Chen Jiashun's mother suspected that there were ghosts at work.
These ghosts should be the ones who were beheaded.
They drove Chen Min'an crazy and would definitely harm the two of them, so they invited a Taoist priest, who asked her to go to the butcher to buy some.
A butcher's knife, the longer it is, the better, it is said to be able to drive away ghosts."
Grandpa finished.
I nodded.
The butcher's knife did have the effect of exorcising ghosts.
I asked, "What's the result?"
"It didn't work in the end.
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It was said that those ghosts were too powerful and ferocious to be suppressed at all, so Chen Jiashun's mother asked Chen Jiashun to dig out the knife secretly.
However, before they came back from digging the knife, Chen Minan Died at home, but legend has it that this After the knife came back and was presented as a sacrifice, the Chen family became peaceful instantly and there was no more trouble."
Grandpa touched his beard and said, "This effect is because this knife chopped off the heads of nearly three hundred people and drank the blood of three hundred people.
It is particularly effective in frightening the souls who died under its sword."
"Then this knife should still be at Chen's house.
Let's go buy it from them now."
I couldn't wait to stand up.
"I don't know if I can find it.
Several decades have passed and Nanhai Village has become Nanhai New Village.
Chen Jiashun was several years older than me at the time.
If he is still there, he must be at least seventy years old."
Grandpa.
Not optimistically.
"Go and have a look.
If there is any, buy it directly from him, or borrow it and return it to him after you use it."
I said.
"Okay, I'll call Fatty now and ask him to pick us up."
After Grandpa said that, he took out the phone
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