(Guangxu... year) The sun was yellow and thick, covering the small county town teaching grounds, and there were people running horses in the grounds.In front of the Martial Arts Hall, there are many people in various uniforms practicing eighteen kinds of martial arts.When it comes to Frost's Descent, Dao Yin must practice routinely, rectify his troops, and implement rewards and punishments. Therefore, all troops directly under Chenyuan Yongjing's military preparations have stepped up their practice and prepared to pass the exam.Sitting on the mat in front of the Martial Arts Hall was Guerrilla Qian Zong and his instructor, drinking a bowl of tea and doing roll call according to the red booklet.Every soldier has the opportunity to choose the matching outfit, and dance with a sword alone or in pairs.After galloping the horses into the track, the horses galloped and galloped, really coming and going like the wind.When a person shows his skills immediately, he will kill the ball with a spear, or turn around and shoot an arrow through the Yang with a hundred steps, depending on his skills, he will win cheers and ridicule.

Soldier Yang Jinbiao is directly under the second team of the Miao Defense Garrison Office.The soldier killed the ball for a while on the horse, and then came to the martial arts hall to find his opponent to play "two-sword break card".Although the knife-wielder appeared to be extremely powerful, he was rolling around on the ground with two cowhide shields, as if the knife couldn't pierce it, and the water couldn't get in.When the fight was very lively, suddenly a messenger wearing a red jacket came and stood in front of the dripping eaves to send a message: "Yang Jinbiao, Yang Jinbiao, there is business in the yamen, and you are waiting outside the west gate after 3:00 noon!"

Hearing the order, the soldier deliberately acted like a hurdle, and fell to the ground. He was cut down by the opponent, and hurriedly threw down his shield and went to answer.After the messenger left, the soldier went to rest by the horse gate, and everyone rushed over. They all knew that there was a case to be dealt with at noon today, and they had to go outside the west gate to chop off a person's head.It turned out that this man was messing around in the Jiaochangping barracks, and at the same time was working as an errand in the big yamen in the city. Not only did he have good skills, he was also the best executioner in the area.

After the meal, the soldier wore a double-paneled Yunqing gown, wrapped a crepe silk handkerchief, and brought his ghost-head knife that was about a foot long, and went outside the west gate to wait for his errand.At noon, three piglet cannons rang out in succession in the city. Not long after, a group of people gathered a man who was so frightened that he was dumbfounded.The soldier hid the ghost-headed knife behind the hand abductor, walked past the arbor and gongan, and beat the supervisor and beheader a thousand times, asking for his will.After getting permission, he approached behind the prisoner, made some calculations, rubbed the crutches against the back of the prisoner's neck, made a dull blunt sound, and the man's head fell to the ground.The soldiers and civilians cheered in unison: (Applause for this unique knife technique of the kidnapper!) This soldier still has something to do, so he lowered his head and ran straight to the Town God's Temple in spite of everything.

When I arrived at the Temple of the City God, I kowtowed three times in front of the Bodhisattva according to the rules, and hurriedly hid on the incense table in front of the god, and waited for the next sentence without making a sound. After a while, the county magistrate also followed the rules and led the guards to beat the gong to clear the way to offer incense. After burning incense, a spies hurriedly came from outside, knelt down and said, "I tell my lord that a commoner was killed by the small river outside Ximen city. His body was in a different place and bleeding was everywhere. The murderer's whereabouts are unknown."

Although the magistrate of the county clearly wiped off Jule's cut strips a little while ago, at this time, according to his habit, he was taken aback, pretended to be ignorant, slapped the gavel, and said loudly, " Under the blue sky and broad daylight, is there such a thing?" Immediately send officers to search everywhere in the city, and restrict business trips, and arrest criminals immediately.They also arranged for public cases to prepare for trial before God when offenders come.The soldier who was the executioner guessed that the grandfather had already sat down in the hall, so he quickly crawled out from under the god's table and knelt down in front of the grandfather to plead guilty.Report the resume and birthplace, and declare that the man outside Ximen City committed suicide, and there is a murder knife to testify against.

The county magistrate slapped the gavel and pretended to be an official to ask questions.The executioner kowtowed to ask the grandfather for mercy while making various explanations about the murder. In the end, the grandpa continued to shoot the gavel, and shouted to the guards, "I will blame this ignorant village fool with forty red sticks!" "Ten" hit him eight times, and he told the grandfather that he had finished his responsibilities with the stick.A yamen servant handed a small envelope to the magistrate, who in turn threw it towards the executioner.The executioner picked up the number of rewards, kowtowed to thank him, and kept praising "Master Qingtian's promotion".After all the necessary procedures were cleared up in front of Grandpa Chenghuang, the county magistrate went back to the yamen.

It was one of many ways in which frontier racial oppression was practiced. A tragedy must be arranged in this way, just in line with the saying that "the officialdom is the drama trend, and there is a reason. The combination of law and religious ceremony produces a dramatic scene, and can achieve the same entertainment purpose as the drama. The reason is that the frontier The rule of a remote place is based on the cooperation of man and god, and it must be able to rule under the cooperation. Even such a thing, the local citizens and executioners take it very seriously. Especially those forty strokes of the killing stick seemed more meaningful to an executioner.The ruler must impress the citizens that even the executioner who serves the government is guilty of murder and has taken some responsibility for the dead.But this sin is witnessed by God, and it can be abolished with the rod.Since this matter has become a habit, it will naturally be preserved until all social organizations collapse and reform.

The executioner can get three coins and two cents of silver for beheading a head.Soldiers who have been rewarded will buy wine and buy meat when they return to the camp, invite brothers in the team to eat and drink together, and discuss sword techniques with everyone, discuss all kinds of situations before and after a person was stabbed, and imitate the previous time with the county. Zhengtang made fun of speaking Mandarin in Chenghuang Temple. ——Soldier Yang Jinbiao, don't you hear that the prince broke the law and should be guilty of the same crime as the common people?A soldier, dare to kill people with a knife under the blue sky and broad daylight!

——Master Qingtian, please tell me... ——Ghosts and gods, please recruit them for me! ——Master Qingtian, please tell me... So they shouted a beating, and the crowd gathered into a ball, beating and hacking with chopsticks. Zhanbing is twenty-four years old, and he is still a naked man. He is in good health, lives a free life, has a good fortune, and does everything well. He has all kinds of glorious fantasies about the future. "Tall buildings start from the ground", the team members also felt that this guy should not be underestimated in the future. (Eighteen Years of the Republic of China)

Times have changed. Emperor Xuantong was overthrown by the Revolutionary Party. In the Qing Dynasty, the famous local executioner used a kidnapper knife to chop off six people's heads in one breath. The miracle will never happen again.As times changed, the "imperial court" was renamed the "government", and the local way of ruling the people became more cruel. In this small place, ten or eight people were often killed.Therefore, no matter how heroic you are, you are not so good at cutting courgettes.Those who were platooned were shot instead of beheaded, so Yang Jinbiao became an old soldier guarding the locks and locks of the North Gate City.His glorious era has passed, and the people of the city gradually and completely forgot about this man and this man's career in the alternation of cold and heat. He is sixty years old and lives alone in a hut near the city gate.There are also two cowhide shields hanging on the wall, a pair of tiger-headed double hooks, a Cantonese-style earthen gun, and a pair of hand-guard knives—a set of treasures that helped him to be devoted to the career of his era.In addition, there are two fishing rods, a harpoon, and a fishing bag, which are specially used for fishing.A gourd, often half a gourd, is used for shochu.As for the murderous sword, it was hung on the front wall of the pillow. (Thirty years ago, when someone wanted to kill someone in the Yamen, it was said that the knife would have an omen one day before. Once it entered the Republic of China, the knife was useless and the omen was gone.) This treasured knife has been pulled out until now. When sheathing, it was still cold, as if she was not willing to give up.There were still many semicircular blood marks left on the knife edge, which could not be scraped off.The old soldier had nothing to do during the day, so he took it to the city, sat on the scrap copper cannon at the head of the fort, basked in the sun to keep warm, rubbed it, and enjoyed it.When I am in a good mood, I also dance a few times. There is also a row of regular soldiers stationed on the tower, responsible for guarding the city.The soldiers in the whole city have already been changed to a new style.But the old soldier still uses the name of that soldier, and every month at the end of the month, he goes to the Miao Fang Garrison Office to receive one tael or eight dollars of silver, the same old-fashioned food coupon.Silver is converted into money, and food coupons are exchanged for eight buckets and four liters of wool millet.His job is to open and close the city gates in the morning and evening, and to lock and bolt the gates himself. He knew how to drink a glass of wine, so he often went to Yang Tuhu's table to talk and eat pork spinal cord soup with wine.Take a trip to Shahuihui Tuan, and bring home a sheep's head or a pair of sheep's belly.He knows a little about medicine, so if someone asks him to find medicine for a boil, he will be very happy to go out of the city to collect medicine for others.He knew how to fish, and often went out of the city alone to go fishing by Changtan on the Nianba. After the fish were caught and stewed, he would take a bowl to eat and drink with the soldiers guarding the city on the tower, and shouted a few times. In the dog days of June, every place was as hot as a steamer, but he was lying on the tower and snoring in a ventilated place.When the soldiers boxing and practicing "national art" made him feel itchy, he also took the antique shield and performed old tricks such as "seizing the spear" and "cutting the kidnapper" in the city alone. There is a long river under the city. Every day, countless women carry bamboo cages from the city and go out to wash clothes. They squat on the bank of the river and pound their clothes with wooden pestles.Or roll up the trousers, revealing a white calf, standing in the running water to wash the cotton yarn.At a point upstream of the river, there is a row of jumping stones across the river, like a centipede across the river.All those who come from Miao Township to do business, go to the countryside to press rent, go to the city to tell fortunes, those who cut horses and hay, sell fish lings, run errands, and collect manure, pass the jumping stone continuously, all day long.There is a vegetable garden across the river, which is all Miao people's property. The green vegetable garden is divided into several neat squares, which is very beautiful.At the end of the vegetable garden is a section of hill with lush trees.There are two main roads, one goes over the mountains, and the other goes up the river, both of which enter Miao Township. There is a small open space at the foot of the city, which is a local trade place for firewood and grass, so there are stalls for offal and glutinous rice wine.In addition, there are several iron-making sheds and stoves for business, making all kinds of sickles, firewood knives, and eel-tail knives, and doing business with people who sell firewood and grass from the countryside to the city. If the old soldiers don't go fishing in Changtan, but drink at Butcher Yang, they will sit on the abandoned copper cannon at the top of the city to watch people go by.Or turn your face to the city, and you can see the playground and classrooms of a small school.The school was presided over by a young couple, who either went to class or played in the playground, which could be seen clearly from the top of the city.Primary school students seem to like their teachers very much, and teachers like students very much.The female teacher occasionally took them to the city to play, and when she saw the old soldier's shield, the woman asked the old soldier to dance the shield for the students to see. (Students were full of amazement and joy at the shield made of cowhide with painted tiger eyebrows and eyes. After these elementary school students learned about this shield, they would quietly go to the old soldier's house one by one to see the shield after school. It is also a common occurrence. ) Sometimes elementary school students play football in the flat, and if the veteran soldiers are in the city, they will shout loudly to "cheer up" the losers. One day, before the Frost's Descent Festival, the veterans got up early in the morning to see that the weather was fine. Many people cleaned up according to the local custom, and the veterans also came to clean up the whole family.Rolling up two sleeves, wrapping a floral veil on the head, moving all the family property out of the house, going down to the river to bring a lot of water to wash the boards and walls of the house one by one. When the work was just in time, the city guard platoon leader came suddenly and asked him to take the short knife and go to the yamen as soon as possible, because the people in the yamen had something important to do with him. When he arrived at the government office, an adjutant on duty with a red belt asked him a few words, asked him to draw out his knife to have a look, and then told him to go outside the west gate as soon as possible. Everything was so hasty and chaotic, the old soldier thought he was in a dream.Just when he felt that he was in a dream, everything was vague and he couldn't ask further questions, so he really ran outside the west gate.When I got there, I saw that there was no official case, no mat shed, and no one watching the excitement.Except for a few dogs biting each other in the open ground, there was only one person from the dyeing workshop who took a load of white cloth and rested beside the pile of dried cow dung.Everything is not like the situation of murder.Look at the sky, the sky is bright and bright, and a magpie is flying overhead with its long tail chirping. The old soldier thought, "Is it really a dream to kill people in this day and age?" A little past Changping, there is a small stream. A few elementary school students are picking up stones in the water to catch shrimps and playing, each putting their schoolbags on the pile of dried cow dung.The old soldier saw that they were all students from the Beimenli Primary School, and walked over to talk to them: "Hurry up and leave, people are going to kill people here!" Several children raised their heads together and smiled: "What, who are you going to kill? Who told you?" The old soldier thought to himself, "Is it really a dream?" Seeing that the person who was drying the cloth in the dyeing workshop was about to spread the white cloth in the lawn, the old soldier went to talk to him again: "Master dyer, take the cloth away, don't worry about it." Spread the cloth here, and kill people here!" The master dyer, like the elementary school students, didn't care, and asked with a smile, "What are you killing? How do you know?" The old soldier thought to himself, "Is it really a dream? How do I know who to kill today? It's really a dream, and I will kill whoever I see." I was about to go back to the city to have a look, but before I got to the city gate, I heard a trumpet blowing a charge, and I was really going to kill someone.The team is out of town and will be there as soon as they turn the corner.Hu Hu, a veteran soldier, hurried to the center of Pingzi.After a while, the team arrived at the ground, and spread out in a large circle in a hurry and silently. Everyone raised their guns to prepare for the outside. Sure enough, two young people were tied and kneeling in the yard.And one is a man and the other is a woman, their faces are pale and stiff.At a glance, the faces of these two people seem to be very familiar, and I can't think of the reason why these two people are so kind.An official riding a horse, holding a command arrow, supervised the beheading under the Tufu outside the circle.The old soldier thought it was a dream, so he walked over to ask the supervisor for instructions.Another soldier held his hand, "Old man, one knife at a time, hurry up!" He walked over to the prisoner, wiped it twice, and both heads fell to the ground.Seeing the spurted blood, he felt that the dream was about to come to an end. A force of habit reminded him of the old rules of thirty years ago, and he ran away without looking back.When I ran to the Town God's Temple, a group of women were worshiping the gods there, and the temple wishers were rattling and shaking their sticks.No matter what, the old soldier just kowtowed as soon as he rushed in and crawled underground, and burrowed under the god's table.Seeing such a man, holding a bloody big knife, the people in the temple thought that he was either a murderer or a madman who killed his wife. They were frightened to death, and rushed to the street to shout to the neighbors. After a while, the people who were chasing from the execution ground also arrived, chatting with the idlers on the street, everyone knew that he was the old man guarding the North Gate City, and everyone knew that he had killed someone, and at the same time concluded that he had committed suicide. Crazy.It turned out that the old Miaozhu of the Town God's Temple had long since died, and all the elders of the city had died long ago. No one noticed this old rule, and no one knew that there was such an old rule in the local area. Now that the person has gone mad and has such a murderous knife in his hand, whoever enters the temple may have to suffer such a knife, so everyone immediately locked the temple door upside down and tried to catch the madman. The old soldier hid under the god table, only heard the noise of people outside, and couldn't figure out the reason at all.After waiting for a long time, the county magistrate didn't arrive, and I was very confused, and I didn't know whether to go out or not to go out. After a while, I heard someone pulling the handle of the gun outside the temple gate, and the bullet went into the red groove. Then I heard a familiar woman's voice say, "You can't go in, you can't go in, he has a knife!" Then came the voice of the adjutant, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, we have guns! If you see this madman, just shoot him!" kill him!" The old soldier was anxious and confused, he didn't know what to do, he just thought in a daze, "This is really a frightening dream!" Then someone opened the temple door, drank loudly in front of the door, but did not come in.And he still pulled the trigger, as if he was about to shoot.The voices of many acquaintances were also clearly heard.Among them was a cobbler who spoke. I heard the adjutant say again, "Go in! Kill this lunatic!" The old soldier was in a hurry, and shouted loudly: "Hey hey! Master Chenghuang, what's going on! What's up! "The people outside are shouting, and no one seems to hear these words. Although the soldiers outside the gate were noisy and noisy, everyone would lose their lives, and no one dared to take the risk of breaking into the temple first. Suddenly someone in the crowd yelled sharply: "Madman, throw out the knife, or we will shoot!" The old soldier thought, "This is not going to work, it's really scary to keep dreaming!" He didn't want to be shot to death in his dream.He couldn't stand it anymore, and then the knife was thrown onto the steps with a clang, and a soldier risked a lot to rush forward and picked up the knife.The rest of the people saw that the murder weapon had been obtained, so they were not afraid, and all rushed into the temple. The old soldier was caught, he was beaten up in a daze, and he was tied up and hung on the porch by Wuhuada.He looked around him as if there were hundreds of people, but he still didn't understand what he did wrong, why he was treated as a lunatic, and he didn't know what the result would be.Everything in front of him has been proved not to be a dream, so the killing just now should be real.The local people have not killed people for many years, so are you really crazy?All the questions were swirling in my mind, but I couldn't figure it out. Someone accidentally poured a bucket of dirty water from behind the old soldier, and was drenched in dirty water from head to toe.Everyone burst into laughter.The old soldier was startled and angry, and when he looked back, it turned out that the man who played tricks on him was Wang Liezi, a stinky soy bean seller in the city, who was grinning proudly after pouring water.The old soldier was very angry and cursed: "Wang Wu, you bastard, today you also came to bully the ancestor!" Everyone laughed again.Hearing what he said, the adjutant thought that the lunatic was awakened by the water, and he was no longer obsessed with phlegm. Fang approached him and asked him why he killed someone, so he went mad and ran to the Temple of the City God. What the hell did he see? What evil. "Why? You don't understand the rules? You asked me to handle the case. After the case was over, I surrendered myself according to the rules. A group of you guys came after me and wanted to shoot me. I almost escaped being shot! Well done, well done! , Think of me as a lunatic! You are a bunch of ghosts. What the hell?I ask you! " The local military department played a new trick and executed two Communists without shooting. Instead, they used an extraordinary method. The old executioner who guarded the city gate beheaded the two for public display.But the old soldier didn't understand why the yamen asked him to kill the two young men.The couple who were beheaded turned out to be two elementary school teachers from Beimenli Elementary School. Before the elementary school recruiter came, the North Gate City Management Lock and Key position was vacant—the old soldier died.All walks of life in the county, the military and the civilians, so the joke of "the last executioner" is popular, and everyone knows it.And it is still rumored that that guy was scared to death by seeing ghosts during the day because of phlegm obsession. Summer Works in 1935