Pirate Song

Several men's voices were heard from inside the house, and one man cursed Zhang Cheng.

"Hey! Brother! What does this mean? Those delicate women are so fun to play with! Isn't it a pity to kill them in vain? I only have such a hobby, not to mention who would know that we are doing these things

What about?

This time I fell in love with a family in Aojiazhuang. This family is considered a fat sheep. The family has a lot of money. Their family has a newly married concubine, who is very cute and charming!" A man said.

, there is an unspeakable obscenity in the words.

After Gao Huaiyuan listened, he knew that the person who spoke must be Zhang Cheng. Now he was absolutely sure that the major cases that had occurred in Daye County this year were definitely caused by these people, so he suddenly felt murderous in his heart.

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There was a sound of someone slamming the table in the room, and then the man who spoke first spoke in a lowered voice and cursed: "You bastard, I know you must have fallen in love with someone else's woman again! My reputation is going to be high.

You have completely ruined me. I, Cao Laosan, have always only killed people and never flirted with women, but now I have been ruined by you! This time, please be more honest with me. A new county captain and official have been appointed to the county government these days.

He has been in office for three years. He is probably trying hard to arrest a few of us. After we finish this job, we need to take a break. If not, we can go out to Pingjiang County to avoid the limelight and do a few more jobs there.

"Tomorrow night, everyone should be smarter and more agile in their actions. Don't leak any rumors. Zhang Cheng, if you dare to delay things because of playing with women again, I will kill you!"

Several people in the room agreed aloud, but one person sneered: "Brother was too careful this time! I heard that the county captain who took office this time is just a boy under twenty years old. How capable is he to arrest people?"

What about us? What’s more, we never leave anyone alive and our actions are clean and neat. Who would have thought that we did these things? This time I want to see what the county lieutenant is capable of and can find us! He

Aren’t we going to rely on those idiots like Mr. Xing? If they had the ability, a year would have passed and they wouldn’t be able to catch us now. We’re afraid of them!”

"Idiot! Shut up. Can you prevent Wannian Ship from hearing about it? I've asked about it. This newly appointed county captain has a good background. He has been very prosperous in Daye County in the past two years. Don't worry.

Although he is not very young, he is highly regarded by the county magistrate. The year before last, he brought the country soldiers to Xiangyang to join the army and made military exploits. This time he became the county captain of Daye County! And I have stepped on his village before.

Too much, the defense there is very tight, otherwise, I would have attacked his Zhuangzi long ago! We can't underestimate that guy!

Within a few days of taking office, this guy made a lot of noise. He re-inventoryed the household registration in the county and reorganized the archers! It seems that he is not a simple guy, so we'd better be careful! Don't capsize in the gutter!" The man who calls himself Cao Laosan

The guy scolded me again.

"I've also heard that the newly appointed county captain's family is very rich. His father seems to be an official. He has a house in Gaojiazhuang with hundreds of acres of land! And this guy has a few hundred acres of land.

Another village was built during the year, and it looks like it's very rich. Otherwise, how about we just give him a showdown? After finishing this job, go and mess with him and see what this guy can do to us."

Another person spoke up.

"No! We can't go against the government. What we have done now is too much. If we try to touch the officials again, the government will definitely investigate and arrest us. What's more, the county captain Zhuangzi is not a good person either.

What happened? Some time ago, Chang Huan was having a lot of fun, but he fell into his trap. His village must not be very simple! We can’t afford to offend him! We’d better pick some easy deals to do!"

Then the group of people discussed how to take action. After hearing this, Gao Huaiyuan was furious. These guys were absolutely ruthless. When they discussed it, they had no intention of leaving any life for the host family.

Thieves are not hateful, but what is hateful is their indiscriminate killing behavior. It is really a disaster for such scum to remain in the world.

At this time, Gao Huaiyuan heard a cry of cuckoos coming from outside the yard, and knew that Zhou Hao and others had already arranged the arrangements outside the yard, so he no longer hesitated, stood up at the back window, and pulled the knife from behind.

He pulled it out and struck the window with great force. The window was split into four pieces with one stroke, revealing the bastards in the room.

Suddenly, the back window was split open with a knife. Such a big movement immediately frightened the group of people in the house. They didn't expect that while they were discussing, there was actually someone squatting outside the back window.

Even though they were quite courageous, they were all frightened and were stunned for a while.

"What a thief! How long will it take for you to catch me without mercy?" Gao Huaiyuan jumped into Zhang Cheng's house, pointed the knife in his hand at the thieves, and yelled at them.

"Quickly go! What the heck!" One of the guys reacted quickly. At this time, he immediately realized that their behavior had been exposed, and immediately shouted to the several thieves who were still stunned.

At this moment, several thieves reacted immediately. One of them immediately rushed to the table and stretched out his mouth to blow out the candles on the table. The room suddenly fell into darkness, and then Gao Huaiyuan heard the choking sound of a knife.

There was a sound, and then someone grabbed a chair and threw it towards where he was standing.

How could Gao Huaiyuan be plotted by them? He also launched an attack at the same time they took action. He had no intention of being polite to these guys. He was the first one to choose the person closest to him to attack. When the lights went out,

, shook his hand and fired the two flying knives in his left hand, only to hear a person scream in the darkness, and then a chair hit the broken window.

Next, there was a chaotic sound of ping-ping-pong-pong. Some people fell to the ground, while others rushed out of the house and jumped into the yard.

In the darkness, Gao Huaiyuan was not sure how many people had been injured just now, so he immediately chased them out of the house. Then in the moonlight in the sky, he saw several figures rushing towards the courtyard door, intending to rush out of Taozhiyaoyao, but it seemed that

There was one person missing from the other party. He was probably injured by his flying knife and was left in the house.

"What a thief! Where can you run? Stay with me!" Gao Huaiyuan stopped using his flying knife and jumped up to slash several thieves with his knife.

When the thieves saw that something was not going well and Gao Huaiyuan was coming very menacingly, they turned around and started fighting with Gao Huaiyuan with their swords.

When he started to move his hands, Gao Huaiyuan found that among the few people, there were really two good ones. After connecting with him several times, they were cut down without being hit. However, in a hurry, these people were still killed by Gao Huaiyuan and retreated one after another.

Yelling and pricking his hands with ideas.

Taking advantage of their panic, Gao Huaiyuan opened a knife that was aimed at him, and kicked a guy upside down. The guy flew straight to the courtyard wall like a rocket, and hit him hard.

On the courtyard wall, he screamed and fell to the ground, rolling on the ground and howling like a slaughtered pig.

The remaining three guys saw that the situation was not good and did not dare to confront Gao Huaiyuan. They rushed towards the courtyard door and planned to snatch it away. However, as soon as they opened the courtyard door, a guy was hit by a knife and fell to the ground.

On the ground, outside the courtyard, Zhou Hao, Xing Captou and others immediately rushed into the courtyard and blocked the remaining two thieves back.

At this time, many people came in one after another from the walls around the yard, and immediately surrounded the thieves in the yard.

Naturally, there was no suspense about what happened next. Although the thieves were fierce and tried to fight trapped animals, after all, they were few in number and they were nervous. In just a few moments, the remaining two guys were surrounded by everyone.

He was thrown to the ground, his knife was knocked off, and he was held down tightly by the guards who rushed forward. His shoulders were wiped off his head and his arms were tied tightly with iron chains. Each one was tied tightly.

He was like a slaughtered pig, so he could only lie on the ground and moan and curse.

After hearing that these thieves still had the energy to curse, the captors were so angry that they went up and hit their mouths with an iron ruler and slapped them violently. Several thieves were immediately beaten into silence. Blood spurted out from their mouths and their teeth were also bruised.

After beating it, it fell off, and no one yelled at it anymore.

After the lights in the room were lit, Gao Huaiyuan sat in the middle. Except for one of the five thieves who had just been hacked to death on the spot and his body was lying in the yard, the other four were injured and were escorted to Gao Huaiyuan and knelt down.

On the ground.

Gao Huaiyuan sneered and said to the four people: "What else do you have to say now?"

One of the guys, who was beaten as big as a pig's head, twisted his neck and pretended to be a hero. He struggled to raise his head and shouted vaguely at Gao Huaiyuan: "Why should we be arrested? What kind of law have we violated?"

"Haha? You still dare to be tough? I heard clearly what you all said just now. Do you still want to deny it? You are that Cao Laosan! You have given us a hard time looking for us! Today

It's in my hands, let's see if you have anything else to say!" Gao Huaiyuan bowed slightly and approached the guy who questioned him.

"You...who are you?" The guy named Cao asked, looking at Gao Huaiyuan with a look of fear in his eyes.

"You're blind! This is our trustworthy county lieutenant in Daye County, why don't you recruit him from the ground?" Xing Bao kicked the man surnamed Cao to the ground with a kick on his head.

A search followed, and soon the detectives searched Zhang Cheng's house and found several steel knives and a lot of gold and silver jewelry. Needless to say, these were stolen goods, and with the arrests

The guards beat these guys violently, took these guys away for interrogation separately, and beat them until they finally had to confess.

It turns out that these guys are a gang of thugs that Zhang Cheng made friends with outside. They live separately in Daye County. Each has a family business. They are innocent people, but secretly they are entangled and come out to make a fuss every once in a while.

, because the guy surnamed Cao used to be a deserter in the army. He is very skilled, very thoughtful, and ruthless. He has led a few Zhang Cheng and others to commit crimes this year. Today is the end of the road.

It's over.

Next, Gao Huaiyuan ordered Xing to arrest the first person, and went to several guys' homes overnight to conduct a search. He also arrested the family members of these guys. The charges were very simple, and they were the charges of the other family members.

It was a cover-up, especially since the wives of the two guys knew what kind of business their men were doing, so naturally they couldn't let them go, so they were arrested.

At daybreak, all the prisoners were taken to the county government office and handed over to Liu Zhixian for interrogation. By the time the case was handed over to Liu Zhixian, the evidence was already solid and there was no room for a few people to quibble.

The case was quickly concluded, their confessions were taken away, and it became a solid case that could no longer be reversed.

And these guys were all sentenced to death in the city. To put it bluntly, they were executed at Lingchi. They had to suffer the pain of being cut into pieces before they were killed. In the Song Dynasty, it was only applicable to criminals who had committed the most heinous crimes, and such murderers could only use

They were severely punished with severe punishments, so they were sentenced to punishment by Liu Zhixian as a warning to others. Even the wives of two of them were guilty of the same crime as them because they did not report the knowledge, but the crime was slightly lighter and they were sentenced to beheading. It can be said that

All five families were considered dead in one fell swoop.

This incident immediately caused a sensation in the county. People in every township and village were in danger due to the crimes committed by this group of people during this period. However, the government has been unable to catch the culprit, which has caused a stir.

Some people were dissatisfied, but after hearing that the case was solved, the people immediately ran to tell each other, cheering and praising the trustworthy county captain for his greatness. These major cases that had been delayed in solving in the past, after he took office,

In less than half a month, he personally arrested all the culprits and brought them to justice. The people in the county all applauded and even praised the new county captain Gao for his greatness. No one dared to underestimate Gao Huaiyuan anymore.

Even those in the county government who were not convinced by Gao Huaiyuan had to admire Gao Huaiyuan's meticulous thinking after listening to the vivid descriptions of Capt. Xing and his gang and understanding the process of solving the case.

, Gao Huaiyuan kicked him away from the county government office, and finally gained a foothold in the county government office.

For these felons, County Magistrate Liu chose a day, tied them to a prison car, and paraded them through the streets of the county. Looking at the miserable appearance of these criminals, they did not arouse the sympathy of the people at all. The prison car passed by

There were rotten eggs flying everywhere, and people would hit these guys with whatever they thought was disgusting. It can be seen that people hated such thugs to the extreme.

In the end, these people were taken to the execution ground outside the city. The streets of Daye County were filled with people, and they flocked to the execution ground to watch the execution. Scenes like this, which were executed at a late hour, were really rare for the people of Daye County.

Many people came to watch the fun out of curiosity.

As a military official in Daye County, Gao Huaiyuan was responsible for maintaining the order of the execution ground. Naturally, he had to visit the execution site in person, so he had to lead a group of government officials to surround the execution ground and set up a cordon.

No idlers are allowed to approach the execution site.

Gao Huaiyuan had never heard of this kind of bloody punishment before. Lingchi execution could be regarded as the most cruel and inhumane punishment in ancient times. He used to be very resistant to it, but this time he had no reaction to these guys.

Sympathy, in his opinion, based on the behavior of these guys, they deserved to be executed by Lingchi. As for their wives who knew the truth and did not report it, they were sentenced to beheading. Gao Huaiyuan felt that the sentence was a little harsh, but this was the ancient law.

, and there was nothing he could do.

On the day of the execution, the execution could not be carried out until three quarters past noon. After wandering the streets all morning, these criminals were beaten to death by the common people and their heads were bleeding. The executioner rinsed them clean with water and then tied them to the execution ground.

On the stage, for the execution of these people, Gao Huaiyuan had to guard against someone who might come to rob the execution ground. After all, these people are also Jianghu people. Qin Hui also has two good friends. I am afraid that these people will have buddies who will show their loyalty to save them.

, so Gao Huaiyuan personally spread his eyes around the execution ground in the morning to prevent such a situation from happening.

But this time, Gao Huaiyuan was obviously overly concerned. Until three quarters past noon, nothing happened. As the drum beat sounded, the executioner, dressed in red, with his arms open and his chest hair exposed, walked up.

After getting on the execution platform, the people watching around cheered loudly, as excited as watching a play. Gao Huaiyuan was really a little confused when he was sitting on the execution platform. Is killing so fun? I really can't understand these people.

What are we thinking? Not only are we not afraid of such a bloody scene, but we are still cheering for it. It’s strange!

Since becoming the county captain, Gao Huaiyuan has learned a lot about things. He didn't quite understand why in ancient times he chose to behead at three quarters at noon. After Xing Baotou's explanation, he finally figured it out.

, at three quarters of noon, it is almost twelve o'clock at noon. The sun hangs in the center of the sky, which is the time when the shadow on the ground is the shortest. This was considered by people at the time as the time when the "yang energy" was the strongest in the day. Ancient Chinese people were superstitious

They believe that murder is a "secret matter". No matter whether the person killed deserves it or not, his ghost will always come to haunt the judge who made the judgment, the official who supervised the execution, the executioner and the people related to his execution. Therefore,

Carrying out executions when Yang Qi is at its strongest can prevent ghosts from appearing. This should be the main reason why the ancients used to execute executions at "three quarters of noon".

And Gao Huaiyuan also learned that the punishment of Zeng in this era was actually different from the punishment of Lingchi in the Ming Dynasty in later generations. It was not like he thought, it would take more than a thousand knives to finish it.

The punishment of the era was far less cruel. It only required twenty-four blows before and after to understand the life of the offender. However, even so, it was still a technical job. If you were not a professional, you really couldn't do this job!

Because according to the rules, if the prisoner dies prematurely without receiving twenty-four blows, the executioner must be punished. Therefore, in every local government, there are people who specialize in this profession of executioner, and

Their status among the people is really not too low, and most people are a little afraid of them.dd