Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 256 Zhou Likai Was Beheaded?
One day, two days and three days are like an hourglass, passing very quickly, the third day is the day when Zhou Likai beheaded will arrive in no time, Li You didn't go out on this day, and stayed in Dunhuafang.

However, Xue Rengui went to Dongshi, because that was the place where Zhou Likai was beheaded. Xue Rengui went there to collect Zhou Likai's body. Besides Xue Rengui, Luo Jin also went there.

Because the execution was at noon, Zhou Likai still had a good meal before the execution. Then Zhou Likai was put in the cage after Zhou Likai was strictly inspected by the member of the criminal department, Xia Zhoushang, to ensure that he had not been replaced. and then transported to Dongshi.

"Fourth!"

In the East City, seeing Zhou Likai standing in the cage and being pulled to the East City by a carriage, Luo Jin's tears fell, and then he yelled loudly.

Zhou Likai heard his second brother's shout, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, but unfortunately, his hands and feet had been handcuffed at this time, so he couldn't respond.

Afterwards, Zhou Likai was brought to the execution platform. The officer who supervised the beheading belonged to the prince. Xia Zhoushang, a foreigner, saw Xia Zhoushang sitting on his seat with a contemptuous smile. Zhou Likai was pushed horizontally and vertically by this guy when he was fed wine, but he still failed to feed him in the end.

"Brother. I don't drink alcohol. I've been drinking Jiannanchun. Now I'm really not used to ordinary wine.!" Zhou Likai looked at Xue Rengui who was about to get angry and comforted his elder brother loudly.

"Look. He said he didn't drink anymore!" Xia Zhoushang looked at Xue Rengui with a playful expression.

At this time, Xue Rengui also hated Xia Zhoushang to the extreme. If Li You hadn't confessed when he came, he couldn't make trouble. To be honest, Xue Rengui really wanted to go up and fight Xia Zhoushang.

Xue Rengui had no choice but to endure it.

Seeing the angry Xue Rengui leave, Xia Zhoushang, who was sitting on the supervisor's bench, smiled happily. At this time, Xia Zhoushang looked at the sky, and the sun was almost at noon.

Xia Zhoushang didn't want to wait any longer, so he directly picked up the beheading order from the supervisor's beheading seat, then threw it on the ground and shouted: "Behead!"

"Ah!" The executioner was dumbfounded, turned around to look at Xia Zhoushang and shouted, "Executor Supervisor, the time is wrong!"

"What's the wrong time? If I tell you to behead, you can behead. What are you talking about, behead me quickly!" Xia Zhou still looked at the executioner impatiently.

It's just that no matter what Xia Zhoushang asked, the executioner didn't move.

This made Xia Zhou feel a little uncomfortable, but what Xia Zhou didn't know was that the executioner couldn't execute criminals at a time other than noon, that is, at three o'clock in the afternoon. Why... because the ancients divided a day into twelve hours.One hour is divided into about two hours.

According to the earthly branch, it is divided into Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai.

Noon is about between 11:1 and [-]:[-].

At this time, the sun is in the center of the sky, and the three quarters are close to 12 noon.Because the ancients believed that 12 o'clock at noon was the time when Yang Qi was most powerful, but at the same time, according to the principles of the Book of Changes, Yang Qi flourished and then declined, and Yin Qi was born secretly.

And killing is a "shady thing".In order to prevent ghosts from causing trouble when the yin qi is strong, the prisoners must be executed before noon.Suppressing filth and evil with the righteousness of heaven is in line with the kingly way and the economics of heaven and earth.

Therefore, in ancient times, three quarters in the noon was chosen for the execution of prisoners on death row.

You are not afraid of death, but the executioner still wants to live, so before the hour, no matter who you are, for your own life, the executioner will not do anything, of course, unless you use officials to suppress him.

Just like now, Xia Zhoushang looked at the executioner and cursed loudly: "Execute for me. If you don't execute, then you won't be able to hold this position in the future!"

The executioner lost his nerve in an instant after being threatened like this.

Because this executioner is a fat job, although this profession is very unlucky and detrimental to morality, it cannot be done by a brave person, and it can be easily manipulated by an extraordinary person.

But there is a lot of money. One is that the relatives of the prisoner want to alleviate the pain of the prisoner during the execution, and hope that the executioner will kill him and bribe the executioner.

The second is that the relatives of the prisoner do not want the head to fall to the ground, but hope to take a piece of skin and a complete corpse, and they will bribe the executioner.

The third is the ancient superstition that some diseases will be cured after eating steamed buns with blood in them. In order to get steamed buns with human blood, executioners will be bribed.

With these three gray incomes, the executioner's income is very high.However, the working time of the executioner is only three months a year, because in ancient times, the execution was done after autumn, and the rest of the time was spent on living, or doing some slaughtering work to earn some extra money.

If such a profitable business is lost, how can you let this executioner support a family.

So there was no way, the executioner had no choice but to pick up the knife after being threatened by Xia Zhoushang, but at this moment, suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and a large amount of flour was blown over, and the flour was like a smoke bomb for a while , directly blowing the entire execution ground so that the opposite side can't see it.

"What's the situation? What's the situation? Show me the criminals, and absolutely don't let them make any mistakes!" Xia Zhoushang roared loudly.

After the yelling was over, about one stick of incense passed, and finally, the strong wind stopped. Xia Zhoushang looked at Zhou Likai who was kneeling on the execution platform, and found that Zhou Likai was still kneeling there. Xia Zhoushang couldn't wait any longer, and yelled directly at the executioner: "Chop, chop, hurry up!"

The executioner saw that the time had just come, so he picked up a bowl of wine beside him, took a sip, and then sprayed the rest of the wine directly on his ghost knife.

Then I heard the executioner say in Zhou Likai's ear: "Friend, I don't know who you are. The so-called grievance has a head and a debt. Let you go easy.!"

Zhou Likai didn't finish his sentence. At this time, the executioner didn't talk nonsense anymore. He raised his knife and dropped his head, rolling his head.

"Fourth brother!"

Xue Rengui and Luo Jin yelled together, and then tears fell down. As the saying goes, men don't cry when they cry, but before they reach the point of sadness, their good brother was beheaded.

How could it not hurt.

Looking at Xue Rengui and Luo Jin's heartfelt sadness, Xia Zhoushang, who was going to have his head examined, looked at the blood gourd-like head, and finally decided not to examine it.

Because he wanted to vomit, and seeing Xue Rengui and Luo Jin's sad expressions, Xia Zhoushang knew that there should be nothing wrong, and he had checked it when he came, so after looking at Zhou Likai's head, Xia Zhoushang shook his head. After shaking his head, he covered his mouth and left.

"Fourth brother!"

Xue Rengui and Luo Jin were very sad and picked up Zhou Likai's head to the side of the body. They were going to sew the head and the body together, but when they touched Zhou Likai's head, they looked at each other in surprise .

(End of this chapter)