Chapter 40 Thinking of the Sixth Story of the Year: Penalty

Hundreds of gas lamps were brightly lit on the execution hall, so that everyone had to squint their eyes to avoid the stimulation of the strong light and to see the scene in front of them clearly. Only he can't, he must keep his eyes wide open, not only must he open his eyes wide, but he must also face the gas lamps that emit a dazzling light! (Thinking that the story was about the past, it is inevitable that there are many things that belong to the past. Lighting tools such as gas lamps, which were popular for a while, suddenly disappeared. The fuel of gas lamps is kerosene, which needs to be pumped up to support the combustion , and the luminous body, is a wire mesh is incredible!)

He is the executioner, and the chief executioner.The Chief Prisoner of the Criminal Hall is a very noble and leisurely position. It is not that someone has violated the extremely serious gang rules and will be punished with the three punishments, so the Chief Prisoner will not be dispatched.Although the gang rules are strict and numerous, there are not many who dare to violate the most prohibited rules and even be sentenced to three capital punishments. Therefore, he can do nothing all year round, just hang around drinking and find concubines for fun.The gang has a very high salary for him, and everyone respects him when they see him. Why respect him?But no one could tell.If he breaks the precepts, he can do nothing, just follow the routine, but everyone has a little idea in his heart: if he offends him, if he hits his hand, he will use some tricks when he executes the sentence, I'm afraid it will take more time. suffer!

He never dared to offend, and over time, he naturally became respected, and the most important thing for him to get such a position is that he must have extraordinary courage.Those who violated the gang rules were all brothers in the gang. Not only did they meet each other on weekdays, they might even call them brothers and have a life-threatening friendship. Can the criminal frown?Without the courage to disown his relatives, let alone the chief executioner, he can't even be an ordinary executioner! Strange to say, he was born to be a torturer.Normally, he is kind-hearted, smiles before saying a word, everyone likes to get close to him, and many women prefer to play with him, but when he arrives in the execution hall and puts away the utensils he used for execution, his whole person changes !

The situation at this time was like this, his eyes were wide open, the weather was hot, the light of the gas lamp was strong, everyone was sweating, but he was the only one who not only didn't sweat, but there was a reflection in his eyes. Gu Hanhui, so gloomy, makes people tremble even more, if he didn't quickly turn his head away, his scalp would go numb! His face was ashen, and he didn't smile at all. On his left forehead, there were two thin muscles that would twitch from time to time. It looked even more terrifying. Beside him was a square stool, and on the stool was a rather dilapidated flat wooden box.

All the gang members, even the gang leader and deputy gang leader, the head of the punishment hall, will involuntarily send out a chill when they see the flat wooden box: the box contains eighteen torture instruments made by the first gang leader, which are specially used to deal with criminals. The helpers who have strict gang rules.Each of the 18 weapons has its own purpose, and each generation of chief executioners must learn how to use it, but it is impossible to tell everyone about it, which makes those weapons even more chilling and mysterious. This flat wooden box cannot be opened randomly. To use it, you must first offer incense and blessings. There are a lot of rituals and ceremonies, which may also be regarded as a kind of mourning for the brothers who were tortured.Originally called brothers and sisters, suddenly people and ghosts go different ways.Death is not terrible, the punishment before death is the heartbreak, so some grand ceremony is also appropriate.

The book case is on both sides of the torture hall on the left, and chairs are lined up. The hall masters and deputy hall masters of each hall have seats, and the rest of the gang stand on both sides, with three chairs in the middle.In the punishment hall, the chair in the middle is actually the head of the punishment hall, and the two on the left and right are the gang leader and deputy gang leader. At this time, almost all the gang members in the main altar came, there were two hundred people, and there was no sound at all, so when he brought three incense sticks and put them in the incense burner on the incense table, there was a slight sound. And everyone can hear it!

He knelt down, and knocked on three heads in front of the incense table to make offerings.Then, he raised his body, walked forward vigorously, and came to the flat wooden box where he was standing before, took a breath, and then said loudly: The ancestors of the past generations have used the spirit of the sky, and today the punishment hall will use it again. Artifact, it must be done! As usual, when we get to this point, we have to pause for a while: Please, the head of the punishment hall, announce that the criminals should be punished for their crimes! After he finished speaking, he faced the center and opened his eyes even more roundly.The head of the punishment hall looked pale and his voice was a little trembling. He first said the name and position of the prisoner, paused, and cleared his throat: The prisoner should gouge out one eye, cut off one hand, and smash one knee. select!

There were more than two hundred people in the execution hall, but there was still no sound at all. The head of the punishment hall continued: "The offender's violation of gang rules is for selfish connivance."Selling a member of the gang who committed a serious crime of selfishness for personal gain, and absconding without a trace, is equivalent to making the person who favors selfishness receive half of the original sentence! After the master of the punishment hall finished speaking, he turned around and made a solemn salute to the flat wooden box. He stretched out his hand and opened the box lid. The metal was polished and dazzling. Eighteen sharp weapons must be carefully polished every day. No rust, every piece is as new.

What's the use of those strange sharp weapons?Except for him, no one could tell, everyone looked at him, picked up a hemispherical object, weighed it slightly, put it in his own left eye, and slapped it with his right hand. Amid the involuntary exclamations of hundreds of people, his eyeball, which was as big as a pigeon egg, fell into his hands with a slap! He didn't even groan, put his eyes on his hands, and reached out to the head of the punishment hall. The culprit was him, he let go the friend who violated the gang rules, and he insisted on executing himself because he was the chief executioner!