The torture of cutting in half had already appeared in the Zhou Dynasty and was not abolished until the Yongzheng period.
Because the main organs of the human body are in the upper body, the prisoner will remain conscious after being cut in half from the waist, and it will take a long time before he dies.
The family members of the prisoner often ask the executioner to use the knife from above during execution, which can make the prisoner die faster;
If someone wanted the prisoner to suffer more, he bribed the executioner to use the knife from below.
They even moved the upper half of the person who had been chopped in half to a tung oil board so that no blood could come out, which would keep the prisoner alive for two or three more hours. It was extremely cruel.
The last person in the history of our country to endure the torture of being cut in half was named Yu Hongtu, who was a political scholar in Henan during the Qing Dynasty.
When Yu Hongtu supervised the school in Minzhong (today's Fuzhou City), he was very strict in taking precautions against scientific examinations, and his conduct was also said to be rigorous.
Unexpectedly, his concubine colluded with the servant to collect bribes, and her concubine pasted the examination materials on the back patch of Yu Hongtu's official uniform.
Yu Hongtu walked out, and the servant gently took it off and handed it to the candidate, but he didn't notice it at all.
After the incident, Emperor Yongzheng sentenced Yu Hongtu to beheaded in half.
The executioner deliberately tortured him because he couldn't get the bribe.
After Yu Hongtu was cut in half, he wrote the word "miserable" seven times on the ground with his own blood before he died.
The "seven tragic stones" mentioned by the old man who drove away the corpses are exactly the seven tragic words Yu Hongtu transformed into.
"So that's it..." After hearing what the old man said, Granny Mi nodded slightly.
"But as far as I know, isn't this evil stone in Master Yu's tomb? Do you want to go to the tomb too?!"
The reason why I say "ye" is because the first few Jiangtou divisions who were shot were caught after robbing Yu Hongtu's ancient tomb.
As for the crimes: illegal entry, tomb robbing, and reselling of national first-class cultural relics.
Connecting these things together, everyone suddenly became enlightened.
Zhao Youliang was rarely clever: "Brother, I don't think you need to break the law."
"The skinheads have all been to the tomb. They must have taken away the seven miserable stones. It's useless for you to go there."
"If you are caught by the police, you will end up with the same fate as the skinheads..."
Mentioning the group of head-dropping masters from the East, and thinking of Zhao Youliang's head-dropping, the look on the old man's face suddenly became strange.
Then he said to Zhao Youliang with admiration.
"Boss Zhao is very knowledgeable, I admire him!"
"That Oriental 'Thirteen Gu Sects' dare to harm you, you deserve to die so miserably!"
"What, what do you mean? The skinhead is dead? How did he die? It has nothing to do with me!" Zhao Youliang was a little confused by what he said and hurriedly clarified himself.
He doesn't want to become a murderer for no reason...that will delay his sister's postgraduate entrance examination and employment!
Not only Zhao Youliang was confused, but also Shopkeeper Sun of the coffin shop.
"Brother, tell us carefully what happened!"
The old man who drove away corpses thought that Zhao Youliang was "hiding his merits and fame", so he smiled and spoke.
"I heard something before I came here: The police found several mutilated corpses in the wilderness outside the town, as if they had been eaten by wild beasts."
"The corpses have one thing in common: they have bald heads and tattoos of bats, scorpions, etc. on their necks."
"The most bizarre thing is that many candles were found near these bodies, candles made of human oil."
"Human oil candles, Gu insect tattoos, bald heads, all put together, I don't need to say more about their identities, right?"
"As for the cause of death...it must have been that he overestimated his capabilities and wanted to kill an expert with his head, but he was counterattacked!"
Speaking of this, the old corpse driver looked at Zhao Youliang with a smile on his face, an expression that said, "I understand you."
As a result, the misunderstanding that Zhao Youliang is an expert deepened...
Seeing that Zhao Youliang still refused to admit it, the old corpse driver didn't bother to expose it.
"It is precisely because the surrender masters are coming here one after another that I think they did not get the Seven Miserable Stones."
"If you got it, why would you continue to come here to die?"
What the old corpse exorcist said was reasonable, so it was difficult for Zhao Youliang and others to refute it.
After a while, shopkeeper Sun of the coffin shop sighed: "Brother, is that evil thing from the Seven Miserable Stones very useful to you?"
The old corpse driver nodded deeply: "It's useful, it's very useful!"
Shopkeeper Sun took a sip of the tea in front of him.
"Well... I can't repay you for saving my life. If I survive the disaster in two days, old man, I will accompany you to the grave!"
Following shopkeeper Sun's words, the old corpse driver asked about the three evil ghosts coming to the coffin shop.
After thinking about it for a moment, the corpse chaser made a decision that would affect him for the rest of his life.
"In that case, let's do this: I'll stay and help you deal with those three century-old ghosts. After that, I'll ask Boss Zhao to accompany me to the tomb."
"Regardless of whether we can find the Seven Miserable Stones or not, the 50,000 yuan that we exorcists will pay us as labor fees!"
Zhao Youliang wanted to refuse, explaining that he was just an ordinary person, an ordinary person who was about to die, and there was no point in following him.
But unfortunately, the offer was too much, so much that the words of rejection were like incandescent light bulbs stuffed into my mouth, and I couldn't spit them out.
After holding it in for a long time, I barely managed to squeeze out a few words.
"Well, brother, let's agree in advance: I can follow you, but it may not be useful."
"But if you are in danger, I will try my best to cut off your queen."
In Zhao Youliang's mind, he was hurt by the shop and he didn't have much time left to live, so he would just die a few days early.
I can also leave some more money for my adoptive father and sister...even if this money is exchanged for my own life...
Hearing that Zhao Youliang was so happy, the old man driving away the corpse was overjoyed.
"Okay, Boss Zhao, we have an agreement!"
"As for the divorce...how could my brother leave you alone? Let's be together then."
"Just protect the few young boys who are accompanying me!"
So the matter was settled in such a vague manner, even if Granny Mi and Shopkeeper Sun were asked, they still didn't know why the corpse exterminator was so optimistic about Zhao Youliang.
Is there something magical about this child that we haven't discovered yet?
Just when the second old man was thinking wildly, he saw a big yellow dog walking in with his withered butt and a dirty rag in his mouth.
The big yellow dog raised its head high after seeing a few people, as if it was the master of the house.
Zhao Youliang was obviously scared of being beaten by the big yellow dog, so he quickly got up to greet him.
"Hey, Brother Dog, are you back? Are you full after eating shit?"
"If you're not full, I'll cook it for you now!"
Although the big yellow dog is already psychic, it is obviously not "peculiar" enough.
So much so that it still doesn't understand many human languages, and can only figure it out by looking at the speaker's facial expressions.
It was precisely because Zhao Youliang grasped this point that he said such harsh words as "eat shit" with the most respectful expression.
Little did they know that the big yellow dog had stopped eating poop a long time ago and had not eaten it for at least ten years...
