Even if it had extraordinary abilities in life, Budu, who was recruited as a Yin soldier, can only obey Zhou Shi's orders at this moment. So it must answer Zhou Shi's questions truthfully - but that's all.
"Then let me ask another question, what did you do in Yinling City back then?"
"Using a seven-month-old baby to help me practice, I can cultivate the seven-yin body. What, shopkeeper, do you want to practice too?"
"You beast..." Xiao Lin said through gritted teeth. The wedding dress on Budu seemed to be one size too small, and he tied it up tighter.
"Haha, beast? Humans are in the six realms, how far can they go from the beast realm?"
"That's enough! Why did you choose to commit the crime here? Is there anything special about Yinling City?"
"Because it's not easy to detect crimes committed here."
"Why?"
"Cultivation of the Seven Yin Absolute Body requires seven under-month-old baby girls as materials, and in this place, there are so many baby girls that no one wants."
Zhou Shi's face twisted. "Drown the baby?"
"You can say that. Shopkeeper, if you and I continue to play riddles, I'm afraid I won't be able to get the answer you want even after dark. Why don't you prove it with your own eyes? Look, everyone eating has come out." p>
Zhou Shi poked his head out of the alley, and sure enough, a large group of people poured out of the restaurant, patting his belly and saying:
"I'm so full, but it's a pity that I can only eat such a good meal once a month."
Some people who gathered outside and never had the opportunity to go in for dinner cursed: "Once a month is not enough, we have to wait until next month!"
"Let's go, let's go. If we don't hurry up, we won't even see the good show."
What a show...are they really going to see the show?
Budu smiled and said: "Follow them and you will see very interesting things."
"This guy has bad intentions, don't be fooled!" Xiao Lin said uneasily.
"There are so many people going, and I'm not the only one left." Zhou Shi reassured him, put away his Yin soldiers, and blended into the crowd.
After they turned a few corners, they merged with another group of people, and soon a large group of people joined them, forming a huge group of nearly a thousand people.
Zhou Shi walked quietly through the crowd and sneaked to the front.
When they stopped, Dashu reported that they had come to a crossroads. A large number of citizens gathered on all four roads. At a glance, there were six to seven thousand people, and more people were coming.
"Good guy, half the city is here..." Zhou Shi thought to himself.
In the middle of the crossroad, people consciously gave up an open space a hundred paces square, with nothing but a big barrel and a stone pier.
"Clear the way!"
With a shout, the crowd in the north moved out of the way, and a group of uniformed men escorted four men with wooden shackles into the open space.
Zhou Shi understood the battle as soon as he saw it.
They didn't come to see a show, they came to see a beheading.
Four death row inmates stood in the open space, three of them were so weak that they would fall down as soon as they let go and had to be supported by others.
The only middle-aged man in official uniform in the team walked up to the prisoner with square steps, opened the scroll and read out the charges.
"...After being tried by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, reviewed by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and reviewed by Dali Temple, the above four crimes are unpardonable and must be executed!"
Now? Zhou Shi was puzzled. Now that the first lunar month has just begun, isn’t it said that the Queen of Autumn is asking for beheading?
"Noon has arrived, execution!"
The crowd became commotion, and the people lined up around Zhou Shi whispered excitedly:
"Coming, coming!"
"Hey, luckily I came out early today and was able to grab such a good spot!"
Xiao Lin's voice rang in his ears: "So cruel..."
Zhou Shi had no trouble in his heart. He knew that in this era, watching beheadings was a rare entertainment for ordinary people, and it could also serve as a deterrent to crime. It was considered a relatively primitive legal education.
But where is the executioner?
His question was quickly answered. The supervisor stuffed the order into the waistband of his trousers, took off his upper body clothes, and revealed the red coat slung over his shoulder.
Is he also the executioner?
The man took out a piece of red cloth from his waist and tied it on his head. He arranged it up and down, took the sword from the messenger, and looked at the sun carefully.
"Yes, it's sharper this time than last time. Everyone on the road today will thank you."
"Thanks to the whetstone given by the master, I can't grind it so fast with a pig's butt, and the pig keeps running around."
The supervisor and executioner snorted and said: "I asked you to use pig leather, but who told you to use pig butt? Get out of the way."
He strode to the center of the open space, where the police had already pressed the first condemned criminal on the anvil.
Zhou Shi narrowed his eyes and suspected that he had seen it wrong. Why did this wooden anvil look so much like the kind used in the back kitchen of a restaurant?
"Ahem, do you have any last words?"
"Grandpa, please be gentler, I'm afraid of pain."
"Don't worry, if it doesn't work, there will still be a saw. Grandpa has already made preparations."
He lifted the wine bottle from the ground, raised his head and took a big sip, gargling it vigorously in his mouth.
Zhou Shi thought he was going to spray the wine on the knife, but he actually swallowed it with bulging eyes!
This big mouthful made him burst into tears, but he wiped his eyes firmly and said in a hoarse voice: "Good wine, good wine! Come!"
He turned the knife in a circle, put it under his arm with the back of the knife facing up, and turned his head to aim at the prisoner's neck. This was a very professional move.
But then, he jumped up into the air, slammed the knife on the ground, and used his weight to decapitate the prisoner!
"Okay, okay!"
This action caused the crowd to burst into cheers.
The executioner stood up with satisfaction, sent someone to collect the body, and then pulled up the next condemned prisoner.
The next execution
Zhou Shi was stunned for a moment, what kind of wild executioner is this?
After the four death row criminals were all dismembered, the citizens left in dismay, leaving only a few policemen and executioners in the open space cleaning up the scene.
The executioner seemed a little drunk. He burped and took out a few bills from his pocket.
"Come on, gentlemen, you've had a hard day today."
The police officers responsible for escorting and holding down the prisoners took off their ill-fitting uniforms, revealing the common clothes underneath.
"No matter how hard it is, can it be as hard as yours?" They took the ticket, counted it, and said, "You haven't been able to drink since you were a child. Don't drink it next time. If you are blinded when the knife falls, you will get into big trouble.
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"Hiccup, I'm fine... Oh, this is the executioner's rule. I don't know why, but it hurt my butt... Okay, that's it, see you tomorrow."
Several people said goodbye in a friendly manner and left each other.
"So what did you want me to see?" Zhou Shi knocked his head and asked Budu Dao.
"Didn't you notice that there were no women among the people who came to see the beheading?"
Hey, it said this...
Zhou Shi recalled the people who had crowded around him just now, as well as the people he met in the restaurant. There were indeed old and young, but none of them were women!
No, maybe it’s the custom of this place, women don’t show up in public...
"Haha, follow that wild executioner."
Zhou Shi looked at the direction the man was leaving, shrugged, and quickly followed. He became even more curious about what happened in Yinling City, and he also wanted to see what Budu had planned.
The figure in red is very conspicuous and cannot be lost. And as we walked, there were fewer and fewer people on the road, and finally only he and Zhou Shi, who was following far behind, were left.
"It seems that it is easy to be discovered..." Zhou Shi noticed the problem and then thought again, "I discovered it when I found it. I asked him about the rest with a yellow beam pillow."
Suddenly, he lost his center of gravity and tripped to the ground!
Oops, not good...
He quickly looked down and found a piece of straw rope hanging on his ankle.
This straw rope can actually trip him up out of thin air?
"Hmph, it does have a tail."
The executioner turned around and looked at Zhou Shi on the ground with a playful expression.
"Tell me, where did you come from, and why are you following me? If you don't tell me..."
There was a scraping sound on the ground, and several grass ropes scattered on the ground stood up like snakes, aiming at Zhou Shi.
"... Then we can have fun."
Zhou Shi was not in a hurry to get up, he just turned over and spit out the dust in his mouth.
"Really?"
The next moment, the executioner's limbs folded behind him at the same time, causing him to fall and gnaw on the mud.
"Uh-huh!"
Several layers of almost transparent gauze bound him, and they tightened tighter and tighter, causing his joints to creak.
"It hurts!" The executioner knew that he had kicked the iron plate, and he quickly begged for mercy, "Master, Master, please spare my life!"
Zhou Shi stood up calmly, patted the dust off his body, and kicked away the straw rope lying in front of him.