The years when I was not the protagonist

Huaning County is a large county in Liuzhou Prefecture. Wentong Lane is the most messy place in Huaning County. All three religions and nine streams gather here. The housing prices here are cheap and the cure is extremely poor.

Today, Wentong Lane, which was originally very noisy, was unusually quiet, with a slight smell of blood mixed in the quiet.

In the depths of Wentong Lane, because of the rain, the unhardened road is full of mud, and blood-red eye-catching bloodstains are mixed in the mud.

In a small courtyard made of mud tiles, several corpses were already cooling in a pool of icy blood.

There are middle-aged couples, elderly couples, and children who are babbling. This is obviously a family of three generations, but at this moment, they all turned into cold and stiff corpses, with expressions of nostalgia and reluctance for their family members on their faces.

"How about it, the feeling of losing a close relative is not good. I also felt the same way when you beheaded my brother that day. Now let you experience it well."

You Ping sneered all over his face, and looked proudly at the man lying on the ground unable to move, with a face full of hatred.

"Ahem, cough, brother? It's just one of your followers."

"Even if it's your brother, he should pay with his life if he kills someone."

"I'm just an executioner. If you have the ability, go to the county magistrate. I just obey orders. My uncle's family is innocent..."

The man looked at the three generations of dead grandparents and grandchildren, and his heart was full of guilt. If it weren't for me, they wouldn't have died, Xiao Le is still so young.

You Ping didn't take it seriously, and sneered, "Although the county magistrate is the culprit, you were the one who did the knife, and you were not skilled enough to cut my brother three times on the neck before sending him on the road. You have committed a heinous crime."

"Don't worry, the dog county magistrate will come down to accompany you in a few days."

You Ping kicked down, the man's chest was directly pierced, and his hands fell to the ground weakly.

You Ping checked the surroundings, and after confirming that there was no one there, a chaffinch turned over and flew out of the courtyard wall.

Not long after You Ping left, human voices began to be heard nearby.

"This Spirit Snake Gang is really domineering, they dare to kill people in broad daylight."

"Hey, the younger generations are so brave and ruthless now, they are much more ruthless than we were back then, we should keep around them in the future, this old bone can't be offended."

"I just feel sorry for Old Man Gu's family."

……

In the void invisible to ordinary people, a transparent phantom is suspended in midair.

"Gu boy, hurry up, that kid has the same name and surname as you, hurry up while it's hot."

Gu Chuan fell to the side of the executioner who had just died, he felt that the old tortoise in Tianyuan had a hole, although it would not harm him, but he kept instigating himself to come to this realm of the heavens, as if he was doing something bad to draw him into the gang.

"Old Taoist Tian Yuan, is there any powerful person in this realm of the heavens? Your sneaky appearance is like a bastard."

"You are the bastard, your whole family is a bastard, and I am Xuanwu." The old Taoist Tianyuan cursed, and was very displeased with the title of bastard. "There must be powerful people in this realm of the heavens, but it doesn't matter. You are starting from the easy difficulty now, so it won't touch the other party's interests."

Gu Chuan dubiously got into the executioner's body.

The executioner's body hadn't cooled down, and his soul hadn't dissipated yet, and within a short time, Gu Chuan absorbed all the memories of the executioner.

Tianyuan Laodao also got busy, repairing the executioner's body.

Gu Chuan struggled to sit up. He used to be one of the executioners in Huaning County. He was just 20 years old. Because of his poor family, he became an executioner.

You must know that the executioner is a job that breaks the life and harms the morality. Some people would rather go hungry than do this job.

Originally, the predecessor should have a good life for a few years after he became an executioner, but he did not expect that a few years ago, the Liuzhou government sent a large number of prisoners to suppress the bandits, and the predecessor beheaded 98 people in just one year.

Beheading is no more than a hundred is the rule of the executioner. There is a jargon called, "Kill 99, and you must stop when the time comes."

If the number exceeds 99, you will be punished.

A few days ago, a gang member of the Spirit Snake Gang killed people in the street, and was quickly caught by the county government's arrest, that is, the head killed by the predecessor. It happened that on that day, he made up the number of 99.

As for what You Ping said about his predecessor cutting off his neck three times, it was true, not for any reason, but because the knife was blunt.

There is another rule in the executioner's profession, that is, a knife for a lifetime, and this knife cannot be sharpened.

In the concept of the executioner, "it is the knife that kills, not himself."

What they do is to act on behalf of the heavens, to kill those who have committed the most heinous crimes, and to maintain peace in the world.

If you sharpen the knife, you will become an accomplice of the knife, which will deepen your sins.

That's why the predecessor cut off his head three times because his knife was blunt.

Gu Chuan sorted out the memories of his predecessor, especially You Ping from the Spirit Snake Gang, he was very special.

In the memory of his predecessor, the rise of the Spirit Snake Gang came two years ago. You Ping came from a mountain village.

The county government also checked You Ping. He was an ordinary person with no big background. If he had to say something, there lived in You Ping's village a general who had retired for many years. He was an old general who fought with the former emperor.

……

Gu Chuan looked at the corpse on the ground and sighed, life in this world is worthless.

He moved his body a bit, and after getting used to it, walked around the corpse and entered the room, and opened a secret compartment, which contained money saved by his predecessor and his uncle's family over the years, a total of nine taels of silver and ten cents.

squeak~

Pushing open the old wooden door, Gu Chuan walked out with a sad expression. As a good actor, he has to take on his role at any time.

"He's still alive?"

"That's right, it must be the Gu family boy's identity as the executioner, so that the Spirit Snake Gang dare not kill."

"Then his uncle's family..."

The appearance of Gu Chuan directly aroused the curiosity of these spectators, and many people stretched their necks and tried to look behind the door.

When they saw the corpses all over the ground, everyone turned pale.

Gu Chuan ignored them, and went straight to an old man with calloused hands.

"Old man Liu, I want five good coffins."

Old man Liu is a coffin maker, and the craftsmanship was inherited from his father.

These days, ordinary coffins only cost ten yuan, while the good coffins in Old Man Liu's coffin shop only cost forty yuan a pair.

It's not that there are no more expensive coffins, but that people in Wentong Lane are relatively poor and cannot afford better coffins.

"Boy Gu, my condolences." Old man Liu agreed, took two taels of silver, comforted Gu Chuan, and went back to prepare.

Gu Chuan took out another five taels of silver, and Gu Chuan gave it to a fat man with a black face. He was the manager of Wentong Lane, and he was the one who arranged all weddings and weddings.

"Uncle Zhang, please hire a few Taoist priests for my uncle's family, and use the remaining money to spend a few tables for entertaining the neighbors in the neighborhood. It will be regarded as seeing off my uncle's family."

Although five taels of silver is not much, it is also quite a lot in Wentong Lane. Generally, three taels of silver is enough for Taoist priests and banquets after the death of a family.

Fatty Zhang took the money to collect money, and he didn't care if he would offend the Spirit Snake Gang. The chief executives like them who handle weddings and funerals also have a group of people in Huaning County, and they are not afraid of the Spirit Snake Gang.