Chapter 25
Li Yu has really learned some real skills with Guo Nu. The executioner's profession is not simple. The heavy ghost-headed knife in their hands requires a lot of skills to cut off the head with a clean and nimble knife: eyesight, arm strength, waist strength, and psychological quality.
They don’t know how many times they need to practice the four movements of drawing, raising, swinging, and closing the knife every day. When practicing cutting "incense" at night, they can cut a row of charcoal heads either up or down. This wrist, arm strength, eyesight and accurate head may not be able to do even a first-class ranger.
Therefore, an excellent executioner may not be a first-class expert in martial arts, and even a second-class expert can easily knock him down. However, in terms of basic skills of using swords, using swords, and exerting strength, an excellent executioner's sword skills may be more accomplished than many first-class masters in the world.
Li Yu and Guo Ren learned the method of using swords. Li Yu had worshipped eighteen masters, but none of them were any martial arts masters. However, Li Yu each took his own strengths and built an extremely solid foundation of martial arts, and even realized the unique true meaning of martial arts from ordinary and simple moves.
The process of a true martial arts master from simple to traditional, and from complex to simple is not a kind of anti-simplicity. Li Yu is just pointing out the essence, but he lacks guidance from famous teachers and experience. The closed-door training method keeps him away from the real martial arts technique, and is still a layer of window paper that cannot be broken.
The Guo family is not far from Yunzhan Gambling House. After walking out of Yangchan Lane, passing through two alleys, turning into a relatively remote alley, passing through the backyard gates of several wealthy families, there is a portal at the end. There is a tall tree planted on each side of the gate, and there are several old trunks on it. This is Guo Nu's home.
When they opened the door, a desolate aura came to their faces. Lao Guo had never married, had no children, and had no living things at home, so he was naturally lifeless. When they entered the house, a smell of sandalwood came to them, and a wall was facing them. The shelves were filled with Buddha statues of various shapes and materials.
There was an incense table and an incense burner in front of the Buddha wall. Guo angrily stepped forward, picked up three incense sticks and lit them. He bowed devoutly, inserted the incense into the incense burner, and then he called Li Yu to sit down. Li Yu had known that he was used to it. When he saw him entering the door, he asked subconsciously: "Have you chopped people again today?"
At that time, the death row prisoners were not all sent to the capital. Some places were too remote and could not spend a lot of manpower and material resources to send prisoners. In that case, the files would only be delivered to the capital and then dealt with after approval. In this way, some prisoners may have handed the files to the capital in the autumn of this year, and they may have handed the files to the capital last year. There is another type of prisoner, which was executed immediately.
There is a type of crime that is extremely evil and has a bad influence. The verdict of death is undisputed. In order to achieve the effect of punishment, it will not go through a protracted trial and judgment process. Instead, local officials have the right to execute them immediately. Therefore, the executioner's business does not have to wait until the autumn decision every year. Whether they open or not depends on the level of public security in the local area.
Guo Nu obviously didn't want to talk about this matter. Although the executioner killed someone without blinking, he was actually quite taboo about it. The statue of the Buddha on the Guo family offered a wall, obviously to drive away the shadow in his heart. Guo Nu nodded heavily and looked up at Li Yu: "Will you go back next autumn final?"
Through a conversation with the boat boss Liu Yuntao, Li Yu has roughly understood the current trend of the times. People are very concerned about faith and are more than Mount Tai. Of course, there are those who speak without faith, but that is not an act recognized by the universal values of the world today. If you say it, you will be despised.
So Li Yu learned to behave, his face turned upright, and said with a righteous spirit: "The emperor is kind and can slow down my life for one year. I should take advantage of this short life year, and I will regret it that I have not finished. When the autumn ice is next year, my disciples should return to the capital and receive punishment!"
Guo nodded angrily and praised: "Rannuo is more important than life and death. This is a real man, a good person!"
Guo Nu pondered and sighed: "As soon as you die, the Li family has no queen. It's not just a great regret, but also a great unfilial one!"
Li Yu was stunned for a moment. He rushed to the capital to die next autumn. He was not as "fool" as the ancients, and had already made plans to leave. As for the regret that had not been settled, he was just perfunctory. However, before he left, he really wanted to do one thing, which was to make a small fortune and leave a fortune for his mother Pan Jiaojiao. Why did he get involved in the misfortune?
Seeing him dazed, Guo Nu couldn't help but smile: "Is your face tender? There are three unfilial things? No one is the best. What's so sorry about this? Your Li family is the only one in the thousand acres of land. It's also worth taking advantage of this year to leave a descendant for the Li family."
Li Yu slowly opened his mouth: "Stay later?"
Guo Nu said this, and he really remembered that when he was in the death row, he had seen a woman entering the prison. The prison chief took the woman and a death row prisoner to a private single cell. After a long time of love, the woman left and the death row prisoner reentered the cell.
At that time, Li Yu thought this was a "big brother" figure with his hands and eyes. Later, he realized that this was a manifestation of the court's benevolence since ancient times: if the death row prisoner had been married but had no descendants, his wife would be allowed to go to prison to join him in order to keep his bloodline during his stay.
But this kindness is based on completely ignoring the rights and interests of women. Is this woman willing? No one cares. Due to the clan and social atmosphere, she may be "willed" on the surface, but all the burdens afterwards are carried by her and she will bear them with all her strength. Who ever thought that this would be fair to her?
At that time, it was very common for a woman to divorce or remarry after losing her spouse. This largely caused obstacles to her remarriage. In order to give the man a bloody benevolence, what she paid was to destroy the cruelty of the woman's life.
So Li Yu, who also has the concept of later generations, was very dissatisfied with this at that time. When Guo Nu said this, he became even more dissatisfied. Li Yu shook his head and was about to explain it tactfully, Guo Nu had already pondered: "Well, I have a distant cousin, and you have seen it, which is the right person."
"I've seen it?" Li Yu immediately searched for his memory.
Guo smiled angrily and said, "Yes, I used to live in your house. When I was a child, I was your playmate. I was called Feifei. Every time you see her, you would joke about 'thinking'. That silly girl, at first, thought you were teasing her and chasing you. When you heard you explain this is an idiom, I was quite complacent. Later, I really understood what you meant, and I chased you endlessly, haha..."
Li Yu's lips twitched, and he couldn't help but want to laugh.
Guo sighed angrily and said, "That girl was separated last spring. The man was not good at it and owed gambling debts to escape. She left her to pull a son and a daughter to live alone. It's better to marry her and leave a back for the Li family."
Li Yu was almost sweating, so he hurriedly refused and said, "No, no, no, this is not suitable. I am a dying person, why bother to cause trouble to others?"
Guo disagreed and said, "Two are also raised, three are born. What are you afraid of if you open your mouth? Besides, I can help her now. If she really marry into the Li family, can your mother not help you with the Li family?"
Li Yu was embarrassed and shook his hands repeatedly: "No, no, no, thank you Master for your kindness. I am no longer 'thinking about it..."
Chapter completed!