The head was not chopped off.

The old master failed!

The skill of beheading requires beauty, with the knife rising and the head falling immediately. Only a new apprentice would make the mistake of chopping off the head.

Novice apprentices may make this mistake due to fear or lack of strength.

This is a shameful thing, and will be laughed at by colleagues and laughed at by the public.

Isn't Taiyuan Prefecture famous for its beheading king? Is this the level of his skills? It's really disappointing.

Some people even want to cry out again.

But before the people's screams had died down, deafening firecrackers rang out, drowning out the people's screams and attracting everyone's attention.

Who is this person who dares to set off fireworks during an execution?

When criminals with heinous crimes are executed, the victims will set off fireworks to celebrate, but that is only after the execution is complete.

The person hasn't been chopped to death yet.

When everyone looked, they saw that it was indeed the firecrackers lit by the victim.

The servants of the Fang family standing in front of the execution platform lit a row of firecrackers, raising a cloud of smoke.

In addition, a servant raised a white flag.

"Sacrifice, Fang Shouyi." He shouted loudly with a long tone.

Following the shout, the women of the Fang family fell to their knees and cried. Fang Chengyu raised a pot of wine and fell to the ground in front of him with a bang.

"Grandpa, revenge has been achieved." He shouted loudly.

As he finished speaking, the executioner on the stage raised his knife again, but this time he did not chop off Song Yunping's head, but instead chopped off his other shoulder.

Both sides of the neck were cut open, but the head did not fall off. Blood was gushing out, and the person was howling and rolling.

The people were in no mood to laugh at the executioner. They were all terrified and screaming.

The officials also stood up with a look of shock on their faces.

It's okay to make a mistake once, but it's absolutely impossible to make a mistake a second time. The head didn't fall off and the person didn't die after being chopped off twice. This is the real craftsmanship.

Only an old teacher can do this.

It was obvious that the executioner had been bribed by the Fang family.

In the past, executioners would be bribed with money to carry out beheadings, but that was because the criminals wanted to be beheaded in one stroke in order to suffer less.

Now, as the victims, the Fang family has paid the executioner so that the criminal will suffer more.

It's so horrible.

"I thought killing someone in prison was scary enough. It turns out executing someone in public is even scarier." An official couldn't help but blurt out.

This Fang family is really...

"That's enough. This is too cruel," said an official.

"More cruel than Ling Chi?" Magistrate Ma spoke, looking at the official with a wooden expression, then at the audience. "More cruel than the two men being murdered in a plot for twenty years, and the grandson being tortured for ten years? It's true that you don't feel the pain unless the knife cuts yourself."

This made the official blush and remain silent.

Everyone's eyes turned towards the audience.

In the audience, there was an old woman with gray hair, a beautiful woman in middle age, a young girl in her prime, and a thin boy with a frail face. They were all wearing mourning clothes and had sad expressions. They knelt on the ground among the white banners, crying loudly with tears streaming down their faces.

It does look terrible, and it is also terrible when you think about it.

There was another burst of firecrackers from the audience, and another white flag was raised.

"Sacrifice. Fang Nianjun." The servant shouted loudly.

Fang Chengyu picked up another jar of wine and poured it on the ground.

"Dad, my revenge has been achieved. Have a safe journey." He shouted loudly.

The people finally understood what was going on, and they looked at the stage with fear and excitement.

Song Yunping was not dead yet. Although he was in so much pain that he wanted to die immediately, the pain stimulated him and made him wake up.

His heroic spirit was long gone and he was filled with regret. He suddenly envied County Magistrate Li, thinking that having his neck cut with a single knife was such a blessing.

Fortunately, the executioner raised the knife again, and this time the knife went up and down, ending the execution.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the people were gasping for breath, wiping the sweat off their bodies and heads.

"It's worth coming here today." The storytellers wiped their sweat and said, "The Fang family's writing is really amazing."

This scene was worthy of being recorded in the county annals. It also became a classic anecdote in Yangcheng, enough for them to talk about for years.

Although Miss Jun, who was standing outside the crowd, heard screams and noises, she did not see this scene because there were too many people in front of her.

"Miss, shall we go over and take a look?" Liu'er asked on tiptoe.

"No need to look at it." Miss Jun said, turning around. "It's enough to see that the law of nature is clear and evil will be punished."

Liu'er said "oh" and followed him.

As they walked out, more people who had heard the news came rushing in. This long street was filled not only with people watching the excitement, but also with hawkers running around everywhere.

"Sugar man, sugar man, watch the beheading, eat the sugar man."

A peddler emerged from the crowd. The sugar figures made of straw circles on his shoulders had been sold out almost all, with only a few left. The peddler had a smile on his face and was about to stand in a corner where there were fewer people to count the money, but when he looked up he saw a girl standing in the corner.

Girls are all timid and would definitely not dare to get too close to see the beheading.

The girl was wearing coarse cloth, but incongruously she had a gauze scarf wrapped around her mouth and nose to cover her face.

What are you doing? You’re not a lady from a wealthy family, are you afraid of being seen?

He sighed in his heart, looked at the girl again, and his eyes lit up.

"Hey, isn't this Miss Fang?" he said.

Hearing the words "Miss Fang", Fang Jinxiu, whose face was covered by a veil, subconsciously took a step back, with a look of vigilance and evasion in her large eyes.

The vendor has jumped over carrying the candy man.

"Why are you here? Why don't you go to the front?" he asked in a loud voice.

Sounds very familiar to me.

"You?" Fang Jinxiu looked at the vendor in front of her and didn't recognize him for a moment.

"It's me, it's me, we met at Jinyun Tower, I'm Chen Qi." The peddler pointed at himself and said with bright eyes, "Thanks to you, I made a fortune that day."

Jinyun Tower.

Fang Jinxiu thought about what thrilling and exciting things had happened in Jinyun Tower on March 3rd.

At that time, she still regarded Jun Zhenzhen as an enemy, and herself as the hero who saved the Fang family from danger.

But it’s only been three months and everything has changed.

The person she thought of as her enemy was actually the hero of the Fang family, and her hero turned out to be a...

Fang Jinxiu couldn't help but shed tears.

Chen Qi was startled, but then he thought it was normal.

"You, don't be sad. Look, your family's enemy has been punished, and you have avenged yourself." He said hurriedly.

He would have stopped here, but the doubts in his mind had been lingering for too long, and he couldn't help but ask out loud.

"But why don't you go to the front?"

Fang Jinxiu lifted her sleeves to wipe away her tears and stared at Chen Qi.

"Because I don't have the qualifications to go to the front," she said. "I don't even have the qualifications to wear mourning clothes and cry for my elder relatives, you know."

Chen Qi was a little confused by the sudden words.

In fact, they are not familiar with each other, so we should stop talking here.

"How, how come..." But he still asked stutteringly.

Fang Jinxiu felt relieved after shouting this.

"How come I don't have the qualifications? You know I'm Miss Fang. Do you know what class I am in the Fang family?" She said, watching Chen Qi pull off his veil. "I'm Miss Fang San."

Miss Fang San.

Chen Qi was stunned for a moment, then he suddenly understood.

The grievances of the Fang family are already known to everyone in Yangcheng. There is the county magistrate Li, Song Yunping, and a concubine who intends to seize the family property. This concubine gave birth to a daughter, who is the third daughter of the Fang family. It is said that this concubine did these things in order to let her daughter occupy the Fang family's property.

Of course, this incident was also mentioned in the government's announcement just now, but it said that Song Yunping assigned the assassin Su to infiltrate the Fang family as a concubine, and took the opportunity to poison Fang Chengyu, the young master of the Fang family. When she repeated the same trick and poisoned Fang Chengyu's offspring, she was discovered and caught and committed suicide out of fear of punishment.

Although he did not mention the plot to seize the family business, his evil deeds were confirmed.

Then the status of Miss Fang San, his daughter, would be awkward.

Chen Qi looked at Fang Jinxiu with an embarrassed expression.

What should I say? What is the appropriate thing to say in this situation?

"Well, do you want to buy a candy man?" he said, holding the bamboo pole in his hand.