When it comes to "acrobatics", many people will think of "crushing stones in the chest, swallowing swords, walking tightrope, spitting fire" for the first time, and I have to say that these projects are very dangerous, and if one is not careful, the performer will die. But now we all know that many acrobatic projects are "skilled" and don't have to worry about performers. However, the "strange man" that Xiaobian wants to introduce next can miraculously survive after the beheading, which frightens the county order, what is the matter?
This story is recorded in the late Qing Dynasty min beginner Xu Ke's "Qing Barnyard Banknotes", Xu Ke was a great scholar during the Guangxu years, who served as Yuan Shikai's staff, as well as the editor-in-chief of many newspapers and magazines such as "Diplomatic Newspaper" and "Oriental Magazine", "Qing Barnyard Notes" is a work he carefully collected and sorted out, divided into 92 categories such as seasons, geography, diplomacy, customs, crafts, etc., which is considered to be a "miniature encyclopedia" for studying Qing Dynasty society, with certain historical value, after introducing the source, let's officially talk about this story.
During the Shunzhi period, a man named Zhang Lishan was appointed as the county commander of Kaihua, Zhejiang, during his tenure, Zhang Lishan was just and compassionate, and was recognized as a good official by the people, one day, Yamen caught a robber Mu Zixiong who killed people and crossed the goods, this person not only committed many evil deeds, but also carried several lives on his back, and everyone hoped that the county would order the old man to deal with him quickly.
After learning about Mu Zixiong's affairs, Zhang Lishan immediately sentenced him to be beheaded, but according to the custom, he had to first declare the case file to the imperial court for approval, and then get the approval before executing the beheading. Just when he was waiting for the approval, Zhang Lishan suddenly received bad news from his hometown - Zhang Lishan's mother died of illness. According to the regulations at that time, Zhang Lishan had to return to his hometown to observe filial piety for three years, that is, "Ding Worry".
After the imperial court knew, it immediately sent an official surnamed Wang to replace Zhang Lishan, and after all the work was handed over, Zhang Lishan was relieved to leave, at the same time, Mu Zixiong's approval came down, this was the first case that Wang Xianling came to Kaihua to handle, he thought about performing well, so he immediately put Mu Zixiong to justice, and the matter came to an end.
3 years later, Zhang Lishan's filial piety period expired, the imperial court sent him to Jiangxi Province lead mountain as a county order, Zhang Lishan came here, still just and righteous, soon got everyone's recognition, one day, a robber was arrested and brought to justice, it is reported that this person is very fierce, when arrested also beat a catcher to the head and bleed, Zhang Lishan was very angry, immediately interrogated him.
As a result, as soon as the robber looked up, Zhang Lishan was surprised - is this not Mu Zixiong, who was beheaded 3 years ago? How did he "live" again? In order to confirm the identity of the other party, Zhang Lishan pretended to ask him a few questions, as soon as Mu Zixiong opened his mouth, Zhang Lishan heard his enlightened accent, and then Zhang Xianling walked to the prisoner's side, pulled open his clothes, only to see the prisoner", only to see the prisoner "the knife marks on the back of his head look like", he asked him where the knife marks came from, Mu Zixiong flashed his words, Zhang Lishan continued to press questions, and finally, Mu Zixiong confessed and told the truth of the year.
Mu Zixiong said that he was indeed beheaded that year, but the executioner who executed him at that time was a novice, "the knife was moderate to the neck bone, the servant's head was not special", did not hurt Mu Zixiong's key point at all, in the middle of the night, Mu Zixiong woke up slowly, found that his head was still on the neck, so he fled home overnight, got treatment, well, Mu Zixiong in order not to reveal his identity, he came to Jiangxi, anonymity, but Jiangshan is easy to change his nature, Mu Zixiong who escaped death quickly did his old job.
Zhang Lishan was shocked after listening to his words, but he quickly calmed down and immediately reported it to the Inspector of Jiangxi, requesting a thorough investigation of the county commander and executioner who was in charge of Mu Zixiong's case at that time. Because Zhang Lishan was worried that Mu Zixiong was lying, perhaps he bribed Wang Xianling and the executioner to escape the disaster.
After a series of inspections, the truth finally came out - it turned out that in the civilized place, the people were simple, no one had ever experienced the crime of beheading, there was not even a professional executioner in the local area, and the person who cut muzixiong's head was actually a bold young man in the village, when he cut off Muzixiong's head, he was still very scared, and he left without seeing clearly, so that Muzixiong luckily survived.
Having said that, Wang Xianling and the executioner were still punished, and mu zixiong, who had committed a terrible crime, was really killed this time.
Reference: "Barnyard Banknotes"