After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Deng Haishan still held a career in the Qing government, because he was too lazy to work and had nothing to do, in order to beg for food, he finally decided to go to the teacher and become an executioner. In the process of learning, because he could not practice with real people, he would take some melons to practice every day, draw some horizontal lines on the melon, and then practice according to the markings of the horizontal lines. In the end, he really practiced to the point of pure fire, dividing the melon in half, and the lower knife part and the horizontal line were no different.
Because of the training, so soon went to the real execution ground, the psychological quality of doing this line must be very hard, so every time Deng Haishan cut off his head, he walked back to the yamen without turning his head, and after he went back, he asked someone to beat his ass with a bamboo board. Why let others beat you? Deng Haishan said that only in this way can you get rid of the obscurity on your body and sleep well at night, after all, this is a matter of killing people, in fact, you will not feel good in your heart, in fact, this is just a kind of psychological comfort.
Deng Haishan's master once said a word to him, warning him: Kill ninety-nine people, and then you will put an end to it. This is just a profession, it is impossible to do it for a lifetime, and the world says that killing people cannot exceed a hundred, otherwise there will be a bad end. Obviously, Deng Haishan was dismissive of his master's teachings, and after the fall of the Qing Dynasty until the Republic of China period, he cut off nearly three hundred heads in his life, and it was not until the shooting that he completely lost his job.
Without a job, Deng Haishan could only stay at home every day, completely losing any financial resources. Due to the nature of his previous work, Deng Haishan's relatives and friends around him have left him, first of all, they are afraid of him, and secondly, they are worried about bringing obscurity to themselves, so this makes them more lonely in their old age. Because he killed too many people, he always had nightmares when he slept at night, and he was also worried during the day, in order to make himself feel at ease, he believed in Buddhism and went out of his house to do good deeds, but even the temple did not accept him. Deng Haishan lived a lonely life like this, never starting a family in his life. At first, the master did not listen to his admonition, and in his old age, the master's prophecy came true.