Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

Chapter 406: Sharpen the Knife, Respect the Knife, Use the Knife, It’s Time to Go

Compared to the sound of the knife, the sound of the sword is more widely known.

The Eastern Jin Dynasty's "Soushen Ji" records: The King of Chu ordered Moye to forge two swords.

When the sword was completed, Moye kept the male sword and presented the female sword to the King of Chu.

The female sword often cries sadly in its sheath.

Since then, literati of all generations have often used the sound of swords in their poems to enhance their momentum.

However, there are also records of sword sounds in ancient times.

In Ji Xiaolan's "Youwei Caotang Notes", there is a special chapter entitled "The Sound of the Sword".

This article says that when Ji Xiaolan was a child, he lived in the home of General Ha Yuansheng.

Ha Yuansheng's sword makes a chirping sound every night.

Ji Xiaolan went to check it out at night.

Confirm that the knife does make a chime sound at night.

In his article, he concluded that this was a sword that had been on the battlefield and drunk blood, stained with the essence of human blood, and also gathered the violent energy of the battlefield.

When this kind of essence and violent energy interact with each other, the sword will make a chirping sound.

In fact, Ji Xiaolan's statement has some meaning that objects have spirits.

The essence and violent energy on the knife gathered together to form something similar to a weapon spirit.

Of course, the term "weapon spirit" does not refer to the weapon spirit that develops self-awareness in fantasy novels.

Rather, it means that the object contains a unique magnetic field due to some special reasons.

This unique magnetic field will give the object a unique and special characteristic.

It will also affect the fortune of the owner of the object.

This may sound unscientific, but it does exist in reality.

For example, after the Nine Dragon Sword buried with Emperor Qianlong was stolen, it was first collected by the warlord Sun Dianying.

Afterwards, it passed through the hands of Ma Hansan, the head of the Military Intelligence Bureau's northern intelligence, the Japanese spy Kawashima Yoshiko, and the Military Intelligence Bureau boss Dai Li.

None of the four people who once held the Nine Dragon Sword had a good end.

Sun Dianying died of illness in prison.

Ma Hansan was executed secretly.

Yoshiko Kawashima was publicly executed.

Dai Li died in a plane crash while returning with the Nine Dragon Sword.

The scabbard and hilt of the Kowloon Sword were also burned in the fire during the plane crash.

The person in charge of Dai Li's funeral buried the remains of the Nine Dragon Sword together with Dai Li on the slope west of the Wuliang Hall in Nanjing.

In 51, Dai Li's tomb was demolished, and fragments similar to sword blades were dug out from the tomb.

The wreckage was thrown into the pond and disappeared.

Many years later.

When someone was tracing the whereabouts of the Kowloon Sword, they discovered that the discarded sword fragments were actually fragments of the Kowloon Sword.

Hence, there is a saying among the people that “the Nine Dragon Sword can defeat four masters with one sword”.

Let’s get back to the present.

The moment the knife rang, I felt a sharp pain in my dantian.

The tingling sensation quickly spread throughout the body.

My cheeks wrinkled in pain.

He bit his back teeth tightly to prevent himself from shouting.

That feeling is like the pain of having surgery without anesthesia.

It hurts so much that I want to bang my head against the wall.

Fuck!

The weird thing in Dantian has always been quite calm.

Why are you suddenly so agitated?

Could it be related to the ghost-head knife in front of me?

Is it afraid of the ghost-head knife?

The reason for thinking this way is that the ghost-head knife is a killing blade and has a very strong effect in warding off evil spirits.

And the weird thing in my dantian happens to be a ghost.

When ghosts and killing blades collide, they will become restless.

At this moment, a bold idea came to my mind.

perhaps.

You can use a ghost-head knife to suppress the evil things in your dantian!

As long as the evil thing in the dantian is suppressed, the trip to Blackwater City will be less constrained.

I took a deep breath and stretched out my hand, which was trembling with pain, to grab the dagger.

Stupid! ! !

When my hand was about to touch the dagger, the sound of the knife became sharper.

The knife also began to shake violently.

Do not!

It's not shaking, it's beating!

The ghost-head knife was like a fish that had just been caught ashore, jumping and struggling violently.

It doesn't seem like it wants to be taken by me!

At this time, Cui Hao and Boss Dong both noticed that something was wrong with me.

Two people supported me, one on each side.

"Brother, what's wrong with you? Why are you all sweaty?"

"Shitou, why are you shaking so violently?"

I didn't have time to answer their questions.

He stared at the jumping ghost-head knife and stretched out his right hand with all his strength.

Snapped!

The right palm slapped on the hilt of the knife.

The ghost-head knife trembled slightly twice in my palm.

Then calm was restored.

It was so calm as if the sound of the sword had never been heard.

The tingling sensation in my body also subsided instantly.

Dantian regained its calmness.

If it weren't for the residual pain that was still shaking all over my body.

If it weren't for the cold sweat still flowing down my body.

I almost thought I was hallucinating.

"call!"

I let out a long sigh, and my body, which had been holding on tightly, completely relaxed.

Fortunately, Cui Hao and Boss Dong supported me firmly and prevented me from collapsing on the ground.

They helped me sit down on the sofa.

When I sat down, my right hand was still holding the knife handle tightly.

He pulled the dagger and the box to the edge of the table.

I slumped down on the sofa and whispered, "Mouse, help me pick up that booklet."

"Read it to me."

I really don't have the energy to pick up the booklet that just fell.

I didn't have the energy to look carefully.

I can only ask Cui Hao to read it to me.

And I didn't dare to let go of the knife.

I was afraid that something unexpected would happen if I let go.

At least give your body a rest first, and then try to relax when you are fully prepared.

Cui Hao picked up the yellowed booklet and began to read.

"Sharpening a knife: if you want to do your work well, you must first sharpen your tools. If your knife is not sharp, you cannot chop off a head."

Later, a saying spread that the executioner never sharpened his knife.

In fact, the idea of ​​not sharpening knives is totally wrong.

In the past, executioners had rules for carrying out executions.

Beheading must be done with one blow, no second blow is allowed.

If the knife is not sharp and fails to kill the victim with one blow, the executioner will be in trouble.

Moreover, the executioner's main income comes from gifts from the prisoners' families.

The more gifts you give, the easier it will be to cut the profits.

If you chop off the head with one blow, there will still be some skin attached to it.

This way it is not considered as a separated body, and can barely be considered a complete body.

If the gift is too little, the body will be split in half and divided into two parts.

The family members went to the shoemaker to sew the body with their heads in their hands.

So the beheading knife must be sharpened very sharply.

"Respect the knife. The knife must not be left lying around. It must be hung on the wall."

"During the day, cover it with a knife-cleaning cloth. At night, take out the cloth and shine the moonlight on it."

There is a saying that the executioner's knife drinks blood and is stained with souls, so he likes yin and not yang.

During the day, you must block the sunlight and do not let the sunlight shine on the knife.

At night, open the doors and windows to let the moonlight shine on the knife.

Over the years, you can make a fine beheading knife.

"With a knife, beheading is not a matter of brute force, but of skill."

"I kept a monkey by my side, and felt the gap between the third cervical vertebrae behind its head day and night, until I knew it by heart."

This is the core technique of the executioner's beheading.

Beheading is not done by chopping at the neck.

Instead, the cut should be made at the gap of the third cervical vertebra.

Only when your mind, eyes and hands are focused on this position can you be sure of the correct position.

Only then can you chop off his head easily.

The contents at the back of the booklet are all about the techniques used by these executioners to raise knives and chop off heads.

By the time Cui Hao finished reading, I had almost recovered.

I loosened my fingers from the knife one by one.

There was no sound of the sword, and there was no abnormality in the dantian.

But I vaguely felt that there was some kind of connection between me and the ghost-head knife.

Before I could figure out what kind of connection this was.

There was a knock on the door suddenly.

Boom boom boom!

"Chen Shitou, it's time to get going!"