Caishikou was the execution ground for murderers in the Qing Dynasty.

After the court trial was completed every autumn, a group of prisoners were escorted out of Xuanwumen, crossed Duantou Bridge, and sent to the execution ground at Caishikou. It was impossible for them to come back alive.

The prisoners knelt in a row at the entrance of the vegetable market. The executioner raised his knife from east to west and chopped off the heads one by one. The heads fell off and rolled away in panic. (The executioner used the ghost head knife, Lingchi dismemberment knife, now

Also preserved in the History Museum).

There was a tailor shop near Caishikou. The shopkeeper was in his fifties and lived alone. That night, as soon as it got dark, the shopkeeper heard a commotion outside, as if something big had happened. In those days, there was a riot in the party, and he didn't

If he dared to go out, he quickly blew out the light and huddled under the quilt to listen to the noise. There was a commotion outside for a while, but it soon stopped again.

In the middle of the night, the shopkeeper woke up and vaguely saw a figure moving in the room. He thought a thief was coming, and stared at the black figure tightly, not daring to move. The thief groped for a while, and finally left.

When the time came, he closed the door gently and sensibly.

After a long time, the shopkeeper got up. He lit the oil lamp and looked around to find out what was missing. The strange thing was that there was a lot of money, but the sewing basket was missing.

At dawn the next day, his neighbor came over and asked him to go to Caishikou to watch the excitement. The neighbor said that a gangster was beheaded in Caishikou last night. For some reason, the body was not taken away and was still thrown on the loess.

With.

The shopkeeper was timid and didn't want to go, but the neighbor forced him to go with him. When he arrived at the execution ground, he saw the corpse of the gangster from a distance. After the man was beheaded, the body was not separated. He faced forward

After thinking about it, he suddenly became confused: he recognized the clothes on the corpse. Half a month ago, this gangster was chased by the police and soldiers, and he hid in his tailor shop in the dark. He didn't dare to cause trouble, so after thinking about it, he sneaked away

Go out and report to the official...

There were a series of thick thread marks on the neck of the corpse, the head and body were sewn together, and there was a piece of bitten thread in the mouth. Next to the corpse was the sewing basket that was lost in his family!

When he got home, the shopkeeper developed a high fever. The neighbor invited a doctor to treat him, but he still didn't get better. A few days later, the neighbor found him dead in the tailor shop, with his two lips sewn tightly with needles and threads. He
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