Chapter 3: Lamps

When Taibai returned, another four years had passed in the underworld, and it had been five years since he left.

For us in the underworld, he has been gone for five years, and for Taibai himself, he has only been away for a longer five days.

Taibai was in good spirits when he left, but he was listless when he returned.

"You don't know, the day in the heavenly realm is so long, when I go back, the heavenly realm is noon, I have lunch and wait for it to get dark, but I wait, wait, wait, I just can't wait. I finally waited for it, and I had to wait patiently for the dawn, and I slept and sleeped, but I just couldn't sleep!"

Lao Wu scoffed at this: "You originally came down from the heavenly realm, will you not adapt when you go back?"

Taibai cried, crying very sadly: "I have been in the heavenly realm for more than a year, and I have been in the underworld for three thousand five hundred years, which do you say I should adapt to?"

So no one laughed at him anymore, that long day in the heavenly realm was indeed not something that ordinary immortals could endure.

The boss looked down at his shoes, he was wearing a pair of straw sandals today, which were a little torn, and it was not too convenient to kick people.

"What are you doing when you come back today?

Taibai smiled: "The heavenly realm is very busy, there are many things that need to be done, I came back to give you a surprise?"

"Oh?" everyone asked in unison, "What surprise?"

Taibai Shen mysteriously took out a lamp from his sleeve and said: "This lamp was given by the Emperor of Heaven by me, I can feel the alternation of day and night, the four seasons change, burn this lamp in front of your case, you can turn the weather of the underworld into the world." ”

And then... He was kicked away, this time it was the second and fourth children who did it, and the fifth child caught the lamp the moment he flew out.

The lamp is really a lamp, and there are simple words "lamp" engraved under the base, which looks ordinary, similar to the dilapidated utensils used by other people's families, and it is really the thing of the emperor.

Taibai flew back again, he and the second child were both golden immortals, and the second child's kick couldn't send him back to the heavenly realm.

"How about it? I don't lie to you, it's really a good thing from the Emperor of Heaven, hurry up, I can't wait to see what the weather in the underworld is like, whether it's still gray. ”

No one pays attention to him, the third child is notoriously cheap, and he picks out things that can't be solved.

The boss lit the lamp in front of the desk, and a group of Yan Jun quickly ran to the front of the house, and when they couldn't squeeze in, they all stood under the eaves on both sides.

The sky in the underworld became darker and darker, and the originally gray sky quickly darkened, and gusts of wind blew again.

Rapid raindrops fell, and the first rain fell in the underworld.

The ghosts on the road all ran to their homes as quickly as possible, and only halfway through the run did they find that the rain did not wet the ghosts, and they all stopped to watch the thunder in the sky.

Taibai was the first to rush into the rain, and the rain soaked his robes. He still laughs so cheaply, and laughs so wantonly.

"Smack!" ....... "Ahhh

Taibai flew again, looking at the direction, it should have flown back to the heavenly realm. In the rain, a worn straw shoe fell quietly to the ground.

The boss walked over slowly, put on his shoes, and sat in the rain.

The second and eighth children also follow the same example, sitting in the rain in a daze. The rain drenched their faces, their clothes, and they still didn't say a word.

The thunder in the sky became more and more rapid, and the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh tried to reach out and hold the falling raindrops, but they couldn't catch anything.

Lao Qi asked me: "You are not a corpse into an immortal, and you are also a daytime rising like a few of them, why don't you feel the rain?"

I shook my head and said, "I like to sit in front of the door and watch people play in the rain." ”

Lao Qi sat in front of the steps with me and quietly watched the rain fall.

"I went to see Yi again yesterday, he has been soaking in the water of Lechuan for four years, and his face is blue and purple from the cold. ”

Ghosts are generally not affected by heat and cold, but the water in Lethe River is different, where the cold hits the soul and can freeze the ghosts miserably.

"He's still holding on, I wonder if he can really hold on for five hundred years?"

Lao Qi doesn't seem to think that my problem is a problem, "Lao Jiu, the love and infatuation in this world can't be easily changed by pain, it's only five hundred years, and he can survive it." ”

I nodded, and shook my head again: "Old Seven, you are confused, Xiu Immortal asked, the focus is on forgetting your feelings in Taishang, if you are like this, you will only be farther away from the Golden Immortal, and you will even fall to the Earth Immortal." ”

Lao Qi didn't care: "I was originally just a mortal, it was the immortal master who took pity on me back then, and taught me the law, so that I was able to become an earth immortal, and now the heavenly immortals are just a fluke." Even if you become a mortal again, why not?"

I don't argue with him anymore, he can't be a mortal, when he comes to the underworld, it is a corpse, and only the soul can be soaked in the water of Lechuan, and then he returned after three lives, and the rebuilt is also a ghost immortal, he can only return to the ghost at most, and he can't return to the mortal.

Our activity time was soon interrupted, and there were still many affairs to be taken care of in the prefecture, and sitting in the room, listening to the thunder and rain outside, we really couldn't calm down, and we couldn't help but do something, so we had to forcibly concentrate and review the files that the judges had examined.

This rain has been raining for too long, and after a few days, finally after a long period of rain, the underworld ushered in a clear sky for the first time.

The grain fields planted by the ghosts have also quietly grown a lot after this rain. They used to have to fetch water from the river to irrigate, but this rain also made them happy, which means that they will not need to water the fields for some time to come.

Lao Qi deliberately went to Lethe River to take a look, but the water in Lethe River did not increase, obviously this heavy rain from the world could not affect the ghosts soaking in the water.

When he came back, he specially brought Meng Po's newly boiled sweet soup.

"Meng Po's soup is getting more and more delicious, and the decision to keep her in the underworld was really wise!" Lao Ba sighed.

The second child smiled silently, he was the one who left Meng Po behind, and he also gave out the formula of fairy water for this purpose.

The boss scanned the world while drinking soup, and he was checking the changes in the world to adjust the layout of the underworld.

"There are fewer and fewer cultivators in the human world, and there used to be a few corpse earth immortals every hundred years, but now there is not one in three hundred years. ”

I said to the boss: "Aren't we also cultivating, you look at Yi Zhi's progress, I think he will soon be able to cultivate into an earth immortal." ”

Yi Zhi's judge did a very competent job, and he didn't show favoritism just because the new ghost knew him, and the verdict was always fair. The cultivation is also hard, and the understanding is also excellent.

The second child wiped his mouth and said: "After he becomes a heavenly immortal, think about getting it in and be the top ten, after the third child leaves, many affairs can't be handled." ”

The boss smacked his lips: "You can consider it, wait for him to become a heavenly immortal, and then report to the emperor." Sixth, you do a good job of the manuscript first, and you still write the official document. ”

The sixth raised his hand, indicating that he understood.

"I don't know how long Taijia can live. "Old eight hundred boring.

Lao Qidao: "These emperors are all difficult masters, since the Xia Qi era, human autonomy, passed down from generation to generation, from the Xia Queen to the Shang King, it is not simple." The merits and demerits are complicated and difficult to judge. In the Xia Dynasty, after dying in a summer, the nine of us had to study for ten years and eight years, and the soup in the Shang Dynasty was still like this, and it took nine years to sentence him to reincarnate, isn't it too much effort to do this?"

The second child echoed: "And what these lords do often affect the years after their deaths, as well as the courtiers who implement national policies, and the teachers who teach people, these people have too much influence on others, and they are not easy to judge, and even cannot be judged in the short term." ”

The fourth child secretly took another sip of the hidden wine: "It's simple, just stay in the land and wait, the Ming Lord will let him walk freely, and the faint king will be thrown into hell first, and he will be punished while sentencing, and punishing while punishing." ”

"Feasible! feasible!"

Everyone seconded and passed.

The days in the underworld are always boring, and I really can't find anything interesting, but fortunately, the weather is no longer as single as before, and it can be regarded as a bit of a adjustment.

The fourth child has been very active recently, and he is always lazy and runs out, and we all know why, there is a new woman named Woman Hao in the underworld. was originally the queen of Shang, but now she is a widow who does not want to be reincarnated.

Her husband Wu Ding is a master, and his merits are not difficult to judge, so he was soon sent to reincarnation, when she was still a widow in the world, and when she came down, she was still a widow in the underworld.

Nuhao is an unusual woman, she was not inferior to others during her lifetime, and she went into battle. It's the same as not admitting defeat when she dies, and she feels that being a person is far less interesting than being an immortal, so she plans to stay in the underworld to practice, as for her husband, Wu Ding is originally more than one wife, and the relationship after death is all empty.

The screen of the good woman is up and down, that is, the upper grade is inferior, and the standard of staying in the prefecture is poor. So the fourth child was very diligent and led this unusual woman to the grass hut.

After that, it was the beginning of the fourth child's laziness, which made us resentful.

The heavenly realm prohibits the relationship between men and women, because the immortals in the heavenly realm live too long, and the immortals and immortals cannot give birth to mortals, if it is not forbidden, it is easy to crowd the heavenly realm in the future.

The prefecture does not prohibit or advocate it, because they are all ghosts anyway, and ghosts and ghosts cannot give birth to children. After living together for one hundred and eighty years, they were sent to reincarnation. Practitioners belong to the zone of three things, and there is no law to say that it is okay or not.

Although the fourth child is a god, in essence....he is still a ghost. The corpse is not much different from the structure of the ghost.

For the underworld, it is feasible if the law does not prohibit it, so it is still theoretically feasible to see if Yan Jun can marry a ghost and go home.

However, we are not very optimistic, because love is the trouble of immortals, there is no immortal who is not single, there is no golden immortal who can't let go of the seven loves, and there is no Da Luo Jin Immortal who does not forget his love.

When the fourth child is emotional, there is a danger of falling into the immortals. But still no one stopped him, immortals are not synonymous with happiness, long lonely years often torture a person more than birth, old age, sickness and death, and also torture a fairy.

Some people say that cultivating immortals is cultivating oneself into stone, which is not true. Forgetfulness does not mean ruthlessness, but it just sees through the essence of love. If it was really ruthless, the Dao Ancestors would not have passed down the Dao system, and the Heavenly Emperor would not have to care about the lives of the beings in the Three Realms. In that way, immortals will have no meaning, and the world will have no basis for existence. After all, the reason why this world was born is precisely because Qi "lives".

We all understand the choice of the fourth, just like the seventh said. Originally, they were mortals, but even if they retreated to mortals, what would they have? Although several of them could only retreat into ghosts.

The woman was appointed as a messenger and was responsible for guarding the underworld. In fact, there is nothing to guard in the underworld, and there are few underworlds in the world now, and they are not far from each other. Occasionally write letters to each other, and have to catch a lot of wandering spirits from those places where there is no land to translate, and wait until they understand the letter and then reply to the letter, I don't know how many years.

Yi Zhi regrets it very much, why didn't he apply to be a bad official in the first place, the bad official who guards the underworld is almost the same as the bad one, every day is very leisurely, except for cultivation is to visit the underworld, although there is nothing to browse in the underworld.

The judge is really busy, especially the birth judgment, there are more and more new ghosts dying every day, and it is becoming more and more difficult to judge, he has not had a good rest for a long time, and the speed of cultivation has also decreased a lot, although he has achieved the earth immortal, and there is still hope to achieve the heavenly immortal in a few hundred years, but if he is a little free, he will be sure to become a heavenly immortal in less than a hundred years!

This is basically our understanding of Yi Zhi's leave book, he doesn't want to work so hard anymore, he wants to take a vacation for decades, and come back when he becomes a heavenly immortal.

Of course this matter can't be done, there are really too few capable judges like Yi Zhi, and he took leave to run away and seriously affected the efficiency of the underworld.

Lao Wu squinted his eyes: "I think he just doesn't want to work!"

The second child waved his hand: "Don't say that, Yi Zhi's cultivation has indeed been delayed by more and more affairs, and we still point to him to cultivate to become a heavenly immortal and take the position of Yan Jun." ”

"Do you want him to pick a substitute and take it first?" The fourth child who came up with this idea, he very much hoped that this matter would be allowed and made into a rule, so that the woman could also apply for leave, and then he would have more time to pester her.

His careful thinking couldn't hide from anyone, and the sixth child said very meaningfully: "In this way, let him find a person whose virtue is no less than his own, recommend him, and give him fifty years of vacation." The old six words are bitten very hard, for fear that others will not be able to hear clearly.

I also think what Lao Liu said makes sense: "I think it's feasible, if Yi Zhi cultivates to become a heavenly immortal, Yan Jun can also have one more, a judge and a Yan Jun, which helps to reduce the workload, everyone understands." ”

Everyone nodded, and Yi Zhi received a reply, hearing that the next day he had doubled the number of new ghosts to be sentenced, apparently trying to find someone who could replace him so that he could take his fifty-year vacation!

After replying to Yi Zhi, I took a few turtle shells from the boss's case.

The boss asked me, "What are you going to count?"

"I'm going to calculate when Ichi's successor will appear. ”

The turtle shell was thrown away, and he looked forward to see the texture, and the other Yan Jun also came over curiously to take a look.

"What results ???"

I silently calculated, and then said, "We seem to have cheated Yi Zhi for another 200 years." ”

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After a period of silence, the second child spoke first: "I think so, we replied to him and he clearly accepted it, and it can be regarded as asking for his opinion, not counting him, and two hundred years have passed in a blink of an eye... It's been ......"

"That's right!"

"Makes sense, makes sense!"

"Two hundred years of ......"

Well, 200 years, that's pretty fast...... I've been in the underworld for more than 2,500 years, 200 years, just a blink of an eye...... Bar......