Later, the king of Hades really felt that Peng Zu's lifespan was strange, so he sent a little ghost to squat to see how Peng Zu lived a long life. Peng Zu himself naturally kept silent, and the two little ghosts made up their minds from Peng Zu's wife, and finally found out the secret of Peng Zu's longevity.

Hades immediately pulled out the paper twist and ordered the imp to quickly lure Peng Zu's soul to hell, and Peng Zu died like this.

After the story was told, the Southern Ghost Emperor made up his mind and asked Xiang Chenlong, "Understand, right?"

Xiang Chenlong smiled coldly, of course he knew that the purpose of the Southern Ghost Emperor in saying this matter was to make him realize that the fate of mortals has a certain number, and the life and death of all mortals are already a fixed number, and only a few people can violate the principles of heaven.

Then explain why there are many immortal cultivators, if they want to break away from life and death and prolong their life, they can only cultivate immortals.

"I understand, the Ghost Emperor wants to tell me, find a woman with a strict mouth, you can't find Sanba!" Xiang Chenlong said deliberately, the huge coffin was stunned for a few seconds, and sighed leisurely.

"I just told you about the 'mortal life', it seems that you don't understand, so I'll continue to tell you the next story..."

Huang Jingfan, a native of Pingwang, Suzhou, was born in Chongzhen Xinwei and lived in Nanxun. Huang Jingfan suddenly began to feel dizzy one day, and the next morning, he suddenly had an unbearable headache and fainted to the ground. In a daze, I saw a man with a cloak and bleeding hair, holding a large knife in his hand, and shouting to him, "Give me back my life." ”

At this time, an old monk suddenly appeared, holding a Zen staff in his right hand and a Buddhist bead in his left hand, and scolded the man: "Slow down, slow down." ”

The man said, "I have been holding grudges in my chest for more than 70 years, and today I finally found an opportunity, so how can I stop?" The old monk raised his hand and said, "Amitabha, it is a blessing to spare people." If we repay each other for life and generation, when will we stop hurting each other?"

The man said, "You are right, but I still can't swallow this resentment, so I won't hurt his life today." After speaking, he grabbed Huang Jingfan's tongue with his hand and cut it off with a knife.

The old monk said, "Forget it, return the tongue."

Give it to him," he said, "It is fine to give it back to him, but only when my anger is gone." After saying that, he took the severed tongue and ran away. At this time, the old monk was also leaving, and said to Huang Jingfan: "Do you still recognize me, I am the original old man of Yunqi, you don't have to be busy now, there will be news within a hundred days." ”

Huang Jingfan woke up and saw that his family was surrounding him, he wanted to speak but couldn't speak, fortunately his tongue was still there, but he felt a little pain in his throat and heart, and there was no other pain in his body.

That night, Huang Jingfan was lying on the bed, and suddenly saw a woman shouting outside the window, "You sleep so comfortably!" After the woman finished speaking, she threw mud and sand at him, and he suddenly felt numb and painful all over his body. Suddenly, a samurai appeared, holding a white umbrella to protect him, so that the mud and sand thrown by the woman could not be scattered on him, as happened for several nights. Jing Fan didn't know why, and the samurai told him, "I have been ordered by the Buddha to protect you, and what I have in my hand is a magic weapon." ”

Jing Fan thought: "This is a strict mantra, which I often recite on weekdays, so I should work harder to recite the mantra now!"

The next day, he began to recite the mantra with great devotion, and in the evening he saw that the umbrella in the samurai's hand had doubled in size. On the third day, he continued to chant the mantra, but only the umbrella was seen, and no samurai was seen. On the fourth day, Jing Fan continued to read, and in the evening the umbrella and the woman were gone. So he recited the mantra every day, and although he was not cured, he was no longer in serious trouble.

He was devoted to his daily sins, and remembered what the old monk had said within a hundred days, so he felt happy. On the 15th day of the seventh month, he invited the monks to come to do Buddhist prayers and confessions, and found out that the old man Yunqi was the master of the lotus pond, who had once promoted Buddhism in Yunqi. Jing Fan misses the master so much that he even dreams of the master.

His mother was worried that he would not recover from his illness for a long time, so she asked someone to ask for the cause of his illness, but the hexagram said that it was caused by ghosts and spirits, and that his wish was not fulfilled. Jing Fan thought that if it was the punishment of the gods, he should fast and reflect on his mistakes, and he should not kill and pray, which would be creating sinful karma. As for making a wish, I think only at the beginning of the first month of the first month I dreamed that a person told him that he was in trouble in the late summer and early autumn, and that if he could copy the Pure Land Sutra

One can be exempted. He later wanted to write but could not do it, so he decided to start copying the scriptures on the seventh day of the eighth month.

That night, Jing Fan suddenly dreamed that his father was crying at him, so he vowed to use the merit of copying the scriptures to pray for the blessings of the Buddha, so that if his father was still alive, he would be able to return to his hometown as soon as possible, and if he had passed away, he would be exalted, and chose to start writing the sutras on his father's birthday, which he planned to finish on September 29.

But on the afternoon of the 29th, Jing Fan suddenly felt heartache and vomited blood, and when it was time to watch the night, he suddenly felt his body fall under the bed, and saw an old man and a monk coming, and the monk smiled at Jing Fan and said: "Why are you greedy for the bitter capital of the body? Now that you have paid off your debts, you can go with me to the master's place." You can listen to me chanting. ”

So the monk recited the "Diamond Sutra", Jing Fan listened to the monk chanting, while following him, when the monk finished chanting, Jing Fan's heart was no longer painful. At this time, the monk stopped and said to the old man, "You go in with him, and ask the ghost official in charge of the book of life and death to explain to him the cause and effect of his previous life." So Jing Fan followed the old man into an inner courtyard, and the old man knelt down the steps with Jing Fan, and saw a ghost official wearing a ceremonial crown, sitting majestically in the tent, with many guards beside him.

The old man explained his intention very politely, and a man in red wearing a big crown hat walked down the steps with a book and said to Jing Fan, If you want to know the cause and effect of your previous life, you must listen carefully to what I will explain to you. After saying that, he ordered his subordinates to lead a person named "Liu Zhilin" to the hall, and after a while, a person came to the front of the steps, and it turned out to be the person who cut Jing Fan's tongue.

The man in red said: Once upon a time, there was a man named Minister Liu, called Gongchao, his family has been an official in Beijing for generations, Minister Liu was born in the second year of Jiajing, the minister has three sons, the eldest son is called Liu Zhilin, is the wife of Minister Liu Jin, when Zhilin was almost full moon, his mother Jin died. So Minister Liu married Tao again, and Tao gave birth to a second son, Liu Zhibao, and a third son, Liu Zhimao.

When his son grew up, the minister betrothed the eldest son Liu Zhilin and Liu Qingchen's daughter, and the second son Liu Zhibao and the daughter surnamed Zhou. The Liu family is beautiful and talented, while the Zhou family is ugly and clumsy.