Chapter 1: The Netherworld
He was shocked in his heart, he inadvertently knew from the mouth of his friends in the rivers and lakes that there was a complex underground spring like a labyrinth deep in the underground of Xi'an City, because its spring water was black all year round, and the poisonous gas was very heavy, so it was named black water, and the drinker died without doubt, no one dared to approach, it was based on the successive prefects of Xi'an to build an underground prison based on the black water spring, all of which were piled up by the giant bluestones collected on the South Mountain, and the whole prison was like eighteen layers of hell. Death row prisoners, felons and important prisoners of the imperial court. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
This deep prison hidden at the bottom of the black water spring, there is a terrifying name on the rivers and lakes, called the Yin Cao Difu, a prison is built in the heart of the underground more than 100 meters deep, the yin is deep, and the poisonous gas is shrouded; Second, there are many kinds of torture instruments inside, tragic and abnormal, let you be a man beaten by steel, a fierce man beaten by iron, walk here, like a soul wandering in the underworld, the ghost door is closed and turned around, nine deaths and one life, there is no living person raised from it, only the white bones of the dead and the fool who was tortured into the walking corpse, the martial arts are all wasted, and the three-year-old child can be defeated with a finger. The most terrifying thing is that there is a snake cave in the depths of the Netherworld, in which countless huge pythons grow, and the most cruel is a snake king, who is golden all over his body, and has a fleshy horn several feet long on the top of his head, which is crimson. The snake king's body is thick and strong, dozens of zhang long. Every time a condemned prisoner is thrown into a snake cave, only the sound of devouring is heard, and the bones are gone in the blink of an eye. The Xi'an City Prison was built from the time of Taizu Hongwu and has been hanging for more than 200 years, and no prisoner has ever been able to escape from here. He desperately searched for the cause and effect of his arrest in the Blackwater Prison, and did not miss a single detail, but no matter how much he racked his brains, he still couldn't figure out what happened to him.
A few days ago, he just made a vote in the north of Xi'an, robbed the big proprietor of Wutong Lane who had been walking to the west exit for a long time and doing fur medicinal materials business outside the mouth, killed two strong and fierce servants, and made fun of the newly married daughter-in-law for a while, making more than 10,000 taels of silver, as well as pearl agate, ginseng mink, ivory bear paws, etc., he hid everything in an unpredictable secret place, and then, wearing a brand-new robe, humming a small tune, mixed in the crowd of drunken dreams and deaths in the end of the city, and went to the downtown to chase joy and laughter.
He entered the Suzaku Gate, when he looked up, there was a "Fengxiang Restaurant" in front of him was very magnificent, carved beams and painted buildings, hanging a pair of couplets on both sides, the upper link was "fame and fortune is more than wine", the lower link was "drunk so that people don't wake up", and the horizontal batch was "not drunk and not coming".
Fengxiang Restaurant is the most prestigious restaurant in Xi'an City, among which the signature dishes such as elbow with handle, shredded donkey meat, gourd head, mutton steamed bun, meat sandwich bun, etc., are famous in Guanzhong, and everyone knows it within a radius of 500 miles. After a while, after the six exquisite dishes were all on the table, the shopkeeper opened a jar of Xifeng wine that had been cellared for 30 years, and the house was full of fragrance in an instant, Li Rumo picked up the unique sea bowl of Fengxiang Restaurant, and saw that the wine was clear and thorough, and the wine was full of nose, very hard enough, strong enough and fierce enough, he raised his neck, and poured a large bowl of wine into his stomach, although the wine passed through his mouth, but the entrance was extremely spicy, but after a while after the stomach, there was a fragrance overflowing from the five abdomen and six lungs, soft and continuous, and Li Rumo's spirit was also invigorated.
This Xifeng wine comes from Fengxiang Town, a hundred miles west of Xi'an City, according to legend, it was given to the Jade Emperor to Ji Chang, the king of Zhou Wen, and then became the princely general's use, Qin and Han to the Sui and Tang dynasties are the tribute of the imperial court, the price is extremely expensive, the princes and nobles can only be tasted occasionally, and the ordinary people are rare to see. He slowly drank and ate the food, all over the body, looked outside, the sky was already numb and black, full of warm thoughts**, he was full of wine and food, thinking of the most famous brothel on this street "Qin Wa Pavilion", where the world is absolutely beautiful and beautiful, white skin is better than snow, he can no longer bear it, he will banknote, burp, take advantage of the wine, swaying, strolling towards Qin Wa Pavilion. The end of the dynasty, the autumn of the troubled times, the day is not safe, people are not as good as ghosts, everyone is desperately poor and luxurious, chasing joy and getting drunk.
He walked into the Qin Wa Pavilion, ** saw that it was the God of Wealth who came to the door, he was overjoyed, his tongue was like a spring, and he immediately said that there was a new Kao of the Qin Wa Pavilion, this woman's name is Hengbo, she is very young, and her demeanor is amorous, Li Rumo was moved, and immediately took out a hundred taels of gold, stuffed it to **, ** smiled and shouted, and asked the turtle to invite Li Rumo into the room, plate the aromatherapy room, serve food and prepare wine, and then invite out of the horizontal wave.
Sure enough, after a burst of dark incense, Hengbo curled out, the two sat down to drink, three glasses of wine down, Hengbo Demon Ye squeezed out a few tears on his moving face, she sobbed and said that she was a local good woman, her husband was killed by thieves, there were no bones, she was raped and occupied by the bachelor Wang next door for a long time, and after getting tired of playing it, she was sold to this ecstasy cave, and life is better than death.
Li Rumo saw that she was pitiful, like a pear blossom with rain, so he gave her an extra ten taels of silver and asked her to serve her well.
Seeing the silver, Hengbo smiling face like a flower, gentle as water, soft as boneless, in response to the old saying that women are made of water, and beauty is like a fox like water in the past and present life, a big brother on the left, a father on the right called Li Rumo's heart is full of flowers, blood gushing, Hengbo has done his best, the song is welcome, the style is affectionate, several times the romance lingers, it is really an excellent variety of fireworks Willow Lane, when the love is strong, Hengbo Wu Nong softly, Li Rumo never understands, there are few Qindi blood women in the Qin Wa Museum, how can there be more unbridled demons, The little beauty of Wu Di with a moving figure? But Li Rumo still smiled happily, this Hengbo is not a bullshit woman at all, but an old kiln sister who has been in the dust for a long time.
After that, what's after that? It was as if he had drunk a glass of Hengbo flower wine, and suddenly he was dazed, and he was tied up and carried here like a big dumpling. Could it be that I was drugged by someone, is it a horizontal wave? Why did she drug herself? Is it silver? He touched his pocket, a few hundred taels of silver were still there, it didn't seem like a cross wave calculating himself, could it be that someone else was hiding in the shadows to calculate himself? Who the hell is this person? For what purpose?
Thinking about it, he had no rules in his heart, and the water seeped down from time to time on the top of his head, as cold as ice water, he sighed, this deep prison is built at the bottom of the black water spring, and it will seep water from time to time, and this prison cell is even more damp and abnormal, which really responds to the terrifying rumors of the black water prison on the rivers and lakes that "leave the underworld nine feet nine, and the king of Hades is still on his head". But in any case, if she can get out alive, she will be the first to go to Qin Wa Pavilion and kill Hengbo, she may not be involved in the murder of herself, at least she is also a broom star, there are taboos in the rivers and lakes, and she fell on the road for no reason because of this broom star this time, and she must be killed in order to unravel the Gu poison, otherwise she will have nightmares. I don't know how long later, he heard footsteps outside the stone gate, Li Rumo got up with a snort, only to see a small window as big as a palm open on the heavy stone door, and there was a little light outside the window, like a ghost fire, and in the distance was a long staircase made of stones, extending up one step at a time, and there was no end in sight.
Outside the small window, an old man with a hateful face stared at a pair of strange eyes, and a strange "ho-ho" sound came out of his mouth, and then a pair of rough hands stuffed a black and hard nest head through the small window.
Li Rumo was ruthless in his heart, he didn't pick up the nest head, but stood there far away, grandma Xiong grandpa scolded the egg, the strange man didn't say a word, and ho ho a few times, simply threw the nest head to the ground, then closed the small window, and slowly left.
He scolded your grandmother Ha Xiong, your grandmother thief, and your ancestors on the day, and when he was tired of scolding, he bumped around, but the hard stone walls around him weighed more than 10,000 catties, and he didn't move at all, he ran out of strength, scolded hoarsely, and didn't have half a ghost to take care of himself.
And the old jailer who sent the head of the nest ignored his loud scolding, as if he was a deaf and dumb person.
In a daze, day and night, and I didn't know how many more days had passed, he was so hungry that he crawled on the ground, picked up the nest on the ground, and devoured it, not caring that it was a lump of holes harder than stones, covered with dust and mouse droppings. It's all a world away from my own spending on the outside, but it's just the beginning. Li Rumo was not afraid at first, and even a little funny, he boasted that he was just a prostitute and drinking, just idle, and the other earth-shattering cases he did were unaware, and there would never be any evidence in the hands of the government, as long as he didn't take the initiative to say it, the gods didn't know. He grew up in a pile of beggars, and he has refined the kung fu of steel teeth and copper mouth, and no one wants to get a word from his mouth if he doesn't want to say anything.
He also has a characteristic, that is, he has a violent personality, when he thinks that he can't get out and doesn't want to delay fearlessly, he will definitely break his muscles and die without a trace of hesitation, he wants to let all the secrets about Li Rumo go with him into the underworld, so he is very calm in his heart.
For many days, no one paid attention to himself, and Li Rumo was also confused in his heart, what tricks were these dog prefects and dog officials in Xi'an City playing? Since he made such a big effort, he played conspiracies and tricks to get Lao Tzu in, and threw Lao Tzu into it, like a dead dog and a rotten baby, ignoring and ignoring it, as if there was no him Li Rumo in the world at all, he felt that he had suffered a great grievance, because he felt that he was also the number one person, but in the eyes of the Xi'an prefect, he was as insignificant as a thief who stole chickens and dogs.
For a month, two months, no one paid any attention to him, and he went from calm to helpless and finally angry and desperate, and every day he looked out through the narrow hole, and there were still deep corridors and long steps outside, and there was not even a fly else. In the dark night, there will occasionally be creepy screams, Li Rumo knows that this is not somewhere else, but the blackwater prison called the eighteen-story underworld on the rivers and lakes, every few days, there will be a faint scream, as if someone is suffering from torture, all of them can't be tortured crying, there are crying fathers crying for mercy, and there are intermittent breathless struggles before death.
Li Rumo thought to himself, in the depths of this dark and damp black water, there will be Jiang Yang's great thief soul entering the underworld at any time, and he will finish the road of life here tragically, and be asked for his life by the murderous jailer, and he doesn't know how many innocent people have died here and become lonely souls and wild ghosts in the underworld.
Especially at night, he felt that there were countless ghosts wandering around him, and gradually, he began to think, could it really be karma for what he had done? That night, Li Rumo was sleeping deeply, and suddenly felt that there was a ghostly ghost fire flickering in front of him, and behind the ghost fire, several ghost figures were standing.
"Lift-up-head-come!" An eerie shrill voice seemed to be close to his ear, and at the same time a hint of cool air blew towards his neck.
Li Rumo was in pain all over, and the voice in his ears was so terrifying and poignant, he raised his head and opened his eyes in danger of breaking his neck.
Three erratic shadows stood in front of him, and when he looked at it quietly, his whole body was as if he had fallen into ice water, and in front of him were three terrible faces that he had never seen before, and three grimaces that were extremely fierce. I saw that the face of the middle person was like white paper, his long tongue was sticking out, oozing bloodstains, obviously he had just eaten some living thing, and he was holding a long mourning stick in his hand, which seemed to be the soul messenger of the underworld. The other two shadows stood to the left and right of the Soul Hooker, one head as big as a horse, the other as big as a cow, with a green face and fangs, clear and terrifying, holding a soul hook flag, like the legendary bull head and horse face.
Li Rumo was so frightened that his soul flew away, and he sighed secretly in his heart: "It seems that his yang life has ended, and the Lord of Yama has sent a soul seduction messenger and a bull head and a horse face to capture his yin soul." ”
I only heard the soul envoy say sharply: "Li Rumo, are you guilty?" ”
Li Rumo's whole body was like sifting chaff, and he prayed: "Three ghost grandfathers, ghost uncles, what crime have I committed?" ”
The soul envoy sneered and said: "Don't do anything bad for people, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night, this yin and yang rice at the bottom of the black water city has been eaten for a few months, don't you still know your sin?" You have murdered people and set fires, raped ** women, stolen people's money, and committed numerous crimes all your life. What is especially odious is that on August 15, you killed the eighteen members of Lord Qian's family in the south of the city, and the bloody case is vividly remembered. Lord Qian is the premier gentleman and good man in Xi'an City, you have destroyed the door with bloody hands, the crimes are too numerous to mention, you have violated the rules of heaven, provoked the anger of the heavens, and the Lord of Yama named you to arrest you. Li Rumo knows that he has done too much evil on weekdays, and today is the time limit, but his natural courage and competitiveness make him unwilling to give up the opportunity to survive, he defended: "Grandpa Hook Soul, Uncle Bull Head and Horse Face, I Li Rumo has killed countless people, but the people I killed are all corrupt officials and corrupt officials, as well as villains who are rich and unkind, and wicked people who are traitors and criminals, what I do can be regarded as doing the right thing for heaven, contributing to the Lord of Yama, you Yin Cao Difu want to use this to treat my crimes, although Li Rumo is not convinced, but after all, he has committed the killing commandment, I am willing to be punished, go to the oil pot, go to the knife mountain, I, Li Rumo, will never blink my eyes. It's just that you say that on the 15th of August, I killed the Qian family in the south of the city, and you must be mistaken. This matter, even if you sue Lord Yama, I am not afraid. ”
The soul envoy said angrily: "What a treacherous and vicious Li Rumo, how can Lord Yama wait for Xiao Xiao to see, if you don't wait for you to see Yan Jun, you will have been sent to the eighteenth layer of hell, and you will be tortured by the underworld, and in the next life, you will be a cow and a horse, a fish and a sheep, slaughtered by others, a tiger and a wolf, and then enter the Abi Hell, and you will never be able to turn over." Do I think you're still hard-mouthed? ”
Li Rumo heard the soul envoy say this, he was really a little scared in his heart, because of his strange experience, he believed in the illusory things of the gods and ghosts in the underworld, once he let himself be subjected to the tragic torture of the underworld, cut off his waist and tongue, dig out his heart and belly, he was covered in cold sweat.
He cautiously said, "Soul Charmer, please save me." ”
The Soul Hooker's tone softened, and he said, "Everything you did was a sin in your previous life, and you need to repay it in this life, so you can wait to receive your death." The bull head and horse face are ready to hook the soul and stake his yin soul directly to the eighteenth layer of hell. Li Rumo shouted for mercy.
Ma Mian picked up the soul hook banner in his hand and put it on Li Rumo's head, Li Rumo felt that his eyes were dark, his neck was cold, the thing was like a filament, the tighter and tighter, Li Rumo felt that there was only breath in his mouth and nose, no breath, and gradually it was difficult to breathe, dizzy, and he lamented in his heart: "Today I finally lost my life to the soul messenger, it seems that the sky net is really magnificent, negligent but not leaky, I thought I could escape the pursuit of the underworld, but unfortunately ......" At this moment, the bull head standing on the side suddenly whispered to the soul messenger: "Soul messenger, I once looked at the Yin Cao roster, this person is pregnant with holy relics, his life should not be extinguished, and he still has thirty years of yang life, please ask the soul envoy to verify it before it is too late. ”
The Soul Envoy said angrily: "Do you see that he is a blessed man with holy relics? Bull head, you must be mistaken. ”
Niu Tou bowed down and said: "This matter is not trivial, how dare Niu Tou deceive the soul envoy, and hope that the envoy will investigate clearly." ”
With a slight wave of his left hand in the air, the Soul Envoy suddenly had a thick roster in his hand. He stretched out his right hand, gently flipped through the roster, and when he reached more than a dozen pages, he suddenly read softly: "Li Rumo, who has a holy relic in his body, prolongs his life for thirty years, enjoys glory and wealth, and is a very popular minister." Special order of the underworld. When the soul envoy read this, he bowed to Li Rumo and said: "It turns out that Li Jun has been blessed by holy relics, and he is disrespectful and disrespectful!" Then he said to the bull head and the horse: "Since there is a destiny in heaven, we can go back to the underworld to restore our lives." Li Rumo's neck suddenly loosened, his breathing was suddenly smooth, he went from death to life, and he actually picked up a life, and he was secretly excited in his heart.
At the same time, his mind was like lightning, remembering a strange thing last winter, it was a day of heavy snowfall, he accidentally met an old man in purple who was frozen all over, covered in blood, and was killed in the snow, he was afraid that the old man would be exposed to the wilderness, and wanted to bury him, but he inadvertently picked up a mysterious jade box on the old man's body.
The three ghosts of the soul seducer were about to leave, Ma Mian seemed to be unconvinced, and he suddenly said: "Messenger, please wait a moment, since this person is hiding holy relics, according to the rules of the Yin Division, we must verify the truth, otherwise Yan Jun will ask questions, I am afraid that we will not be able to escape the crime of incompetence." ”
As soon as the soul envoy heard that what he said was reasonable, he said to Li Rumo: "Li Jun, please forgive me, according to the Yin Si Yin rules, we must verify it truthfully, can Li Jun take out the holy relics and let me wait for a look?" ”
Li Rumo was anxious in his heart, for fear that the three ghosts would leave more trouble, and said: "I really have holy relics, how dare I, Li Rumo, have ten thousand dares to deceive Yan Jun and your eldest brothers, it's just ......" He suddenly thought to himself: "Since the holy relics are so magical, even Yan Jun, the Soul Hook Messenger, and the Bull Head and Horse Face all bow down to three points, once I let them know the place where the holy relics are hidden, I am afraid that they will also have different hearts and covet the holy relics, if they lose the protection of the holy relics, I am afraid that they will no longer be able to escape from this netherworld, and they will not die here?" Therefore, it is best to escape from this netherworld before taking out the holy relics. ”
Seeing that Li Rumo suddenly stopped talking, the soul seduction envoy said sharply: "Li Rumo, you dare to deceive this envoy, if you can't take out the holy relics for me to test the authenticity, I will add you a felony of deceiving Yan Jun, I'm afraid ...... Hehe, the punishment will be even more severe. Li Rumo had countless thoughts in his heart, he thought that since things had come to such a point, he had nothing to be afraid of, he suddenly straightened up and said loudly: "Whether you are dead or alive, I have an destiny, you can try it, see if you are powerful Hades and little ghosts, or the magic power of holy relics." "Stretch out your hand and wait for the punishment of the Soul Envoy and the Bull Head and Horse Face.
The Soul Hooker laughed furiously and said, "What a dead ghost who dares to oppose Yan Jun, let you taste the power of Daigo empowerment." Immediately stretched out his right hand and put it on the top of Li Rumo's head, Li Rumo felt an extremely cold air pouring down from his heavenly spirit cover, like a steel knife straight in, is this the "Daigo empowerment" in the Yin Division? The cold air became more and more intense, Li Rumo clenched his teeth, did not say a word, and gradually, his whole body solidified into ice cubes. Suddenly, he fell to the ground with a thud, and nothing was left.
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