Chapter 3 The Nai He Bridge
Floating and sinking in the water, the suffocation and discomfort of annihilation made Tian Bao in the dream desperately struggle for survival, she wanted to shout, and cold water poured into her mouth as soon as she opened her mouth. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Faintly by the lake, there is a figure of her lover in her heart - Zhang Quan save me, she thought so in her heart, but she saw that the man in the nest abandoned her in embarrassment after being frightened and bloodless, and fled by herself.
How could this be, if you knew that the final outcome would be betrayed, it would be better for the two of you to die together, this was Tian Bao's last heavy resentment before he lost consciousness......
Gu Changsheng woke up slowly, and the surrounding scenery also changed from vague to clear, there was not an inch of daylight in the place where she was, but the strange thing was that she could clearly see that there was no grass growing on the earth, bare branches and red sky.
What is this place? Gu Changsheng stood up with weak hands and feet.
"Tian Bao." She shouted a few times but didn't respond, just thinking that Tian Bao wouldn't be arrested in the underworld before she had time to say goodbye, so she was anxious to find it.
Someone behind him suddenly asked, "Where are you going?" "A rope moved like a snake and swam over and tied around her waist, and the man walked up to her, and his face in black clothes and black hats seemed to touch the bottom of the pot, and he was surprisingly gray." It's time to report with me to the City of the Dead. ”
"What a dead city, what kind of place is that, I won't go." Gu Changsheng stared vigilantly at the strangely dressed man in front of him, she knew everyone in the village, and none of them looked so strange. She'd heard that there was a kind of person who specialized in human trafficking, and she wouldn't be so unlucky to meet it.
"Do you think you can't go here if you don't go?"
Chang Xianxian tried to untie the rope around her waist, but the rope was getting tighter and tighter, and her waist became thinner and thinner, just like the wet clothes that were usually tightened by her, so thin that she was dumbfounded. "How ...... my waist"
"I advise you not to bother, this is a soul lock, specially prepared for dead ghosts like you who are still restless when they are dead." ”
Gu Changsheng stammered, "I'm dead?" ”
The ghost said, "Of course you're dead, this is the underworld, the place where people come after they die, how can you be here if you don't die." ”
"How is it possible, I'm dead, are you mistaken?" She promised to let Tian Bao get on her body and let her say goodbye to her father and mother in person, shouldn't she retire after helping, and finally wake up in the village.
Seeing that she was not cooperative, the ghost simply conjured up a booklet out of thin air, dipped his saliva and turned a few pages, and asked, "But the surname of the people in Tianjia Village is Gu Mingchangsheng?" ”
Gu Changsheng replied, "Yes." ”
"Then you are not mistaken, you died on the ninth day of the tenth month of the second year of Tianbao. I'm doing things according to my book, and I'll never pull the wrong person. The ghost shoved the notebook back into his bosom and pulled the other end of the rope like a cow to pull her away.
Changsheng's eyes are quick, and he hugged the dead wood around him with his hands and feet, "I don't believe I'm dead, if I die, how can I not remember how I died, even if I die, burn to death, drown and hang myself, there is always a way to die." ”
"I've been here on an errand for so long, and I've never seen anyone as troublesome as you." Forget it, it's pitiful for the sake of your destined short life, so that you can die well. He pulled out the blue porcelain vase from his bosom again, "This is the last time I won by gambling with the judge, I haven't used it yet, I'll try it with you today." ”
He uncorked the porcelain vase, spat and smeared it on Changsheng's eyelids.
Before Gu Changsheng could get dirty, there was a vivid picture in front of him, immersive. She saw Tian Bao behind her, and did not go to Tian's house as she said, but walked in the direction of the forest. Go to the lake where she drowned, and go deeper and deeper......
"I don't believe it!" Her voice was so loud that the whole picture shattered, and what she saw in front of her was the lifelessness of the underworld.
The ghost said, "That's a water ghost, if you don't find a stand-in and can't enter reincarnation, you can only blame yourself for being stupid, and you can believe the ghost's words." You still listen to the obedient words, follow me to the city of the dead and register your name, and I will send you back. ”
"You're going to give me back Yang?"
"What do you think, I mean send you back to the top, and your soul will stay in the lake where you drowned until the next unlucky guy becomes your stand-in."
Is that asking her to harm people, only Tianjia Village near the lake is inhabited, "I don't want to find any substitutes, I won't do anything harmful." ”
"If you don't do it, you'll be stuck in that lake forever." The few water ghosts he had pulled before also reacted the same as her at first, but then she couldn't stand the days when she didn't see the light of day, the misery of being a ghost is not something these mortals can imagine, and after a day or a year or ten years, this girl will understand. "People are going to die anyway, and without you, they will die in natural and man-made disasters."
Gu Changsheng begged, "Can you let me go back, I still have my father-in-law to take care of, he is seriously ill, and he can't do it without me decocting medicine for him." ”
"After every ghost came down, they said that there were eighty high halls and eight-year-old children to take care of, and they all put them back, and it was not a big mess in the world. Come with me. He tugged at the rope, and Changsheng had made up his mind to stay where he was. The ghost conjured a wooden stick, "I told you with kind words, don't toast or drink, do you know how I deal with those disobedient ghosts?" ”
Gu Changsheng said, "Big brother, you let me go back, it's a big deal that I go back to the yang world, and I will burn a lot of paper money for you." ”
"It's true that there are people who are greedy for money in the ghosts, but I see that you are dressed in coarse linen clothes, even if you go back to the top, you won't have a penny, what do you use to buy dark paper?"
The question asked by the ghost was really practical, "I don't care, I won't go to the dead city in vain anyway." ”
"Stinky girl." The ghost was furious, and the tongue in his mouth grew longer and longer, hanging down on his chest, "If I don't give you something, you don't know how to be afraid." He raised the wooden stick to hit her head, Gu Changsheng closed his eyes, he didn't know if the pain of the ghost was the same as the pain of the person, and if the stick was knocked down, her head would bloom.
She felt her forehead burn, and even though she closed her eyes, she felt a golden light pass through her eyelids, and after a while, when she opened her eyes again, only the ghostly clothes Changsheng, sticks, and a blue porcelain vase were left on the ground.
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The little ghost with the trident was directing the ghosts who came to report today to move forward in an orderly manner, while shouting, "The team that has died is going to the Senluo Palace." The team that died unexpectedly walked towards the city of death. Someone patted him on the shoulder, and the little ghost's neck was like a boneless dough stretched directly and twisted in the direction of his back, seeing that it was a ghost with a higher level than him, his fangs turned out his mouth bent, and he smiled flatteringly, "What do you command?" ”
Changsheng was very nervous, but fortunately, the hat on her head was too big, directly covering half of her face, and did not show her wandering eyes, "I...... I'd like to ask...... Which is the way back to the sun? ”
The little ghost asked respectfully, "Are you going to go up there again to attract souls?" Gu Changsheng nodded, and the little ghost continued, "Cross the Nai He Bridge, go out of the Ghost Gate Pass and then cross the Huangquan Road to go up." It's strange, you are a ghost who travels back and forth between the underworld and the yang world, how can you not recognize the way. ”
"This ......"
Changsheng was thinking about what reason to use to deal with the past, and the little ghost had already helped her answer, "It shouldn't be a new arrival, no wonder this dress doesn't look very good." Gu Changsheng was short, and he wore ghostly clothes and mopped the floor at the back, "I don't know what's going on with the yin of this clothes, I'm getting lazier and lazier recently, and I won't give you a measure and change it before sending it, so I let you wear it like this." ”
Whether the clothes are long or short, it's none of her business, she just wants to quickly ask the way back to the sun, so as not to stay for a long time and be discovered, "How do I go to the bridge?" ”
The little ghost was about to answer, but he found that someone in the team was noisy because of cutting in line, he immediately went over to stop it, brandished his trident and scolded, "This is the underworld, whether you were a ruffian or a bully when you were alive, it's the same when you get here, give me some peace, do you hear!" ”
The male ghost who was in trouble was dressed in wealth and wealth, and stuffed some dark paper into the little ghost's hand, and the little ghost secretly glanced at it and said with satisfaction, "You just stand here." ”
Changsheng saw that the person who was cut into the queue was the same as when she came down, and he was also dressed as a poor man in coarse linen clothes, and he only felt that the world was hot and cold above, but when he got to the bottom, he still saw Qian and his eyes opened, "I obviously saw that this old man was in front." ”
The little ghost came over and smiled, "My lord, you are a newcomer, you don't know, whether these ghosts want to enter the sixth realm or go down to the eighteenth layer of hell, they have to go to the Senluo Hall to see Lord Yama, and Lord Yama will turn over the book of life and death to make decisions based on the good deeds and evil deeds in life. ”
"What does that have to do with getting him in line."
The little ghost was afraid of attracting the anger of the people, so he raised his hand to block his mouth and whispered, "The number of ghosts that Hades sees every day is limited. He stuffed half of the money he collected into Gu Changsheng's hand, "Other ghosts and little ghosts do the same, this is the filial piety of the villain, I hope the adults will not dislike it." ”
What does she want to do with the money, go back to the yang world and use the money to buy things just to beg for a beating, "I don't want this, you still give it back to that person...... Hell, let him stand back wherever he should stand, it's you yourself who says it's the same here. ”
The little ghost scolded in his heart for being unlucky, but he was reluctant but didn't dare to disobey, so he could only return the money and let them line up. Bian complained, "I don't know what happened above, and the number of unjust souls who came down to report for vain death is increasing day by day." ”
Gu Changsheng asked again, "How do you get to the bridge?" ”
The little ghost pointed in a direction, "I'll see you there, adults have to move faster if you want to go to the yang world, and once the ghost door is closed." ”
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Nai He Bridge, Nai He Bridge, after crossing Nai He Bridge, the seven emotions and six desires are broken.
Meng Po soup Meng Po soup, drink Meng Po soup, and forget the past.
Meng Po chanted repeatedly to the ghosts crossing the bridge, and the Lechuan River under the bridge emitted a strong fishy smell, even if she pinched her nose, she still felt nauseous in her stomach, like the stench of the fish soup she made after several days.
The river is bright red, flowing from northeast to southwest, the river is wide, and there are three bridges. The ghosts split into three groups and passed by the bridge. The river occasionally bubbled up, and the waves swayed, and Changsheng watched carefully. Only then did I find out where the waves were, which were full of snakes, insects, rats and ants, constantly wriggling.