Chapter 8: The Ghost Messenger

"Oh. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info "Changsheng remembered that Jiang Qu had praised Jiang Qu for being beautiful a long time ago, and she remembered that Jiang Qu was very happy to come at that time, and would talk to her endlessly about how many benefits he had gained because of his blessed face, and how many girls had broken their hearts, she was just telling the truth, but it turned out that not every man was happy to be praised......

Changsheng shuddered inexplicably, thinking that it was the hexagram that had taken over the quilt again. She opened her eyes and saw the mask hanging from the window, and the hollowed-out eyes were staring hollow at her. Changsheng was completely awake in fright, and after looking carefully, he remembered, oh, by the way, this is her mask, she hung it up, and forgot to put it back in the cabinet.

The plague ghost actually tried to get close to Changsheng when he was sleeping just now, but he couldn't suppress his fear when he slept next to her, so he was so far away, and deliberately came out of the mask and opened the window that Changsheng had closed before going to bed, waking her up cold.

Changsheng rubbed his eyes and asked, "Why did you open the window?" ”

The plague ghost said, "Girl, can you take me somewhere?" ”

He didn't dare to mask for too long, for fear that Zhao Gongming would find him again. He also tried to take away the mask while Changsheng was not in the room today, but when he came up with this idea, this mask was as heavy as Mount Tai to him, and he could only rely on Gu Changsheng.

Changsheng asked, "Are you looking for something?" The plague always told her to walk the streets, but the road she had walked would not be repeated, and she felt a little as if she was recognizing the way.

The plague ghost was silent, and he heard Chongming's words scolding Changsheng in the cabinet that day, from beginning to end, including Changsheng's answer.

He did deceive this girl, and thought that after becoming a ghost, even if people's conscience was thrown away, who knew that after hearing it with his own ears, he would still be uncomfortable.

"I'm looking for my identity, I should say I'm looking for my identity before I died."

Changsheng remembered that day and heard the dispute between him and Zhao Gongming, as if he had indeed mentioned something in the past, "Don't you remember what happened before you died?" ”

The plague ghost shook his head, "I just remember that I was taken to the underworld, met the queen of Hades, and happened to meet the master of the middle plague Shi Wenye Shi, who came to Yin Cao to select the plague ghost and chose me." I went from the underworld to Lord Zhao Gongming. But I never remembered my name or how I died. ”

Later, when he came to work under Zhao Gongming, the only thing he did was to follow Zhao Gongming to spread the plague after he received the mandate of heaven. Originally, he gradually forgot to pursue his past, since he was a plague ghost, those red dust past events were his previous life, and they had nothing to do with him. That's what he thought.

But once when he was spreading the plague, he met an old woman, and some images flashed through his mind, and there was a very strong feeling reminding him that he had an important thing that he had not done, which was very important, so important that when he was dying, he could not forget that he wanted to be a ghost.

But he still forgot.

He later found this place by the streets of the houses that flashed through the images, and he thought that he must have lived here in his lifetime.

"I really know Dansu, I have seen it in my scattered memories, but I can't remember where I saw it for the time being." The plague ghost confessed, he let Changsheng go around the city in a circle, and he couldn't remember where Dansu was in the city.

When he said this, he didn't know if Gu Changsheng would believe it again, mortals were always bitten by snakes for ten years and were afraid of grass ropes, and when he went to spread the plague, he had seen too many people like this. He couldn't remember if he was like that when he was a human being, but he thought that if he had been deceived by someone, it would probably be difficult to trust that person again, not to mention that he was not a human being, a ghost with a lot of nonsense.

"If you don't want to help me anymore, I won't force you anymore, I just ask you not to tell Lord Zhao about my whereabouts."

“…… How do you think I can help you? Changsheng asked.

Changsheng put on his coat and shoes, and sneaked out of the back door to a coffin shop in the city that specializes in funerals. At this time, it was already late time, and Changsheng had been patting the door for a long time before someone came to answer the door, and naturally the person who answered the door first scolded Changsheng who disturbed people's dreams. "What are you doing, hurry to reincarnate!"

Changsheng was also a little embarrassed, and took out the money to come out and say that he wanted to buy the dark paper. For the sake of money, the man immediately changed his attitude, took out the dark paper, and by the way, he also sold any ingots and candles, eager to let Changsheng even book the coffin.

Although she just wanted to buy the paper at first, she woke up people and caused them to be pulled back from their dreams, so she took it as compensation, and she bought more ingot candles. It's just that coffin. She thought that she was not yet twenty this year, and she should not have to start preparing for her future so early, so she still refused.

The guy in the coffin shop happily accepted the money and asked Changsheng if he still needed it, and when he saw Changsheng shaking his head, he planned to close the door again and sleep.

Changsheng was holding a pile of ingots candle paper, feeling that his two hands didn't seem to be enough. Especially for something as light and fluttering as dark paper, it is really easy to fly without pressing. "I'll help you." The plague ghost said, stretching out his hands from the mask to help Changsheng share half of the burden.

The man in the coffin shop saw that the candle and the paper were floating by themselves not far away, floating in front of Changsheng, and shouted a ghost, and fainted as soon as his eyes were closed.

There is a yaksha from the underworld who came up to be on duty to hook the soul, and when Changsheng saw it, he quickly hid in the alley on the side, and watched the yaksha cling to the fork and walked away before daring to go out.

The plague ghost felt that he should be the one who was afraid of the underworld, and he didn't know if Zhao Gongming really reported his escape, although he didn't think that he would send heavenly soldiers and generals for a small plague ghost to mobilize such an exaggeration, but if he really reported it, with his status level, he should also send five or six little ghosts to look for him in the city.

But looking at Changsheng, he felt that she was more scared than him.

"Miss Gu, are you okay?"

Changsheng shook his head. In the past two days, one of the plague ghosts let her wander around the city, and she also wrote down some roads, and came to the back door of a post station, where the plague ghost road was, so let her stop.

Changsheng asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

"There are people in the underworld who specialize in helping to deliver letters and documents, and there are ghosts in the underworld who specialize in this work."

I miss the memorial texts written by my deceased relatives, the clothes, shoes and socks that I burned, and those ingots will not be burned, so I can fly directly across the Huangquan Road to the Yin Cao, there are so many ghosts in the Yin Cao, I don't know how many evil ghosts suffer in the eighteen layers of hell alone.

If no one specially collects these things sent from the underworld to the underworld and distributes them according to their names, even if the paper money can reach the underworld, it will be robbed early.

The plague ghost said, "I need to send something, but there are rules for doing things for ghosts." He looked at the paper money.

Changsheng thought to herself, she understood this, because it was not the first time that she had personally verified the famous saying that money can make ghosts grind, it was difficult to find someone who didn't talk about money in the yang world, and when she died, it was quite difficult to find a ghost who wasn't greedy for money.

The plague lit a ghost fire and burned a piece of paper, which turned into ashes and was swept into the walls of the inn by the wind. Changsheng listened to the command and began to scatter paper money into the sky, thinking that he didn't know if the people at the post station would feel that someone was deliberately provoking when they got up early tomorrow morning and saw the paper money in a place.

The paper money was scattered, Changsheng heard a horse neighing in his ears, and when he turned around, he saw a fiery red horse panting in front of her, and immediately sat a ghost with only a pair of eyes on his face, but no nose and mouth.

The plague ghost looked at the candle in Changsheng's hand and asked, "Can this also divide me into two?" He only asked Changsheng to buy the Dark Paper, but he didn't expect Changsheng to buy so many things that exceeded his budget.

Changsheng handed him two candles, and she couldn't take them back to the dart game, otherwise the people in the dart game would see her and ask her why she bought these, and she wouldn't know how to answer. The plague lit a candle, one for the horse to enjoy, and one for the demon messenger. He did both.

The plague ghost said, "Trouble. ”

As soon as the ghost messenger raised his hand, the plague had just burned something in his hand.

Although there were two missing, Changsheng still held a lot of them in his hand, and she asked, "Can I send them anywhere in the underworld?" Then can you help me send these to Miss Lu Youzhao Lu who is ferrying by the Nai He Bridge? ”

The ghost messenger nodded, took away the remaining candles and ingots in Changsheng's hand, and then took out another candle and an ingot, and then wrapped the rest into a bag.

Changsheng didn't understand why he had to separate the bag, and the plague ghost explained, "You sent a lot of things, so you need to take some more money from them to pay for the journey, after all, you have to pay more when you get to the underworld." The ghost guards also have to send some things to act. ”

This layer is peeled off layer by layer, and I don't know how many are left in Miss Lu's hands. She knew that the ghost difference in the underworld was indeed like this, so she could only accept it, but she regretted that maybe she should have bought more just now.

The ghost messenger clamped his legs, and the horse raised its hooves and ran forward, then plunged headlong into the ground. Changsheng asked, "How long will it take to reply?" ”

The plague is only very fast.

I must have waited for half an hour, and then I saw a head popping out of the ground, and at first it only popped out of its eyes, but after looking around carefully, it felt that there was nothing suspicious, and then it crawled out of the ground.

The ghost who crawled out, "You actually slipped out." When Master Shi came to pick up ghosts, he didn't think to hide from us, and he made the rules to be a plague ghost clear, and I just didn't want to be a plague ghost because I thought it was troublesome. But how did you choose to do it and knowingly commit it, there was once a plague ghost who ran away, and after being caught back, you had to suffer from three hundred years of arrows piercing your heart, you are so confused. ”

The plague ghost said, "I have to do this, I am really desperate to ask for your help." ”

Changsheng looked at her stupidly, the ghost who crawled out of the ground looked at her, and found that this mortal with yang energy on his body seemed to be able to see her, the ghost didn't like mortals very much, and wanted to scare Changsheng away, so he took off his head and put it on his waist, Changsheng was dumbfounded, but after swallowing his saliva, he didn't run away as he wished.

"If you don't leave, I'll eat you." When did the people in the yang world become so bold, when he was a man, he was in a hurry at night, and he was half frightened to death by the willow branches hanging on his shoulders on the side of the road, thinking that he had seen a ghost. But now this woman is really hell, but she doesn't seem to see it.

Or is it scary not enough to just take off the head, and to divide the limbs?

The plague ghost first introduced Changsheng and called Changsheng a benefactor. Then he reported the name of the ghost who crawled out of the ground, this ghost is called Hou Yu, Shi Wenye originally picked him when he went to the underworld to choose the plague ghost, but he was reluctant to do it after hearing the many constraints of being a plague ghost, Shi Wenye was not reluctant, thinking that working under him, the premise of love and dedication was to be equal and voluntary.

Later, when the prince of Yama interrogated Hou Yu, he saw that he had never done evil in his life, and he was a showman, although he also stopped at showmanship, and he always landed in the imperial examination every time he took the imperial examination, but it was also because he was poor and had no money to bribe, and he still had some real talent in his stomach.

So he asked Hou Yu if he would like to stay in the underworld and work. So Hou Yu is now working as an errand in the underworld, and he was originally just helping to register the names of the ghosts who report to the Senluo Temple every day, but he recently changed his position, and because of his literacy, he temporarily went to help sort out the book of life and death.

Hou Yu said, "You are really stupid, people and ghosts have different paths, how can ghosts and people get along." He doesn't have a good impression of people, he was forced to die when he was alive, and his neighbors obviously saw it, but because he was afraid of seeing death one by one, he really understood the cold-bloodedness and ruthlessness of people, so he didn't want to be reincarnated.

The plague ghost knows that Hou Yu's prejudice against people is frozen for three feet, and it is difficult to eliminate the cold of a day, and he does not argue with him about this issue, "What I ask you for, can you do it?" ”

"If it weren't for the fact that you helped me in the first place, I wouldn't have had to take this risk."

It's really careless to make friends, the two died on the same day and month of the same year, and they went to the underworld to report that Hou Yu on Huangquan Road was bullied by a powerful ghost who was rampant and domineering in the yang world and was finally hacked to death by the enemy, and he was from the Plague Ghost Gang.

All the life and death times of mortals in the yang world are recorded in the book of life and death, that is to say, they are all predestined, and the king of Hades has judged the good and evil deeds of this person in his life before his death, and decided where he will be reincarnated into that reincarnation, and whether he will be a human or an animal in the next life.

And when was born, how long can you live, die young or die in the end, and those who fall to death are still sick and die, this is strictly enforced according to the book of life and death.

But what is recorded in this book of life and death can be regarded as a heavenly opportunity, not anyone who wants to read it can read it at will, only the king of Hades and the judge can see it, and the black and white impermanence should hook anyone's soul, and it is also up to the "above" to explain.

Hou Yu said, "I secretly turned over the list of the day you and I died, Bai Wuchang did hook your soul in this city, you should be from here." ”

"I know this, but what I want to ask is my original name, which family here and how I died." ”

Hou Yu didn't know why he suddenly became curious about the cause of his death, he knew that the plague ghost couldn't remember what happened to him before his death, and he couldn't even remember his name, so he still called him the plague ghost, and both of them belonged to the poor ghosts who couldn't receive sacrifices at the birthday and death sacrifices.

He had no one to worship, and the plague ghost could not remember his name, so even if he had relatives alive and read his name on the sacrifices he burned, the sacrifices would not reach the plague spirits.

Hou Yu said, "Actually, Lord Shi and Lord Zhao must know your details, they will never accept a subordinate with an unknown background, have you thought about it, they don't want you to know that there may be their reasons." ”

Hou Yu actually felt that there were some past events that he didn't have to remember, just like him, what he remembered was the bitter things he remembered, and it was better to be happy if he didn't remember it.

"I must remember, if you read my page in the book of life and death, tell me."

Hou Yu said, "You and I are out of reincarnation, so the page that records your life has been pulled out and made into a separate volume, and it is not difficult to find." It's just that many years ago, someone made a big fuss and set fire to the underworld, and in addition to burning the Nai He Bridge, it also burned countless books of life and death. Hearing this, Changsheng's neck shrank, she didn't expect that the impact of Xi Zixu's fuss in the underworld would be so great, Hou Yu continued, "Although your page has been preserved, some of it is burnt. ”

And recently, I don't know why, there seem to be several more unjust souls in the yang world, not according to the destined trajectory in the book of life and death, but the death is unclear and unclear, and even the soul cannot be found when it dies. It was the family members of those people in the Yang World who went to the Hades Temple to cry and complain, and the Hades knew about it.

Hades thought it was a problem with the Book of Life and Death, so he was transferred to sort out the Book of Life and Death. "The book of life and death says that you committed suicide."

The plague muttered, "Kill yourself? "He knows that his life is short, how old he is when he usually dies, and the appearance of the ghost when the black and white impermanence pulls your soul out is also a truthful reaction of how old he is, and he should be in his early twenties when he dies.

He had thought that he might be killed like Hou Yu, but he really didn't think that it would be suicide. "Do you know why you committed suicide?" The plague asked.

Hou Yu shook his head, "Hades has ordered us to sort out those damaged life and death books, presumably Lord Hades and the judge will find a time to fill in a new copy of the destroyed part of the life and death books." ”

It's just that I don't know if it's going to be the year of the monkey and the month of the plague ghosts, and they have gotten rid of the cycle of life and death, and the pages that record them are estimated to be less urgent in Hades' opinion than those who are still circulating into the cycle of life and death.

I guess the pages that belonged to them will be dealt with at the end.

I just didn't know if he was going to be on duty there.

No matter how Hou Yu thought about it, he felt that the plague ghost wanted to find the past, which was not only thankless, but also very slim, and he persuaded, "Even if you can't remember those things in the past, it won't do you any real damage, but if you escape, do you really imagine that the plague ghost was pierced by thousands of hearts." You better go and admit your mistake to Lord Zhao, I haven't received any news so far, he may not have told you about it, but there is still room for a turnaround. ”

Hou Yu didn't answer when he saw the plague ghost, thinking that he was stubborn. Hou Yu sneaked out, and he couldn't leave for too long, so he could only persuade the plague ghost to bow his head to Zhao Gongming and admit his mistake, and he reminded him of the different paths of people and ghosts, and asked the plague ghost not to get close to Changsheng anymore, and then went back.

It turned out to be a night, but it didn't feel like it was getting anything out.

The back door of the dart game was closed, Changsheng didn't dare to use force after pushing twice, she was afraid that too hard would remove the door panel, she visually inspected the wall, this height should still be able to climb over, she rolled up her sleeves and planned to climb over the wall.

But the plague didn't need to, he came out of his mask and went through the crack in the door, and blew on the deadbolt, which was made of wood and suddenly floated like a feather into the potted plant next to it. The Plague Gang Changsheng opened the door.

Fu Yan suddenly appeared, threw out the rope soaked in chicken blood in his hand and lassoed the plague ghost and shouted, "Changsheng, come here!" ”

The little monkey dragged a copper coin sword out and dragged it to Fu Yan's feet, and Changsheng didn't know that Fu Yan had brought so many magic weapons when he went out. Fu Yan hooked his toes, grasped the hilt of the sword, and pointed the head of the sword at the plague spirit, and tried to take him.

The pestilence ghost's face became hideous, it became the appearance of a green-faced fang, he couldn't break free of the rope, his fingers were bent into claws, and he was about to scratch at Fu Yan's body, Changsheng shouted, "If you dare to hurt my master, I won't help you!" The plague stopped.

Fu Yan already noticed that Changsheng had something to hide from him, but he just kept quiet for the time being, Changsheng was not good at lying, when his eyes were good, he couldn't hide anything from him, and when his eyes were bad, Changsheng still couldn't hide from him.

Fu Yan never shouted at her, but this time his tone was stern, "How can you put a ghost around." How was Cao Yi's father-in-law before, you also saw it with your own eyes, ghosts will consume people's yang energy if they are around people for a long time, and they really don't have a long memory. ”

Changsheng thought to himself that she had taken in this plague ghost for four days, it shouldn't be a long time, she didn't have any symptoms of Cao Yixianggong now, she didn't feel anything wrong with her body, and she ate six bowls of dinner, which was quite energetic.

Seeing that the plague ghost was strangled uncomfortably, Changsheng pleaded, "Master, he has no malicious intent. He just begged me for help. Changsheng told all the causes and consequences, including how he knew this plague ghost and how he hid it from Zhao Gongming.

Fu Yan said, "I once told you, although it is to cultivate the immortal guard to kill the demon and eliminate the demon, but it is not necessary to receive the demon when you see it, and you must get rid of the ghost when you see it, because this way refers to going your own way, as long as it does not harm people and disrupt the order of the world, you can be safe." If he is really Zhao Gongming's subordinate, then it involves the Divine Tomorrow Dao, and you, a mortal, should not interfere. ”

Changsheng lowered his head and listened to the Buddha's lesson. The plague ghost said, "She helped me because I said I had seen Dansu, and she wanted to cure your eyes." ”

Fu Yan bent his index finger to knock on Changsheng's head, because he couldn't see that he missed the first time he missed his head, he simply asked Changsheng to put his head up, Changsheng didn't dare to disobey the master's order, so he had to prepare for pain and obediently put his head up.

Fu Yan really knocked on her head, not that she didn't know that she was filial, but now she is more worried that she will get into trouble, if it is the demons and monsters, it is better to send it away, it makes no sense to accept it, but it is not easy to provoke the gods.

If she messes up the way of heaven and wants to use her yang longevity, this girl probably hasn't thought deeply about the consequences.

Fu Yan said to the plague ghost, "All the causes and causes in the world have their own arrangements, since you are dead, all kinds of life will disappear, since you can't remember it, why bother to remember, why don't you follow the fate, if the will of heaven is what you will remember, even if you don't do anything, you will still remember." ”

He was trying to persuade him to leave on his own.

The plague ghost begged, "I need Miss Gu to help me, Dao Chief, you can give me two more days......"

Fu Yan asked rhetorically, "Will you die if you can't find you in two days?" In fact, he has seen it through a long time ago, if he still can't remember it after two days, he will continue to stay, Changsheng is soft-hearted, and she can't bear to say a few words pitifully.

Sometimes you don't necessarily want to harm this person, but what you do is no different from harming this person. "Even if Changsheng is looking for Dansu, her heart to help you will not be fake. If you want to repay her, don't pester her anymore. ”

Fu Yan loosened the rope in his hand, and didn't want to kill it all, and he didn't want to leave for a while, so he could only forcibly drive it away, or directly wake up the hexagram, which would save trouble. The plague ghost pondered for a moment, bowed to the immortal, and finally floated away.

Fu Yan said to Changsheng, "Tell me where this mask came from?" Fu Yan turned around, mentally counting the steps back to the room, Changsheng stared at the back door for a long time before he walked to pick up the deadbolt and close the door and followed.

The hexagram is full of spirits, but in comparison, Changsheng's eyes are dark. Fu Yan has never punished her, even if she is not good at practicing the Dao Fa and not reciting the Tao Sutra well, she has never been punished. He scoffed most at the method of punishing people at every turn, and he had always volunteered to be a kind master who could be respected without relying on such punishment.

But this time, she was punished for immortality and punished her for writing. Ask her to write her way a hundred times, and remember not to interfere in some things in the future that she should not interfere with. Changsheng dozed off while writing, wrote and fell asleep, woke up and continued to write, and so repeatedly from morning to night, she honestly didn't dare to go to bed until she finished writing.

Guayao took out two pieces of candy from the cloth bag and generously asked her to share one, "Daughter-in-law, this is for you to eat." ”

Changsheng rubbed his eyes, he was really sleepy, but he forced himself to wake up, "I don't eat, you can keep it for yourself." ”

At first, she thought it was ordinary sugar, but after she threw one into her mouth and chewed it twice, she suddenly changed into her appearance. Changsheng was surprised, and when he asked, he realized that this was the snack that the Heavenly Earth Star King gave him to eat, and only gave him two.

After eating this sugar, you will become the person you think of in your head, and when you see that Changsheng wants to sleep, you feel that your daughter-in-law is really pitiful, and she will become immortal. Changsheng asked, "When will it change back?" ”

The people in the dart game didn't know the identity of the hexagram, but they just thought he was a cute child. If someone bumped into two Gu Changsheng, she wouldn't know how to explain it.

Fortunately, after about a cup of tea, the hexagram will change back to its original appearance, although the gods in the sky give hexagram gifts, but they are very measured, these gifts are really for him to have fun, tease him and let him "have fun", most of them can only be used once and the effect is not long.

Changsheng raised his eyes and saw that the plague was outside the window. She went out of the room and glanced next door, but she was not there. The plague ghost said, "I shouldn't have come back, so as not to disturb the girl, but I saw that other plague ghosts had entered this house, and I still owe the girl a favor, so I have to come and tell you to be careful." ”

"Other plagues?"

"I think it's in the front yard."

When Changsheng heard this, he went into the room and hugged the hexagram and burned it out.

Cao Yi is teaching Cao Shan embroidery in the hall, Cao Shan pestered Cao Yi to learn after dinner tonight, Cao Yi didn't know why this boyish sister suddenly became interested in embroidery, but thinking of the eldest sister as a mother, Cao Shan is already a concubine, and it is time to learn some female celebrities who are ready to get married, so she teaches her very carefully.

Cao Yi asked Cao Shan what she wanted to learn embroidery, Cao Shan said shyly that she wanted to learn embroidery and hoof lilies, Cao Yi was a person who came over and saw one or two, and asked Cao Shan a few words, and the two sisters said some intimate words. Cao Yi threaded the needle and gave Cao Shan a demonstration, and suddenly her back was cold and she shivered involuntarily.