Chapter 31: The City of the Hidden Capital
At this time, Tang Wenwen grabbed Cao Xiaoyang's hand, showing a very worried look, Cao Xiaoyang turned around and gave her a look, signaling her not to worry.
Then he patted her pocket and motioned for her to take out the handkerchief, and Tang Wenwen did so. At this time, Cao Xiaoyang put her mouth into her ear and whispered a few words, and Tang Wenwen nodded after listening.
After that, Cao Xiaoyang said to the old man next to him: "Uncle, can I borrow your crutches?"
The old man hurriedly handed the crutches to him and said, "Take the doll and use it, you are good." ”
Cao Xiaoyang nodded, and at this time, the monkey beside the land melon suddenly shouted: "Our king is empty-handed, why do you still plan to use weapons?"
Cao Yang said: "For the sake of fairness, you king can also take one thing. ”
At this time, the land melon said with a smile: "It's okay, don't say it's taking things, Lao Tzu just let him have one hand!"
As he spoke, he pounced directly towards Cao Xiaoyang, and at this time Cao Xiaoyang dodged to the side, but Tang Wenwen, who was originally behind him, suddenly came up.
Because Tang Wenwen had learned karate for three years before his death, at this time, he unexpectedly threw the land melon that pounced on him to the ground, and the land melon was deflated for a while, he thought that he had been attacked by these two young people, and he was suddenly angry, and wanted to get up immediately and tear Cao Xiaoyang in half.
But at this moment, Cao Xiaoyang took the old man's crutches and thrust it into the back of the land melon, originally for the ghost, a broken leg and a head are not fatal injuries, but Cao Xiaoyang's crutch was inserted, and the land melon suddenly let out a painful scream, and then the painful expression on his face froze little by little, and then the whole body turned gray and white, and then turned into a wisp of green smoke and dissipated.
Cao Xiaoyang smiled slightly, knowing that he had succeeded.
Originally, for an ordinary crutch, even if it was inserted into the ghost's Heavenly Soul Cave, it might not be able to cause much trauma to it, after all, the lethality of ordinary wooden crutches was too weak.
But Cao Xiaoyang also asked Tang Wenwen for a handkerchief just now, and used his own blood to draw the ghost suppression runes that Bai Ying taught him on the handkerchief, and then wrapped the handkerchief with the runes on the crutches, so this blow directly made the land melon soul fly away.
At this time, Cao Xiaoyang pretended to be invincible, pointed at those ghosts with a cane, and said loudly: "The one who is not afraid of death will come and try again." ”
Those ghosts saw with their own eyes that the big man of the land melon was beaten by Cao Xiaoyang's move, and they were all frightened for a while, and they dared to step forward to die.
So the ghosts represented by the monkey who were going to follow the land melon just now all knelt on the ground, kowtowing and begging for mercy, Cao Xiaoyang smiled at Tang Wenwen.
"Let's go, I'm the king here. ”
Tang Wenwen blinked her eyes and said, "Then I'm going to be the wife of the village for you." ”
Cao Xiaoyang said with a smile: "If you want, I have no opinion." ”
"Hmph, I think it's beautiful. ”
Because no ghost dared to stop them, they quickly walked out of the wild ghost village, and then on the way to the Lost Soul Palace, the number of people in charge of public security gradually increased, so that no wild ghosts dared to make trouble anymore, so Cao Xiaoyang and they walked all the way to the Lost Soul Palace.
In the middle of the temple is a large circular pond with a spring that constantly gushes out, and these springs are called Ecstasy Soup.
Unlike the well-known Meng Po soup, the function of ecstasy soup is to make the ghost recall all the past before his death, and then confide it all.
In other words, the ghosts who have drunk the ecstasy soup cannot tell lies, but can only honestly confess their crimes to the Yin Cha during their lifetime, and the Yin Cha will make a record of the ghosts one by one here, and then the truth they confide will become the evidence of their subsequent trial in the Yama Temple.
Cao Xiaoyang and Tang Wenwen were invited to the underworld, and they didn't need to go to the Yama Hall to be judged, so they didn't have to drink the Ecstasy Soup, and at the door of the Ecstasy Palace, Bai Xiaoyan and Bai Ying had been waiting for a long time.
Seeing Bai Xiaoyan and his master, Cao Xiaoyang vented his bitterness about what happened along the way, and then boasted about his heroic deeds in Wild Ghost Village.
Bai Ying said: "It seems that the apprentice I accepted is not too bad. ”
So Cao Xiaoyang said goodbye to the old man who had come all the way with them, in addition, because Tang Wenwen's purpose in coming to the underworld this time was to go to the Yama Hall to do some related affairs registration, and the location of the Yama Hall here happened to be in the opposite direction of the ghost city of Xudu, so Cao Xiaoyang and Tang Wenwen had to be temporarily separated, but they agreed to return to the Yang World together after they finished their affairs.
After Tang Wenwen left, Bai Xiaoyan smiled at Cao Xiaoyang: "Along the way, the relationship between the charter man and Miss Tang seems to have increased a lot. ”
Cao Xiaoyang said in his heart, this has already been shared in the same bed, and the relationship is naturally different from before. But he said with an indifferent attitude: "Actually, I'm fine, but this girl has been impressed by my charm a little bit along the way, and now she can't do without me, you didn't notice that her eyes were about to burst into tears when she left just now." Hey, this man is sometimes too attractive and very annoying......"
Speaking of this, he actually raised his head proudly, but was kicked back to his original form by Bai Ying.
"It's less smelly and beautiful, hurry up and follow me into the city to see the Emperor Xudu, and I'll be able to hand over the errand soon." ”
Different from Cao Xiaoyang's desolate scenery of the underworld all the way, the city of Xudu is very prosperous, with all kinds of pavilions, pavilions, carved railings, and jade masonry.
It stands to reason that this ghost city is the residence of the lord of the ghost world, the emperor of the ghost world, so it is already considered the imperial city of the ghost world, and the ten halls of Yama and the five ghost emperors are all outside the city, Cao Xiaoyang passed the Ecstasy Hall and entered the imperial city directly, which is also a great honor for a ghost.
Cao Xiaoyang followed Bai Ying through several bustling streets, and came to a majestic palace.
Bai Ying said to one of the maids, "Cao Xiaoyang has arrived safely in the capital, where is the emperor now?"
The maid replied: "They are playing mahjong with Judge Cui, King of Qin Guang, inside." ”
Bai Ying looked a little speechless, and said to herself, none of these old guys have a positive shape.
She continued to ask the maid, "I guess my master should be in there too, right?"
The maid nodded, and Bai Ying suddenly frowned, as if she was a little unhappy.
She turned to Cao Xiaoyang and said, "Let's go, follow me in." ”
Entering such a majestic palace, but listening to what they said was all absurd and strange things, Cao Xiaoyang had some doubts in his heart, but he didn't dare to ask more at the moment.
"Oh, good. ”
At this time, Bai Ying asked Bai Xiaoyan again, "Big head, do you want to go in with us?"
Since the last encounter with the mirror ghost, Bai Ying has been saying that Bai Xiaoyan is very smart, and that smart people have big heads, and they have been calling him big heads since then.
Her title is somewhat ridiculous, because anyone with eyes can see that Bai Xiaoyan is a standard handsome guy, and his head is not big at all.
At this time, Bai Xiaoyan shook his fan and said, "My matter has already been discussed with him, and I really don't want to be bored anymore." ”
Cao Xiaoyang heard that there was a kind of contempt in Bai Xiaoyan's tone, he knew that Bai Xiaoyan hated the Yin Si of the underworld very much, but he didn't expect that he would have the same attitude towards the Lord of the Underworld, the Emperor Xudu, and he didn't pay attention to it at all.
Bai Ying also completely heard the emotions in Bai Xiaoyan's words, so she said: "Okay, everything is up to you, but I hope you had better be honest and stop asking for trouble." ”
Bai Xiaoyan snorted coldly, turned around, no more, shook the fan, and walked away.
Cao Xiaoyang followed Bai Ying to a small room behind the main hall, and immediately choked on the thick smoke inside after entering, and when he looked closely, he saw a mahjong table in the middle of the cabin, surrounded by four guys with smoking guns while playing cards and gulping out the fog.
Facing Cao Xiaoyang sat an easy-going old man, I saw that he was wearing a black robe embroidered with a golden dragon and a crown on his head, this outfit was similar to the emperor in ancient times in Cao Xiaoyang's impression, no need to think that this should be the Emperor of Xudu.
In addition, next to him sat a white-faced boy and a long-haired uncle, the uncle had a gold pen pinned to his waist, and the boy was wearing a white robe and a high hat, and the hat was written with the four big characters "Fortune at first sight". Cao Xiaoyang thought to himself, these two should be Judge Cui and Bai Wuchang.
The rest of the one who was also wearing a black robe, with a bulging belly under the robe, a mustache at the corner of his mouth, and a black gauze official hat on his head, this should be King Qin Guang, one of the ten halls of Yama that Bai Ying had just mentioned.
Cao Xiaoyang was still carefully looking at the four people on the mahjong table, but at this time, Bai Ying ran to Bai Wuchang's side angrily and grabbed his ear.
"Master, what did you tell me yesterday, pay me back immediately after you paid the difference this month, and you will never gamble again. After you finish saying this, you swear an oath, and you forget it when you turn around, so when will you be able to pay back the money you owe me!"
Bai Wuchang hurriedly bent down and lowered his head to show a smiling face at this time, and said to Bai Ying: "Xiao Ying, you misunderstood, the teacher was just idle and bored this afternoon, so he came to play with the emperor and Lao Cui. ”
Saying that, she secretly stuffed a few dark coins under the table into her pocket, Bai Ying frowned and said, "I believe you are a ghost, let's say, when will the money you owe me be repaid, otherwise our master-apprentice friendship will soon come to an end." ”
Bai Wuchang said helplessly: "Xiao Ying, you must believe Master's words, Master is really missing a penny now." If I really wanted to gamble, I would have gone to the Heaven and Earth Casino to play big games a long time ago, how could I accompany Lao Cui and the Emperor to play small mahjong here.
I think so, Master borrowed your money before, you let me delay for two more days, don't you still have to catch 500 wild ghosts this month, how about Master do this for you?"
Bai Ying was so angry that she stomped her feet and stopped paying attention to him, and then Emperor Xudu said: "Xiaoying, don't lose your temper like this all day long, otherwise you won't be able to marry in the future." ”
As soon as he heard this, Bai Wuchang was immediately happy, and said with a smile: "Yes, yes, yes, lose your temper, otherwise you won't be able to marry in the future." ”
At this time, Bai Ying glared at him coldly, and he didn't dare to open his mouth.
At this time, Cao Xiaoyang was stunned next to him, he never expected that the legendary Bai Wuchang was actually a gambler, and he was so afraid of his apprentice.
At this time, Bai Ying pulled Cao Xiaoyang to her side and said to Emperor Xudu: "I brought you the person you wanted." ”