Chapter 43: The Netherworld
When Lu Kun woke up, he found that he was dragged forward with his arms crossed, although he was still a little confused at this time, but when he looked left and right, he almost scared him. Because what he saw was not a real human face, on the left was a powder-faced man dressed in plain white and holding a white soul wand, while on the right was the opposite, a black-faced man with a black body and a black soul wand.
"You ...... You are ......" Lu Kun saw the two of them like this, and he was suddenly frightened and almost fainted.
"Boom! You wild ghost is really hateful, it caused my two brothers to spend a lot of time, and they are all in the underworld, why don't you hurry up? ”
"What my brother said is extremely true, as much as possible, I will hand over this fool to Lord Lu for review and judgment, and after convicting him of his guilt, you and I will have a good time for a while!"
"You ...... Really...... Black and White Impermanence Soul Charmer!? After listening to the conversation between the two, Lu Kun was like a sifting chaff, and his face suddenly turned purple.
Hei Wuchang grabbed Lu Kun's clothes, approached Lu Kun's face, and asked suspiciously, "What, aren't we two brothers alike?" ”
Hiss!
Lu Kun was blown by the cold wind blowing out of the black impermanence, and suddenly shivered, and he trembled in disbelief: "Impossible, this is impossible, I am obviously living well, how can I ......"
"Well? How you died, you must still have an impression! ”
"How did I die...... How did I die......" Lu Kun kept muttering this sentence with a frightened look, and finally suddenly his eyes were round and he was suddenly surprised: "I was stabbed in the abdomen with a knife......"
After Bai Wuchang......'s laughter, a biting yin wind suddenly appeared, which made Lu Kun shudder again.
"Since you were stabbed in the abdomen and died, can you take a look at your injuries now?"
Bai Wuchang's words immediately reminded Lu Kun, so he hurriedly lowered his eyes to look at his abdomen, but then he couldn't speak anymore, because what he saw in front of him was not a single scar around his body at all.
This made him a little unable to believe his eyes, because at that time he clearly saw a pillar of blood, and the suffocating pain already indicated that he was injured. But now that he is intact and without a trace of blood, is he really dead?
"Have I really left the Mortal Realm? That's impossible...... That's impossible...... Since I'm dead, why do I still have body temperature, aren't ghosts all cold? ”
Lu Kun still couldn't accept his death, so he touched that there was still heat on his body, and then asked with doubts.
Hei Wuchang was very annoyed, and slapped Lu Kun twice with his soul chasing staff, and scolded and reprimanded: "You are a new ghost, naturally there is a trace of warmth in the world, and after being a ghost for a long time, it will be as cold as ice!" You see, this place is dark all year round, and if you stay for a long time, you will be like them! ”
Lu Kun looked in the direction pointed by Hei Wuchang, and saw the ghost envoys separating the ghosts, sending the ghosts with wooden expressions to pass by, and everywhere they passed by, there was a cloudy wind and black mist.
At this moment, he finally solved the last trace of doubt, and it also made the last trace of luck in his heart collapse instantly. After taking his legs, his legs were weak, and he couldn't help but sit on the ground like mud.
Black and white are not common, and he whipped Lu Kun when he picked up the soul chasing staff, and then dragged him into a lobby like a dead dog.
Lu Kun was dragged into an obscure main hall, surrounded by darkness and no light, except for a few places where the brazier shone faintly bright. Looking at the bloody curtains everywhere the firelight shines, it makes people shudder.
There was a constant noise in the whole hall, bulls and horses shouted wildly, and evil ghosts and poor spirits cried at them; The magistrate hurriedly passed the letter and ordered the ghost envoy to escort him back to the various divisions of the soul branch;
The Tai Lieutenant who chased the soul shouted and drank and read the official documents, and the whirlwind was rolling in a hurry, and the black fog of the Gou Si people was one after another. Lu Kun watched the many shawls in the hall, and the things with fur and horns passing in front of him, made him frightened and worried about whether he would suffer from punishment.
Although he came to the underworld for the first time, the yang world is familiar with the legends of the underworld. Therefore, he misbehaved in the yang world, and he was very worried about whether he would get into the oil pot......
As soon as Lu Kun thought of this stubble, Niu Tou Ma Mian walked over and made the delivery procedures with Black and White Impermanence, and then brought Lu Kun to the front of the main hall.
Lu Kun raised his head nervously, and looked behind the table through the flickering lights, but vaguely saw an official dressed in crimson government, wearing a black gauze goose wing hat, holding a large judge's pen, sketching something on the table.
As soon as he looked at this law enforcement officer sitting in a precarious position, Lu Kun knew that the person in front of him must be Judge Lu. So he hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, praying for forgiveness with tears in his eyes.
Sitting on the high hall was the road judge, and when he saw that someone in the hall was begging, he put down the judge's pen and shouted: "The ghost under the hall is named!" ”
"Xiaguan...... Xiaomin Lu Kun has grievances to appeal to the judge! ”
"Oh? If you have any grievances, you might as well tell me! Lu Juan twisted his beard lightly, groaned slightly, and then asked.
Lu Kun kowtowed like pounding garlic, and then said bitterly: "Xiaomin served as the magistrate in the yang world, and went to Longshan Temple for medicine for his son, but unfortunately he was unjustly killed by the gangsters, and now he has become a lonely ghost, and I hope that the judge will uphold justice!" ”
"Lu Kun? Well, when the official checks the book of life and death, it will be clear! As he spoke, Judge Lu picked up the book of life and death on the side, and after flipping through a few pages, he nodded and said to himself, "Hmm! You should have lived eighty years old, and now you are a ghost in fifty or three......"
When Lu Kun heard that his Yang Shou was eighty, he was overjoyed, and he didn't care at all that he had interrupted Judge Lu's words, so he begged in a hurry: "My lord, since Xiaomin's Yang Shou is not over, please also ask your adult to use his magic power to send Xiaomin back to the yang world!" ”
"No hurry!" Judge Lu immediately closed the book of life and death, said a few words to the judge standing on the side, and then took out a balance from the ghost (this thing was already in the Spring and Autumn Period).
There are two copper plates on both sides of the scale, and the difference between the copper plate and the yang is that this copper plate is divided into one black and one red with a bright color. What's even more peculiar is that the weights used here are also different.
Judge Lu raised the two account books in his hand and said to Lu Kun: "Ying Yang Shou is just the longevity assessed according to the good and evil of the reincarnated ghost when he is reincarnated, so it is not immutable.
And the weight that can increase or decrease the longevity of Yang is the good and evil of a person in the Yang world! These two account books are Lu Kun's good and evil in the yang world, and today I will let you know why you will be deducted from your twenty-seven years of yang life! ”
Put Lu Kun's two account books of good and evil at the two ends, the evil book weighs a thousand catties, but the good book is light, and then the balance is overwhelmed, and the entire balance shelf fell to the ground.
Then Judge Lu pointed to the crooked balance and shouted angrily: "Lu Kun, did you see it? It is outrageous that you have done a lot of evil in the yang world, and subtracting your twenty-seven years of yang life is already extraordinarily gracious, and you are brazen and crying out for grievances in front of this official! If it weren't for the fact that you are the descendant of this official, you would have fallen into this boundless hell ten years ago! ”
"My lord spares my life, my ancestor spares my life! I know it's wrong, and I hope that my ancestors will save me, an unworthy descendant! ”
Lu Kun was also terrified at first when he saw that the balance was toppling, he didn't expect that he had done so many bad things. But when he learned from Judge Lu that he was his descendant, he suddenly had a glimmer of hope, so he kowtowed and begged bitterly.
Judge Lu, who was sitting in the high hall, was silent for a long time, and finally said helplessly: "Okay, this official once owed you a favor in your previous life, and now this official has this cause and effect ......."
"Thank you, Ancestor!"
Judge Lu waved his hand, and then said in a deep voice: "The Netherworld is the place in charge of the lives of all living beings. All things in heaven and earth, after death, their souls are bound to the netherworld by black and white, and their good and evil in the yang world will end here. The so-called asking for others is better than seeking yourself, everything must pay attention to the cycle of cause and effect, and you need to do it yourself! ”
"Then how do I want to do it, I hope that the old ancestor will guide me!"
"If you want your longevity to remain eighty years, you need to have this balance level, so that there will be no increase or decrease in yang longevity! And it is now impossible for you to increase the weight of the book of good deeds by doing good......"
Judge Lu said and took out a roll of golden paper from the table, and then asked the judge to hand it to Lu Kun, and then said in a deep voice: "This is a scroll of the past life, which has the effect of reducing evil and increasing good, and it is the privilege given to the judge by the king of the ten halls.
You can recount the evil deeds you have done in your life in detail, and then replace this thousand-pound book of evil with this scroll that reduces evil and increases good, and surely the balance will be leveled! In this way, you can increase your longevity, and the official does not have to bear the suspicion of cover-up! Remember that sincerity is spirituality, this rebirth scroll is only one of the scrolls, if it is destroyed, the official can't help it! ”
"This ......"
Lu Kun looked at the golden scroll in his hand, in addition to the curiosity of the scroll, it was difficult to hide the ecstasy in his heart, he carefully held the scroll, solemnly bowed to Judge Lu and said gratefully: "Thank you for the grace of the ancestors!" ”
At this time, there was already a ghost who came to write and ink, and Lu Kun couldn't wait to return to the yang world now, so he took the pen and wrote.
In front of the table on the side, sandalwood couldn't stop smoking green smoke, Lu Kun only felt that his pen was like a dragon, and he didn't even have such agility in the imperial examination back then.
After a little effort, Lu Kun detailed all the bad things he had done on the scroll.
While writing, I also reminded myself not to miss anything.
After he had written down his crimes, he respectfully presented them to Judge Lu. After Judge Lu weighed on the scale, sure enough, the balance tended to be flat.
Lu Kun couldn't suppress his excitement, and hurriedly asked, "Old Ancestor......"
Judge Lu nodded and said to himself, "Very good, you can return the yang!" Where is the impermanence of black and white? ”
"Humble duty!"
"Hmmm! Quickly lead Lu Kun back to Yang, there must be no mistakes! ”
"Yes!"
After the black and white impermanence was ordered, he stepped forward and picked up Lu Kun to come out. Lu Kun danced with joy and kept thanking Judge Lu.
After leaving the lobby, Lu Kun was about to ask where Black and White Impermanence wanted to return to the yang, but suddenly felt that it was dark in front of him, and he fainted unconsciously.