I was just about to leave the Yin Law Division with the little ghost of unknown origin, but at the door, I bumped into the sedan chair of the chief bookkeeper Cui Yu and Cheng Youliang standing guard. After a delay of so many times, there was suddenly chaos in the Yin Law Division, and a Yin Cha ran out and called me back.

I chuckled in my heart, but I didn't pretend I hadn't heard, so I turned around and pretended to be serious and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The yin cha looked panicked and asked me eagerly, "General, did you see a ghost servant running out of here just now?" ”

I was a little weak-hearted, so I didn't answer directly, but shook my head hesitantly.

"Nope!" Cheng Youliang on the side replied very simply, "We have been standing at the door, and we haven't seen any ghost servants go out here this morning!" ”

When he heard this, his face became a little soothed, and he stroked his heart and said, "Whew!" That's good! That's good! ”

Then he said to me with a flattering face: "General, work! My master bookkeeper, please send some people in to help! ”

"How can you help?"

"There's a ghost servant lost in the Yin Law Division, and he shouldn't have run out yet, but he doesn't know where he is hiding. So I'd like to ask you to help send someone in and find out! ”

It turned out that he didn't want to interrogate me as a suspect, but to treat me as a yin who was on duty today!

However, I certainly don't want to meddle in this kind of thing, lest it be self-defeating. So I ambiguously turned to Cheng Youliang and said, "You can do it." ”

This sentence sounds like I'm explaining to my subordinates, but to Cheng Youliang's ears, I naturally don't want to overstep my bounds. Hehe, one sentence will leave my responsibility clean!

Cheng Youliang nodded and said to me, "You go first, I'll deal with it here." ”

He ordered a few soldiers at random, and followed the yin into the Yin Law Division to look for ghosts. I breathed a sigh of relief and hurried away, leaving the Yin Law Division.

When I returned to the dormitory, I closed the door tightly, and then immediately pulled the ghost servant out of the bag and asked it, "Tell me honestly, what the hell are you that made Cui Yu so anxious to hunt you down?" ”

The ghost looked left and right, and was no longer in the Yin Law Division, so he felt safe, so he replied to me reassuringly: "It is not me who Cui Yu is anxious about, but his life and death book......

I was shocked and asked urgently, "Did you steal his book of life and death?" ”

"How is that possible?" The little imp actually laughed, "The book of life and death is not actually a book, but a book on the first floor!" ”

"What do you call a first-floor book? Is there a second and third floor? "I was confused by it.

"Hey, it's a book for one building, not a book for one floor!"

I was a little annoyed and scolded, "Stop playing tricks on me!" Speak well! ”

"Don't worry, listen to me tell you slowly." The little ghost was frightened by me, and then explained in detail: "There is a building in the Yin Law Division called the Classics Library, which is divided into seven floors, and there are more than a dozen bookshelves on each floor, which are filled with all the books of life and death from ancient times to the present. So, there is not just one book of life and death, but many, many books! ”

"At the bottom of the library is the oldest book of life and death, written in the most primitive tortoise shells and cow bones, but all the people and ghosts recorded on it have long since disappeared from the world, and all that remains is a few records. The higher you go to the library, the more recent the age of the life and death books stored, and the newer the materials for cataloging. ”

"From the time of the Zhou Dynasty, the book of life and death was written in parchment scrolls, and later it became written in bamboo slips, and there were also written in silk cloth. But from the Han Dynasty onwards, almost all of them were written on special rune paper. ”

The details of what the imp said are quite reasonable. The books of life and death and the books used to record history and knowledge in the yang world should actually be similar in style and texture, and they will definitely change with the development and progress of writing and recording tools.

"Is it possible that now you have changed to a computer?" Thinking of this, I interjected with suspicion.

"What is a computer?" The little imp was at a loss.

"Yes......" I just wanted to describe, but simply gave up, "Forget it, you've been in it for more than a hundred years, and I guess you don't understand this novelty." Continue to tell me about the Library, how did you come into contact with these books of life and death? ”

The little ghost continued: "Each book of life and death is arranged according to the year, month, day, and hour, and briefly registers each person's birth date, family history, and yin and yang longevity in this life. Because which family each person is reincarnated into, there will be a careful registration from the reincarnation division, and how long a person's life span is also calculated according to the amount of good retribution in the previous life before reincarnation, so it can be recorded so accurately in the book of life and death. ”

"But because there are too many people who are reincarnated every day, and the book of life and death is also being written every day, let alone the king of Yama, even Cui Yu can't remember everyone's names and positions in the book of life and death. So he handed over this tedious work of flipping through books and checking people to me! ”

"I'm a bookworm ghost who likes to read books in the stacks of books, and I have a very good memory. As long as I have turned over and read the books, I can basically memorize them backwards. I've been in the library of books for so long that I can even remember the descriptions of the faces of people who have looked at them in the book of life and death. So as soon as I saw you, I was able to say your name immediately. ”

"Is it because your memory is so good, and your mind is full of the contents of the book of life and death, which is actually equivalent to a talking book of life and death, so Cui Yu won't let you leave?" Hearing this, I can probably figure out what's going on.

"That's right." The bookworm ghost smiled bitterly, "So, even if I pretend to be crazy and stupid and say that I suddenly have amnesia, Cui Yu will not believe my words, and will only attract a whip!" ”

"Why haven't you escaped, and Yin Law Division is not a hell row, did he arrange a special person to guard you?"

"Well, don't be so troublesome!" The bookworm ghost sighed and said, "Cui Yu is also a judge, and drawing talismans, arranging arrays, and chanting spells are his most powerful skills. He placed a special ban on me, so that I could not leave the library, so I had to stay in it forever. ”

"Then why did you run out today?" I can't help but be skeptical of this statement.

"No matter what prohibition is, it is time-barred. The prohibition that Cui Yu placed on me weakens and becomes invalid every year, so he has to do it again every other year. Maybe he's been too busy lately, and it's rare to forget about it, but today the ban just expired, and I was finally able to escape from the library! ”

"Fortunately, I met you as soon as I escaped, if I was caught by someone else at that time, it is estimated that I would have to go back and stay for another hundred or two hundred years, until my yin life is exhausted." After the bookworm ghost finished speaking, he kept saying to me: "You are my great benefactor, and I hope you can help the ghost to the end, send the Buddha to the west, and take me out of the underworld!" ”

With such an explanation, I can understand the cause and effect. But I don't want to say yes to its new request right away, after all, I've already taken a risk, and I don't want to take a second risk for no reason.

I said, "You've been in the library of classics for so many years, you should have read a lot of books of life and death, right?" Tell me about these people. ”

Next, I continued to test the bookworm ghost, and told me the names of my parents, my master, Liu Han and others, and asked it to memorize the records in the book of life and death. As a result, it was recited without thinking!

According to what is written in the book of life and death, my parents are still very long, and they can live to be over 80 years old, and they all die well. Liu Han and I are in a similar situation, the yang life is not over, and there is no need to withdraw the yin life, and it is also a good death.

It's just that Master's record is not very good. His yang life is sixty-five years, which has long been exhausted, and his yin life has been withdrawn for thirty-one years. In other words, Master's real age of living to this year will be ninety-six years old, and he will soon be a centenarian. What worries me the most is that Master has not been able to get a good death: "Died unexpectedly!" ”

But at the same time, I also have a lot of doubts about this, if it is said that the time, place, and family history of reincarnation have been determined, why is the time of yang and yin life also determined, and even the method of death is written in advance?

The bookworm ghost explained, "This is where you can fine-tune and modify the book of life and death. ”

"How?" As soon as I heard this, my spirit rose again.

"Don't expect too much." The bookworm ghost hit me right away. It said: "Yang Shou and Yin Shou are both extremes, that is, how long you can live or how long you can be a ghost, but it does not mean that you will definitely live to that age or how many years you will not be reincarnated in the underworld." In the vast majority of cases, people do not live to the end of their yang life, and it is difficult for ghosts to drag it out until the end of their yin life. ”

"How?" As soon as I was happy, I was splashed with a basin of "cold water" by it, and I couldn't help frowning.

"For example, if you have a lifespan of forty-one years. But if you accidentally encounter an accident along the way, you may die early. And if you live without disasters or diseases in your life, then you can live smoothly to the age of forty-one. It's the same when you're a ghost, when it's your turn to be reincarnated, you have to be reincarnated, and you don't care how much yin life you have left. ”

"I don't have too little longevity!" The more I listened, the more uncomfortable I became, and said in annoyance: "Aren't the yang longevity and yin longevity just a string of numbers in the book of life and death, and there are definitely not those who die well!" ”

"Not necessarily!" The bookworm ghost hurriedly persuaded me and added an explanation: "I just said that these are all things that can be modified. ”

"How do I modify it?"

"One is to rely on one's own cultivation and cultivation to increase yang longevity and yin longevity. For example, if you have already cultivated Yin Gong, you can withdraw Yin Shou in advance. Your yang lifespan is relatively short, but your yin lifespan is quite long, and it is four hundred and fifty years together, it depends on whether your yin cultivation can be cultivated to the highest level! ”

"So, I'm barely acceptable......"