401 On the Lookout Terrace
Every day at noon, it is the hour of the changing of the guard in various places in the underworld. I took the 8th Battalion of the Houjun Army with a night tour to the Reincarnation Division to change the guard.
If this point is in the yang world, it will be called the "three poles of the sun". But if you can't see the sun in the underworld, there is naturally no difference between day and night, the only difference is that the yin qi is the most intense in the sub-hour, like a dense fog, and the noon is the thinnest and the visibility is the best.
The name of Wangxiangtai is Gaotai, but it is actually a bridge, and it is a fairly wide and majestic bridge, which can run almost ten horse-drawn carriages side by side, spanning both sides of the Lechuan River. The garrison of the Yin army is on the left bank, and the fog in the middle of the Lechuan River is also heavy, and I have never had a chance to see the situation on the right bank clearly.
Looking to the right bank from the lookout platform, there is a queue for reincarnation. The mile-long line was so crowded that it was impossible to see where the tail was. I can't estimate the number of all the reincarnations, but there should be millions. With such a long reincarnation queue, it's no wonder that Wang Qi said that it would take several years for ghosts to queue up without bribes.
In the crowded line, ghosts crowded with ghosts, and they were all squeezed and deformed. From time to time, he patrolled back and forth, whipping some naughty or simply unpleasant ghosts, which immediately caused a commotion. It's not so much that they're maintaining order as they're creating chaos.
However, I stood for a while, and I didn't see a bull's head or a horse's face. It is estimated that these two "big brothers" usually don't bother to meet, so they leave it to their subordinates to take care of things.
The reincarnation procession follows the Lechuan River, and at the end of the procession, it will pass through the two divisions of rewarding the good and punishing the evil, and at this point it will be decided whether they can be reincarnated into the human world or should be thrown into the animal path. The two divisions of rewarding good and punishing evil actually work together, side by side under the bridge on the right bank of Wangxiangtai. In the middle of the second division is placed a large scale, which is called the "virtue scale"!
Two trays are suspended on either side of the scale of virtue, one for good and the other for evil. The reincarnated ghosts who lined up here stood in front of the virtue scale, and Yin Cha used a secret method to take out the good and evil retribution of the ghosts one by one, and put them in the trays on both sides of the scales. Good and evil can be counteracted, and in the end, it depends on which side the scale on the scale of virtue is biased towards.
is biased towards goodness, and this ghost will be rewarded by the good division, which means that he can be reincarnated as a human being. If you are biased towards more evil, you can only enter the evil division and punish according to the severity of the evil deeds, and finally be escorted to the reincarnation division and put into the animal path.
There are also two buildings on the Wangxiang Terrace, one is the Zuisheng Building, and the other is the Pure Body Hall, both of which only entertain the ghosts who have passed the Appreciation Division. The drunken building is for the ghosts before reincarnation to do the last eating, drinking, and pleasure, and to recall the past events of the previous life. After eating and drinking, you can go to the pure hall, you can comfortably soak in the bathhouse, wash away the troubles and sorrows of the world, and then change into a clean shroud and come out, refreshing and waiting to be reincarnated as a human being.
When each of the reincarnated ghosts came from the Zenji Division, they each had an hour card in their hands. The time for each ghost to stay on the Wangxiang platform is limited, and when the time of reincarnation comes, the hour card will light up, and the ghost will hurry to cross the Nai He Bridge, and if the time of reincarnation is delayed, he can only be a ghost forever.
The famous Nai He Bridge is actually a bridge on a bridge, leading from Wangxiangtai to the reincarnation division behind the Yin Si Stream. But it's just a narrow bridge, which can only be passed by one person or ghost. There is a secret magic rune array on the bridge, and the ghost can't turn around and go back after going on the bridge, and it's useless to regret it, maybe this is the origin of the futile sigh!
On the other side of the bridge, you can see Meng Po, dressed as a peasant woman, with a few yin cha, setting up a large pot to cook Meng Po soup, and the smoke is curling. But I can't smell anything on the side of Wangxiangtai Bridgehead, and I don't know what is cooking in her pot?
I once heard Master say that Meng Po soup is actually a special ghost meal. Meng Po took a variety of rare medicines from the world and the underworld to synthesize medicinal soups, which were divided into five flavors: sweet, bitter, sour, pungent and salty, and each ghost drank different tastes.
Before entering the reincarnation division, Meng Po also had to take one of the three souls of the reincarnated ghost: the fetal light, that is, the heavenly soul, and one of the seven spirits, Linghui, and put them into the pot and boiled them together. The reincarnation of life and death of the Heavenly Soul Lord, the memory of the past life of the Spirit Wisdom Lord, boiled in medicinal soup and drunk, can wash away all the memories of the past life and re-enter the reincarnation.
After I handed over to the captain of the 7th Battalion, I immediately arranged for 100 Yin soldiers under my command to stand in the prescribed positions. In addition to Gan Sheng's own personal battalion and Wang Song's baggage battalion, the other eight battalions had to take turns to be on duty for one day, and after one turn, they came again until the end of the month. Therefore, my eighth battalion will be on duty three times this month.
It's a pity that although the rotation task requires us to be on duty in the reincarnation division, we are not allowed to cross the Nai He Bridge, and can only be stationed at the bridgehead and the lookout platform. I stood at the head of the bridge for a long time, watching one after another reincarnated ghosts pass through the Nai He Bridge with the hour card, and I was very entangled: should I go directly to it?
However, the situation on the bridge is indeed difficult to fish in troubled waters to the opposite side, let alone take the yellow spring water of Yin Sijian in front of Meng Po. Alas, it's a pity that I didn't ask the master clearly before, and now I can only look at the bridge and sigh, suffering from not being able to cross the bridge to get water!
In this way, when the anxiety arrived, it was the time when the yin qi in the underworld was the heaviest. The fog rising from under the Yin Si stream was very thick, and the visibility was only two arm's length, and even if you were really standing on the opposite side and talking, you could only hear the sound and no one could see anyone. And at this moment, there was a big living person who came from the thick fog to prepare to cross the Nai He Bridge.
Curious, I stopped him and asked him what he was doing.
The man was a slightly wooden middle-aged man, dumbfounded, carrying a flat pole on his shoulders and carrying two empty buckets, which did not look like a yin cha or a yin soldier. When he saw that I had stopped him, he took out a piece of the belt from his waist and showed it to me.
I took the waist card and looked at it, hey! This is so familiar!
I also have exactly the same piece of the waist card, which is the one that Master gave me to buy Cerberus meat from the owner of the dog meat shop before, and it is the identity certificate exclusive to the disciples of the Ghost Dining Sect. It turns out that this middle-aged man in Mu Ne is also a disciple of the Ghost Dining Sect.
I let him go to see how he crossed the bridge to get water. But the fog on the bridge was too heavy, and as soon as he stepped onto the bridge, he disappeared into the thick fog, not to mention that he could see the situation on the other side.
After a while, the man returned, obviously with a heavy weight on his shoulders, and walked slowly. As I walked by, I craned my neck to see that the two big buckets were filled with water, and the yin qi was swirling and the cold was pressing, which was the yin sijian yellow spring water I had dreamed of!
I was eager to stop him and detain both buckets of water. But reason still told me that I couldn't do this, after all, I had already figured out how to cross the bridge to get the yellow spring water, and I would have to carry a bucket back with my waist card.
However, I didn't bring that waist card with me today. And even if I brought it, I couldn't go directly to get water. Now I'm a yin school anyway, and it's easy to be recognized by people doing this kind of thing, and it's hard to explain it when the time comes.
So, I patiently finished my shift that day. Before the next day, I called Wang Qi to go to Wangxiang again together. I handed my piece of waist card to Wang Qi and asked him to cross the Naihe Bridge to fetch water on my behalf.
Wang Qi hesitated, but still went. He's now my confidant, and he's visible enough to do it.
I waited anxiously under the Wangxiang platform, pacing back and forth, for fear that something would go wrong with Wang Qi. As a result, the more anxious he was, the more he couldn't wait, and Wang Qi went for a whole hour and didn't come back. I knew in my heart that something was wrong, something must have happened!
Just as I was about to go up to the lookout to look for it, two figures came down from the bridge. One of them is Wang Qi, and the other one is actually the middle-aged man who carried water yesterday!
Wang Qi smiled apologetically at me, but he didn't dare to speak. The middle-aged man showed me a waist card in his hand, which should be the one I handed over to Wang Qi. But I decided not to speak yet, to see what he had to say?
The middle-aged man asked, "Is this waist card yours?" ”
I nodded and calmly replied, "It's mine." ”
He asked, "Where did you get it from?" ”
I shook my head and said arrogantly, "I don't have to tell you! ”
You can't reason with the other person when you don't have a reason, unless you plan to tie your hands and catch it! At the same time, I also want to test his reaction, just to see if the disciples of the Ghost Dining Sect have the ability to dare to find trouble with a Yin School?
But the middle-aged man didn't seem to be in a hurry with me, he was still expressionless, and he lowered his head and thought for a while. However, his subsequent words surprised me: "What do you have to do with Feng Daozhang?" ”
I felt the muscles in my face twitch twice, but I still forcibly controlled my emotions and deliberately asked, "What is your relationship with Feng Daozhang?" ”
This is even more unreasonable questioning. If you don't want to answer the other person's question, ask the other person the same question, and bluff it will turn passive into active.
The middle-aged man was really wooden, and he was not good at words, so he showed his bottom first: "I am his sixth junior brother: Cai Yi." ”
"Cai Yi?"
I was stunned, and when I thought back to what Master had told me, I didn't seem to have heard of it. So, I was still hesitant to admit my true identity.
"Are you Senior Brother Feng's apprentice?" Cai Yi saw that I had not spoken, and asked again.
I sneered and continued to play tricks: "What's the matter, what's not the case?" ”
Unexpectedly, Cai Yi shook his head when he heard this, as if he no longer wanted to entangle with me. He said, "If you don't say it, don't say it." But since you can't confirm that you are also a disciple of the Ghost Dining Sect, then I can only take back this waist card. ”
After saying this, Cai Yi turned around and left, leaving me and Wang Qi to look at each other.