Coincidentally, an enthusiastic reader (Lin Yifan) mentioned that the chapter on black and white impermanence does not accept paper money and gold in the mortal world, so in line with the basic principle of not being too chaotic to watch the excitement, I will continue to gossip about the parents of the Netherworld today.

By the way, I will also put the facts and explain why this prefecture does not accept paper money.

Speaking of the prefecture, the first thing I want to complain about is the staffing problem.

As we all know, there are ten halls of Yan Jun in the underworld, namely: the first hall, Qin Guangwang Jiang; the second hall, the Chujiang royal calendar; the third hall, Emperor Yu of the Song Dynasty; the fourth hall, the five senses Wang Lu; The fifth hall, the Yama Heavenly Son Bag; The sixth hall, Bian Cheng Wang Bi; The seventh hall, Taishan Wang Dong; the eighth hall, the king of the city; the ninth hall, the equal king of Lu; The tenth hall, the wheel king Xue.

Under the king of Hades, he is the yin and yang judge who is in charge of rewarding the good and punishing the evil, and has the power of life and death for those ghosts who go to the underworld to wait for disposal.

There are four points to remember, which are to reward the good Si Wei Zheng, punish the evil Si Zhong Kui, Chacha Si Lu Zhidao, and Yin Law Si Cui Yu.

Wei Zheng and Zhong Kui should be familiar to everyone, in fact, Cui Yu is also an acquaintance, he is Wei Zheng's good friend, in "Journey to the West", Tang Taizong's soul tour of the underworld is Cui Yu's escort and guide.

The relatively unfamiliar one here is Lu Zhidao, it is rumored that he is the Lu pressure who plotted against Zhao Gongming with a nail book in the "Fengshen List", and was transferred to the prefectural judge after the god, in short, he is also a master with a great background.

Under the judge are the ghosts, that is, the brothers Xie Bi'an and Fan Wuyi.

It is rumored that the two were originally a pair of servants, but they were accidentally escaped by the prisoner while escorting a criminal to the court for trial.

So the two brothers discussed finding a direction to arrest the criminal, and after the prisoner was caught, they would return to the small bridge to meet.

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However, it is very unfortunate that when Xie Bi'an, who had tried every possible way to catch the prisoner, rushed back to the small bridge, he found that the agreed small bridge had been washed away by the flood due to a flash flood.

And when Fan Wuyi, who had been waiting on the bridge, had also fallen into the water and died, Xie Bi'an was sad and angry because he had lost his trust at the wrong time, and hanged himself on a willow tree by the river.

Xie Fan's practice of retrusting life and death greatly touched the prisoner.

Later, this person took the initiative to go to the government to surrender, and begged the government to come forward to praise Xie Fan and the others.

The official also thanked Xie Fan for their brotherhood, so he sent the tablets of the two to the Chenghuang Temple under the jurisdiction of the prefecture to enjoy the sacrificial fireworks.

After that, Xie Fan and the others officially joined the underworld and did the old errand of catching souls and ghosts.

It is worth mentioning that Fan Wuyi was drowning, so his face was full of mud.

And Xie Bi'an died of hanging, so he often pulled a bright red strip in front of his chest.

In addition to the above personnel, there are also some nameless and nameless Yin soldiers and ghost soldiers in the underworld, such as bull heads and horse noodles, etc., because their sources are complicated and not examined, so they are all omitted.

I don't know if you see the problem, yes, the personnel and institutions of the prefecture are extremely unreasonable!

Ten Hades only gave a total of four judges to two government leaders, how can there be a reason that there are twice as many officials as soldiers?

In addition, the power of the magistrate of the prefecture is so great that it frightens people to death.

For example, when Tang Taizong's soul traveled to the underworld, in fact, after Taizong's soul was out of the body, it should have been picked up by the black and white impermanence brothers.

Who knew that Cui Yu, the Yin Law Division, directly crossed the line and went directly to Chang'an City to meet Taizong's soul.

(But it is said that Taizong is slim, and the soul goes out of the front of the Wufeng Tower...... I saw a person kneeling beside the road, saying, "Your Majesty, forgive the sin of the minister's mistake to welcome him from afar." ”）

After receiving Emperor Taizong, Cui Yu privately changed the book of life and death, adding a stroke to the word "died in Zhenguan for 13 years, and changed it to Zhenguan for 33 years", and gave Emperor Taizong 20 years of life in vain.

So the Ten Palaces of Yama, who greeted Emperor Taizong in the palace of the underworld, hurriedly ordered his subordinates to send Taizong back to Yang.

Not surprisingly, this time it was Cui Yu who robbed the messenger who sent Taizong back to Yang, and even bought one get one free to take a tour project, and invited Emperor Taizong to visit the underworld by the way.

Who knew that this trip would cause an accident.

When Emperor Taizong walked to the city of vain with great interest, a large group of ghosts with little head and feet stepped forward to block the way, and they all clapped their hands and said happily: "The people are here, the people are here!" ”

(It's headless and still able to talk like this, it seems that the last life must have been a punishment day.) ）

It turned out that these were all the smoke and dust grass who died at the hands of Taizong, as well as Jiancheng Yuanji and other Taizong brothers, all of whom were clamoring for revenge.

At this time, even Cui Yu couldn't help the ghosts, so in the end he could only ask Emperor Taizong to sign a contract and borrow a bank of money called Sagara to buy the road.

After Emperor Taizong returned to the yang, he rewarded Xiangliang with the wealth of the yang......

The dignified Judge Cui actually did the work of borrowing money to eat interest and pimping, can you believe it?

Wait, wait, Cui Yu, aren't you the judge of good and evil in the Yin Division?

These vain ghosts are blocking the street so that they don't give you Judge Cui's face, so what are you waiting for?

Hurry up and ask the little ghosts to heat a pot of boiling oil, and fry these dead ghosts one by one!

This is the problem with the whole story, even the judge who can casually add twenty years of yang life to others can't help a group of lonely ghosts serving sentences in the city of vain death...... How do you look at it, how do you feel weird.

After talking about Cui Yu, let's talk about Wei Zheng.

This is also a capable person, and the section of 'Dream Cutting the Old Dragon of the Jing River' is all in the book.

People can not only kill ghosts, but also sin dragons, and they can actually 'dream slash' come true, so I ask you if you are afraid?

In fact, compared with the last judge Lu, the skills of the above two judges are still within the scope of forcible understanding.

The great thing is that the Cui Wei brothers are particularly capable of fighting, but the skills of Judge Lu really don't look like the talents that the immortals in the underworld system can point out.

There is such a story in "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", which says that there is a scholar named Zhu Erdan in Lingyang (now Ju County, Rizhao City, Shandong Province).

This person is usually known for his dullness in reading, and he has not passed the examination for nearly ten years.

Once, Jurdan was drinking with his classmates.

After a few glasses of muddy wine, those classmates began to tease Zhu Erdan.

Some people even forced Zhu Erdan to gamble with him, asking him if he dared to carry the statue of the judge enshrined in the Ten Kings Palace.

"If you dare to go, we will take care of this table of wine and food for you."

There is a way that wine is strong and intimidating, Zhu Erdan was angry, and he really ran to the Ten Kings Palace with the intention of wine, and carried back the statue of the judge of the clay sculpture.

I saw Zhu Erdan put the statue of the judge in front of the table, picked up the wine glass and toasted the clay statue three times in a row.

At last the man put down his glass and said to the judge, "The liquor on the table is too bad to taste, and there is a jar of good wine hidden in my cellar."

If the gods don't dislike it, how about going to my house for a drink? ”

With that, he laughed and carried the statue of the judge back to the palace of the ten kings.

The next night, Zhu Erdan was drinking alone at home, when suddenly the curtain of the outer wing door was lifted, and a man dressed as a judge walked in with a book and a brush.

This scared Zhu Erdan a lot, and he quickly knelt down with a grunt, kowtowing and begging for mercy.

"Xiao Sheng was reckless last night, and mistakenly offended the Divine Tiger Might, you are here to take my life today, right?"

But the judge laughed and said, "Take Mao's life, where is the good wine you said last night?" I'm here for a drink today. ”

As soon as he heard that the other party was not here to trouble him, Zhu Erdan immediately burst into joy, hurriedly opened the cellar, and brought out the good wine to drink with the judge.

During the banquet, the judge who went to the banquet in the middle of the night introduced that his surname was Lu, and he drank a lot of wine, and he drank ten cups in a row without showing the color of wine.

In the end, Jurdan was overwhelmed by the strength of the wine, and fell asleep on the table.

When he woke up, he saw that the candle was dim, and Judge Lu stood in front of the bookcase frowning at an article that Zhu Sheng had just written during the day, and from time to time took out a red pen to circle it for correction.

At the end, Judge Lu was so angry that he threw away the red pen in his hand: "I said Lao Zhu, your literary talent is too inferior, right?" According to your example, which life can you be admitted to the lifter. ”

I saw Judge Lu arch his hand at Zhu Erdan: "There are still official duties to be busy in the underworld, I have to go, and I will come back tomorrow night to help you think of a way." ”

After that, Judge Lu flicked his sleeves, and his figure disappeared in a flash.

The next night, Judge Lu came to Zhu Erdan to drink again, and after three rounds of drinking, Zhu Erdan gradually felt that the wine was on his head, and he fell asleep on the wine table with a bang.

In his sleep, Zhu Erdan suddenly felt a little pain in his viscera.

When I opened my eyes, I saw Judge Lu sitting in front of the bed, holding a sharp knife that was dangling, and he had already cut out his chest and stomach, and at this moment he was holding a piece of flesh and blood to look at it carefully.

Frightened, Zhu Erdan cried bitterly and said, "We have no grudge, why do you want to kill me?"

Who knew that Judge Lu smiled and said: "Don't be afraid, your bad writing is completely because your mind is blocked by evil things, and now I want to change your smart heart for you."

After speaking, Judge Lu unhurriedly sorted out the organs in Zhu Erdan's abdomen, and then sewed up the wound on his belly with a sewing needle.

In the end, Lu Juan held up the bloody piece of flesh and signaled to Zhu Erdan: "This is your original heart that lacks literary talent.

Just now, I have already selected a quick heart for you from the warehouse of the underworld and replaced it, and I have to bring this one back to pay the account. ”

After saying that, Judge Lu got up and closed the door and left.

After dawn, Zhu Erdan got up and looked at it and found that the wound had healed, leaving only a red line on his stomach.

When I picked up the article I had written before on the bookcase and looked at it, it was just bullshit, and I couldn't wait to tear it up.

Since then, Zhu Erdan's thinking has made great progress, and he has never forgotten the articles.

Within two months, he was the first to be admitted to the county case, and he was selected again in the autumn township examination.

Since then, Zhu Erdan has become a Zhu Juren, and for a while, all the squires and wealthy families in the township lined up to give him a post and a gift.

Zhu Juren thought that he could have today all the credit of Judge Lu, so he held a banquet at home, and went to burn incense and pray in front of the statue of the judge of the Ten Kings Palace, and invited Judge Lu to the banquet that night.

It was the first watch of the night, and Judge Lu really came by the invitation, so Zhu Erdan, who was overjoyed, immediately lifted the wine jug and persuaded him to drink diligently at the banquet.

When the two of them were drunk, Zhu Erdan said to Judge Lu: "It is a great favor for God to wash my intestines and change my heart."

But villain, I still have something I want to trouble the gods, I wonder if you can help people change their faces?"

It turned out that after this Zhu Erdan was developed, he actually disliked that his wife's appearance was not beautiful enough, so he wanted to ask Judge Lu for help.

I saw Judge Lu holding the wine glass in his hand, closed his eyes and muttered for a while, and finally nodded and said, "Okay, I'll find a way to help you find a good-looking one in the next few days."

A few days later, Judge Lu suddenly knocked on Zhu Erdan's door at night with a bloody baggage, telling him that this was the beautiful head he had found.

Seeing that Judge Lu came as promised, Zhu Erdan hurriedly lit the lamp and led the way and took him outside his wife's sleeping bedroom.

This time, Judge Lu asked Zhu Erdan to wait at the door, and he tiptoed in with his baggage, and then heard the sound of knives and axes in the room.

After a short time, Judge Lu came out again with a blood burden, and told Zhu Erdan to quickly find a place to dig a pit and bury it.

When Zhu Erdan's wife woke up the next day, Zhu Erdan took a look and found that her eyebrows were crooked, and there were a pair of dimples on both sides of her cheeks, which really looked like a beauty in a painting

When I untied the collar, I found that the wound on my neck had completely healed, leaving only a shallow red line.

This can make Zhu Erdan's snot bubbling, and he loves his wife who has changed her dignity.

However, the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, and it turned out that there was a retired Wu Yushi nearby.

He has a daughter who is very beautiful, but when her daughter entered the temple to burn incense during the Yuan Festival, she was bumped into by a flower picker, and was finally followed home.

But it was said that the gangster climbed over the wall and entered the house at night with the intention of committing adultery, but after Wu Nu woke up, she struggled to resist and shouted for help.

In the end, the villain had evil thoughts and cut off the head of Wu Nu with a knife.

When it was dawn, Mrs. Wu found her daughter in a different place in the bedroom, and the family cried and led her subordinates to the yamen to report to the official.

After the knife wound was examined, the Wu family bought a coffin to bury the body of Wu Nu and the head together, and at the same time found someone to find a monk to come to the house to practice the soul.

Who knew that the monks in this temple were invited, but when they opened the coffin, everyone was dumbfounded: Miss's body is still there, but the head is gone!

It's also appropriate.

Not long after Zhu Erdan changed his wife's head, he took his wife to a nearby temple to burn incense and make a vow, and happened to meet an old mother who had worked as an errand in the back house of the Wu family on the way.

As soon as the man saw Mrs. Zhu's appearance, he immediately ran to report to Wu Yushi in despair.

As soon as Wu Yushi heard that his daughter's head actually appeared on the wife of a strange scholar, he was so angry that he gritted his steel teeth.

Yu Shi insisted that Zhu Erdan killed his daughter with evil magic, so he personally went to the prefect's yamen to complain.

However, he said that the prefect was worried that the Wu family's murder case could not be solved, and as soon as he heard that the real murderer who had killed him by evil magic was discovered, he immediately ordered the third class of officials to arrest Zhu Erdan for interrogation.

However, although the prefect tortured Zhu Erdan several times, this person has always pretended not to know, and only said that after his wife got up one night, she completely changed her appearance, and she really didn't know why.

After that, the prefect tortured the Zhu family again, and found that the confession was exactly the same as what Zhu Erdan said.

At this time, the county guard had nothing to do, so he had to temporarily put Zhu Erdan in prison.

That night, Zhu Erdan dreamed that Judge Lu slipped into the prison to comfort him, and told him that he had arranged for the soul of Wu Yushi's daughter to dream for Wu Yushi.

Lu Juan told Zhu Erdan to rest assured, and the county guard would let him go home when it was dawn.

Sure enough, as soon as the next day dawned, Wu Yushi brought his family to the prison to protect Zhu Erdan.

not only bailed him out of prison, but also recognized Zhu Erdan as his son-in-law and gave him a large sum of money.

Since then, the Zhu family has become a relative of the Wu Yushi family, and life has become more and more prosperous.

It's just that Zhu Erdan was once involved in the murder case of Wu Shiyu's daughter, which is an indelible stain after all, and I have to say that it has greatly hindered Zhu Erdan's imperial examination.

However, Zhu Erdan also became the leading local squire because of his relationship with Wu's imperial family, and he had no worries about food and clothing all his life, and gradually left the matter of being an official in the imperial examination behind.

I heard that several sons of the Zhu family later became big officials, so the old man Pu Songling said with envy in the article that Judge Lu is really an ugly but kind-hearted ghost judge.

I, as a man, have never been afraid to speculate on others with the greatest malice.

If you can exchange it for a beautiful wife and a beautiful mansion just by virtue of having two drinks with the judge, the eerie Ten Kings Palace and Eight Achievements can be changed to a Xianheng wine shop.

Let's take Judge Cui as an example.

In fact, Emperor Taizong was not at all on a whim, wanting to go to the underworld to wander.

It was because he was harassed by the old dragon of Jinghe who let Wei Zheng kill him in his dream in the yang world, so he left his body at Wei Zheng's suggestion and went to the underworld to find the soul of the old dragon to confront him in the court.

However, from beginning to end, Taizong never saw the old dragon in the underworld.

He just followed behind Judge Cui, and he was so dizzy that he walked around the underworld, and when he was about to die, he was frightened in the city of vain, and he was so confused that he borrowed a cellar of gold and silver called Sagara.

If...... From beginning to end, there was no old dragon of Jinghe who asked Taizong for help because of his violation of the rules of heaven.

All of this is just that Wei Zheng and Cui Yu, two good friends, relied on hypnosis to dig a pit and trap Taizong, the purpose of which was to get a few cellars of gold and silver from Taizong that he rewarded Xiangliang, is this possible?

If...... Zhu Erdan's family has not been changed by Lu Ju from beginning to end, but they just found someone to completely replace Zhu Erdan's two children with two similar-looking human skin masks, so as to rob the Zhu family and the Wu family's family business, so does everything have a much more reasonable explanation?

The underworld collected the hearts of talented people who were surging with Wen Siquan and said that in the past, what did you want Zhu Erdan's bullshit heart to do? Who would want to change that heart?

Besides, since Lu Juan had the means to steal Miss Wu's head from the coffin, why didn't he simply throw the bloody head of Zhu Erdan's wife back into the coffin?

After all, it was the monk who came to do the transcendent ritual when he discovered that Miss Wu's head was missing!

If it weren't for the monk who found out that there was no head of the deceased in the coffin, so he was shocked, and the two of them would probably have buried the young lady in a daze.

As long as there is a head in the coffin during the ceremony, who will hold this bloody head and carefully examine it to see if it is Miss Wu's head?

In this way, even if the old mother of Wu Mansion met Zhu's wife by chance on the road later, she would not suspect that Zhu Erdan used 'evil magic' to steal the head.

At most, I only said two sentences in my heart: 'It's really strange that there are people in the world who are exactly the same as Miss'.

From this point of view, the biggest possibility that Lu Juan will not help Zhu Erdan deal with the first level is that he wants to let 'Zhu Erdan' at this time suffer a life lawsuit, bear the stain of the boss on his body, and then fish out the imprisoned 'Zhu Erdan' through the matter of 'Miss Wu's dream'!

In this way, Zhu Erdan can justifiably no longer go to the imperial examination, and from then on concentrate on buying land in his hometown as a master, and even the family property of Wu Yushi's family can participate in it.

From now on, he 'Zhu Erdan' only used the fact that he accidentally got involved in a life lawsuit and caused the case file to be dirty to prevaricate the academic and political adults in the provincial capital and not go to the capital to take the exam.

You must know that this Beijing will be a place where the world's lifters gather, and there must be people who will strictly check the identities of all the lifters who go to the exam.

At that time, if someone with a lot of trouble reaches out and wipes Zhu Juren's face, it will be completely exposed!

Well, now the problem is that the people in the underworld seem to be very fond of money, especially gold, silver, jewelry, and the like, all of which are simply too precious.

In some cases, they even use some means to make money...... But what do they want of the money of these people?

I think the most fundamental reason why the magistrates are so keen on making money...... They want to spend this money on earth!

You must be shocked, right?

Because folklore has it that the dungeon circulates the gold leaf of the burned paper in the yang world, it stands to reason that the dungeon should treat gold and silver as dung, how can you be so diligent in seeking money in the yang world?

But you know what?

The custom of burning paper money for Yin people is not a habit handed down from ancient times in China.

However, it was during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties that the ritual of burning paper Buddhist lamps for the souls of the dead who came to receive the scriptures gradually evolved when the Buddhists made the Seven Lent sacrifices.

Before the Wei and Jin dynasties, the people of the Han Dynasty, especially the scholars and doctors, did not burn paper money at all.

Even in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, there were still many people in society who were clearly opposed to the burning of paper money sacrifices during the sacrificial process.

For example, Li Ao of the Tang Dynasty once wrote an article "Going to the Buddha to Zhai Said", refuting the custom of burning paper sacrifices, believing that this move costs the people and money, and does not meet the Confucian requirements for human affection and grief.

You must know that the past is not like the present, although the ancestors invented papermaking technology early, but due to the limitations of papermaking technology is not developed, the cost of paper at that time was high and scary.

Especially the kind of good writing paper, every knife is worth a lot.

During the Tang Dynasty, the white square paper produced in Chang'an, three knife paper can be replaced with a bucket of white rice, 'Luoyang paper is expensive' is really not just talking.

For example, when the sage Wang Xizhi practiced calligraphy when he was young, he specially prepared a sand table and used branches to draw sand to practice calligraphy; When you are sure of the sand table, you can transcribe it on paper.

The magnanimous Wang family of 'Wang Xie Tang Qianyan in the old days' still cherishes the words and paper so much, not to mention ordinary people.

In this way, it can be obtained, and the people in the underworld must not accept the paper.

Because before the Wei and Jin dynasties, no one would burn paper when worshipping ancestors, and there was no burning in the yang world, so it was naturally impossible to become popular in the underworld.

So what kind of 'currency' is circulating in the underworld? Read on.

Since it comes to Wei and Jin, there is a celebrity who definitely can't be avoided, and he is Tao Yuanming!

You must be familiar with that "Peach Blossom Spring", right? This is to be memorized and dictated in full!

According to the general point of view, this "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" is a portrayal of Tao Yuanming's political ideals and ambitions, expressing the author's yearning for a life of 'chickens and dogs smell each other, and young people enjoy together'.

But is that really the case? I don't think so.

If "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" is really a portrayal of Tao Yuanming's political ambitions, then he must have written it too implicitly, so that there is not a single comment from Mr. Tao himself throughout the text.

It's hard to imagine that the one who dared to face the case of the postal inspector who came to ask for a bribe rose up and shouted, 'I can't bend my waist for five buckets of rice, and my fist will cause evil people in the township!' Tao Yuanming, who was angry and went away, would be obscure one after another in his article, and flashed his words again and again.

This must not be like Lao Tao's person!

Therefore, the real situation is likely to be ...... "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" is not original by Tao Yuanming, but Mr. Tao inadvertently heard the story of this 'fisherman accidentally entering the Peach Blossom Spring' from others.

Mr. Tao just thought the story was novel and interesting, so he copied the story down, and that's it.

In the era when there was no widespread recording equipment, it was normal to copy down what you were interested in.

If you don't believe it, just ask the elderly post-70s and post-80s around you to see if they copied the lyrics when they were young.

In this way, things make a lot more sense.

Mr. Tao is not the original creator of "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring", and of course it is impossible to sandwich his comments in the article.

It's like you don't write your own comments on the lyrics when you copy them.

Let's assume that if "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" is really a story that Tao Yuanming heard and not a random fiction, then is it really possible that the Peach Blossom Land in this short article exists?

If "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" really exists, then why can't the fishermen who have been to the Peach Blossom Land find it here?

The earth-shattering is finally coming, and I speculate that this peach blossom source where the dragon is missing is very likely to be the underworld!!

There are three reasons for this.

First, the reason why this small mountain village hidden in the valley is called Peach Blossom Land is that there is a large area of very strange peach trees outside the valley.

(Suddenly in the peach blossom forest, hundreds of steps between the shore, there are no miscellaneous trees)

This peach blossom forest is weird in the 'no miscellaneous trees', if it is not artificially bred and cultivated but by natural formation, how can there be a range of several hundred meters of peach trees?

And this peach tree is not an immortal thing, there will always be a peach tree that dies naturally over time.

Trying to tell what kind of dead tree it is is is not something that can be seen from a distance.

Since the fisherman can look at it at a glance and come to the conclusion that there are no miscellaneous trees, this shows that this peach blossom forest within a range of several hundred meters is not only specially planted, but also regularly cleaned and replanted.

Only then will there be a peach grove that is full of life, and there are no miscellaneous trees and dead trees in the middle.

So, who has been cultivating and maintaining this peach blossom forest?

The most likely person is the villagers of Taoyuan Village in the valley!

Because the fisherman who found Taoyuan Village was rowing along the stream between the peach forests, and then he found the entrance to Taoyuan Village.

(The fisherman is very different, and he goes forward, and he wants to exhaust his forest, and when the forest runs out of water, he will get a mountain, and the mountain has a small mouth...... ）

If it was really people outside Taoyuan Village who were planting this peach blossom forest, then Taoyuan Village would have been discovered a long time ago.

Now the question arises again, why do the villagers of Taoyuan Village plant a large number of peach trees in front of their homes?

You must know that the peach tree is a different kind of tree, its resin replenishes qi and blood, and the peach kernel has the ability to kill insects.

And the peach wood is rumored to have the effect of warding off evil spirits and punishing ghosts, so most of the Taoist priests who subdue demons and subdue demons have a peach wood sword in their hands.

As you can imagine, the Peach Grove must be one of the least favorite places for ghosts and ghosts.

If the villagers of Taoyuan Village bothered to plant peach trees to ward off evil spirits and drive away ghosts, then it is obvious that the defense function of this peach forest at the entrance of Taoyuan Village is internal.

If you simply want to defend the outside world, it is better to plant two peach trees next to your house, which is not only small in amount of work and easy to maintain, but also no worse than the peach forest outside the village.

Since the function of the dense peach forest at the entrance of Taoyuan Village is internal defense, it means that the villagers of Taoyuan Village are always on guard to prevent the ghosts in the village from escaping.

A village full of ghosts, and the people in the village are always careful not to let the ghosts in the village escape, is there a place in the world that is more like the underworld?

Second, the fisherman who mistakenly entered Taoyuan Village was surprised to find that the villagers of Taoyuan Village were dressed the same as the people outside (men and women were dressed like outsiders).

Isn't that weird? According to the head of Taoyuan Village, the villagers hid here to escape the wars of the pre-Qin period, so they 'did not know that there was a Han dynasty, regardless of the Wei and Jin dynasties'.

However, under hundreds of years of isolation, the villagers of Taoyuan Village are still dressed the same as people outside?

It's like you waking up and traveling back in time, and the people over there are all dressed as modern people, do you think this is normal?

This does not exist in the underworld.

Because people die every day in the yang world, the judge and the king of Hades have to ascend to the court every day to judge the soul.

After the trial is completed, I can ask about the recent clothing trends in the yang world, so that my dress does not look so inconsistent.

Third, the fisherman who was warmly entertained by the head of Taoyuan Village, although he promised never to reveal the secrets of Taoyuan Village, but as soon as he left Taoyuan Village, he immediately turned his face and changed his hexagram.

Not only did he leave a mark all the way in the peach blossom forest to mark it, but when he returned to the city, he went to Taishou to denounce Taoyuan Village, which can be called a typical example of turning his face faster than turning a book.

This can't help but make people curious: you just ate someone's banquet in Taoyuan Village for a few days, and you turned your face when you went out, so you changed your mind too quickly, right?

（…… Not enough for outsiders either. Once he went out and got his boat, he helped him to the road, and he was determined everywhere. And the county, Yi Taishou, said so. ）

However, what is even stranger is still to come, after listening to the fisherman's report, the county guard actually sent people to look for this Taoyuan Village...... Doesn't this idle egg hurt?

Even if you find this Taoyuan Village, what good can it be? Is it to measure the land and collect a lot of taxes every year? Why is he so anxious to find Taoyuan Village?

There is only one possibility, and that is that the fishermen must have seen something very unusual when they visited Taoyuan Village.

Moreover, the fisherman was sure that the county guard would reward himself heavily for getting the news, so he immediately betrayed Taoyuan Village as soon as he went out.

What is it about a small, seemingly ordinary village that attracts fishermen and county keepers?

There is only one possibility, people!

Fisherman, he must have seen a person in Taoyuan Village, who was absolutely impossible to appear here...... Or to put it more bluntly, a dead man who is already dead on the outside!

A dead man who the fisherman thought he had lost to the ground!

The question is, why is the fisherman so sure that the person he met in Taoyuan Village must be the one he knows?

Answer: This man must have owed the fisherman a 'big' sum of money and died before he could pay it back.

There is a saying that people die and their debts are eliminated, and even if a fisherman who loses a sum of money in vain is very angry, he can only consider himself unlucky.

There is a way that enemies are very red when they see each other, wow, you kid owes me money, and you actually ran here incognito to be free, and pretended not to know me?

Even if you turn to ashes, I will recognize you!

So the fisherman didn't mean to get along with Taoyuan Village, he just wanted to go to the county guard to avenge his grievances and beg him to administer justice for himself;

And the reason why the county guard quickly arranged people to visit this 'Peach Blossom Spring' after receiving the fisherman's report was not just to administer justice for the fisherman.

In the eyes of the county guard, if the fisherman did not recognize the wrong person in Taoyuan Village, then the person who owed the fisherman money was indeed dead.

It's just that this person doesn't know what luck he has taken, and he was able to 'resurrect' in Taoyuan Village again!

You must know that people in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties periods were crazy and superstitious about all kinds of magic, and most people believed that there must be a kind of immortal medicine in the world that can make people soar into immortals after taking it, and even if it is not good, it can also bring people back to life.

In the eyes of the county guard, the villagers of this Taoyuan Village must have a magic medicine in their hands that can bring people back from the dead.

If a person is told that there is a way to resurrect him after death, who can refuse such a temptation?

Finding the Peach Blossom Source means that he can get the guarantee of resurrection from the dead, so how can he not be tempted?

It was under the impetus of this temptation that the county guard sent a large number of his men to follow the fisherman to find Taoyuan Village...... Then the group all ran away in vain.

Are you a little curious about how this mysterious Taoyuan village disappeared in a matter of days?

The answer is actually very simple, Taoyuan Village has always been there, but someone did something on the way to Taoyuan Village!

If you turn your head and re-read this "Peach Blossom Spring", you will find that the villagers of Taoyuan Village had a very strange attitude when they first met the fisherman.

(When I see the fisherman, I am shocked)

What is there to be surprised about when you see a fisherman?

Since so much land has been reclaimed, if there is no sufficient water source for irrigation, it will be completely blind.

Therefore, there must be a very abundant source of living water in Taoyuan Village...... If there is living water, there will be fish, and it makes no sense that the villagers of Taoyuan Village never eat fish.

If you want to go into the water to catch fish, you have to have a villager play the role of a fisherman, and it is hard to imagine that the villagers of Taoyuan Village will be surprised by the fisherman in a lily suit.

But the villagers of Taoyuan Village were still shocked when they saw the fisherman, so what surprised them was not the fisherman's dress at all, but the direction in which the fisherman came!

Because the fisherman, he came from a direction where no one could have come!

In the eyes of the villagers of Taoyuan Village, the direction in which the fisherman came should be the Kaolin cliff!!

Why?

Assuming that the villagers of Taoyuan Village really fled back then, it would be impossible for these fleeing villagers with all kinds of household utensils and livestock to go to the cave where the fisherman came ('the beginning is extremely narrow, and only then can people be reached)!

People can crawl forward, but what about cattle, sheep, horses, and vehicles? Do you want to throw it all away?

Therefore, there must be a very wide main gate in Taohuayuan, which is enough to pass through the large number of carriages and horses, and has been carefully covered by the Taoyuan villagers.

And the cave where the fisherman came through must have been a gap formed by accident when the water dissolved the mountain rock!

According to the original account, "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" took place in Wuling, which is the north of today's Changde City, Hunan Province.

Here is adjacent to Dongting on the left, five rivers on the right, and Yuanshui in the south, the river network is staggered, the water system is developed, and the limestone hilly landform is mainly developed.

This type of landform is not very solid, and it is very easy to form a cavity under the erosion of flowing water.

There is such a story in Wuling, and it is said that Guan Shenggong once led troops to garrison Wuling.

Due to the inconvenience of the soldiers to draw water on a daily basis, Guan Gong raised the Qinglong Yanyue Knife to chisel the mountain wall next to the camp, and the result was that the real stone broke out of the spring.

This spring is therefore named 'Zhuo Dao Spring', and its traces are still there.

In fact, the 'Zhuo Dao Spring' is not a spring at all, but a dark river flowing inside the mountain!

Master Guan heard the sound of running water behind the mountain wall, so he commanded the soldiers to dig the mountain wall along with the sound!

From these two sentences, it can be seen that the small river that the fisherman came over with a boat flowed from the mountain wall (water source!). ）。

It is for this reason that the fisherman decided to leave his boat and land to explore the cave where living water flows.

Therefore, after the head of Taoyuan Village learned from the fisherman how he entered the Peach Blossom Spring, he quietly motioned to the other villagers to continue to invite the fisherman as a guest.

Everyone is not related to each other, the village chief invited you to eat a meal, and you have eaten people's banquets for several days in a row, why are you a fisherman so big-faced?

The truth of the matter is that the village chief arranged for several villagers to take advantage of the fisherman's guest to eat and drink, and went out along the gap he had drilled to find out the fisherman's origin.

After the fisherman left, the village chief and all the villagers forcibly intercepted the dark river that rushed out of the mountain gap and diverted it!

The fisherman followed the dark river that broke through the mountain wall to find the mountain gap that went to the peach blossom spring!

Without the guidance of the river, no matter how many marks the fisherman makes along the way, it will be in vain!

Because the fisherman will only take the county guard's men to go up the river in a boat to find it, and will not go to a place where there is no river flowing!

And the place where he used to make the mark is now an impassable swamp due to the diversion of the stream, and it is natural that the mark left before cannot be found.

As mentioned earlier, Taoyuan Village should have close contacts with the outside world, and there are some people who have died in the outside world, but Taoyuan Village is also very repulsive to those outsiders who accidentally break into this place.

This kind of village, where outsiders are not welcome, but always maintains close contact with the outside world, and where the occasional familiar face of the dead appears, doesn't it look like the legendary underworld that sends soul envoys to the sun every night?

Like the one where Cui Yu, Wei Zheng and others who have a strange penchant for money work?

As for what the hell do the people in the underworld want money for...... That's what I need to find out in my book!

Hahaha.