Chapter 47: The Netherworld
I suddenly remembered the scene I saw in the delusional realm, that is, Zhang Han left me for some reason, and she never appeared again after that, I suddenly had a bad premonition, I looked at Zhang Han, she also turned her head to look at me and asked me why I looked at her with that strange look, I hurriedly said it was okay, took a sip of cocktail, Zheng Sange snuffed out the cigarette and jumped down from the high chair and patted me on the shoulder and said
"From now on, you will be a good brother, just call me the third child"
Seven
That night, I booked 4 high-speed rail tickets to Changchun the next morning, and I paid the money, after all, I had just entered the organization of the spirit inductees, and I was the youngest in my generation, and I earned so much money from my little sister-in-law, and it was nothing to spend this little money.
After notifying everyone, I came to the living room, Zhang Han was sitting on the sofa watching idol dramas, I sat next to her and picked up the remote control on the coffee table to turn down the sound of the TV, Zhang Han looked at me suspiciously, and asked me what I was doing, I put down the remote control and looked at her with a smile and said to her
"Okay, let's talk about the things before and after you ran away from home."
Zhang Han was immediately deflated when he heard me say this, and whispered to me
"Liu Qiang, let me tell you, I said that you are not allowed to laugh at me, I am not reserved"
I nodded and said no problem, what if I even slept after, Zhang Han pinched me angrily, and instantly a large piece of purple on my arm, looking at my grinning teeth, Zhang Han said that she deserved it, and then told me about her running away from home.
Zhang Han, like me, has been dreaming since she was a child, and she has recognized me as her husband in life since she was a teenager.
Cui Xiaobai said today that the old man of her family is the great elder of the Eastern Sect Spirit Attractor, although she is no longer a great elder, but her family is also a local big family, she is the only girl in the family's generation, everything is rare and expensive, Zhang Han has been favored by the whole family since she was born, especially her grandfather, who dotes on Zhang Han far more than other children, so Zhang Han's current temper is a bit of a big lady's temper.
Zhang Han and her master mentioned the dream she often had, her master said that I should be destined for her life, it should be the fate of the previous life, Zhang Han heard her master say this more firm her own thoughts, she found out my specific location through one of her master's magic weapons, so she ran away from home and came to me.
She was very curious about what kind of person I was, and on the way to find me, she had already made up her mind that no matter what kind of person I was, she would be with me, even if it was a heinous bad person, Zhang Han was already in tears when she said this.
I took her in my arms and told her that I didn't blame her for anything, Zhang Han cried and said that she ran away from home to see me earlier, I hurriedly took out a few tissues from the coffee table to help her wipe her tears, Zhang Han struggled out of my arms and sobbed and asked me if I love her, I hurriedly said that I love her for a lifetime, Zhang Han broke into tears and laughed and said that I was flamboyant.
She wiped the tears on her face with a piece of paper and asked me if I had any plans to go to Jilin, I shook my head and said that now I am a black eye, and I can only act when the time comes, Zhang Han leaned his head on my arms and said that I must be very careful, I must not do anything, I kissed her on the forehead and said that I am blessed with a great life, and I have experienced so many things without danger, Zhang Han sighed and did not say anything.
Zhang Han slept with me when I went to bed at night, in her words, anyway, the first time had happened, and it was not bad for the second and third times after the Nth time, after the two of us had a cloud and rain, Zhang Han turned his back to me and said nothing, I asked her if she had anything on her mind after smoking, Zhang Han was a little worried and said that this kind of happy day didn't know how long it would last, Zhang Han was a little confused about what he said, and asked him what was going on, Zhang Han shook his head and said just sighed, I hugged her from behind and said that I would be by his side no matter what time it was, Zhang Han hummed and said that he would get up early tomorrow morning to catch the train and rest early.
After finishing speaking, I stopped talking, because the amount of information I was exposed to today was a bit large, and it didn't take long for Zhang Han and Zhang Han to consume the last remaining physical strength, and I fell asleep in a daze.
In a trance, I seemed to have come to a completely strange place, there was darkness all around, and I couldn't see my fingers, just when I panicked, there was a faint light in the distance, and the light moved towards me like a firefly, I watched this light swaying closer and closer to me, and after a long time I found out that the shining thing was a lantern, and the lantern had bright red bardo written on it, at this time I had already guessed who the person was, and when the person approached, I finally saw that it was my father who had disappeared for many years.
My dad wore a black robe, the kind of black robe that could cover his head, which was the style that the Demon Sect elders in the Film and Television Bureau liked to wear.
My dad didn't say anything else to me, just said to me lightly, followed him, and then turned around and left, and I didn't ask much and followed him.
After walking for a long time, my dad stopped, and not long before he walked, there was a glimmer of light, and we walked towards the bright place, and when we got closer, we saw that it was a thatched house, and my dad hung the lantern at the door and opened the door and said to me to enter the house and talk, and my dad and I walked into the thatched hut with our front and back feet.
The furnishings in the thatched house are extremely simple, a wooden bed and a set of wooden tables and chairs, an oil lamp and a thread-bound ancient book on the table, after entering the house, my dad took off the black robe he was wearing and hung it at the door, due to the last time my dad appeared too hastily in the kingdom of God incident, I didn't observe him carefully, this time I can finally take a closer look at him, my dad has not changed much over the years, and he is even much younger than before he disappeared.
My dad was wearing a black fast catcher suit, my dad saw me looking at him with weird eyes and smiled at me, touched his face and asked me if there was anything wrong with him, I shook my head and said no, my dad smiled and asked me to sit down and talk.
I sat down and asked him where this was, and my dad asked me where I thought this should be, and I thought about it and said it should be the netherworld, and my dad nodded and said that this is the netherworld.
My dad smiled bitterly and said that the conditions here are more difficult, and there is nothing to entertain me, and called me mainly to talk to me, my dad looked at me and sighed and said with emotion
"I didn't expect time to pass so quickly, you have grown so big"
I had fantasized countless times about the reunion between me and my dad, but I couldn't say a word at this moment, and my dad smiled at me and asked me
"Everything is fine at home, right?"
I nodded numbly, my dad said to himself that it was good, then the oil lamp suddenly jumped a few times without warning, my dad reached out and got the core of the oil lamp and the oil lamp returned to normal, my dad looked at me and asked me
"Are you particularly curious about our family?"
I nodded, my dad smiled and said that this time he called me over to talk to me about my family's affairs, I listened to my dad and said that these things have been bothering me for a long time, my dad said don't worry, he told me in detail today, anyway, the time is there, even if I have lived in the nether world for a year, the yang world is only a short hour.
My dad and Zheng Sange mean the same, our family's affairs are very weird, it has been weird to the point of incredible, my family's history is too long, my family does not have the habit of writing genealogy, and recording important things in the family mainly depends on the oral transmission of the older generation to the younger generations.
My ancestors made coffins, and many celebrity coffins were made by the hands of my ancestors, the most famous of which is the seventh master and eight masters in the underworld.
I told my dad about it, my dad nodded and said it was like this, and he had a good personal relationship with the eighth master, my dad paused here and said to me that Cui Yu's coffin was also made by my family, I was shocked after hearing it, my dad smiled and said that these are not unusual, and the things that follow are not unusual.
In the Ming Dynasty, one of the ancestors of my family suddenly left the body when he slept, he fluttered to the Hades Hall of the underworld, and saw the ten halls of Hades, because my ancestors have been doing this industry for generations, naturally they are very in awe of gods and ghosts, the ancestors are very afraid of kneeling on the ground and dare not raise their heads, one of the ten halls of Hades told him not to be afraid, and it was not because he made a mistake that the ancestors heard Hades say and let go of their hearts, and the Hades said that because my family has been a coffin maker for generations, and has accumulated a lot of Yin virtue, Now Hades will reward my house.
The ancestors had heard about the rewards of the king of Hades, most of them were to increase the longevity of the living or give treasures, and the king of Hades gave my family a strange book and an official position.
The book is on the table, my dad said that this book has been passed down from generation to generation, few people in the family can read it, I asked my dad I can see it, my dad said yes, the book on my dad's desk took it and opened it and it was full of some words that I couldn't understand, like the earliest hieroglyphs, and like a stick figure drawn by a child, and my head hurt very much after reading it for a long time, my dad looked at me and said that this is a text, it is written for ghosts, my dad asked me to close the book, and said that I will have the opportunity to read this in the future, He said that the official position given to my family by the king of Hades back then was to guard the middle nether realm for generations.
It seems that my previous guess was correct, I told my dad that I went to my grandfather's house to ask about it, my grandfather kept pretending to be stupid with me, my dad nodded and said that the agreement between the king of Hades and my ancestors at that time was not to talk about anything about the nether realm in the yang world, if there was a violation of the bad luck of the whole family for three generations.
I asked my dad what kind of bad luck method it was, my dad smiled bitterly and shook his head and said that he really didn't know about this, because no one in my family had discussed anything about the nether world in the yang world, and my dad said that including Cui Xiaobai and others, their understanding of the nether world was also very limited.
After listening to my dad, I was surprised, since I knew Cui Xiaobai's identity, I also checked the information about his deity on the Internet, according to my understanding, Judge Cui should be regarded as a middle and high-level management in the underworld, although the status is not as good as the Ten Palaces of Hades, but it is not low.
I asked my dad what the netherworld was, my dad thought about it and asked me if I knew that in ancient times, a moat would be built around the big city, I nodded and said yes, my dad said that the role of the netherworld is equivalent to the moat of the underworld, which is a barrier between the underworld and the yang.
I asked my dad why he separated the underworld from the yang, and my dad said that first of all, people and ghosts have different paths, the yang world is the world where the living are located, and the underworld is the world where the living live are after death, the rules of the yin and yang worlds are different, if anyone can shuttle between the yin and yang worlds, then it will be chaotic, and secondly, there are always some people with ulterior motives who want to invade the underworld.
At this time, the Nether Realm can isolate these people with ulterior motives, or it can be said that they are exiled to the Netherworld, and anyone who arrives here will lose their sense of direction and eventually become unconscious.
After my dad finished speaking, he added that only our family was an exception, my dad pointed to the lantern inserted outside the door and said that the lantern was equivalent to the compass of the netherworld, I asked my dad if the last time he saved me was that I went to the netherworld, my dad nodded and said yes.
My dad would know about all the people who went to the Netherworld, so he knew that I was sent here and rushed to rescue me as soon as possible.
I asked my dad again what happened to him, and my dad said that he just sent that person to the netherworld, but it didn't work, because the so-called god was possessed by the believer, and he immediately fled as soon as he saw that the momentum was not right.
I asked my dad what the hell was the origin of these people, and my dad shook his head and said that he didn't know very well, but he could feel that the breath of the so-called god lord was very familiar, and I suddenly remembered that Zheng Sange or Cui Xiaobai had also said this question before.
My dad saw that my brows were frowning and asked me not to think about it anymore, as soon as my dad finished speaking, the door of the thatched hut opened, and a person walked in from outside, wearing the same black robe as my dad, the man took off his black robe and hung it behind the door, turned around and smiled at me, and then I saw that the person who came was actually my grandfather.
My dad didn't feel strange when he saw my grandfather, my grandfather nodded to my dad and sat on the bed, and my dad said to my grandfather slightly apologetically
"I'm sorry to call you here."
My grandfather waved at him and said it was okay, and he looked around and said with emotion
"The nether world is still like this, I think I slept on this bed when I was guarding the netherworld, and now I think about it, I really miss it"
When I heard the old man say this, I complained and asked him why he didn't tell me all this when I went to his house, which made me almost nervous.
The old man smiled and said that the things of the netherworld must not be mentioned in the yang world, and my father also told me about this matter just now, I smiled and said that the old man's acting skills are very poor, and the old man disapprovingly said that he is a powerful acting school, but I don't know how to appreciate it.
After the old man finished speaking, my dad was amused by him, and the old man had an expression that he felt that he deserved the Oscar, and began to dance and talk about the things he wanted to do back then, and my dad coughed and said to me
"Dad, let's get down to business"
After listening to this, the old man looked at my father angrily and said to me
"I don't have any opinion with your father about you joining the spirit inducer, this is your private matter after all, but you don't have any skills now, you will have to continue to guard the nether realm for the old Liu family in the future, so your father and I decided to teach you some skills, lest you have something to do, and I will not be able to explain to the king of the ten palaces when the time comes."
After the old man finished speaking, he yawned and said to my father
"I'm old, I'm sleepy after a few words, you teach him"