Meng Po pointed to the sky with her finger, then tapped the ground with her foot, and said indignantly: "The official is wrong, in addition to you and me, God knows and the earth knows." There is a saying that officials are bound to hear. ”

"That sentence?"

"Let no one know unless you do!"

Li Tai's face was red, and his expression was a little embarrassed, but he still wanted to stuff the jade in his hand to Meng Po. Who knows, Meng Po's face became colder and colder, and she pointed at him and shouted loudly: "Li Tai, do you think this is still your Yangshi's territory?" In the yang world, you can do nonsense, you can be opportunistic, you can flatter, you can shout five and drink six, but in our yin division, you have to follow the rules, unlike you in the yang world with a little thought, a few words of flattery, a few stinky money can be over. In the underworld, money is not omnipotent, if my Meng Po was greedy for money, she would have been a billionaire in the underworld, no matter what happened to you in life, after death, you have to act according to the law of cause and effect of the three lives of the past and this life, otherwise how can there be fairness in this world? In the previous life, the rich man will be a poor ghost in this life, he will be rich in this life, he will be a poor man in this life, he will be a poor person in this life, he will be a poor person in this life, he will be a high official in this life, he must pay off his debts in his previous life, and he must repay his evil in the underworld in the yang world, which is why the Yin Si has to set up eighteen layers of hell and ten halls of Yama kings! ”

Li Tai was terrified when he heard this, his whole body trembled, but his mouth was still stiff: "I, Li Tai, stand up to the sky and the earth, and I haven't done anything bad in the Yang world, don't you want to scare me?" ”

"Do officials really stand up to the sky?" Meng Po let out a sneer: "Then may I ask the official, do you remember Zuo Tianyou?" ”

Li Tai was stunned for a moment, and looked at Meng Po without speaking.

"Back then, Empress Wu ordered you to enter the palace and ordered you to go to southern Xinjiang with General Zuo to carry out secret missions. When the mission was about to be completed, you actually poisoned General Zuo's food, and in vain he still regarded you as an old friend and took care of you in every way. Li Tai, do you really know what your secret mission was? How dangerous is it? If it weren't for the old general Zuo before he died, he gave you this treasure jade to exorcise evil spirits, do you think you still have the life to live to this day? ”

Li Tai's face was red and white, and he squeezed the piece of jade tightly, and did not speak for a while.

"You think that if you kill the old general Zuo, you can get the credit alone, then you know, things are not something that you can accomplish as a mortal. You are afraid in your heart, and you are afraid of martial arts, so you design to blame the old general for all the things. General Zuo knew that he was going to die, and he knew that the poison was yours, but he still took it with all his might, do you know why? ”

"Why?"

"Because when you are a friend, when you are still the year-old friend who talks freely with him about the situation and sighs about the people's livelihood in the world. He can't bear to think of you in the worst way, thinking that what you do is just doing things under orders, so when you die, he protects you and fulfills you. Li Tai, are you worthy of him? ”

"You talk nonsense! He is a dignified general, how can he look down on me? He was just using me to show the world how close and friendly he was as a great general, so that he could gain more fame. If he is truly for me, how can he hide everything from me? Although you are Meng Po, you are just a soup seller by the bridge, how can you know all the things in this yang world! ”

"Why should officials be forceful and reasonable, whether it is true or false, you know it, I know, and God knows it."

Li Tai turned his face away and remained silent.

Meng Po said again: "If you murder the old general Zuo, it is to seek fame and fortune, to protect yourself, and you can still gain a trace of understanding, after all, everyone has greed and selfishness. But Li Tai, you have become the secretary of the Ministry of War, according to your qualifications, you seem to be already at the top of your career, why don't you give up, and you actually repeat your old tricks and harm Zuo Tianyou? ”

"I didn't harm Zuo Tianyou, even if you are Meng Po, you can't frame it indiscriminately!"

"Li Tai, you are the secretary of the Ministry of War, although you are not at the border, you are in control of the appointment and dismissal of the official position of the Ministry of War, you use this as bait, which makes people embarrassed a lot of Zuo Tianyou. What's more, you secretly signaled to others, giving Zuo Tianyou the wrong military information, the wrong map, the wrong route, and when he was in trouble, you also blocked and killed. Didn't you let you shoot those arrows on his body? ”

Meng Po said, with a wave of her long sleeves, she saw the scene of Li Tai's personal guards shooting Zuo Tianyou that day, and the fatal arrow on his forehead was his best masterpiece. Li Tai was able to sit in the position of the squire of the military department, and it didn't all depend on one mouth, he still had some ability. Horseback archery, platoon layout, he is a good hand, but unfortunately he has never used these on the right path.

Seeing Li Tai's eyes closed, Meng Po said faintly: "Li Tai, before death, after death, you can't escape these eighteen layers of hell." ”

Li Tai's face had turned pale at this time, he looked into Meng Po's eyes and asked, "Then what punishments are there in those eighteen layers of hell?" ”

"Let me tell you briefly, if you lie too much or sow discord in the yang world, you will cut off your tongue and throw it to feed the dog, making you dumb in the next life!"

"Why did you cut your tongue?"

"Evil comes out of the mouth, and words come from the tongue."

"What about me, what kind of punishment will there be?"

"Thou hast raped women with thy power, hast made the poor sleep, and hast corrupted**. When you get to the yin, you will first cut off your penis and throw it to the poisonous snake, so that you will become a woman in the next life, and you are good at lying and sowing discord, so you will be a mute in the next life, and you will be speechless. Then you will cut open your belly, take out your fat intestines and belly, and let a few hungry wolves compete for food, because your heart is black, so you must dig it out and put it in the oil pan to fry it red and then put it in, so that the next life will not be black when you change people's hearts. ”

Li Tai's legs were weak when he heard this, and he broke out in a cold sweat. He muttered, "I'm not going, I'm not going to the eighteenth layer of hell!" ”

"Li Tai, when you get to Yinsi, I can't help you!" Meng Po shook her head: "Everything you do in the Yang World must also be borne by yourself after death. ”

While talking, an old man came over and took the initiative to ask Meng Po for Meng Po soup.

Meng Po said: "The old gentleman sacrificed himself to save others, and he saved a stranger who had nothing to do with himself, so there is no need to drink this Meng Po soup, and it is good to keep the memory." ”

"Meng Po, you are wrong, I saved a life, not to keep a good memory for myself, and it is just a trivial matter, so why should I worry about the next life. When people die, it's a hundred, come cleanly, go clean, it's good. The old man said, picked up a bowl of Meng Po soup and drank it all, then returned the bowl to Meng Po and turned around and stepped on the Nai He Bridge, without looking back until the end.

"He is also surnamed Li, his name is Li Si, unlike you, he has no great achievements, he just boated on the Luo River all his life, and was called a boatman or boatman in the Yang world. He has no other net worth, and all his belongings are just a broken boat, and what he earns every day is just for his family to barely survive. But in his life, he saved 72 people, both old and young, men and women, some who fell into the water, and some who committed suicide. The last thing in this life was to save people, but although that person was rescued, he came to Yin Si because of physical exhaustion and old diseases. Meng Po said, with another wave of her long sleeves, another picture appeared in front of Li Tai's eyes: "Li Tai, do you know who this young man he saved is?" ”

Li Tai looked at the center of the picture, there was a wet young man, looking at his appearance, he was just ordinary, and there was nothing extraordinary.

"He's the next Squire of the Army, and unlike you, he's a good officer!" After Meng Po finished speaking, with a wave of her hand, the picture disappeared. Li Tai stood aside, with mixed feelings in his heart, and it was really a little unpleasant.

At this time, there came another family of four or five weeping and crying ghosts, crying and scolding, "They are all corrupt officials who have lost their conscience, and they have embezzled the silver taels that repaired the river, causing the Luo River to flood, and drowning us alive"

They drank Meng Po soup and cursed incessantly.

Li Tai really couldn't listen to it, so he interjected and said: "The Luohe River is not a matter for me to do, why can others escape, but you can't, to put it bluntly, or your own escape skills are not enough, what is the matter of being an official?" Besides, have you seen the embezzlement of the officials? ”

"Ten years as a county official, nine years as a corrupt official, and the remaining one year as an official is whether he wants to be greedy or not. The mouth is reading incorruptible, but the upper and lower pockets are all stuffed, this is the appearance of all beings who are your officials! While speaking, those people also finished drinking Meng Po soup, looked Li Tai's clothes up and down, pointed to his nose and scolded: "You are also a corrupt official, don't ask us how we know, you can smell your body from ten miles away, full of greed and copper smell, do you dare to say that you are not greedy?" ”

Li Tai opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to argue. Yes, he is also a corrupt official, and among the officials he knows, there is no one who is not greedy, only the difference between being greedy and being greedy. He also knows that in fact, the people don't care whether they are greedy for money, they only care about whether they do something for the people after they are greedy for money, even if it is just a little good thing.

Those people walked away, but they were still scolding words like "cutting off children and grandchildren, splitting the corpses of five horses, and thundering in the sky", which made Li Tai's heart tremble, and he became more and more embarrassed. He thought about it for a long time before he stretched out his hand to Meng Po and wanted to ask for a bowl of Meng Po soup again, but Meng Po shook her head.

"Li Tai, people don't live like playing chess in the Yang world, they can start over if they lose, and they can even take a step back with a rogue regret. Although my Meng Po soup is not precious, each person can only get one bowl. Yours has been splashed by you, and the rest is up to your creation. If you don't fall halfway, it proves that in your previous life, there is still a trace of creation, if you fall down and fall in the Lethe River, you will immediately become a hungry fish that sees food but does not see the hook, and is fished and slaughtered and cooked by the people of the Yang world. Of course, even if you become a fish and return to the Yin Division, you will still suffer from the eighteen layers of hell, because this is a debt you owe in this life, and it should be repaid, and it must be repaid. ”

Meng Po said, letting go of her body. Li Tai saw the bridge behind Meng Po, which was a bridge made of white jade, which looked very smooth, without any traps and obstacles. Vaguely, he seemed to hear the sound of Yangshi's watch, and it was about to be the fifth watch, so he had to hurriedly and nervously step on the Nai He Bridge with a fluke mentality. When he walked to the middle of the bridge, the bridge suddenly shook, and the white jade stone was slippery, and one could not stand steadily, and actually slipped into the river

In the bedroom of the Li family, Xing Ruyi crept in, and the fox followed.

Xing Ruyi first walked to the bed, tried Li Tai's snort, and then turned back to the fox and said, "Dead!" Then he walked lightly to the dresser, put the box of rouge called "魄" into the cuff, and winked at the fox: "It's so hanging!" Before, I was afraid that this Mrs. Li would not use this rouge, that this Li Tai would not be close to Mrs., that he would be in a stalemate with Meng Po in his dreams, and that he would not be able to live or die, and that he would hear the sound of the change and turn back to the Yang world. Who knows, he was in a stalemate for a long time, but he still stepped on the bridge with a weak heart. ”

"Why don't you just hook his soul? Even if his longevity is not over, he can be called a lonely ghost! ”

"Wouldn't that be too cheap for him? This netherworld, ordinary wicked people, just go once, like him, you have to go twice! Xing Ruyi stretched out two fingers and shook them in front of the fox: "As for me, I finally helped Rouge and Zuo Tianyou get justice." ”

As soon as the words fell, two figures appeared in the room, it was Rouge and Zuo Tianyou, they held hands with each other, smiled slightly, and thanked each other. Xing Ruyi nodded, and the two shadows immediately dispersed.

"Where will they go?" Xing Ruyi asked the fox.

"The world is big, the four seas are home, in short, regardless of the cycle of life and death, they are always in one place." The fox replied, nodding the tip of his nose. "What about Li Tai, what will happen to him?"

Xing Ruyi tilted his head and thought for a moment: "At this moment, it is estimated that it is time to arrive at the Nai He Bridge!" ”

"You say, will he also knock over Meng Po soup?" The fox picks the tail of the eye.

Xing Ruyi glanced at him, covered his mouth and smiled. "Why don't we go and watch?"

"Forget it, Netherworld, it's better for you to go less!" The fox shook his head: "You haven't told me yet, this rouge, what are you made of?" ”

"The fragments of the bell of the Soul Bell and the bones of the old slave of the Zuo family." Xing Ruyi said and took out the box of rouge: "As long as Li Tai is lightly stained, the soul will be hooked to the yin si, and the Hades King can't blame me, because it has nothing to do with me." ”

"You! How could that ghost not know this little slippery head? The fox shook his head dotingly, the ghost in his mouth was referring to Hades.

Netherworld, by the bridge, Li Tai looked at Meng Po who was selling soup, and said in his heart: "Why did I come back so soon!" ”

(Education 123 Literature Network)