Chapter 163: Netherworld
The Netherworld has received news that the Yin Devourer King has held an illegal assembly at an elementary school near the Sanjiao Temple, intending to gather lonely souls and wild ghosts to launch a rebellion and endanger the safety of the Yin and Yang worlds. Emperor Fengdu, who dominated the Netherworld, did not dare to despise it, and sent the underworld soldiers to come to encircle and suppress it. It was Wang Fang, who was persecuted by the Netherworld King, who complained to the Netherworld.
That night, Hu Kehao met Wang Fang, and they came to the Nanshan Ghost Cave together, and then separated again. After a lot of hardships, Wang Fang finally came to the ghost city of Fengdu, the capital of the Netherworld. Wang Fang claimed to have come to the capital to beg for a living, but in fact she was petitioning and went to the capital to sue the emperor.
Wang Fang worked part-time before her death, but never went to Beijing. Now in the capital of the Netherworld, where the buildings are magnificent, majestic, and boundless, she wanders around and gets dizzy. She had heard of the ghost town of Fengdu before her death, but she had never visited it. She found that there are high-rise buildings, subways, overpasses, restaurants, and quite signs of modernization, and they are not as backward and terrifying as she imagined. The real horror, she thought, was not under everyone's noses, but in the eighteen layers of hell where the most heinous people were tortured in all kinds.
Vehicles on the highway come and go, and the river is endless. The cars are colorful and strange-looking, much like enlarged versions of paper cars sold at funeral parlors. It is said that if a person in the yang world burns something for his deceased relatives, his relatives in the underworld can receive anything, such as clothes, washing machines, televisions, refrigerators, and cars. You can also burn paper money directly for your relatives, and when they have money, they can also buy a lot of things in the underworld. Some wealthy families have rich funerary goods after death, which can be directly converted into the inheritance of the fourth dimension of the underworld. In other words, when the rich and noble families died with funeral goods, it was when they were born in the underworld, and they were already the second generation of rich people when they were born.
Wang Fang looked at the huge ghost town, and was worried that she couldn't find a place to stay, when suddenly she saw an acquaintance get off the bus and hurriedly greeted him: "Uncle Meng, hello wow!" ”
The man looked at Wang Fang suspiciously and asked, "Who are you?" How come I don't know you? ”
"You are really a noble person, how forgetful! When I was very young, you cooked everywhere, I often came to your kitchen, and you always secretly took a few pieces of meat for me to eat. Wang Fang said.
It turned out that this person's surname was Meng, and he was a well-known chef in Baishi Township. At that time, no matter who had a happy event, Chef Meng had to be invited to make a banquet. At that time, people were short of oil and meat, and no matter who wanted to hold a banquet, the whole family had to eat it. The banquet made by Chef Meng is very delicious, and the children like it very much, especially the tamales, clip and button meat, and longan button meat he makes, which are fragrant from the tip of the tongue to the stomach when you bite into it. Wang Fang was very young at that time, and she had a hot fight with Chef Meng. Every time Chef Meng saw her, he teased her, sometimes making her cry, sometimes making her laugh. When the master was not in the kitchen, Chef Meng would quietly bring the meat to Wang Fang to eat.
"I remember, at that time you had two ponytails on your head, you were naughtier than a boy, and you were greedy, and you were looking for food everywhere, and you blamed your father Wang Hezi for spoiling you! I didn't expect you to change now, don't you say I haven't recognized you yet! By the way, why are you here? Chef Meng said.
Wang Fang suddenly thought that she had already died and was now a ghost, and she briefly told Chef Meng about her experience, and Chef Meng sighed. Wang Fang asked, "Uncle Meng, why are you here?" ”
"You know, I've been dead for ten years. After I died, Hades said that my cooking skills were okay, and he didn't let me go to reincarnation, and arranged for me to be a chef here. Reincarnation and the six realms of reincarnation are really troublesome, so it's better to be a chef here. By the way, how is your father, Wang Hezi, now? Chef Meng said.
"I have seen him in my dreams several times, and his body is okay, but he has no children, he can't enjoy the joy of family, it's too lonely!" Wang Fang sobbed.
Chef Meng comforted Wang Fang a few words, took her back to his home, and cleaned up a storage room for her to live in, Wang Fang was grateful. Wang Fang's purpose in coming to Fengdu Ghost City was to petition and sue the king for the royal petition, but she didn't know the way to complain. She told Chef Meng that she was persecuted by the Netherworld King and that the Netherworld King intended to rebel, and Chef Meng said that the Netherworld Mansion was strictly hierarchical, and ordinary ghosts could not see the officials of the Netherworld, and told her to dispel this idea and be a good ghost who kept to herself.
Chef Meng works as a chef at the Hades Hotel. The next day, he took Wang Fang to visit the restaurant and made her delicious food. Wang Fang felt that she had returned to her childhood, and Chef Meng still loved herself like this. Wang Fang ate perfect food, went to the floors of the Netherworld Hotel to take a look, most of them were full of people, I heard that there were many representatives from other places, and they were going to hold a meeting in the ghost city of Fengdu.
When Wang Fang went down to the hall, he accidentally ran into a person (in fact, it should be called a ghost), he was holding a stack of materials in his hand, all of which were scattered on the ground.
"How do you walk? Don't have long eyes? The man cursed angrily.
"I'm so sorry!" Wang Fang bent down and picked up the materials one by one. He saw a document with "XX Local Stability Maintenance Report" written on it, and out of curiosity, she opened the material and read it. It is written that there have been various chaos in some places in S County, and the production and life of the people in the Yin and Yang worlds have been seriously affected, and the culprit who caused the chaos is the "Yin Devouring King".
"This is the work report of the local government, what do you see? The leader said that this is highly confidential and no one is allowed to divulge it! The man shouted.
"Don't worry, I won't leak it!" Wang Fang said.
"You have seen things that you shouldn't have seen, things are irreparable, and something must be done against you." The man did not let Wang Fang go, and said to her viciously.
"You can't blame me for this, you're at fault too!" Wang Fang continued to defend herself.
"You Diao Min, dare to talk back to me! You must be a spy of the Yin Devouring King! Here's coming, pull her down and hand her over to the Netherworld for judgment! The man shouted.
Several fierce and vicious people couldn't help but say, arrested Wang Fang, and handed him over to the judge of the underworld for trial. The judge is located in the Temple of the Son of Heaven in Fengdu (Netherworld) and is responsible for judging the ghosts who come to the underworld. The four major judges are: Wei Zheng, the Reward Division, Zhong Kui, the Punishment Division, Lu Zhidao, and Cui Yu, the Yin Law Division.
Wang Fang was accused of colluding with the king and spies. No matter how the judge judges, Wang Fang just won't recruit. In order to frighten Wang Fang and force her to confess, the judge specially let her visit the eighteen layers of hell - Tongue Pulling Hell, Scissors Hell, Iron Tree Hell, Evil Mirror Hell, Steamer Hell, Copper Pillar Hell, Knife Mountain Hell, Iceberg Hell, Oil Pot Hell, Oxpit Hell, Stone Pressing Hell, Chung Mortar Hell, Blood Pool Hell, Vain Death Hell, Torture Hell, Volcano Hell, Stone Mill Hell, and Knife Saw Hell. Each layer of hell is miserable and miserable, and according to the name of each layer of hell, everyone can make up for it on their own.
Wang Fang was frightened by the eighteenth layer of hell, but she never confessed. She knew that if she confessed, she might be sent to the eighteenth layer of hell. After a difficult trial, the judge finally understood that Wang Fang was not a spy of the Yin Devouring King, nor did he collude with the Yin Devouring King. She came to the ghost city of Fengdu to sue the Yin Devouring King. Wang Fang reported to the judge that the king had done evil and intended to cause chaos. The judge did not dare to slack off and hurriedly reported to his superiors. Since the Netherworld has recently attached great importance to the matter of maintaining stability, this matter has been reported layer by layer, and it has actually been reported to Emperor Fengdu.
The ghost city of Fengdu, the hell in Chinese legends, was under the jurisdiction of Emperor Fengdu of Beiyin. Some people must be surprised: isn't the supreme ruler of the underworld the king of Hades? How did you become the Emperor of Fengdu again? Could it be that the rank of Emperor Fengdu is higher than that of Hades? This is indeed the case, the level of the supreme lord of hell, the king of Hades, is indeed lower than that of the Fengdu Emperor!
The king of Hades adopts a collective leadership system, and there are ten kings of Hades, collectively referred to as the "Ten Palaces of Yama" - King Qin Guang, King Chujiang, Emperor Song, King Wuguan, King Yama, King Biancheng, King Taishan, King of the City, King of Equality, and King of the Wheel, jointly governing the eighteen layers of hell. And the fifth temple Yama is the supreme person in charge of hell, called Yama Tianzi. In fact, King Yama is only the administrative head of hell, with the authority to supervise and manage, and has no immunity from criminal punishment. They must strictly follow the outline of "karma" and the record of good and evil in people's lives in the "Book of Life and Death", and give judgments, rewards and punishments.
Fengdu Emperor, also known as "Beiyin Emperor", "Classic of Mountains and Seas" records the deeds of Fengdu Emperor who dominated the ghost country (hell). Emperor Fengdu is the supreme deity of the underworld of the underworld, and is in charge of the underworld. In modern language, Emperor Fengdu is the chairman, and King Yama is only a professional manager. Emperor Fengdu is equivalent to the president, president, and head of state of the underworld, controlling the principles of law enforcement and the development path of hell, and his rank is higher than that of Hades. In the process of the cycle of life and death, people often have more contact with Hades, and over time, people only know Hades, but not Fengdu the Great.
Emperor Fengdu got the news of the rebellion of the Yin Devouring King, and hurriedly dispatched troops to encircle and suppress it. Because Wang Fang reported that the Yin Devouring King was meritorious, the Fengdu Emperor instructed the King of Hades to allow him to be reincarnated. According to Wang Fang's wishes, their mother and daughter were reincarnated into a wealthy family in Wangjiawan, Baishi Township. At the end of his life, Wang Fang, who was reincarnated, often took care of Wang Hezi, bringing a lot of joy to his later life until he drove west.