Chapter one thousand one hundred and forty-two
Judge Choi?
Isn't that the judge I used to hear about when I was a kid?
However, based on my understanding of those Zhiwei, although I don't know if there is any difference between this underworld and hell, after all, I have the impression that there are not only a few judges, and the four most famous judges are: Tang Xiang Wei Zheng, the Reward Division, the Holy Monarch Zhong Kui, the Punishment Division, the Song Dynasty Lu Zhidao, and the Yin Law Division, Cui Jue, who is in charge of the life and death book.
Reward Division: Wei Zheng
He is in charge of Shanbo, dressed in a green robe, and has a lovely smile. All the good imps before their lives are arranged by him, and they will be rewarded according to the degree and amount of good deeds before their deaths. In the six realms of reincarnation, or ascend to the sky to become a god, or reincarnate as a human, you only need to drink a bowl of ecstasy tea at Meng Po, forget the grievances in life, and you can eat the fireworks of the world again.
His person was originally Dr. Guanglu of Tang Taizong, named Zheng Guogong, and nicknamed Wenzhen. It is mentioned in "Journey to the West" that Wei was authorized by the gods to dream of beheading the Dragon King of the Jing River. He was upright and upright, even in the face of the anger of the Tang King, he dared to speak outright, faced the court dispute, never backed down, and after his death, it was rumored that he was taken under the command of Yama, and he was in charge of rewarding kindness.
Punishment Division: Zhong Kui
Dressed in a purple robe, his eyes were wide with anger. His lips were closed, and he looked businesslike. All the ghosts who come to report are reflected in front of the mirror of evil, showing good and evil, and distinguishing between good and bad. All the evil ghosts who did evil in his life were dealt with by him, and he sentenced them according to the principle of "four noes and four nos" of the king of Yama, the four no's - disloyalty, unfilial piety, unfaithfulness, and unbelief; Four nos - rudeness, unrighteousness, incorruptibility, shamelessness, light punishment for minor crimes, heavy punishment for serious crimes, and then handed over to the evil punishment platform, sent to the eighteenth layer of hell, until the sentence is completed, and then handed over to the reincarnation hall, pulled to turn into a cow and a horse, into a worm and into a dog, etc., and return to the yang world.
In the past, Zhong Kui did not win the champion because he was ugly, so he hit the pillar and died, and the Emperor of Heaven took pity on him and crowned Zhong Kui as "the judge of the world, specializing in catching ghosts and ghosts." Therefore, after the Qing Dynasty, Zhong Kui also appeared in the image of military judgment, his eyes were like electricity, upright, and awe-inspiring. Its duty is to let the good get good rewards, the good things are promoted, so that the evil people are punished as they deserve, and to redress the wronged.
In "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", it was said that Lingyang Zhu Erdan and Lu Juan were friends, and Lu Juan was a pig ear and easy heart, which made his literary thinking soar, and he was the best in the autumn fruit. Lu sentenced him to change his wife's head later, leaving only a red line around his neck, and judging the two online and offline, it can be described as a miracle skill.
Judge Cui is the number one person in the well-known Yin Cao Difu, dressed in a red robe, holding a life and death book in his left hand and a soul hooking pen in his right hand, specializing in the task of adding longevity to the good and returning the evil to the yin. According to "Journey to the West", this public surname is Cui Mingjue, who was a minister under the control of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and was the official of the county order of Zizhou, and was later promoted to the Ministry of Rites. Before his death, he was an official and upright, and after his death, he became the most trusted judge of the king of Yama, in charge of the investigation department, rewarding the good and punishing the evil, managing the life and death of people, the crown of power in ancient and modern times, you see that he holds the "life and death book" and the soul hook pen, just a hook ~ point, who should die and who should live is only in the moment.
According to legend, Judge Cui's name is Jue, and he is a native of the Sui and Tang dynasties. Tang Zhenguan entered the seventh year (633) and was the eldest son of Luzhou. It is said that it can "manage the affairs of the sun during the day, break the injustice of the underworld at night, and pick people and ghosts, which is better than a god." There are many legends of Cui Jue's case, among which the story of "Ming Jue's Evil Tiger Hurting People" is the most widespread. The story says: There is a big mountain at the junction of the southwest of Changzi County and Qinshui, called Diaohuangling, and there are often fierce beasts in the past. One day, a woodcutter went up the mountain to chop wood and was eaten by a tiger, his widowed mother was in pain, and went to the court to shout grievances. Xian in front of the mountain temple will be recited and offered to the gods, and then a tiger from behind the temple burst out, to the front of the Xian, let it be bound with iron chains. The evil tiger was detained to the county office, and Jue was immediately promoted to the court. In the hall, Jue counted the crimes of the evil tiger for hurting people, and the evil tiger nodded again and again. The final verdict: "The crime of cannibalism should not be forgiven." The tiger touched the stairs and died. At that time, Tang Taizong died suddenly because he was involved in the case of Jinghe Laolong, and went to Yin Si Sancao to confront him. So Wei Zheng trusted him to repair the book, and Cui Jue not only protected Tang Taizong's safe return to Yang, but also privately added 20 years of yang life to him. On the way back to Yang, Taizong encountered sixty-four smoke and dust swept by him, and thousands of unjust souls who died tragically in the seventy-two grass robberies came to ask for their lives, and Cui Jue came forward to resolve the dispute and help Li Shimin borrow a treasury of gold and silver to appease the ghosts, and Taizong had to get out. Cui Jue also became famous because of this, and made a windfall from it, after Cui Jue's death, the people set up temples in many places to worship.
Of course, this is just a later story, of course, Judge Cui may not have such a simple background, this is very likely to be just a story or myth made up by a group of people who eat melons after dinner, and it is undeniable that these so-called cultivation circles seem to be slightly similar to the characters and events in the legends and myths we experienced before.
"Could it be that there are still these Wei judges, Zhong judges, and Lu judges?" After I thought of this, I naturally casually asked about this minotaur, after all, whether this reality is similar to the legend or not, I still have to ask to know.
"How do you know so much, it's a little interesting, it's really the person Judge Cui wants to summon." After the minotaur glanced at me, he looked at it with some confusion, and then the expression on his face looked ugly, "You know, you know, but don't go around saying that these three guys have already rebelled, and if Judge Cui rashly hears this name, he will definitely be angry." ”
I nodded, shook my head undeniably, and then the minotaur blew on me, I only felt a very harsh but unusually warm wind completely enveloped me, and then the minotaur nodded at me, and said softly: "You gather your mind, I'm going to enter the six realms of reincarnation......"
After saying this, before I had any reaction or preparation, a feeling of suffocation and impact that fell directly from the sky, like falling from a height of dozens of meters, falling directly into the deep sea, kept rolling back and forth on my heart, making me feel like I was almost drowning in the current, but fortunately, the breath that the minotaur blew on me before protected my body, and did not let me suffer too much damage, but there was the illusion of an infinite pendulum, Although there is no danger to life, it is really uncomfortable to make people want to doubt life......
I don't know how long it took, I finally had a down-to-earth feeling, and when I opened my eyes, I was shocked......
Ouch...... Can't be so exaggerated, is this kidding me?