Chapter 10: The Past
"Do you remember?" The Northern Emperor said this sentence without warning, and my train of thought was interrupted at once, and I said: "Emperor, I only remember the corpse of the little girl I saw when I was a child......"
"I've got it. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" The Emperor interrupted, "You must be feeling guilty now, right?" ā
"Yes."
"Actually, it's not your fault, if you want to blame, you can only blame that child for not appearing at the right time, and besides, it's not this question I'm going to ask you now."
"What's that?" I asked.
The Emperor pursed his lips and smiled, "What I want to ask you is, why can you see that unjust soul?" ā
"Wronged souls?" I'm a little confused.
"Yes, since you don't know, I'll tell you, in fact, that trace of grievances is the result of your own planting."
"The evil fruit of my own sowing? I hope the emperor will make it clear. ā
"In fact, that unjust soul is a child of an ordinary family that you killed in your previous life, she could have had a complete and happy family, but due to your mistake and impulsiveness, the resentment in her heart has increased greatly, and she doesn't want to enter reincarnation again, and just wants to wait until you repay it in the next life."
I was suddenly shocked, and suddenly remembered the words of the people in the village and said, "Are you saying that my previous life was the county order?" "Your brain is spinning fast." The Emperor applauded, but in my ears there was an air of irony, and I asked, "In that case, why don't you drag me into hell and let me be reincarnated as a human being?" The Emperor shook his head slightly: "Because in your previous life, you only obtained the merit at the age of forty-five and obtained this official position." ā
"Does that have anything to do with my reincarnation?" I was puzzled.
"Of course, before you became an official, you could be said to be a ghost hunter who read poetry and books, and did a lot of good things. That's why I didn't spare you from suffering from that prison because of this feeling, but it didn't completely offset it, so I reincarnated you into an ordinary family in the village where you were born, and slowly made up for it. ā
What the! It turned out that I used to be a Taoist priest, which caught me off guard, and I said, "In that case, why don't you bring me here instead of letting me suffer from samsara again?" ā
The Emperor nodded and said, "This question is a good question, and the simplest answer is that you have drunk less Meng Po soup." ā
Well? A trace of doubt flashed in my heart, and the Emperor immediately explained: "Do you have a sense of dĆ©jĆ vu at Nai He Bridge? ā
"Yes, yes, yes." When the emperor asked me this, I thought back to myself, "That's it, and I seem to have seen the jailer press me to the ground and pour me soup hard." ā
"That's right, you were too nostalgic for the glory and wealth of your life at that time, and you didn't want to forget about it, so you refused to drink Meng Po soup, which is why it will lead to such an end, but it is precisely because of this that the dose you drank is a little less, so there will be some vague fragments of your past life in your mind," the emperor explained.
"I see." I muttered silently in my heart.
I sighed and asked, "With all due respect, I dare to ask what is your real purpose in calling me here?" ā
"Let me ask you first, do you want to endure the suffering of reincarnation to pay off your karma or do you want to pay it off by running errands?"
My eyes lit up: "Of course it's an errand." I replied without thinking, and as soon as the words were spoken, I began to complain about my own recklessness, and before I could figure out the situation, I replied casually, what if I was killing myself? Although I am already dead.
The Emperor ignored my feelings: "Since you choose to run an errand, then I will give you a glorious career to repay the mistakes you made in your previous life." ā
"What profession?"
"Ghost Dispatcher." He said word by word. I asked, "What's that?" The emperor thought for a while and said, "To put it simply, it is a profession that brings the soul of the yang world back to the underworld for trial. ā
I was puzzled, "Huh? Isn't there a so-called ghost hunter in the yang world? ā
The Great Emperor snorted coldly: "The Taoist priests or ghost hunters in the yang world are becoming scarce day by day, how can they be busy with their strength alone?" Why do you think you can't see the ghosts from the mouths of your old men in the yang world all these years? If it weren't for their involvement, would you still have such a stable life? ā
I paused for a moment to try to calm myself down: "I really didn't expect this kind of errand in the underworld, since it is for me to repay the unfinished karma of my previous life, then I will give it a try." The emperor poured out the tea that had long been out of heat on the edge of the table, looked at the tea leaves scattered on the ground and said: "Okay, I admire you young man, after I finish speaking, you can go down with the black impermanence to receive your life, and you will be a member of the seventy-fifth division in the future, and when you pay off your karma, you will be reincarnated in a good family." ā
I hurriedly got up and knelt on the ground: "Emperor Xie will no longer let me suffer in reincarnation." "I'm a little happy in my heart. The Emperor waved his hand and motioned for us to leave, and Hei Wuchang bowed me and walked out, but I didn't notice Hei Wuchang's somewhat weird smile.
Along the way, I was a little proud, glad that I chose the right path, and I talked about my wise move with the impermanence on the side, the black impermanence just smiled, I was bored with myself, so I wanted to talk to the two of them again, but as soon as I turned around, I saw the two of them whispering, and from time to time they pointed at me, I glanced at them and turned their heads to walk forward on their own, but the speed was always parallel to them and them, I didn't want to go too fast and get lost.
After turning a long corridor and walking forward a few steps, I saw a magnificent scene: a large hall in front of me stood on the sunken ground, only eight or nine feet higher than where we stood, and on one side was a tall skeleton, almost the same height as the entire hall, but the skeleton was not inlaid with bones, but made of a weapon with a strange light, which looked particularly spectacular from a distance, and on one side was a platform, and a middle-aged male ghost sat on a chair, In front of him is a ghost with his hands tied in chains, and on the other end of the ropes is a man who is holding him tightly? Or a ghost? According to Black Impermanence, that is the so-called ghost dispatcher, a mysterious person who shuttles between yin and yang, there are yin people and yang warlocks, but the ultimate goal is the same, to eliminate harm in the world.
Soon we came to the front, I said hello to a beautiful ghost messenger who was close to me, she smiled at me honestly, my heart blossomed, I thought that I must learn from her in the future. Seeing my nymphomaniac, Hei Wuchang said to me helplessly: "Don't be stupid, he's a man." ā
"Huh? How could I see that she was clearly ......" Before I finished speaking, Hei Wuchang interrupted: "You will understand in a while, the front is it, come on." ā