Chapter 33: The City God
Although he was already a ghost, he still quietly got out of the room, didn't bother other others, and returned to the main road.
Zhe Xi obviously has a lot of questions to ask, but I have discovered a new world.
There are ghosts, and they are a group, more than a dozen.
I really don't approve of this, ghosts always like to keep their appearance at the moment of death, so it really doesn't look beautiful.
Or do ghosts have their own unique aesthetics that are different from people and need to be gradually cultivated?
"Oh, brothers, you can be regarded as meeting the same kind, don't you know, our brothers have been too lonely along the way, and they don't even have a person to talk to, I originally wanted to ask what is the difference between being a ghost and being a person, what need to be paid attention to, and whether there are any taboos, and now someone finally answered." Zhe Xi followed my gaze and immediately discovered my new world, and immediately rushed over with great enthusiasm. "Where did you come from, and where are you going?"
Whether it is a ghost or not is easy to distinguish, the living, even the dying person, has some yang energy, but the ghost does not.
Some people may wonder, I often say that yin and yang are balanced, but ghosts have no yang energy, which is very contradictory. In fact, even if it is yin and yang, it is also divided into too yin, sun, less yin, and less yang, which is manifested in different ways and strengths, and there are also factors of habitual names.
These few are not serious ghosts at first glance, and even if they die, they look like ruffians, "New here?" Did your family burn money? We are the same here as the yang world, and it is difficult to move an inch without money. ”
"Money? Yes, yes, that's a lot! Zhe Xi looked wealthy, trying his best to hold up his stomach and look like he was full of money.
Since you want to inquire about the news, some preparations must be necessary, there are all kinds of things like paper money, look at those face values are simply thrilling, but the 0 has to be counted for half a day, and it is not clear whether it is tens of millions or billions.
"No, no, no, the money we are talking about is in kind, such as clothes, golden boys and girls, gold ingots, food, oh, by the way, I heard that it is still popular to burn computers, mobile phones or something, these are hard currency, your so-called tickets, keep them to wipe your butt, uh, you don't have to wipe your butt now, it's completely useless."
"Why is it useless?" Zhe Xi was anxious when he heard it, he finally had so much money that he could experience the feeling of being rich, but he was told that it was useless.
"You are stupid, those people in the yang world are messing around, no matter how big the ticket is, we dare to burn it, our currency has long been depreciated, don't want it."
I really didn't expect that there would be a depreciation in this case, whether the entire exchange rate would come out!
"Okay, okay, let the brothers see what's on them." The group of ghosts swarmed up, and it turned out that there were robbers in the world of ghosts, so we didn't run into it!
"It's a nice dress, I want it." "The shoes are mine." "It's so poor, that's all there is to it." "That kid's sword is good."
"Brother, help!" Zhe Xi's pig-like voice.
The path was all targeted, I pretended to be nervous, pulled the path out of the scabbard, and pointed the tip of the sword at the group of ghosts rushing over, "Don't mess around, this sword is very important to me, even if you have a lot of ghosts, I can cut down two." ”
Trying to pretend to be nervous, he stepped back as he spoke, his legs trembled, but he didn't expect this group of robbers to be really shocked, Zhe Xi saw the opportunity, grabbed his clothes and shoes and ran back to me.
"It's kind, tell me a few brothers, how did you die?" After speaking, the ghosts laughed for a while.
Although he has no experience in being a ghost, he also knows that asking how people died is a very taboo topic, and he immediately became angry, "You deceive people too much, I will fight with you." ”
After speaking, he ran awkwardly with the path, and Zhe Xi habitually turned his head, which was obviously a failed move.
"Don't make trouble, it's the time to use ghosts, adults want everyone to become ghosts every day to report, let's not make trouble." Finally a leading ghost stood at the forefront, and I saw it at the beginning, and I was sure that it would intervene and not make things bigger.
Because there are two words on the clothes of this leading ghost, Chenghuang.
What is a City God? There is a city god temple in every place, many of which are crowded, especially in some ancient cities and old cities, and there are many people's beliefs in them.
In the yang world, there is a yamen to govern a land boundary, and there must be the same management body in the underworld, that is, the City God Temple.
"Every new ghost has to go to the City God Temple to report, this is the rule." The leader said to us without question.
It turned out that they were colluding with officials and bandits.
Let's go, report and then go to the south of the city, I think there won't be a cumbersome procedure for this report, otherwise so many people die every day in such a big city, and this City God Temple is not going to be busy to death.
I didn't resist, followed this group of officials and bandits to the city god, entered through the side door, and through the gate, I could feel the strong smell of incense and candles inside, I was worried that the strong popularity in it would wash away my soul and Zhe Xi's soul, but strangely it was not affected in the slightest.
Only the leader led us, and the rest waited at the door. All the way in, it gradually became gloomy.
"You remember, you must be respectful when you see an adult, and there must be no superfluous actions, what the adult says, you must do it, otherwise you will not cry when you are punished." The leader is very uncomfortable with us.
Soon he saw the adults in the city god, and Zhe Xi burst out laughing, attracting angry eyes from the leading ghost. No wonder Zhe Xi, this adult's appearance is funny, completely inhuman, but like a dead sapling, although it also has limbs, but more like a branch, just ask, who can not laugh when they see a sapling sitting on the Taishi's chair.
This is a gas eater, it feeds its stomach by sucking air, of course someone's breath is better, the person who is sucked by it will not die immediately, but feel that his breath is not smooth, his chest is stuffy, heavy, and after a long time, he will be depressed, and at this stage, the person will quickly age and die.
Legend has it that it was very sensitive to all kinds of smells, and was able to distinguish all the smells in heaven and earth, so Lord Yama sent it to guard the gate and recognize the smell of all kinds of ghosts mixed with all living beings. It's really fitting for it to be the interrogator of the new ghost.
Judging from the above, the gas eater is a relatively righteous ghost, and only those who have done bad things will do harm.
This gas-eating ghost is small but looks wooden, and the slight protrusion in the upper place is its nose, and it shrugged at me and Zhe Xi, and its yellow eyes spun in a daze, and it was not in a hurry to speak.
Zhe Xi was attracted by this gas eater, but I was worried that the gas eater would see through our identities, so I didn't notice that Jiang Fukai was also brought in behind me.
"Hey! There is such a fat ghost, there must be a lot of oil and water at home, after you go out, you must honor your grandfather and me, otherwise you will look good! Jiang Fukai just doesn't like Zhe Xi, even if he pretends not to know, he has to provoke something, he doesn't know what to do, try to keep a low profile.
"Where did the wild ghost come from, he is still so presumptuous in the city god, he really doesn't understand the rules at all." When did Zhe Xi take Jiang Fukai's softness.
One person was hit with a board, and now he is honest. The county government has a servant, not to mention the city god.