Chapter 34: The Sky Lantern Seals the Soul
This Chenghuang Ye always turned his back to me and refused to turn around, I wondered a little in my heart, did this Chenghuang Ye take the wrong medicine today, it became so strange, when Chenghuang Ye saw Jiang Li before, he was always submissive, because he was beaten by Jiang Li. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
But today's City God always seems to be a little wrong.
I stared at him boldly for a long time, and couldn't help asking, "Who are you?" ”
I want my current mood, but I can't be as calm as before, I was originally guarding a wisp of remnant soul of King Wu of Zhou, but I let him run away, once he returns to the Yin Division, not to mention the resurrection, even if King Wu of Zhou has not been resurrected, just the remnant soul and the sword soul are together. The power is also very terrifying, not to mention that once King Wu of Zhou is resurrected, there will be nothing left on Yin Changsheng's side.
I was already very self-blaming in my heart, but I was afraid that Jiang Li would worry, so I had to pretend that there was nothing to do.
It's just that the temperament is a little unbearable.
Seeing me ask so boldly, the faces of the two pen-holding ghosts beside him sank. It seemed as if he was surprised by my recklessness.
"When I saw the city god, I didn't kneel down quickly." A pen-holding ghost scolded sharply.
I was stunned for a moment, could it be that I misremembered the appearance of the city god? It's impossible, Lord Chenghuang is obviously a big fat man.
Jiang Li's expression was the same as mine, but after a while, Jiang Li seemed to put away his surprised expression, and his face became extremely calm.
At this time, the city god suddenly spoke, "You are so bold that you don't kneel?" ”
I was stunned, this voice was not the voice of Lord Chenghuang, it was clearly the voice of Grandpa!
"Grandpa?" I called softly, uneasy and unbelievable. If it was Grandpa, he wouldn't be so bold to pretend to be the City God, pretending is a capital crime, and he will go to hell directly at that time.
"Haha." Lord Chenghuang suddenly laughed happily, turned around and looked at me with a happy face, that face was clearly Grandpa's face.
Grandpa is wearing a red robe coat and wearing the official hat of the city god, there is really a style of a big official, no wonder it is said that people rely on clothes, this is not false at all, grandpa is like a changed person, and the breath of the peasants is completely gone.
Grandpa said softly, "You go down first." ”
At this time, the two pen-holding ghosts beside him saluted and quickly walked outside.
Grandpa looked at me and Jiang Li with a deep face, and suddenly a smile bloomed on his face, and he couldn't hide a little joy, so he hurriedly said to me, "Chen Xiao, come here, sit next to Grandpa, let Grandpa take a good look at you!" ”
I sighed, and hurriedly walked to my grandfather's side, my grandfather stretched out his hands, held my face and looked at it carefully for a long time, squinted his eyes slightly and smiled happily, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes piled up together, and my grandfather said happily, "Chen Xiao has grown up, and he is a thief." He's a handsome guy! ”
I looked at Grandpa Mi with a surprised face, the person in front of me was clearly Grandpa, how did he become the City God.
I was puzzled and asked my grandfather, "What's going on with my grandfather, the entire City God Temple has undergone earth-shaking changes, what about the previous City God?" ”
Grandpa told us that the previous Chenghuang Ye was exposed to the bottom because of the joint names of various officials of the Yin Division, and the Yin Division could not tolerate him, so he demoted him, and I don't know what the reason is, it is said that a woman who claimed to be the princess of King Wu of Zhou came to the capital city. The city of Xudu was reorganized, saying that it was to welcome the return of King Wu of Zhou with a new look.
First of all, it was ordered that the city god temples in various places should be rectified, and some of the old buildings were rebuilt again, and he personally supervised them. Rejecting extravagance and waste and tofu scum projects, she personally reviewed the flow of every fund.
Then I also gave some unreasonable places to the City God Temple and made overall adjustments.
Grandpa said that he was also lucky, when Princess Zhou personally came to the City God Temple to review, and happened to go to the Ministry of Rites. Because Grandpa Grandpa made the most appropriate pawn of the Ministry of Rites, and thought that Grandpa was a talent, he promoted Grandpa to this position.
Jiang Li didn't understand either, so he asked his grandfather, "You have the least qualifications in each department, and you have to say that the people in the criminal department have more advantages than you." ”
Grandpa smiled, "Probably it's really lucky, then other departments have more or less all kinds of trivial things that do not meet the requirements, and the flow of some funds is not clear, and it is found that they have a lot of things hidden by themselves, and Princess Zhou did not dismiss them one by one, but just did some punishments, everyone basically has punishments, but I don't have them here, it's just because when I came to the Ministry of Rites, I was really bored, so I had nothing to do to sort out, and I just happened to bump into Princess Zhou to come to inspect." ”
Put it this way. Grandpa is still stepping on shit luck.
Jiang Li pondered for a while and asked his grandfather, "This week, the princess did these things alone, so King Wucheng didn't speak?" ”
Grandpa said, "It's also interesting to say, King Wucheng has no objection to these things, but he doesn't support it, after Princess Zhou ordered the rectification of the City God Temple, King Wu of Zhou also sent ten Yin Marshals to patrol, and he must still be at ease with Princess Zhou. ”
I couldn't help but wonder in my heart, this week the princess is trying to get out of the moth.
Probably the tradition that has not changed for thousands of years, although it is all about some details, it does have earth-shaking changes from the past, and there is a hint of antique enlightenment.
Jiang Li said to his grandfather in a low voice, "I came here this time mainly to let you bring a soul out. ”
Grandpa glanced at Jiang Li, turned around and turned to the shelves of the bookstore behind him, there was dust everywhere coming out of it, and as soon as I inhaled the dust through my nose, I was very uncomfortable, and I sneezed three times in a row to get a little better.
After about ten minutes of tinkering, Grandpa walked to the desk with a few stacks of books, "Who are you looking for, this is the list of the last twenty years is here, the people here are not as good as the people in the city, the list is not much, and it is easy to find." ”
After speaking. Grandpa took his favorite hookah and smoked again.
Jiang Li said, "Bring Zhang Duangong's soul out for me." ”
Grandpa was stunned, and hurriedly said to Jiang Li, "Ten years ago, when the previous Chenghuang had not been removed, Du Hai once mentioned that his soul came out once, and this time you mentioned it again. ”
It's Du Hai again, this person is really strange, on the one hand, he suppressed me in various ways, and on the other hand, he asked me to take medicine to return to my adult appearance.
Thinking of this, all the pain of broken bones before was transferred to Wenwen, and my heart was even more uncomfortable, although she was a demon, but I was really unhappy to let a woman bear the pain that was originally mine.
"Stinky boy, why are you thinking so distractedly." My grandfather struck me on the head with a cigarette stick.
I came back to my senses and looked at my grandfather in embarrassment.
Jiang Li didn't say much, just stretched out his hand and pointed to the booklet on the table. Motioned for Grandpa to give out Zhang Duangong's soul. Grandpa hesitated, and seeing that Jiang Li's eyes were extremely firm, he shook his head helplessly and began to look through the booklet on the table.
I can't help but think that before I had Judge Lu's life and death book, I was in charge of life and death in the southwest region, and I was trying to get it back before. It seems that there is no movement now.
What happened to Judge Lu was all caused by me, as long as I wait for Yin Changsheng to be resurrected, I will definitely ask Yin Changsheng to be the master of Judge Lu.
Grandpa looked at it for a while, and finally found Zhang Duangong's name, according to the corresponding label, grandpa told us that there is a secret room in the City God Temple, and the people imprisoned in it are the souls of the dead who cannot go to hell or reincarnate, basically these people who have traveled in the two worlds of yin and yang.
Probably because they know too much.
After Grandpa asked us to follow him to the Library, Jiang Li and I looked curious and walked in behind him. The shelves of the library are neatly arranged, and there is a wall in the innermost part with a painting hanging on it, probably a picture about the culture of Xudu, but I didn't understand it anyway.
"Is Zhang Duangong's soul in this painting?" I looked at my grandfather and asked.
Before my voice could be steady, my grandfather knocked down a cigarette stick, "You are confused, didn't I just tell you, there is a secret room here, just behind this painting." ”
After speaking, the grandfather pushed the painting on the wall open, and a doorway appeared. Walked in along the doorway, it was pitch black inside, walking about a hundred meters, suddenly there was a little light, take a closer look, the surroundings soared in the air like a Kong Ming lantern.
It turned out that there was no light in the entire secret room, and the reason why there was light here was all because of the Kong Ming lanterns that were vacated around it.
"This is the Soul Lamp? Kong Ming lantern? Spiritualist lamp? "I told me everything I knew about the lanterns.
Grandpa smiled hehehe, "These are the souls of the dead, extract their souls and seal them in this sky lantern, of course." The Zhang Duangong you are looking for is also among these dead souls, this is the secret in the City God Temple, and only the City God is qualified to know. ”
I can't help but admire it a little in my heart, since my grandfather became the grandfather of the city god, the temperament of the whole person is really different, I used to think that he was an ordinary farmer. Now he speaks with an official demeanor.
Grandpa Yi pointed to the booklet that he had just taken out of the library, the inside page of the booklet had Zhang Duangong's name written on it, and a number was marked next to it, and Grandpa Yi told us that every registered dead soul has a number, so that we can know whether this dead soul is reincarnated, sentenced, imprisoned, or absconded.
Zhang Duangong's name is also numbered next to it, corresponding to the number of the face on each sky lantern, and Zhang Duangong's soul can be found.
When my grandfather spoke, his tone was full of meaning, but it was also a little interesting, my grandfather was originally the most inconspicuous backup soldier in the City God Temple, but because he was a person who did things in the Yin Division, he was later brought in, but he was valued by Princess Zhou by mistake and promoted to the current City God.