We were led to this village by the Buddha's light, the old man knew that we were coming because the Bodhisattva gave him a dream, and the two things can be right, I have basically dispelled the suspicion that they are monsters and that this village is their illusion to confuse us, but I have doubts about why the Bodhisattva cares about the affairs of a few of us mortals, and I was about to ask the old man, the Bodhisattva gave him a dream to let him pick us up for something, and before he could speak, Lu Dachuan asked in front of me: "Old man, which Bodhisattva gave you the dream." ”

The old man replied, "Jizo King Bodhisattva." ”

Lu Dachuan said: "Isn't this Wutai Mountain in the west the dojo of Manjushri Bodhisattva, how can it be the Jizo King Bodhisattva who gave you the old dream." ”

The old man seemed to think that Lu Dachuan's question was particularly silly, and said with a smile: "It has nothing to do with which Bodhisattva dreams and where the Bodhisattva's dojo is. ”

Lu Keqin interjected: "What does it have to do with anything." ”

"These dolls have stopped my old man." The old man smiled bitterly and said, "I'm over eighty years old this year, and I've been a ghost for 70 years, and it's the first time I've met a Bodhisattva to give me a dream, so I can't believe it's true." ”

Hearing the old man tell his identity, it aroused my curiosity, and I couldn't help but ask, "Uncle, you are a ghost." ”

The old man said, "Not only am I a ghost, but everyone in our Hades Gate Village is a ghost. ”

"How can a living person be a ghost?" The old man's words made my mind spin.

The old man glanced at the old lady standing by the fire and said, "Baby, it's the first time in so many years that someone has asked us this question, why are we destined to be ghosts when we are born to be ghosts?" ”

The old lady glanced at the old man and said, "This old man, you are so confused, how can you talk nonsense." ”

The old man shook his head, turned his face to us, and said, "Do you know that it is overshadowing?" ”

"Oh." I somewhat understood, "I've heard of some, but I seem to have heard that only people who can't cry when they are born can pass the yin, there are very few such people, and there may not be one in several counties, how can you have the whole village to pass the yin." ”

The old man said, "You can see that our house here is built like in an ordinary village, and we are also dressed as ordinary people, but in fact, we are a sect with a magic inheritance. ”

"Sect, what sect."

"Hades."

"Hades." I repeated the old man's words, thought about it carefully, and seemed to have never heard of this sect, so I asked again, "Uncle, so you are all Taoist priests, why haven't I heard of this sect before?" ”

The old man said: "It can also be said to be a Taoist, but we can only be regarded as an outer Taoist, and do not belong to the Sanqing Sect, as for outsiders who don't know the existence of our underworld, one is because our spells can't become immortals, so our name is small; The second is because we mainly do things for the underworld and rarely walk the rivers and lakes, but then again, although the world does not know the name of the underworld, they are not strangers to the underworld, because those who can go down to the underworld outside also belong to our people in the underworld. ”

After the old man finished speaking, I know something about this village, but they are all ghosts, and we can't go down to the yin, what did the King of Jizo Bodhisattva bring us here for, and I was about to ask, the old lady said, "Old man, don't talk about it yet, let the baby eat first, this meal is cold." ”

Although the old man and the old lady are all ghosts, but their identity as human beings is undoubtedly certain, so we don't have to worry about what kind of earthworms and centipedes they give us to eat, so we use chopsticks to eat, counting more than ten hours of water has not entered, everyone is so hungry that they are concentrating on their backs, so they all eat a little wolf-spitting, wind-swept clouds, and after a while, the dishes on the table, steamed buns and a pot of porridge are all wiped out by us.

If we go outside, unless we go to the landlord's old rich house, or pay our own money to go down to the restaurant, otherwise this way of eating will definitely make the owner's heart, liver and lungs hurt, and the old man and the old lady see that we are not polite to them, but the food is very happy, the old lady also thinks that she has prepared less meals for us, and is busy taking steamed buns, sweet potatoes and other dry food for us to roast by the fire for us to eat.

After eating, we looked at the time, it was already more than two o'clock in the night, the old man and the old lady did not arrange for us to sleep, they themselves did not have the intention of sleeping, we still have a lot of questions to ask, naturally we will not say that it is not early, something tomorrow and so on, so everyone sat around and continued the topic just now.

Everyone has already spoken, and I will no longer beat around the bush, and ask directly: "Uncle, your underworld is for the underworld, and we will not go to the underworld, what did the Bodhisattva ask you to take us for?" ”

The old man looked at me and said, "We are in great trouble now, and the Bodhisattva has asked you to help us through it." ”

I wondered, "I'm neither a Taoist priest nor a monk, I don't understand yin and yang, and I don't know magic, so how can the Bodhisattva let us help you." ”

Lu Dachuan also said: "That's it, we are not today's people, just come to do one thing and leave, you are in trouble, the Bodhisattva wants to find someone to help, he should find someone who has the way, how to find us." ”

The old man looked at a few of us, "It seems that you dolls really don't understand anything, and you don't know that you have caused a big disaster, but fortunately, the Bodhisattva is merciful and gives you a chance to make up for your mistakes, otherwise your life will be exhausted." ”

Hearing this, I was shocked, and immediately thought that the catastrophe we caused must have killed those few devils, because the little devils deserve to die, but we should not kill them.

Although Lu Dachuan and Liu Changjiao were bent on fighting devils before, they were not fools, their faces turned white after listening to the old man's words, and beads of sweat on their heads were bursting out.

Lu Dachuan wiped the sweat on his head and asked, "Old man, we only killed people like animals, and we didn't kill good people, is it that serious?" ”

The old man said: "Although the Bodhisattva gave me a dream that did not go into too much detail about your origins, but I also understood in my heart that you have violated the way of heaven when you came to this era, and after you came, you still acted against the heavens, and controlled the life and death of others. ”

Lu Dachuan said: "It's our arbitrary actions, but I still can't figure it out, although you are a foreign Taoist, but you are also a Taoist, and you should find Taoist people for help when you encounter big trouble, and then take a step back and say, even if you don't ask Taoism for help, the King of the Earth Bodhisattva is a Buddhist, and you should also find a monk for help, how can you find our head." ”

I followed and said, "Yes, uncle, you are ghosts, and you are in big trouble, so Lord Yama doesn't care." ”

The old man glared, shook his white beard, and said, "You little dolls, don't ask me what big trouble my old man has encountered, but you keep worrying about these questions. ”

On the surface, the old man was blowing his beard and glaring, but I could see that he was not really angry, but deliberately, I stuck out my tongue and said with a smile: "We are all here, and we have eaten, no matter how much trouble you encounter, as long as it is within our ability, this favor must be helped, don't ask clearly, isn't it curious to get the benefits." ”

The old man pouted his beard again: "You little doll, you're quite slippery, you don't eat my old man's food, there is a Bodhisattva to support me, and I'm not afraid that you won't help me." ”

I pouted: "You old man, how can you be so arrogant to find someone to help in the world." ”

"How do you talk to the old man?" Lu Keqin pulled me and said.

Lu Dachuan also thought that I didn't speak well, and glared at me.

I knew they wouldn't fail to see that the old couple weren't that old-fashioned people, so they didn't think so.

"Haha." The old man smiled heartily and said, "No wonder the Bodhisattva wants you to come and help me, and it really treats my old man's temper." ”

The old lady who was sitting in a pile with Lu Keqin and Lin Xian'er glanced at the old man: "Oh, why is this still blowing, the Bodhisattva still knows your temper." ”

The old lady's demeanor and words made us all laugh.

After laughing, the old man's tone became serious: "You don't know, although we are ghosts who do things for the underworld, and the king of the earth is in charge of the affairs of the underworld, but the gods of the heavenly realm and the king of the underworld cannot directly intervene in the affairs of the human world. ”

"Uncle, monks don't kill, I know, aren't those heavenly masters and real people in Taoism very powerful, why is it difficult to protect themselves."

"Alas......" the old man sighed, "A few years ago, the devils killed people in Nanjing, Zhang Tianshi of Longhu Mountain, Wang Zhenren of the Quanzhen Sect and Maoshan Zhangjiao and others went to Nanjing to resist and save people, but as a result, Xiaoriben recruited a group of ninjas with advanced cultivation and united a large number of devils to besiege these sects, causing them heavy losses and great damage to their vitality. ”

"Oh, we fought a devil ninja before we came, and he can fly through the air, escape to the ground, and channeling thunder."

The old man asked, "What's the matter?" ”

I recounted in detail what happened after I met the ninja.

The old man held back his regrets: "It's a pity, it's a pity, you shouldn't let him go." ”

"Uncle, the big trouble you won't encounter is also these ninjas, let us help by killing them."

The old man nodded: "The trouble we have encountered is indeed these ninjas, but whether you kill them or not depends on the will of God." ”

"Uncle, why do you talk more and more about me, the more confused I become, let's just tell us what the trouble you are encountering, let's do something."

The old man said: "You have heard of the lower yin, you should know that when we go to the underworld, it is the soul that leaves the body to go to the underworld to do some things, and helps the ghosts in the underworld to hook the soul, recently we have many souls in the underworld have not come back after leaving the body, I suspect that their souls were captured by the ninjas of the little devils." ”

"You're going to let me get their souls back."

The old man nodded, and then both of them cried......