Chapter (6) The Covenant on the Other Side
Yan Yunqing returned to the Yama Hall with the pot of "iron trees", and the errand officer he met here hid in a distant place, saluted silently, and continued to deal with his own affairs, the snowflakes in the sky began to drift again, but this time it was snow-white.
Yan Yunqing slowly stretched out his hand to catch the snowflakes, the white crystal clear, it was the person's favorite white, at the door of the main hall, a face very similar to him, and his small body was so stubbornly straight.
Yan Yunqing lowered his eyes, walked in front of Yan Nianqing and stopped, Yan Nianqing looked at him for a long time, his eyes gradually turned red, Yan Nianqing didn't know how many nights he hadn't slept for, his eyes were bloodshot, his voice was a little hoarse, and his immature voice was forced out of a bit of the vicissitudes of the world, but he only spit out the most worrying and simplest words in his heart, "What about my mother?" ”
Yan Yunqing looked at Yan Nianqing's face similar to that person, his expression was in a trance for a moment, pursed his lips, and was silent.
Yan Nianqing's fists couldn't help clenching, he raised his head, his neck was raised in a smooth arc, his Adam's apple suddenly moved twice, and Yan Nianqing's vision was gradually blurred by the overflowing tears, "Speak!" You speak! ”
"Mother!"
"You give me back my mother!" Yan Nianqing is like a little beast that has been cornered, but no matter how much he struggles, it is in vain, he can only grasp the corner of the so-called father's clothes in front of him, and keep questioning his good father!
Yan Nianqing escaped from the Shura Hall with the Soul Devouring Bell, and rushed to the side of the Death Pond with the newly learned technique, he saw that his mother was personally moved by this so-called father's person The last fatal blow, he couldn't do anything, he couldn't do anything......
can only be taken back to the Yama Hall by the ghost lamp, he is guarding the door of the main hall of the Yama Palace, he can not eat, he can not rest, even he can see that his mother loves this person very much, why? Why? This man can do this to his mother!
Yan Nianqing, who collapsed, shook his body a few times, and finally couldn't hold on, fainted, Yan Yunqing picked up Yan Nianqing with one hand, and entered the hall, the ghost lamp was waiting there, looking at Yan Yunqing, sighing helplessly, "Ken is back?" ”
Yan Yunqing was silent for a long time, opened his mouth, and wanted to say something, but found that his voice was completely hoarse, and he couldn't pronounce a decent syllable at all. ”
Ghost Lantern scratched his hair a little irritably, and then turned to rub his eyebrows, "The situation is basically under control, the undead who fell into Lethe River can't be recovered, but the bridge is broken, the afterlife pool can't be used, and the frozen Yellow Spring, these have to find a way to find something else to replace." ”
Yan Yunqing handed Yan Nianqing to the ghost lamp, "I'll handle the official documents, and you will deal with him." ”
The ghost lamp compromised and took Yan Nianqing, got out of the way, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the "iron tree" that Yan Yunqing put aside, and said with some doubts, "What is this?" ”
Yan Yunqing continued to use the sea of knowledge to speak, "It's nothing, except for me in the future, don't let people touch this thing without permission, so as not to get hurt." ”
Ghost Lantern nodded, very puzzled in his heart, but he still didn't say anything, and left the main hall of the Yama Hall with Yan Nianqing in his arms, this little guy's temperament is simply a copy of the two of them, if Yun Qing didn't come back, he didn't know when he would be willing to stop.
The ghost lamp knew the reason, if he knew that Yan Nianqing had followed him to the edge of the Death Pond at that time, he would definitely take Yan Nianqing away immediately, and he would not let Yan Nianqing see such a cruel scene, at that time, what did Yan Yunqing see?
So much so that you want to use the book of life and death to deal with the Venerable? Although he knew Yan Yunqing's temperament very well, he really couldn't guess what happened at that time, and he was afraid that he couldn't pry anything out of Yunqing's mouth, so it seemed that he had to check it carefully.
Ghost Lantern frowned, and suddenly realized that he had forgotten to mention the most important thing to Yan Yunqing, which was the breaking of the bronze gate and water barrier guarded by the bull head and the horse, and now he was sure that it was the secret of the Demon Domain that had definitely come out of the underworld.
For the matter of spies, it must be investigated, and it must not be soft, Ghost Lantern thought about it while taking Yan Nianqing to his residence, he still has some achievements in medicine, in today's underworld, there is no more suitable person to take care of Yan Nianqing than him.
In the Yama Palace, Yan Yunqing spent all his energy on processing the official documents, so that he had no time to think about anything else, so he quietly corrected the official documents in the main hall, and when he came back to his senses, it was already night.
He put down the official document in his hand and walked out, only then did he notice that the silver-white moonlight in the underworld, the silver-white moon, had become completely blood-red, and the ground was also blood-red, and the size of the moon seemed to have become larger, and everything was so weird and gloomy.
Now, there is not much difference between this underworld and the underworld described by mortals.
He still remembered that it was when the moon had not turned blood-red, and that man was on the silver-white moon frost, dancing with a sword, tugging at his heartstrings one by one, if he had compromised earlier, admitted his feelings earlier, now, could all this have been avoided?
Yan Yunqing couldn't imagine that if that person could come back again, would that person remember what he had done to him by the Death Pool, would it still be the same as before......
By the way, he remembered, the man's snow-white clothes were stained bright red with blood, and his eyes full of sorrow fell a little light, and he remembered the last words left by the man, "If I can still have an afterlife, I wish, the end of the world, each for his own safety." ”
So, even if that person came back to life, they would only be strangers when they met again.
Actually, that's fine, at least the man is still alive.
Yan Yunqing looked at it for a while and then went back to the room, the cloud blanket on the bed, the cloud quilt, the cloud pillow ......, the cloud chair on the side, Yan Yunqing closed his eyes and let his somewhat uncontrollable mood gradually calm down, and put everything white into the storage ring.
Yan Yunqing lay on the cold and hard bed, closed his eyes, but he had no sleep all night.
On the bank of the Lechuan River, next to the sea of flowers on the other side, Jizo finally waited for what he wanted to see, a white light, straight towards the sea of flowers on the other side, and the white light stopped in the sky above the sea of flowers on the other side.
The white light gradually dissipated, and what was wrapped in the light was one of the ghost venerable magic weapons-the soul chasing spike, and after the white light completely dissipated, in the soul chasing spike, there was a wisp of white smoke-like thing, and the smoke gradually condensed into a form, which was actually a ghost venerable that had been destroyed......
The ghost venerable was draped in loose hair, his body was a little depressed, his face was haggard and pale, his eyes were gloomy, and his indifferent eyebrows showed a bit of mockery, "You monk, you are very punctual." ”
Jizang still smiled indifferently, "No, no, Jizang is just a cause and effect of his own end, and His Excellency also knows, people in Buddhism are not good at meddling in mundane things." ”
Ghost Venerable snorted coldly, "So, you're going to use the deity, isn't it?" ”
Jizo didn't say a word, just looked at the ghost statue quietly.
The ghost zun is also silent, but since he has promised, he must not break his word, the ghost zun holds the soul chasing spike in the air, takes the most central flower of the sea of flowers, and hides the soul chasing spike in the stamen, "My ghost venerable here makes a vow with the flower on the other side, when I return again, the sea of flowers will open again, and the soul will return, when the time is ripe, I promise that I will liberate the soul trapped in the flower on the other side, no matter what the price is." ”
With the words of the Ghost Venerable, the sea of flowers on the other side of the fiery red shore slowly withered at a speed visible to the naked eye, one after another, and the words of the Ghost Venerable slowly dissipated with the dissipating smoke, and the smoke went in an unknown direction.
Jizo kept rolling the Buddha beads in his hand, looked at the direction where the ghost venerable disappeared, and saluted, "Jizo sends the Venerable." ”
The Jizo pestle was beside the withered sea of flowers on the other side, and I don't know how much time had passed, and finally ushered in the last person he was waiting for, Yan Yunqing was wearing the same black robe, and slowly walked in front of Jizo, "Jifu Yama has seen Jizo Bodhisattva. ”
Jizo nodded, smiled lightly, and asked knowingly, "The underworld is in the process of reorganization, I wonder how Lord Yama has time to walk around on the banks of the Lechuan River?" ”
Yan Yunqing replied softly, "Yun Qing has a confusion in his heart, I wonder if Jizang can solve this confusion for Yun Qing?" ”
Jizo continued to nod, and Yan Yunqing continued, "I saw that person demonized that day, and when I was in a hurry, I wanted to save him with a life and death book, and I wrote his name on the life book, but that life book became a death book in an instant, and he died in my hands......
Jizo was a little surprised in his heart, he didn't expect that what Yan Yunqing was going to ask was this, Jizo knew it in his heart, and secretly said No wonder, no wonder His Excellency's face was so bad on the day he left, I am afraid that this Hades did a useless counter-effort.
Jizo pondered for a moment before he said softly, "Your Excellency should have told you about him and Life and Death Bo, that Life and Death Book was originally a magic weapon of Venerable Heaven, and the original intention of Venerable to smelt Life and Death Bo was to kill him one day." ”
Yan Yunqing's body shook violently when he heard this, and he heard Jizo continue, "You probably can't imagine that in these long years, the days when you spend yourself alone, live a long life with the sky, can only live and cannot die, and everything is regarded as a pastime......
"On the book of life and death, only you can write the name of the ghost zun, and the moment you put down the pen, the book of life and death is equivalent to a dagger, stabbing at the ghost zun, but with or without your dagger, in fact, the result will not change, the moment he is emotional, he is doomed to death......"
Jizo didn't look at Yan Yunqing's expression, and said to himself, "Some people say, if you come to look for me, let me tell you a word, if the flowers bloom on the other side, the old man will return......
"You have to think about it, there is something in the ground, so let's go first."
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Yan Yunqing looked at the figure of Jizo gradually moving away, he looked around, only to find that the flowers on the other side that were originally in full bloom had completely withered, and they looked lifeless.
Should he have a trace of luck and believe that this is unfounded and absurd......
In the Lechuan River, those struggling people, all of them stretched out their hands by the pool, as if looking forward to the redemption of someone's return one day, Yan Yunqing looked quietly, as if he was also one of the people who were frozen, his surroundings were pitch black, there was no light, only a thin, looming spider silk, he slowly stretched out his hand to the spider silk, full of timidity looking forward to the redemption of that person......
But I'm afraid that if he can't even touch that spider silk, will that person forgive him? He didn't dare to think about it, even he couldn't forgive himself.
Walking slowly back along the bank of the Lechuan River, Yan Yunqing slowly moved away from the place that was once full of flowers on the other side.
Since then, there has been an unwritten rule in the underworld, and Lord Yama will go to the banks of the Lechuan River every day to see the place that was once full of flowers on the other side, and whenever this happens, the servants of the underworld know that unless there is something important, they must not go in and disturb Lord Yama.