"Here...... It's really a real place...... Difu?" The scholar shuddered and looked at the endless river in horror, his eyes gradually dazed.

Mu Jun solemnly told him: "Scholar, this is the Lichuan River in Difu, I am the ferryman on the river, that is my apprentice, the successor of the next generation of ferrymen, you are really dead." ”

"What ......" The scholar looked at him tremblingly, and then looked at Ji Yu next to him, his eyes were full of panic and some doubts.

"This river and the scenery next to it, it is clearly the Canglan River, how can it be the Lechuan River, you must be lying to me, I, Zhang Shaoyan, must not be dead yet!" The scholar seemed to grasp the last straw, roaring like a gas.

"Name, Zhang Shaoyan. Mu Jun's heart moved, and then asked mysteriously, "Do you think that this water and this shore are very similar to the place when you died?"

The scholar who called himself Zhang Shaoyan hurriedly nodded: "Yes, this is obviously the Canglan River, I know, I am not dead, you saved me, now this is a joke with me, isn't it?" He looked at Mu Jun expectantly.

Mu Jun cruelly told him: "Scholar, I have seen a lot of people like you who refuse to recognize the reality, basically everyone who walks from me thinks like this, but in the end I obediently went to the Hades Palace to report." ”

"If you close your eyes and listen to the sound of the wind and the waves, do you feel that there are countless evil spirits roaring? They are not willing to obediently enter the palace of Hades, and after I kill them, the evil spirits who will remain in this Lethe River forever, if you do not obediently cooperate with my work, the fate will be the same as theirs. ”

Zhang Shaoyan closed his eyes in a panic, trembling all over, he listened to the sound of the wind and waves, and sure enough, he heard the roar of the infinite resentful spirit, and the place where he stood was not the Canglan River, but the secluded Yellow Spring, dead and cold, full of suffocating pressure at the beginning.

"Come and accompany us, people who don't want to accept reality!" "I want your brain, let's merge into one!" "Young soul, it looks so fresh......"

Countless terrible ghost roars resounded in his ears, and Zhang Shaoyan was so weak that he almost fell into the bow of the boat.

Mu Jun solemnly told him: "If you fall just now, you really have to be with those resentful spirits, and you will never be able to live forever." ”

"Ah!" Zhang Shaoyan was half frightened to death, and immediately pounced on Mu Jun, grabbed his hand and said: "Since you are the ferryman of this Lechuan River, then you must have a way to save me, right? I am only twenty-two years old, I have not yet married, and I have an old mother in her fifties to support, and I still shoulder the hope of our village, but I can't die here!"

At this moment, he had already believed Mu Jun's words.

Mu Jun winked at Ji Yu, who immediately reacted, cleared his throat, and said in a deep voice: "As long as you cooperate with us, our master and apprentice will intercede for you from Lord Yama, maybe you can add a few years of yang life and return to the world." ”

"Really?" Zhang Shaoyan was overjoyed, hurriedly looked at Ji Yu, and said, "I don't know how you want Xiaosheng to cooperate?"

At this moment, he finally returned to a little normal, and he completely accepted the "fact" that he was dead.

Mu Jun coughed lightly and asked, "What's your name?"

"Zhang Shaoyan. The scholar replied without hesitation, and then added, "The word Binglin." ”

"Age?"

"Twenty-two. ”

"Origin?"

"Phoenix Village, Wutong Township, Guangping County, Taining County, Dazhou River West Road. ”

"Are there any relatives?"

"There is an old mother at home, Zhang Wang. In addition, there is an elder brother named Zhang Taiyan, who is already married, his sister-in-law is Zhang Xie, and he has a nephew named Zhang Long, who is only four years old. ”

"And where are you going, and what are you going to do?"

"With the hope of the whole village, I went to Yujing to study. Xiaosheng is the most famous talent in our area, and he won the promotion two years early. In order not to delay the students, we raised funds from the whole village and sent the students to Yujing for further study, hoping to be admitted to the top prize in the imperial examination in the coming year and glorify the ancestors. At the mention of this, Zhang Shaoyan's face was full of pride and pride, as well as deep regret.

"Then why did you drown?"

"Speaking of this, it's a sad tear!" Zhang Shaoyan said angrily, "Xiaosheng is entangled in a limited amount, so he followed a cargo ship to Yujing, which was originally a good one or two silver, but I didn't expect them to change their hexagram halfway, saying that they had to get at least one or two or five dollars, Xiaosheng naturally didn't follow, so he reasoned with them, and was directly pushed into the water by them, and then it came to you." ”

"I see. But according to the law of the Great Zhou, don't all those who win the promotion have a share of the land, how can you be so poor that you don't even have five coins of silver?" asked Mu Jun.

"Hey, do you actually know the law of the Great Zhou?" Zhang Shaoyan looked at Mu Jun differently, and then sighed, "It is true that the imperial court is indeed for the field, but although our village is called Phoenix Village, but for hundreds of years, there is not a single native chicken, so poor that birds don't, Xiaosheng is not the phoenix that comes out once in hundreds of years, after being assigned to the field given by the imperial court, in order to repay the villagers for their cultivation of me since childhood, I used the field as a public property in the village at that time." ”

"I see. Mu Jun nodded, and then said to him, "Scholar, now I have good news for you, in fact, you are not dead at all, it was just a little joke we played with you just now." ”

Ji Yu also stood next to her and said, "Big brother, you shouldn't blame us, right?"

"What, this ......" Zhang Shaoyan looked confused, looking at the person in the water that day, he had nothing to say, standing in the wind and waves, with a melancholy expression.

He was thinking about life.

Mu Jun said to Ji Yu, "Do you know why he took our flawed lies seriously just now?"

Ji Yu thought for a moment and replied in a crisp voice, "That's because he's afraid of death." ”

Mu Jun nodded: "Yes, that's the reason." Because of the fear of death and the unwillingness to accept reality, he had a delusion, and when he closed his eyes, he naturally felt that the sound of the wind and waves was the voice of the resentful spirit. It is he who is deceiving himself, not us deceiving him, and you must pay attention to this aspect in the future, and don't follow his example of blinding your own judgment. ”

"Hmm!" the little girl nodded obediently. ”

Zhang Shaoyan on the side suffered another critical blow in his heart, and looked at the sky speechlessly.

"In other words, is it really good for you to use me as a negative teaching material, where is the harmony and friendship between people?"

Mu Jun ignored him, looked ahead, and said, "It's Yujing soon, let's get ready to get off the boat." ”

"By the way, Sensei, why did you do that just now?" asked Ji Yu.

"I was afraid that if I saved a wicked man, I tested him. Now it seems that he is a timid scholar, and he is lucky not to be bullied by others. Mu Jun said.

When Zhang Shaoyan heard this, he fell into the boat.