When I came to the end of the ghost market, I saw an archway not far in front of Xiao Shizhu.

This is three zhang high, the archway of about two zhang wide is also very characteristic of the underworld, although it is the second pillar of the imitation wood structure and one third floor, but on the first floor of the forehead there are four seal carved big characters of "Yin Cao Difu", the front and back of the beam each have a pair of relief carvings, heroic and majestic unusually majestic. A hundred ghosts are carved on the pillars of the fang, some are struggling, some are roaring, some are being tortured, and there are vivid images that are about to come out.

After passing the archway, you will come to the door of a complex of buildings similar to the ancient yamen.

Xiao Shizhu followed the black and white impermanence and strode into the yamen, and the first thing that caught his eye was a one-line building complex composed of blue brick reliefs on the wall, with a dragon head, a lion's tail, a cow's hoof, and a monster shaped like a unicorn in the center. But for some reason, Xiao Shizhu couldn't help but show a contemptuous smile after looking at the stone beast. Perhaps he knew that a broken stone had no warning effect at all.

After the wall, see a gate again, the gate is three rooms wide, the bright room is the passage of the 100-meter Yongdao, the first half of the east tip is placed in the first half of the drum for the people to beat the drum and voice the grievance; there are two stone tablets between the first half of the west shoot, which is engraved with "false accusation plus three grades, the more the lawsuit is flogged fifty". There is a plaque on the door, with three big characters on it, and there are two people in green clothes and black hats standing at the door.

Entering the gate, you will come to the lobby, the wide but slightly dim hall is howling in the wind, and the ghost fire is flying, which makes some of the lobby flickering and bright, and even more gloomy.

Xiao Shizhu looked at it and saw a public case in the middle of the depths of the hall, and at the back of the case sat a man with a leopard-eyed lion's nose, a long beard, a crown on his head, and a ghost in a black robe; If he didn't have this clothes, he would have a bit of the temperament of a pig butcher.

On the left and right sides below the public case, there is a team of ghosts with green faces and red hair holding water and fire sticks. As soon as he saw Xiao Shizhu enter the main hall, he shouted in unison with a long voice: "Mighty!"

After the public case, there is a zhang high on the right head of the leopard-eyed lion-nosed ghost, the mirror is ten around, hanging to the east, and the horizontal seven characters are on it, saying: "There is no good person in front of the evil mirror." ”。 As soon as he looked at this platform, Xiao Shizhu knew that the leopard-eyed and lion-nosed man must be the legendary King Qin Guang.

Black and white impermanence took him to the middle of the hall, and after pressing his shoulders to make him kneel facing King Qin Guang, King Qin Guang, who was high above, squinted at him, and slowly asked, "Who is the name of the ghost kneeling in the hall?"

"Xiao Shizhu. Xiao Shizhu hurriedly replied.

"Oh. King Qin Guang said, flipped through the scroll on the public case in front of him, took a few closer looks, and then moved his gaze from the scroll to Xiao Shizhu, smacked his lips, shook his head lightly and said to him in a rather regretful tone: "Bad deeds, almost every day under the banner of fortune-telling to do cheating, threatening evil things, and often hiring murderers to beat people, you are not a good person in the yang world! As soon as the words fell, a ghost came out of the queue on the left and right, and walked towards Xiao Shizhu with a cruel smile.

"Slow!" After hearing this, Xiao Shizhu was not frightened, but raised his hand and made a pause gesture, so that the two ghosts who were coming towards him were stunned, and hurriedly took out two big ingots of fifty taels from his pocket, held them high above his head, and said loudly to King Qin Guang: "The king is really good at laughing, and the villain is a good deed that consults in his heart, enlightens the hearts of the vast number of sentient beings, and accumulates virtue." You don't know that there are too many people who commit suicide in the yang world now, and there is no small one to enlighten them, and you don't know how much work you have to add to the king. Please also King Mingjian!". As he spoke, he stood up to himself, strode to the front of the public case, and put the two ingots in his hand in front of King Qin Guang.

Before, in the black and white impermanence, Xiao Shizhu already knew that it was not groundless for money to make ghosts grind, and at this time, he repeated his old trick again, hoping to reduce his crime.

King Qin Guang looked at the two gold ingots, and his eyes were straight. Nowadays, there are more and more people in the world who print dark coins privately, and the face value is getting larger and larger, which indirectly leads to the severe inflation in the underworld. There are very few ghosts who come down with hard goods such as gold and silver treasures.

Today, when he saw that Xiao Shizhu was making a move, he was already ecstatic in his heart. But he still quickly calmed down, after all, as the head of the Ten Palaces of Yama, although he was happy, he still had to keep a great king unfazed, otherwise where was the majesty?

So, King Qin Guang hurriedly calmed down, and after coughing twice, he reprimanded in a righteous and deep voice: "If you deceive people, you will deceive people, and what kind of psychological counseling to beautify yourself will be added to the crime! 100 kills will be changed to 300, and after the fight, you will directly throw it into the hell of pulling out your tongue for a hundred years." ”。

But when he spoke, his eyes were always staring at the two gold ingots, which showed that he was also saying this with a mouthful or not, just thinking about seeing if Xiao Shizhu still had any money and whether he could pry it out again.

Fortunately, Xiao Shizhu is also a smart person, as soon as he heard this, he knew the mystery, and immediately took out two gold ingots, put them in front of King Qin Guang, stretched his head forward, and whispered to King Qin Guang: "King, even if my various behaviors in the world are fortune-telling, it is also the use of Zhou Yi Liuyao and other magic skills, and I am also a cultivator, how can I say that I am beautifying myself?"

King Qin Guang saw that there were two more ingots, and he was completely moved, so he coughed again, hurriedly covered the four ingots with the scroll in his hand, pretended to be shocked, and shouted: "Could it be that this king is wrong, you wait for this king to take a look." ”。 As he spoke, he pretended to flip through the book.

After a while, King Qin Guang smiled, and after holding a pen and writing on the scroll, he said thoughtfully: "It's really that this king is wrong, you are a person of merit." In this way, this killing rod will be spared, and you will retreat first. As for where you will go in the future, this king must think carefully and announce your arrival in ten days. ”。

Xiao Shizhu was so smart that he immediately knew that King Qin Guang was thinking that he would blackmail him ten days later, but he also knew that refuting or forcing it immediately would only make King Qin Guang disgusted. If this King Qin Guang pushed himself onto the evil mirror platform in a fit of anger, the accusation of this evil ghost would be confirmed. After that, there will be offenses, not to mention, whether you can return to the world is a question.

So Xiao Shizhu hurriedly nodded, raised his hands above his head and hugged his fists, and shouted loudly: "The king is not only wise, but also very handsome, which is really a blessing for all beings in the underworld." ”。

Thousands of clothes are not worn, sure enough, when King Qin Guang saw that he was so sensible, he immediately showed satisfaction; he stroked his chin and beard, and waved his left hand gently, signaling that Xiao Shizhu could retreat.

After a while, Black and White Impermanence took Xiao Shizhu out of the Ghost Judgment Hall and stood under the archway in front of the Ghost Ya. Before the black and white impermanence could speak, Xiao Shizhu was stomach "gurgling", and after he smiled awkwardly, he said to the two ghosts: "Two officials, the villain has to be taken care of by two people all the way, so I want to invite the two to dinner, I don't know if the two can appreciate their faces?"

As he spoke, he thought to himself: "Isn't it forbidden for time to pass away? How can I still feel hungry? Could it be that myths are all deceitful? No wonder Qingming Winter Solstice will offer food to the dead!"

"No, no, no. Bai Wuchang smiled and said to Xiao Shizhu: "Our brothers still have to go and attract other souls and reunite another day." ”。 Although they have been together for a short time, Bai Wuchang still has a good impression of Xiao Shizhu. In the past, he always liked to hide a knife in his smile, but for some reason he couldn't be ruthless to this young ghost.

And Hei Wuchang glanced at Xiao Shizhu, but at a glance, he seemed to see through Xiao Shizhu's thoughts, and said: "Ghosts also need to eat in order to keep their soul energy alive and not scatter." There is a liquor store in the ghost market, and if you are hungry, you can go to the liquor store and buy some food. ”。

After speaking, the two ghosts strode together towards the outside of the city.

Xiao Shizhu stood in place, watching the two ghosts leave, and then went to the ghost market.

This ghost town made him feel both strange and curious. So even though he was hungry, he still wandered around the ghost market. Later, I found that almost all the ghosts here were wearing ancient Hanfu, but he was wearing jeans and a short-sleeved T-shirt, and he always felt incongruous, so he went to the tailor shop to buy suitable clothes first, and then went to eat after changing them.

After leaving the tailor's shop, he found a random restaurant and walked in. When I entered the gate, I saw a running hall with a white towel, greeted him with a smile, and said to him: "Please come in the guest officer, what do you want to eat?"

"What are your specialties?" Xiao Shizhu said, his eyes casually looking around. I saw that in the lobby of this restaurant, there were six square tables neatly placed, and only one table had diners, shouting "Five leaders, six six six!" and the other tables were empty.

Deep in the lobby is a tall shelf full of wine jars, and a wooden ladder to the left of the cabinet leads to the second floor. Not far from the cabinet, there is a long table with tea pots, money jars, abacus, ledgers and the four treasures of the study. A thin middle-aged man, standing behind a long table, put his right hand on the table, resting his head in the palm of his hand and napping.

This man was dressed in coarse cloth clothes and trousers, not like the shopkeeper but not like the bookkeeper. For a while, even Xiao Shizhu, an old man who could observe words and feelings, couldn't see the identity of that person.

Xiao Shizhu followed the running hall to the table by the window in the depths of the lobby and sat down, only to hear the running hall say to him: "Guest officer, the best thing in the small shop is steamed winning fish, and braised tiger Jiao meat, do you want to have one?"

"Win the fish?" Xiao Shizhu looked at the trotting hall with a puzzled face. If he remembered correctly, these were all rare and exotic beasts recorded in ancient books, and there were no such things in the world, but he didn't expect that the Netherworld could actually eat them, which made him suddenly interested.

After seeing that Trottang nodded affirmatively at him, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "Okay! ”。 After finishing speaking, he waved his hand and motioned to run the hall to quickly serve the food.

"Okay. Trotter laughed and turned around and headed for the kitchen. Xiao Shizhu turned his head to look at the street scene outside the window and was stunned, at this time, the sun was setting, and the red afterglow was all over every corner of the city, not only did not have the slightest weirdness, but made Xiao Shizhu feel comfortable.

didn't notice that the man behind the counter in the store had woken up and was staring at him.

A moment later, the man who had been napping behind the counter himself went to the kitchen and walked over carrying the dishes ordered by Xiao Shizhu. After arranging them one by one, the man asked the runner to bring a pot of wine and two cups, and then sat opposite Xiao Shizhu by himself, and smiled at him without waiting for Xiao Shizhu to ask: "This is my own green bamboo brew, made of thirty-six kinds of flower dew and seventy-two kinds of grains, and sent it to the guest officer to taste." ”。 As he spoke, he put an empty cup in front of Xiao Shizhu, stood up and poured wine for Xiao Shizhu.

In an instant, the air around Xiao Shizhu was full of wine, which made people already drunk when they smelled it.

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Shizhu, who had only been intoxicated for three seconds, hurriedly shook his head and calmed down; he saw that the other party's expression was respectful, and the words "Nothing to do, either treachery or theft?" suddenly flashed in his mind, and at the same time he had an extra heart, but he didn't like it, and asked in a hurry: "Do all those who come to your store have this preferential treatment?"

"No, only you have it. The man sat down as he spoke, poured himself wine, looked at Xiao Shizhu's eyes, and said, "Below is the shopkeeper of this small restaurant, surnamed Mo Mingzhai, who wants to use this wine to make friends with Your Excellency." ”。