"Of course, the living are punished. The king said. "Behold, the porches on these two sides are the places where the wicked are punished. ”

"Oh, why didn't you hear the call for the wicked to be punished?" Piao Ranzi was full of suspicion, and followed the king and walked to the bottom of the porch.

"Hehe, just look at it. The Wang clerk came to a gallery, pushed open the door casually, and said to Piaoranzi: "Chenghuang, please see." ”

Piaoranzi looked in and was surprised, only to see a large oil pot with a fire burning underneath, and an old man who looked like a rich man was allowed to enter the oil pot, and not far away, there was an ice pool, with thick ice.

"What's going on?" asked Piaoranzi.

"This old man oppresses his neighbors, bullies men and women, does many evils, and does bad things. However, the king of Hades has set a long life for him, and he should not die, so let him live to suffer. I sent a little ghost to make him get malaria typhoid fever and have chills and fever. The old man did not repent, and sought medical advice to cure his sickness. So I sent a demon to detain his soul and cast him into a pan of oil, and his body became hot, as if it were fried in a pan of oil. The king said.

"Why did you throw it on the ice again?" asked Piaoranzi as he saw the ghost pawn throw the old man on the ice again.

"Isn't malaria a fever and a fever? fever followed by chills, and his body was like lying on ice. Let him die of old age and torture. This is the retribution of the present world, just like the yang world said that it is not good to die. The king said.

"So, it's in vain for the old man to ask for a doctor?"

"Yes, some diseases can be cured by doctors, and some diseases can't, that's the truth. Don't you often hear doctors say that if you can cure your disease, you can't cure your life, even if miracle doctors, such as Hua Tuo, Zhang Zhongjing, Sun Simiao, Li Shizhen and others are reincarnated, they will be ineffective. Clerk Wang smiled.

"This old man, it seems that he can only be tortured to death, is there no way out?"

"Yes, one is a death, but who would take a chance? It is better to die than to live; the other is to sincerely repent, do good deeds, do good deeds, and make up for past mistakes. Otherwise, it would be in vain to eat fasting and recite the Buddha. The king said.

"I see. Piaoranzi nodded. I went to the second room, and there was a strong man in it, who was being cut out with a knife by a ghost, and every time he cut it, the strong man was grinning and in great pain.

"This strong man, what's the matter?"

"This person kills too much. He was a butcher who slaughtered livestock for a living. But indiscriminately killing innocent people is a serious crime. The king said.

"Yes, he has killed too many people, and he should be punished to pay for it. After hearing this, Piaoranzi said hatefully.

"He hasn't killed anyone. When I say indiscriminately killing innocents, I mean that in addition to slaughtering normal livestock, he will also innocently kill other living beings. ”

"If he has not killed anyone, will he, the butcher, be punished for slaughtering livestock?"

"Slaughtering livestock, the occupation, but this man slaughters living beings. For example, if he buys a ewe and kills it and sells it, he does not let go of the newborn lambs, and he is so murderous that he even gets the newborn birds to eat them.

"Okay, is this butcher going to die of pain in the future?" asked Piaoranzi.

"Not really. This man's life is determined by Hades. You see, as soon as the ghost knocks out his heart, his true body will suffer a severe pain, and this is the retribution he has received, so that he will not be able to detect any disease. The king said.

Piaoranzi looked at the next house, where there was an old lady who looked like a noblewoman, a little ghost was sawing her palm with a saw, and a little ghost was pulling her hair one by one on top of her head.

Without waiting for Chenghuang to ask, the Wang clerk said: "This old lady is from a wealthy family. The girl ring next to her, when she combed her hair, accidentally combed off two hairs, this old lady did not give up, after beating this girl ring, she was punished for kneeling and not giving food, and forced this girl ring to death, this girl ring became a dead ghost, and was thrown into the underworld. I punished her according to the law, ordered the little ghost to saw her palm, so that she did not feel distressed by the palm drilling, and plucked her hair, so that her hair fell off one by one, and finally called her a bald old lady. ”

"Yes! This is how you should be punished for being bitter and ruthless. Piaoranzi said. They looked at the other rooms, and it was roughly the same.

"May I ask the king's judges, are all the crimes committed by these punished people confirmed?" asked Piao Ranzi, after looking at all the corridors.

"Of course, before these people are punished, I will check again, so as not to wronged the good people. The king said. "Although I only have thirty ghost pawns under my command, there will be no one who dares to slack off. ”

"Those who have been punished cannot find out the cause of the disease, and they do not know how to repent, right?"

It depends on their awareness. Some people ask the Buddha to ask, and the enlightened gods, Buddhas, and monks will guide them. However, we don't dare to care about our punishment. The king said.

"In addition to these punishments, some evil people, can they directly send disasters?"

"Yes. The king said. "Some people do bad things, although their lives should not be extinguished, I will also go to the underworld, or pass it to the four-value Gong Cao, and directly thunder and click, and be punished by God. Some of them were not enough to kill him, and he was also punished by ruined wealth, disability, and exemption from Fu Lu Shou. ”

"Okay, I also ask the Wang case officials to enforce the law impartially and according to the law. ”

"Don't worry!" said the Wang officer. "Although I have great power in my hands, I don't dare to relax at all. Not only do the underworld have inspectors, but there are also heavenly gods to censor them, and if I don't follow the law, I will be the first to be unlucky. God is so clear, how dare I take it lightly. ”

Piao Ranzi talked with the Wang case official for a while, and was led by the land to the Division of Life and Death.

Casemate Li lowered his steps in front of the hall to greet him, welcomed the two into the hall of the Division of Life and Death, and said with a smile: "Chenghuang, I have the most ghosts in this division, and I am in charge of the handover between the Yin Division and the Yang World. ”

Piaoranzi watched the ghost pawns go in and out, some holding books and handling handover matters. So he asked: "I, the city god, also manage the life and death of the people of Shucheng, is it all up to you to deliver the birth and send them to death?"

"Yes, that's the subordinate's responsibility. Case Officer Li said. "In some small places, there are few ghosts in the City God Temple, and they are all managed by the City God himself. Come and see, those two rows of corridors, one row is closed to the souls sent by Yin Si to be reincarnated, and the other row is closed to the newly deceased ghosts of Shucheng, my subordinates are responsible for management. ”

Drifting to the bottom of the corridor, a few ghost guards escorted the ghosts of men, women, and children in, eliminated the case in the hall, and brought it to the corridor.

"Chenghuang, this is the deceased people, waiting for the messenger of the underworld to come and release them to the underworld. You see, the souls brought out by the row of corridors were released here after drinking ecstasy soup in the underworld, waiting to be reincarnated. Caseman Li pointed to the group of humanoid ghosts that he brought out and said.

"Oh, I see. Piao Ranzi was watching, and the daredevils behind him shouted: "Chenghuang, you are here, let me find it!"