Chapter 718: To the underworld
Qin Caixing kowtowed to Shi Zaitano's chickens pecking rice a few times, and then told the unbelievable reason-
Master, you know very well, a few years ago, I practiced Guanzi Jinggong and meditated at home, my soul was separated from my body, and I went to Macau to see a gambling addiction, and I didn't come back.
If I don't come back, my body will soon be broken, that is, I will die! In the future, even if I come back, I will have no one to live in, so I will naturally become an out-and-out lonely ghost.
Of course, it is also possible to watch gambling in Macau, my friend Hou Dabao, he is a living person, because I used the divine power of Yigen to secretly help him win a lot of money in gambling, he is very grateful, and also set up a spiritual position for me at home, worship me as the god of wealth, and provide sufficient offerings, and continue to burn incense every day, so that I have a feeling of extra satisfaction.
But one day, I went to a casino to watch the gambling, and late at night with the gamblers left, I came out of the casino, and was about to return to the spiritual seat opened for me by Hou Dabao's house - equivalent to my temporary home in the netherworld, that is, my home in the netherworld!
Unexpectedly, I walked out on the street and was stopped by a man who was even bigger than me. Oh, I thought, it's not a human, it's a hunk ghost. If you are a human being, you will never see me, only a ghost who is at the same level of the netherworld as me can see me, and I can also see him.
At that moment I impatiently asked the big man who was standing in front of me, alas, I don't know you, do you have anything to do with me?
The big ghost saw that I was not speaking very politely, but he was not angry, and took out a box of hardcover cigarettes from his body, took out two cigarettes, and handed one to me. I took it, lit it with a big ghost lighter in my mouth, and after I took a deep breath, a trace of smoke came out of both nostrils. I looked up at him, expecting him to say something. He also took a puff of a lit cigarette and replied leisurely that it was nothing.
So what did you tell me to do? I asked him rhetorically, can you scold him, are you nervous? Of course I didn't say it.
The big ghost spit out a puff of smoke and said, I want to ask you, you are already a ghost, you can be said to be a yin person, why do you mix with a living yang person every day? I said, "Man, don't you know, if I don't mingle with the living, what will I eat?" What do you live on? I also told the story of the living Hou Dabao and his wife erecting an altar for me in their house and setting up a spiritual table for me to make good offerings and incense.
The big guy laughed when he heard this, shook his head after taking a puff of cigarette and said, It seems that you think it's pretty good, and you still want to live like this forever, don't you?
What do I say? I am already a yin person now, no more than when I was a yang person a few years ago, I was the boss of the printing and dyeing company in Qianshan County, Dongtu Kingdom. Now I regret it a little, I can't go back if I want to! Even if I go back, it won't work, I've lost my body, I'm a ghost.
I've been in Macau for a long time, and I still miss my hometown in the east of the country. Once when I went back, I learned that my wife had already remarried to become the wife of the assistant general manager of my company, the assistant manager of the head office had been promoted to the general manager, and my wife had become the chairman.
The big guy ghost accompanied me as I walked and said, the hero doesn't mention the courage of the year, and tells you something serious. I nodded. The big guy then said something that scared me, there are rules in the underworld, and you must understand it.
Generally, the newly dead people, because they have a soul, that is, they have thoughts, and if they have thoughts, they will consume energy, and if they consume too much, or if they are exhausted, just like the yang people are hungry, they have a sense of hunger, and the yang people can eat or eat other non-staple foods when they are hungry, so if the dead are hungry, they can only smell the breath, and they may be full when they smell it, and when they are full, it is equivalent to replenishing energy and restoring the spirit.
I know that you are now living by smelling the offerings and incense in Hou Dabao's house, but you have to know that it will not last long, once the family god, the stove god and the door god of Hou Dabao's family, that is, any minor god sue you, you will have a big problem. They usually have the appearance of the local city god, and the city god will send a messenger to kidnap you to the city god temple to ask for guilt.
When I heard this, I didn't understand, so I asked the big guy, what crime did I commit?
The big man said that the newly deceased became a yin person. For 7749 days, not more than one year, a Yin person can enjoy offerings and incense offerings provided to him by his family members or relatives.
There are rules in the underworld, and if the time limit is exceeded, it will not work. Of course, the newly deceased will be reincarnated in less than a year, or become ghosts and begin to live a ghost life, where will they rely on offerings and incense provided by family members or relatives for a long time?
If family members and relatives no longer have offerings and incense, won't the dead or ghosts starve to death? There is only one exception, the heroes who have made great contributions to the development of the Yangshi society, or the heroes who sacrificed for the just war, or the great benevolent people who have done good deeds and accumulated virtues and so on, after their deaths, there are often people who set up ancestral temples to set up spiritual seats or shrines to worship incense, and sacrifice for a long time or at four o'clock, which is allowed by the underworld, and it is also a common thing that people and gods know, yes, and advocated.
In fact, some ancestral halls and temples are dedicated to the spiritual positions of saints, heroes and even ancestors, and some do come here to enjoy sacrifices, and more saints, heroes and ancestors have already been promoted to immortal classes, earth gods or reincarnated good places.
And your situation is completely different, you are not a saint, you are not a hero, and you are not an ancestor of old virtue, how can you be qualified to enjoy the sacrifice and incense at a friend's house for a long time? As long as any of the minor gods of the Hou Dabao family go to Chenghuang to report it to Chenghuang or verbally, you will be finished.
The big man told me these things that I had never heard before, and I was terrified to hear them. I deliberately said calmly, man, I have lived in Hou Dabao's house for many years now, and there is no one who has sued me?
Then you must have bribed them or had a good relationship with them. When the big guy ghost talked about this, he suddenly changed the conversation, but no one is good for a hundred days, and there is no time for flowers to be red for a hundred days, and there will be a conflict in the end, as long as any of them turns their faces, you are finished.
If you are captured by the City God, it will be a greater sin than ordinary undead spirits, because you are a soul who has left the body and gone to Macau to watch gambling, and refused to return to the body and died, in fact, your yang life is not over, and there may be decades left.
If you die in this way so early, it is a vain death, and the Hades King has not yet found out, and if he finds out, he will arrest you and go to prison in the city of vain death, then you will lose your freedom. If you don't hurry up to my company to integrate into the life of the ghosts, if one day you are discovered by the city god who received the report, arrest you for the first trial, and send you directly to the Hades Palace to punish the crime, you will regret it.
I said yes repeatedly, thank you brother for the reminder. The big ghost talked about the stakes around my situation, and some things did get to the point - in the past, Hou Dabao's family worshiped the God of Wealth, but since I went to their house, the God of Wealth has not offered to me, only offering incense to me, not to the God of Wealth, but to offer me as the God of Wealth. I let the gods of the house, the hearth, and the door of the house enjoy the offerings and incense they offer to me every day or freely, and these little gods think that I am a good person and treat them well, and of course they will not sue me.
But as you said, if you get close to these little gods, there will be a conflict one day, and once there is a conflict, I really can't stay in this Yang family. Thinking about this, I panicked even more. So he looked at the big ghost worriedly and sighed, "Brother, according to what you say, I have to leave Hou Dabao's house quickly and live a normal ghost life."
But although there are many ghosts, I don't know them, including your surname, I don't know what your name is, how can you integrate into the life of ghosts?
We walked and talked, and we had already crossed a few streets. Because I followed the big ghost, I actually came to a dark street in Macau.
At this time, the big ghost head block introduced that his name in the yang world, Gu Junshui, went to the underworld, and still continued to use this name, and he also pointed to the gatehouse under a row of tall buildings and said, look, what is written on this? When I looked, there was a sign hanging on the gatehouse, on which was written a row of large red lacquer characters in Wei tablet style: Macau Hades Dongcheng District Cigarette Monopoly Co., Ltd.
Seeing that I had taken a good look at this company clearly, the big guy patted me on the shoulder and said, don't go back to Hou Dabao's house from today onwards, follow me to work in another company, you used to be the general manager of a company in Yangshi, and now in the underworld, you will be the general manager of Macau Hades Dongcheng Cigarette Monopoly Co., Ltd.
I was the general manager of this company, and now I am the chairman. In this way, you will not be integrated into the life of the ghosts, and you will no longer need to rely on the Yang Hou Dabao family to provide you with offerings and incense to survive.
Listening to the big guy say this, I was excited, but I didn't want to work in his company at this time, I stopped calling him brother, and changed my name to Gu Dong (director), please let me go back to Hou Dabao's house to say hello to him before leaving!
That's fine. Gu Junshui said, and sent me for a while, until the street of Yangren, he turned around.
I returned to Hou Dabao's house, because it was late at night, Hou Dabao and his wife both slept, and they both fell asleep, and entering the dreamland meant that the soul was out of the body, and I just found their souls and thanked them on the occasion of farewell. If I had come back so late in normal times, I would have come to my offering table to enjoy the offerings and smell the aroma, but I was not hungry at the moment, because I had just been full from smoking a cigarette from Gu Dongfa's cigarette outside.
At this time, the god of the stove of Hou Dabao's family saw that I was not going to the offering table, so he asked me if I came back so late, did I have a supper? I told him that I smoked a cigarette outside and was a tooth sacrifice.
At this moment, when the house gods and door gods, who were still enjoying the offerings and incense at the offering table, heard us talking, they all came out of the room where the offering table was set up and went to the living room to meet me. The family god stroked a handful of white hair and asked me enviously, Mr. Qin, you smoked a cigarette outside today, was it from a yang person or a yin person?
I smiled slightly, and said that of course it was from the yin people, and the yang people couldn't see me at all, so where would there be smoke? If the Yang people make offerings to you at home, they can also offer a cigarette, or a box, a few or a cigarette.
I said, how is that possible? Yang people give us yin spirits, that is, yin people raise the altar to offer, where will we offer cigarettes? Most of them are lit with a stick of incense, and wisps of smoke come out, so that we Yin people smell and eat, and Yang people have a purpose in doing this, and there are pure offerings, but there are relatively few, and most of them have what they want.
The door god nodded in agreement, and he was going to return to the gate to stand guard on duty, or if he didn't leave his post, he would be suspected of dereliction of duty. Just as he was getting up, I stopped him, door god, wait, I have something to say.
The god of the stove stood aside and listened to them ridiculing for a while, and then he understood some things, and said, don't be in a hurry to speak, let me ask you, what is the purpose of the yin people smoking today?