"Emperor, please take a seat," Piaoranzi pointed to the table.

"Guan Mou is welcome" Guan Gong said that he was not welcome, so he was not polite, took off his battle robe, and sat on the main seat in the middle.

The ghost pawns brought cups and plates, served wine and food, and placed them in front of Guan Gong. Piao Ranzi and the others held wine glasses, stood in front of Guan Gong, and said in unison: "The emperor is coming, we are very honored, first salute the emperor."

"Thank you for your kindness" Guan Gong stood up and raised his glass and drank it all.

"Everyone, Chenghuang has worked hard, Guan Mou will give a cup in return," Guan Gong said and drank it all again. "All the gods of the underworld, sit down and speak. ”|

"Yes" Everyone retreated, and the land ordered the ghost guards to put the tables on all sides and go to Guan Gong. Piao Ranzi was also about to sit down in the city god, Guan Gong beckoned: "Chu city god, please come here to do it." ”

"This 、、、、、、" Piao Ranzi saw Guan Gong let him sit beside him, very cramped, and muttered: "The emperor is the god above that everyone admires, and he really doesn't dare to be it."

"You young man is too unhappy," Guan Gong said to everyone. "A teenager should have the heroic spirit of a teenager, why is it that his mother-in-law and mother-in-law let him sit here, do you have any objections?"

"No, no, no," the crowd said. "I'm convinced. ”

"Thank you for your love," Piao Ranzi said. "In this way, it is better to obey than to obey. ”

"Chu Chenghuang, I think you are a knowledgeable person, you were a scholar when you were alive, right? Guan Gong stroked his long hair and looked at the floating people sitting on the side.

"I have lived in the Yang World for 18 years, and I have been sent to the Western Elysium by Guanyin Bodhisattva and the Great Trend Bodhisattva, and I have lived for a thousand years. His body was destroyed, and he returned to Nanzhan Buzhou. Piaoranzi muttered.

"Oh, you can be transported to the Pure Land of Western Heaven Bliss by Guanyin, and you must have done an earth-shattering act of kindness. "It's fair.

"No, I don't feel like I've done anything. It is to scatter some family wealth and contribute to the construction of the bridge. "Piao Ranzi thinks about it, it's not a big deal for me.

"If you don't donate money to build a bridge, although it is said to be doing good deeds and accumulating virtue, it will not become a Buddha in the flesh, and it will be sent to the West by Guanyin Bodhisattva immediately. I think there's a reason for that. Guan Gong pondered. "Blind people are blind when they build bridges and roads, and the world doesn't know, even Bao Zheng doesn't know the antecedents, you are in a lot of trouble, and you should pay off your previous debts in this life. ”

"What do you mean by that?" asked Piaoranzi. "After my death, the yang god was destroyed, and the yin god was not scattered, I had to save the Bodhisattva with the general trend, go to the Lingshan Road, climb out of the treasure bottle, see the Buddha's light shining, stabbed my eyes, thanks to the Medicine Buddha reached out to the rescue, gave me the jewel, only this Yin God body. ”

"When you die, you are blinded by the light, which is not the same thing as the world calls building bridges and repairing roads. "It's fair. "There was a poor child who was lonely and miserable, and he had the ambition to build bridges for people to facilitate the passage of the two sides of the river, and to carry stones on weekdays, regardless of the cynicism of others. ”

"Emperor, a child, relying on his own hands to accumulate stones and build a bridge, isn't it a fool's dream?"

"Don't you know that the foolish man moves mountains?" Guan Gong swept his eyes coldly, and continued: "Until a few years later, the stones are finally enough to build bridges. However, when the bitter child got older, he suddenly became blind in both eyes. So he went to the official mansion and went down to look for righteous people, and finally finished repairing the bridge. Unexpectedly, as soon as the bridge was completed, there was a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and the bridge repairer was killed by lightning. Bao Zhengzhi got it, went to watch, felt that he was so pitiful, and felt that heaven was unfair, so he wrote six words on the palm of this person's hand: Rather do evil, do good. ”

"Bao Zheng 、、、、、、、 doesn't this persuade the world to abandon good and do evil?"

At that time, Bao Zheng did exactly that. Guan Gong said with a slight smile. Bao Zheng is also angry: how unfair the sky is A few days later, Bao Zheng was summoned by the emperor, and the emperor said that Niangniang gave birth to a child, crying day and night, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty said that Bao Zheng was just right, and it was the star king in the sky who came down to earth, and recommended him to take a look. When Bao Zheng saw this child, there was a black mole on his palm, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the six words he wrote, "Rather do evil" and "do good", he doubted in his heart, touched it with his hand, and erased it. From then on, the prince stopped crying. ”

"Why is that?" the crowd asked.

After Bao Zheng went home, he couldn't figure it out. In his sleep at night, Jizo Bodhisattva came to visit, and Bao Zheng asked about it. Jizo Bodhisattva said, 'This poor boy who built the bridge did many evils in his previous life, and he was supposed to punish him for suffering in three lives: the first life was poor, the second life was blind in both eyes, and the third life was struck to death by lightning. I didn't think that after his first reincarnation, he would be dedicated to goodness and build bridges and roads. Yin Si remembered that he had great merit and the world, so he punished him for three lifetimes, and suffered it for one lifetime, first when he was a young man, then he was blind, and finally he was killed by thunder. Now, after the child dies, he is reborn in the emperor's house, and he will enjoy endless glory and wealth in this life, which is the cycle of cause and effect. When Bao Zheng heard this, his heart suddenly brightened, and the previous resentment disappeared. Guan Gong said this, looking at Piaoranzi fixedly.

"That's right. Piao Ranzi said: "I have heard legends from the world that although you build bridges and repair roads, even if you do good things, you may not get good results." It seems that there is a fallacy. ”

"Everything requires a root, and if there is a good cause, there will be a good result. Chu Chenghuang, I see that you are not shallow, so I said a little more, please think twice. After Guan Gong finished speaking, he raised his glass and drank to himself.

When they heard this, they were silent. Piao Ranzi said in his heart: This Guan Saint Emperor, did you come here to tell me a story?

The land of Shucheng saw Guan Gong drinking, and said to the ghost pawn: "You go and heat this jar of wine, although it is the Cold Food Festival, but the Guan Sheng Emperor is different, he is a god, how can he be confined to secular etiquette?"

The ghost pawn agreed, picked up the wine jar in front of Guan Gong and wanted to leave.

"Slow" Guan Gong's giant hand swung down. "The land of Shucheng, although the Cold Food Festival is a festival in the world, I must also abide by it. How can you abolish the rules because of me? Some things are all because some people are too sophisticated and do good things badly. ”

"I mean this 、、、、、、, I'm afraid that you won't be used to drinking cold wine," the old face of Shucheng Land couldn't hold back.

"Oh, you land is so snobbish. Guan Gong sneered. "Do you know the master commemorated by the Cold Food Festival?"

"Muon push, of course. "Shucheng land road. "But how can he be compared to your emperor?"

"Do you know why you commemorate Jie Zitui?" asked Guan Gong.

"Needless to say? Of course I do. "Shucheng land road. Jie Zitui followed Chong'er for 19 years, and when Chong'er became the Duke of Jin Wen, he resigned and did not do it, and carried the old lady into Mianshan in person. Chong'er is not an ungrateful person, go to the mountains and please. Jie Zitui refused to go out of the mountain. The subordinates said: Set fire to the mountain, and the meson will come out. Jin Wengong thought that this was a good idea, so he ordered his men to set it on fire. Until the mountain fire is over, there is no meson to push out. Later, two dead bodies were found, which were identified as those of Jie Zitui and his old mother. Heavy ears and intestines are all remorseful - of course, I didn't see it in person, I guess it should be good. So it was decreed that the day before the Qingming Festival, no fire was allowed to be lit and cold food should be eaten to commemorate this Jie Zitui. ”

After Shucheng finished speaking, he pressed his crutches hard: "Emperor Guan, am I right?" ”

"Of course," Guan Gong nodded. "This Jie Zitui, who supports his old mother, is reluctant to go out of the mountains to become a leader, which is admirable. The three armies can be handsome, and the horsemen cannot win the ambition. I, Guan, have always respected such heroes. Filial piety in the hall, life and death are inseparable. Even if Jie Zitui was not titled by the Jade Emperor after his death, I couldn't use my power to suppress people, and on the day of commemorating his Cold Food Festival, because of my arrival, I lit a fire and drank hot wine. You land, don't watch people put on the dishes. ”

In a few words, the old face of the land of Shucheng was green for a while and white for a while.

Piaoranzi heard that Jie Zitui was carrying his mother on his back and was burned to death by a mountain fire, thinking of his mother, far away in Shuicheng, life and death were uncertain, and he missed it for many years, and he came to his heart and was heartbroken