Guan Sheng and Yan Luo didn't expect that Su Yang actually resigned.

Favored by Emperor Guan Sheng, and having the experience of acting as Yama, Su Yang's career in Yin Si will be smooth sailing in the future, Emperor Guan Sheng is optimistic about him, and the new Yama King Li is also optimistic about him, but this is the future, Su Yang quit.

"If you continue to stay in the Yin Division, in ten years, I can make you the master of the First Division. ”

Yama King Li said to Su Yang.

The lord of the first division, the real high position and power in the underworld, plus his father-in-law is the king of the wheel, Su Yang can call the wind and rain in the underworld.

"Life has dreams, and each one is wonderful. ”

Su Yang has already made up his mind, he has experienced what it is like to be in Yama, the master of this division can't keep him at all, from the beginning, what Su Yang wants is to walk all over the green mountains, people are not old, and the green mountains and green waters are long and free.

"Alas. ”

Hearing this, Yama sighed and said: "Ever before the great virtuous and virtuous people sat on the throne, they were all fortunate to be in the court, and there was no sage left behind, but I came here, the twenty-four masters of the Yin Division are all as smooth as oil, and it is rare to have a sage, who is about to leave, and the Jade Emperor asked me to be the position of Yama, I am afraid that I have found the wrong person...... Maybe everyone has their own ambitions, and you can't force them, but you must hold this thing. ”

Li Li, the king of Yama, took out a jade plate from his arms, handed it to Su Yang, and said: "You are here to act as Yama, the iron mask is selfless, and you have offended a lot of yin ghost officials, even if you are close to the wheel king, but there is always something inconsiderate, with this token, the yin ghost will not dare to offend you, and in the future, walking in the yang world, encountering some injustices, can also serve the land of the city god." ”

Su Yang took the token handed out by King Yama with both hands, the size of a palm, with the lines of the fifth hall painted on it, and the three words Yama Order in the middle.

"Thank you Yama. ”

Su Yang took the token into his arms.

"Emperor Guan Shengjun, there is a shortage of people in the position of Qingyun Mountain City God, you happen to be in this realm, we might as well do a small assessment, select three or two people with excellent morality, take the exam here once, and set a Qingyun Mountain City God, if you are not qualified, you can also replace it when the big exam comes." ”

Yama said.

The position of the Wudu Patrol Ring is very high, and there is a group of people below who want to be officials, but the position of the city god needs to be assessed, and if you want to set a city god, you must be harmonized by the heavenly realm and the earthly government, and the joint assessment can determine the yin god of a county.

Guan Sheng nodded, and naturally agreed.

"If you want to be assessed, I will choose one. ”

Su Yang said: "I elected Qingyun Mountain's current generation of Chenghuang Lou Yuan, he is a local scholar in Qingyun Mountain, excellent in character and learning, is a rare good seedling, in Qingyun Mountain, I focused on cultivating him, and accepted him as a student, since ancient times, he did not avoid relatives, I recommended him to assess, whether it is successful or not, it depends on Guan Sheng and Yama ruling. ”

The City God Temple in Qingyun Mountain can be said to have been set up by Su Yang himself, and the civil and military judges were also elected by himself, Su Yang did not want to hand over the City God Temple to others, but put it in the hands of Lou Yuan, Su Yang felt that according to Lou Yuan's conduct, he could make the City God Temple run stably and protect the peace of the people.

As for whether Lou Yuan can pass the exam, it depends on his own ability, Su Yang wrote to him early, and he has already vaguely mentioned this matter, but I don't know if he has used his work recently.

Anyway, his virtue is enough.

"Yes. ”

Guan Sheng and Yan Luo both allowed Su Yang to be elected.

Yan Luo ordered Gu to record things, Wang Mei flipped through the book of life and death, and selected two people with good fortune and strong virtue, and ordered Yin to invite, and then discussed with Guan Sheng how to assess.

"I have been in the ghost city of Xudu for two days, and I have learned about the ghosts and ghosts of the ghost city of Xudu, they are all two faces, one face in front of the person, one face in the back, and after serving in the yin position, it is inevitable that there will be relatives and friends who ask you to do things, or because of your position, you have done a lot of bad things intentionally or unintentionally. ”

Yama said: "Yin Si position, its power can help people, its power can harm people, how to apply divine power, it depends on the person who uses the power, if you want to assess, you should focus on this point." ”

Su Yang nodded secretly when he listened, this is indeed a drawback for thousands of years, and there are really too many articles written around this point.

In this way, you might as well set the topic as one person and two people, with or without intention. ”

Guan Shengdi said.

Well?

Su Yang's eyes were a little dazed, it turned out that unconsciously, he had really integrated into this world.

One person and two people, with or without a heart.

This is exactly the title in the first article of Liao Zhai's "Examination of the City God", and why there is such an examination of the City God, is because "Henan lacks a City God".

Why is there one less city god in Henan? Because of Su Yang's position.

After going around like this, Su Yang realized that he had become a character in the story.

Emperor Guan Sheng and King Yama set the topic, and then called the master of the fifth hall, this time the article is also a beating of the twenty-four masters of the Yin Division, so they have to be on their side, Su Yang also sat among the masters, looking at the three tables placed in the hall of Yama.

On weekdays, when Su Yang records his work log, after getting off work, he gets off work in the underworld, that is, the day in the yang, at this time, Guan Sheng and Yama are both there, and they want to take the city god, and the time is also the day of the yang.

After sitting for a long time, all three candidates who came to take the exam came.

One of them was Lou Yuan, who entered the main hall with the Yin Cha, looked left and right, and saw the Yin Division masters sitting here, Yan Luo, the judge, and the Guan Sheng Emperor, and hurriedly sat upright, quietly looked up, and saw Su Yang also sitting in it.

When Lou Yuan sat down, after a while, two other candidates also came, one of them was Song Tao, Zichuan Lisheng, and the other was called Zhang Yong, who was a Xiucai from Changshan County, these two people were the protagonists of the original "Examination City God".

Song Tao came to the main hall, raised his eyes, and saw some officials sitting in the front hall, Song Tao didn't know much, only the top Guan Sheng Emperor, he knew.

After the three of them arrived, Yin Cha sent out the three test papers.

One person and two people, with or without a heart.

The three of them all took out a brush and began to write articles, the three of them are all talented people, and they are also born in proposition composition, and they are handy at this time to write articles, and they all turn their opinions into words and write them on the test paper.

After a while, the articles of the three people were finished, and the articles of the three people were collected by mistake, and they were brought here for you to circulate.

Su Yang sat in the crowd, naturally there was also a chance to circulate, and after a while, an article was circulated in front of him, this is what Zhang Xiucai did, Zhang Xiucai's book and text, the one person and two people are regarded as individuals and groups, and the intentional and unintentional theory is a guide and a dog to follow the trend, and it is also a good article, but it is a pity that it deviates from the true meaning of today's test Chenghuang.

After commenting on it in his heart, he handed the article to the master behind him.

After a while, Song Tao's article also came over, Su Yang took it, and reading this article made Su Yang can't help but praise the subtlety.

Confucianism has a "gentleman cautious and independent" said, which means that when people are alone, they should be more cautious, so Song Tao wrote about one person and two people, that is, before and after people, there is no heart, then it is said that there is no repay, in this article, there is the famous "have the heart to do good, although the good is not rewarded, there is no intention to be evil, although the evil is not punished", this intention to do good, it is said that you want to get the purpose of the return to do good deeds, even if you do good deeds, Yin Si will not give a reward.

For example, a certain woman is extremely beautiful, but her family is poor, so a certain landlord helps this woman's family, so that the family can get rid of poverty and become rich, and let the men in the family study, which is considered a good deed, but this landlord was not pure at the beginning, and he was able to get a beautiful woman, but he did not have Yin Si merit.

The same corresponds to those who hide misdeeds in the name of false charity.

Unintentional evil, although the explanation of evil without punishment is much simpler, that is, because some people's unintentional things have never been disgusting, and the things that cause evil consequences, even if they have evil things, they should not be punished.

This article is in line with the things in the book of the sages and the minds of all the masters, so it made all the masters smile one by one, and it was quickly handed to King Yama and Emperor Guan Sheng.

In the end, it was the articles that all the masters frowned one by one and passed to Su Yang's side.

This is what Lou Yuan did.

One person and two people, that is, the public and private are clearly distinguished, separating the public's own and daily self, with or without intention, it is with a good heart, to be selfish, to be a generation of Chenghuang, Lou Yuan's writing is sharp, and everything he says in the pen is to the point, and inadvertently poked the sore spot of many masters, although there is no "intention to do good, although good is not rewarded, no intention is evil, although evil is not punished", but this is a selfish one, compared to Song Tao's article is more and topical.

After Su Yang read it, he handed the article to the next master, and after the master read it, he handed it over to Yan Luo and Emperor Guan Sheng to judge.

Emperor Guan Sheng and King Li of Yama judged the article on it, and after reading the article, the two exchanged opinions and set the name in their hearts.

"Yama. ”

The picket master got up and said: "The three articles, what Lou Sheng wrote is too strange and dangerous, and it is not a saint's theory, and what Zhang Sheng wrote is the status quo in the world. ”

As soon as he said this, all the masters below were responding.

"How is it not the doctrine of sages to go to selfishness?"

After hearing this, Yama said, "The distinction between public and private, and separating the public self from the ordinary self is exactly what you need...... Lou Yuan, there is one less county order in Qingyun Mountain, Henan, are you willing to be it?"

When Lou Yuan heard this, he hurriedly stood up, knelt down in front of him to be sealed, and shouted: "Yes." ”

Yan Luo nodded, passed all the Chenghuang items that Su Yang had just returned to Lou Yuan, and instructed Lou Yuan to distinguish between public and private according to the article, and always clean his soul to remove personal selfishness.

Lou Yuan naturally listened to Yan Luo's words.

At that moment, there was a messenger to send the two souls of Song Tao and Zhang Yong to their homes together, and Lou Yuan was enshrined in Yama and really became the fifth hall master of one of the ten halls of Yama, so he took a sedan chair from the ghost city of Xudu to Qingyun.

As for Su Yang, after Lou Yuan set the position of City God, he had already quietly left.

"There are flowers and wine, spring is always there, and there are no candles and no lights, and the night is self-evident......"

In the night sky, there is the sound of a farewell poem.