Chapter 132: What is Merit (Part I)
"It's you, let him in!"
In the palace, someone shouted loudly, the former sentence was still talking to Wang Shuai, but the latter sentence was to order these Yin soldiers, with this person shouting, the two teams of Yin soldiers slowly retreated, standing on both sides of the palace, walking silently.
Song Dingbo saw that the Yin soldiers were dodging away, and he didn't discuss with Pang Xie, so he carried Wang Shuai on his back and strode towards the mansion.
Behind him, Ma Zicai asked Pang Xie in a low voice, "What should we do?"
Pang Xie said in a deep voice: "Let's go and have a look together and see what kind of place is inside", and several people followed Song Dingbo and walked into the lobby together.
I saw a large gloomy wooden table in the deepest part of the lobby, and a god sat behind the wooden case, with a red face and a bearded face, dressed exactly like the city god in the city god temple in Chang'an Mansion.
Behind this city god, is a picture that occupies the entire wall of the "sea sunrise map", the bottom is painted with rough waves, and the top is painted with a round of red sun, meaning "clear as the sea, bright as the morning sun", on the left hand side of this city god, there is a figure dressed as a judge, wearing a red robe, three locks of ink hair, holding a book of life and death in his left hand, lifting the soul hooking pen in his right hand, looking at a few people in the hall with good eyes, I don't know what I am thinking.
On both sides of the lobby, there are two well-known people standing - bull head and horse face, both of them are majestic and high-spirited, more than nine feet tall, one holds a big knife, the other holds a steel fork, staring at the big eyes like copper bells, and looks at several people in the hall viciously.
"How did you escape?" the judge asked, just listening to the voice, he knew that this was the person who had let Wang Shuai in just now.
"Judge Cui, when you imprisoned me in Huangquan that day, you once said that when I get out of Huangquan, you will give me the opportunity to re-enter the six realms of reincarnation, I don't know if this is still valid?" Wang Shuai struggled to get off Song Dingbo and lay down under the lobby, not mentioning who rescued him from Huangquan.
"Hahaha, what a treacherous boy, I grabbed the official and said a few words, and I actually took it seriously, so let's do it, since you said it, I won't embarrass you, I'll not break my word and get fat!"
Between the words, the Cui judge lifted the soul hooking pen, dipped a little cinnabar, ticked a stroke in the book of life and death, and then shook it hard, sprinkled a little cinnabar on Wang Shuai's body, igniting a raging flame, and in an instant, Wang Shuai was in the flames, rolled on the spot, his body suddenly shrank, turned into a little lamb, "bleated" a few times in the hall, turned around and hid behind Song Dingbo, and refused to come out again.
"What a brute!, it's cheap for you!" Judge Cui sneered.
"This ...... ......Seeing this strange thing in front of him, Ma Zi was shocked again, and couldn't help but ask: "You turned him into a sheep like this? It's too cruel, isn't it? Don't you turn him back!"
When Judge Cui heard this, his face couldn't help but change, and he said sharply: "He has committed a serious crime, and he can enter the animal life path and escape this crime, which is already an extrajudicial grace, believe it or not, if I turn him back, he hates not the official, but you!"
Ma Zicai was about to say more, but was stopped by Huang Ying and whispered in his ear: "Don't forget, this is an illusion, don't be too excited." ”
"But he is obviously an acquaintance of Song Dingbo, how can he be a character in the fantasy world?" Ma Zicai was furious.
"If it's not hard to distinguish between truth and falsehood, how can it be called an illusion?" Huang Ying said in a low voice.
Judge Cui stood on the stage, saw a few people whispering, couldn't help but be a little annoyed, flipped through the book of life and death in his hand, his face suddenly changed, and shouted: "It turns out that your guilt is heavier than his, no wonder you want to stand up for him!"
Pang Xie and the others were stunned, and they didn't have time to refute it.
I saw Judge Cui turn around suddenly, face the city god, and said loudly: "Lord Qiyu, these people have violated the rules of heaven, which is already an unforgivable crime, and I ask your lord to give an order to take down these people and press them into the eighteenth layer of hell!"
With Judge Cui's shout, the bulls and horses in the hall, and the dozens of Yin soldiers in the hall, all of them clamored, holding swords, viciously surrounding several people in the middle, just waiting for the adults to say a word, they will take people.
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"Judge Cui, the punishment is severe, don't move lightly, what crime these people have committed, you have to distinguish clearly, see if you can use merit to deduct it?" Unexpectedly, Chenghuang did not take Judge Cui's suggestion, but asked him to use the punishment carefully.
"What this lord said is extremely true, if we are guilty, please ask the judge to make it clear!"
Song Dingbo said angrily, Wang Shuai was turned into a lamb by this person in front of him, he was extremely angry in his heart, whether this is a fantasy or the real world, he can't care about so much, he has to vent his anger in his heart first.
Judge Cui glanced at Chenghuang deeply, but he didn't refute, turned his head to Pang Xie and the others, and said, "Okay, then let you die and understand!"
After speaking, the Cui judge turned around and entered the back hall, and there was not much time, and he came back from the back hall with a balance in his hand.
The balance is made of brass, about a foot high, about a foot and a half wide, with a vertical beam in the middle, on which is cast a hedgehog beast, on either side are two hanging walls, each hung a tray, very finely polished, placed there scorching and shining, reflecting a faint yellow light, in stark contrast to the dark lobby.
Judge Cui put the scales on the wooden case and said coldly: "Are the five of you tried together, or separately?"
Pang Xie said loudly: "The five of us will come together, and of course we will be tried together. ”
"Okay, then I can save trouble!" Judge Cui sneered a few times, opened the book of life and death in his hand, and said loudly: "Song Dingbo, a native of Huayang County, Huizhou, has done the following good deeds in his life, and he was ...... when he was seven years old , the evil deeds he committed in his life are as follows, and he ...... at the age of eleven. ”
In a moment, he said what Song Dingbo had done in his life clearly, clearly, and every time he finished saying something, he tore off a piece of paper from the book of life and death and put it at one end of the scale, with good things on the left and evil things on the right.
Although each piece of paper is a thin sheet, the weight is inconsistent, some are extremely light, some are extremely heavy, it seems that he is comparing the good deeds that Song Dingbo has done in his life with the evil deeds, to see whether he has done more good deeds or more evil deeds.
When he said good deeds, Song Dingbo just returned it, and when he talked about evil things, Song Dingbo's face couldn't help twitching, it seemed that what he said was true, everything was true.
Fortunately, after the final speech, the balance on the left sank slightly, and the balance on the right rose slightly, with slightly more good deeds and slightly fewer evil deeds.
Song Dingbo breathed a long sigh of relief, wiped the sweat on his head, and looked very nervous.
Judge Cui sneered slightly, kept talking, and continued: "Ma Zicai, a native of Chang'an, Yongzhou....... Li Tianhua, a native of Chang'an, Yongzhou, ......"
Not a lot of effort, the deeds of these two people's lives have also been said, among these two people, Li Tianhua has a simple experience, although there are not many good deeds, but there are almost no evil deeds, Ma Zicai has experienced a more complicated experience, but he is extremely righteous, although there are some evil deeds, but there are many good deeds, and the left side of the balance is heavily pressed.
Ma Zicai saw this scene, with a triumphant smile on his face, he had done countless chivalrous deeds in his life, and finally had some effect at this moment.
Seeing that he was proud, Judge Cui sneered again, turned a page, and began to read Huang Ying's deeds, but unexpectedly, after reading a few words, he stopped, and said strangely: "Why haven't you recorded it for more than ten years ago, and you haven't done a few things until now?"
Talking in his mouth, keeping in his hands, throwing a few pieces of paper on the scales, there is still more good and less evil.
After reading the deeds of these people, Judge Cui continued to turn back, wanting to read Pang Xie's deeds, but unexpectedly, as soon as he turned the page, his face couldn't help but change rapidly, looked up at Pang Xie, and asked sharply: "Why don't you record this person?"
Pang Xie didn't speak, just smiled.
Judge Cui glanced at him coldly, didn't say much, looked down at the scale, and saw that the left side of the balance was pressed down, and the right side was raised high, obviously there were many more good things than evil things.
Seeing this, Song Dingbo shouted loudly: "Do you still think we are guilty now?"
When Judge Cui heard this, he laughed, pointed to a few people, and said, "Do you think this is the end? Do you know what the eight words 'condemned to heaven and have nothing to pray for' mean?"
After speaking, he tore a page from the book of life and death, and put it lightly on the right end of the scale, and in an instant, the right end of the balance fell heavily, as if pressing a thousand pounds of heavy burden, not only pressing the right end of the tray to the end, but also pressing the wooden case "squeak"!