The city god of Ninghai County hurriedly arched his sleeves and said: "Shangxian is wise, this purple strange horse is indeed the night horse of the underworld, and the little god only knew about it after becoming the city god of this Ninghai County. ”

Xuankong smiled lightly, listening to Ninghai County Chenghuang continue to tell the story of his going to the Yin Si exam.

Chenghuang of Ninghai County then recalled: "The scenery that the little god saw along the way was extremely unfamiliar, and he was in a trance, and he didn't realize that he had entered a city, which was as prosperous as the capital of Bianjing. ”

Xuankong commented beside him: "This should be the ghost city of Xudu." ”

The city god of Ninghai County glanced at the Xuankong, and he didn't expect that this immortal knew about the Netherworld. He nodded and said, "The little god didn't have time to look at it in surprise, and he had already been brought into a palace, and the houses inside were extremely gorgeous and magnificent. ”

The palace archway is written with the three big characters of "Jiaolun Palace", but it is the northeast degree of the immortal saint Tianzun, the five halls of the underworld are the most victorious Yao Ling Zhenjun Yama King God dwelling.

This font is the ancient astronomy left by Hou Tu Niang Niang when she opened up the underworld, as long as you see it, you can understand the meaning.

Therefore, the Confucian official also vaguely understood, he did not dare to slack off at the moment, and hurriedly followed the servants to the side hall. In the side hall, there were already more than a dozen Yin gods dressed in the costumes of the judges of the underworld sitting on the high hall, but they were all very different from the common statues in the mortal world.

The Confucian officials didn't know who they were, but they speculated that their identities were the underworld's judgments, so they didn't dare to ask more.

At the foot of the hall, there were two desks and a matching low stool, on which were placed with paper and pencils, and a Confucian scholar had already sat there a moment early. Seeing this, the Confucian official believed that the servant who passed the message was not talking nonsense, and he really took him for the exam.

It's just that I don't know what questions to be examined, and Confucian officials are also knowledgeable Confucians, and they all know some about the classics in Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.

So he emboldened himself and walked over and sat down side by side with the Confucian who had arrived first.

After a while, the test papers fell from the sky. Then take a look, the inscription is eight characters: "One person has two hearts, there is no heart". The Confucian official frowned a little, this topic is very strange, and he doesn't understand what it means.

But when he looked up and saw more than a dozen yin judges in the hall, he had a faint understanding in his heart.

He skimmed the question in his head, and then put pen to paper. I quickly wrote the article and submitted it. The judge in the hall circulated it on the spot, and one of the judges said: "That little Confucian student, although he is a little pedantic, but he still has righteousness in his heart and can be a ghost and immortal." ”

And the other yin judgment is to look at a sentence written by the Confucian official in the article: "If a person is not a sage or a sage, how can he be selfless, even if he is the Buddha of the Western Heavens, he has a statue of a vajra with angry eyes, and even if he is a great sage of the demon world and has a gentle face." ”

In the last sentence, the Confucian official wrote: "If you have a heart for good, you will not be rewarded for good, and if you have no heart for evil, you will not be punished for evil." ”

Ninghai County Chenghuang was a little complacent, stroked his beard and said: "After reading it, all the yin judges in the hall were full of praise, and they called me forward at that time, and said to the little god: Your life span in the yang world has ended, and the Son of Yama and other scholars have compassion on you and other learned people have a heroic righteousness in their chests, so Kai En set up this exam. Now there is a lack of a city god in Ninghai County on the coast of the North Sea, and he is quite competent for his talent, and now he has handed over this city to Mr. to guard, which is finally a big deal. ”

Xuankong listened to this sentence written by Chenghuang of Ninghai County, but he was also unhappy in his heart, and secretly said in his heart: "Wrong, wrong! Good is good, no matter what the purpose is, as long as a good deed is achieved, it is a good deed, and the same is true of evil, whether it is out of the heart or not, if it causes evil consequences, it is an evil act." ”

But after all, he was listening to the story told by the city god of Ninghai County, so it was not easy to disturb, but he secretly figured out the test questions from the underworld in his heart: "One person has two hearts, has a heart or not?" Xuankong suddenly raised his eyebrows, remembering the Buddha recitation of the ancient Seven Buddhas when they turned into relics: "Good thoughts are in the heart, not good idealism;

These two sentences are somewhat similar.

The more Xuankong thought about it, the more he was distracted, and the city god of Ninghai County saw that the immortal was silent, so he had to continue to say: "When the little god heard this, he suddenly understood the truth. Helplessly, the little god and his friend made an appointment to live and die together, and now he has risen from a mortal to a god, although it is a beautiful thing, but how can he bear to give up the promise of the past. ”

So he fell to the ground and begged the judges to check on the longevity of his brother Cam Lan.

The judge was moved by the affection of the Confucian official, so he flipped through the book of life and death, found a page of the Confucian official's righteous brothers, and said: "Your brothers are all water thieves on Taihu Lake, who do not accumulate much virtue but have deep karma, and they will not be able to be reincarnated as a human being in the next life, but can only be reincarnated as a rat." ”

The Confucian official and the other brothers were just like-minded, and did not know their means of livelihood, so they only heard tears streaming down their faces: "I am willing to share my merits with my brother, and I only ask him to be a new man in the next life." ”

But the yin judges are not allowed, because they are embarrassed: "The book of life and death is the result of the karma of heaven and earth, and we are powerless to change it." ”

The Confucian officials then asked the judges to show mercy and let him reincarnate with his brother and be Jinlan in the next life. At this time, the main entrance of the side hall opened, and a white-faced, wearing a crown on his head, hanging incense bags on both sides to protect his ears, and wearing a ruffled lapel and wide-sleeved robe, walked in.

He is the Son of Heaven of the Five Palaces of the Underworld, and after listening to the words of the Confucian official, he took the book of life and death from the hand of the Yin Judge and wrote a few strokes and said: "This king has mercy on your righteousness, your brother still has nine years of yang life, and you can rest assured that you will be the city god in Ninghai County for nine years." It is not only to accumulate virtue for you, but also to do good deeds for your brothers. ”

The Confucian official was overjoyed, and he was shaken by the judges and sent him back to the yang world, and when he returned to the yang world, he began to prepare the coffin. Within a few days, he had already died of exhaustion, and a little true spirit flew to Ninghai County to become the local city god land.

Ninghai County Chenghuang pointed at Geng Quzhi and said with a smile: "This scholar is a good life, there is a Xuankong Immortal running for him, if he can get the recommendation of the Yin God of the Difu, then even if a living person is a city god, it is not unprecedented." ”

Xuankong nodded, suddenly remembered something, and spread his hand in the palm of his hand to reveal his talisman in the underworld. He asked with a smile: "City God, Xuankong uses this talisman, is it enough to recommend Geng Qu to take the City God exam?"

The city god of Ninghai County saw the soldier talisman, and hurriedly knelt down and said: "It turns out that Shangxian is the head of the guard of the Qin Guangwang King of the First Hall of the Difu!" He pondered for a moment, leaned into Xuankong's ear and whispered: "Since this is the case, then Geng Quai's brother doesn't have to take the Chenghuang exam, and the nine-year period of the little god will be able to directly pass the Chenghuang Divine Throne to Geng's sick brother." ”

There is also this kind of good thing, but Geng Quai's illness does not believe it, and Xuankong also asked with a smile: "Then how can Xuankong repay Chenghuang for such kindness?"

Chenghuang of Ninghai County saw that Xuankong had seen through his thoughts, and knelt down on the ground and said: "The little god's surname is Lu, and the other four righteous brothers are Han Zhang, Xu Qing, Jiang Ping and Bai Yutang. ”

Xuankong heard it familiarly, and remembered it in his mind for a long time, but he couldn't remember where he had heard these names. However, who can say for sure what will happen in the future, it just so happens that he also quite appreciates Lu Fangchenghuang's righteousness, so he nodded and agreed. (To be continued.) )