under one roof

22

Cui Jue brought a pamphlet over to Zhili, Zhili sat upright, patted his thigh, Cui Jue put the pamphlet on Zhili's lap again, Zhili said: "Little Cui Help me to prepare some tea and snacks for my guests." Cui Jue obediently went, but Monkey King sighed again and again, the well-behaved clerk was about to be turned into a domestic slave by this monstrous evildoer.

Yang Jian saw the book of life and death for the first time today. He thought that there are so many people in the world, and the book of life and death should be a thread-bound book lined with bookcases. He didn't expect it to be such a thin book, with few pages in it.

Zhili asked, "Who are you looking for?"

Yang Jian said, "His name is Yu Chen."

"When is your birthday? Where are you from?"

His words stopped Yang Jian.Yang Jian only knew Yu Chen's name, and never asked him these questions. In fact, he didn't know that he would encounter such a thing.Yang Jian said, "I don't know, can I check?"

Zhili rolled his eyes, bent his head, and said, "There are so many people with the same name and surname in this world, you only know one name, do you want me to find a needle in a haystack for you?"

Yang Jian said: "I only know his age and occupation, and nothing else."

Zhili asked: "Who is he to you? Is it worth all this effort to find him?" Not only did he bother, but he also reluctantly molested him a bit. For a person like Xianshengzhenjun, when has he suffered such a boring loss?But Yang Jian said: "It's a friend, but he did something like this because of me, I really feel guilty."

Sun Wukong said: "That kid was caught by a monster, and the situation suddenly made him run away. We can only ask you first to see if the kid has passed his lifespan or lost his soul. We will go to the latter." Look for the former..."

"What? Are you going to make a big fuss like you did hundreds of years ago?" Zhili said dissatisfiedly, "You are not the monkey that jumped out of the rock, be careful. I will sue the Buddha and suppress you for another 500 years." .”

Sun Wukong smiled and said: "We are not in the same department anymore, so don't run on me."

Zhili said: "I'm just in case, the house was just installed the year before last, and the designer hired from abroad, don't mess with me!"

Yang Jian said: "If it's true that my life is over, it can only be due to fate. I didn't do what I promised him, so I have to wait for him to come and pay back."

Zhili covered his mouth and smiled: "It's a pity that Zhenjun has already been in the immortal class, otherwise, such a loving and righteous man, I'm afraid I would be tempted."

Yang Jian was already used to Zhili's cynical look, he just ignored his words, and passed away with a smile.

"Do you see this?" Zhili turned the booklet over to face Yang Jian. The paper inside was not paper, it was like a soft light screen. It showed a child on it, and when it was born and died, Yang Jian shook his head. Said: "No."

"What about this?"

"Neither"

"what about this?"

"No."

After seeing several people who were not the one Yang Jian was looking for, Zhili said, "This is so strange, when did he die?"

Yang Jian talked about the date, even the minutes and seconds were very clear, Zhili checked again and said: "There is no such number of people who died that day."

Sun Wukong said: "Then he is not dead?"

Zhili frowned and checked the pages again, and said, "It's hard to say."

"What do you mean?"

"There is no such person in the book of life and death." Zhili turned his head to look at the two of them, the exaggerated expression on his face was gone, "What do you mean?"

As soon as these words came out, the three of them fell silent.

After a long time, Yang Jian said, "Are you sure you didn't check for leaks?"

Zhili said: "Since I took charge of the underworld, there has only been one trouble, and that is when this monkey made a scene in the underworld and checked his own life and death book. In other words, let alone a monkey that jumped out of a rock, as long as it I take care of the affairs of the flowers, plants, trees, and trees in the mortal world after death, but I really can’t find out some of them.”

Yang Jian asked, "Who?"

"Your Yang Jian's name is not in my book of life and death." Zhili said, "There are laws in the world, and rules in the heavens. I can't control the place, where else but the sky?"

"But he is not a god!" Yang Jian said seriously, "I have checked many times, and it is indeed a mortal body."

Sun Wukong also said: "Yes, it is really a mortal."

"There are such strange things in the world?" Zhili wondered, "It's weird."

Yang Jian thought about it, and then asked: "Has there been a lot of deaths recently? Are they all at the end of their lives?"

"Correct."

"Is the death condition also fixed?"

"That's not true." Zhili replied, "I only decide on life and death. When the time comes, I will have black and white impermanence to summon souls. It's just that some souls have not been recruited on time recently, and some souls have lost their energy after being recruited, and they can no longer enter reincarnation. As for whether they died of illness, old age, accidental death, it will be settled after they come to me to report."

Sun Wukong patted Yang Jian and said, "Since he doesn't have this person here, let's go and think of a way when we go back."

Yang Jian said: "The emperor of Fengdu has nothing to do, so where can I go?"

"You go to heaven to find the Emperor of Heaven, which of the three realms can escape his eyes?" Zhili said flattering words, but his tone was extremely sarcastic, "It's not easy to find someone? Besides, they don't belong to the human world. "

Yang Jian thought to himself, which of the three realms cannot escape the Emperor of Heaven?But now there are really some things that have escaped the eyes of the Emperor of Heaven. He was not going well in the world, and he couldn't go back to the sky, so he suddenly felt a sense of loss.

Seeing that Yang Jian was depressed, Sun Wukong said: "This matter is so troublesome, let's go ask someone else."

"Aren't you going to stay for a snack?"

"No."

Not long after the two left, Cui Jue came in with a silver tray. He glanced at the door and asked, "Going away?"

"Let's go!" Zhili lay on the sofa as if relaxing, with his snow-white thighs exposed, he waved to Cui Jue and said, "Cui Xiao, come here, give me a squeeze."

Cui Jue put the silver plate on the tea table, gave Zhili a piece of the snack he just made, and sat down.Zhili put his leg on his lap, but there is no taboo.He lived as long as the sky, and he didn't know how long he had lived, but he always preferred this beautiful skin. The flesh on his body was as delicate as a newborn, but he pretended to be a big devil in his heart.

Cui Jue had a cold face, cold and hard, only the gentleness when he was with Zhili. His slender fingers massaged Zhili's calf back and forth, and asked, "Tired today?"

"The two war gods from the sky are here, and I'm afraid they'll mess with me." Zhili said lazily, "I'm upset."

Cui Jue said, "I think there is something else going on."

Zhili said, "Do you know who they are looking for today?"

Cui Jue said, "I don't know."

"What a coincidence, I don't know." Zhili said, "I only know that people who are not in the book of life and death are either from the sky, or dead things that don't exist in the three realms at all. But Yang Jian challenged me, saying that he I found out that it was indeed a person. This matter...I also feel strange. And I lied today..."

"Is it those dead people?" Cui Jue said.

Zhili said: "Hey, those who shouldn't have died, or those who died a short time ago, do you want me to let them go and return to life?"

Cui Jue said: "Then you have to get up and go to work quickly, our hell will not be able to hold it, and it will be messed up by then, so why don't you go to the sky to ask for help?"

Zhili kicked Cui Jue lightly: "I don't!" He enjoyed it for a while, then suddenly got up, stretched his long legs and sat astride Cui Jue, with his arms around Cui Jue's neck and asked affectionately. : "What kind of story do you think this is? That person is definitely not a human being, Yang Jian treats him..."

"how?"

"You can't say it, you can't say it." Zhili laughed happily, "What if the Emperor of Heaven finds out?"

Cui Jue was helpless, patted Zhili and said, "You let me go, I should go to work."

"Xiao Cui, do you want to be a human?" Zhili asked suddenly.

"Me?" Cui Jue also asked, but didn't answer.

Zhili said: "Do you have emotions and desires when you become a human? I was born here, and every day I see those dead people crying to death. I don't know what they are suffering. Xiao Cui, you have been a human before. Is it fun to be a human?" ?”

Cui Jue said: "It's fun when people... are happy, but it's not fun when they're sad. But it should be fun, otherwise I wouldn't have been thinking about immortality."

Zhili said with emotion: "But I want to play around as a human being."

After Sun Wukong and Yang Jian left, they received news from Ao Lie. Ao Lie searched in the direction where the monster was escaping, but only found the dead body of the monster, and had no idea of ​​Yu Chen's whereabouts.He felt something bad in his heart, so he hurriedly told the elder brother.

After repeated bad news, Sun Wukong didn't know when to say it. After thinking hard for a while, he said to Yang Jian: "I think... I'm afraid I won't be able to find it back."

But Yang Jian said: "No, he must be alive. Ever since I met him, I have always been suspicious. He is a mortal body, but he can see my existence. It is true that some mortals can have psychics, but today the emperor said that there are no psychics in the book of life and death. Without him, I really doubt it."

"He can't be a god." Sun Wukong said, "Then it means... not in the Three Realms?"

Yang Jian said: "Without him in the ground, he can't go to the sky, so where can he be?"

Sun Wukong thought for a while and said with a smile: "This is easy to handle." He took out the golden cudgel from behind his ear, knocked it hard on the ground three times, and said loudly: "Hear it and see me!"

The dust on the ground flew up and gathered together, gradually forming a one-horned beast. Seeing that it was Monkey King, he lay down on his front legs and said, "What did the Great Sage call me?"

Sun Wukong said: "We are looking for someone. He is dead and has no soul. I asked Emperor Fengdu, but he said that he doesn't care if this person is not in the book of life and death. You know the world's affairs best, so we will ask you." .”

"Not in the book of life and death?" Di Ting pondered for a long time, "It is either a god, or it is definitely not a thing of the Three Realms. There is a blessed place where spiritual energy gathers at the junction of heaven and earth. It is a matter of those who don't care about it. Why don't you two go? Look there." He said, pointing eastward with his front paw.

Monkey King asked Yang Jian, "Today or tomorrow?"

"Today." Yang Jian said, "either die or live happily."

The two thanked the ground and went straight to the east.At this time, it was dusk, and there was only a fiery red line remaining in the distance between the sky and the earth.

Sun Wukong asked: "Aren't you afraid that he is really... gone and never found again?"

Yang Jian said: "I'm afraid, I caused him to become like this. If he is really gone, I can't even save him. Now I just ask him to be some kind of monster. If he can live, what he wants to do... let him do it." .”

Monkey King jokingly asked: "Aren't you afraid that he will lie to you? Are you not afraid that he will ask you to do something that betrays Heaven?"

Yang Jian paused, shook his head and said, "He won't."