Second-generation ancestor

"This...is this the same city we entered in the afternoon? Even though it's the same door, why does it feel eerie?"

Bai Hao glanced at the city gate and walked straight in.Song Dongyang shouted from a distance behind: "Are you sure we want to go in? Actually, I think we don't have to go..."

Song Dongyang looked around, there was silence, it was really eerie, he quickly walked a few steps, and caught up with Bai Hao.

The street is still in the afternoon, but the shops and hawkers have all disappeared.There were many tattered trolleys with stalls on the side of the street, Bai Hao touched the push rod of the trolley, rubbed his fingers, the dust in his hands, it definitely didn't look like he just used it.

Bai Hao pondered, from dinner to now, it's only been an hour, day and night, it seems to be the same place, but they are two completely different scenes, what's going on?

"Haha." There was a burst of crisp laughter not far away. The two of them walked a few steps quickly, turned a street corner, and saw a boy in yellow clothes about five or six years old standing ten steps away. Looking carefully, it seemed that they had known each other before. , the little boy made a funny face at the two of them, Song Dongyang suddenly remembered, and said, "It's the child from Mingxinju..."

The child hooked his fingers at the two of them from a distance, then bounced away.

Seeing that the little boy was about to leave, Song Dongyang hurriedly said, "Come on, where is he going to take us?"

The little boy walked along the street, smiling "hehe", took two steps, turned his head, saw the two people following obediently, and continued walking, and stopped after climbing the last step, pointing his finger. Click on the top.

Following the little boy's hand, Bai Hao raised his head, and saw the plaque on the door read: Chongshan Temple.

Bai Hao said: "It's the temple I passed by during the day. It's just... I remember that it used to be white on a red background, but now it's changed to red on a white background."

Song Dongyang took a look and said, "Isn't the ink dry for that character?"

The little boy grinned again, and walked into the temple with a bounce.

Bai Hao and Song Dongyang looked at each other and followed them inside.When he walked through the gate, the ink on the plaque fell on Song Dongyang's feet. Song Dongyang squatted down, dipped his finger on some, sniffed it, and said, "It's blood."

Although Bai Hao was expressionless as usual, his expression was much gloomy, and he said, "Let's go." The two of them went inside.

There is a candlestick in the courtyard, filled with empty candles, the candles are all extinguished, and the incense burner next to it is filled with incense.

Song Dongyang saw Bai Hao stop and asked, "What's wrong?"

Bai Hao said: "In general temples offer incense first, and then petition. If there is incense, there are candles, but here the incense is at its peak, why are the candles all extinguished?"

Just as he was talking, the little boy poked his face out from the inner hall of the temple again, glared at the two of them, and rolled his eyes.

Song Dongyang said: "He has been waiting for us?"

Bai Hao said, "Go in."

There were many people standing at the entrance of the temple. Song Dongyang and Bai Hao saw the scene inside the hall only through the crowd.

There is a black plaque erected on the hall, on which the four golden characters "punish evil and promote good" are very eye-catching. A middle-aged man is dressed in black silk and satin, with a colorful elk embroidered on his chest. The ends of the eyebrows were raised, and the expression in his eyes was shining and stern.There are five yamen servants on the left and right of the case, all dressed in light weapons and with big horned antelopes embroidered on their chests.

"A trial in a temple?" Song Dongyang quietly asked Bai Hao.

"Bring sinners." The gavels sounded together, setting off a resounding echo in the temple.

A white light flashed in the middle of the temple, and the white light spread out. One person knelt down with his hands tied behind his back, his head bowed.

"Sinner Xue Qin, raise your head." After speaking, Xue Qin slowly raised his head.

"You hour today, where are you?"

Xue Qin replied: "Ming Xinju drinks."

After the man answered, Song Dongyang looked at the back of the man again, in the blue coat, he suddenly remembered that it was the boy at the next table.

"How about two hours in advance?" the adult asked again.

"Ming Xinju drinks!"

"You think about it again?"

Xue Qin thought about it seriously, and said: "I drink, I have been drinking!"

The gavel rose again: "A bowl of soup is just to get you out of your soul and go to this ghost department to be judged. It won't make you lose your memory completely, Chuan Wan-jun."

Leave the soul?When Song Dongyang heard these two words, he suddenly felt a little dizzy...

Xue Qin suddenly went mad and struggled: "No...don't!...It's me! Two hours ago, I...I was having fun with Jun Jun, but she was smashed by her brother. It was me...I killed him by mistake. her brother."

"Mr. Chuanwan."

The white light in the hall reappeared, and when the white light disappeared, a woman in a white gauze skirt stood in front of the hall.

"Mr. Wan, do you recognize the man in the hall?"

The woman raised her head, glanced at the kneeling young man and said, "I know, he wanted to do something wrong to me... but my brother bumped into him. Seeing that someone humiliated me, my brother was so angry that he wanted to go up and beat him. I didn't expect... No Thinking that my brother was actually beaten to death by him..."

"Think about it, you two are happy, or he is forcing you! Did he kill your brother by mistake, or kill your brother on purpose."

The woman glanced at the blue-clothed boy again, staring with both eyes, but said nothing.

The man stood up suddenly, as if he was about to rush to the case, crying and shouting, "It's me! It's me! It's me who wants to be stronger than her! It's me! I killed his brother. His brother is greedy and won't let us go without a hundred taels of gold." Meet! One hundred taels of gold! How could my parents agree. But without money, I can’t marry Jun Wan, I can’t get angry, so I killed someone!”

The woman looked at the young man, and suddenly said with tears in her eyes: "I... I know that my brother is greedy for money and likes to gamble, and he didn't want you to spend that wronged money, so he took the initiative to find you. I had to agree to our marriage. Unexpectedly, he took an ax and followed me secretly. You two argued, he dropped the ax, threw you to the ground, and kicked you again and again. He smashed the table on you , you held your chest on the ground and vomited blood all over the floor. So... so I just..." The woman covered her face and cried "嘤嘤", as if she couldn't bear to continue to recall.

"Mr. Wan! Stop talking! That's not the case! No!" The boy suddenly stood up from the ground, leaned in front of the woman and said, "Don't think about it anymore, I killed someone!"

She grabbed Xue Qin with both hands, her face was ashen, and a tear rolled down, she said: "So I picked up the ax and chopped it on his head. Lord Guisi, I remembered that I killed him. Kill my brother." After saying that, he fell to his knees.

With a flick of Guisi's sleeves, a golden light flashed on the table, and the long scroll hung in the air, and slowly opened: "The sinful girl Wan Jun, who was twenty-three years old, killed her elder brother. The second crime is suicide, and the third crime is the punishment for the three crimes, going to the ghost prison, sealing the five senses, and the third life."

"What about me? Lock me up together!" the boy said.

"Your life is not over yet, what happened today is just your nightmare, after waking up, you will have to pay for your sins. Do you have any dissatisfaction?"

The young man glanced at the woman and said: "I don't accept it! Of course we don't accept it, Jun Wan killed him to save my life, not to mention his brother is benevolent and unrighteous, what crime is there to kill him?"

Gui Si yelled: "The eyes can't be saved! Hurting someone's life is a crime, a principle, and a law."

The young man said: "There is no justice in the law, so why believe in it? Is the authority of the law just to make everyone submit?"

"Come here, let the sinful girl Wan Jun go to the ghost prison." Gui Si didn't answer.

After saying that, the young man, the woman, the servants and the crowd disappeared together.

The little boy walked a few steps, threw himself into Guisi's arms, smiled "hehe", then looked back at Bai Hao and Song Dongyang.

Song Dongyang was full of embarrassment, and said: "We should have entered by mistake! Yes! It was by mistake."

Bai Hao clasped his hands together, and said, "I don't know what you invited us here today, what is it?" Song Dongyang looked at Bai Hao in surprise after hearing this, and suddenly realized.

Guisi looked at Bai Hao with a smile that was not a smile, but also slightly approving, "I invite you?"

Bai Hao said: "A bowl of soup made Xue Qin lose his soul. Presumably this child is the one who attracts the soul. He stopped and stopped all the way, must be leading us to see you?"

"It's true that you have spent a lot of time to ask for something. Apart from that, don't you have anything else you want to know?"

"Where is this place?" Song Dongyang asked

"Fengdu ghost city is the place where people's souls return after death. It is towering in ancient times and there are many temples. It is an ordinary folk custom during the day, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. Immortals, Taoists, Buddhists, Confucians, gods and ghosts occupy each temple to perform their duties. Severe punishment rules the souls of the dead, and when night comes, judge their crimes and atone for their sins."

Bai Hao asked: "Besides Guisi, are there other systems?"

The ghost priest said: "Fengdu is located beside the Liutianqing River. There are three palaces, nine mansions and eighteen temples. The ghost emperor sits here and controls hundreds of millions of ghosts and gods. Ghost officials, ghost laws, ghost gates, and ghost prisons are strictly hierarchical, integrating arrest and detention. , Court trials, judgments, and enlightenment are intended to punish those who committed crimes during their lifetime. It is said in the world that the king of Hades judges the little devil, but it is just a false legend, and it is praised for punishing evil and promoting good."

"That leaf has no heart..."

"I invite you to come here to save her."

Song Dongyang thought he heard it wrong: "Save her? My lord, Ye Wuxin and my brother Bai have an indescribably deep blood feud, a hatred for killing a son."

"Song Dongyang!" Bai Hao said.

Guisi smiled helplessly and said, "It's okay, what he said is also true."

Song Dongyang glanced at Guisi: "Then you still want us to save her?"

With a sly face on Guisi's face, he said: "The great harm is the great benefit, and the hatred is only a momentary matter."

Bai Hao asked, "What happened to her?"

Guisi said: "When she came back from Qingcheng, she was blind. I left a trace of her soul to guard her real body, and the other souls were suppressed in the eighth hell. She was on the verge of life and death, but she didn't want to live, she just wanted to die. She If she is alive, her sins will be settled before her death, but if she is dead, those who have not been settled before her death will be recorded in the life and death book, and she will be interrogated at that time. back."

"Why did you save her?"

"It's not that I want to save her, it's the ghost emperor who wants to save her. She was originally the foster mother of the ghost emperor, and she has been willing to serve the emperor of the ghost city with her unfinished life for many years."

"Since the ghost emperor wants to save her, it's easy to do. If she dies, the two of them will be together for a long time." Song Dongyang asked.

Guisi sighed: "All living beings are suffering. Even the ghost emperor who is in charge of the undead can't let go of life and death lightly. How can he think about death instead of life? Besides, Ye Wuxin is dead, and the law of Fengdu is in front, who can do whatever he wants ?” Pausing for a while, glanced at Bai Hao, changed the topic, and said, “Do you want those children?” Then he glanced at Song Dongyang and asked, “Then what do you want?”

Song Dongyang raised his folding fan lightly, and said, "Purple lily of the valley."

"Purple lily of the valley for repairing the inner alchemy?" Gui Si chuckled, "Deal. As long as you can make her soul return to her real body willingly."

Song Dongyang thought about it, and said, "Is this considered a crime? You won't wait for the two of us to die before you settle accounts with us,"

"You are so thoughtful, you two have not yet reached the end of their lives, and waking up is just a dream, just like Xue Qin." After finishing speaking, he handed over a black jade plaque with the word "si" engraved on it, "this A token is the key to pass through the ghost town, and Soul Boy will take you to meet Ye Wuxin."

"Can this sign lead anywhere?" Song Dongyang asked.

"Most places." Gui Si said.

From the moment the three of them talked, Hun Tong obediently stood aside, and when Gui Si mentioned himself, he smiled sweetly at the two of them.

"Go, go early and return early." After finishing speaking, Gui Si disappeared without a trace with a wave of his sleeve.

"Old fox." Song Dongyang said.

Bai Hao said: "Officials have official ways, let's go."