Gossip in two or three languages

The six cities of Qingli, Sichuan, smoke, grass, wood, wind, and feathers.Pluto, Meng Po, the two judges, and the two impermanences each live in one city, and their status is roughly equivalent to that of the city lord.Each city is divided into a ghost office, with one master and two governors.

Meng Nanyu worked in Po Meng's Yancheng, and it didn't take long for the two of them to enter the city.The city is ancient in shape, with stone bricks and wooden doors, gray tiles and white walls. Except for the clothes of the ghosts during the walk, there is no trace of modernity in the appearance.

Meng Nanyu was obviously in a good mood, and even took Fan Daling for a walk first to get a taste of the city of Yancheng, before leading him to register at the ghost officer's mansion.

At this time, the sky has quietly rendered an ambiguous orange.

The Guicha Mansion should not be called a mansion, it is just a sub-city on the city wall, a rough plaque on the Yaqing gate, it seems that a long piece of wood was cut at random, and it was directly engraved and inked, and it was not even painted. Primer.

Fan Daling looked at it for a while, and couldn't help worrying about the financial situation of the ghost messengers.

Meng Nanyu waved her hand in front of Fan Daling, "Come in."

Fan Daling felt ashamed, and responded awkwardly, following Meng Nanyu.

Meng Nanyu glanced at him, "Sister Meng is more casual", and then continued to walk forward.

After visiting around the city of smoke, Fan Daling has almost grasped the temperament of this guide——a cold-looking gambler with a face that should not be approached by strangers, but he is quite considerate, but he has to poke him Will react a little bit.He really couldn't think of how such a general would lead his troops.

Fan Daling went straight to catch up, and stood side by side with Meng Nanyu, and asked, "The plaques in the Ghost Commander's Mansion are all written by the city lords?"

Meng Nanyu stopped, glanced at the three empty tables in the center of the hall, and turned to explain to Fan Daling, "Well. Every generation of Hades is handed over, a new plaque is replaced. The ceremony for the official inauguration of the Hades is the ceremony for each attribute of the Underworld. The plaque of the city ghost's mansion."

Fan Daling asked: "What about the plaque at the city gate that only has the word 'smoke'?"

"It's the handwriting of the first Meng Po."

"That……"

Meng Nanyu suddenly patted Fan Daling on the shoulder, interrupted him, and said, "Here comes the scorpion, let's go."

Fan Daling followed Meng Nanyu to the depths of the hall, and found a man in a black suit had appeared behind the left table among the three empty tables, with his legs crossed, playing with the brush in his hand, as if smiling looking at them.

Soon, the two stood at the table.

Meng Nanyu pointed to Fan Daling, and said to the man in the suit: "New ghost messenger, Sister Meng has already been assessed, you just register."

The man in the suit sat upright, spread out an indigo hardcover booklet, registered it, and chanted as he wrote, "It's really good that I've just joined the program when I first came here... a child from the Fan family... who didn't go to Fan Wuchang's place?" Fengcheng... looks quite obedient... Nanyu, who will take this newcomer? Who do you plan to assign him as a partner?"

Meng Nanyu: "I'll take him."

The man in the suit put down his pen, raised his head, and looked up and down Meng Nanyu with squinted smiles, "Hey, is it dawn on Samsara Island? Nanyu, you actually want to bring a new ghost, don't you think it's troublesome?"

Meng Nanyu completely ignored the other party's banter, and said calmly, "Sister Meng ordered it."

"Tch, I see where you went and lost the bet again." The man in the suit turned his head and smiled at Fan Daling, and he vividly hooked the upright and stable black suit with a charming expression, "Fan Daling, why don't you think about it with me?" Learn to do things, my position is equivalent to that of a white-collar worker in a modern office, and I am still a clerical worker, and I don’t need to work outside, which is different from the group of them who run up and down all day.”

"enough."

Meng Nanyu walked in front of Fan Daling, blocking the man in the suit from seeing.

The man in the suit turned sideways, passed Meng Nanyu slightly, and continued to persuade Fan Daling, "Look, this cold dice, I'm better."

Meng Nanyu finally couldn't bear it anymore, and knocked Cui Yun's head hard, "Cui Yun, are you missing a ghost?" Meng Nanyu stepped aside and introduced Fan Daling: "This rambunctious bastard is Yancheng Zuo Yuzhi, Cui Yun."

"What bastard?" Cui Yun dissatisfied, "I'm called a vagabond! You gambler, you are just jealous of my thousands of flowers."

Meng Nanyu snorted coldly and said, "Langzi Cui, your 'leaf' is coming back, why don't you hide?"

"Why should I hide?" Cui Yun naturally refused to admit it, "Isn't it just a little bit... body communication, why can't we meet."

Meng Nanyu was not in a hurry to expose him, took away the objects on the table, slowly said "Zhao Zhizhi, Zhao Ziyan will come to the mansion tomorrow", and pulled Fan Daling away from the Guicha mansion.

Facing the empty mansion hall, Cui Yun was silently mad for a while, and then said to himself that he decided to go to the next door to see the scenery in Sichuan City.

Meng Nanyu brought Fan Daling to her home, led Fan Daling to sit down in the front hall, and handed two copper coin-shaped objects to Fan Daling, "Hold your 'ID card' carefully. Can I have some tea?"

Fan Daling took the "ID card" and nodded subconsciously.

After a while, Meng Nanyu came back with a pot of warm tea, poured two cups, took a sip of the tea, and said, "Let's get to know each other again, my surname is Meng, my name is Nanyu, my name is Toumu, I died at 270 years old, and I am currently the leader of the ghosts in Yancheng." execute."

"Oh," Fan Daling became inexplicably nervous, and continued indiscriminately, "My surname is Fan and my name is Daling. I have no words. I died about five days ago. I just became a ghost messenger..."

Meng Nanyu couldn't help laughing, coughed lightly, and restrained her expression, "Don't be nervous, if there is anything you want to know, just mention it, you and I still have to work together, don't be restrained."

"Okay." Fan Daling held up two copper coins and asked, "What's the name of this?"

"Everyone calls them 'copper coins', and a set of two is the proof of ghosts and ghosts. Its nature is almost the same as a modern ID card. Remember to carry it with you and don't lose it."

The two copper coins, one black and one white, have round square holes, and are respectively hollowed out and engraved with the words "Make Money at First Sight" and "World Great Harmony". They are smooth and cold, and the material cannot be touched.

Fan Daling then asked: "Is the 'short brief' of Heyang Guicha the same?"

"Hmm. You should have seen 'Short Jane', except that it is shaped like a long pendant and a piece of bamboo, and the material and engraving are the same as 'copper coins'."

After all, she hesitated, Meng Nanyu untied the copper coins she had strung up with a rope and hung around her waist, and put them on the table, "Actually, the 'copper coins' at the beginning did not have engraved characters. It was very interesting, so I added it. At present, in addition to the Zhuzhi and Zhuzhi of each city, the "copper coins" and "short slips" of ghost messengers have characters."

"According to this, what are the titles of Yan Wang, Meng Po, and Judge?"

Meng Nanyu nodded: "In the first generation, there were only six city lords. Later, due to the division of labor and rumors, the underworld god gradually became like this..."

Considering that Fan Daling came from a family and would spend at least 20 years in the underworld, Meng Nanyu didn't hide anything, and told everything based on her own knowledge.

Meng Nanyu explained concisely and in detail, and Fan Daling was fascinated like reading a script. He listened and sorted out the context in his heart-in fact, the King of Hades is equivalent to a diplomat, or a nominal leader, responsible for the communication between the underworld and the fairy world; It's wine, not soup, which is responsible for the reincarnation of souls; Judge is responsible for the balance and order in Samsara Island, and Impermanence is responsible for the management of Qingli Continent.Black and white impermanence manages ghosts and ghosts. At the same time, ghosts are divided into two types, extraditing souls on the floating island of reincarnation, or supervising and maintaining order in the six cities of Qingli.

When the explanation was almost clear, the pot of tea was completely cooled, and the moon fainted gradually.

Meng Nanyu looked up at the sky for a while, then got up and said, "It's going to rain soon, I have a spare room here, I've packed it, I'll take you there to rest."

Fan Daling was also afraid of getting up and following, but finally couldn't help asking, "Is there no place for new ghosts to live?"

"No. After obtaining Qingli's temporary residence qualification, the residence will be allocated uniformly, usually with one bedroom and one living room." Meng Nanyu paused, "In the future, I will need a partner, so it is better to live in my residence. Although it is not spacious, it includes a courtyard , and there are still three empty rooms, so I decided on my own. Do you mind?"

Fan Daling thought of the courtyard that he passed just now, with its clear and sprawling eaves, and couldn't help but feel deeply, "Of course I don't mind, I have to thank you very much."

After a while, the two ghosts arrived at the door.

Meng Nanyu said goodnight to Fan Daling, and turned to leave.

"The last one." Van Daling called him, "I thought about it for a long time, why can we walk on the ground and drink tea and wine?"

"The soul of the main world must rely on the flesh and blood body, but in the underworld, the soul is the body, so it can naturally do everything."

After saying that, Meng Nanyu's figure disappeared in a flash.

Fan Daling gently closed the wooden door.

He looked around, and in the middle of the room was a four-immortal table, a few round stools, a few shelves placed against the wall under the window, pens, ink, paper and inkstones on top, six wooden folding screens, and a vertical cabinet and a shelf with a tent hung behind it. There is a small door on the other side of the bed, and the lamp cannot be seen, but the room is filled with soft light.He saw a tea kettle on the mahogany table with a piece of rice paper on it—"Qingli has a rule that the exterior of the house cannot be changed at will, but the inside is fine. If you are not used to it, you and I can go buy a new one together on the day of the ten-day holiday. In addition, even The room can take a bath.”

Fan Daling entered the connecting room, with a gray stone washstand, and two slightly long bamboo tubes in the style of a faucet. like modern stuff.

I'm too lazy to worry about the source of hot water in the bamboo tube, put the water away, and enjoy the feeling of being soaked and warm in the tub.He sighed in his heart, regardless of whether he was alive or not, taking a bath was a matter of bliss.

After he finished taking a bath, he conveniently put on his robe.He has to change into Hanfu every year when he goes back to the family house to celebrate the New Year, so he won't cause any embarrassment because of this.Out of the bathroom, I found Meng Nanyu sitting at the table at some point, Meng Nanyu pointed to the rosewood food box she brought, and said, "Sorry, I don't like dinner, so I forgot to prepare something for you, so I went to the city I brought a copy from the night market. I just knocked on the door and no one answered, I thought you might be taking a bath, so I went in and waited, I hope you don't feel awkward."

Having experienced so much today, even Fan Daling himself didn't notice the problem of eating, so he quickly thanked him.

"You're welcome." Meng Nanyu got up and walked out the door after explaining. Before passing the threshold, he stopped suddenly and pointed to the protruding square on the wall next to him, "This is used to control the lights in the room. If you want to switch, just press it. Can."

Not long after Meng Nanyu closed the door, the pattering sound grew from nothing to louder. Fan Daling opened the window and saw greenery and lush vegetation. It turned out that this house was built next to a mountain.

It did rain.