All living beings in hell

Chapter 109 Chapter 062:[-] - Li Xiucheng

161 guests have received 61 guests, and from this one, the countdown from 100 to 0 will be carried out.

Thinking back from taking this job until now, many things have happened that I never expected.

I thought it was an honest clerical job, but I lost my life because of it.I thought it would be good to receive guests one by one according to the plan, but it happened to hit the end.

The office was changed to the third one, from working alone to owning a mysterious identity of the Dharma protector - all these made me experience an adventure journey that I could never imagine in the world, and also let me see many unimaginable Suffering and extreme pain.I am more grateful for the changes that this job has brought to me... the whole body, thoughts and concepts, they are fine-tuning in a flowing way amidst ups and downs.

Some roots are deeply rooted, some strength is extended.

There were more or less things that made me feel at a loss or unpleasant during the whole process, but on the whole, I felt full and satisfied from the bottom of my heart.

Start today and count down!
The lotus lantern at the door lit up, and the office welcomed No. 60 No. [-] customer.

A court lady wearing a blue-green brocade sash opened the door of the office and walked in. She walked lightly, did not say a word from the beginning to the end, and hardly made any noise, and sat quietly on the wooden chair.The palace lady's eyelids are painted with blue-green wavy eyeliner, extending to the end of her eyes.There is a red tear mole under the left eye, and there is also a red mole next to the nose wing on the right side.She smelled of some kind of ripe fruit, reminding me of overripe apricots falling to the ground, so ripe that they almost rotted.

"Hello, what should I call you?" I asked.

The maid looked at me, blinked her eyes, and waved her hands to indicate that she could not speak.

I took out a pen and paper from the drawer and handed it to her: "If it's not convenient to talk, you can write it down."

The maid's slender fingers took the brush and wrote the following on the paper:
My name is Li Xiucheng, and I come from the late Tang Dynasty. Because I made a mistake in the palace, my tongue was cut off, so I couldn't speak. Please forgive me.

"Then how did you come to this hell? Please write it down in detail."

Li Xiucheng tapped his cheeks with his index finger a few times, thought for a while, and then wrote down:
In the 14th year of Tianbao, An Lushan launched a rebellion and captured Chang'an.The city of Chang'an was in chaos, and the suspicion and struggle in the palace reached an unprecedented level of chaos.I was forcibly charged with unwarranted charges by a certain concubine, saying that I was delivering a message from the palace for the rebels, used lynching to cut off my tongue, and became a dumb woman ever since.

The following year, Tang Xuanzong withdrew from the Tang capital and took away a group of court ladies, leaving those who did not take away for disposal.

The so-called disposal means execution.

All the court ladies tried their best to leave Chang'an in order to save their lives.

I watched the guards night and night, hoping to find a chance to escape the city.I didn't find the opportunity, but I saw the concubine who cut my tongue meet with the court prime minister to exchange information.Only then did I realize that I had become a victim, and I was very angry.Then he poisoned her to death, and then committed suicide by taking poison.

When I woke up, I was in a sea of ​​red flowers.An official wearing a black hat held my book of life and counted my crimes in detail.

There are several crimes - stealing steamed buns when I was not full when I was a child; catching cicadas and crushing them to death in summer; committing suicide by taking poison and so on.

After the official read them aloud one by one, he asked me if there was anything I wanted to explain or clarify.

I'm too tired to clarify a word.Following that official, he went down to the underworld, and has stayed here ever since.

"If you could look back on your life and you could make any change, what would it be?"

Li Xiucheng decisively wrote this line:

I will not enter the palace.I would rather marry a countryman and be an ordinary peasant woman than be a victim of political struggle.

"Do you hate the concubine who lynched you?"

hatred.

"Have you killed her with your own hands, or do you hate her?"

Death is a relief.

"Now that you're dead, do you feel liberated?"

No.It just changed from a raw state to a wandering soul without a body.The grievances in my heart still torment me often, making my nerves restless.

"Would you like to try to let go of the resentment in your heart and relax yourself a little?"

Li Xiucheng raised his head and looked at me, as if he didn't understand what I was saying.

I explained: "When you lose your body, you should also break the restrictions of your body. Human beings need a mouthpiece to speak, but the soul does not. The soul's voice can be varied, and does not need organs Support to do this. However, you still can’t speak after losing your body, which means that even if you are dead, you still can’t let go of the damage your body suffered. The inertia of this damage continues to your soul, becoming The shackles that limit your soul."

Li Xiucheng opened his mouth to let me see.Her mouth was empty except for a short tongue near her throat.The broken section of the base of the tongue looks like a tumor, with superimposed scars.

"I see, if you want, try to speak directly from your heart, let the voice come from the heart. We can also be heard in the dimension of hell."

Li Xiucheng hesitated for a moment, she closed her eyes and tried very hard.The rise and fall of the chest increased, but no sound came out.

"Don't be afraid, you are no longer a victim, and no one will deprive you of your right to speak out." I comforted.

After hearing this, she took a deep breath, put down her pen, and clasped her hands tightly on the handle of the wooden chair.A loud voice suddenly came from her whole body, shaking the air in the office.

"what--"

Li Xiucheng was startled by her own voice, she suddenly opened her eyes and looked at me.I nodded to her, signaling her to keep trying.

"Ah-ah-big-my lord."

Li Xiucheng's body began to utter intermittent short sentences, her eyes suddenly turned red, and a sob came out of her throat.

"My lord, I, I can talk now."

"Very good. It seems that it is not stable at the moment. You can practice more. After all, it is a brand-new way of speaking, and it will take a while to get used to it."

Li Xiucheng looked at me with eyes full of tears, and a little tune came out of her body.It is the humming of a gentle female voice, with a bit of sadness in its melody, which reminds me of a palace lady standing on a city tower under the moon, admiring the full moon alone, and thinking of her hometown.

I didn't interrupt her, she hummed passionately, and tears dripped on the floor with the singing.

"What are you going to do next?" I asked.

"I want to find a place... to sing nursery rhymes. I haven't sung for a long... long time."

"Well, let's go."

Li Xiucheng continued to hum the poignant little tune, and walked out of the office lightly.Along with the rustling of the leaves, the singing voice disappeared in the distance of hell long and slowly.

(End of this chapter)