All living beings in hell

Chapter 9 - Tamarin Immortal
After a brief tidying up, the new office began to operate.I put the "three rules" back on the gate, and replaced the red kerosene lamp with a warm lotus lamp.The lotus lantern is on, and the office welcomes its sixth guest.

There was a deer cry at the door, and a tall reindeer covered in green knocked open the door and walked in proudly.Looking closely, its eyes are blood red, and there is no distinction between the whites of the eyes and the pupils.

The reindeer walked up to my long table in a tick-tock rhythm, sat on its hind legs, and squatted there obediently.

I spread out the paper and ink, and picked up the sapphire pen: "What should I call you?"

"The Tamarin Immortal."

I wrote the four characters "Tamoose Immortal" on the rice paper: "Okay, Tamarin Immortal, why did you come to see me today?"

"I have nothing to do, I just want to chat. As you can see, we immortals are usually very free."

"Don't immortals usually roam in the sky? Why are you in this hell?"

"I'm tired of playing in the sky, it's my personal preference."

I didn't know what to say for a while, so I had to pour a cup of hot tea for myself and this fairy with personality.

The immortal took a sip of the hot tea, but was so bitter that he only stuck out his tongue: "This tea is so bitter that it hurts the heart, it is even bitterer than the group of lonely ghosts outside the door."

"This tea is made from the bitter lotus seeds in the lotus pond of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. It clears away heat, relieves fire, detoxifies, and wards off evil spirits."

"You are a mortal, in this extremely dark place of hell, do you still need to be burned? I think you need to replenish your yang energy."

"I'm afraid that my yang energy will be too strong, and these lonely ghosts will not dare to chat with me anymore."

Immortal Tamarin didn't answer me any more, and took another sip of tea, sticking out his tongue while drinking.

"Immortal Tamarin, can I speak directly if I have something to say?"

"Please."

"You know that my job in the underworld is to write down the stories of the beings in hell and bring them back to the world."

"Correct."

"But you are not a sentient being from hell, and you still have a number."

"It's not written in your three rules. If you are not a sentient being in hell, you can't get a number."

I didn't know how to respond, so I took a sip of tea silently, using the bitterness to suppress the little dissatisfaction in my heart.

"Okay." I said.

"What's the matter?" Tamarin Deer Immortal asked.

"Since I got the number, I should treat it with respect. Whether you are a sentient being in hell or not, if you have something to say, you can say it."

"Why are you so serious?" Immortal looked at me with some amusement, "I've already told you, I'm here to chat with you. I think you can make those ghosts happy, don't you want to experience it too? Your eloquence?"

"It seems that the immortal has something unpleasant?"

"There are so many unpleasant things! I don't know where to start!"

"Drink?" I asked.

"Drink." The immortal replied readily.

I took out the cloud wine from the cabinet, poured it into a wine bowl and served it to the immortal.The immortal took a sip carefully, and after confirming that the wine was not bitter, he drank it all in one gulp.

"It's not as smooth as Tianting Yulu."

"Then why come to this hell to suffer? You don't even have to drink good wine."

"Oh, this matter..." The immortal seemed a little reluctant to speak, so I poured some more wine into his wine bowl.

"I had a quarrel with my old friend, and I feel that the sky is nothing more than this, and I'm tired of it. These stinky old immortals have stayed in the sky for thousands of years. They don't know the current situation of the world or the current state of hell. They are still bragging about the bullshit of thousands of years ago." , you say everything is boring?"

"That sounds a little boring."

"So I just wanted to find excitement, so I ran to hell."

"Why not go to the world to find excitement? The world is more exciting than hell."

"Going to the human world has to be reincarnated. I like to be a fairy, and I don't want to be reincarnated."

I touched a bowl with Immortal Tamarin, and he drank it down again.

"But tell me, am I afraid? I've been a fairy for thousands of years, and I'm a little bored. Tell me, am I cowardly? Don't dare to reincarnate?" The immortal's already blood-red eyes were even redder than before.

"I don't know if you're cowardly or not, but there's nothing wrong with being a fairy anyway."

"Boring! Boring! You can't die even if you die, and you can't go to the world!"

"Then reincarnate."

"I'm cowardly!"

"Okay, cheers." Immortal Tamarin drank another gulp, and I poured wine for him, "What's so scary about reincarnation?" I asked tentatively.

"Everything is scary, okay! Who knows if you will become a human, or a cat or a dog?"

"With the cultivation base of an immortal, it should be a human?"

"Who said that the cultivation base of an immortal must be high? Like me, I have been idle all day long, and I haven't done many serious things since I became an immortal. Sigh, I guess I will become a cat or a dog."

"There's nothing wrong with a cat or a dog, at least you don't need to think about making money, housing loans and car loans..."

"What loan?"

"It's nothing. Think about it, the cat is so comfortable, it sleeps, eats, sleeps, and basks in the sun every day. The dog is so comfortable, it is loved by its owner, and it looks cute..."

"But I want to be a human being. Only human beings can truly control their own destiny, right? A beast with a master always obeys the master."

"Then be human."

"But I'm afraid I won't be able to reincarnate as a human being!" Immortal Tamarin sighed.Yep, it's an endless loop.

"Immortal Tamarin, with all due respect, there are two paths for you now. You can either reincarnate, or continue to travel around as an immortal. Reincarnation is more risky, but it is a different life, completely different from before, even as an immortal before. You may forget all your memories. But it’s exciting and fun. Or continue to be your Happy Immortal, boring is boring, you can’t die, there’s no risk.”

"My lord, why are you thinking so clearly?"

"...Trained in the human world." I silently took a sip of wine.

"What is the world, tell me?"

"The world I see is the world I see. You have to experience it yourself to know what it feels like to live in this world as a human being, and what it feels like to live in this world as a cat or a dog. Anyway, it is the same with immortals. It's totally different, that's it."

Immortal Tamarin hesitated, as if thinking about something, he suddenly said: "Master Writer, can I drink all of your wine?"

"Please, feel free."

Immortal Tamarin picked up the wine jar with both hooves, and filled the remaining half of the tank in one go.The liquor flowed down his mane to the ground, and a strong smell of liquor filled the room.After the immortal finished drinking, he smashed the wine jar on the ground, and the clay jar shattered.After that, he burped for a long time, and the smell of spirits was instantly mixed with the smell of fresh grass.

Immortal Tamarin stumbled to his feet and walked towards the door.

"Is the fairy leaving?"

"I... I have been reincarnated!" Immortal Tamarin shook his hand.

"Are you sure?" I asked with some concern.

"You're right, I've been tired of it for a long time, why don't you play alone."

"What if I become a cat or a dog?"

"Then I'll just eat and sleep. Thousands of years of immortality have passed by in the blink of an eye. Isn't it very long for a lifetime of more than ten years? Hahahahahaha." Tamarin immortal laughed heartily, the laughter was shocking The books on my shelf are shaking.

"Since the immortal has already decided, I'm writing to bless the immortal here."

Immortal Tamarin has already walked to the door of the office, he looked back at me, and proudly flicked the pair of beautiful antlers: "Thank you, Mr. Writer, we will see you again!"

"Goodbye by fate." The door of the office was slowly closed.

I turned around and was about to sit down when the office door was knocked hastily again.Immortal Tamarin stood at the door and looked in: "Wait a minute, my lord, there is one more thing... Where can I drink Mengpo soup?"

"...I'm new here too, so I don't remember the way. You can ask the ghosts at the door..."

"Okay! I'm going now!"

"Well, good luck."

The office door closed again.I stood at the door and waited, but no one knocked on the door this time.I took a deep breath, and sat back on the seat in front of the wooden table where customers usually sit, with my feet on the table, looking at the chair behind the table.The bookshelf behind the chair occupies the entire wall, and the golden talisman barrier is attached to the left side of the wall.

I imagined myself holding a sapphire pen and asking visitors.It turns out that their usual perspective is like this... Thinking of this, I suddenly felt drowsy.

It's time to go back to the human world to sleep. If you fall asleep in hell, it will be a troublesome thing for mortals.

I stretched a lot, closed my eyes, and floated towards the world.

(End of this chapter)