Paper Maker

Chapter 124: Crossing the Bridge
Cao Qilong and I felt like weeping, we really went out of the sewer and into the latrine—it’s unlucky!My heart said, how could I meet two guys who are neither arrogant nor unreasonable?We are forced to walk on the rotten wooden bridge.

Cao Qilong and I looked at the dilapidated wooden bridge in front of us, we didn't want to go, we immediately grabbed the stone pillars at the end of the bridge, unwilling to move forward.I said to the errand: "We are really good people. You let us walk down the wooden bridge like this, which violates the rules of the underworld."

The errand said: "The rules for crossing the bridge are set by the errand, whichever bridge the errand says you should take, you can go on that bridge, why are there so many babblings?"

At this time, an old man came over.Immediately a few servants greeted him, with a flattering look, and shouted: "Hello, Liu Dashan, you old man of the third generation, please come with me to the top Jinyu bridge!" The so-called Dashan Liu: "You always raise your feet, be careful of the jade steps..."

Seeing this scene, I was immediately dumbfounded. He was greeted by ghost messengers, who greeted him as a distinguished guest, and then looked at ourselves, in front of us were angry little ghosts holding ghost whips, who were also doing good deeds. People, why is there such a big gap in the underworld?
Seeing that we didn't want to leave, the errant little ghost left us aside and ignored us. Seeing what it meant, he had to either pass under the wooden bridge at the bottom, or go back home, wherever he came from. .

Because we made such a fuss just two days ago, the bridgehead was blocked by many dead souls crossing the bridge.There are not many good souls walking on the upper floors, but the wooden bridge is full of evil souls. This world has really become more evil than good.Thinking of this, I couldn't help sighing. In the Yang world, everyone wears a hypocritical veil, and they can't see good and evil, but when they come to this Naihe bridge, their ugly faces are undoubtedly revealed. I knew this before. Why do you have to work so hard when you are young? What a pity!
At this moment, Yin Cha flicked his ghost whip and scolded: "What are you looking at, it's still not over the bridge. Could it be that you want me to kick you one by one into the Wangchuan River?"

Saying this, he whipped the ghost whip in his hand at the ghosts.Immediately, there was a scream of ghostly screams at the end of the bridge, and a few courageous people were even frightened so that they lost their balance and fell into the river. At this moment, this place is like a purgatory.

These dead souls were all people who had done evil things during their lifetime, so they were all driven to the bottom bridge.Everyone will have fear. Seeing the broken bridge with shocking waves and howling ghosts and wolves, which ghost would not be afraid?No matter how vicious and vicious he was, and no matter how evil and vicious the things he did, they would still be afraid when they saw such a broken bridge.

They are also unwilling to move forward, crying and wiping their tears, some begging for mercy, some just crying, and some with a helpless expression, no matter how unwilling they are to move forward, but the ghost messengers don't care about these, you have done evil in your lifetime , you have to pass over this broken bridge.If you don’t want to move forward, you will be beaten until you move forward. The whips will force them to bite the bullet and move forward...

But those in front dared not step forward, and those behind were afraid of the whip in the hands of the ghost guards, so they rushed forward. This time, the dead souls standing in front of the bridge who dared not go forward suffered disaster, and several ghosts were squeezed out immediately. It fell directly into the Wangchuan River with a scream, and then disappeared with a huge wave.

Such a scene appeared, how dare those dead souls stay, they quickly jumped onto the wooden bridge and walked forward.But they hadn't walked a few steps away when a huge wave came over, sending sawdust flying across the wooden bridge.After the huge wave passed, the previous ghosts on the wooden bridge had disappeared, obviously they were swept into the Wangchuan River by the huge wave just now.

And more ghosts were either bitten or pulled by water ghosts, insects and snakes. They cried or howled or howled in fright, and the whole wooden bridge was full of wailing...

After tidying up those wicked souls, the ghost turned to look at us, and asked, "Have you passed or failed, if you failed, leave quickly, otherwise don't blame me for being so rude!"

Seeing that he whipped us over like he didn't treat those fierce spirits, I knew he had already thought of the face of the patriarch of the paper maker.I glanced at Cao Qilong, and said, "Senior Brother, there may really be no other way this time, either go back or cross the bridge."

Cao Qilong clenched his fists, and said: "It's too bad to go back like this. I suffered at my faithful wife's place. Now that I've come here, there is no reason to give up. Let's go, anyway, we will die. Even if we fall into the Wangchuan River, don't we have companions?"

I smiled wryly, patted his arm, didn't say anything more, and stepped directly on the wooden bridge.

Because the wooden bridge is made of steel wire and iron cables, the whole bridge shakes very badly when you step on the bridge, especially when you look at the stormy waves under your feet, and the lonely souls who are jumping up in the river, howling ghosts and howling wolves. The wild ghosts are even more frightening!

I don’t know how many years the wooden boards have gone through, they are tattered and rotten. Every time we take a step, the wooden boards make a creaking sound that cannot bear the weight, which makes us very worried that if we are not careful, the wooden boards will suddenly break.

Walking out about two or three meters carefully, I saw a huge wave rising on the river and rushing towards us.Immediately, I yelled and told Cao Qilong to lie down and grab the iron lock on the side of the bridge.

Soon, a huge wave came over, and suddenly the whole wave covered our bodies, and the whole bridge was swayed like a swing.Countless planks were swept away by the huge waves, making the broken bridge even more difficult to walk, because every step had to be jumped over to reach the second plank.

Of course, this time when the huge wave hit, it also swept away many souls of the dead.

Originally, the bridge was full of dead souls, but now there are more than half of them.In order to cross the bridge as soon as possible before the second huge wave hit, Cao Qilong and I hurriedly got up and moved forward quickly.

Maybe I was too careless, maybe I walked too hastily, or maybe the old man deliberately made fun of me.In short, when I was moving forward quickly, suddenly a piece of wood under my feet "cracked" and I yelled in my heart that I was not good, and then my feet were empty, and I fell down...

I thought to myself, this game is over, this time it looks like I will be an old ghost for a thousand years.

This action frightened Cao Qilong who was behind him, he rushed towards him, not afraid that the board under his feet would break.Just when I was about to fall completely, he grabbed me.Yelling for me to hold on.

Just like that, my body fell under the bridge, and Cao Qilong on the bridge grabbed my whole body by the collar of my clothes like this.He dragged it up vigorously, but as he exerted so much force, suddenly the plank under his feet cracked, and one of the planks broke, and then he fell down on the bridge deck. Fortunately, there were other planks To bear his body, or else he would have to suffer the same fate as me.

Seeing this, I knew that if he continued to pull me up with all his strength, maybe the other planks would break, and then let alone save me, even he himself would be in danger.Immediately, I said to him: "Brother, let go. Don't be stupid, you won't be able to pull it up."

When Cao Qilong heard what I said, he burst into tears. I have only seen him cry once after learning of Ma's death. This is the second time I have seen him cry.He shook his head violently, and said, "Don't be stupid, you want me to let go, do you want me to be tortured with a hook and knife again? I won't be fooled by you."

I knew he was joking with me like this on purpose, and I was helpless.To be honest, I am also very afraid of falling into the river, but now there is no other way, one person falling is better than two people falling together, right?So I begged: "Brother, it's useless for you to do this, let go, I don't want to hurt you. Anyway, Xiaoqi is also in the river, so I can find her when I go down."

Unexpectedly, Cao Qilong suddenly became angry. He scolded: "Can you have something to do? If you also fell into the river, who will rescue her to the shore? Do you really want her to stay in the river for thousands of years?"

After speaking, he pulled me hard again, and my body was indeed slowly pulled up a lot by him.Soon, my hand finally got on the bridge, so I grabbed the bridge with both hands and struggled to go up.At this time, Cao Qilong smiled: "How about it, I will definitely do it if I say it!"

I returned a smiley face, and then I was about to exert strength with him again, and I was about to climb up my lower body, but at this moment, suddenly, my feet seemed to be caught by something, and then a strong force pulled me up again. Pull down the bridge!
I looked down, and saw that a large number of lonely ghosts had rushed at this time, and the river under my feet was full of howling ghosts and wolves, and my feet were on top of the heads of those lonely ghosts.A vicious ghost was pulling my feet down with all its strength. I wanted to break free, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get rid of it.A sense of powerlessness suddenly rose from the bottom of my heart...

Looking at Cao Qilong who was holding me on the bridge, he had exerted all his strength at this time, with a ferocious expression, and roared loudly.However, no matter how much he pulls, he can't pull me up, because my feet have been dragged down by more ghosts.They want to drag me into the water, and change them to go ashore to reincarnate...

(End of this chapter)