Night Lights

Chapter 60

In the Senluo Hall, there is a ghost king with lightning-like eyes, straight and upright, and his name is Zhong Kui. Anyone who cultivates, if he is in danger, can burn money to pray, and Zhong Kui will come down quickly, and he will be relieved when he comes; Big ghosts see me crying, little ghosts see me weeping, evil spirits see me turning into dust, people see me worrying, ghosts see me worrying, ten people see me and ten people worry, a hundred ghosts see me and a hundred ghosts worry; all ghosts hear, I dare not fight against myself; the name is: ghosts worry about seeing. ——Excerpted from Tongyin Eight Volumes of "Wordless Book of Heaven".

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In front of Bai Shibao, this handsome man with a bull's head and a human body can be regarded as having a lot of background.

When he was a human being in Yangjian, he was named: Ah Bang, because he was unfilial during his lifetime, he was classified as an animal by the king of Hades after his death, and was escorted by ghosts to the "Live Pond River" to reincarnate.Unexpectedly, just after his head dipped in the water, there was a "big event" in the underworld. The King of Hades urgently needed manpower, so he pardoned him and retained him.

Because he was very scheming, he channeled the money he had obtained from top to bottom, and after going back and forth, he took the post of Yin Shuai in Yincao, and his companion was a deputy with a horse face and a human body, named: A Fang.At this point, let's not mention it for the time being.

Bai Shibao said in his heart that this time there was someone to call the shots, so he gave Yan Zifei a look, Yan Zifei understood, and hurriedly knelt down with Bai Shibao on the ground, shouting for grievances!
Niutou Yinshuai asked: "Why revenge?"

Bai Shibao exclaimed: "The two of us were walking on the Yangjian Road in a good manner. We accidentally bumped into a Yin soldier to make an excuse. Unexpectedly, we were caught by this soldier. We are all kind people. We have never done evil things. We died like this. I don’t understand what’s going on, what’s the law of heaven…”

"Huh?" Niutou Yinshuai glared at Yin Bingtou and asked, "What's going on?"

Yin Bingtou lay beside his ear while whispering, while pointing at Bai Shibao with his finger.

Bai Shibao wanted to see how this shady soldier would explain.

Niutou Yinshuai listened for a while, nodded again and again, and then spit out a sentence, which made Bai Shibao's heart shake!
Niutou Yinshuai said: "Don't drag me around when doing things in the future!"

Yin Bing bowed his head and said: "Yes! The little one wrote it down."

Yan Zifei turned to look at Bai Shibao, and asked anxiously, "What's going on?"

Bai Shibao complained again and again, and sighed: "A nest of snakes and rats..."

Niutou Yinshuai picked up the pen, "swiftly" approved a few strokes on the official document, and sternly shouted: "All will be sent to the 'ghost prison' to await their fate!"

After saying that, some Yin soldiers came forward, pulled the iron chains and took Bai Shibao and others to the "ghost prison".Niutou Yinshuai said to Yin Bingtou: "Open a 'separate room' for the person you mentioned and put him in custody!"

Yin Bingtou smiled and said yes.

Bai Shibao and others were pushed and shoved by the Yin soldiers to a cave. The mountain was hollowed out. There was a long and narrow corridor with prisons on both sides. Inside were all the ghosts who were imprisoned. When the soldiers came, they all cried out for injustice.Bai Shibao and others were taken to an empty cell, the Yin soldiers opened the iron chains, pushed Yan Zifei and the other two inside, and locked the cell door with a bang.

Bai Shibao was surprised: "Why are we not together? Where are you taking me?"

Yin Bing smiled and said, "I have a good place for you!" After saying that, he pushed Bai Shibao to continue walking.

Bai Shibao panicked and shouted to Yan Zifei: "Brother, wait for me!"

Yan Zifei shouted: "Brother..."

"..."

Bai Shibao was taken all the way to a 'single room' at the innermost end of the ghost prison. In comparison, it was quieter here, without the miserable screams of ghosts crying and wailing, on the contrary, it was eerily quiet.

Whoa!
The Yin soldiers unlocked the iron lock on the prison door, pushed Bai Shibao into the ghost prison, and locked the stone prison with a 'click' back.Bai Shibao rushed to the cell door and shouted, "What crime have I committed? Why are you locked up here?"

Yin Bing smiled and said: "It's easy to say! It's clearly written in the official document, and it's judged a 'candidate vacancy'!"

Bai Shibao shouted: "Why are there no children? You wronged good people!"

The Yin soldiers ignored Bai Shibao, turned around and left. Bai Shibao slammed on the cell door and shouted loudly, "I'm wronged!"

"Stop shouting, it's useless!"

I don't know where this sentence came from.

Bai Shibao looked back and saw a tall and thin old man lying in the cell, blinking his eyes at him.Bai Shibao was stunned for a moment, and heard the old man say: "Who comes here has never complained? Last time, a 90-year-old old man was escorted here. He lost all his teeth, and he was screaming for a wronged death. No one would believe it!"

After Bai Shibao heard this, he remained silent, squatting in front of the old door in a state of dismay, and only said that brother Xu Fu would come and save me quickly.

This ghost prison is not very big, when Bai Shibao came in, the old man had already lived in it.This old man was thin but humble and gentle, he said little and wanted nothing, and was full of thoughts. Every night at three o'clock, he would lie on the door of the prison, bow his head and weep, thoughtful.

The soldiers in the ghost prison call the ghost prisoners pigs and dogs, but they are quite polite to this old man. They all eat "Old Man Jiang" one bite at a time, and the meals delivered for three meals a day are always more than Bai Shibao's. a little.

What Bai Shibao ate was porridge, steamed buns, dried pickled radishes, and old man Jiang, who ate two dishes of meat and vegetables.

After coming and going again and again, Bai Shibao couldn't get enough of it, so he asked the Yin soldiers: "They are both ghosts and jailed, why do they eat different meals?"

Yin Bing said angrily: "People pay for staying in a hotel and for eating, why should they be the same as you?"

Bai Shibao was confused, but he didn't want to ask more questions.

The ghost soldiers in the ghost prison never eat the food in the prison. Every day, ghost messengers receive melons and fruits as offerings from the yang world. Not only chicken, duck and fish meat, but even the hot spout of the pot is full of the smell of old cellar wine.

As soon as the Yin soldier started the meal, he allocated half of it to old man Jiang.At this time, Bai Shibao turned his head to the wall, the smell was so enticing, Bai Shibao's stomach hadn't been touched with oil or water for many days, he was afraid that his gluttonous appearance would make people look down on him.The treatment of this old man Jiang was so much higher than his, which caused Bai Shibao to feel an inexplicable hostility, and shrank himself in a corner, not talking to him.

"Would you like to try this from me?"

It was the old man Jiang who broke the deadlock first, and handed a bowl of fat meat to Bai Shibao.

Bai Shibao glanced into the bowl, steamed pork with dried plums and vegetables!

This dish is the signature dish of Eight Immortals Restaurant in Beijing. Bai Shibao has tasted it before. It needs a layer of pork belly, a layer of dried vegetables, and stacked layers. There are about four or five layers in such a large bowl.If you want to spray some Shaoxing old rice wine, sprinkle a handful of white sugar, put the lid on the pot and steam it on the fire. When the meat is crispy and soft, it will be fat but not greasy, and it will melt in your mouth. !
Bai Shibao felt a little moved when he smelled the delicious smell of meat.

The old man Jiang said: "These days, you eat three meals a day with clear soup and little water. How can you bear it? You haven't made it to the back of the mountain to be tortured! How can your body bear it?"

How can Bai Shibao hold back?He ran over to hold the bowl, grabbed the meat with his hands and stuffed it into his mouth, puffing his cheeks and thanking him.

The old man Jiang said with a smile: "Slow down, these are the wine and meat offered in front of the grave, it was brought late, it was a bit cold..."

How could Bai Shibao care so much, he ate everything in a blink of an eye, looked at the empty bottom of the bowl, wiped his mouth, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I didn't leave some for you!"

The old man Jiang said with a smile: "It's okay, there will be an 'extra meal' at night!"

Bai Shibao felt a little strange when he heard it, and asked, "Why are the ghost soldiers in this ghost prison so polite to you?"

Old man Jiang asked, "Is there no one in your house?"

Bai Shibao nodded.

"It's no wonder that no one burns paper for you after you die. What kind of money do you use to deal with the ghost messengers here?" Old man Jiang approached and whispered to Bai Shibao: "When I came, I asked the ghost servants for money." I ran to the house to dream of a dream, urging people to burn money, and then dealt with all the money received, and then I was able to eat in this ghost prison..."

After the old man Jiang finished speaking, he looked at Bai Shibao and continued to ask, "By the way, how did you die?"

Bai Shibao explained the cause and effect in detail.

The old man Jiang sighed: "I heard that the Yin soldiers said that you were judged as a 'candidate'. Do you know what this means?"

Bai Shibao shook his head and asked, "What do you mean?"

"It means that they look for you as a 'replacement ghost'! If someone is sentenced to death and devotes himself to becoming a beast in the next life, at this time, entrust a dream to his family, burn some money over, and breathe a little bit up and down, and the Yin soldiers will take you to cover... ..."

Bai Shibao said in surprise, "Ah..."

Old man Jiang frowned and said, "But I don't understand why they brought you here alone?"

Bai Shibao lowered his head and thought for a while, then he was shocked and said, "That's right! When I came here, I told that Yin Bingtou that I have 9000 million taels of savings in the underworld! Could it be because of this?"

The old man Jiang said in surprise: "Ah! No wonder they locked you here. Since you have so much money in hand, why don't you take it out early and get some money? Why bother to suffer for so many days?"

Bai Shibao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and sighed, "I don't know if they didn't mention it. Besides, it's a bit difficult to withdraw the money. I deposited the money into the account of a ghost brother. Without him, I couldn't get it out!"

Old man Jiang said after hearing this: "You say that like nothing, how can money be deposited in other people's accounts?"

Bai Shibao bowed his head in silence, feeling very anxious.

The old man Jiang lowered his head and thought for a while, then said: "Could it be like this! I'll help you mobilize money and find a way for you to meet that ghost messenger!"

Bai Shibao was overjoyed and said, "Ah? Really?"

Old man Jiang said with a smile: "You don't have to thank me for that, just return it to me after you get the money!"

Bai Shibao knelt on the ground and thanked him, and said: "If you can let me see that brother, I will burn more money for you in the future!"

"Huanyang? You want to run out when you come here? I spent so much money, I only bought a 'You Que'er'. When someone from Shancai gets a son, I will make up for this 'You Queer' I don’t think you should even think about reincarnation and returning to the sun!” Old man Jiang paused and said, “Besides, even if you ran away, your physical body would have been damaged for so many days…”

Bai Shibao said: "If the parents of the body and hair and skin escape, I will also want the body with broken arms and legs. I can't just find a corpse and throw it in. It changes its appearance and bleeds other people's blood. I am ashamed of my ancestors!"

Old man Jiang sighed: "It's a man! Now, go and call the Yin soldiers over, I have something to say to them!"

Bai Shibao thanked Old Man Jiang, then lay down in front of the prison door and shouted: "Hey! Please come here, brother..."

(End of this chapter)