Yan ghost

That night was the first time Feng Zhu saw Yin Zhai.At that time, the master and the apprentice were making a wooden armor together, and a ghost kept wandering by the teacher's side.

The ghost asked: "Are you Xiang Yan?" Xiang Yan nodded and said: "You wait for a while, I will come to you when I finish the work at hand." The ghost sat down on the side, but the more he waited, the more impatient he got up With a long halberd, he paced back and forth in the courtyard.

Feng Zhu whispered: "Teacher, why is this ghost different from others." Xiang Yan said seriously: "Don't point fingers at the ghost." Feng Zhu bowed his head and said yes.

When it was approaching midnight, the wooden armor who delivered the supper came.The ghost stared blankly at the wooden armor, like a weasel looking at a chicken, for a long time, then sat back down.

Feng Zhu and Xiang Yan eat supper together.Feng Zhu said: "Teacher, it's really quiet at home today." Xiang Yan said: "Maybe there is some festival, everyone should go out and play."

Half an hour later, the two completed the wooden armor.Just at the time of celebration, the long halberd fell and split the wooden armor just made in half.Feng Zhu protected Xiang Yan who was sitting on the ground in fright, seeing the ghost approaching step by step.

Xiang Yan was distressed for the past few days, and said angrily, "What are you doing!" The wooden armor that was smashed into the ground by the ghost smiled smugly: "I want you to test my patience. Tell me, where are all the ghosts!"

The Yin difference suddenly disappeared in front of his eyes.Suddenly, Xiang Yan was hit hard on the back, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.Feng Zhu cried out in surprise.Xiang Yan learned that it was a errand, and concealed it: "My lord, I don't know what the hell it is."

"Don't try to lie to me." The long halberd thrust forward violently, lifted Xiang Yan's lapel, threw it aside, and rolled it back and forth on the ground to play.The ghost said: "I heard that Yanshi in the capital made wooden armor to hide hundreds of wandering souls. Your house is very dark, and you still say there are no ghosts?"

While making noise, the long halberd broke.Yin Cha cursed, and reluctantly put him in peace.Xiang Yan took advantage of the situation and ran away.Yin Cha caught up, swung his halberd, and hung his general above his head, threatening: "Take me to see the wooden armor."

Xiangyan Fengzhu was in the front, and the errand was in the back. He walked around the house, but he didn't find a single wooden armor.Xiang Yan and Feng Zhu whispered: "You're right, the house is really quiet today." Feng Zhu said: "Those guys are smart and have already hidden."

"What are you muttering about?" The errand sniffed, pointed to a room and asked, "What is that?" Xiang Yan replied, "The warehouse." The errand forced him to open it.As soon as I opened the door, I saw a room full of wooden armor, and I was extremely proud.

Xiang Yan said: "It's just some old wooden armor, there is no ghost." Yin said fiercely: "I don't know how to read it myself!" After saying that, he approached the wooden armor.

Xiang Yan Fengzhu followed closely behind, and saw that several wooden armors with souls were mixed in.Yincha swung his halberd, and the wooden armor fell down in pieces.The few wooden armors fell to the ground in pain, not daring to move, the two of them couldn't help sweating.

Yin Cha didn't find anything unusual, and still didn't believe it, so he knelt down and reached out to Yimujia.He was about to leave his soul, when a voice came from behind.

"What's going on?" It was Lin Jiang.

Several people turned their heads.Xiang Yan hurriedly waved his hands behind his back, quickly drove the ghosts away, stepped forward and pushed Lin Jiang out and said, "It's okay, it's just that a distinguished guest has come. You go back to your room first."

Yin Cha asked: "Who is he?" Xiang Yan said: "My younger brother, Xiang Yu."

"Brother?" Yin Cha glanced at the life and death book, saw that his brother's name was indeed Xiang Yu, so he didn't care much, and said, "He really doesn't look like you."

Xiang Yan laughed and said, "My younger brother is good-looking and tall, and his parents dote on him."

Hearing Xiang Yan's lie, Lin Jiang felt even more uneasy, and asked in a low voice: "What's going on." Xiang Yan urged: "Don't worry about it, go quickly." Lin Jiang hesitated to leave.Yin Zai didn't become suspicious, presumably the doll was too realistic.

Xiang Yan heaved a sigh of relief, and turned his head, only to find that the servant had gone crazy and chopped up all the wooden armor in the house.

After that night, the errand was stationed at Xiang's house.Every day, he is like a debt collector hooligan, stalking around.Annoyed, he poked Xiang Yan on the halberd to play.

Tell Feng Zhu to Yan, and put up notices around the house, saying that the business is closed behind closed doors, and guests are invited not to come.The ghost who went out seems to have spread the news, anyway, during that time, there was no ghost coming.

On this day, Yin Cha was guarding the master and apprentice in the court as usual.The two made the wooden armor in peace, and he just stared at the wooden armor with spells walking back and forth in a daze, threatening from time to time, checking to see if there were any ghosts inside.

Xiang Yan said: "The job of the errand is quite leisurely. It's been more than ten days. Don't you have to go back to the underworld to report?"

Xiang Yan said: "Your Excellency, you can walk around. I heard that there is an ancient temple outside the capital city, which was caught in a fire ten years ago—" the messenger interrupted: "If you guard you, you can catch ghosts. You The yin in the house is weaker than when I came here, but it hasn't dissipated yet, there must be ghosts wandering around."

Xiang Yansheng was afraid that Lin Jiang would be exposed, so he didn't dare to say more, so he changed his tune and said: "This long halberd is a bit old."

"If you can't catch ghosts, where can you get the money to repair it?" There was something in those words, very bitter.

Xiang Yan asked: "The errands are paid according to the number of ghosts they catch?"

Yin said: "Nonsense, I don't work if I have to pay the public salary. The superior is very smart." He nodded to Yan, and then listened to him: "In the capital under our jurisdiction, the number of ghosts has dropped sharply in recent years. I can't afford to eat."

"Sudden decrease?"

"Since the wooden armor, there are no ghosts who are willing to reincarnate. The underworld has been depleted, and sinners cannot be punished."

When Xiang Yan heard the words, he was full of self-blame but helpless, he could only say: "Let me fix it for you, and I won't charge you."

Yincha immediately put the halberd in his arms, looking very precious, and wiped it while saying: "The guy who wants to break my meal? No way."

Seeing that this was the case, Xiang Yan silently made a new pair of long halberds and put them quietly in the courtyard.The next day, the long halberd disappeared, and Xiang Yan was very happy.

But ever since Yincha took away the long halberd without a word, he never came back.

A few days later, Xiang Yan found a teenager peeking at him from a corner.He stepped forward and asked, "Why are you here? Didn't I put a sign on my door saying that I don't want to make wooden armor?"

The ghost shook his head and said, "I don't know how to read." Xiang Yan said, "Let's go quickly. Recently, there was an evil messenger catching ghosts at my place, and everyone went out to avoid the limelight." The ghost cried, "But I'm in a hurry to ask for a doll, save me younger sister."

Ask Yan what happened.The ghost said: "My family lives in the capital city. A few days ago, I went home with my sister to visit my grandmother who was seriously ill. On the way, I met a bandit. The bandit not only robbed me of property, but also killed me and took my sister away. If I don't go to rescue her sooner , I'm afraid it's..." Xiang Yan's heart softened.

"You find a place to hide first, and get the doll after three days."

"But that mountain bandit is amazing—"

"Don't worry, I will make you a more powerful puppet, let's go."

Three days later, the ghost came again, and Xiang Yan possessed his soul.The ghost got the doll for the first time, and excitedly grabbed a few talisman wooden armors and punched and kicked, excitedly said: "I haven't felt this way for a long time."

"It's as if you've been dead for a long time." Xiang Yan said.

The wooden armors fell to the ground, unable to turn over, helped Yan one by one, and asked: "By the way, what is your name, I will engrave it for you." He lightly pulled the ghost's clothes, and the ghost nervously protected the back of his neck. .Xiang Yan explained: "Carve your name on it, and other ghosts will not be able to steal your doll." The ghost hesitated for a while, then replied, "Mizhu."

Coincidentally, since Mizhu took the doll and left that day, all the ghosts have also returned one after another.The Xiang family immediately resumed its former bustle.

After a few days, Mi Zhu also came back, and said with joy on his face: "Master Xiang, thanks to your doll, I have been avenged, and my sister has also been resettled." He looked at the ghosts in the courtyard, and begged : "Master Xiang's house is full of guests, busy day and night, I want to help you at night to repay your kindness."

Xiang Yan said: "You're welcome, you don't know how to make wooden armor, so you won't be able to help if you stay." Mizhu said sadly: "I can't make wooden armor. Can you help me carry the wood and send supper for the students?" ?” Seeing that the kindness was hard to turn down, Xiang Yan had no choice but to agree.

In the month that followed, two strange things happened.One is that the bamboo forests outside the city frequently caught fire, and it was suspected that someone deliberately set the fires.The second is that there are a lot less wooden armors coming to Xiang's family.

Feng Zhu explained these two matters to Xiang Yan.Xiang Yan asked: "Has the wooden armor decreased? We still do it very late." Feng Zhu said: "The entrustment is the same as in the past, but the wooden armor will always come back to the teacher for repairs or gift visits. These days are gone. " Xiang Yan asked: "Do you suspect that these two things are related?" Feng Zhu nodded.Xiang Yan said: "If it is arson, it will leave clues, let's go and see together."

That night, the two came to the bamboo forest, and they really picked up a bunch of burning strings on the ground.At this moment, a fire broke out not far away, and the two rushed to see the lost puppet fall to the ground.Xiang Yan leaned over and called out, realizing that he had lost his soul.

"Teacher, it's the wooden armor!" Feng Zhu pointed to the unburned wooden armor under the fire.The two immediately rushed to the side of the creek to get water to put out the fire.Suddenly, they found that the ghost of the lost candle appeared behind the fire.

The two put out the forest fire.Feng Zhu squatted in front of the wooden armor, and said strangely: "These wooden armors have just been made these days, but the ghost inside has disappeared." Xiang Yan asked Mizhu: "What happened?" Mizhu said: "Yes. It's a sinister mistake that pulled out everyone's souls and took them away."

Xiang Yan was silent for a moment, and asked softly: "The puppet I signed can't leave the soul even if it's a ghost. How did you get out?" Mi Zhu didn't answer.Xiang Yan asked again: "Why are all the wooden armors burned, but yours was left outside?" This time, his voice was a little trembling.

"It seems that you are not stupid." There was a sneer on the corner of Mizhu's mouth, and the next moment he changed back to a sinister look.

"Thanks to you, I made a lot of money. Those ghosts took your wooden armor, and I took it away as soon as I went out. I wanted to cooperate with you forever like this. You will be your wooden armor, and I will take mine. Ghost. You just want to die, and you want to expose it. Since you can't continue playing, I have to take you back to the underworld!"

Mi Zhu rushed forward and grabbed Xiang Yan.Feng Zhu wanted to stop him, but was knocked out by the long halberd.When he woke up, Xiang Yan had disappeared.

After that, members of Xiang's family searched in and out of the city for more than 20 days, but they did not find any trace of Xiang Yan.Until one day, a letter came from home, and only one location was written on the letter.

Several people rushed to see that it was a wild grave.When the grave was dug open, there was a newly buried coffin, and there was a slight sound inside.

They opened the coffin tremblingly, and a bad smell came over them.I saw Xiang Yan lying in the coffin, chewing dry food in his mouth.Feng Zhu asked Xiang Yan, but he suffered in hell, so Xiang Yan shook his head.Feng Zhu asked what happened again, but Xiang Yan couldn't remember anything.

But since that incident, the mansion has never seen any errands come to catch ghosts.

Yama of the Second Palace is going to judge the case, and the little ghosts all ran to watch.

Yan Luo sat in the dilapidated palace, with a judge standing beside him.The two little ghosts helped a scorched sinner in, followed by the sinner who pushed the man off the copper pillar just now.

Xiang Yan put on a human mask and quietly stood among a group of servants.

Yan Luo asked: "What did the people in the audience commit?"

The little ghost replied: "These two escaped from prison."

Yan Luo asked again: "Can you plead guilty?"

The two sinners replied: "Plead guilty."

The judge said: "If you escape from prison, you can get an additional sentence of 50 years." Yan Luo nodded.

Hearing this, the sinner hurriedly defended: "My lord, he escaped from prison, and I committed murder on purpose. I pushed him off the copper pillar, and all the shackles present saw it."

The little ghosts responded that this was indeed the case, Yan Luo let out a long sigh.The judge asked: "You killed the prisoner and attracted the attention of the underworld. Could it be that you don't want to escape?"

The sinner was at a loss for words, wanted to say something, but dared not say it.The charred sinner on the side said weakly: "I accidentally fell off the copper pillar. It has nothing to do with him. He wanted to save me, but he didn't stop." The sinner said anxiously: "Nonsense, who wants to save you. My lord , This person always reported to the underworld guards on weekdays and added three times as much charcoal to me, so I tricked him into running away with me and took the opportunity to kill him with a grudge in my heart."

Xiang Yan was puzzled and said: "This one insists on taking the blame on himself, but the other one who was pushed off the copper pillar wants to clear his name."

The servant next to him heard this, and answered: "The one who took the crime had a lover in the next level of hell before he was alive. He made troubles again and again, just wanting to aggravate his sins and meet him. The one who cleanses his sins usually fights against him, and he always hinders him." Xiang Yan suddenly realized.

The judge wrote down a few words, and sentenced: "Those who escaped from prison will be punished with 50 years, and those who attempted murder will be punished with another ten years, and they will be taken back to be punished." When the criminal heard this, he made a big fuss on the spot, threatening to kill the burnt black ghost.Yan Luo waved his hand, and the brats dragged the two away.

Xiang Yan said: "It's been 50 years since you escaped from prison, but it's been [-] years since you attempted to kill someone. Your lord judge is a little too casual." The crime is determined by the severity of the crime."

"Then what is the decision?"

"The length of each ghost's remaining sentence." Yin said, "In the past ten years, there have been fewer sinners in hell, but more cases have been sent to Yan Luo. Do you know why?" Xiang Yan said he didn't know, and Yin continued Said: "The ghosts here are all in order to leave and wait for work. They go to the lower hell where they are punished with labor, and rack their brains to commit crimes. Yan Luo is afraid that the population will decrease again, so he asks the judge to calculate it like this. It just so happens that they will not let people go."

"Very powerful." Xiang Yanzheng said, his expression became serious.A group of ghosts came in front of them, they were mighty and mighty, they didn't look like they were escorted by those little ghosts nearby.

Yan Luo asked: "What did you commit? Why are there so many sinners?"

The little ghost replied: "My lord, tens of thousands of copper pillars collapsed."

Yan Luo asked again: "What does the collapse of the copper pillar have to do with them?"

The little ghost looked back and said: "They said they brought down the copper pillar." Look at the lineup of people in front of the hall, there are indeed such numbers.

Yan Luo sneered: "A single copper pillar weighs tens of millions of catties, how could they knock it down?"

Immediately, Yin Cha presented a chain and replied: "At that time, the chains stretched into a huge net and were intertwined with each other. When a copper pillar fell, it pulled tens of thousands of them."

Yan Luo asked: "Where do you get so many chains?" Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

The judge said: "It seems that the perpetrators are other people. None of these people should be charged."

Upon hearing this, a sinner immediately came forward and said, "I made it."

The judge said: "If you build a chain and destroy the copper pillar, you will be sentenced to a million years in prison. If you don't live enough to measure the sentence, you will have to go to hell."

When the sinner heard this, he shrank back without saying a word.Later, another person said: "The chain was made by everyone, and he cannot be punished alone. The punishment should be averaged over a million years." As soon as this remark was made, people stepped forward one after another.

But later, there were too many people who came out, and finally someone stopped them in a low voice: "Only 100 people can come out, and each person will be in the crowd for 1 years." Unfortunately, everyone still refused to give in, and all said they had a share.

The judge laughed lightly: "There are tens of thousands of sinners, and each of them will receive 100 years. Go back and tie them to the unfallen copper pillars and squeeze with the others."

The sinners made a fuss and refused to go back with the little ghosts.They wanted to go to the lower level, but they couldn't go now, which aggravated the crime.Yan Luo yawned and said, "So many people have been interrogated today, the remaining cases will be looked at tomorrow."

It took a while for the sinners to be driven away.Only the servants remained in front of the hall.

Yan Luo asked: "What should we do with the copper pillar?" The judge said: "The perpetrator needs to be found out. As for the collapsed copper pillar, since the ghosts have confessed their crimes, order them to push the copper pillar back."

Xiang Yan stepped forward and said, "My lord, I saw the copper pillars piled up like a mountain, and the sinners must have no ability to return their things to their original places." When Yan Luo heard this, his head hurt again.Xiang Yan said again: "All Yin officials are good at creating things, can I ask them to help rebuild?"

Yan Luo said sadly: "Zhonghe has never been on good terms with us, even if we humbly beg, we may not be willing to help." Asked Yan: "If we exchange ghosts—"

"Absurd! It's good that Zhongchengri will compete with us for ghosts. We'll come and deliver them to them." Yan Luo was already displeased, and Xiang Yan still said, "But that pile of copper is useless right now, I'm afraid it will fall to other hells. If you want to say that there are not enough torture tools, transfer our people.”

Yan Luo thought about it calmly, and it was the truth, so he asked helplessly, "Can't we fix it by ourselves?" The judge took out his abacus, dialed the beads and shook his head, and said, "My prison funds are tight..."

Xiang Yan made a bow and recommended himself: "My lord, the younger one has some personal relations with that erroneous and mischievous Zhu. Can you let the younger one go to have a try and try to talk about it so that there will be less ghosts."

Xiang Yan walked out of Yan Luo Hall, sat down on the stone steps, leaned his head on the long halberd, and closed his eyes.

Open your eyes again, and you will see the burning mountain on the opposite side, accompanied by fireworks all over the sky, a scene of prosperity.Turning his head to Yan, Feng Zhu sat beside him, everything seemed to go back to the night when they first met.

"teacher."

"It's a good dream." After Xiang Yan finished speaking, Feng Zhu smiled.Whenever this person is praised by the teacher, he will show this lovely expression.

Xiang Yan asked, "Where did Lin Jiang go? Wasn't she with you?"

Feng Zhu said: "He is entangled."

"What's going on!" Xiang Yan hurriedly recalled what bad things happened to him, but Feng Zhu added with a smile: "He was entangled by Mengyao."

Shout out to Yan.Feng Zhu said again: "Meng Yao seems to be possessed by a demon, and she is determined to marry him. I saw that he was very reserved because of me, so he came here by himself."

Xiang Yan scratched his head, thinking that he was also stalking Lin Jiang at the General Tomb back then, and Meng Yao was probably as lustful as himself.

Seeing that Xiang Yan was shy, Feng Zhu stopped making fun of him and asked, "How is the matter going?"

Xiang Yan said: "Although the chains I changed pulled down the copper pillar, it was not enough to convict the people and transfer them to prison. Fortunately, the collapse of the copper pillar is not a trivial matter. Yan Luo has agreed to let me be a messenger and ask the public for help in exchange for ghosts. When the time comes I will test the lost candle to see if I can let go of the sinner I replaced."