[Liao Zhai] I live in Lanruo Temple

Liu Qingyu, who once sold herself to Mu Yunxing and had Zhu Erdan's dream experience, felt the strangeness in it from the first time she came to this place.He secretly speculated that there might be some god who brought his soul to this weird place while he was asleep.

Zhang Ziyi and Feng Lingtao were reminded by Liu Qingyu when they came, and now they are no longer foolish to feel that they are just dreaming.

Only other Confucian scholars, on the one hand, are not sensitive, and on the other hand, they have not had the same weird experience as Liu Qingyu, so they don't know the truth.He just looked at the yamen servant with a researching expression, probably thinking that the dream he had this time was quite strange.

"Brother Liu."

Zhang and Feng Er didn't know the identity of the yamen servants, let alone where they wanted to take them and what they wanted to do. They were at a loss, and instinctively looked to Liu Qingyu for strength.

Liu Qingyu stood up and asked, "Where are the adults going to take us?"

After the question was finished, he closed his eyes to hide the cold light in the depths of his eyes, and touched his arm quietly.I thought in my heart, if they have malicious intentions, let them try the power of the god card.Although he promised Muyun Guild to use it to control the enemy some time ago, he never took it out and used it once.

"Go to see the lord above." The yamen servant's attitude was quite good, but his expression was rather anxious. After answering Liu Qingyu's question, he hurriedly urged. "Everyone, please hurry up, the exam is about to start."

It was the turn of a group of curious Confucian scholars to ask, "What kind of exam?"

The stern yamen servant didn't say much this time, he just kept urging people to go faster and faster.

After walking for a quarter of an hour, a towering and majestic city like a mountain appeared in the eyes of Liu Qingyu and the others, which was many times larger than the prosperous Jinhua City.

After thousands of steps, Liu Qingyu finally entered the city with the servants, and came to a magnificent palace.

"I can only send you here. Everyone, please continue to move forward and take the exam by yourself." The yamen servant who led the way stopped at the bottom of a long row of steps in front of the main hall, pointed to the door of the hall and explained a word, turned around and left. Walk.

The Confucian scholar, who didn't know the inside story, thought he was in an illusory dreamland where he could do whatever he wanted, with a bit of curiosity, but in his attitude, he swaggered in the hall as if it were his own home.

"Later, you two should be vigilant. If there is anything wrong, first find a place to hide and take care of yourself." Liu Qingyu turned her head and whispered to her friend, then looked at the main hall with vigilance, and said: "We will also take care of you." go in."

The atmosphere in the main hall was particularly solemn, with more than a dozen high-ranking officials sitting or standing directly above the central steps.Candidates who entered Liu Qingyu first were overwhelmed by the aura of the officials. Once they improved their attitude at the beginning of the hall, they dared not take a breath while standing below.

Liu Qingyu raised her eyes and glanced at the officials above, the most eye-catching one was a general with a heavy jujube face, phoenix eyes and long beard, and a green shirt. Taking a closer look, it was exactly the same as the statue of Guan Shengdijun enshrined in the Guandi Temple. If they are similar, isn't it Guandi himself?

Guandi is a loyal person, his character is very guaranteed.Seeing him, Liu Qingyu put down half of her guard, her pupils moved slightly, and then looked at some other officials around Emperor Guan.

It's a pity that their appearance is not as obvious as that of Emperor Guan, and Liu Qingyu can't tell which side is sacred.

As the last figure on the steps came into view, Liu Qingyu had a look of astonishment on his face, and Zhang Ziyi, who was standing behind him, had the same expression.

Because Liu Qingyu and Zhang Ziyi had only met that official a while ago, they were the ones who had asked for help and helped solve Lu Juan's Wei Juan.

Not only the loyal Emperor Guan, but also Wei Juan, who has always been fair, was also present, it seems that it is not a bad thing.Now Liu Qingyu finally relaxed her body and mind, she couldn't help but smile, and bowed to Wei Pan and the others.

Noticing Liu Qingyu's actions, Feng Lingtao and Zhang Ziyi immediately reacted and bowed.The rest of the examinees caught sight of the three of them from the corner of their eyes, and hurriedly made respectful gestures and bowed their hands.

Wei Pan, the main examiner of this exam, stood up and said: "I am the judge of the underworld. Due to the lack of competent manpower in the underworld recently, I have been ordered by King Qin Guang to select sixteen underworld officials for the underworld. In addition, Jinhua, Fengyang... Several places in the state urgently need two city gods and three lands. I heard that you have great talents, so I specially summoned the local government to participate in this selection test."

Liu Qingyu suddenly realized, and looked at other places in the hall, only to find that there were more than 70 tables on the other side of the hall, with the four treasures of the study on the table, just like a small examination room.

It turns out that this is the exam mentioned by the yamen servants earlier. In some places such as the underworld, there is a shortage of public officials, and they set up examination rooms in the underworld to select officials from the world to take up positions.

Liu Qingyu was well aware of the reason for the lack of officials, and it was nothing more than the case of Lu Judgment that caused a group of officials to fall.

After briefly explaining the purpose, Wei Juan ordered the ghost servant to guide the candidates to the test site and take their seats one by one.

The papers were quickly delivered to Liu Qingyu's desk, and there were eight characters written on the paper, "One person, two people, intentionally or unintentionally." This is the test question for this round of exams.

I don't know what the many candidates present are thinking, anyway, Liu Qingyu herself has no intention of taking up an official position in the underworld.However, he couldn't do something like deliberately failing the exam. Not only would he be sorry for the gentlemen who worked hard to teach him, but he would also be sorry for the importance of Wei Juan.

Liu Qingyu lowered his eyes and hesitated, and after only a moment passed, his eyes became firm, and he picked up a pen and ink, and quickly wrote down his opinion on the paper.

Wei Juan didn't say that those who pass the exam must stay in the underworld as officials, didn't they?What's more, he believed that Wei Pan, who was the chief examiner, was a human being.If the time comes to explain that he has no intention of serving as an official in the underworld, Wei Juan will definitely not force him.

Therefore, the exam still has to use real skills to take the exam.

Wei Pan only gave the candidates a stick of incense to answer, and he always paid attention to the burning of the incense stick.When the incense burnt out, Wei Pan immediately asked the ghost servant to beat the gong to collect the scroll, and he and Guan Di and other dozen officials read it on the spot and judged the good and the bad.

Candidates sat quietly below, staring at Wei Pan and the others. When they saw the latter gathered together and pointed at the article, they sometimes praised it, and sometimes shook their heads to show dissatisfaction.

The waiting time was particularly long. It seemed that a year had passed in the examinee's mind, and the result finally came out.At the same time, there were only 21 answer sheets left in the hands of Judge Wei.

The nervous candidates stood up unknowingly, or stretched their necks vigorously, trying to see if they had their own in the selected papers.But their positions were more than a hundred feet away from what Wei Pan said, even if they stretched their necks like giraffes, they still couldn't see a word clearly.

Therefore, their attempt was doomed to fail.

Next, Wei Juan began to announce the rankings in the exam. As expected, Liu Qingyu won the top spot with the best essay writing.Although some of the candidates were five or sixty years old with white beards and looked like they had studied for many years before they were full of knowledge, none of them was better than Liu Qingyu.

Among the next [-] places, although Feng Lingtao and Zhang Ziyi were at the bottom of the list, they accounted for two of them and were also selected.

Er, all the readings are over.

Those who were selected were sobbing with excitement, while those who were not selected were weeping sadly.

For a while, there was a lot of noise in the hall, and the ghost servant immediately stopped, and the two crying voices with opposite emotions were suppressed.

Wei Juan first asked Liu Qingyu, "You have a clear eye, a bright mind, great intelligence, and the courage of others, Lan Zhi's character. Ever since Lu Juan pleaded guilty, the underworld has never found anyone to serve as a judge. Do you have the will? ?”

Calling him such a compliment, Liu Qingyu couldn't help but blush, feeling ashamed if he didn't agree.Fortunately, his brain has not been corroded by the sugar-coated shells, and he has maintained his sanity.

At the moment when Liu Qingyu opened her mouth to decline, Mu Yunxing, who thought he was going to nod in response, suddenly said: "The soul enters the underworld to become an official, and the body in the underworld will die."

Really, why didn't I make a sound until now?Suddenly, he was almost frightened again, okay?

Thinking of Mu Yunxing in her mind, but without delay Liu Qingyu said apologetically outside her mind: "Thank you, Wei Pan, for your appreciation, but I still have many unfulfilled wishes in the world, I am afraid I don't have the fate to be colleagues with you, so why not?" Please excuse me."

He had intended to refuse, but hearing Mu Yunxing's words made him even more determined.

Wei Juan stared at the firmness between Liu Qingyu's brows, nodded his head to express his understanding, just as Liu Qingyu expected, he didn't force it, and he didn't mean to get angry at all.He settled for the next best thing and asked the candidate who ranked No. 2 if he would like to be a judge.

That is an old man in his sixties, with talent, learning and character.Unexpectedly, the luck was bad, and he had not won a Jinshi in the imperial examination in Yangjian for more than 40 years.

He wept with joy, tears streaming down his face, and he kept nodding.Liu Qingyu was very worried when she saw it, especially worried that the old man would kill her.

"I forgot to remind you, if you agree to take up the official position in the underworld, then the body in the underworld will die at that time." Wei Juan and Mu Yunxing used different words and sentences, but they expressed the same meaning and told the same story. matter.He forgot to mention it when he asked Liu Qingyu just now, but now he remembered it.

A sentence from Wei Pan fell down, and Feng Lingtao, whose ears were flushed with excitement, lost all thoughts in an instant.

He hasn't lived enough yet. Although it is very tempting to be an official in the underworld, the underworld is no more beautiful and lively than the world after all.If you can only choose one of the two, Feng Lingtao will of course choose the human world.

On the contrary, Zhang Ziyi hesitated.

His biological mother died young, and his biological father became a stepfather after marrying his step-wife.The stepmother is not easy to get along with, and the remaining children don't want to see him.To be honest, apart from Liu Qingyu and a few friends in the world, there is nothing worthy of Zhang Ziyi's nostalgia.

Furthermore, for him, it doesn't make any difference whether it is an official in the yang world or an official in the underworld.Yangjian's imperial examinations are notoriously difficult to pass, and some people spend their entire lives in the imperial examinations, and they may not be able to win the imperial examinations until they die.This time there is a good opportunity to display his ambitions as an official in the underworld, and Zhang Ziyi really doesn't want to miss it.

However, being a Yin official means that he has to be separated from his friends by Yin and Yang.

In an instant, Zhang Ziyi's heart split into two halves, one half let him stay in the underworld, and the other half let him go back to the human world.

He was in a dilemma, his brain was in chaos, sweat beads fell one by one, and he couldn't make a choice for a long time.

Liu Qingyu saw Zhang Ziyi's entanglement from his expression, and turned her head to meet Feng Lingtao's eyes.

The two were silent for a long while, and when their eyes met again, they suddenly said at the same time: "Brother Zhang, just do what you want, we respect your opinion! I guess Brother Wang, Brother Wang and Brother Gu are the same."

In the strange world of Liaozhai, Zhang Ziyi still exists even though his body is dead, but in the form of a ghost. They have not lost this friend.

Moreover, the distance between the yang world and the under world cannot block the friendship between them. If they want to meet each other, it is not impossible.If Zhang Ziyi had really chosen the path of being a yin official, they could regard Zhang Ziyi as living in another place.

"Brother Liu, Brother Feng... If you have friends like this, how can you ask for more?" Zhang Ziyi held back the hands of Liu Qingyu and the two of them, holding back tears, and said emotionally, "Thank you!"

Zhang Ziyi made a choice from his heart, and finally chose the underworld.Liu Qingyu and the others smiled understandingly, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Remember to come back and see us when you have time."

Zhang Ziyi's eyes were red, and he nodded like pounding garlic.

In addition to Feng Lingtao, there were two other candidates who chose to withdraw from the selected list.One said that his father and mother had only one son, and he wanted to stay in the world to carry on the family line.Another said that the old mother was the only one left in the family, and she was going back to take care of her until she died.

Judge Wei agreed to their withdrawal, and picked out three candidates with higher rankings from among the unsuccessful candidates who had no attachment to the human world, and filled the vacancies of the three.

So far, all 21 vacancies have been confirmed.

Wei Juan summoned the ghost slave and sent him to lead everyone back to Yangshi.

At the same time, Zhang Ziyi and other confirmed employees were also given one night. If there was anything they wanted to explain to their family and friends, they would use this night to explain it.When the sun is about to rise, it will come down to the underworld to go to various places in a unified way.

With a sad mood, Liu Qing walked towards the entrance of the main hall with the flow of people.

Just as his left foot was above the threshold, before he could cross it, Wei Pan suddenly stopped him. "Liu Lang-jun, wait a moment, please come in and talk about something."

Facing the friend's questioning eyes and other people's probing eyes, Liu Qingyu turned around with a blank face, and walked slowly to Wei Pan.

Before he could ask anything, Wei Juan, who was reminded by his subordinates, got straight to the point and said, "A few days ago, the Underworld lost two Kings of Hades, and it took ten days for one of them to come to the Underworld to take up his post. For these ten days, are you willing to temporarily Take the place of Hades?"

After a pause, Wei Pan then added: "You don't have to come all day, you can do whatever you want in the world during the day, you just need to go to the underworld at night to help with some official duties."

Focusing on the two words "ten days" and "temporary generation", Mu Yunxing thought that with Liu Qingyu's current situation, it would be a good experience to temporarily act as the King of Hades. In addition, he can gain a little merit by doing things fairly, so it's not like before. Speak up to stop.

Liu Qingyu thought that she only needed to help with the affairs for ten days, and immediately said that she would be happy to help Wei Pan with this small favor.

Wei Juan stroked his beard and smiled, and personally sent Liu Qingyu back to Yangshi.

In the gazebo on Chisong Mountain, Liu Qingyu woke up with her eyes wide open, and five enlarged faces immediately appeared in front of her eyes.He raised his slap and almost greeted them. Fortunately, it was Wang Keshou who reacted and listened in mid-air in horror.

"Are you guys so frightening?" Liu Qingyu patted the table and said.

"It's our fault." Everyone admits their mistakes faster than anything else. Turning their heads, Wang Nan asked Liu Qingyu anxiously: "Tell me quickly, what did Judgment Wei leave you alone to talk about in the end?"

Zhang Ziyi and Feng Lingtao returned to the human world much earlier than Liu Qingyu. Before Liu Qingyu woke up, the two had already told Wang Nan and the others about their souls entering the underworld to test the Yin officials and Zhang Ziyi's choice.

The friend is about to leave, Wang Nan and the others are sad, but their blessings to Zhang Ziyi will not be less.

Later, when Zhang Ziyi mentioned that Wei Juan specially left Liu Qingyu to talk, Wang Nan and the others were so curious that they were restless.Now seeing Liu Qingyu waking up, naturally she couldn't wait to ask.