After breathing down, I got to the Lord of the Underworld

The pass sold by the underworld is similar to the ticket of Yangshi Huaguo. The paper is made of special material, which looks a bit like yellow talisman paper.

通行证算是往返票，上面记录了此次行程的起点、终点，以及通道开启时间：11月14日24:00——11月15日24:00。

The Cold Clothes Festival is on the first day of October, and it will be November 11th in the Gregorian calendar, which means that after 15 o'clock tonight, they can leave for Yangshi.

Yue Bai simply didn't start another fire, and stayed at Xu Zhaoxi's house for dinner.They cooked the two fish caught by Brother Shuigui, and after eating, they stayed in the living room, chatting on their mobile phones, and waited for midnight.

"Ta...ta...ta..."

The second hand turned and crossed the 12 o'clock line without a sound.

The night in the underworld is not as low-key as the time. As soon as 12:[-] arrives, the entire dark blue sky changes visible to the naked eye in an instant.

In the previously unchanging monochrome, suddenly there are dots of light, red, orange, yellow and green, neon flickering.The traffic flows through the night, which is as bright as day, and there are many brightly lit tall buildings in between.

Xu Zhaoxi looked in admiration, this is simply a mirage of the underworld version!

The second thing he looked forward to after checking the Cold Clothes Festival on the Internet was this "alternative projection" covering the entire underworld.

He stood in the yard with his neck up and stared intently, beside him was Yue Bai who was also looking up in amazement.

Pei Ji waited until they stopped, so he walked behind Xu Zhaoxi and kneaded the back of his neck, looked peacefully at the night sky, and said, "I can see more clearly during the Ghost Festival." The process is also different.

The projection is just an appetizer, and the real feast is the trip to the world afterward.

After Xu Zhaoxi and Yue Bai had their eyes full, the three ghosts took out their passes and lit them up.

The burning pass floated in the air, and the flames gradually expanded into a passage that ghosts could pass through, and a huge statue of the City God loomed at the other end of the passage.

Before crossing the passage, Pei Ji told Xu Zhaoxi: "Don't walk around there, just stand there and wait for me."

Xu Zhaoxi: "Yeah~"

Stepping into the passage, the surrounding scenery changed completely in just a blink of an eye, from an empty courtyard to a silent room.The room was an ancient building, and Yue Bai who had come a step earlier was touching and looking around in the room.

Xu Zhaoxi: "What are you doing?"

Yue Bai with his arm half inserted into the load-bearing column turned his head, and turned sideways to show the picture in front of him to Xu Zhaoxi, bluffing, "Look at Xu Xiaonian!"

He stretched his arms in and out as if showing off, and regarded the load-bearing column as nothing.

Xu Zhaoxi's mind moved when he saw it, and the soles of his feet slowly left the ground, and his whole body flew up lightly.Before flying too high, Pei Ji, who came over with his back foot, grabbed his right hand and pulled him back to the ground again.

Xu Zhaoxi happily shared with the male ghost: "Brother, I can fly!"

Pei Ji responded gently.

It was also 12 o'clock in the Yangshi, and the Temple of the City God, which was open to tourists during the day, had already closed its doors to thank visitors.

Yue Bai tried to fly over, and asked, "Shall we go too?"

Xu Zhaoxi glanced at Pei Ji first, and then said to Yue Bai: "My brother and I want to go back to see the dean first, how about you?"

"I'm going to see my grandparents," Yue Bai said, "Then let's split up when we get out of the City God's Temple. Anyway, we all know Sunan City well, so don't worry about getting lost. We'll meet up at the City God's Temple at 12 o'clock tonight."

Xu Zhaoxi: "OK."

Before leaving, Pei Ji reminded: "Be careful of Taoist priests."

Yuebai was so frightened that he almost came back to act with them.

Pei Ji: "... At most, he can see through Yin and Yang." Commonly known as hell.

After the chaos in Huaguo decades ago, many inheritances were interrupted and disappeared, and very few monks could cultivate Yin and Yang eyes, let alone catch and kill ghosts.

However, Pei Ji still told Yue Bai that he could send them a message if he had something to do. The signal of the mobile phone was not good in Yang Shi, and it was difficult to get through the phone.

The first time Xu Zhaoxi experienced the feeling of flying was when it was a novelty. He led Pei Ji all the way out of the City God's Temple, and his body floated up and down for a while, having a great time.

After a while, Xu Zhaoxi got tired of playing, and floated back to the male ghost, shaking his hand casually to chat: "Brother, why is there no City God in the City God Temple?"

Judging from the current situation, the underworld doesn't seem to be planning to stop contact with the yang world. Wouldn't it be more convenient to have a city god?

The two ghosts were on their way to the former orphanage "Happy House", and there was a traffic jam underneath.

A middle-aged uncle stopped by the side of the road to take a taxi, and told the driver that the location happened to be near the orphanage, so Pei Ji led Xu Zhaoxi into the car.

The uncle sat in the passenger seat, and the two ghosts naturally went to the back seat and sat down.

Only then did the male ghost reply: "Emperor Dongyue has always been in charge of contacting the Yang world."

Xu Zhaoxi: "So Emperor Dongyue doesn't care?"

Pei Ji smiled: "No, currently there is no Emperor Dongyue in the underworld."

Xu Zhaoxi was shocked.

Pei Ji told him that the original Emperor Dongyue chose to ascend because of the vacant seat in heaven, and now there is no Emperor Dongyue in the underworld.

Xu Zhaoxi was puzzled: "The working system of the underworld should be very complete. Could it be that without one Dongyue Emperor, it can't operate normally?"

Naturally not.

If Xu Zhaoxi has read the history of the development of the underworld, he would know that the ghosts and gods of the underworld disappeared for a long time about 200 years ago, which coincided with the change of Emperor Dongyue.

The original Emperor Dongyue ascended, and the rest of the ghosts and gods in the underworld disappeared. Later, Yangshi was in chaos for a while. The result of combining various reasons is: Yangshi unilaterally broke the connection with the underworld.

Even if there are still some town god's temples, Taoist temples and Buddhist temples left in Yangshi, they are at most only tourist attractions, and no one has seen ghosts and gods, and no one has seen the instructions given by ghosts and gods.

Xu Zhaoxi: "Then there will be no Emperor Dongyue?"

Pei Ji: "Maybe, maybe not, it depends on whether the law of heaven allows it."

Xu Zhaoxi frowned, but didn't understand.

Pei Ji didn't explain too much. He raised his eyes and looked at the eyes staring at them in the rearview mirror. When those eyes met his gaze, he suddenly looked back, and the car skidded:

"squeak--!!!"

The middle-aged man who was dozing off in the passenger seat was awakened. He grabbed his seat belt and asked, "What's going on? Damn you, can you drive?!" Such good road conditions can cause problems!

The front is good, the back is not good...

The driver who drove the car again did not dare to look back, and apologized perfunctorily to the customer: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the charge will be cheaper than yours later."

The uncle barely calmed down.

The accident just now also startled Xu Zhaoxi, the hand that was holding the male ghost tightened instantly, obviously he had already died once and turned into a ghost, the body's conditioned reflex still did not disappear.

Pei Ji held his hand instead, her voice still calm and gentle: "There is a book about the development history of the underworld that records the accident two hundred years ago, and some of the guesses are quite accurate, if you are interested every year, you can look it up. "

"Okay, when I finish reading Emperor Fengdu," Xu Zhaoxi nodded and said, "The author's rainbow fart is quite nice."

"..." The True Emperor Fengdu Great Chu didn't know how to answer.

It didn't take long for the taxi to drive to the side road leading to the orphanage, and the two ghosts got out of the car.

The driver in the car suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, feeling like his soul was going to the gate of hell.Before he could let go of his heart, a deep male voice sounded beside his ear:

"Your yang fire is low, and it's easy to bump into yin, so don't hang out outside."

Driver: "!!!" He immediately decided to deliver the order and go home!

After returning home, the driver posted his experience on the Internet, but unfortunately no one believed him, and said that he was idle in the middle of the night telling ghost stories.

Driver: It’s true that it’s a ghost story...

In an alley in the dark, one of the protagonists of the ghost story is saying to his little ghost: "Emperor Fengdu is busy managing the underworld now, and he will take over the work of Emperor Dongyue when he is free."

It also took over the authority that belonged to Emperor Dongyue.

It's a pity that the only kid who heard this sentence couldn't hear the aggression implied in the words, and just said: "Then you can come to the world often from now on?"

Pei Ji answered him along the way: "It's not impossible."

While speaking, the orphanage arrived, and the two ghosts stood side by side in front of the gate. Xu Zhaoxi looked up at the writing on the gate and said, "Forget that everyone is sleeping now."

It was quiet inside.

"Happy House" is located on a street in the old town of Sunan City. It has been built for decades, and the decoration outside the gate has long faded.

In Xu Zhaoxi's memory, when he first came to the orphanage, the writing on the door was still new.

Pei Ji: "Let's take a stroll around first?"

Xu Zhaoxi: "Okay."

The two ghosts wandered around.

There are quite a lot of ancient buildings in the old town, and there is a costume drama group filming here at night. Xu Zhaoxi floated over to watch, watching the heroine's crying scene, but she couldn't cry and could only howl dryly.

After a few times, the director pinched his nose and shouted "Okay", the heroine went to sit and rest, the new actors were much more proficient in acting, Xu Zhaoxi felt bored instead.

So the two ghosts went to KTV, amusement park, game hall... After dawn, they returned to the orphanage to see the dean's grandmother.

Dean Xu of Happy Home has the habit of getting up early, and she is more than 60 years old this year.

Dean Xu devoted his whole life to the children in the orphanage. He was never married, and now his face is wrinkled and his temples are gray.

Seeing the action of the dean's grandma beating her legs uncomfortably after she went upstairs, Xu Zhaoxi's nose turned sour, and she said sadly: "The dean's grandma is getting old a lot, and she didn't have so many gray hairs last time I met her."

First brother, then him, their deaths must have made the dean's grandmother sad.

Pei Ji put his hands on the top of the little ghost's hair, rubbed his hair, and said: "If you are worried every year, you can entrust the dean with a dream after you go back."

Emperor Fengdu held the power of death.So aging is not terrible for him, and death is just a process of reincarnation.

Xu Zhaoxi hummed with a small nasal voice: "This time we will upgrade the service!"

The two ghosts stayed in the orphanage all morning, and in the afternoon Pei Ji took Xu Zhaoxi to a city on the southeast coast.

The first day of October is the first day of winter, which represents the coming of cold winter. In ancient times, people would burn clothes to keep out the cold on this day, so there was the Cold Clothes Festival.

But now people in Yangshi seldom celebrate the Cold Clothes Festival, and only some places with strong customs still retain the tradition of burning cold clothes.

The city Pei Ji brought Xu Zhaoxi to is such a city where customs have been passed down.

"Creak." The old wooden door close to the statue of the door god was pushed open by a skinny hand, and an old woman in a kerchief came out.

She was holding a plastic bag in her hand, and the plastic bag contained a lot of miscellaneous things.

The two ghosts stood not far from the door and watched the old woman's actions quietly. The old woman didn't feel anything. After closing the door, she looked left and right, and quickly found a direction and hurried away.

Xu Zhaoxi and Pei Ji followed behind her.

They watched the old woman bring the Mingyi she made to sacrifice to the new tomb, burn incense and paper, and the burning smoke floated faintly, and disappeared without a sound when it reached a high enough position.

The old woman recited the names of the dead relatives while burning them, so only the corresponding ghosts could claim the money and clothes.

Xu Zhaoxi tried to pick it up before the smoke dissipated, but his hand went straight through the smoke.He didn't see a ghost appearing in front of the grave until the old woman finished offering sacrifices to the grave and left.

Ah, it's probably because the ghost drank Mengpo soup and couldn't remember it.

"These things will go into the underworld and be delivered to the ghosts she wants to deliver," Pei Ji said, "but there are not many qualified ones." After speaking, he took Xu Zhaoxi by the hand and took him to watch several grave sacrifices.

There are very few people who go out to worship the grave in the afternoon, and most of them go in the morning.After Xu Zhaoxi watched a few scenes, Pei Ji took him back to the old woman's house.

The sun sets and night falls.

The old woman in the house opened the door again after dinner, still carrying a plastic bag in her hand, but the plastic bag contained a brazier and yellow paper money.She and a few neighbors went to the side of the road a little farther away.

After choosing the location, several people set up the brazier and started to light the fire to burn paper in the basin.This is a road sacrifice, offering sacrifices to lonely souls and wild ghosts who come and go.

The two ghosts came here, Pei Ji gently pushed the little ghost's back, and smiled softly at him: "Go, I can take it this time."

Xu Zhaoxi glanced at the male ghost with bright eyes, then raised his feet and walked towards the brazier excitedly.The burning green smoke was floating and floating, he stretched out his hand to grab it, and when he unfolded it, there were a few coins in his palm.

Although the unit is yuan, it is also money. The wind blows~

But Xu Zhaoxi was so happy, isn't this just picking up money on the street!The corners of his mouth raised higher and higher, suddenly a ghost figure passed by in front of him, and when he looked again, his palm was empty.

The coins are gone!

Xu Zhaoxi: "!!!"

Ahhhhh my money!

He opened his mouth aggrievedly: "Brother——"

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