[Comprehensive] Traveling through Liaozhai with a hundred ghosts

The two city gods were so frightened that they got out of the car and hurriedly confessed their crimes, saying that they knew their mistakes.

Just thinking about the smoky situation just now, and what he heard from both sides of the underworld and the world, it seems that this kind of fight is not the first time, so Xu Hang doesn't really believe their confession at the moment. .He still said angrily: "As officials, you don't set an example to do your duty well, but take the lead in comparison and love vanity. It's really useless to be an official!"

Seeing that Xu Hang didn't seem to be so easy to fool anymore, and didn't accept their begging for mercy, the two city gods began to panic.After all, this is a fairy from the upper realm. If the other party really wants to investigate and report it, their official hats will definitely fall off.

Whether it is during life or after death, it is natural that those with power and power can get along more comfortably.Although many books and religions advise the world that money is something external to the body, if you don’t bring it with you when you die, if you don’t take it with you when you die, it will be turned into a handful of loess after death, but in fact these are just words of comfort for ordinary people to deceive themselves and others That's all.After the death of the powerful, they are buried in a coffin, but ordinary people are buried in a thin coffin or even a mat.Not to mention that besides their children and grandchildren, the rich and powerful also have many people who had contacts with them because of their interests during their lifetime, who came to express their condolences.But for the common people, apart from Qingming, there are a few people who usually come to burn incense and paper for them, and they are still poor ghosts when they arrive in the underworld.

Realizing that the official title was not stable, County Magistrate Wu was the first to call out his grievances: "Immortal Lord Mingjian! The reason why the little one would conflict with this city god is not all because of wanting to compare luxury, but because the young He entrapped me, so I really can't swallow this breath, so I want to compete with him!"

The city god immediately blew his beard and stared, and said: "Don't blame me! When did I cheat you! It is clear that you first troubled me when you were alive. Originally, the people here volunteered to sacrifice to me, but you couldn't see it and forbid them to sacrifice to me. Forget it, you actually asked the officials to take my statue to beat me for twenty big boards! I have no grievances with you, and I have not caused anyone to make a mistake, so why do you beat me up?"

Xu Hang frowned when he heard this, it seemed that there was something inside?

And the county magistrate Wu noticed the change in Xu Hang's expression, his heart skipped a beat, and he said hastily: "Isn't it because I saw that the people spent a lot of time and money in making so many cumbersome and luxurious things in order to sacrifice to you, so I couldn't see it? I didn’t have enough food and clothing, but I wanted to offer incense to you. Besides, when I climbed the ladder to pick fruit from the tree, you let a ghost trip over the ladder, causing me to fall down and die. Do you think I don’t know about this!”

Xu Hang looked at the God of City God, and felt Xu Hang's gaze, God of City God was even more frightened, sweating all over his head, and said, "Immortal Lord Mingjian! I never asked a ghost to do such a thing, it's him who slandered me! Please Xianjun Mingjian! Although I have a grudge against him for hitting me before, I really never thought of murdering his life to get revenge!"

Both sides were very sincere, and Xu Hang couldn't help pondering. Seeing Xu Hang thinking about it, the two city gods felt uneasy.

After a while, Xu Hang asked County Magistrate Wu, "How do you know that he killed you?"

County Magistrate Wu immediately replied: "It was the young one who also became the God of the City God, and a kid revealed it to me."

Because the two city gods still brought a guard of honor, now they all stopped on the street and blocked the street.Xu Hang noticed that some ghosts who wanted to cross this street couldn't get through, so he had to make a detour.So he said: "Get up for me first, and then make it clear in the court."

The faces of the two city gods were pale, and it seemed that the matter was not going to end well. The posture of this fairy was clearly about to be promoted to the court for interrogation in person!Although the two of them have different minds, some are guilty of being guilty and afraid that things will be revealed, and some are secretly happy that they may take this opportunity to bring down the other party, but it is also very likely that they were conniving at their subordinates to fight in the street today, so the two were killed. After the trial, they were dismissed together.

And if Xianjun himself ascends to the hall, I am afraid that Yan Luo will also be alarmed.

Even so, they did not dare to resist the order, so they had to go to the court in the city honestly.

As for the big event like the trial of the two city gods, it naturally spread in the underworld very quickly. On the other side of the underworld, there was a fairy king who suddenly came down to visit the underworld. Of course, a ghost messenger notified Yan Luo very soon.

Therefore, when Yan Luo, who also had problems, heard the ghost messenger say that Xu Hang was going to be promoted, he almost thought that he had found someone to replace him so quickly, and almost jumped out of his seat in fright.Then he heard that it was the two city gods from Wu County who bumped into each other while they were on tour, and the honor guards on both sides were fighting in the street, and Xianjun happened to bump into him, Yan Luo was relieved.

Yan Luo tidied up his official uniform, straightened his official hat that was a little crooked just now due to the shock of the news, and said in a tone of hatred: "Those two useless things! Didn't I tell them that they might be in trouble in the past two days?" Is someone from above coming? Why don't you know how to restrain yourself, and let's put aside these usual personal grievances for the time being!"

Then he said to the ghost messenger who notified him: "Prepare the sedan chair, I'll go and have a look at the scene."

All the immortals have arrived, and Yan Luo, as the most senior official of the Yin Division in this area, now that the immortals are going to be promoted, of course he has to come forward.

Not long after, Yan Luo came to the place where he was promoted, and Xu Hang was already sitting in the court hall, with two city gods below him.After Yan Luo arrived, he asked the ghost messenger to inform him, and then he came in. When he passed by, he noticed the gazes of the two city gods, and couldn't help but glared at these two subordinates who had more than succeeded but failed.

Yan Luo ignored them, but hurriedly called upon Xu Hang after seeing Xu Hang: "I have seen the fairy, and the two subordinates are useless. Let the fairy laugh at you."

Xu Hang looked at Yan Luo calmly, and said: "Your management here seems to be a little chaotic. I heard that you made a mistake and took away the souls of people who had not yet reached their end of life. Now I am here. Later, I saw two city gods here fighting in the street."

Yan Luo was sweating, and smiled apologetically: "It's because the management is not strict, so the people below take advantage of the loopholes. I implore Xianjun to give me a chance to redeem my sins. In the next three months, no, within one month! I will definitely meet in the next three months." Get this side straightened out!"

Seeing Yan Luo's swearing and candid appearance, and his attitude of pleading guilty very well, Xu Hang decided not to argue with him for the time being, and dealt with the main issue at hand first.

Seeing that Xu Hang didn't say much, and motioned him to step aside, Yan Luo secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

Lu Juan came over to tell him before that when a fairy king asked about Wang Lan, he was frightened, thinking that he had been found out about leaving his post without authorization.Fortunately not, it turned out that he asked the ghost messenger to take Wang Lan to revive his soul, but Wang Lan's body was already rotten, and the ghost messenger was afraid that he would not be able to do the job when he came back, so he robbed a fox's inner alchemy and made Wang Lan a ghost fairy. It was a coincidence that the fox later met the fairy who was traveling in the mortal world and complained to the fairy.

Yan Luo secretly scolded these subordinates as being useless compared to one another, but luckily Lu Juan came over to say hello to him, and he hurriedly asked someone to clear up all the traces of him finding someone to replace him overnight.

Xu Hang looked at the two city gods below, and first said to County Magistrate Wu: "You said a little ghost told you, so where is this little ghost now? I want to ask him to come and confront him."

County Magistrate Wu hurriedly reported: "He is a casual worker in the house who does odd jobs. He will know this because he also worked as a casual worker at another city god before. He heard it when he was chatting with other chores over there."

Soon, the little ghost was brought to the court by ghost messengers.

Xu Hang repeated County Magistrate Wu's confession, and asked, "Is what he said true? How did you hear that it was ordered by the City God?"

The little ghost was working, but a ghost messenger suddenly appeared and asked him to testify in court, but he was a little nervous and frightened, and he opened his mouth several times but couldn't make a sound.

Until Xu Hang said: "Just say what you know, I don't have to worry about retaliation when I'm here."

The little ghost trembled and said: "Yes, yes... this... These are the little ones. When I was at the City God's mansion, I overheard the housekeeper and others explaining. What I said at the time was probably: Wu is so bold, dare to fight!" Master Chenghuang, ask Niu Wu to teach him a lesson."

Seeing that the blood on the face of City God suddenly faded away, Xu Hang thought about it.

Then he asked the ghost messenger to find the housekeeper and the ghost named Niu Wu from the City God's Mansion. After some interrogation, they both confessed quickly.

Now that the evidence is convincing, Xu Hang suddenly asked Yan Luo next to him: "The city god, relying on his identity as a ghost, ordered the little ghost to murder the living people. According to the regulations of the underworld, how should punishment be imposed besides dismissal? Yan Luo is more familiar with this aspect. So leave it to you to judge."

Yan Luo didn't expect that Xu Hang would name him to judge him, but he also realized that it might be intentional, so he didn't dare to release the water, and dealt with it impartially: "According to the regulations, those who hurt people in the yang world should be sent to the [-]th Elementary School first in the ice hell." In addition to instigating others to harm others, they should be fed to snakes with hooks and their heads cut off."

Xu Hang nodded and said, "Let's do it according to this."

Then Xu Hang said to County Magistrate Wu: "You offended the God of the City God out of compassion for the people because you saw the people's extravagant sacrifices and wasting their wealth at the beginning. No difference?"

County Magistrate Wu hurriedly said: "Your official knows your mistake! Now let the people entrust the dream to the people so that they don't need to hold temple fairs for me in the future."

At this time, the city god next to him saw that the ghost was going to drag him to hell to be tortured, and looked at Yan Luo, who was looking at the sky like a normal person, gritted his teeth, and shouted: "Xianjun! You report on one person to make up for my crimes!"

"Oh?" Xu Hang signaled him to continue.

Yan Luo faintly had a bad premonition in his heart.

City God pointed at Yan Luo and said, "Yan Luo left his post without authorization and hired someone to replace him. This is not the first time he has done this kind of thing. Please look into it!"