Chapter 106: Humans and gods are connected, and people live together.
There is no Ten Palaces of Yama in this world?
This situation was a bit unexpected by Kong Qing. After all, he had used the underworld and Yama to scare Yu Wenli before.
But fortunately, Yu Wenli was uneducated and didn't know that there was no Yama in this world, and he probably didn't know that he could report the case to the Taishi Bureau. Otherwise, he should have been arrested by the Taishi Bureau in the first place...
Or maybe he reported the crime, but no one in the Taishi Bureau cared about him, a low-level official.
After all, these records in Kong Qing's hands record the cases dispatched by the Taishi Bureau. Except for the evil ghosts who killed people, the rest are from the families of officials.
After all, the dragon energy of the dynasty can protect the official, but it cannot protect the official's wife and the office.
"What about the underworld?"
Kong Qing asked again,
"Is there no underworld in the underworld now?"
"The underworld..."
Shu Chuo frowned and thought for a while before saying uncertainly.
"Master, are you talking about Ming Si?"
"Ming Si, well, let's forget it."
Although Kong Qing's intuition told him that the Underworld that Shu Chuo mentioned was probably not the same thing as the Underworld that he mentioned, he still nodded and admitted it.
Let’s first listen to the situation of this underworld boss.
"There are many Underworld Divisions, but the Underworld Division on Mount Taishan God's side should be the largest, because the underworld is under his control..."
Shu Chuo stretched out his fingers and counted them for Kong Qing.
"However, other Five Mountain Gods and some powerful gods will also set up their own underworlds in their own divine domains, such as the God of Xiangshui River, the God of Vast Sea, etc. As for the remaining weak gods, there are
At most, it is the Soul Realm, not the Underworld Division."
After hearing Shu Chuo's words, Kong Qing felt that he was completely confused.
Co-author Now that he is a god, he can open a government office and establish a territory in the underworld...
So casual?
"Then can the God of Mount Tai agree with other gods to establish the Underworld? Shouldn't the underworld be under his control?"
"That's what I said, but the God of Mount Tai is very lazy in politics, and his strength may not be able to overwhelm the other gods of the Four Mountains, so this matter will be left alone."
Yes, it seems normal for a god who dotes on his concubine to leave official duties to his own son to be a bit cowardly.
The corners of Kong Qing's mouth twitched silently, then he lowered his head and continued to read the booklet in his hand. After reading two pages, he found another record that made his hair stand on end.
'Chu, a native of Chang'an County, was often acquainted with his fellow villager Zhang. After Zhang died, Chu Zhang invited monks to set up a fasting and chant sutras. A few months later, he suddenly met Zhang in the city. Chu had not eaten, so Zhang went to a restaurant.
, to place Hu cakes. After eating, Chu asked: "You are dead, how can you be here?" Zhang said: "The road has moved far, and I don't want to travel to make a living in this city." When asked again, he said, "Here."
It’s also a ghost market.”
When Xiangyou was traveling south, he met a woman selling flowers. Zhang said, "This woman is also a ghost, and the flowers she sells are used by ghosts. They are not seen in the human world." Zhang Ze bought them with a few dollars and gave them to Chu.
He said: "Anyone who laughs when seeing this flower is a ghost." He said goodbye and left. The flowers were red and fragrant, lovely but heavy. Chu also returned home in a daze. Many passersby laughed when they saw the flowers.
When I arrived at the gate of the square, I thought to myself that I was traveling with ghosts, so I couldn't hold on to the ghost flower again, so I threw it into the ditch and made a splashing sound. When I returned, my family felt that its color was very different, and thought that I had been poisoned, so they rushed to hold the decoction to save it.
It took a long time to recover, and I will tell you the reason. Because Xiangyu looked at the flower, it was a dead man's hand, and Chu was fine.
Note: The ghosts in the ghost market do not actively harm anyone, they just need to be registered and recorded.’
When he saw passers-by laughing when they saw flowers, Kong Qing felt a chill rush directly from the back of his head.
"Shu Chuo, please tell Pindao again what the situation is."
"This ghost market..."
Shu Chuo turned his head and glanced at the records, then explained.
"It is a ghost place in Chang'an County. Because it can accommodate ghosts, some ghosts in Chang'an over the years who did not want to go to the Yin Division of Mount Tai temporarily lived here. Most of them were honest people who kept their own laws during their lifetimes, and they remained there after death.
I didn't dare to commit crimes, so I just did some business and so on. Over time, this ghost market was formed, and there were some weird things in it."
As he spoke, Shu Chuo stroked his beard with his hand and smiled at Kong Qing.
"If you are interested, Master, and want to go around, I can show you the way. Although there is no good scenery there, you can still find some good sex materials."
"That's not what Pindao asked..."
Kong Qing pointed to the booklet in his hand with some surprise. "Pindao means that this ghost market opened in Chang'an in such a big way, and then humans and ghosts lived together?"
"It's not entirely true that people and ghosts live together."
Ye Huiming on the other side said, "Ghosts generally don't go out during the day, so basically only in the early morning or dusk will this kind of mixing of people and ghosts occur."
Kong Qing weakly pressed his temples with his hands.
Is Pindao asking you about the time when humans and ghosts coexist?
"What Pindao means is that when humans and ghosts coexist, why doesn't anyone take care of it, whether it's the God's Underworld Bureau or our Taishi Bureau?"
"The Underworld will definitely not care about it."
Shu Chuo said calmly.
"These ghosts are just honest people who keep their peace of mind. They are not very timid and their families don't have much money. If the Underworld takes them away, they will not be able to recruit men into the army, nor will they get any benefits. Why are they bothering with this matter?"
Kong Qing blinked silently.
What Shu Chuo said made so much sense that he was speechless.
"As for our Taishi Bureau, we may not even have enough manpower to deal with those evil demons and monsters. How can we spare the time to clean up these good people?"
Ye Huiming continued on the side.
"Besides, as long as the Yin Earth exists in Chang'an City, there will always be ghosts of the dead gathering inside. The only thing the Taishi Bureau can do is to send people to monitor it and eradicate it immediately if there are evil spirits."
Kong Qing nodded silently and then read on.
You really don’t know how wonderful the world is.
In the past five years in Chang'an alone, the number of ghosts recorded by the Taishi Bureau exceeded hundreds.
Of course, most of these ghosts are just like the gambling ghost Wang Fan and the honest ghosts in the ghost market. Although they have been discovered, they have not actually committed any crime.
Some of them find someone to talk to all night long and study culture; some find someone to sigh all night long and imitate Guan Bao's acquaintance; some find someone to talk to all night long to do the good of Longyang; some are worried about their relatives and sigh all night in their own homes.
There are also those who have to use their working money to support their parents after death; there are those who raise a second wife in the world of heaven and the underworld...
All kinds of behaviors can be described as bizarre.
As for these ghosts that are harmless to humans and animals, the Taishi Bureau usually just registers and records them. Only those evil ghosts that intend to kill people will be dispatched by the Taishi Bureau.
However, in the 123rd year of Wude, dealing with evil spirits was not always possible.
Because some powerful ghosts actually have a backing, and they harm people by helping a certain god to capture young men. Even the people in the Taishi Bureau have some constraints on such ghosts and can only drive them away.
But in the fourth year of Wude, things were different after Qingxiazi took office.
It can be seen from the booklet in Kong Qing's hand that the evil ghosts who appeared after four years of Wude will definitely be driven to pieces once they are discovered, without exception.
"Ahhh...ahhhhh..."
Just when Kong Qing was reading the records in the manual and asking Shu Chuo and others about the knowledge of ghosts in this world, he suddenly heard a chaotic sound of voices coming from outside the door, including a few gloating voices.
"Oh, what's going on, Mr. Wang Jianhou..."
"Everyone, please give way. Don't block the road. Let Wang Jian wait for you to pass..."
"..."
"Master, what did you say?"
When people's voices sounded, Shu Chuo had already rushed to the window of the library hall, leaning against the window and looking out with a look of watching a good show on his face.
"Has that guy Wang Gui been beaten back? As I said, besides Qingxiazi, who else in the Taishi Bureau can beat the opponent in the god's territory. Oh, I saw him, oops
, why are you in such a mess, so pitiful!"
After hearing Shu Chuo's words, Kong Qing couldn't help but curiously put down the book in his hand, walked to Shu Chuo's side, and followed his example and peered out through the crack in the window.
Through the window on the partition wall, Kong Qing could clearly see a Taoist priest covering his face with his sleeves, among a group of "concerned" people surrounding him and comforting him.
The direction is moving forward firmly.
From the occasional movement of the opponent's sleeves, Kong Qing also caught a glimpse of the bluish-red skin.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk...Looking at the color, he must have been severely beaten." Shu Chuo smiled happily. "Looking at the color on his face, I guess it won't go away within a day or two.
"
"It's hard to say. After all, the other party is an expert from the Shangqing sect. Maybe he has some special medicine." Ye Huiming added sourly. "The seeds of true cultivation from the high-level sect don't have any good things in them."
Strange."
Different from the two guys who hated the rich around him, Kong Qing's eyes swept from Wang Gui's covered face to his body, and he suddenly felt that he had discovered something.
Compared to his beaten head, Wang Gui's clothes were so clean that they were a bit too clean.
In other words, that land not only defeated Wang Gui, whose strength was close to that of a real person, but he also won quite easily.
"Shu Chuo..."
Kong Qing turned his head and looked at the former Feng Shui master next to him.
"Can you find this girl? Pindao wants to talk to her."