"Brother, isn't it the 1990s? Why are you ignoring Jing'er? Do you hate Jing'er?"
Jing'er floated above the sofa and the floor and said to Chujiu and I who were hopeless.
After returning to the apartment, Chujiu and I lay down helplessly in our seats. Ninety years? What did Master think, asking us to be the guides?
In 90 years' time, I will be 110 years old. Whether I can live to this age is a big question. It seems that the merit Lord Yinsi mentioned is not that good after all.
"A day in the sky is a year on the earth." This sentence is known to almost all Chinese people because of Journey to the West.
This statement is a typical Taoist concept of time. The flow of time in the world is uneven. The flow of time is abnormal in fairyland, blessed land, underworld and human dreams.
"One day in the sky and one year on the earth." The earliest saying is found in "Dongming Ji".
"Dong Ming Ji" tells the story of Dongfang Shuo. Once, when Dongfang Shuo was a child, he went away for several months before returning. As soon as he returned home, he was beaten by his mother.
After some time, the young Dongfang Shuo went out again. This time Dongfang Shuo did not come back until a year later.
His mother asked him where he had gone. Dongfang Shuo replied: "When my son arrived at the Purple Mud Sea, his clothes were stained by purple water. He still passed through Yuyuan and returned to the capital. How many years has it passed?"
Dongfang Shuo meant, I went out in the morning and came back at noon, why do you say I left for a year?
Zhuang Zhou's dream of a butterfly, Huang Liang's dream, and Nan Ke's dream are all stories of people spending a long time in dreams, but only a short time in real life.
The most famous story is the story of Lan Ke Ren.
Lanke was collecting firewood in the mountains and came across two old men playing chess, so he left the firewood and stood aside to watch the chess game for a while.
When I returned to the foot of the mountain, I found that my village no longer existed and everything was so strange.
Chatting with passers-by, I learned that more than a hundred years have passed.
It can be seen from this that even when we are around immortals, the flow of time is different from that in the human world.
"One year in the underworld is ten years in the human world." This means that the underworld is opposite to heaven, and time flows slowly.
Legend has it that during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, there was a woman named Gu in Xianyang who was resurrected seven days after her death.
According to her own account, she was sleeping when an underworld official appeared and told her that her destiny had been reached and took her to the underworld to report.
As a result, the officials in the underworld checked the book of life and death and found that they had arrested the wrong person. It should be another person with the same name.
So he ordered the Ming officials to release her, but before releasing her, it was found that she was sentenced to "swearing with both tongues" because of her harsh words.
The official of the underworld said that since he had arrived in the underworld, it meant that the crime could not be ignored, so he would be put to death after execution.
As a result, Mrs. Gu's tongue was cut four times a day for seven years before she recovered. After she was resurrected, her tongue ulcerated and she had to abstain from alcohol and meat forever.
On the ninth day of the lunar month, he spread knowledge with me and said that the long time in the underworld was mainly due to the punishment.
For the evil that a person did in the human world, after he dies and goes to the underworld, the underworld will sort out the good and evil that he did in his previous life.
If good deeds outweigh evil deeds, it won't take long for them to be reincarnated.
If good and evil are equal, he will still be reincarnated, but he will be reincarnated as an ordinary person.
If the good is less than the evil, then he will be judged based on his karma and evil deeds, and then sent to the eighteen levels of hell and the corresponding prison to receive punishment until the karma is resolved.
The Eighteenth Level of Hell is said to be an underworld place used to punish various ghosts and monsters. The environment is terrifying and gloomy. It is even scarier than a prison in the human world where prisoners are executed.
Depending on the crimes the ghost committed during his lifetime, he will receive different levels of criminal law.
We often hear about being put in a frying pan, being beaten and tortured, etc. This is the upper ninth level, which is the East Hell.
The lower nine levels of the Western Hell are even more cruel. For example, the Stone Mill Hell. Those who waste food, destroy grains, thieves, corrupt officials, and oppress the people will be sent to the Stone Mill Hell after death.
The stone mill grinds the human body into meat paste, then reshapes the human body and continues the cycle.
Because the existence of the underworld itself is to punish evil, its time flow rate is much slower than that of the human world.
Each punishment period is basically calculated based on ten thousand years. People who have done bad things will have to go through countless pains in the underworld after death in order to make up for their sins in life.
After Chujiu finished speaking, Jing'er, who was floating in the air, asked thoughtfully: "Brother, how can this be considered a waste of food and a waste of grain?"
Chujiu glared at Jing'er angrily, but still explained patiently:
"For example, throwing away leftovers from a banquet at will, or throwing away things you don't like after eating two bites. These are bad people. You will understand when you become a real underworld."
"Hehe, Jing'er has never wasted food since she was a child. Brother Chujiu, let me help you beat your legs." Jing'er said and floated to Chujiu's side, gently beating Chujiu's legs.
"Guo Guo?" Chujiu turned his head to look at me and shouted softly.
"Um?"
"Actually, it's good to be the leader. There are people helping to beat the legs."
Chujiu closed his eyes proudly, enjoying Jing'er beating his legs. He said that because Jing'er performed so well, he would definitely go buy magic weapons for Jing'er at dawn.
"Jing'er, what skills do you have? Tell us about them."
No longer sleepy, I lay on the sofa and chatted with Chujiu and Jing'er.
Jing'er told us that the two Yins with an ox-headed horse face told her that there have been no new Yins in the underworld in recent hundreds of years.
At present, all the Yinsi were basically guard generals or martial arts masters during their lifetimes. The magical weapons they were equipped with were all the weapons they were good at during their lifetimes.
Jing'er was born in modern times. Although she was also in a military camp, she received modern martial arts training and her ability was to use hot weapons.
The two Yinsi masters really couldn't teach them personally, so they could only let Jing'er create her own school and use the new era magic weapon.
Among them, Niu Tou Yin Si even joked with Jing'er that maybe Jing'er, who uses the hot weapons of the new era, might be able to defeat the heroes in the future.
Jing'er's proud look was somewhat similar to that of Chujiu, with her head raised high.
Jing'er told us that she had participated in field force exercises and basically all current weapons could be used.
A picture suddenly appeared in my mind. Many years later, Jing'er, who became the official Yinsi, competed with other Yinsi.
As soon as the opponent pulled out a sword from his back, Jing'er, holding a submachine gun, took care of the opponent simply and roughly.
"However, with my current ability, I can't go out during the day and can only move around at night. Ma Mian Yinsi said that in the future, if my skills become more advanced, I will be able to be like them and not afraid of the scorching sun."
Jing'er also told us that now she can only deal with some lonely ghosts and ordinary ghosts.
If it's an evil ghost or a resentful ghost, she can't suppress it even if she has the Yinsi's token.
"Where are the infant spirits or resentful infants and zombies?"
I asked this question casually, because according to my cognitive scope and the knowledge Chujiu told me, this should be more powerful than ordinary ghosts.
"Ah? Brother Qin Feng, why are you asking this? I should be able to fight the infant spirits, but as for the resentful infants and zombies, I probably don't dare to show up!"