Liao Zhai alchemist

Chapter 147 Life in the Underworld

Jinhua Yinfu.

Sheol is a desolate place.Of course, this is the vision of a living person.In fact, in the vision of ghosts, the underworld is pretty good, but they can't express this kind of goodness to living people.

In the center of the underworld in Jinhua, there are continuous houses, these houses have black roofs and gray walls, and a gray tone.

Here is the center of Jinhua's underworld, where the City God of Fu is located.

It is said that the underworld in ancient times was terrifying, and the Yaozu only paid attention to the construction of the heavenly court and regarded the underworld as a garbage dump.

Here the big ghosts eat the little ghosts, and all kinds of ghosts gather to attack each other.Because of their weak souls, the dead human race are often enslaved and devoured by the big ghosts. It is simply a pain in life and a sad death.

Until the human race overthrew the Yaozu, not only controlled the heaven, but also began to regulate the underworld.

The imperial court and individual sacrifices are no longer divided among the officials of the heavenly court, but a part is allocated to the underworld, and the underworld official system is established in the underworld.

With the prosperity of the human race, the yin official system has become more and more perfect, forming a yin official system with Taishan Fujun as the main body, the city god system as the stem, and many yin gods as branches and leaves.

The underworld is infinite, but in the underworld established by the yin official, order has been established, and the ghosts of the human race can safely enter the underworld and wait for reincarnation.

But outside of the underworld, there is still a large area of ​​the underworld that is chaotic and disorderly.

In the underworld of Jinhua Mansion, tens of millions of ghosts live here.The so-called ghost people are ghosts registered in the Yin Book, that is, ghosts with 'identity cards'.

In addition to these tens of millions of ghost people, there are also tens of millions of lonely ghosts.

So how do you become a ghost?

First of all, there are people offering sacrifices in the yang world. Ordinary ghosts can only get sacrifices from their families.But as long as someone sacrifices, then he is a ghost with status.Therefore, cutting off offspring and grandchildren is terrifying to a ghost.

Without descendants, who will offer sacrifices to him?Sooner or later, he will become a lonely ghost!

After a hundred years of peace and prosperity, the birth rate of the people gradually slowed down. With fewer births, there were fewer opportunities for ghosts to reincarnate, and the ghosts in the underworld began to be crowded.

Of course, the carrying capacity of the underworld is infinite, and a large number of ghosts will not affect the order of the underworld.

Whenever natural disasters and man-made disasters occurred in the imperial court and the population decreased greatly, the imperial court would organize grand sacrifices. On the one hand, it was to pray for blessings, and on the other hand, it was also to let ghosts return to the underworld, waiting for reincarnation.

At this time, the imperial court encouraged childbirth, and people's desire to have children was also great.Ghosts in the underworld reincarnate quickly.

In the underworld, ghost people are protected by the underworld, while wild ghosts are not.Sometimes, there are too many wild ghosts, and the officials of the underworld will drive the wild ghosts out of the range protected by the Yin God, and let the wild ghosts fend for themselves.

In the chaotic outside world, these wild ghosts may be eaten by big ghosts, they may lose their souls, or they may become stronger by themselves and occupy the mountain as king.Anyway, fate is unknown.

In Yincheng, besides the official residence of the City God, there are also small courtyards and small houses that criss-cross.The yards are big and small, and the rooms are also big and small.

Those big courtyards are generally the residences of the Yin gods, and the small courtyards and houses are the residences of the ghosts of the big families in the underworld.

The newly established 'Mrs. Shuhua's Mansion' is a large courtyard.Mrs. Shuhua is a Yin God with a title. Although she does not hold power, she is also a Yin God who is worshiped by the state and eats the emperor's food.

Zhou Wan sat in it, surrounded by various male ghosts and female ghosts. These are Zhang family's ghosts, because Zhou Wan sealed the Yin God, they can also protect Zhou Wan under his command.

The Ching Ming Festival in April was over, and she received a reward from the imperial court as usual, a total of [-] incense coins.

Mrs. Shuhua's yearly rule is [-] yuan. Every holiday, the court still has sacrifices, and new rules will be issued.The money is paid directly to the account, and there is no middleman to eat the difference.This is the benefit of the Yinshen system. There is almost no systematic corruption in the underworld, because there is no money for them to be greedy.

But accepting bribes and earning extra money are commonplace, and no one cares about such things. Who cares about the things that one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer?

Although Zhou Wan came from a small family, she has been the hostess of the Zhang family for ten years, and she still has a certain level of money management.She manages Zhang's family very well.

"This time the court's salary has come down, and everyone has worked hard. As usual, each person gets one money." After she finished speaking, she swiped on the booklet in front of her, and all the ghosts of the Zhang family on the book received one incense money each. .

This booklet is the Zhang family tree... There is one in the yang world, and there is also in the underworld.The underworld relies on this book to manage its own ghost people.

Holding this booklet, Zhou Wan took the lives of the ghosts of the Zhang family to a certain extent.If she scratched out a name, that person became a wild ghost.

Therefore, this is also the reason why people with other surnames do not like to enter the family sacrifice, and no one wants their own destiny to be controlled by people with other surnames.

But Zhou Wan is the canonized yin god, if she doesn't have the Zhang family's genealogy, who will do it?

After getting the incense money, every ghost showed a smile on his face.Zhou Wan is still very fair in doing things, and everyone has accepted her these days.

Then comes the rewards and punishments.The ghosts who did not do well were punished, and the ghosts who did well were rewarded with a piece of incense money.

Incense money is very important to ghost people, this thing can stabilize their ghost bodies.As mentioned earlier, even if there are family sacrifices, ghosts cannot exist indefinitely. After a long time, the soul and body are worn away, and naturally the soul will be scattered.

But with incense money, the soul and body can be stabilized and wait for reincarnation.Families without yin gods have almost no source of incense money, so they can only rely on the incense of family sacrifices.

Incense and incense money are two different things.Incense is the basic food, and it can only guarantee that people will not die of hunger.The incense money is oily, egg and meat dishes, which are more valuable. Not only will it not starve to death, but it will also nourish the body.

After completing the rewards and punishments, Zhou Wan paused, and said again: "Tian Husi allocated us another ten hectares of shade land, all of which are good land near the city wall."

Hearing this sentence, all the ghosts laughed.A ghost asked: "Is it true? Your Majesty?"

Zhou Wan nodded and said: "It can be false, but we are short of manpower and need to recruit some wild ghosts to work. Zhang Daquan, I will leave this matter to you."

The ghost named Zhang Daquan immediately said, "Yes, ma'am!"

Ghosts also have to work.Ghosts usually farm in the underworld, the underworld is endless, and the land is endless. The ghosts in the underworld plant luck and yin virtue.

The underworld will distribute the seeds of yin and moral luck, and then the ghosts will plant them.After a year of hard work, these luck and virtues will be harvested, and then the underworld will return part of the luck and luck to the ghosts who farmed.

These ghosts of yin virtue and luck are not needed, but they can strengthen the luck of the Yang family family and eliminate disasters.

So, the more fields you plant, the more virtue you will reap.For ordinary small families, it is very difficult to apply for a few acres of yin fields, but for families with yin gods in charge, the Tianhu Division of the underworld will take the initiative to allocate yin fields.

It has not been a year since Zhou Wan became the God of Yin, the Tian Husi of the City God has divided the fields several times, and bestowed the seeds of Yin virtue many times.There are only more than 200 ghost people in the Zhang family, and they can't grow them at all.Only those lonely ghosts can be hired to farm.

Lonely ghosts don't get half of the yin virtue from farming, and the distribution of yin virtue is also distributed to the family, but the lonely ghosts can get incense money, at least they can keep their souls.

There are a lot of lonely ghosts in Jinhua City. Under the extreme introversion, the cost of hiring lonely ghosts is extremely cheap. It only takes one money to hire ten lonely ghosts to work for a month.

It is such a low labor price, and there are a lot of lonely souls rushing to do it.

When they received the incense money, they would gather together and smoke on the incense money. The scene was very similar to gathering a crowd to suck white noodles.

Just as he was talking, the small official of Tianhu Division arrived.Zhang Jiagui took the bag of Yinde seeds, and stuffed a money to the little official who brought the seeds.

This little official is not a yin god, but a little ghost serving as a servant, and he is naturally happy when he gets this penny, incense and fire money.

Although the Zhang family ghosts were somewhat reluctant to part with the penny, they could only follow Zhou Wan's orders.That's how Xiaomin thinks. He thinks that the kid doesn't need to be too polite, he just needs to curry favor with the leader.

But don't even think about it, it's this kind of brat who deals with them the most, how many times can the leader see you?

Once you have seeds, you can cultivate them.

Zhou Wan took her family to the field, while Zhang Daquan came to an alley.

This alley is not big, but it is densely packed with lonely souls and wild ghosts.These lonely ghosts are stacked on top of each other, occupying a small area, anyway, ghosts are not afraid of crushing ghosts to death.

Seeing Zhang Daquan come in, the wild ghosts moved, but they didn't move completely, because they still didn't know what the ghost in front of them was doing.

Then Zhang Daquan cleared his throat and said, "Ms. Zhang Zhou, Mrs. Shuhua in the city, wants to hire some ghosts to cultivate."

After he said these words, these ghosts rushed forward like starving ghosts when they saw food.

"Quiet!" Zhang Daquan shouted, and all the wild ghosts stopped again as if they were frozen.

Zhang Daquan nodded in satisfaction, he just liked this feeling.This sense of power.

He said, "The ghosts who plowed the dark fields came forward."

After he finished speaking, some ghosts floated out.

Zhang Daquan said: "My mother is kind-hearted, and the wages are as usual. But when harvesting, if the harvest is good and the harvest is good, I am willing to give one more money."

His words made the eyes of these wild ghosts light up. This is really kind-hearted!

"So, my requirements are naturally higher. Those ghosts with scattered souls and bodies and short lives are not allowed to come. Those novices are also not allowed to come. I only need to have work experience and be physically strong."

When many wild ghosts heard this, they retreated in discouragement, leaving only some wild ghosts with relatively stable souls and bodies.

Zhang Daquan made some calculations, and then said to them: "Come with me."

These ghosts followed Zhang Daquan and floated past.

In fact, it can also be seen from the appearance that the more human-like a ghost is, the more stable the soul and body are.A ghost like Zhang Daquan who had smoked a few incense coins had a stable body and was down to earth.

And those wild ghosts were indistinct and floating.

Yes, in the underworld, being able to walk down-to-earth is the standard of a good ghost!Those who can fly are all so poor that they float.

This time, Tian Husi allocated ten hectares of shaded land, which was a thousand mu of land.These four or five thousand wild ghosts didn't know if they were in a hurry or not.

Taking care of Yintian is a day and night job. It cannot be said to be [-], but [-].If there are not enough wild ghosts, we have to recruit ghosts.

So it can also be seen from the side that if it is not for Yinshen, and there is no incense money as a base, it is impossible to hire wild ghosts to work.

When Zhang Daquan came to the edge of the field, he saw Zhou Wan waiting for him by the edge of the field.He hurriedly said to the wild ghosts: "That is Mrs. Shuhua Zhang Zhou."

In fact, wild ghosts can be seen at a glance. The biggest difference between Yinshen and ordinary ghosts is that there is a faint golden light on the surface of Yinshen.

This layer of golden light is very conspicuous in the underworld where everything is dark.

All the wild ghosts hurriedly saluted Zhou Wan.Many wild ghosts have lost the ability to speak due to unstable souls and bodies.They kowtowed quietly, Zhou Wan nodded to them, and then ordered her family to lead them to cultivate.

The family does not need to work, they just supervise. Thousands of wild ghosts take the seeds and start to sow and plow the fields.

There are no tools, everything is done by hand.Anyway, there are a lot of wild ghosts and they are cheap.It's a waste of tools.

There is a huge difference between ghost people who are sacrificed and wild ghosts who are not sacrificed. The life in the underworld is really very different.

Just when the Zhang family was busy.In the City God's Mansion, Zhao Yuansheng had some headaches.

"You said that the old dragon sued us to Lord Taishan Mansion?"

The judge under him nodded and said with a wry smile: "Cui Pan, who judged the case in Taishan Mansion, is my friend. He secretly told me the news."

"Damn it! This old dragon really doesn't give face. Is it good for him to bring this matter to the emperor? It's not our responsibility!"

Zhao Yuansheng's expression was very bad, and he even cursed.

But that day he said that he would set up a tripartite investigation team. In fact, only people from their underworld participated. The Shuijun Temple sent a Maotou god to participate, and the Qingwei Sect didn't even send anyone.They said that Zhang Wei was not guilty at all, so what else is there to investigate!
Now Zhao Yuansheng is not a human being inside or outside.There are many hills in Jinhua Mansion, and the magistrate is aggrieved!

You can't ask the prefect of Jinhua Mansion for this matter. The Yang official doesn't care about the affairs of the underworld. As long as the two sides fight, as long as it doesn't affect the people, the prefect will not care at all.

The judge hesitated for a moment, but still said: "My lord, why don't you invite the divine beast Xiezhi next to the emperor, so that you can tell the truth from the fake, and the case is over."

Zhao Yuansheng heard that this is also a way.It's just that he is not familiar with the people of Lord Taishan.

He said: "This method is good, but I don't know how to invite Xiezhi. After all, I am not familiar with Lord Dijun."

Taishan Fujun has a special status in the underworld. He is the person in charge of the underworld, but he is not like the emperor of the world.In the affairs of the underworld in various places, the city god has great freedom.

Because of this characteristic, he is the leader, but he is not too high to be contacted.

Then, Taishan Fujun himself is also a great power, a true immortal who has jumped out of the three realms and is not in the five elements.Because of this, he often left things to his subordinates.

At this time, the judge smiled and said: "My lord, don't forget, you are not familiar with it, but the Qingwei faction is familiar with it. This matter is also troublesome for the Qingwei faction. Let them prove themselves and let them borrow Xiezhi !"

(End of this chapter)