the last priest

According to folklore, after death, the soul will not disperse. They have to report to the "ghost town" of Fengdu on the north bank of the Yangtze River, where they will be judged by King Yama, judge meritorious deeds, good and evil, and arrange the future of the next life.These wandering dead souls hold the "Lu Yin" stamped with the three big seals of "Yinsi", "City God", and "Fengdu County Government", and rush to Fengdu "Ghost Town" to reincarnate and ascend to heaven. They dare not delay, otherwise they will be late. One step and you will become a lonely ghost, and you will never have peace.

Therefore, according to these legends, later people built buildings such as "Ghost Country Shrine" and "Yinsi Street" in the west of the mountain, so it was also very lively.

Following behind this group of tourists, the four people walked from the "Shuanggui Mountain", which symbolizes the world of the underworld, to the other side of the mountain, the "Pingdu Mountain", which symbolizes the underworld.

Zha Wenbin has never been very interested in traveling in mountains and rivers, but Chaozi is quite interested, and frequently asks Zha Wenbin questions about the origin of these buildings.

Seeing that it was still early, Zha Wenbin made some answers based on what he learned in the book and what he knew. Because he is a Taoist priest, he said it very vividly, which made the tourists in the group abandon him one after another. The tour guide's explanation followed him specially.

When talking about some wonderful things, these tourists also applauded and applauded, which made Cha Wenbin feel a little embarrassed.

The road to the back mountain, as the shopkeeper said, has no feasible road, and there are cliffs everywhere. I am afraid that only monkeys can go up.

Since there is no way, there is a way, which is to go to the top of the mountain and observe.Since the man said that there is an abandoned Taoist temple on the back of the mountain, there must be a way to pass through, otherwise, this Taoist temple would have been pulled up out of thin air.

On the top of this mountain, there is a big hall called "Tianzi Hall", which is magnificent and magnificent.

This "Son of Heaven" is not that "Son of Heaven", so the ghost city will naturally not enshrine the emperor who belongs to the human world, but the king who belongs to the underworld is placed here, and it is called the Great Emperor of Beiyin Fengdu in Ming Dynasty.

"Go, go in and see what the king of the underworld looks like." Now Cha Wenbin is indeed dressed as a tourist, not wearing a Taoist uniform, but holding the seven-star sword in his hand and the gossip bag on his back slidely different.

Walking into this hall, the first thing is the Yin Tianzi sitting in the lobby of the main hall, with a very solemn face, Zha Wenbin seldom worships the gods, he always believes that worshiping the gods is worse than asking oneself, but today, with some exceptions, He also made an exception and bowed three times to the clay figure.

People have traveled a lot in the rivers and lakes, and they always feel a little uneasy. Whether it is useful or not to worship gods, what they want is peace of mind. Anyway, what I do is dealing with gods and ghosts. I have to do it when I meet their leaders. a gift.

Six meritorious officials stand on both sides of the Yin Tianzi, and there are four judges and ten Yin commanders standing opposite each other.The faces of these four judges are different, some are smiling and some are cold, which really makes people feel a bit unpredictable.

On the east and west sides of the main hall are the legendary east and west hells. On the walls inside are painted some law-enforcement shackles. They are all vicious and timid, and it is easy to be infected by them in person.There is also a picture of torture in those hells, such as cannon fire, going up the mountain of knives, going down into the sea of ​​fire, sawing, grinding, and five horses collapsing corpses, etc., all of which are bloody.

This fellow Chaozi has always been open-mouthed. He pointed to the picture and said, "If I go down one day, you will have to burn the stick and add a few grenades. If anyone dares to torture me, I will kill you." They sweep a hornet's nest."

After all, Dashan is more honest. Although he is not afraid, he still asks with lingering fear: "Brother Wenbin, is it really like this in the underworld?"

Cha Wenbin laughed loudly and said: "It's all imagined by the world. Reincarnation in the three realms, everyone has their own destiny. If you accumulate more evil deeds and do more good deeds, who will suffer from these crimes. These scenes are just warnings to those wicked people. There are "ghosts" in our world, and there are "ghosts" in people's thoughts and concepts, so people come to create gods and collect ghosts. "The devil is one foot tall, and the Tao is ten feet high." Evil can never prevail over good. You see here The eerie and terrifying appearance is precisely to set off how powerful the means of curing ghosts are."

Listening to Zha Wenbin's explanation was enjoyable. Those tourists applauded, and some people recognized him and said, "Hey, isn't this man the fortune teller who set up a stall under the city wall?"

As soon as these words came out, good guy, a group of people went up, ready to catch this knowledgeable guy and do the math.Cha Wenbin was complaining endlessly, and the four of them managed to break out of the encirclement surrounded by enthusiasm.

At the back of the mountain, if you look down, you can't see why. There are bare weeds overgrown, and the trees block the view. There is a sign of "Tourists stop" stamped there, and the road has come to an end.Several people who looked like administrators leaned over there, and Cha Wenbin walked over, pretending to cross the forbidden area, but was immediately stopped.

A man about 50 years old stretched out his hand and shouted: "This place is not open, there are rules, you can't go in."

"Oh?" Cha Wenbin pretended to be a stranger who had just arrived, and asked deliberately: "I think the scenery behind here is better than the front, why not let in?"

The administrators of any scenic spot look like that, as if these tourists are not their parents, but more like saboteurs who came to deliberately cause trouble, and said angrily: "There are not so many reasons, there are some places in Feng that say you can't enter, Just can't go in!"

Chaozi wanted to get mad when he saw that he was in need of a beating, but was stopped by Cha Wenbin, and said with an apologetic smile: "Is there any place to stay overnight on this mountain? I think it would be nice to see the night view of the whole city here at night."

The administrator looked Zha Wenbin up and down, looked at him like a monster, then patted an administrator next to him, and said, "Hey, did you see, this person said he wanted to spend the night on the mountain. Haha, dare you!" Fat enough."

Another administrator also looked at Cha Wenbin like an idiot, and said with a smile: "Who doesn't know that the night on the top of Pingdu Mountain belongs to ghosts. After six o'clock, the mountain will be cleared for investigation, and all tourists have to go down the mountain. It’s a joke that you still want to watch the night view here! It’s okay, you can go to the opposite Shuanggui Mountain and stay there, that’s Yangjian Realm.”

Perhaps very few tourists would ask them such words. This kind of place is indeed not suitable for ordinary people to stay at night. There are statues of ghosts and monsters everywhere. If you look at it, you will be cautious.But Cha Wenbin is not an ordinary person. In his opinion, these things made of stones or mud are not as dangerous as mass graves in the wilderness.

Now that they knew that the venue would be cleared at night, all they had to do now was to find a place to hide. It was only over an hour away from the time the administrator said, so they had to hurry up.

Where is it hidden?This kid Chaozi had already thought of it.

In this kind of place, the most common prop is the coffin.In that great hall, there were quite a lot of such things. After returning back, the few people pretended to continue to visit, and when the tourists started to go down the mountain, they quickly picked two coffins and nested them in, leaving only a little gap for themselves. .

After lying in it, Cha Wenbin realized that the coffin was really a low-quality product, and the inside was moldy and hairy. He was squeezed together with Chaozi, and Dashan and Zhuo Xiong were squeezed together.

When night fell, the staff conducted several rounds of inspections, and when it was found that all the tourists had dispersed, the door of the hall was slowly closed.

Although it is a man-made building, the feeling in this atmosphere is not so pleasant. When it is confirmed that no one will come again, Chaozi is the first to jump out, and then immediately unbuttoned his belt, and shouted: " I'm suffocating to death."

Cha Wenbin glared at him and said, "Promise!" In fact, peeing next to the coffin is taboo, and it is said that peeing will also cause some unclean things, so Cha Wenbin patted himself up and down several times , Said: "Pat it all, go and get rid of bad luck, you have to be like this after sleeping in a coffin."

The gate is locked, but the windows can be easily opened. The entire top of Pingdu Mountain is pitch black and unspeakably oppressive. Maybe there is no ghost in this kind of place, but you built such a thing, those people The ghosts really regarded this place as their home, and Zha Wenbin stuffed a talisman with him and said, "Be careful, this place doesn't look like a joke, there must be a reason for them not to let people come up at night."

"Where are we going?" Dashan asked.

"Behind that signboard, since it is a forbidden area, it is even more necessary to break through. We will look down the mountain from there, and be careful. Pingdu Mountain is definitely not as simple as we just look at a tourist attraction."

Chaozi was a little uneasy, he always thought it was just a scary trick spread by others, so he snorted coldly: "Pretending to be mysterious!"

Zha Wenbin said: "Remember, pay attention to every piece of land under your feet. I looked through the materials, and the fifteenth volume of "Zhengao" "Chanyouwei No. [-]" says: "Luofeng Mountain is in Guidi in the north, and the height of the mountain is [-] miles. , [-] miles in a week. There is a cave at the foot of the mountain, and at the mouth of the mountain, it goes back [-] miles in a circle. Above and below, there are palaces of ghosts and gods. There are six palaces on the mountain, and there are six palaces in the cave. It is six days to go back thousands of miles. It is also the palace of ghosts and gods. The outer palace is on the mountain, and the inner palace is along the middle, and the system and other ears.', it is very likely that the universe of this mountain is inside the mountain, and it is not visible to the naked eye."