The Taste of Ghosts in the World

Seeing the dilapidated big cloth bear being engulfed by the flames little by little, Xiao Qi finally hugged her little Xiao Qi, and as for the new toy, she left it for the decapitated female ghost as a souvenir.

Xiao Qi, who had never been out of the house, dared not go to reincarnation alone, and was timid and coy for a long time, Qi Mu decided to give her a ride, and also went to see old friends by the way.

Going to the underworld again this time, the ghost messengers seem to have been informed of their identities. Although there are some little ghosts who come forward to curry favor, more of them slip away after hearing the wind, so they didn't encounter any obstacles, and the journey was smooth. Came to the main hall, unfortunately, sitting behind the main case was the female Hades.

"Excuse me……"

The female Hades was buried in her unfinished work, when she heard the voice, she raised her head with an unfriendly expression, glanced at Qi Mu, and said nothing, but when she saw Feng Baisui, her expression suddenly became fierce, "Master Zhulong, why are you so angry?" Come to our shabby little Hades?"

Every word and sentence, from the inside to the outside, reveals a bad message.

Qi Mu was puzzled, and whispered to the people around him, "When did you offend her?"

"do not know."

Feng Baisui's upright face made Qi Mu even more suspicious that he must have done something to make the Queen Hades gnash her teeth with hatred.

"Did you abandon her from beginning to end?"

Feng Baisui said with a black face: "I only remember messing with you!"

Qi Mu chuckled, and was about to ask, when the female King of Hades said again: "Zhulong, you destroyed my Hades Hall and the City of Death 20 years ago, a total of 320 buildings, and you dare to set foot in the underworld?"

"..." Feng Baisui remained expressionless and said nothing, obviously disdainful to answer.

Qi Mu quickly reminded: "Zhulong's arrest warrant has been revoked."

"Is it fine to cancel it!?" The female Hades immediately turned her anger on him.

Qi Mu had no choice but to smooth things over and said, "I don't see any signs of damage to this hall now. Don't bother with him about what happened 20 years ago."

"No trace?!" Female Hades stared, and pointed angrily at the white candles on both sides. The dismal candlelight was swept away by her sleeves and shook even more violently, "The lighting facilities in the past were not so bad! The harsh office environment made me Very upset!"

"It can be seen." Feng Baisui said coolly.

The female Hades was angry, brewed a bit of anger, gritted her teeth and said, "When I'm irritable, I like to ask for debts, especially for those who owe money for a long time and don't pay back."

Feng Baisui raised his eyebrows in displeasure, "What exactly do you want?"

Qi Mu stopped him, "How much do we have to pay?"

The female King of Hades frowned: "I'll settle this account later, I'm very busy now, what are you guys doing here this time?"

"Send her..." Qi Mu gently pushed Xiao Qi who was hiding behind him, "Come to reincarnate."

"This child?" The female King of Hades took a hasty look at Xiaoqi, and said to the two judges who rewarded good and punished evil: "You can figure it out yourself, deal the cards."

The red and green people looked at each other, and the friendly judge in green nodded, picked up a pen and wrote a few strokes in the handbook, and a black character for "人" appeared on Xiaoqi's forehead.

The female King of Hades said: "It's not the first time for you to come here, so lead her there by yourself, I don't have enough people here."

"Have you finished voting?" Xiao Qi was a little afraid of the fierce elder sister in the hall, so he dared to ask Qi Mu in a low voice.

Qi Mu shook his head, thought for a while, and said to the female Hades: "I have a small request..."

"what?"

"When this child is reincarnated, please give her a healthy body."

The female Hades raised her eyebrows, "Are you using your special status to force the request?"

"What if I say it doesn't count?"

"Then I don't have to promise you."

Qi Mu didn't hesitate, "That's fine."

"...It turns out that the purest Yuanling in the Three Realms is not as noble as I imagined!" the female Hades teased.

"That can only show that your imagination is too rich." Qi Mu said calmly: "I don't know what you mean by 'pure' and 'noble' here, at least in our place these two words are not used together .”

"..."

"Then I would like to thank Lord Yan Wang for your accommodation." Qi Mu said with a smile, and was about to leave with Xiao Qi by the hand.

"Wait!" the female Hades called him, "There is news that the orb of the town tower in the God Realm has been stolen, is it true?"

"Stolen? Maybe."

A complex expression of understanding and doubt appeared on her face, "That means the orb is really missing?"

Qi Mu looked at her and didn't speak.

"Okay, let's go." She waved her hands, as if she was lost in some kind of thought, after thinking for a while, she suddenly said, "Go to the bridge and see if my brother is there, and tell him to stop feeding the fish!"

"it is good."

Qi Mu led Xiaoqi and Feng Baisui out of the Palace of the King of Hell together, walked down the bloody Nai River, and saw two conspicuous figures, one black and one white——

The white one squatted by the river and stared at the river intently, while the black one stood straight beside him.

"What are you looking at?" Qi Mu leaned over and asked.

Bai Wuchang turned his head to see the two of them, he was not surprised, he blinked and said, "I was thinking about how to catch a fish."

Qi Mu looked down at the weird creatures that appeared and disappeared in the blood, "Do you want to raise them?"

"Forget it, I don't have a soul to feed them, but it seems pretty good to eat."

Qi Mu was silent for a while, then asked him: "Is it because the King of Hades hasn't paid salary recently?"

Bai Wuchang was stunned for a moment, "Yes, but why did you suddenly think of asking this?"

"Actually, you don't need to use such a tragic way to show your ambition," Qi Mu told him: "You can also go to the door of his room to sit and demonstrate, it's better than eating this kind of food."

"It's not as scary as you said, there must be the first person to eat the crab..." Bai Wuchang smiled and pulled Hei Wuchang behind him, "Xiao Hei is willing to be the first to try it, right?"

"No." Hei Wuchang flatly refused.

"why?"

He looked at the smelly river water, and his eyes fell on the undulating back of one of the strange fish, "That's not a crab."

Bai Wuchang smiled and said: "It's all the same, didn't you say that you eat first when I catch it?"

Hei Wuchang said blankly: "No."

"You said it."

"No."

"You said it!"

"Okay, I've said it." Hei Wuchang obviously didn't want to continue entangled with him on this issue.

"Aren't you afraid that Hades will know about your plan?" Qi Mu asked suddenly.

"What are you afraid of!" Bai Wuchang said in a low voice: "Don't look at the serious appearance of these leaders, but they are completely different in their hearts. Maybe they have long wanted to eat once."

"is it?"

"Yes, I think that in the entire underworld, the one who most wants to chop up the fish in this river is our Lord Hades."

"Aren't you afraid that he will hear these words?"

"It's okay, it's okay, why be afraid?" Master Bai waved his hands confidently.

"Oh, here he is."

Bai Wuchang's face froze, and when he turned around, he saw their Hades standing half a meter away looking at him. He cleared his throat and asked calmly, "What did you hear just now?"

Yan Wang smiled, "Don't worry, Ai Qing, I didn't hear anything."

Hei Wuchang silently pulled his partner over and stood up.

Yan Wang looked at Qi Mu and Feng Baisui, "I can really say that this time - long time no see."

Qi Mu also laughed, "Long time no see."

Feng Baisui just nodded to him coldly.

"How is the world?" Yama asked.

"good."

Yan Wang said again: "I heard that your trip was not very smooth, and you wasted 20 years in a flash, don't you regret it?"

Qi Mu shook his head, "No regrets, and it's not a waste." After a pause, he added: "These 20 years have taught me something that I haven't learned in the previous thousand years."

An elusive light flashed in Yan Wang's eyes, "Your words... are very similar to what he said."

"The experience is the same, the feeling is similar." Qi Mu said lightly, knowing what Hades was lamenting, he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Do you remember, I asked you before, why did you come to feed these fish?"

"Then do you understand now?"

Qi Mu nodded, "Understood."

The corner of Yan Wang's mouth curled into a wry smile.

Qi Mu didn't want to continue talking, so he hurriedly pushed Xiao Qi out, "I brought this child to reincarnate, how do I get there?"

"The Naihe Bridge is over there," Yan Wang pointed to the wide stone bridge spanning the river not far away, "after drinking Mengpo soup, there will be ghost messengers to guide you after crossing the bridge."

Qi Mu and Feng Baisui sent Xiao Qi there, and the little girl quietly asked Qi Mu on the way, "Why does that uncle feed the fish?"

"This..." Qi Mu struggled to think about what a child could accept, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, "Do you know Qu Yuan?"

"I know! It's the hero who jumped into the river, right?"

"Yes, to commemorate him, the common people will throw rice dumplings into the river every year on the day he threw himself into the river, so that the fish in the river will not eat Qu Yuan's body when they are full."

"Ah, I see, so that uncle is also commemorating Qu Yuan?"

"Almost, but..." Qi Mu lowered his voice, "He is commemorating a person who is very important to him."

"That person also jumped into the river to die?"

"Ah."

"Then he is Qu Yuan's friend?"

"possible……"

"Is this the river that Qu Yuan jumped into?"

"……no."

"How do you know it's not?"

"...Because Qu Yuan jumped into a river, this one is a river, so it's obviously different, right?"

"Yes..."

Talking wild words with the children, they soon arrived at Naihe Bridge, Qi Mu stopped at the head of the bridge, "Xiaoqi, we can only send it here, you have to walk the rest of the way by yourself."

Xiao Qi looked at the bridge, a kind old woman was waving at her, she turned her head, Qi Mu gently pushed forward, and encouraged him: "Don't be afraid, my mother-in-law invites you to drink a bowl of soup, you go quickly. "

The little girl hesitated for a while, and finally took a step forward. Qi Mu watched her walk up the bridge step by step, took the bowl from Granny Meng, obediently raised her head and drank it, and then held the bowl in a daze for a while, Po Meng took back the empty bowl skillfully and pointed out to her the direction to get off the bridge.

Xiao Qi glanced down at the big cloth bear in her arms, with a puzzled expression on her face, then let go of her hand naturally, and the cloth bear rolled lightly to the ground. She turned and walked towards the end of the bridge without looking back.

Qi Mu didn't go over to pick up the casually discarded toy until he couldn't see her. Thinking of how the little girl cared for her before, he felt very complicated.

"If you don't bring it with you when you are born, if you don't take it with you when you die, don't regret it."

A gentle and kind voice suddenly sounded, Qi Mu raised his head and met Po Meng's smiling eyes.

"Good boy, you're back."

Qi Mu nodded.

"Do you want to try the soup you didn't drink last time?" After Meng Po asked, she suddenly stopped, blinked and said, "No, you can't drink anymore..."

Feng Baisui snorted triumphantly: "I said I wouldn't let him have a chance."

"You child." Granny Meng shook her head with a smile. "Then drink something else. Granny has a lot of soup. Do you want a bowl of acacia soup?"

Upon hearing the name, Feng Baisui became interested, "What kind of soup is that?"

"Acacia soup is a soup that can only be drunk between lovers. If two people who love each other drink this bowl of soup together, they will always be together and never be separated again."

"Not bad—" Feng Baisui muttered.

"But," Granny Meng smiled kindly, "If the distance between these two people is more than ten meters, they will be stabbed through the chest and die."

"..."

"Want to drink?"

Qi Mu immediately declined politely, and Po Meng seemed a little disappointed, and silently poured the scooped soup back into the clay pot.

Looking at her soup, Qi Mu suddenly asked, "Grandma, is your soup useful to people in the underworld?"

"Different objects have different effects. If it is for Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, it will be useless."

"Then what if... it's Hades?"

"I knew you were going to talk about him," Po Meng smiled knowingly, looking at the black figure on the bank of the Nai River from the bridge, "Many years ago, his sister also came to ask me the same question, and I told him She is useful."

"But..." Qi Mu wanted to say something, but Granny Meng had already expressed his doubts for him——

"Why does he remember?"

Qi Mu nodded.

"Because I didn't give it to him, and he doesn't know how to drink it." Meng Po's eyes suddenly became clear, as if she had already seen the warmth and hatred in the world, "Meng Po's soup is for those who have finished their karma in this life. What should be loved, what should be paid back has already been clarified, so drink a bowl of Meng Po soup as the end, and the next life can start again. But Lord Yama’s life is not over yet, what he remembers should not be forgotten, God made Such an arrangement naturally has his reasons, and we are not allowed to intervene."

"Mother-in-law," Qi Mu asked softly, "For so many years... Does your heart ache when you look at them?"

Granny Meng patted the back of Qi Mu's hand, neither nodding nor shaking her head, she just silently cast her eyes on the seething blood under the bridge, with a serene smile on her face.