Strange Tales: The Yin-Yang Celestial Master

A few days later, the fairy silk documents from the heavens were issued, and Xiao Lu officially became a staff member of the underworld. He could receive a salary, serve as a judge, perform rewards for good and punish evil, and also be in charge of the law department of the underworld, assisting the king of hell to judge and judge. Cha, who ranks first among civil officials, has only Hades as his immediate boss.At the same time, he also got a special magic weapon for judges - a purple gold stylus pen, and the six characters of "Life and Death Book, Judgment of Right and Wrong" are neatly engraved on the pen holder.This pen can be used to record the life of a living person, clearly writing good and evil, and it is also the only pen that can add, delete, and modify content in the book of life and death.

Just like that, Judge Lu settled down in the Underworld.

In the entire underworld, except for Yama and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, who have their own mansions, all the handsome ghosts live in a unified dormitory—although it is called a dormitory, it is actually a spacious courtyard house. It looks plain and simple on the outside. But there is a hole in the sky, there are vacant rooms almost at any time, it seems that there will never be enough to live.

The judge was also allocated a suite, which was considered the best room in the room.Living with everyone, drinking, drinking and playing mahjong is usually lively, but there is one bad thing - Judge Lu sleeps too much, he is always the last one to wake up, and the dormitory is too far from the Hades Hall, every time he gets up They all had to run over in a hurry, but they were still late several times, and they were all deducted by Hades sternly.

"You can't be accommodating..." The judge wailed with a cute round face. He had already been deducted a lot of money, plus those who lost the mahjong game with Yan Wang Di Ting and the others, he was about to become a pauper.

"You don't have to be late." Yan Wang said lightly.

"How is that possible!" Judge Lu felt very aggrieved, "Who made the dormitory built in such a remote place, it is not convenient at all!"

"Then why aren't others late?"

"..." The judge had nothing to say, touched his nose and sat back at his desk.

Yan Wang stopped the pen in his hand and raised his eyes to look at him: "Actually, there is another way——"

"What way!" The judge looked at him anxiously when he heard this.

Yama said slowly, "You can move to live in Yama's palace."

"...I thought it was a good way." The judge pouted his head in disappointment and looked around the hall, "Do you want me to sleep on the table?"

Yan Wang immediately glared at him with an expression of "you idiot", "I mean the apse, my mansion, you can move here." Yama's mansion is connected to the Yan Luo Hall, the front hall is the main hall, and the back is the hall. Hades mansion.

"Really?" The judge jumped up and stared at him with rounded eyes. If he lived in the Palace of the King of Hades, it would not be too late to get up after hearing the sound of going to work outside every day!This is simply an ideal life!He couldn't believe that such a good thing could fall from the sky, so he hesitated and asked, "Well, how much is the rent?"

Yan Wang glanced at him indifferently: "Just look at it."

The judge immediately frowned, "You really want to collect money from me..."

"I didn't want to accept it, but you took the initiative—"

"Hey," the judge sneered at him flatteringly, "Lord Yan Wang is magnanimous, just pretend I didn't say anything just now, okay?"

Yan Wang lowered his head and continued to work, reminding him unhurriedly: "My name is Yan Mofu, not Lord Yan Wang."

"I see—" the judge said with a smile, "Bo, thank you!"

Yan Wang didn't reply anymore, as if he thought he was annoying, but he couldn't help showing a smile.

After the day's work was over, Judge Lu couldn't wait to go back to the dormitory to pack his things, and then he took his little bag and lived in the Yan Wang's mansion contentedly.According to Yan Wang, the other rooms have not been occupied for a long time and it is very difficult to clean them, or they are full of life and death records over the years, so there is no room for people to live in, so they can only be arranged in this way.

Judge Lu didn't have any objections. He finally lived a happy life where he knocked on the gavel in the front hall and only got up and went out in the backyard.

A few days after moving there, he met a kid who often drank with him, and the other party asked him, "Lord Lu, why haven't I seen you lately?"

"Oh, I've moved," the judge gnawed on the apple brought back from the world by Black and White Wuchang, and told them carelessly: "Now I live in the Palace of the King of Hell."

The little ghost immediately showed an expression of eating insects, opened his mouth for a long time and didn't close it. It took a while to find his own voice, let out a blank "oh", and walked away in a daze.

"What's wrong with him?" The judge felt strange and turned to ask Bai Wuchang next to him.

"It's probably an epileptic seizure." Bai Wuchang said casually without guilt, and then turned his gaze to Judge Lu, his eyes flickered, "Xiao Lu, are you living in the King of Hell's Mansion now?"

"That's right," the judge nodded, completely unaware of anything wrong, "I live next door to Jie's. We are neighbors now... No, I should be his tenant."

"Really..." Bai Wuchang smiled and said meaningfully.

Judge Lu looked puzzled, what happened to these people?There is something in each sentence.He decided to ask Hades what was going on when he saw Yama later.

"They are jealous of our good relationship." Hearing this, Yan Wang explained solemnly: "Don't worry about them."

"Is that so?" The judge blinked suspiciously, feeling that something was wrong, but he didn't think much about it, and this insignificant question was quickly forgotten by him.

Yan Wang quietly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that everyone knew about this, he actually felt a little relieved.But looking at Xiao Lu's silly look, he felt that he had a long way to go, so he couldn't help but help his forehead, forget it, as long as he is happy.

King Hades is not worried about this - Judge Lu is never unhappy, he is always so careless and heartless, sometimes, King Hades even thinks that this person is a little lacking in heart.For example, every year when the gate of ghosts is closed, he will personally light a big red lantern to lead the way to see the ghosts off. When the gate of ghosts closes, he will go to the intersection of Huangquan to meet them and say with a smile, "Welcome back~" making those little ghosts dumbfounded.

Sometimes he will pull on Hades, euphemistically called: work and rest.The little ghosts almost died of fright when they saw the stern-faced Lord Hades coming out to greet him.

He would also go to Granny Meng's to try the soup regularly, and the old and the young could chat very well. Every time he came back after drinking the soup, he would either turn into a strange look or do something strange, which caused Hades a headache and repeated orders. Forbidding him to drink Po Meng's soup again has no effect. The next time I see this person, he may be covered with green hair again.

During the ten-year evaluation, Judge Lu lived up to expectations and was named "the most popular employee in the underworld" and "the most meddling person in the underworld". He didn't mind it, and took all of them as rewards, happily carrying the two trophies back to the room Put it on, and invite Lord Yama to appreciate it together.

Yan Wang said to this: ...just be happy.

After many years, Judge Lu has already fully integrated into the environment of the underworld and became a part of it. His popularity even surpassed the king of hell, ranking first on the list of "the underworld ministers that little ghosts are most willing to deal with", and the king of hell has gradually become kind. At least that face is not so dark, and occasionally smiles.

But what makes Diting feel anxious is that these two people are living together, and they are so exhausted. They have been friends for many years, and there is no progress. This makes his gossip soul burn!Really disappointing!It's so irritating! ... Ah no, the dog is so mad!

Hades, who should have been in a hurry, was calm and relaxed. Anyway, the days are still long, so you can take your time.

At least that's what he thought then.

On this day, Bai Wuchang came back from the world again, and specially brought a pair of red wedding candles for the judge—every time he came back, Bai Wuchang would bring some wicked gifts since he knew what Hades was thinking.The judge didn't know the purpose of this candle, but thought that the red one was pretty, so he cheerfully accepted it and planned to take it back and give one to Hades.

Passing Naihe Bridge on the way back, he wanted to say hello to Po Meng, but found three people around the bridge—two ghost messengers and a woman seemed to be arguing about something.

"What's wrong?" He walked over and asked.

When the ghost messenger saw it was him, he hurriedly bowed to greet him, and told him that this woman had already given up three chances of reincarnation, and this time she was still unwilling to cross the bridge and insisted on staying.

"Why don't you want to reincarnate?" the judge asked.

The woman was beautiful, but her body was covered with scars. She was only wearing the simplest white linen skirt, and there were several cracks. Through the fabric, one could vaguely see the bruised wounds inside.But her expression was indifferent, and she was very calm when she heard the question, "Responding to your lord's words..." She was stunned the moment she looked up at Judge Lu, her lips trembled, and she shouted: "...A Dao?"

"What did you say?" The judge didn't know what she was talking about, and looked at her suspiciously.

The woman stared at him blankly for a long while, then murmured softly: "Have you forgotten..." Realizing this, she immediately showed an extremely lonely expression on her face, and shook her head: "It's nothing, you adults have worked hard, I still have to pay attention If you want to wait any longer, please be flexible."

The two ghost messengers looked at the judge to ask for his opinion. The judge thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, come back when you figure it out."

The woman nodded, turned around and walked in the direction of the dead city.

Judge Lu looked at her back as she walked farther and farther away, and suddenly felt that this scene was familiar, as if... It seemed that he had seen it once a long time ago, but at that time, the woman was not wearing a white cloth, but a red dress.

"Wait a minute!" Before he could think clearly, he subconsciously opened his mouth.

The woman's back was slightly startled, and she turned around.

Judge Lu scratched his head embarrassingly, "Did I know you before?"

The woman looked at him for a while, then smiled softly, "Even if we know each other, it's the past, since we've forgotten it, there's no need to mention it again." After speaking, she turned her head and walked away without waiting for his reaction.

The judge stood where he was, feeling a bit lost, and couldn't help asking the ghost guard beside him, "Why is she covered with scars all over her body?"

The ghost messenger replied, "She just came out of hell."

"Hell?" The judge was taken aback, the woman didn't look like someone who would commit evil deeds, "What did she do?"

The ghost messenger shook his head, "We don't know about that."

...

"This is a new arrest warrant. You distribute it to Xiaoheixiaobai and Niutoumamian..." Yan Wang explained the work, but when he looked up, he found the judge sitting there in a daze, not listening to what he was saying.

"Little Lu...Little Lu!"

He yelled twice before the judge came back to his senses, and absently accepted the batch of arrest warrants.

Yan Wang frowned, "What's wrong with you?"

The judge said thoughtfully: "Bie...do you think I can still remember what happened before I became an immortal?"

"Since I've forgotten it, why do I have to remember it?" Yama told him, "It's better to forget it."

"Really..." But he couldn't stop thinking about that woman. He used to feel that it was easy not to remember anything, but now those lost memories made him feel anxious, and the back of the woman always appeared in his mind. And the look in her eyes when she saw her for the first time.

"A Dao...A Dao..." He pouted his head, repeating this very familiar name over and over again, almost bewildered.

Hades in the main hall raised his head and looked at him worriedly.

That night, Judge Lu had a dream, in which the woman's back appeared again, but this time she was wearing a red gauze dress.

"I'm sorry, A Dao, I can't accompany you anymore." She said softly, with tears in her eyes, but resolutely turned around and walked away step by step, leaving only a red back.

The judge heard himself shouting behind her: "Sister Hong!"

Waking up suddenly, he opened his eyes and stared blankly at the ceiling. At that moment, an extremely familiar name suddenly jumped into his mind - "Lu Zhidao".

"My name is Lu Zhidao!" He widened his eyes, "That woman... Sister Hong... Xiao Hong!"

He jumped up from the bed and ran out of the door in a hurry, almost tripping over the threshold - he wanted to find that woman and ask her what happened back then!

After the judge left, the door of the next room opened with a "squeak" and Hades stood at the door with an uncertain face.Just now Xiao Lu was talking to himself in the room, he heard every word, including the two names: Lu Zhidao and Xiao Hong... Yan Wang frowned and walked out of the room, but he didn't run out along the judge Instead, he turned around and walked towards the depths of the mansion.

He came to an old courtyard, and there was a dusty wing room in it. Hades opened the door and walked in. Inside, there were countless bookshelves lined up with labels on them—this was where the books of life and death in previous years were placed.Yan Wang walked through the rows of shelves without squinting. The thing he was looking for was still in the deepest part. The words "Cultivation of Immortals" were pasted on that shelf. The people recorded here were all practitioners, and they might leave in the future. Reincarnation ranks among the immortals, or they fall into the devil's way and do evil, so they all have names and surnames and are strictly recorded.

Yan Wang twirled his fingers lightly, and suddenly a group of small green flames sprang up in the palm of his hand. He lightly lifted the flames, and the flames floated up and floated to one side.His eyes scanned the dusty thread-bound books, and finally saw the one he needed. He hesitated for a while, not knowing what to think of, and his fingertips trembled a little.

Finally, taking a deep breath, he pulled out the book and slowly opened it.