The palace of King Chujiang was solemn and silent. The Yin soldiers and generals were divided into two rows, staring at the guilty souls who came in for trial with eyes like lightning. At that moment, Wu Congcong knelt down after entering the palace. He slightly raised his head and said to the majestic King of Chujiang who was sitting high in the palace. Wu Congcong, the guilty soul, is here and begs the king to try him according to the law and give a fair verdict.
King Chu Jiang ignored him for the time being, and motioned to a palace servant next to him to announce his crime:
Wu Congcong was of bad character and cruel during his lifetime. After receiving hundreds of coins from Ma Huangmao, he acted as a murder intermediary and used half of the money to pay the murderer to kill Wang Jiamu, the owner of the Jiangnan Greenhouse Vegetable Base who had some issues with him. The so-called festival is not that Wang Jiamu owes him, but that he tried to blackmail Wang Jiamu on the grounds that his father had peeped on Wang Jiamu's wife and had an adulterous sprained her feet, so he accumulated a grudge. For such a sin, even though he was punished by the Yang Law during his lifetime, he still had to go through the Yin Law after his death.
After hearing this, the King of Chu Jiang angrily accused Wu Congcong of being clever but being misled by his cleverness. He had not used his intelligence in the right way during his life and was extremely selfish. He is said to have been a private litigator, so he should understand ethics and laws. How can he understand the truth but not be unreasonable, and break the law even though he knows the law? This kind of person's crime will be increased one level, and he will be quickly sent to the scissors hell and tortured for 400 years.
Your Majesty, I am wronged! Even if I acted as a murder intermediary, I did not kill anyone directly, and there was no capital crime. The maximum sentence in the world would be life imprisonment. However, while I was in prison, I was severely beaten by the cell boss and eventually died of illness in prison. Shouldn't this punishment be able to offset some of my wrongdoings? It's so unfair that I have to go to hell with scissors after I die. Kneeling Wu Congcong shouted loudly.
Immediately, the Yin soldiers and gods on both sides of the hall chanted "mighty" in unison. Wu Congcong was shocked and stopped talking. He was still upset in his heart.
The palace servant said, "It's fair. You don't know something about the guilty soul Wu Congcong. Just because you were injured to death by the prison boss in the earthly world, these have offset some of your sins. If you had escaped legal sanctions in the earthly world, you would have If you avoid death by illness and die in prison, then after you die normally, you will also go to scissors hell. The difference is that you will go to hell and receive torture for 800 years. What is the scissors hell? It means that when you are alive, you instigate people to ignore the law and ethics and commit serious crimes, including murder. After death, they will be sent to the scissors hell, and their ten fingers will be cut off with scissors, which is extremely painful.
Your Majesty, you all know that I have done bad things during my lifetime, but have I also done good things? Do you know?
What good things have you done? You tell me!
Wu Congcong spoke in front of the King of Chu Jiang and the hall full of shady generals. He said that when he was alive, he helped the weak write indictments. His writing skills were good and he was able to reason. He actually overturned a lawsuit that had already been tried, and was favored by the common people. of praise.
King Chu Jiang and the other generals already knew what Wu Congcong said, and they shook their heads while listening.
Seeing that he was still hesitating after talking about this matter, as if he wanted to show off his merits but had nothing to show for it, King Chu Jiang suddenly said in a straight and clear tone:
You're talking about that heinous gangster asking you to write an indictment and start a lawsuit. Is this considered a good deed? When you ask for someone else's money, it is a normal transaction and has nothing to do with doing good deeds.
Besides, the common people are not praising you for doing good deeds, but using a more appropriate metaphor you quoted in your complaint as a way to laugh and talk happily after dinner. You are still looking good, thinking that you are accumulating merit and doing good deeds.
The man you came into contact with, Gao Youneng, who was nicknamed "Heizi", was executed after the incident. In addition to being bribed by you to brutally kill Wang Jiamu, he also owed a life. After his death, the resentful ghosts came to him to collect debts. What's more, he has now been sent to Avici Hell and will not be able to be reincarnated for tens of thousands of years. Even if he is reincarnated again after his sentence is over, he may not be able to be born in a fetus or an egg, and he will only be born in wetness or transformation. What are the things that are born from dampness and metamorphosis? They are all insects, gnats, smelly maggots and the like. It is so sad!
Wu Congcong was not very interested in the preaching speech of King Chujiang. He only cared about himself, so he raised his head and bowed his hands to King Chujiang and said, Your Majesty, my wonderful pen is as useful as the underworld. I am willing to contribute to the treasure palace. To praise my virtues, I only have one small request: to forgive the sins I committed in this world.
After the King of Chu Jiang laughed for a while, he showed a serious expression and pointed at Wu Congcong and said, "You are a short-lived soul who will kill without mercy, but you still want to flatter me. Let me tell you, this is not a world of intrigues and intrigues. Give up that idea!" You said you have a wonderful pen, why are you showing off? Which of the evil generals in my palace is not a literary, Taoist or military strategist? Some are even proficient in multiple languages, but who do you think you are? I don't even take more pictures of myself on the mirror, I'm really shameless. Quickly send this sinful soul to the scissors hell!
Your Majesty, slow down. Wu Congcong kowtowed again and again.
What else are you talking about?
Your Majesty, all the sinister generals in your palace are full of knowledge and wisdom, and they can all be my teachers. I only ask for one thing. When I go to the hell of scissors to be tortured, if I have free time, I still have some personal hobbies. I like to write poems and good compositions. But when my ten fingers are cut off, I will not be able to write poems or write essays. Can your Majesty please use the internet? Please be kind to the guilty soul and send a teacher to the scissor hell where I was tortured to read "Gu Wen Guan Zhi" or Tang poetry and Song poetry to me, so that I can study.
When all the evil generals listened to his words, most of them couldn't help laughing.
Only a godly general with a leopard head and ringed eyes standing on the left side of the hall was serious in speech. He had one hand on his hips and the other hand gently caressing the palm-wide mirror hanging in front of his lapel. From time to time, he glanced at the calm-looking King Chu Jiang above the hall.
Suddenly, King Chu Jiang softened his attitude and said earnestly to Wu Congcong, who was still kneeling in front of the palace, that Wu Congcong, a sinner, must not be obsessed with studying literature or anything like that. He must learn to cultivate his mind and correct his wrong ideas, no matter how he behaves or does things. We must all be upright and upright, be beautiful as adults, be kind to others, and must not have the intention of benefiting ourselves at the expense of others. Otherwise, humans and gods will be angry, and they will inevitably fall under the influence of karma.
Your Majesty, cultivating your mind is too abstract. There is nothing wrong with being obsessed with studying literature. If you can write beautiful articles, you can travel around the world with ease and achieve great results.
The King of Chu Jiang said unhappily that Luo Guanzhong, Shi Naian, and Cao Xueqin each wrote an eternal masterpiece and became unparalleled literary giants. They were talented and literary. They should have accomplished something, right? But in the end, they also know how to let go, stop being attached, and do something and not do something.
Then the King of Chu Jiang ordered the leopard-headed and ring-eyed general to take down the square-palm-wide magical mirror for Wu Congcong to look at. The mirror actually showed the heavenly and fairyland reflecting the future of the great Eastern Kingdom in the 21st century involving Luo Guanzhong, Shi Naian, and Cao Xueqin from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. A rather absurd copywriting of a famous book——
One day, Bao Qingtian told the Ming Jade Emperor that the three ancient documents were very difficult and it would be inappropriate to apply any law. When the Jade Emperor asked why, he was also suspicious. Then a decree was sent to Taibai Jinxing, calling the three civil servants involved, Luo Guanzhong, Shi Naian and Cao Xueqin, to the front of the palace.
