At this time, the invisible door god seemed to whisper in his ear. Xu Sijin nodded repeatedly and stood up immediately. Seeing him dawdling, Yin Chai pushed him into the threshold of the sixth hall with one palm. Xu Sijin staggered and almost fell down. The note he was holding in his right hand fell to the ground, and when he was about to pick it up, he accidentally stepped on it under his feet. Xu Sijin didn't want to give up, so he just waited for him to move his feet before picking it up again.
But when Yin Chai arrived at the sacred and solemn hall, he did not dare to move casually, but he stood there like a sculpture, and told Xu Si Jin that he had sinned against Si Jin and had not bowed to the king to apologize.
Xu Sijin panicked and didn't care to pick up the note. He immediately bowed his head to the king who was sitting on the throne of the palace with a dignified appearance and a hint of kindness in his majesty.
That king is King Bian Cheng who is in charge of this palace. He is dressed in ancient clothes and has an unusual crown. The top of the crown is flat and square. Below it is something like a square pillar that is buckled horizontally, with the same side as the forehead. There is also a treasure with a white edge, like a gourd, and two water chestnut-shaped orbs strung on it, both of which are white. They may be a special symbol of the underworld.
Behind the square pillar-like thing, there is a silver hairpin that is slightly thicker on the left and tapering on the right, as bright as a sword, forming a shape with the two long and flat embroidered crown belts hanging from the top of the crown, just close to the left and right ear temples. He added a big word "kai", as if silently saying: This King of Hell is very open-minded. Whether it's his underlings or the guilty souls being escorted, if you have anything to say, you can speak it openly and honestly.
At that moment, the undercover officer presented Xu Sijin's case files to King Bian Cheng to look at them one by one. Xu Sijin wanted to pick up the note from under Yin Chai's feet, but when Yin Chai walked away, the note disappeared.
There was only a small pile of ashes where he had just stood. It turned out that there was clearly fire under the Yin Chai's feet, which had already burned the note into ashes. I saw a gloomy wind blowing gently, taking the ashes away, as if a black butterfly flew away. Xu Sijin sighed softly, then held a piece of paper in his left hand and clenched it tightly, fearing that it would also be lost.
At this time, King Bian Cheng looked at Xu Sijin's case file, raised his voice and made gestures and said, in the past life, the guilty soul Sijin was tried in this palace as a soul guilty of theft. Now you are still being tried in this palace as a soul guilty of theft. Can't you learn from it? Do you have to be a robber in the world?
Xu Sijin remained silent and knelt in front of the hall again, his head lowered and silent. King Bian Cheng saw that he looked like a dead pig and was not afraid of boiling water, so he ordered him to raise his head and speak. He raised his head but had nothing to say.
King Bian Cheng asked him again if he had any grievances, and he could tell him anything. Xu Sijin said, "Your Majesty, I have no grievances. All the bad things I did in the Yang world were stealing. Your Majesty, according to the laws of Yin, you will be sentenced as you please. I have no complaints."
Oh, you are still a man, you dare to take action. King Bian Cheng, who had a fluttering black beard, smiled indifferently, and then said seriously, this palace specializes in judging sinful souls who have committed fourteen kinds of misdeeds in the world of the world. Which fourteen kinds of misdeeds? Listen, check if you have four pounds of sinful souls?
First, complain about everything; hate wind and curse thunder; like sunshine but hate rain.
Second, urinate and defecate facing the north (sky) and cry.
Third, steal the treasures hidden in the golden bodies of statues of gods and Buddhas.
Fourth, scrape the gold and silver treasures from the sacred Buddha statues.
Fifth, casually calling the names of gods and Buddhas with a scornful attitude.
Sixth, do not respect or cherish the written paper and scriptures.
Seventh, spilling or piling dirty things in front and behind temples, Taoist temples, and pagodas.
Eighth, keeping an image of the Buddha at home, cooking a large amount of meat, meat and other unclean things in the kitchen stove, especially eating beef and dog meat, is extremely disrespectful to Buddha, Bodhisattvas, gods, etc.
Ninth, keep or collect books that violate moral principles or pornographic books and periodicals at home.
10. Burn books, articles, and utensils that have been defaced or damaged.
Eleventh, embroider images of dragons and phoenixes on the clothes.
Twelfth, waste and destroy grains and grains.
Thirteenth, hoarding rice grains in the hope of selling them at high prices to make extravagant money.
14. Carving, drawing, and embroidering sacred images on clothes and utensils will cause people to be contemptuous of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and gods.
After King Bian Cheng finished speaking, he found that not only Xu Sijin, the sinful soul, was listening in the hall, but other sinful souls kneeling in line and Yin Chai who was escorting the sinful soul were also listening with stunned ears.
He happily added that if people in the world have the above-mentioned misdeeds or sins, if they can eat vegetarian food, observe the precepts, purify their body, speech and mind on the eighth day of the third month of the lunar calendar, they will vow not to commit the above-mentioned sins in the future, and to be able to do so every day. On the 14th, 15th and 16th of May and on the 10th of October, you should abstain from sexual intercourse and vow to admonish others from now on. If you do this, you will be exempted from the torments of all the minor hells in this temple. If you can always remember the name of Guanyin Bodhisattva and recite it loudly, you can avoid all the suffering in hell.
King Bian Cheng saw the guilty soul Xu Sijin again and asked, "Have you ever checked whether you committed any of the fourteen wrongdoings during your lifetime?" Xu Sijin replied in a low voice, "I don't remember." Maybe some have committed it and some have not.
After King Bian Cheng signaled a palace official to read out Xu Sijin's verdict, he was without exception thrown into the hell of the hall supervisor. This hell is located at the bottom of the sea, under the fertile reef facing due north. It has a radius of eight thousand miles and is surrounded by black waves. It looks eerie and terrifying everywhere, surrounded by sixteen small hells.
As a habitual thief, he was known as a "pickpocket" when he was alive. When he went to this hell to be punished, the first thing he had to do was chop off his two hands.
I saw a warrior holding a sharp ax in his hand, and told him very clearly that the guilty soul was four pounds and he didn't reach out his hands for me to chop it off. Although it hurt a little when it was chopped, it couldn't be said that it was not a good thing. Chop it off. , if you can change into a human being in your next life, you won’t be a robber and steal things.
Xu Sijin did not immediately reach out his hands to the torture instrument that was just waiting for execution. Instead, he bowed his hands to the fierce-looking warrior and then said calmly, "Brother General, can you agree to my request?"
The warrior bulged his eyes and asked, "What are your requirements?" Xu Sijin did not answer immediately, but took a look at the note in his left hand that the door god gave him. Before he could reply, he heard the warrior say again, no matter what the request is, it is up to you to accept it or not. It's my business. But I can tell you clearly that your two "pickpocket hands" must be chopped off. My job in the underworld is to chop off the hands of all habitual thieves escorted from the Yang world.
Xu Sijin pretended to be calm and replied, "I know that. I also want you to chop these hands. It's just a small request, and you must agree."
The warrior put down the raised ax again, knocked it on the hard wooden board, and gestured, "Just fart whatever you want!"
Xu Sijin was in a good mood. He stretched out his left hand that was clenched into a fist, shook it with a smile and said, "Brother General, can you chop off this hand first?" I can't stand it if both hands are chopping at the same time. The warrior said dissatisfiedly that it was nonsense. It doesn't matter which hand you choose to chop first, it's your hand anyway. Okay, I agree to your request. Stop nagging and put your hands on the torture instruments.
The instrument of torture was a large wooden board like a railway sleeper. Xu Sijin slowly put his left hand over it, and his clenched fist slowly unfolded. When the warrior lifted the ax and struck it hard, a strange phenomenon occurred. The edge of the ax moved to one side, and Xu Sijin's left hand did not move at all.
The warrior raised the ax and struck again. Again, the edge of the ax was still tilted to one side. The warrior shouted, "What's going on?" When he looked closely, a line of bold characters appeared on Xu Sijin's left hand from the elbow to the palm: I want to change my ways and discipline the "pickpocket" to become a "merit hand"!
Hey, who did this to you, so that even my magic ax can't cut it down? The warrior retracted his ax in confusion, stretched out his hand to rub his Yintang, and immediately showed a bright and shining eye. He moved a few times, shook his head, and then said to Xu Sijin, "Sin Soul Sijin, I know, it's The door god in front of the hall helped you. You and he are still ancestors. More than 2,000 years ago, this door god was your grandfather and you are his grandson.
