Qin Caixing kowtowed to Shi Zai a few times like a frog pecking at rice, and then told him the incredible reason——
Master, you know very well that a few years ago, I practiced Avalokitesvara Meditation and meditated at home, and my soul left my body. I went to Macau to watch gambling and became addicted, and I never came back.
If I didn’t come back, my physical body would quickly break down, that is to say, I would be dead! Even if I come back from now on, I won’t have a human body to live in. Naturally, I will become an out-and-out lonely ghost.
Of course, you can live your life watching gambling in Macau. My good friend Hou Dabao is a real person. Because I used my power to secretly help him win a lot of money gambling, he was very grateful and even set up a special box for me at home. The spiritual throne worshiped me like a god of wealth, provided ample offerings, and continued to offer incense every day, which gave me a particularly satisfying feeling.
But one day, I went to a casino to watch gambling. The gamblers left late at night, and I came out of the casino and was about to return to the spiritual place opened for me by Hou Dabao's family - which is equivalent to my temporary home in the underworld. , which is my home in the underworld!
Unexpectedly, I walked onto the street and was stopped by a man who was taller than me. Oh, when I thought about it, it wasn’t a human being, it was a big ghost. If I were a human being, I would never be able to see me. Only ghosts who are at the same level of time and space in the underworld as me can see me, and I can also see him.
At that moment, I impatiently asked the big guy standing in front of me, "Hey, I don't know you. What do you want from me?"
The big guy saw that I was not very polite with my words, but he was not angry. He even took out a box of hardcover cigarettes from his body, took out two cigarettes, and handed one to me. I took it, held it in my mouth and lit the lighter with Big Guy. After I took a deep breath, a trace of smoke came out of both nostrils. I still looked up at him, expecting him to say something. He also took a puff of a lit cigarette and replied calmly, nothing happened.
Then what did you ask me to do? I asked him back, wishing I could scold him, are you out of your mind? Of course I didn't say it out loud.
The big ghost exhaled a puff of smoke and said, I want to ask you, you are already a ghost, you can be said to be a yin person, why do you hang out with living yang people every day? I said, brother, you don’t know something. If I don’t hang out with living people, what will I eat? What do you live on? I also told the story of the living Hou Dabao and his wife setting up an altar for me in their home and offering me fine offerings and incense.
The big guy laughed loudly when he heard this, took a puff of cigarette, shook his head and said, "It seems that you think it's pretty good, and you want to keep living like this, right?"
What can I do? I am now a yin person, and I am not as prosperous as I was a few years ago when I was a yang person, working as the boss of the printing and dyeing company in Qianshan County, Dongtu Kingdom. Now I feel a little regretful, and I can’t go back even if I want to! Even if I go back, it will have no effect. I have lost my body and am a ghost.
After staying in Macau for a long time, I still miss my hometown in the East. One time I went back and found out that my wife had already remarried to the wife who was the assistant to the general manager of our company. The assistant to the general manager of the head office had been promoted to the general manager, and my wife had become the chairman of the board.
The big guy walked with me and said, "A good man will not mention his bravery, but I will tell you something serious." I nodded. The big guy then told me something that scared me. There are rules in the underworld, and you must understand them.
Generally, newly deceased people have souls, that is, they have thoughts. When they have thoughts, they consume energy. If the energy is consumed too much, or it is exhausted, it is like a Yang person who is hungry for food. He feels hungry, and a Yang person can eat when he is hungry. Or eat other non-staple food. If the deceased is hungry, it is different. He can only smell the breath. Once he smells it, he may be full. Being full is equivalent to replenishing energy and restoring energy.
I know that you now make a living by smelling the offerings and incense from Hou Dabao's family, but you have to understand that it will not last long. Once the house god, kitchen god and door god of Hou Dabao's family are all If the little god sues you, you will get into big trouble. They usually take the form of the local City God, and the City God will send undercover agents to kidnap you, Wu Huada, and take you to the City God's Temple for questioning.
Hearing this, I didn't understand, so I asked the big guy, what crime have I committed?
The big ghost said that newly deceased people become Yin people. The Yin person can enjoy the offerings and incense provided by his family or relatives within seven or forty-nine days, no more than one year at most.
There are rules in Hades, and it won’t work if you exceed the time limit. Of course, the newly dead souls will be reincarnated in less than a year, or become ghosts and start living as ghosts. How can they rely on the offerings and incense provided by family members or relatives for a long time?
If family members and relatives no longer prepare offerings and incense, wouldn’t the undead or ghosts all starve to death? There is only one exception: heroes who have made great contributions to the development of society in the world, or who have died in a just war, or good people who have done good deeds and accumulated virtues, etc. After their death, people often build ancestral temples, set up memorial tablets or shrines to offer incense. , long-term or four-season sacrifices, this is allowed by the underworld, and it is also a common thing known to both humans and gods. Yes, it is also advocated.
In fact, some ancestral temples enshrine icons, heroes and even the spiritual tablets of ancestors. Some of them actually come here to enjoy sacrifices and use them. More saints, heroes and ancestors have long been promoted to immortals, earth gods or reborn in good places.
But your situation is completely different. Firstly, you are not a saint, secondly, you are not a hero, and thirdly, you are not a virtuous ancestor. How can you be qualified to enjoy sacrifices and incense at a friend's house for a long time? As long as any little god from Hou Dabao's family goes to the City God to make a written or verbal report, you are doomed.
The big guy told me these truths that I had never heard before, which made me tremble with fear. I deliberately said calmly, "Brother, I have lived in Hou Dabao's house for many years, and no little god has ever sued me?"
Then you must have bribed them or settled the relationship with them. When the big guy said this, he suddenly changed the topic, but people are not good for a hundred days, and flowers are not prosperous for a hundred days. There will eventually be conflicts. As long as any one of them turns against you, you are finished.
If you are captured by the city god, you will be guilty more than the ordinary undead, because you are an undead soul who practiced Avalokitesvara meditation and left the body. You went to Macau to indulge in gambling and refused to return to the body and died. In fact, your life has not yet ended. , maybe a few more decades.
It is a wasted death for you to die in this way so early. The king of Hades has not discovered it yet. If he finds out, he will take you to the city of wasted death and imprison you, and then you will lose your freedom. If you don't hurry up to our company and integrate into the life of ghosts, if one day the city god who receives the report discovers you, arrests you for a first trial, and sends you directly to the Hall of Hell in the underworld for punishment, you will regret it.
I kept saying yes, thank you for reminding me. The big ghost talked about the stakes around my situation, and some things actually got to the point - Hou Dabao's family used to worship the God of Wealth, but since I went to their house, the God of Wealth no longer worshiped them, and only offered me incense and incense as offerings. You don’t worship the God of Wealth, but you worship me as the God of Wealth. I let their family gods, kitchen gods and door gods join me every day to freely enjoy the offerings and incense they provided for me. These little gods think that I am a good person and treat them well. Of course they will not file a lawsuit against me. .
But like you said, if I get close to these little gods, there will be discord one day. Once a conflict occurs, I really can't stay in this Yangren's house. Thinking of this, I became more and more panicked. So he looked at the big ghost worriedly and sighed, Brother, according to what you say, I have to leave Hou Dabao's house quickly and live a normal life as a ghost.
But even though there are many ghosts, I don’t know you. I don’t even know your surname or your name. How can you integrate into the life of the ghosts?
We walked and talked and passed several streets. Because I followed the big guy, I ended up on a dark street in Macau.
At this moment, the big ghost head introduced that his name in the upper world was Gu Junshui, and he still used this name in the underworld. He also pointed to the gatehouse under a row of tall buildings and said, look, what is written on it? I took a look and saw a sign hanging on the gate, with a row of red lacquered characters in Wei stele style written vertically on it: Macau Hades Dongcheng District Cigarette Monopoly Co., Ltd.
Seeing that I had carefully looked at this company, the big guy patted me on the shoulder and said, from today on, you should not go back to Hou Dabao's house again. Follow me to work in another company. You used to work for the same company in Yangshi. General Manager, now that you have arrived in the underworld, you will be the general manager of Macau Underworld Dongcheng District Cigarette Monopoly Co., Ltd.!
I was the general manager of this company, and now I am the chairman. In this way, you will integrate into the life of the ghosts and no longer need to rely on the Yangren Hou Dabao family to provide you with offerings and incense to survive.
I was excited when I heard what the big guy said, but I didn’t want to work in his company at this time. I no longer called him brother, but called him Director Gu (chairman). Please let me go back to Hou Dabao’s house to say hello to him. Let’s go again!
That's okay too. As Gu Junshui said, he saw me off for a while, and then turned around until we reached the street of Yangren.
I returned to Hou Dabao's house. Because it was late at night, Hou Dabao and his wife were asleep and fell into sleep. Entering sleep means that the soul is separated from the body. I happened to find their souls and said thank you before saying goodbye. If I were to come back so late under normal circumstances, I would definitely go to my altar table to enjoy the offerings and smell the aroma, but I wasn’t hungry at the moment because I was full from just smoking a cigarette issued by Gu Dong outside.
At this time, the kitchen god of Hou Dabao's family saw that I was not at the altar table, so he asked me if I had a midnight snack when I came back so late. I told him that smoking a cigarette outside was considered a dental ritual.
At this moment, when the household gods and door gods who were still enjoying the offerings and incense at the altar heard us talking, they all came out of the room where the altar table was placed and went to the living room to meet me. The family god stroked his white beard and asked me enviously, Mr. Qin, you smoked a cigarette outside today. Do you have male hair or female hair?
I smiled slightly and said that of course it was from Yin people. Yang people couldn't see me at all. Where could smoke come from? The door god can help, that’s not necessarily the case. If a Yang person makes an offering to you at home, they can also offer a carton of cigarettes, or a box, several cigarettes, or one cigarette.
I said, how is it possible? Yang people give us Yin spirits, that is, Yin people make offerings on the altar. Where can we offer cigarettes? Most of them offer sticks of incense sticks to light, emitting wisps of smoke for us Yin people to smell and eat. Moreover, Yang people have a purpose in doing this. There are also pure offerings, but they are relatively rare. Most of them have something to ask for.
The door god nodded in agreement and returned to stand guard in front of the gate. Otherwise, he would be suspected of dereliction of duty. Just as he was getting up, I called him, "Guard God, wait a minute, I have something to say."
The Kitchen God stood aside and listened to their teasing for a while, and then he understood some things, and then said, "Don't speak in a hurry. Let me ask you, what is the purpose of smoking Yinren's cigarette today?"
