It was a hot day, and Kuai Xingguang, who had passed his destiny year, was still in good health. He was leading the villagers to spray pesticides and control insects in the farmland. There is a mountain at the north end of the village. There is a row of paddy fields on the hillside. There is a deep pool at the foot of the mountain. The water in the pool never dries up or rises all year round.
The water in the pool has a dark green sheen, but it is pure because it is covered with densely tangled aquatic plants. Whenever the paddy fields need water, the villagers use primitive tools - long rows of wooden water carts set up in the pond to pump water for irrigation. However, this is laborious and inefficient.
As a village cadre, Kuai Xingguang wanted to build a platform canal on this hillside with paddy fields and use modern machinery-pumps to divert water. With this thought in mind, he put on a straw hat and braved the poisonous sunshine to climb the hillside alone to observe. He occasionally wandered to the ridges of Guanshui fields, and saw that some fields were exposed and seriously short of water, so he planned to quickly organize labor to repair the canals. This thought came to his mind. He raised his head happily and was surprised when he suddenly saw a lion jumping out of the jungle and flying towards the paddy field. He couldn't dodge and retreated to the edge of the pond in panic. The sole of his foot slipped, " With a "plop" sound, there was a splash of water in the pool, and his whole body fell into the water. Since he couldn't swim, there was no one here. He was helpless and struggled, and finally sank in like a weight. At the bottom of the pool, only his gray straw hat and a row of white bubbles were floating on the water.
The moment before Kuai Xingguang was drowned was very painful. After his soul left his body, he no longer felt pain. After taking a look at his body, he climbed up from the bottom of the pool to the bank. When he looked at the lion again, he had disappeared.
He wanted to go home and have a look, but when he returned home, his wife was busy with housework and had no idea that something had happened to him. She had become a spirit body and could see people in the upper world, but people in the upper world could not see him.
He felt helpless and wanted to see his high school son at school and say goodbye, which would make him feel a little more at ease.
As soon as Kuai Xingguang walked out of the room, Black and White Wuchang came up and held him down. He knew he was dead, but he shouted: Why are you arresting me? I didn't break the law. Hei Wuchang said: Stop talking nonsense, we are following orders. Then his hands were locked with an iron chain. Bai Wuchang said: Look, you still dare to run around.
I died unjustly. Kuai Xingguang kept moaning, it was the lion that deserved to be killed that caused me to fall into the deep pool and drown.
Yeah? If you can survive, we will release you immediately. Hei Wuchang had a sneer on his face. Bai Wuchang said, your body is still at the bottom of the pond. It has been soaked for two days and rotted. People will only find you when it floats. Haha... just follow us honestly!
Can you please grant me a request?
Both black and white looked at him. He said: I just want to go to school to see my son for the last time. Hei Wuchang pulled the chain that locked him and said: No, it's meaningless. Don't waste time, we have other souls to tame, so don't be too verbose!
At this time, Kuai Xingguang's wife, who was busy squatting in the main room, stood up and said casually: It's already noon, why hasn't the child's father come back? Don't you have a meeting outside and have fun? Kuai Xingguang, who was outside the door, turned around, burst into tears, and said in a loud voice: "Mother, I drowned in a deep pool at the foot of the hillside with paddy fields in the west of the village. Please quickly ask someone to retrieve my body."
But the wife couldn't hear her at all, and she was still busy with her work, as if nothing had happened. Black and White Wuchang pushed him towards the village again. There were a lot of acquaintances coming and going on the road. Kuai Xingguang cried out one by one, but no one paid him any attention.
Bai Wuchang said: Kuai Xingguang, your shouting was in vain. You have now become a dead soul in the underworld. People in the upper world can't see you even if they come face to face, let alone hear your shouting.
Kuai Xingguang cried and complained to the lion. Hei Wuchang said: What are you complaining about? The lion didn't bite you to death. You were frightened and fell into the deep pool and drowned.
If I didn't run away, I would be killed by the lion. Kuai Xingguang said angrily: I just didn't want to die in the mouth of a lion. Now I drowned in the water, and a body was preserved.
Hearing this, Bai Wuchang laughed again: If you don't run away, you won't die. At most, you will get sick. Kuai Xingguang asked in shock: Don't lions eat people?
Of course lions eat people, but the lion you see is not a real lion, it is an illusion.
I clearly saw a real lion leaping out of the jungle and rushing towards me.
Hei Wuchang said: That's a lion spirit. If it doesn't perform illusions, will it scare you? You and the lion spirit have an old grudge.
Kuai Xingguang wiped away his tears, looked at Hei Wuchang in rapt attention, and then asked quietly: How do you say this?
You must remember a classmate named Tai Lishi, right? You killed him.
Hearing this name, Kuai Xingguang was very sensitive. His face suddenly turned pale and he lowered his head and said nothing. Hei Wuchang said: Tai Lishi went through several rounds of changes after his death and has now become a lion spirit. By killing you, it is also avenging you for killing him in the past life. Your life span is originally 75 years old, but due to unresolved karma, your life span has been reduced by nearly 20 years.
I died unjustly! Kuai Xingguang said: When Tai Lishi and I were classmates, I bullied him. But after leaving society, I devoted myself to charity and did not bully him at all. He was the one who made things difficult for me...
Stop talking. Seeing that Yinshan was approaching, Bai Wuchang said: Just because you died a bit unjustly, we will send you to the City of Unjust Death today.
Before arriving at the City of Wasted Death, one must pass through the City God's Temple, the place where the dead souls originally came from, and then go to the Ghost Judgement Hall under the jurisdiction of the first hall in charge of King Qin Guang set up in the underworld for trial.
At that moment, Black and White Wuchang sent Kuai Xingguang to the City God's Temple for inspection for a while, and found that he had some sins in his early years, but his sins were slightly less in middle age. Then the chief clerk of the City God's Temple wrote the ultimatum and went straight to the Ghost Judge's Hall.
When he came to the front of the hall, he saw Eguan Bo, the majestic Qin Guang Dynasty, staring at him. Kuai Xingguang, who was wearing iron chains, knelt on his knees in front of the hall and kept shouting: I died unjustly, and it was not a pity to die. No one plans to build the water diversion channel in our village. I hope the underworld king will take a look.
King Qin Guang said: You don’t have to kneel down, you can stand up and say, how did you die? Whether you died unjustly or not, you can tell me slowly, I will decide right from wrong.
Then, Kuai Xingguang told the reasons why Tai Lishi was reincarnated as a lion after his death, and how he took revenge on Tai Lishi and turned into a lion spirit after his death. After hearing this, King Qin Guang looked around at Black and White Wuchang and asked: Is what this dead soul said true?
Hei Wuchang said: "I'm telling you, your Majesty, what Kuai Xingguang said is basically true." Later, Bai Wuchang handed over the ultimatum and said: Your Majesty, you can check carefully. The local City God Temple has recorded all the sins of Kuai Xingguang's life on the ultimatum.
Kuai Xingguang stood up, and the iron chains that locked his hands made a jingling sound. When the sound stopped, he wiped away his tears and said: Your Majesty, I can't come back to life even after I die. I only hope that Your Majesty will punish the lion spirit that harms people. Otherwise, who will dare to do things for the benefit of the people in the human world from now on? If I were a heinous person, I would have nothing to say if I was killed by that lion spirit...
King Qin Guang stretched out his hands and pressed down to stop Kuai Xingguang from speaking, and ordered Black and White to catch the lion spirit causing trouble in the Yinshan Mountain.
Black and White Wuchang said in unison: Your Majesty, it's not that we are disrespectful in resisting the decree. Nowadays, the lion spirit's ability to change is very good, and we are afraid that we can't do anything to it.
When King Qin Guang heard this, it made sense. He immediately sent the animal god to the palace to receive the order, and together with Black and White Wuchang, they went to capture the lion spirit and hold him accountable.
