The name Mo Zhai may be unfamiliar to others, but for a bookworm like Xiao Shizhu who likes to read all kinds of strange stories and legends as well as all kinds of official and unofficial history, this name is too familiar.
If he guessed correctly, the skinny little old man sitting opposite him at this time was the first underworld big brother in Chinese history, the boss of many disciples of the Mohist family, the founder and the first "giant" of the Mohist family -
—Mozi!
"Mozi?" Thinking of this, Xiao Shizhu couldn't help but ask.
"It's me." Mo Zhai nodded without hesitation and said, "When I was in the human world, I was indeed called Mozi by people." As he spoke, he kept a light smile on his face, which made him
Xiao Shizhu couldn't understand what he was thinking.
"I have admired my name for a long time." Xiao Shizhu said, then he thought that he would be at ease as soon as he came; not to mention that he had no relatives or friends in this strange place, and it was rare for someone to be willing to put aside his worth to be friends with him, so why not?
As for the other party's attentiveness when he has nothing to do, just be more careful. Moreover, when the other party was alive, he was a person who spoke for the people, and his character was good; now that he is dead, his character should not be bad, so Xiao Shizhu gradually let go of it.
Be wary.
So, he finally raised the wine glass in front of him and said to Mo Zhai: "Thank you, Boss Mo, no, thank you, Shopkeeper Mo, for your love."
"You're welcome." Mo Zhai also raised his wine glass, clinked the glasses with Xiao Shizhu, and started drinking.
The two of them ate and drank, chatting about household matters for a while, and gradually started to speculate.
After three rounds of wine and five dishes, Xiao Shizhu, whose cheeks were a little red, let out a long wine burp and said to Mo Zhai: "Shopkeeper Mo, you are also a person from thousands of years ago. Why don't you?"
Aren’t you going to reincarnate?”.
"Although this underworld is not a peaceful and prosperous world, it is better than the human world. There are too many wars in the human world." After speaking, Mo Zhai asked the waiter to bring two jugs of wine and a few dishes to go with the wine.
"There is no war in the world now." Xiao Shizhu picked up the jug and filled Mo Zhai with wine, and said: "At least there is no war in China."
"China?" A trace of confusion flashed in Mo Zhai's eyes after hearing this.
"It's Huaxia." Xiao Shizhu thought for a while and replied.
"It turns out that the current Chinese nation is called China." Mo Zhai smiled when he heard this, then put away his smile and said mysteriously: "Even if there is no war, the underworld is still comfortable. Slowly you will understand." After that,
I won’t say more.
Xiao Shizhu didn't go into details. At this moment, he simply believed that everyone has his own ambitions, so he didn't say much. After thinking about it for a while, he asked Mo Zhai: "Shopkeeper, as a new employee, I
Ghosts are not very familiar with this underworld. Anyway, I can't reincarnate at once. Why don't you tell me about this underworld, so that I can have an understanding of this strange world."
Mo Zhai took another sip of wine, pondered for a moment, and said thoughtfully: "Wait a moment, I want to start from where."
"Yeah." Seeing that he was willing to talk, Xiao Shizhu immediately became interested and nodded quickly.
"Actually, the underworld has existed longer than the human world." Mo Zhai, who was a little tipsy, pondered for a while, cleared his throat, and began to tell Xiao Shizhu everything he knew: "At that time, the human world was still in chaos.
, the underworld already exists; and the sky and the earth are distinct, with mountains, water, rocks and seas, and all kinds of strange flowers and plants scattered in all directions. In the underworld at that time, there were three kinds of native souls: animal souls, demon souls and divine souls
.And the divine souls rule over all kinds of beast souls and demon souls.”
Having said this, Mo Zhai paused, and at the same time his eyes fell on the plate of steamed Yingyu soup on the table in front of Xiao Shizhu, and said: "The Yingyu in the steamed Yingyu you just ate is
A kind of animal soul."
"Demon soul?" Xiao Shizhu didn't seem to be interested in the beast soul. Instead, he squinted at him and asked curiously: "A monster soul?".
"Hmm." After hearing this, Mo Zhai looked left and right, and finally cast his gaze outside the window after a moment. He then pointed out the window and said to Xiao Shizhu: "Look, that's a demon soul."
At this time, the sky outside the house had completely darkened, and the whole street was a little less noisy and a little more quiet; the street vendors had already closed up their stalls and gone home without Xiao Shizhu noticing. And every day
The lantern at the door of a shop has been lit, and the green flames are swaying in the white lantern.
Xiao Shizhu quickly turned his head and looked in the direction of Mo Zhai's finger. He saw a monster wearing a bamboo hat, with the body of a horse but a human face, tiger stripes on its body and bird wings on its back, walking past the window with its head held high.
"Catman?" Xiao Shizhu asked; as he spoke, he looked at the back of the demon soul who was getting away, but he couldn't help complaining in his heart: "Are the demon souls all human-animal hybrids?".
"He is a hero, not a horseman." After Mo Zhai drank the last sip of wine in his glass, he said to Xiao Shizhu: "It looks like a human but not a human, like an animal but not an animal. This is the demon soul."
"It is indeed a hybrid between human and animal." Xiao Shizhu said to himself in his heart and shook his head slightly.
"The spirits have ruled everything here for thousands of years, until that day." At this point, Mo Zhai deliberately stopped making any sound, but slowly picked up the wine pot, poured himself a drink, and then put down the wine pot.
, and slowly raised the glass and took a sip.
Xiao Shizhu was not in a hurry, since he had a lot of time now, so he just looked at Mo Zhai quietly.
"Until one day, a soul felt that the underworld was too boring, so he built a ladder connecting the underworld and the human world. In the books of later generations in the human world, this huge ladder was described as a pillar of heaven, named Buzhou Mountain." For a moment.
Finally, Mo Zhai put down his wine glass, smashed it in his mouth, and continued: "This soul went down the ladder to the human world. When he saw the world was in chaos, he split the chaos with the Netherworld Axe. People in later generations, no matter what
This ancient soul is called ".
"Pangu." Xiao Shizhu raised his right eyebrow and spoke first.
"Yeah." Mo Zhai nodded and said: "Then, he imitated the appearance of the underworld and created the sun and moon, mountains, seas, rivers and forests, as well as wind, thunder, clouds and rain for the human world. He also brought some demon souls and beast souls to the human world. But
Except for the divine soul, other souls can only come and go at night when the yin is extremely heavy after leaving the underworld. So Pangu, the ancient god, came up with a way to make a body for them all with the same shape as the soul. Although the body was ready
, but monsters and beasts have maintained their original habits, so there are very few wild beasts and monsters that appear in the world during the day."
"After everything was done, the exhausted Pangu passed away. Immediately afterwards, many souls went to the human world one after another. The souls who went to the human world felt that there was still something missing in the human world, which was almost exactly the same as the underworld, so they began to follow their instructions.
He created many creatures in the shape of human beings and gave them language and spiritual consciousness. The first human beings were those in the underworld who thought they were only one level shorter than the ancient gods.
, ghosts who call themselves old gods." After Mo Zhai said this, he suddenly fell silent again and stopped talking.
"But there are no gods in the world today. All the gods are just clay sculptures." Xiao Shizhu couldn't help but smile, suddenly thinking that the Buzhou Mountain in the myth was broken, and no one knows about Buzhou Mountain now.
After thinking about the exact location, he asked again: "Did the gods leave the world later?"
"God did not expect that the speed of human evolution exceeded their expectations; a force called love spread among humans, connecting them all and giving them the ability to reproduce. This is not just the reproductive ability of the body
, and the reproductive ability of souls, so many souls want to destroy human beings." Mo Zhai slowly raised his head, stared into Xiao Shizhu's eyes, and said slowly: "So, humans and gods are at war."
.
"But this battle with the gods did not go smoothly. Humans have attracted many demon souls and beast souls, so that the gods have always been at a disadvantage; but what the gods did not expect is that many of their kind have sided with humans. These help people
The spirits of the gods are called good gods. They believe that human beings are innocent and should not receive unfair treatment such as divine punishment." As he spoke, Mo Zhai's voice became louder and louder, his emotions became more and more excited, and his hands were shaking.
Shivering, sparks of anger burst out from his eyes: "And those gods who wanted to destroy mankind were also forced to rush, so they brought a large amount of floods from the underworld to wash away the world. The floods did not recede for three years; and in
Before evacuating, they crashed Mount Buzhou, which connects the underworld to the human world."
"Because many demon souls and beast souls once stood with humans, after the flood receded, most of the beast souls and demon souls were forcibly brought back to the underworld by the gods who wanted to destroy humans, and they will never be allowed to live in the underworld.
Go to the human world again. And a small number of human beings have survived under the protection of the good gods." At this point, Mo Zhai, who was already full of anger, clenched his fist with his right hand, slammed the table, and said: "Not only that, those who want to destroy human beings
The evil gods unexpectedly discovered that human souls who lost their bodies would be attracted to the underworld and enter the underworld. From then on, there were more human souls in the underworld. So the evil gods set up eighteen levels of hell and the reincarnation system to allow people to continue to live in the underworld.
We suffer back and forth between the Yin and Yang worlds. Our human souls go back and forth, constantly traveling between these two worlds, and are constantly tortured by the harsh regulations against us. They can even turn us into pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep at will.
Mosquitoes and flies.”
After Xiao Shizhu heard this, he finally understood why many myths, mythical beasts and ferocious beasts were called the imagination of the ancients. However, he still did not speak, and quietly looked at Mo Zhai's angry eyes, and then at himself
He raised his hands and front, feeling a little worried in his heart.
According to what Mo Zhai said, people become human souls after death; they have to reincarnate. Although reincarnation is good, after all, there are computers, games and smartphones in the world, but after hearing what Mo Zhai said, I don't want to reincarnate.
Woolen cloth?
"Soon after, the evil gods discovered that after losing their bodies, human souls would not be attracted to the underworld as long as they remained awake. So they selected some reliable ghosts from some human souls and demon souls, and brought them to the underworld.
He was trained to be an official of the underworld, specializing in catching souls who dared to stay in the human world. Meng Po Tang was also created, with the intention of erasing the memory of the human soul and also erasing the hatred of the human soul towards the divine soul." Mo Zhai said this.
, and after filling himself up with wine, he raised his glass and raised his head, drinking down all his anger with the green wine.
[Juzi - the name of the leader of the Mohist family]