Draw a pen and paint again

On the night when he returned to the palace, Pluto tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep.After tossing and turning for a long time, Huo Ran got up and took out the paper money and looked at it carefully again. It was really fine workmanship and could be faked.

Mingbi, as the name suggests, is a currency that circulates in the underworld.It will be engraved and typesetting by the official bank of the underworld, and will be printed by the Lord of Fengdu and sent to various places.It stands to reason that it should not be the case that there are fake coins.After all, ghost coins are sold very cheaply in the human world, and you can buy a lot of them for a tael of silver. Even the poorest people can get them for free when they go to Yizhuang.

But, why do counterfeit money still appear?

Pluto sat on the bed and was lost in thought.

Although he is often grounded and has no real power, he is still the king of the underworld who is the lord of the world. If someone fishes in troubled waters to cheat and disrupt the currency order of the underworld, he must be caught and severely punished.Otherwise, after a long holiday, ghost coins flying all over the sky will definitely cause dissatisfaction among the ghosts and riots. At that time, the riots in the underworld will be okay, and they may spread to the human world.

After thinking about it, I decided to forget it.For the sake of balance, the Three Realms almost never communicate with each other, so let them figure out the affairs of the human world!I'd better just stay in the underworld and be a dumb Pluto!

Now that he figured it out, Pluto no longer struggled, and suddenly felt sleepy, and fell asleep until dawn.

"Your Highness, Your Highness is awake! Your lord judge is here." A white-faced kid whispered beside his bed.

Pluto was sleeping soundly at the moment, was awakened by a burst of shouts, sat up sleepily, and was dazed for a long time without even noticing that the judge had come in.

"Hey, hello... hello..." The judge waved his hand in front of Hades, and said to him, "Look at me."

Pluto obediently turned his head to face the judge, without opening his eyes, he said, "Speak, I'm listening."

The judge held back his anger and asked, "Did you hear that Mingbi is fake recently?"

Pluto nodded: "En."

Judge: "You know the seriousness of this matter."

Pluto continued to nod: "En."

Judge: "Then what are you going to do?"

Pluto was half asleep and half awake, and said as a matter of course: "Let it be done by you."

"..." The judge smiled slightly, and finally couldn't suppress his anger, and shouted at him: "You really want to be a dumb dog! No matter how bad you are, you are also the king of the underworld, the master of the world. This matter has not yet reached the point of no return. The point, if you can solve it, your life in the underworld will not be as sad as it is now..." Balabala took a long breath before saying: Speak, don't keep silent. "

Pluto waved his hand, and said to the white-faced little ghost beside Hou, "Ming Ming, show the judge some tea."

The white-faced kid immediately poured a cup of tea, and handed it to the judge respectfully: "Master Judge."

The judge took the teacup and drank it in one gulp, and continued, "Did you listen to it or not?"

Pluto nodded, and said seriously: "I have listened to it, don't worry! I will go to the bank in the underworld to have a look in a while."

The judge was dubious, but he had important matters to worry about so he couldn't stay any longer, so he asked before leaving, "Do you want me to send some messengers to help you?"

Pluto waved his hand and said, "No, no, you're so busy, you'd better keep it for yourself!" Pointing to the white-faced little ghost who was quietly waiting by the side, he said, "I'll just have him alone."

After finishing speaking, the judge glanced at the white-faced kid, nodded and said: "Well, this matter should be settled as soon as possible." After saying that, it turned into a light spot and disappeared instantly.

"Huanming, let's go, let's go to Meng Po's stall first." Pluto got up and got out of bed to get dressed, and Judge Xindao took time to "care" about him in such a busy schedule. Just deal with it as before.

After leaving the palace, Pluto took the white-faced kid straight to Naihe Bridge. He had this problem. Whenever he went out, he had to go to Naihe Bridge first.

Half a street away, I saw the long queue in front of Po Meng's stall.

Pluto walked to the teahouse next to Meng Po's stall, found a seat outside and sat down, and ordered another pot of good tea and some snacks.He hooked his hands to Po Meng and said, "Hey, you, come here."

The white-faced kid stood quietly, watching tea for Pluto.

Hearing the sound, Meng Po threw the spoon, turned to look at him and said impatiently: "Why are you here again, hurry up, don't you have all the money, why are you here?"

The hot soup splashed over the ghost in front of him.It may have just come out of hell, but the ghost didn't respond to the heat at all, and left with a blank expression on his face.

Pluto saw that he was agitated, so he changed his strategy and whispered mysteriously: "Come here, I really have something to say."

"I'm not free." After that, Granny Meng continued to sell soup, thinking what can you say, the dog can't spit out ivory, so I won't pass, what can you do with me.

Pluto raised his chin, he really thought that there was no one in Pluto's palace, right?Said to the white-faced little ghost: "Mingming, you go over to help." After that, he pointed at Granny Meng, "You, you can come here."

The white-faced kid walked over and said respectfully: "My lord, Your Highness really has something to say." Although he didn't know why His Highness Pluto came here first instead of going directly to the bank.

"Oh! I really have some nonsense to talk about!" Granny Meng reluctantly handed the spoon to the white-faced kid, and asked, "You know how to do it!" As she spoke, Granny Meng looked at him, thinking that she would also look at it yesterday. If you don't, you'd be really stupid.

The white-faced kid took the spoon, nodded and said, "Yes, fifty thousand coins per bowl."

Granny Meng nodded: "What else?"

The white-faced little ghost said: "There are also discretionary charges."

Granny Meng nodded with great satisfaction, and praised: "Yes! Not bad, a hundred times better than your Highness. Your name is Mingming, right? How is it? Do you want to consider coming to work with me, the salary is a hundred times better than his? times."

However, Po Meng didn't appreciate the white-faced kid, not because he looked down on Mrs. Meng being inferior to Pluto, but because he had a reason to be with Pluto.

Without beating around the bush, the white-faced kid directly rejected Granny Meng, and said to him: "My lord, I live a very good life with His Highness, I'm afraid I will disappoint your kindness."

Being rejected mercilessly by him, Granny Meng sighed, patted him on the shoulder and said regretfully: "It's really good, but it's a pity that I followed a trash."

Pluto ate up all the refreshments on the table, seeing that Po Meng still hadn't come over, he waved a teacup and flew towards him.

Granny Meng caught it firmly on her side, walked over with the teacup and put it on the table with a "snap" and put it heavily on the table. After sitting down, she shouted: "The waiter, serve a pot of good tea."

When not in use, the waiter boy in the store served a new pot of tea, and also brought two plates of exquisite refreshments in his hand.

"We only want tea, but we didn't order these!" Pluto pointed at the two trays of refreshments, puzzled, this newly opened shop could not be a black shop!Forced buying and selling?

The little ghost in the hall waved his hands and said with a smile: "No, no, this is from our lady boss." He put it in front of Granny Meng and said, "This is specially given to Mrs. Meng by our lady boss." After finishing speaking, he looked up to the second floor .

Pluto followed him and looked up, but this glance stunned him.I couldn't help laughing out loud for a while, clutching my stomach and saying, "Pfft ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, really stunning, stunning? Hahahahahahahaha..."

After a burst of wild laughter, Pluto still couldn't get enough of the laughter, and nearly rolled on the ground.Gan hammered the table and couldn't straighten his back and continued to laugh, and it took a long time to relax a little.He teased Po Meng and said, "I said we are handsome, unrestrained and suave Yushu Linfeng, the most beautiful man in the underworld, Mrs. Meng Po, this time he came here for you. You have to seize the opportunity! Hahahahaha ..." After finishing speaking, Pluto couldn't straighten up laughing again.

Granny Meng was also taken aback. It wasn't that the proprietress was really "beautiful", but that the idiot Pluto's reaction was too great.The face of the proprietress looked like it could immediately turn into a ghost.

I saw that the proprietress's face was livid at the moment, as if she was suppressing the raging anger in her heart.She is unique in appearance, but she can't be ridiculed like this, no matter when she is a human or a ghost.

However, there are always exceptions to everything.

Here Pluto continued to laugh exaggeratedly.Suddenly the little ghost ran over in a panic and moved the refreshments in front of Granny Meng to Pluto.He bowed again and again and said: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry Mrs. Meng, the proprietress said that he is the most handsome young man, but I heard that you are the most handsome! Who knows that our proprietress is talking about the king of the underworld. Your Highness, don’t take offense, I’ll serve you two plates of dim sum right now, as my apology to you.” After finishing speaking, he leaned into Po Meng’s ear and whispered, “My lord, our proprietress is actually a ..."

After hearing what he said, Po Meng's ears turned red unconsciously for a moment.You can't let Pluto hear this, let alone let him know, otherwise, according to his temperament, there will be no peace in this neighborhood.

"Hey, what did you just say?" Pluto looked at Granny Meng with a smug smile, and didn't know what the waiter in the store said to him?He was so curious to death, what could make Granny Meng smile like that.

When asked by him, Granny Meng closed her smile without a trace of turmoil in her eyes, and said calmly: "It's nothing, don't worry about it."

Pluto: "..." Don't say?Does he care more?

It was clear that there was something, Pluto angrily picked up a piece of snack in front of him, and just about to put it in his mouth, he caught a glimpse of Po Meng secretly watching him eat from the corner of his eye, trying to hold back a smile.The hand holding the snack froze in the air, not daring to continue eating.Xin said that there must be something wrong with this snack, it couldn't be that the proprietress and Granny Meng conspired to poison him to death when he let down his vigilance!After thinking about it, he couldn't eat anymore, put down his snack and clapped his hands, trying to make himself look the same as before, and said to Po Meng: "Let's talk about the business first!"

After finishing speaking, Pluto motioned Po Meng to lean over. After leaning over, Pluto carefully looked around again, heaved a sigh of relief, and yelled with great strength next to Po Meng's ear that leaned over without warning.

Po Meng was dumbfounded by the yelling, and her ears were still buzzing after being stunned for three seconds.After regaining consciousness, he got up and rushed to Pluto, who was running far away, chasing after him, ignoring his image and shouting: "You fucking stop, if I don't chop you up and make soup today, my surname will not be Meng."

Granny Meng chased after her and uttered cruel words, while Pluto in front didn't care and laughed, thinking, who told you to whisper and not tell me just now, and still make fun of me and want to hurt me, really think I'm stupid!

Turning around, sticking out her tongue and making a grimace, she laughed and said, "Hahahahaha, do you want my surname? I can't make up my mind. You have to ask my parents if they agree, but even if they agree, I won't. Will agree, hahahahahahahahaha."

Pluto said as he ran, running quickly across two streets and onto an avenue with the wind on his feet.

Granny Meng followed closely behind, and at some point she had a rolling pin in her hand. Her wrist was more than five feet thick, and some flour was still sticking to it.Pointing at him with a rolling pin, he yelled: "Don't fucking talk about it, it's useless, your parents don't know how many lives they have been reincarnated with, so where can you find them?"

Pluto froze for a moment, then smiled and said, "You really want to have my surname!"

Granny Meng roared angrily: "Who the hell wants to take your surname, I'll give you my surname today." As soon as the words came out, several female ghosts who watched the fun laughed out loud.

Hearing the laughter, Meng Po suddenly realized that something was wrong with what he said just now, but she couldn't take it back.He was really stunned, how could he say such a thing.Annoyed, he yelled at the female ghosts watching the excitement: "Whatever you look at, I will make you soup if you look at it again."

The female ghosts covered their mouths and giggled, since Mrs. Meng had spoken, they stopped watching.They all turned their backs to them, but their ears were pricked up.

Pluto didn't seem to hear the movement behind him, he ran into a small alley quickly, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Granny Meng glanced at the female ghosts who had become peaceful, and then chased Pluto into that alley. He remembered that this seemed to be a dead end!Wasn't Pluto running here to seek his own death?

However, he was wrong. He didn't see Pluto until he finished the alley.Secretly thought: Did he use spiritual power?impossible!His spiritual power is so weak that he can't even beat a ghost that just died, how could he be able to melt away?Thinking about it, Meng Po looked at the high wall in front of her again, did he climb over the wall?It's impossible!No matter how tall he is, he can't climb over this wall.

Could it be... Granny Meng leaned close to the high wall and raised her hand to touch it. There was something weird about the wall, and half of his palm was actually buried in the wall.Although he is a high-ranking official in the underworld, to put it bluntly, he is a stall operator. Apart from going to the underworld a few times during his tenure and being friends with the judges, he has almost no contact with other underworld officials.

Po Meng frowned. Even if she hadn't contacted him, she still knew a little bit about other underworld officials. He had also heard about this weird wall, which was the anti-theft wall of a bank belonging to the underworld.After hesitating for a moment, Po Meng didn't dare to enter rashly, thinking that Pluto wouldn't run here!If that's the case, it's really hard for him to go in and catch him out.

At this moment, a hand suddenly stretched out from the wall and grabbed his wrist, then Pluto poked out half of his head from the wall, and said to him: "If you don't come in by yourself, do you still want me to invite you in?"

The anger that had just dissipated surged into her heart again, and Po Meng couldn't get angry when she saw Pluto's unflattering face.He was really ashamed and humiliated today, and he had to teach Pluto a lesson, otherwise he would really be pissed off by Pluto again in the future.

Heartbroken, he slammed into him.

"Ouch!"

Qian Zhuang Mingguan was standing behind the wall, waiting to greet Po Meng, but was startled by two figures that suddenly flashed by, and jumped to the side with a cry of "ah".After seeing clearly that it was Pluto and Po Meng who both fell to the ground in a panic, Fang came back to his senses and hurried to help.

"Your Highness Pluto, Mrs. Meng, are you all right?" After carefully touching and looking at them back and forth for half an hour, the Underworld official of the Qianzhuang let out a sigh of relief.Patting his heart, he said, "I was really scared just now, why did you two suddenly fall to the ground?"

"..."

Meng Po was silent, and Pluto was even more so. He really didn't know why Meng Po suddenly went crazy and hit him with his head.

Granny Meng and Hades stood facing each other, and Lord Qian, the official of the underworld, who was sandwiched between them smiled awkwardly, and said to the two of them, "Your Highness, Granny Meng, I'm tired from standing, so let's sit down and talk about anything else!"

Pluto was already tired, having been chased all the way, not to mention beaten just now, touched his still red forehead and sat down at the round table.

Po Meng snorted coldly, and sat down opposite Hades.

"Hey, don't you have something to say?" Granny Meng glared at Pluto, and said to him, "Say something quickly, and I'll go back to work after I finish."

Pluto seemed not to hear, turned his head to the underworld official of the bank and said: "Master Qian, take out all the coins in your bank, I want to check."

Hearing this, Master Qian and Granny Meng were both taken aback.

Meng Po said: "Didn't you say that you don't care, why do you want to do it again?"

You don't need to guess to know that this must be what the judge meant.It wasn't him bragging, he could have imagined the judge with an expression of "I'm all for your own good", babbling a lot, wishing he had to use any punctuation marks to finish the sentence in one breath.

Meng Po sighed, "I really think you don't make enough troubles."

Mr. Qian wiped his forehead, rubbed his hands together and said, "Your Highness, you don't know! Our bank is only a bank on the surface, but in fact it is an empty shell that cannot be sold for a single coin!" After finishing, Master Qian helplessly spread his hands and shook his head.After a moment of silence, he continued, "But I can take out the engraved printing plate."

Hearing this, Po Meng couldn't help casting a sympathetic look at Mr. Qian.Compared with Mr. Qian, his stall still has some income. It is not like Mr. Qian who can't even afford tea for entertaining guests.Thinking about it, Meng Po looked at the tea with unknown objects floating in the cup in front of her again.He thought to himself, he was indeed poor enough, he almost vomited after taking a sip, what kind of tea is this!It was clearly a pot of boiled water with unknown tea leaves and salt added.

Pluto nodded, he also saw that the bank was really poor, and said: "Then bring the engraving template."

Looking around, except for the table they were sitting on, all other decorations in the room smelled of old things—a musty smell.

Looking at the bank, it is also pitifully small. It seems that it is only as big as two rooms, and there is a small room separated from such a small place. Presumably, it should be Mr. Qian's room.

Master Qian entered the back room, and took out a wooden box after a while, which also exuded an old musty smell.

Carefully putting the wooden box on the table, Mr. Qian said: "Your Highness, this is the template!" After saying that, he took out a key and was about to unlock it.However, before the key was fully inserted into the lockhole, there was only a "pop", and the lock opened by itself.

Mr. Qian was stunned for a moment, put away the lock and key in embarrassment, and said with a smile: "Oh! This thing has been left for too long, it is useless, hahaha." Laughing a few times in embarrassment, Mr. Qian Sitting down silently, I didn't wipe off the dust on it, because the thickness of the dust on the box was so thick that it was useless to wipe it off.

With lessons learned from the past, Mr. Qian was cautious and cautious when opening the wooden box, for fear that the wooden box would be broken like the lock.

But when he slowly opened the wooden box, he saw that there were only a few pieces of broken wood in the wooden box.That's great, the wooden box outside is fine, but the engraving template inside is not so good, it's broken after being left for too long.

"..."

"..."

"..."

After a while of silence, Mr. Qian closed the wooden box, his face was pale, he coughed a few times and said incoherently: "Your Highness, this, cough, cough, cough, this, this template has been around for many years, no, no, it is possible that it is gone. of."

"Indeed, anything that exists for a long time will eventually turn into a scoop of loess and return to the earth." Pluto responded with serious nonsense.

"It's gone?" Although Po Meng was a little surprised, she didn't regard the template as a living thing like the two of them, and regarded the pieces of wood as his corpse.

He said, "Hey, hey, you two are exaggerating!"

After finishing speaking, he took the wooden box from Master Qian and opened it again.I was dumbfounded for a moment. The engraving template, which was just a broken piece of wood, has been weathered, and there is only a little residue left in the box.If you compare it to being dismembered just now, then it should be crushed at this moment.Unable to bear to look at it any longer, Granny Meng pushed the wooden box to Queen Pluto with a dark face and said, "Hey! It's turned into ashes."

Hearing this, Mr. Qian closed his eyes slightly, as if he couldn't bear to watch.It wasn't until Pluto closed the wooden box and handed it to him solemnly that he took it with trembling hands. He took out a clean square towel and wrapped the wooden box tightly with the lock and key.Sighing at the parcel: "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." He has been the underworld official for so long, and the things he guarded are gone, and it is time for him to reincarnate.

Now that the clues to Qianzhuang are broken, there is no need for them to stay here.

Granny Meng got up and said, "Lord Qian, you will dispose of the "ashes" that engraved the template. Please express your condolences. His Highness Pluto and I will take our leave first." Step out of the bank on the original road.

Pluto was very puzzled, you can go as long as you want, and I don't want to go.He said, "Hey, just go, what are you doing with me?"

Granny Meng straightened her arms and carried him in front of her to keep a distance from him.He smiled and said, "Have you forgotten what happened before you entered the bank? Also, what are you doing there with only a handful of ashes left on the engraving template? Do you want to hold a memorial service for it with Mr. Qian?"

After Pluto waved his fists wildly, he remembered that he had played tricks on Po Meng before.He should come out and run away quickly before Po Meng, why did he forget about it.But it's no use regretting it now, he's already been caught.

Anyway, Granny Meng didn't dare to do anything to him, so she let him hit him a few times to vent her anger.Pluto was heartbroken and asked, "Well, what do you want?"

Meng Po laughed and said, "It's not that bad. You came to the bank to deal with the counterfeit coins. Now that the clues are broken, what are you going to do?"

Hearing that there was no intention of revenge between his words, Pluto couldn't help being a little bit pleased.But now that the clue was broken, he couldn't be happier, and he didn't know how to find out. He had been at ease for too long, and he had already forgotten how to do things before.Shaking his head, "I haven't thought about it yet..."

Before he finished speaking, Granny Meng interrupted him and said, "I haven't thought about it?" The corners of Po Meng's mouth twitched slightly as she spoke, it's not that I haven't thought about it yet, but I haven't thought about it yet.Swallowing a few mouthfuls of anger, he roared: "Why did you become a fool when you came back from a trip to the human world? What about your fucking momentum before? Do you really want to live like this until the end of your life or the next Pluto takes office?"

Pluto looked at him, and he was indeed going to wait until the end of his life or the next Pluto took office.

……

After a moment of silence, Po Meng shook her head helplessly. It was true that he spoke a little loudly just now, but what he said was from his heart.Sighed: "Come to my house! There is plenty of money." After finishing speaking, he added, "There are also several fake Ming coins, you can do whatever you want to study."

It was a good intention, but Pluto said firmly: "I, no, go."

Po Meng said: "It's up to you." After saying that, she walked out of the alley with Pluto and came to the street.

There is also night in the underworld. At this time, night is approaching, and ghost fire lanterns have been hung at the entrances of several shops along the street.But this is not for continuing to do business at night, but for driving away the things hidden in it after nightfall.

The kindness and resentment between Pluto and Po Meng has always been a topic of frequent discussion among the ghosts in this city after dinner.And now the two of them appeared on the street at the same time, still in that way of carrying a chick, but it was really the first time.

"Tsk tsk tsk, it's not annoying for these two guys to bicker and fight every day." The clerk at a tavern on the street shook his head.

"Isn't it? When did His Highness Pluto and Mrs. Meng see each other? Just today I saw Mrs. Meng chasing His Highness Pluto with a rolling pin!"

A little ghost leaned over and said: "Really? When I was going to drink tea in the newly opened teahouse next to Meng Po's stall today, I saw His Highness Pluto laughing at Mrs. Meng. Meng Po's ear roared loudly."

"I heard it! I was so scared that I thought the monsters in hell had come out! Even Mrs. Meng was taken aback! After a moment of stupefaction, I chased after him. While chasing, I vowed to kill him." Pluto chopped it up to make soup!" Speaking of making soup, the kid couldn't help but twitched on the left side of his face.

A ghost responded: "That's right, that's right, I heard it too! At that time I was so scared that I hurriedly hid. However, Lady Meng probably wouldn't really..." Wouldn't it be true to use ghosts to make soup? .

Does the Mengpo soup they are going to drink after reincarnation have ginseng imp?The discussion among the ghosts became louder and louder, as if they had forgotten the existence of Po Meng not far away.

Hearing this, Granny Meng leaned over and said with a smile, "Who knows?"

Pluto, who was being carried, nodded, and then said: "Yes, who knows?"