Why is Pu Songling's Lu Zhishen the most absurd novel?

It is said that Judge Lu by Pu Songling is an absurd novel, not as absurd as Disappointment. Personally, I think Pu Songling will give us his usual way of criticizing the world in this novel, but after reading this book, I found that there is no criticism in the story. Instead, I feel that the three views have been subverted. I was thinking, is this a book written by Pu? Without the previous criticism, the judge in the story actually lost his impartiality and even bent the law. Zhu Erdan invited the judge to drink to make him change his mind and help his ugly wife change her beautiful head. I was wondering if the ending was the other way around, and there was a beautiful irony. Unfortunately, I'm disappointed.

In this regard, Judge Lu is an absurd work, and it is indeed true. This is not only absurd, but also a great failure. Some people think that this is Pu's yearning for a better world, but I don't think it is beautiful. If you are stupid, get a smart heart. If you are ugly, change your beautiful head. This looks beautiful, but it has put the cart before the horse.

In addition, if the punishment is only from the perspective of values, this story is also a product of failure. Why? First of all, Judge Lu is the most powerful judge in the underworld. He deals with a series of problems between the dead. Regardless of what Judge Lu wants to do for the time being, at least as such a status figure, he should at least safeguard justice and fairness. If you can't do this, what order is there? Since there is no order, what is the value of the position of judge? In the story, Judge Lu obviously didn't follow the rules and didn't help change his mind. It looks very caring, but think about it. You can help Zhu Erdan, why can't others get help? This is undoubtedly helping Zhu Erdan cheat. As an impartial judge, Zhu Erdan bought him a drink. Isn't this corruption?

Secondly, the novel also shows Zhu Erdan's ruthlessness. He doesn't like the ugliness of his wife. After all, the love of beauty is human nature, and we can't blame him for it. But asking the judge to change his wife's head is a bit destructive. Think of a wife with a new head. Is that still your old wife? But Zhu Erdan still changed his wife's head for the love of beauty, which shows how heartless this person is. The wife who changed her head is no longer his wife. So Zhu Erdan's wife died in vain, but another ghost borrowed his wife and came back to life. This is already a murder case, and the judge is also involved.

So personally, I think Judge Lu is really full of slots, as if he is helping people. In fact, it is out of order. Such an absurd work that destroys the three views is really going to be criticized.