Chapter Ninety-Seven: Nai He Bridge, Meng Po Soup
I saw a group of people on the path hurrying towards the woods at the end of the path with one or more gray figures, and no one paid attention to me and Tony, two other-looking guys standing in front of them.
"Excuse me, is this the underworld?" I stopped a man who was supposed to be a bad guy walking towards me, he looked up at me, didn't speak, just looked up at his right position, gave me a look of disdain, and walked directly past me.
I'm rubbing, what do you mean, no one has taught you, do you have to answer seriously when others ask for directions? Just my little temper, I beat you up a few days ago so that your mother didn't know you, eh, there is a kind of you don't go.
Just when I organized the language and was about to scold, Tony next to me pulled my sleeve and whispered in my ear, "Brother Ye, we should have arrived" After speaking, he pointed with his finger, and the direction that the buddy looked at just now saw a street sign with white characters on a black background on the side of the road, only to see that it said "Yin Yang Road", and there was a line of small words below the street sign "Welcome to the underworld".
I'm rubbing, I'm really in the underworld.
"Brother Ye, what now?" I slapped Tony on the head after hearing Tony's brainless question, "What should I do?"
The sign has a smaller line below the words "Welcome to the Underground", "Difu 1 km", and there is an arrow pointing to the woods at the end of the path.
Every time we entered the woods, there would be a path that merged with the main road we were taking, and in the forks of the road, there were gray figures in the main road one after another, and when we walked out of the main road, what we saw in front of me made me stunned in place.
I saw a blood-red river flowing quietly in front of a clearing outside the woods, and a stone arch bridge above the river was crowded with gray figures, a gray figure dragon stretched from the stone arch bridge to us in a zigzag way, and the gray figure dragon hundreds of meters long moved forward slowly and orderly.
I saw that after placing the souls he brought in the gray figure dragon and starting to line up, they all walked towards a path in the woods, and it seemed that this last section of the road required the souls to walk on their own.
I patted Tony on the shoulder and gently said to him, "Brother, go ahead, this last stretch of the road is up to you."
At this time, Tony's eyes were filled with tears, and this young man in his twenties suddenly cried at me, and I was really a little uncomfortable.
I patted him on the shoulder, smiled, and continued, "Let's go, I won't be able to catch up later, don't forget, learn to barber in the next life, your skills, my brother really doesn't dare to compliment..."
I didn't want to shed tears in front of this guy I'd known for a few days, so I pushed Tony to the end of the gray dragon and stood up, and after saying goodbye to the afterlife, I walked towards the path where the shadows disappeared without looking back.
didn't walk ten meters, Tony's voice came from behind him, "Brother Ye, can I trouble you one more thing?"
I looked back at Tony, and saw him wipe away his tears, squeezed out a smile, and said to me, "Can you watch me walk across the bridge in front of me? I don't know anyone else in my life, I just remember you, can you give me one last ride?"
Although Tony was forcibly controlling his emotions, he could still tell from the choked voice that he was almost crying, and then look at his expectant eyes.
I smiled at him and pretended to be relaxed and said, "Okay, I'm here to watch you, but you have to hurry, I'm still waiting to get back the money, and I still have to get my haircut, you're going to make a mess of me."
With a mush, Tony scrambled to the back of the line.
What a child, I couldn't help but shake my head.
In this way, I found a slightly higher mound at the edge of the woods and sat down, looking at Tony from a distance who kept moving with the gray dragon team, Tony in the team looked a little dazzling because he was not a gray figure, and looked back at my position from time to time, as if he was afraid that I would run away, every time Tony looked in my direction I raised my hand and waved at him, and he would jump up in the team and wave at me excitedly.
As the team kept moving, more than an hour later, Tony had almost arrived at the location of the stone arch bridge, just now all the attention was on Tony, and he didn't take a closer look at the environment on the bridge, only to see the figures on the stone arch bridge in an orderly manner through a roadside stall in the middle of the bridge, both hands turned out a bowl of something and then drank it in one gulp and continued to walk under the bridge, the distance was too far to see the specific situation, only to see a yellow flag floating above the stall, and a big Meng character was embroidered on the yellow flag.
Rub, Meng Po soup?
Unexpectedly, there really is, then this stone arch bridge is not the famous Nahe Bridge? Isn't the blood-yellow river under the bridge the Lechuan River? But this Lethe River is different from what is written in the book, doesn't it mean that this river is full of lonely souls and wild ghosts, snakes and insects, and extremely fishy smells? Could it be that this prefecture also conducts the same hygiene evaluation as the elf village?
Just when I was thinking about it, a shout came from a distance, I looked for the sound, and saw Tony standing on the bridge and waving to me in the distance, it seemed that it was about to be his turn to cross the bridge, I got up and made a gesture to Tony to go, and silently watched Tony walk towards Meng Po's stall, and drank Meng Po soup Maybe he can't even remember me.
Boy, see you in the next life.
Just as I was about to turn around and walk towards the path behind me, there was a noisy sound in the distance, and the originally quiet team suddenly became restless, and many gray souls that were still under the bridge all poured to the bridge, and there was a loud roar from the place where Meng Po set up a stall in the center of the bridge, and it was a moment from the sound to the moment I looked up。
Just as I was thinking about taking two steps up to see what was going on, I saw the gray souls tightly surrounding Meng Po's stall suddenly give way to both sides, and one soul was thrown off the bridge by two tall strong men.
After the person who came out fell to the ground, he kept shouting and scolding, "What is this? What do you mean I have drunk? I don't remember, I just haven't drunk, you don't let me pass, what should I do? Ah? What should I do, you old lady is old, you don't have old eyes and faint times? Is your memory reliable? Let you check the records, and you still get on your nose? Ah? You won't let me pass, what will you do if you let me go in the future?"
This man started crying as he spoke, who else could this guy be but Tony? Seeing him crying, I quickly quickened my pace and ran towards him.
You are a decrepit boy, you are not afraid of others hearing about it? Today, you are considered a smuggler, a smuggler, you know if you are illegal, and if you are caught, you may not know how you will be dealt with.
After covering Tony's mouth, it didn't take much effort for me to drag Tony into a grove closest to the bridge.
While dragging Tony, the guy kept whining...... I looked up at the group for fear that someone would notice us, but maybe I was too careful, the gray soul team was still moving forward in an orderly manner, and no one paid any attention to us, and no one even glanced in our direction.
After a big mouth slapped Tony in the face, Tony went quiet.
"Big brother, stop it, we are smuggled here, it doesn't matter if you die yourself, do you still want to kill me?"
Listening to my words, Tony stopped continuing to whine, and instead of a muffled cry, his mouth kept choking to "She, she, they, bully, bully, man, die, die, die, mother, mother, don't let, I, I, I cross the bridge......"
After Tony's mood stabilized a bit, I finally figured out what was going on with Tony.
When Tony followed the team to Meng Po's stall, Tony had actually seen the whole process of crossing the bridge, that is, he could cross the bridge by drinking a sip of the decoction handed over by the old woman from the old woman.
But when it was Tony's turn, the old woman said that Tony had already drunk the soup she had boiled, and no matter how Tony explained, she didn't listen, and she wouldn't let Tony drink her soup.
Just when Tony felt that he couldn't speak clearly to the old lady and was about to forcibly cross the Naihe Bridge, two strong men appeared out of thin air in the center of the bridge, and without saying a word, Tony was thrown out of the crowd.
"Brother Ye, what should I do now?" Tony looked at me with a crying voice.
After sighing, I stood up and pulled up Tony, who was still sitting on the ground, and said, "What should I do? This road leads to Rome, I don't believe it, this is just the way to this underworld, go! Brother will take you around to look around, it really can't work, we will break through later!" As I spoke, I turned my head and walked down the path that had disappeared.
Walking along the path for a distance of 100 or 10 meters, a white building appeared in front of me at the end of the path, the top of the white building was written "reincarnation" in three black letters, there was a wooden door at each end of the building, and the words "male" and "female" were written on the wooden door.
wipe
Another toilet?
I saw that Yin Qi passed by us one after another, and he went into the place of samsara but never came out.
"Let's go, brother, I'll take you to see the public toilets in the prefecture," I said, leading the way towards the wooden door with male characters written on it.
Just as I stretched out my hand to push open the wooden door, a huge palm pressed on my shoulder, and at the same time, a loud shout came from my ear, "What kind of person!
My shoulder hurt, I turned my head to look, only to see a big man like a black tower appear behind me out of thin air at some point, this big man of the black tower grabbed my shoulder with one hand, and the other hand had lifted Tony up.
This guy was so tall that I looked up and saw the big man looking down at me with his teeth bared.
After swallowing a mouthful of saliva, I smiled at the big man, "This big brother, uncle, no, director, we are just a little diarrhea, so I want to come to the toilet, please make it convenient ......."
"Reincarnation is important, Qi Neng Rong'er and others are presumptuous!" The big man's roar shook my ears numb, and I didn't give me a chance to explain, Tony and I were directly thrown out by the big man, and after flying out of dozens of meters, they all landed in the woods.
It seems that with my current strength, it may be a little difficult to break through.
I got up from the ground, rubbed my aching buttocks, found a big rock, sat on it, and looked at the gray soul that was constantly moving in the distance.
River?
Looking at the secluded Lethe River in front of me, I turned to look at Tony, "Do you know how to swim?"
Tony looked at me puzzled, and nodded as he reconfirmed my question.
"Let's swim over," I said, and I ran with Tony towards the Lethe River.