At the head of the bridge, by the Lechuan River, there will be a woman named Meng Po waiting there.

She saw the coldness of the people and boiled a bowl of thick soup for everyone who crossed the bridge.

The ghosts who came from the world called this bowl of thick soup Meng Po soup, and later it was called the water of forgetfulness.

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According to legend, whoever drinks this water of forgetfulness will be able to break all the fetters, fall into reincarnation, and start anew.

In the underworld, there is a rule that must not be violated - all ghosts must not look into Meng Po's eyes.

When Bai Wuchang brought the ghosts into the Yellow Spring, he would always warn them, "Beware of Meng Po's eyes." ”

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Because those who drink Meng Po's soup, all his resentment will be sucked into Meng Po's eyes; All the merits are stored in the hands of Meng Po's boiling soup.

"Mother-in-law, is this bitter?" The child looked at Meng Po, his eyes pure and not stained with a trace of smoke.

He is different from other ghosts in that he has souls in his eyes.

Meng Po's hand holding the soup trembled, and in the midst of resentment and chaos, she saw the child's eyes.

Those eyes went straight to her heart, and even made her feel dirty.

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Meng Po wanted to say a word, but she had long forgotten how to speak.

She shook her head.

The child didn't take the water of forgetfulness, and he took a step back to the side.

"Mother-in-law is tired, let me come."

Meng Po didn't want to, but as soon as she saw those eyes, she couldn't control her hand and gave him the spoon.

Since then, Meng Po has had an extra child by her side.

His original name was 'Shaoshan Lethe River', because he was likable, and was affectionately called Lethe River by the creatures of the underworld

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Lechuan's heart is very clean, so clean that black and white impermanence almost can't find his soul in the mortal world.

And Meng Po discovered that this child can turn the ghost's resentment into the miasma of the underworld. It only takes five years to completely dissolve.

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There is no need to hold resentment in her eyes for thousands of years like she did.

"Mother-in-law, some of them don't want to forget their past lives."

Meng Po stayed with Lethe for a while and remembered how to speak.

She boiled the soup in her hand and looked down at the boiling water in the pot. "I've thought about ...... before"

"Then why do you want to give them a drink of forgetfulness?"

"What makes them reluctant to forget is called *love, and love cannot last long. I once let a ghost go.

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He was born in a world of war and chaos, and for the sake of his beloved, he cut off his own flesh alive, cooked it and fed it to his wife. Finally starved to death. ”

Lethe was stunned for a moment, looking a little unacceptable. "Why did his wife go to eat?"

"No wonder she's blind."

Lethe River gave the ghost who crossed the bridge a love message, and asked, "What about after that?" What's wrong with them? ”

"He fell into reincarnation and happened to meet his reincarnated wife.

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At first, he still had love for her, but not long after they got married, the woman was cooked and eaten by him. ”

"Oh my God! How can it be...... Why did he do that? ”

"When he was hungry and cold, he was hungry."

Lethe is hard to accept this, too. What a pure child he was.

How can we endure such bloody and brutal things.

Meng Po sighed slowly, she looked at those ghosts passing by, and her heart was very sad.

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Some demons would come crying and beg her to spare them once. But which of them can stick to their own hearts, even she herself can't remember her original feelings.

"Mother-in-law, does forgetting count as an escape?"

"Why do you say that?"

"Look at the woman, she was terminally ill and gave her child to that family before she died.

But her children are now being abused by them.

Now she regrets it because she could have given the child to their father. ”

Lethe looked at the sluggish ghost, his eyes full of sympathy.

Meng Po did not speak.

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For a long time to come, Lethe would always ask these questions. Reading between the lines, he is saying one thing - there are some things that some people cannot and should not forget.

The soup has always been in the hands of those ghosts, bowl after bowl, and no one has ever been spared.

Finally, one day, Lethe's soul dried up.

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He lived for nearly 10,000 years with the help of Meng Po, but he was a ghost after all.

Demons will eventually turn into smoke.

Before he died, he met with Master Avalokiteshvara.

Avalokiteshvara asked him what else he wanted.

"I want to be a river under the bridge." He said.

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Guanyin didn't ask him why: "You go and say goodbye to Meng Po." That's just what she said to him.

Meng Po stood at the head of the bridge, but the bridge was endlessly long. The other end of the bridge leads to the human world, symbolizing reincarnation.

Lechuan took the water of forgetfulness from Meng Po's hand and distributed it to the ghost who crossed the bridge.

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He smiled and looked at Meng Po, "Mother-in-law, don't worry, I will always stay by your side." Master Guanyin has agreed. ”

Meng Po's hand scooping the soup trembled slightly, but she didn't speak.

Black and white impermanence is followed by a dragged ghost, and if you want to be reincarnated, you must cross the Nai He Bridge.

The bridge is guarded by Meng Po, and if you want to cross the bridge, you have to drink the water of forgetfulness.

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And from that day on, the rules of the underworld changed. Meng Po will ask everyone who wants to cross the Nai He Bridge: whether to drink Meng Po soup or not.

If you drink it, you forget everything in your previous life and reincarnate again.

And those who don't want to forget their loved ones don't want to drink this Meng Po soup.

You must jump off this Lethe River and endure thousands of years of torment before you can re-enter the cycle of reincarnation.

Again and again in these millennia, they have seen their loved ones cross the bridge without being able to meet him or her.

Gradually, they forget what they are waiting for, what they are longing for, and then they forget everything.

In the chaos, I spent a thousand years, waiting for reincarnation.........

Those who have survived a thousand years have the purest and most sincere heart in the world, and spend their lives with their lovers after reincarnation.

In this lonely underworld, Meng Po's muttering echoed in the river: "Lethe, look. He still remembered her. ”

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Lethe Chuan smiled and replied silently: Mother-in-law, you see, not everyone's love is short-lived.

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After the Yellow Spring, half asleep and half awake; crossed the Lethe River, and the life was blurred.

The past, but a bowl of Meng Po soup.

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