One leaf and one reincarnation, one day and one bright.

—Epigraph

Hongyao looked at a shadow on the bridge, looming on the misty bridge deck, and finally disappeared into the mist.

At this time, the entire realm, at least here at the Nai He Bridge, which Meng Po was in charge of, was silent.

Hesse, foggy, cloudy.

Hongyao sat at the head of the bridge, dangling her feet, but her eyes looked away.

I remembered that when I first arrived here, I was so frightened by the horror of this place that I couldn't move, especially when I saw the deep wrinkles on Meng Po's face, I fainted on the spot.

She hadn't heard many stories about the underworld during her lifetime, but the main characters were familiar to her.

That night was the day of her wedding, but it was also the day she lost her life. The moment she saw the bull-headed horse, her heart was filled with fear, but she quickly accepted the fact that she was dead.

But that doesn't mean that the sights she encountered on the way to the Yellow Springs won't scare her, and it won't make her afraid. Along the way, she tried her best to restrain the constant churning horror in her heart, until she finally collapsed when she reached the Naihe Bridge.

She stood at the head of the bridge, her legs shivered, her eyes looked at the narrow and deep Nai He Bridge leading to the depths of the clouds, because the strong fear in her heart forced her to find a safe place, she subconsciously turned back, not to see the frightening scene, but standing behind her was the more terrifying face of the bull head and horse, they were looking at her fiercely, at this moment, the red medicine could barely restrain the surging fear, she lowered her head, deliberately did not look at them, however, at the moment she lowered her head, but saw a rakshasa face looking up at her; Red Medicine screamed in horror and passed out.

Waiting for her to wake up, Hongyao endured her fear and took the bowl of soup from Meng Po's bowl with trembling hands. She didn't want to forget the past, but because of the fear and rejection of this place in her heart, she just wanted to drink this bowl of Meng Po soup quickly and leave here.

But she didn't succeed in leaving.

Hongyao drank bowls and bowls of Meng Po soup, and stepped on the Nai He Bridge again and again, but he was not successfully reincarnated, and he did not even leave the underworld.

She didn't remember how many bowls of Meng Po soup Meng Po gave her, but it must be a lot, otherwise she wouldn't have forgotten the specific number, it must be too many to count, she was too lazy to count, or she counted wrongly, so she wouldn't remember.

"Grandma, don't worry about this matter, since Judge Cui is unwilling to come here and find a way to let me reincarnate, and the bridge here is refusing me to enter, it means that this is my destiny, and I am destined to stay in the bridge for the rest of my life to help your old man extradite the ghost of the yang world, maybe the heavenly court wants to wait for you to return to the field and give me this son?" Red Medicine said mischievously.

She didn't know exactly how many years she had been here, but it must have been very, very long.

Otherwise, she wouldn't be so adaptable to the environment here now, and she wouldn't get along so happily with Meng Po, and when she saw all kinds of ghosts in the yang world again, she wouldn't have too much ups and downs, but was very calm and ordinary.

All these changes take time to complete.

"Alas~ To say that this is fate, it is not false at all, but my wife does not believe that fate is destined to keep you with me."

Meng Po looked at Hongyao with a pair of sharp eyes that were cloudy from old age, and said seriously.

"Grandma, you didn't make trouble there, did you?" Red Medicine worried.

She remembered that this situation had happened before, Meng Po went to Judge Cui to talk about things (mainly about her reincarnation), and Judge Cui sent Meng Po away on the grounds of doing things according to the rules, and almost every time after that, this was the case, and then Meng Po finally couldn't control the anger in her heart, so she tossed Judge Cui's office for a long time.

She only found out when the bull head and horse came running to complain.

Meng Po looked at her a little displeased and replied, "No! ”

Judge Cui got out from under an antique table of eight immortals, and he said with a sad face: "This Meng Po, you have to make trouble with me several times a year, do you want me to live?" ”

Judge Cui stood in front of the bull head and horse face in disheveled clothes and complained bitterly, he reached out to support the crooked black gauze hat on his head, touched the two peach leaf-like yarn wings on the black gauze hat, and pulled the red official uniform with some wrinkles, and then raised a pair of small eyes and looked at the bull head and horse face.

"Judge, why don't you move forward to the Nai He Bridge, and end this matter as soon as possible, and save a lot of trouble." The minotaur stepped forward and said carefully.

"Do you think I don't want to, Lord Yama has said it, this is fate, don't interfere, can I still interfere against Lord Yama?" Judge Cui shook his head and sighed.

Even the king of Hades has spoken about this, and it's really hard to manage.

"Judge Cui, as long as you convey Lord Yama's instructions to Meng Po, won't she come here to disturb you again?" Ma Mian grinned and said carefully.

"If only she could listen!" Judge Cui's head shook even more, he turned around, put his hands behind his back, and commanded Niu Tou Ma Mian: "You two quickly tidy up the documents scattered on the ground, set the tables and chairs straight, I have something to go out." ”

Hongyao continued to sway his little feet, pressed his hands on the bridge deck, looked at the sky of Wumeng, and muttered softly: Cutting down trees does not see roots, although cutting still rejuvenates.

Love is not exhaustive, and the bitter voices are counted.

It's like making your own arrow, and you hurt yourself.

The same is true of internal arrows, love arrows for life.

When it came to the emotional place, Hongyao couldn't help but shed two lines of tears, and when Meng Po saw this, she sighed for a while: "Poor child." Is it really as the child said, destined to replace her? After speaking, Meng Po shook her head and chuckled: "I'm really confused, I believe everything." ”

"All sentient beings, from the beginningless, have all kinds of love and greed, so there is reincarnation, and if all the castes of the worlds, oviparous, viviparous, wet, and incarnated, are all born because of desire. When only reincarnation, love is the foundation. Having all desires helps to develop love, and thus can make life and death continuous. If you want to return to love life, life plus desire, all living beings love life, and they still depend on their desires. Love is the cause, love is the effect. All worlds are always born and destroyed, there is no before and after, the beginning and end of gathering and dispersing, the continuity of thoughts and thoughts, the cycle repeats, and all kinds of trade-offs are all reincarnation. Not out of reincarnation, but arguing for enlightenment; He is aware of it, that is, it flows with each other; If you don't have reincarnation, you're useless. For example, moving the eyes, can shake the water, and like fixing the eyes, like turning fire, the clouds sail the moon, the boat moves on the shore, and the same is true. Everything in the world is reincarnated, but you are trapped on the bridge? ”

"Grandma, what are you muttering about?" Hongyao smiled at Meng Po and asked.

Meng Po sighed again, this sigh was full of distress for Hongyao and helplessness about her situation.

"That's it, that's it, since you don't want to return to the yang world, but you can't enter the way of reincarnation, then follow me, an old woman, to be a messenger of the underworld."

"Red medicine, what's so good about being a messenger of the underworld, it's tiring and boring, it's better to jump into this Lechuan River and escape into the way of reincarnation." A female voice echoed in the air.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Meng Po reprimanded softly.

"Meng Po is partial, if she is also partial to me, I don't have to suffer from insects, ants and poisonous snakes here." The female voice was full of complaints.

There was calm on the Lethe River, and there was not even a trace of a ghost.

The banks of the Lethe River are full of red and bewitching flowers.

"This is the rule of the underworld, if you want to be reincarnated, you must drink my bowl of Meng Po soup to step on the Nai He Bridge, in order to enter the way of reincarnation, you do not want to forget the marriage of the previous life, and refuse to drink the Meng Po soup to reincarnate, you have violated the law here, if you want to reincarnate with the memory of your previous life, and then continue the previous edge, the only solution is to jump off the Lechuan River and endure thousands of years of torture, if your mind is still there at that time, you can reincarnate with the memory of your previous life."

"Ask what the world is like, and teach people to live and die." Hongyao blurted out like an elder who saw through the red dust, and then said to the female voice: "Girl, you are so stupid, wouldn't it be better to forget your previous marriage, reincarnate, and meet a new lover again, let alone endure thousands of years of loneliness and torture here." ”

"You don't understand." The female voice said wistfully.

The surface of the Lechuan River was still calm and waveless, but the female voice never sounded again.

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"Grandma, Judge Cui is here!" Red Medicine pointed to the depths of the Nai He Bridge and said loudly and excitedly.

A hazy and indistinct figure gradually became clear.

"Meng Po!" Judge Cui smiled and waved to Meng Po.

Meng Po's face was a little displeased, "I don't know what is the important matter for Judge Cui to come to my bridge?" ”

The red medicine kept patrolling the faces of the two, and at this time, Judge Cui said with a smile: "I came here to talk about some things alone with the red medicine girl." ”

When Meng Po heard that she was looking for Hongyao to talk alone, she immediately refused, how could this cunning old fox be able to deal with Hongyao, who was ignorant of the world.

"Say anything to your face."

Judge Cui smiled: "Is Meng Po afraid that I will bully this little girl?" ”

Isn't it still unclear? You are Judge Cui, who has lived for thousands of years, has seen ups and downs, and has experienced all kinds of intrigue and intrigues, how can a teenage girl who is ignorant of the world cope with talking to you! Meng Po said in her heart.

"Since that's the case, then I'll say it to my face, and let Meng Po rest assured."

This is the first time that Hongyao has seen Judge Cui's real body since entering the underworld, wearing a red official robe, wearing a black gauze hat, two peach leaf-like yarn wings on both sides of the black gauze hat, small eyes, and a mustache, like a seven-grade sesame official on the drama stage, just like the two balls of rouge gouache smeared on his cheeks.

At this time, Judge Cui said: "I have informed Yin Tianzi of the situation of the red medicine, and it is the first time that Yin Tianzi has encountered this situation, but there is nothing to be done, if there is a way to think about it, I will not keep delaying it." ”

So, I didn't mean to embarrass the red medicine girl, trapping her in this Nai He Bridge, in fact, there is no way to think about it!

Hongyao looked at Judge Cui with a helpless and embarrassed expression, smiled indifferently and said, "Thank you Judge Cui for personally moving to Naihe Bridge to inform Hongyao of the news, Hongyao is very grateful." ”

"Although it seems that you cannot be reincarnated at the moment, until you are reincarnated, you can be guaranteed to travel freely between the human world and the underworld."

Meng Po thought to herself: Isn't this nonsense? Don't people have to come to this netherworld when they die? There is no need to get your guarantee.

"At the same time, it can also allow you to live in the yang world like a normal woman, without fear of the sun's rays, without fear of the mage's spells, and without fear that Zhong Kui will come to subdue you; It's just a little different that mortals can't see you. For now, I can only help you get here, I have already taken care of everything for you in the world, and you can leave here whenever you want. ”

Meng Po's eyes widened slightly, and Judge Cui asked with a smile, "I wonder if Meng Po is satisfied with this decision?" ”

All the ghosts who linger in the yang world will inevitably not escape the fate of being subdued, and some even die out because of resistance, and now Judge Cui's arrangement has made Meng Po worry about the return of red medicine to the yang world a lot.

"Thank you, Judge, for your kindness!"

After Judge Cui left, Meng Po had a relieved smile on her face: "Now I can rest assured!" ”

"But Hongyao doesn't want to leave here for the time being."

"You can leave when you want, and you can come back when you want."

At this time, a female voice sounded on the Lechuan River: "Meng Po is eccentric." ”

A gust of wind blew, and the bewitching flowers on both sides of the river bank flew in the wind.