[Since ancient times, only love has returned to the sea, and now it is a withered white head. Time is going round and round, and it's going to be Valentine's Day! You okay? 】

preface

According to legend, there is a road in the underworld, called Huangquan, there is a river on the side of the road for the Lethe River, and there is a Nai He Bridge above the Lethe River. However, next to the bridge and on the bank of Sansheng Stone, the past and the past were written off just because of a bowl of Meng Po soup.

The world knows that I am the god of the underworld, in charge of reincarnation, and every time I cast a life, they come to me to find a bowl of soup. After drinking my soup, I have forgotten who I am, where I came from, and where I am going......

It's been so long that I can't remember when I got here, why I got here, and set up this cauldron. But I still remember that after entering the netherworld, I met a person, an old man......

He said, "As long as I have spent ninety-nine or eighty-one souls here, he will come back to me, but ...... I have crossed them, and who will cross me?

one

She was originally the second daughter of Di Yao, because her father Jun Yao saw that Shun had both virtue and talent, and was upright, so he wanted to give him the position of leader, and married her to Shun together with Emperor A'e.

At that time, where did she know what love was, she only knew that it was her life's mission to marry her husband and children, and then she made a mistake in her life, thinking that this person was her own life, but how could he have any children's love in his heart, and some were just the righteousness of his family and country! Daughter's love is just like dung, and she and her sister are just machines for inheritance......

However, she was still willing.

"Nuying Niangniang." In the past, servants and maidservants bowed down to her. She nodded, and walked straight to the dormitory......

Because Shun's father is stubborn, his mother is arrogant, his brother is inferior, and his husband's family does not agree with this family business, after Empress E's daughter passed the door, Shun's father wanted to put her husband to death many times, and later with the help of her and his sister and Empress E, he was able to get out of danger.

Moreover, Empress E and Nu Ying followed her husband on a southern tour, and this old thing, mentioned again, made people even more heartbroken. The so-called southern tour is just Emperor Yu's rebellion, taking away the throne and exile...... Every night, Shun would wake up in a dream as soon as he thought about it, and it would be difficult for him to fall asleep. In the long run, the root of the disease will also fall.

"Husband, let it go, you still have me and my sister." Nuying patted him on the shoulder and comforted.

Shun nodded, attached her slender and small hand with her big rough hand, and then lowered her head and smiled bitterly: "Yes, you are the only one...... During these days, you and Emperor E have worked hard, and you shouldn't have suffered this sin with Lone......"

She shook her head: "Where does the husband speak, no matter where the husband goes, Nuying will always be by your side." ”

Xu is too beautiful to oath, there will always be wind, frost, rain and snow to destroy it. The good times did not last long, and three years later, Shun died in Cangwu and was buried in Jiuzhi Mountain.

Empress E and Nuying, who lost their husbands, wept bitterly in the face of the rushing Xiangjiang River. The reeds on the banks of the Xiangjiang River are boundless, the river fog is vast, and they look at the Xiangjiang River that is gone, and their hearts are endlessly sad. The flowing water is far away, just like his husband, there is no way to resurrect.

At this time, Nuying had an idea, an idea to go to the Netherworld to find her husband! After thinking about it, he drowned in the Xiangjiang River with Emperor A'e and his sister......

At that time, when I was young, I had traveled to the world, and after seeing the world pass away, I still frowned and was reluctant to close my eyes, so I still had a lot of worries about personnel. Nuying, who drowned in the Xiangjiang River, kept sinking, sinking, sinking to the bottom of the river...... Suddenly, the Xiangjiang River was full of wind and rain. Suddenly, there was a light in front of her, shining in all directions, making people unable to open their eyes, and after a while, the white light formed a whirlpool and sucked her in.

She couldn't move, so she had to be at the mercy of the maelstrom. The white light was all over it, stimulating her vision, and Nuying was tortured to the point that she was almost devastated. In the dark, she heard a woman say leisurely in her ear: "In this life, you have grievances in your life, and you will not give in when you die, so as not to affect the next life, from now on, you will go to the bridge to wash away the worries of the previous life for the world." ”

She was about to ask who was coming, but unexpectedly, her mind was dizzy by the whirlpool, and after a long time, she fell down from the whirlpool, and she was no longer the one she was at that time. She no longer remembered her past or her name, but she wanted to build a cauldron here to pass through the dead.

two

I remember the last time I crossed a soul, and he asked me, why did I stay here and never leave, and why did I have to prop up this cauldron to cross the souls of the dead?

I didn't know why, but when I saw that he was handsome, I prevaricated a few words, and if it were those ugly ghosts, I wouldn't be happy to say half a word to them.

It's funny to say, I've seen them come and go several times, and each time it's different, and some of them I recognize.

"Here you go again." I joked. This is the same person who asked me a hundred years ago why I had been here.

"What?" He looked at me with some confusion. I chuckled and handed him a bowl of soup, and he was sensible, and he drank it all without my explanation. Ho, I do remember that in addition to seeing this little white face often, I also saw a little white fox in this netherworld.

I haven't seen the little white fox, but I know that it likes to stay by the Sansheng Stone, and its tail is wagging on the Sansheng Stone, which is very funny. When I had finished the undead, it was gone, but I don't know where it went.

At this point, I paid attention to it, every time I finished the soul, I tiptoed to the side of the Sansheng Stone, to see what the little white fox was doing, but who expected, as soon as I approached, it pulled its legs and ran, I was a little angry, I don't look ugly, it saw me, the first reaction was to run!

"Okay, you stinky fox, if the old lady doesn't catch you next time, the old lady won't believe in evil!" I rolled my sleeve and turned back to the cauldron.

It's hard to see a living creature, how can it be so easy to let it slip away, they all say that the fox is cunning, but I, it's more cunning than it. Thinking about it, he also laughed stupidly......

On the second day, I was still crossing the soul, but when I looked at the Sansheng Stone, the little white fox was gone, and when I finished crossing the soul, it would come, or it would come. Day after day, year after year, after I set my sights on the little white fox, it no longer appeared, this dead place, and fell silent again, I thought that I could catch the little white fox to be a companion with myself, and I didn't have to listen to the whining of those dead souls all day long, but now it seems that after all, I am alone.

One, two, three...... One-year, two-year ...... I can't remember how long it has been, but it's been a long time since there was a living creature here.

Time is getting worse, and I have been guarding the netherworld for more than a hundred years, and I suddenly want to see the scenery of the world, but I can't leave this place for half a step. Yesterday, I saw that little white face again, and he asked me again, the question he asked me thousands of years ago, and this time I didn't prevaricate him, I just chuckled and shook my head, and said something I don't know. He laughed, and he said that he knew me, but not so deeply, as if he knew me in the dark, but he didn't know who my name was.

I don't even know what my name is, let alone anyone else. Just when I was gloomy, I casually glanced at it, and saw a small white tail wagging around by the Sansheng Stone......

"You, who are you?" Yo, this little fox can still speak human language, but it's still a man's voice.

"It's better to be able to talk." I raised the corners of my mouth.

"The goddess spares her life, the little demon didn't mean to break into the netherworld, but the little demon wanted to use the spirit of the netherworld to transform into a human form and ascend to the immortal." The little white fox begged.

It's ridiculous for him to say this, the Netherworld is a dead place, and there is turbidity everywhere, how can there be goblins who use turbidity to cultivate human form? Even if he becomes a human form, he cannot rank in the immortal class, and at most he will become a demon.

"Little white fox, how did you get in?"

He wagged his tail and said, "When the wind blows to the Xiangjiang River, the rain and snow will fall, and a whirlpool will be generated at the Xiangjiang River, and then you can go straight to the netherworld." ”

"And how did you get out?"

He frowned: "Whenever I absorb a certain amount of Netherworld Qi, a white light will appear in front of me, sending me to the human world. ”

I nodded, it seems that in this life, I will not be able to get out of this netherworld......

"Granny Ghost, I see that your netherworld aura is very heavy, if I move here, I can quickly promote humanity." I didn't pay attention to what he said, and only the phrase "mother-in-law" lingered in my mind.

"What did you call me? Mother-in-law?! "I'm a little annoyed, no one else calls me mother-in-law, why do you want to call me mother-in-law if you change him?

When the fox saw me like this, he sneered: "Hahaha, does my mother-in-law think that you are a beautiful woman in the middle of a peach and plum?" ”

I squinted at him and said to myself, "Isn't it? ”

"Mother-in-law, go back and look in the mirror."

"Good you stinky fox, you dare to say that I am old!" After that, I turned around and went back to my bedroom, and I looked at myself in the bronze mirror and was taken aback!

Inside, I had a wrinkled face, drooping eyes, gray hair, and an obvious old look. I subconsciously looked at my hand, which was also wrinkled. No, I wasn't like that before......

"Knock knock—" There was a knock on the door, and I looked to the door, waiting for someone to speak.

"Granny Ghost, can you let me absorb the Netherworld Qi here?"

"You fox, you're still cheeky, and you come uninvited." My tone was obviously much colder than before. He knew each other and said in a whisper: "I'm sorry, the little demon is angry with the gods." ”

I knew that the "goddess" he spoke of was to comfort me, so I didn't bother with him too much, waved my sleeves, and opened the door to let him in.

"Fox, what's your name?"

"Little Red."

When I heard this, I laughed busily: "Hahaha, Xiaohong, you are a male fox, you are called this, hahahaha, you don't know shame?" ”

The fox didn't reply, and stayed quietly and was taunted by me.

After a moment, I realized that I had gone too far, and I smiled.

The fox looked at me and asked, "Is the goddess's surname Meng?" ”

I shook my head.

"If you don't have the surname Meng, what is your surname?"

I still shook my head.

"No, everyone in the world says that the Netherworld, the god in charge of reincarnation, is Meng Po."

"Meng Po?" I looked at him with a puzzled look on my face.

"Goddess, are you supposed to be stupid enough to cross the soul of the dead?"

I smiled at him, then threw him out the door and said, "Have you sucked enough?" Enough is enough, go back to your world! ”

"The little demon knows that he is wrong, I hope that the goddess will not drive me away, the first time I saw the goddess that day, I was scared away by the strong fairy aura on the goddess, and then passed away, so I was able to speak, if there is no goddess your protection, the little demon is afraid that it is here to cultivate for a hundred and eight thousand years, and it is impossible to have this achievement."

When I heard what he said, I was still a little happy in my heart, the first time I was flattered like this, it was this feeling, and I finally realized the filthy atmosphere of flattery in the world.

"So you weren't scared away by my looks that day?"

"If you were scared away by the goddess's appearance that day, why don't you run away when you see the goddess today?" The fox said.

There was some truth to what he said, so I opened the door again and let him in.

"Thank you, Goddess."

"Now that you have entered the Netherworld, you will follow me to spend the past souls, this is not a place for you to relax."

"Yes."

three

After having Xiaohong, life has been much easier, although he is still a fox who has not yet become an adult, but he has also helped me a lot on weekdays.

Moreover, he is the only living creature in this dead land, and he cultivates his human form by relying on the turbidity of this place, although there are thousands of undead who covet him, but under my protection, others dare not do anything about him.

Today, there are few ghosts, but it is also leisurely, and I can also ask him some things in my spare time, and I was about to speak, but he took the lead.

"Granny Ghost, you, your face ......" he stopped talking. It was because of his move that I felt scared, subconsciously touched my face, and asked in a panic, "What's wrong?" What happened to my face? ”

I felt my face wrinkle and wrinkle, and I didn't know what was going to happen next, so I rushed back to my bedroom and let it wrinkle......

After a while, I heard a "hiss" of my face, and everything began to fall off, and I was a little panicked, afraid that after it fell off, I would become a faceless monster. So I tried to put the skin back on my face, but my face seemed to reject it, and I would not reglue it, and in a short time the whole old skin came off...... Now my face hurts, and I think about it, I will have to walk with my face covered in the future, and when I think of this, my heart hurts.

I don't know how long it took me to feel like I was pressed into a hot chest, and a big hand behind me was caressing my back and comforting me.

"Don't be afraid." This voice is so familiar, it's Xiaohong! Has he cultivated into a human form?

"Little Red?" I asked tentatively.

"Huh?"

"You, have you cultivated into a human form?"

"Hmm."

"So, you're leaving?"

"No, I still want to be here, with the help of the power of the Sansheng Stone, to ascend to the immortal."

I smiled wryly, "It's good." You ascend to your immortal, and I will block my face. ”

He pushed me out of his chest, looked at my faded face, and smiled. I felt that I didn't see anyone, so I avoided his gaze and covered my face.

"Beautiful." I only heard him say this, but I didn't know what he was talking about and where he was good-looking.

"Meng Po turned out to be not an old woman with a rickety back, but a peerless beauty." He chuckled. I looked at him with some puzzlement, but he handed me a mirror, and I saw the person in the mirror, a little strange.

"Me?"

Xiaohong nodded: "It's you." ”

Now Xiaohong has also transformed from a fox into a young man, and I am glad for him, but I don't understand why I took off my skin, and why, he transformed into a human form so quickly. If he had just inhaled the turbid qi from here, he would not have been able to cultivate his human form so quickly.

"The face of the goddess was wrinkled, and after returning to the bedroom, she radiated a dazzling spiritual light, and as soon as the aura appeared, it sprinkled on me, coupled with the ghostly aura here, it urged me to quickly change into a human form." He seemed to read the confusion in my eyes, and opened his mouth to explain it to me.

So, that's why he stayed with me in the first place? I suddenly remembered that he had told me that the reason why he was able to speak in the first place was because he met me and was shocked by the aura on my body, otherwise he would not have achieved this achievement even if he sucked the netherworld qi of this place even for 108,000 years.

"Little Red." I spoke softly.

"Huh?"

"What's so good about becoming an immortal?"

He said the benefits of becoming an immortal with a yearning face, you can see the world as much as you want, and do what you want...... But he didn't know that after becoming an immortal, he had no freedom and was under the fence for the rest of his life.

I'm a vivid example of that.

I didn't comment too much on his answer, just laughed it off.

"So, what's so bad about being a demon?"

He lowered his eyes and said, "At that time, before I had cultivated my human form, I was abandoned by the fox clan, and then I wandered around, and when I came to one place, there would be a human life that died in vain for no reason, and then I was targeted by the gods, and they punished me indiscriminately and forced me to confess, but I didn't know that person, so I didn't have the intention of harming others, so how could I take his life for no reason?" ”

I gently patted him on the shoulder as a sign of comfort.

……

Hundreds of years have passed in a hurry, and the day of Xiaohong's immortal is getting closer and closer, and I am a little, reluctant to give up him, maybe I have been with him for a long time, and I have become dependent on him. At this point, I deliberately distanced myself from him, so that I could leave in the future and worry less.

Whenever Xiaohong tried to come up and talk to me, I avoided him and turned him away.

"Xiaohong, you are your immortal, and I will be my Meng Po." That was the last thing I left him, and I haven't spoken to him since.

I remember one day, I handed the soup to the souls of the deceased, and those ghosts rushed to reincarnate one by one, and they swarmed to the point that my bridge was about to collapse, and some of them were more anxious, so they passed by my cauldron directly and walked towards Lethe, and I lightly picked the water of Lethe River to let the little ghost who did not know the height of the sky and the height of the earth be destroyed.

"Lack of discipline is not enough to be reincarnated." At this time, my eyes were mixed with the clarity of Lethe, but they were not so clear, and I looked at the ghosts who came and smiled, and then I smiled contemptuously at them, and then they were restored to their original state.

"Why don't you ask me to help you? If you do this, you are hurting your own body. Xiaohong asked with concern on the side.

"You don't have to."

Xiaohong also seemed to notice my change, so he didn't talk to me anymore, every morning, he was alone in the Sansheng Stone to practice, he said, he wanted to use the power of the Sansheng Stone to ascend to the immortal, but I have lived here for a long time, I have never heard that the Sansheng Stone can help the demon ascend to the immortal. Still, bless him.

"Meng Po, you are the first person I have ever met, and the best person I know, thanks to you for not giving up, kindly taking me in, helping me to cultivate my human form, now, I am leaving. In the future, you must not forget me. He smiled at me.

I asked him the same question again, what is good about becoming an immortal?

He said that he can see the world vividly, he can do what he wants to do as he wants, and he can also protect his beloved.

"Beloved?" I looked at him, and I had been with him for so long, and I had never heard him mention his sweetheart.

He walked slowly from the side of the Sansheng Stone, dressed in white, unstained with dust, like an immortal who had been feathered and ascended to the immortal. He took my left hand and tied a red thread around the mother of my little finger, and then the red thread loomed between my fingertips and his.

"I am a god because I want people in this world to be side by side with my beloved, but unfortunately, I can't wait......"

"Xiao Meng, when you cross all the ninety-nine eighty-one souls here, I will come back." He smiled slightly, then turned around and walked into the white light, which grew bigger and bigger, and the light became more and more dazzling, forcing me to dare not open my eyes.

"Xiao Meng, wait for me to come back."

End

Since that day, the Netherworld has once again fallen silent, and when I remember the first time I met him, it was as if a dense flower had been born in my heart, one by one, with flowers and no leaves, for the other side.

No one knows what happened, and I don't know. I haven't seen him since, and I look at the red line on my little finger and know he's always there.

I met the little white face again, he is still the same, he has not changed, he told me that there is an immortal official in the heavenly court, named Yue Lao, who is specially designed to build a red line for lovers.

I asked him how he knew, but he said that there was his ancestral hall within a radius of several miles in the world, and no one knew it, and no one knew it.

"Why do you always show up when he's not around?" I sensed this and asked.

He chuckled and shook his head: "Give me a bowl of Meng Po soup." ”

It seemed that he couldn't speak, so he gave him a bowl of soup......

"I'm him." The man drank the soup down, and I wanted to ask him again, but he forgot everything.

How good, in the silence of the depths of prosperity, I met you, so far affectionate and unforgettable, deep roots.