Chapter 172: Lethe River
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The rolling red dust is passing away, and the waves are sweeping away the heroes.
In front of Cha Wenbin was the Lechuan River, and now he was standing by the river of the Yin and Yang realms, but he never had a chance to return to the other end of the bridge.
Because there is no turning back from Huangquan, Cha Wenbin is naturally very clear about this, but he also knows another secret of this Lechuan River:
In order to see the favorite of this life again, some infatuated lovers can skip Meng Po soup, then they must jump into the Lechuan River and wait for thousands of years before they can be reincarnated. In a thousand years, you may see the person you love most in this life walking on the bridge, but words cannot be connected, you can see him, he cannot see you. In the past thousand years, you have seen him walk through the Nai He Bridge over and over again, drink bowls and bowls of Meng Po soup, and hope that he will not drink it, and you are afraid that he will not be able to forget the pain of thousands of years of torment in the river and the loneliness of waiting.
Drinking Meng Po soup is the old dream of the past, and the cause and effect are broken. Forget the ups and downs of a lifetime, love and hate in a lifetime, and never know strangers in the next life; Jumping into the Lechuan River, in the dirty waves, he was bitten by copper snakes and iron dogs, and he was tortured and could not be freed.
After a thousand years, if the mind is not extinguished and can still remember the events of the previous life, you can re-enter the world and find the person you loved most in the previous life.
But there is one way to do it, and that is to jump into the Lethe River.
It is said that before the construction of the Nai Ho Bridge, this was the only way to the underworld, and as long as you wanted to be reincarnated, you had to cross this river.
At that time, the Lechuan River had another name called "Santu River".
The Santu River is also called the Santu River. Legend has it that the "Three Ways River" is the dividing line between the world of life and the world of death. Because the flow of water is divided into three types: slow, normal, and rapid according to the behavior of the deceased during his lifetime, it is called the "three paths".
Just as there is only reincarnation that can cross life and death, there is only one way to cross the "Santu River", and that is the ferry boat on the "Santu River", and there is no other way.
However, the ferry has to pay a fare, and the soul without the fare will not be able to board the ferry, and even if it does, it will be thrown into the "Santu River" by the boatman. This is why after a person dies, we must put a pot on his coffin money to burn paper money.
But all relatives and friends who come to mourn need to sincerely burn a wad of paper money, which can be regarded as a toll for them. The incense candles are also mainly for filial piety to the yin cha and the boatman, and those who need to burn them must be sincere, so they are often burned on their knees.
Those souls who cannot cross the river are driven by reincarnation** and will wade across the river, but the water of the "Santu River" not only does not have buoyancy, but also has a poison that can corrode the soul. Those souls who go into the water will never have a chance to go ashore, and can only become water ghosts in the "Three Ways River".
The pain of never being reborn and the bone-chilling water of the river make those water spirits jealous of other souls who still have the hope of reincarnation, and whenever a soul falls into the water, they will rush to the bottom of the river and become water spirits like them.
Therefore, since there is a bridge of Naihe, there is no soul to go down this Lechuan River, because no soul can stand the sin here, even if a small number of people know the thousand-year-old legend here, most of them can't survive these years, and people's souls have long been broken by the limbs tortured by endless pain.
Cha Wenbin is standing at the head of the bridge at this moment, there is a thought in his heart that is guiding him towards the river, countless souls are howling heartbreakingly below, and the ten halls of Yama are all crying wolves, like a rakshasa reappearing.
With a "plop", he plunged headlong into the bloody Lechuan River, and disappeared into the river in an instant. Only the clusters of flowers on both sides of the river are still swaying in the wind, they are so bright red, which is also the only color on the Huangquan Road, known as the "road of fire", and the soul steps on these flowers to the underworld. This is also another origin of the ever-bright lamp, the oil is withered, the lamp is extinguished, and the flowers are gone!
In the tumbling Lechuan River, Cha Wenbin only felt that the pain in his body was wrapped in a circle of white light. The demons who met avoided one after another, and before they had time to dodge, they turned into wisps of green smoke in an instant.
During the struggle, he saw a man in the shape of a man sitting on the bow of a boat, dressed in a cloak and holding a fishing rod in one hand, but there was no hook on the line.
How can this soul of falling into the water allow him to escape?
Countless yin cha drove the windsurf board like a demon from the upstream and rushed down, and they were about to catch up with Cha Wenbin, but the man in Tsing Yi who looked like a Taoist priest raised the rod in his hand, and Cha Wenbin was caught by him.
"Go, with my three thousand crossings of the Forgotten River, in exchange for your ten years of life in the yang world!" After that, the Tsing Yi Taoist waved his hand, and Cha Wenbin was like a kite with a broken string and planted it into the Lechuan River again......
The sky was dark again, and the two clouds, one black and one white, began to collide violently, and lightning waved wantonly in the sky like a snake, and the roaring thunder bombarded everyone's eardrums.
It was raining, and the soybean-like raindrops hit each of their faces like hailstones.
Silent crying, tears mixed with rain, no one can tell anymore.
Chaozi's knees were numb, he didn't believe that his brother Wen Bin left them like this, he was so omnipotent, how could he die in silence like this, the violent corpse wilderness!
"He's gone! Chaozi, you get up! He's gone, we can't let Wen Bin rain anymore, you get up! Lao Wang's throat was already hoarse, and this dissuasion had lasted for a whole day. Chaozi knelt in front of Cha Wenbin's corpse like this, never leaving half a step, and others didn't want to get close half a step.
Zhuo Xiong and Hengrou Face knelt on both sides like a stake, and the three of them had been left to the wind and rain, without eating or drinking for a whole day.
Lao Wang understands that if this continues, they will never come out of this forest, and they will all be buried here. It's not that he is willing to let Wen Bin go, but the most important task at the moment is to live, and only by living can he be worthy of Wen Bin's sacrifice.
He persuaded bitterly: "Child, I know that you are uncomfortable, and I am also uncomfortable, but Wen Bin is gone, we still have to live, we have to continue, listen to my persuasion, we have to take him out of here together, and let him return to his roots is the top priority!" You can't do this anymore, even if Wen Bin is under Jiuquan, he can't rest in peace! ”
"Get out! Get out of here! This was the first thing Chaozi said today, his hands were tightly clenched into fists, and his bones were pinched "gurgling".
"I ......", Lao Wang was speechless for a while, he understood what Chaozi hated in his heart, but he still said, "After I go back, I want to beat or scold me as you please, but now we really can't delay it anymore, hurry up!" ”
"If you're afraid of death, you can go first, and no one will stop you." Even Zhuo Xiong, who has always spoken steadily, said this, Lao Wang knew that they were finished, and after losing Cha Wenbin, they would be completely finished, a soulless team was destined to be the walking dead, and any wind and wave could overturn them. He slowly closed his eyes and said silently in his heart: Wen Bin, wait for us, the brothers will come down to accompany you soon.
At some point, the sky began to clear, and when the dark clouds cleared, a touch of sunset began to appear on the edge of the sky. The continuous fire clouds seemed to burn the lake dry, reflecting the heavens and everyone's faces. It's a pity that no one has the heart to appreciate such beautiful scenery. The three of them were still kneeling in front of Cha Wenbin, only Lao Wang was silently burning paper money on the side, although it was also turned out of Wenbin's bag.
I don't know if it's rain or sweat, but it gathers from the tip of Chaoson's hair into a crystal column of water, and through it, the sunset is so beautiful. This drop of water hanging on the tip of his hair was already crumbling, and he wanted to fall several times but couldn't fall, just like they were reluctant to let Cha Wenbin leave, it was also reluctant.
Lao Wang muttered Wen Bin, you go all the way, while licking the new paper money, the paper ash on the ground has been burned a thick layer, and the individual paper money has not been burned completely, so he took a small stick to pick a handful. Just picked it up, and I don't know where the wind suddenly rose, and a still burning dark coin flew into the sky, and he also stood up, kept watching, watching......
"Tick", the drop of sweat on Chaozi's forehead finally fell, and it happened to fall on the corner of Cha Wenbin's mouth, if anyone saw it, they would definitely find that the corner of Cha Wenbin's mouth on the ground twitched slightly.
"Bang", this man couldn't hold it anymore, and fell into Cha Wenbin's arms......
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