I followed the sound and saw a woman with a slightly hazy face standing two steps to my right, somehow, although it was the first time I met, I didn't feel strange, as if there had been this person in the depths of my memory. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Suddenly I was taken aback by this feeling, and then I racked my brain to try to remember, but what was even more strange was that the more I recalled the memory, the more blurred it became. Gradually, I felt that my whole person was a little blurred about the surroundings, really like the hazy beauty of seeing flowers in the fog, but my consciousness could clearly tell me what I was seeing.

"She's Meng Po." Su Liu pointed at the woman lightly and said.

I looked at the woman a little overwhelmed, and Meng Po seemed to be very disapproving and said, "What's the matter, aren't you curious?" Do you think that Meng Po should be a kind of old woman with a rickety back, and I look like I'm only in my twenties, so it's not quite in line with what I imagined. ”

I scratched my head and seemed to mean a little like this, and then Meng Po said: "Actually, this is also related to time, and the word Meng Po has appeared for a long time, so many people will naturally think that this Meng Po should be an old woman, otherwise she should be called Meng Niang." ”

Looking at the still blurry face in front of me, I suddenly realized a fact: sometimes people subjectively have their own perception of someone or something, and when they witness it, they will be frightened by the truth in front of them. Just as I kept telling myself that it was the legendary Meng Po in front of me, she suddenly came to my ear with a little mystery, and at the same time said in a very crisp young woman's voice: "Do you want to see your past life, I can give you this privilege." ”

I was a little overwhelmed, her vicissitudes of life were still in my ears, and it would suddenly become such a young voice, I really wondered if I had entered some kind of advanced illusion again. Without waiting for me to answer, she suddenly turned her head to Su Liu and said, "I'm sorry, I'll take this brother of yours to see the pre-born stone, don't you mind?" Su Liu thought for a moment and then nodded.

Meng Po stretched out a pair of white Qianqianyu hands and grabbed my hand, and then flew up quickly, I only felt that her hand felt delicate like the hand of a twenty-year-old Hu Niang's family, which completely made me think that it would be the hand of an old woman who is thousands of years old. "Don't be distracted, you will enter the Nine Shadows Yellow Spring in a while, and the distraction will make you lose your illusion in an instant, I believe you should have understood the power of the Yellow Spring Illusion."

Hearing her say so seriously, I quickly retracted my cranky mind, and then I only felt a serious sense of sluggishness all over my body, as if I had jumped into the swamp all at once, and then I found myself completely entering a yellow world, and the exact same yellow around me made me feel like a time and space disorder. Fortunately, Meng Po in front of me was completely unaffected and moved forward, so I simply let go of my hands and feet and let her lead me forward quickly.

When I was completely relaxed, I suddenly remembered one thing: I don't know how to swim, and even more so I'm still snorkeling! The strange thing is that I just kept breathing normally, and I didn't do any paddling, and I was able to rush underwater. Gradually, I finally saw a stone that looked similar to the Present Life Stone, the only difference was that the Life Stone was blood red all over, while the Past Life Stone was yellowish all over, and a group of skeletons were surrounded by a group of skeletons, and there were many broken bones and a layer of gray bone powder scattered around the skeleton.

"What's going on?" I asked, a little alarmed.

"Actually, it's very simple, this life stone looks at this life, it is for the living soul who is about to be reincarnated to live and say that it is alive; In the previous life, Shiguan in the previous life, it was for the soul who had a strong long-cherished desire to renew the frontier with the love of the previous life, but there were many withered here, and it was difficult to wait until his previous life jumped down to spend five hundred years of bitter cold with him, and then continued to renew the frontier together, so there are mostly dead people or dead souls here, when the soul dies, the bones of the original body will be summoned here, if you can face the five hundred years of silence alone, you can naturally turn to heaven and humanity, otherwise it will be the end of ashes. Meng Po quietly picked up a cracked skull and said faintly, as if muttering to herself.

"Just like the owner of this skull, he was a genius in the Ming Dynasty, but he suffered for a lonely soul, but unfortunately the reality is not so beautiful, although the dead soul was rescued by him from the underworld, but also because of the lack of yin nourishment, so it finally turned into a wisp of ghost and dissipated in the world, but it is a pity that the infatuated genius thought that the dead soul was reincarnated first, and he withered here for nearly a thousand years, and now he is afraid that he will also dissipate in the spiritual world. It's just a pity for this pair of hard-working mandarin ducks, and they still can't be reunited. Meng Po said softly and put down the skull.

"Do you want to know who that genius is?" Meng Po suddenly turned her head and asked, I nodded, and she immediately replied with a smile: "Maybe you will understand if I say a poem." Ten miles of Pinghu frost is full of sky, inch by inch of green silk sorrowful Chinese year, the moon-shaped single look at each other, only envy the mandarin duck not the immortal! ”

"A Chinese Ghost Story!" I couldn't help but exclaim: "Isn't this a fictional character in Pu Songling's Liaozhai Zhili?" ”

"It's not fiction, you should know that when Pu Songling wrote Liaozhai, he specially set up a small pavilion for people to drink tea and enjoy the cool air for free, and then compiled the essence of the collected folk tales into a book. Therefore, although these stories are folk rumors, some of them are real people or prototypes, such as Ning Caichen, who actually has a prototype character, and he did stay alone in a haunted temple in the ancient city of Jinhua. Meng Po kept looking me up and down as she spoke.

"Meng Po, just say what you want to say, don't play me dumb riddles." I looked directly at the stone in front of me and said slowly.

"Good! I like to talk to smart people, in fact, the reason why I want to talk to you about this is nothing more than to tell you that people and ghosts have different paths, sometimes you have to learn to let go, don't let your eyebrows be full of sad memories, people don't live for others, but to let yourself live a wonderful life. It's okay to remember and miss occasionally, but too much obsession will become a person's shackles and hinder his growth. Although Meng Po's words were gentle, every word struck my heart.

"Why are you talking to me about this? You wouldn't say that to a mortal for no reason. I was quick to respond.

"I can't go into details because some of them involve heavenly chances, but you have to remember every word I say to you today. In terms of the power of emotional stimulation, happiness is more powerful than sadness! Love is far better than hate! So when you're faced with a choice, remember to ask yourself what you really want. The reason why I dragged you here to talk is because it can block out some unnecessary ears and eyes. Believe it or not, it's no accident that so many things are happening around you now, everything is faintly starting to revolve around you, so you must be careful, and I also want to repay the favor you gave me in my previous life. With that, she suddenly slammed my palm at the back of the neck.

Suddenly I faintly heard her say that I wish it hadn't been used for the day, and then I felt like my consciousness was completely asleep. When I opened my eyes again, Meng Po was smiling and standing on my left side while I was leaning on her shoulder, so I quickly straightened up, and then she said to me, "Don't ask why, remember that you don't tell anyone about what happened anyway, not even your closest people!" I frowned and nodded, and then she continued to lead me out of the Yellow Spring.

When the two of us appeared in front of Su Liu again, she asked anxiously, "I said, brother, what's wrong with you two, why have you been gone for so long?" I can't figure out where you are, or if your soul lamp isn't extinguished, I'll jump down to find you. ”

"Look at your frightened appearance, what can happen to me, this not good, and powerful Meng Po? It's just that this place is not all at once to the previous life stone, it actually has to circle and circle down, and I saw a large handful of various broken bones, skeletons or something, and then I heard about the observation method of the previous life stone and realized that those are infatuated species that have been waiting for hundreds or even thousands of years. I quickly explained with a smile.

"How can you go back in a while, you are an envoy and can walk freely within the two realms, but after all, he is a mortal body, and the only way is to take the path of reincarnation, but you must drink Meng Po soup to go there, otherwise you should know what kind of danger it is." Meng Po turned around and asked Su Liu.

"Well, I'm also struggling with this, the only way for him to do it now is to pass the reincarnation path without drinking soup, but that would be more dangerous than drinking soup." Su Liu frowned and thought for a while and asked, "How long has it been since the last time the blue flowers bloomed?" ”

"Nine hundred and ninety-four, are you willing to wait for five years?" Meng Po pinched her fingers and replied.

"No, I can't wait that long, his flesh shell is not sealed with crystals, it seems that he can only think that he will break in, take a gamble." Su Liu finally seemed to have made up his mind and said to me: "Brother, hesitate that you are a special case of mortals, and you can only return to the human world by the path of reincarnation for a while, but according to the rules, you have to drink a bowl of Meng Po soup, of course, you also know the main effect of Meng Po soup, in fact, drinking soup also has a role, the yin wind in the reincarnation path can be seen everywhere, and the most serious thing is that the closer you get to the human world, the more violent the yin wind becomes, so you will give every ghost bowl of Meng Po soup to warm your stomach." ”

"I understand, I'm going to go to the path of reincarnation by myself in a while, but the yin wind in the path of reincarnation is not something I can deal with, the best way is to drink the warm soup, but will I lose all the memories of my previous life?" I finished and pondered.

"Not only the previous life, but to be exact, all the memories before you entered the path of reincarnation, including this life!" Meng Po added.

"Tell me if there are any examples of success throughout the ages?" I turned my head to look at Meng Po.

She bowed her head and muttered for a long time, then looked up and said, "Yes! According to my statistics, there are currently 938,973 people who have broken into the path of reincarnation without drinking soup, and only 19 of them have succeeded! Meng Po said two numbers that were very different.

"Even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire ahead, do you think I still have the right to choose? Since someone has succeeded before, then I believe that others can do mine, and I can do it, at least I don't think I'm short-lived. Let me enjoy the shock of the extremely exciting reincarnation path of the underworld. After saying that, I slowly moved my hands and feet, and after a while, I was very firm and followed Meng Po's instructions, and quietly followed the crowd and soon came to an arched bridge.

The bridge deck of the arch bridge is not big, just two people pass side by side, there is an old woman at the top of the bridge deck, there is a dark red wooden barrel next to her, occasionally there is a curling hot air flying out of the barrel, there is a table next to the old woman, there are several bowls on it, the strange thing is that those bowls seem to never be finished, only to see people walking or climbing or jumping past the table from time to time, and then Meng Po will scoop a bowl of hot porridge from the bucket and pass it over, and then those people are good = one by one the bowls are quickly drunk after those bowls dissipate in the air on their own, Then those people will make a gesture to wipe their tears at the bridge, and then slowly walk down the bridge.

"Go, that's one of my clones, I already know about you, you just need to follow the team, then my clone can only give you a bowl of hot clear soup to warm your stomach a little, and then you can follow them to the reincarnation path." The young Meng Po beside me smiled and gently stepped back from me, so I slowly blended into the gray crowd and slowly walked to the bridge. (To be continued.) )