Seeing the bridge god jump into the Lethe River again, I was puzzled, and my heart was even more puzzled, didn't the bridge god want me to jump into the river in exchange for his rebirth? Why didn't he be reborn, but jumped back into the river to be his drowning ghost, what the hell is going on?

Could it be that all this so-called millennial covenant is false? Didn't I just jump into the river? Is all this my fantasy?

I was confused, I had no idea what had happened, but if all this was an illusion, then how could the thousands of ghosts in the Lethe River have disappeared before.

Just when I was frowning and puzzled, a voice suddenly came from behind me: "Young man, come and drink a bowl of Meng Po soup, you don't have to think about it anymore after drinking Meng Po soup." ”

I looked back and saw a man, an old woman, sitting on the side of the road a few steps behind me. This mother-in-law looks like she is ten years old, full of gray hair, unkempt, and very old coarse cloth clothes, looking like an old man named Hanako.

Beside the old woman was a wooden bucket with a small wooden spoon and a bowl of water in her hands, and she was the one who was shouting at me behind her back!

As soon as I saw this old woman, a name popped up in my mind: Meng Po!

There is an old folk saying that the Huangquan Road is on the Lichuan River, the Nai He Bridge on the Lichuan River, the Nai He Bridge crosses the Wangxiang Terrace, and Meng Po sits on the side of the Wangxiang Terrace. This is the scene of the underworld, the entrance. After death, people must first pass through the Ghost Gate, and then pass through Huangquan Road, between Huangquan Road and Hades, and draw it by the Lechuan River as the boundary. There is a bridge on the Lechuan River, after crossing the bridge is Wangxiangtai, Wangxiangtai is the place where people die, before drinking Meng Po soup, the last time to say goodbye to the relatives of the Yang world, there is a poem "The ghost on the Wangxiang platform is in a hurry, looking at the eyes and tears two lines." Wives and children sit on the side of the coffin, and relatives and friends gather in the mourning hall. "I'm talking about Wangxiangtai. And Meng Po was under the Wangxiang platform, boiling Meng Po soup for the yin soul who was going to be reincarnated.

In ancient Chinese legends, Meng Po is the Yin Envoy who is in charge of erasing the memory of the living soul in the Difu, and there are usually three kinds of folk sayings about the origin of Meng Po:

As soon as Hongmeng first opened, the world was divided into three worlds, heaven, earth and man, and the heavenly world was the largest in charge of everything. The Three Realms are demarcated, whether in the heavens or on the earth, the gods and goddesses and yin officials all perform their duties. Meng Po was already in the world when she was separated from the Three Realms, and she was originally a loose official in the Heavenly Realm. Later, because he saw that the world had countless grievances and hatreds, and he refused to let go even if he died, he came to the Lethe River in the Netherworld, set up a cauldron at the bridgehead of the Nai He Bridge, and refined the thoughts that the world couldn't let go of into Meng Po soup for the Yin Soul to drink, so he forgot the love and hatred in life, unloaded the burden of life, and walked into the next reincarnation. This statement first appeared in the Taoist classics of the Spring and Autumn Period, and it has the meaning of "people die like clouds", "one death is a hundred", and "do not remember the grievances of the dead" in traditional Chinese thought.

The second said that the so-called Meng Po is Meng Jiangnu, in the past, after Meng Jiangnu cried down the Great Wall, she saw countless corpses under the Great Wall, and she could no longer find her husband's bones. In order to forget these painful memories, Meng Po soup is made that can make people forget their memories. Later, the heavens remembered her husband's feelings, and she was spared the suffering of reincarnation. Let her make Meng Po soup by the Nai He Bridge, so that the yin spirits involved in reincarnation can forget everything in their previous lives. That is, the so-called: "The past life is over, and the good and evil in this life are only thought of by the heart." Meaning. This theory has been widely spread since the Yuan Dynasty, and it has been mostly seen in literati notes in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it is also the most widely circulated among the people so far.

The third is that Meng Po was born in the Western Han Dynasty, studied Confucian books since she was a child, and began to recite Buddhist scriptures when she grew up. When she was still alive, she never recalled the past, and never thought about the future, but only wholeheartedly persuaded people not to kill and to be vegetarian. Until she was eighty-one years old, she was still a virgin. She only knew that her surname was Meng, so people called her "Grandma Meng". Later, Mrs. Meng Po went into the mountains to practice until the Later Han Dynasty. Because at that time, people in the world knew the cause of the past life, and often leaked the heavenly secrets, therefore, God specially appointed Meng Po's grandmother as the god of the underworld, and built a platform for her to exorcise forgetfulness.

But no matter what kind of legend it is, Meng Po is the yin envoy in the underworld who erases the memory of the living soul, and stays at the bridge all year round. If you want to be reincarnated as a yin soul, you have to drink Meng Po soup, and if you don't drink Meng Po soup, you can't be reincarnated. Anyone who has drunk Meng Po soup will forget all the shackles of this life and this life, and enter the path of reincarnation without any worries and begin the reincarnation of the next life.

Meng Po soup is also known as forgetting love water or forgetting sorrows, and once you drink it, you will forget the past and present lives. A lifetime of love, hatred, and hatred, the ups and downs of a lifetime, all of which were forgotten with this bowl of Meng Po soup. The people who are concerned in this life, and the people who are hated in this life, are like strangers in the next life, and they don't know each other.

Some people say that Meng Po soup is made from the water of the Lechuan River, and some people say that Meng Po soup is actually the tears shed by a living person in his life.

When everyone is alive, they will cry: because of joy, because of sorrow, because of pain, because of hatred, because of sorrow, because of love. Meng Po collected their tears drop by drop, boiled them into soup, and when they left the world and embarked on the path of reincarnation, let them drink it, forget the love and hatred when they were alive, clean up, and re-enter the six realms, either as immortals, or as people, or as animals.

Of course, not everyone will drink Meng Po soup willingly. Because in this life, there will always be people who have loved and don't want to forget. Meng Po will tell him: The tears you shed for her life have been boiled into this bowl of soup, and drinking it is drinking your love for her. The last memory in the eyes of the person who came was the love of his life, drinking the soup, the figure in his eyes slowly faded, and his eyes were as clear as a newborn baby.

In order to see the favorite of this life again in the next life, you can skip Meng Po soup, then you have to jump into the Lethe River and wait for thousands of years before you can be reincarnated. In the millennium, you may see the person you love most in this life walking on the bridge, but words cannot be communicated, you can see her, she can't see you. In the millennium, you saw her walk across the bridge over and over again, and drank bowls and bowls of Meng Po soup, you hope that she will not drink Meng Po soup, and you are afraid that she will not be able to forget the suffering of thousands of years in the river.

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. However, even if you can really wait for a thousand years in the Lethe River, when you return to the world with memories to find your former lover, maybe the other party no longer loves you, because he will not remember you. In this way, it is better to drink the bowl of Meng Po soup and let go of everything to relax.

At this time, I naturally knew that this person must be Meng Po at the moment, and the water bowl in his hand was obviously Meng Po soup that could make people forget everything.

When Meng Po saw me looking back at her, she beckoned to us and said, "Young man, come here, drink this bowl of Meng Po soup, and there will be no more distress and sorrow." ”

When I heard this, I hurriedly shook my head to express my reluctance to drink, and at the same time asked, "You are always Meng Po, right?" ”

"Yes, the old body is Meng Po, here to prepare the soup of reincarnation for you, after drinking this soup, you can go on the road with peace of mind!" Meng Po said.

I said, "Meng Po, I didn't go to reincarnation, I sent this friend to reincarnate." ”

Meng Po looked at me curiously and said, "Whether you are reincarnated or given away, drink this bowl of Meng Po soup, and you will not have any trouble." There are too many troubles and sorrows in the world, it is better to forget everything and have no desires. ”

I said, "What is the difference between a man who lives in the world without desires, without joy, without sorrow, and from the walking dead?" So, you should always save this soup for the soul who is going to be reincarnated, I will avoid it! ”

Meng Po didn't force me to drink her Meng Po soup, but just smiled, and then beckoned to the other ghosts who passed in front of her.

Behind Meng Po, there is a high platform, more than ten meters high, which looks like an attic, of course, it is actually a stone pavilion. A high stone platform, emitting bursts of gloomy light, sitting and lying on the road to turn the trend, you can look back on it, three red characters are written on the stone platform: Wangxiangtai.

Yes, this is the Wangxiang Terrace on the road of reincarnation. As the old saying goes, once you arrive at Wangxiangtai, you can't come back to your hometown from afar. When I walked to the lookout platform, there was almost no possibility of resurrection. This Wangxiang Terrace is made by the Bodhisattva Guanyin, who has no great compassion in the south, sympathizing with all sentient beings and not wanting to die, and thinking about the true feelings of their relatives at home. Let the soul of the deceased stand on the lookout platform to take a last look at his hometown and his relatives.

It is said that when you stand on the lookout platform, you can see Yangshi's house, see relatives and friends, and see your dead body lying there.

At this time, the Wangxiang platform was full of ghosts, all of them tearful and heartbroken.

Some of the yin spirits directly drank the Meng Po soup and continued to move forward, most of these yin spirits have been waiting in the underworld for decades to hundreds of years, so they can no longer see their home in the yang world. And more yin spirits will first ascend to the lookout platform to see their family and friends for the last time in this life, and then they will let go of everything and drink Meng Po soup willingly.

At this time, Li Shanren also climbed the Wangxiang Terrace, and when he saw him on the Wangxiang Terrace, I also followed