Chapter Eighty-Nine: In Front of the Bridge

In the past 10,000 years, the only thing that has not changed in the Three Realms is the scenery of this ghost realm and the underworld.

The monkey came to the ghost world with Night Quicksand and Tang Xuansong, and when he came, Tang Xuansong also found a Taoist priest in the world and bought some talismans. Although there are monkeys, but after all, it is an underworld, and there are ghosts in the underworld, Tang Xuansong didn't want to be a burden to the monkeys, so he prepared a lot of things to exorcise ghosts and subdue ghosts.

"You're carrying a big bag of things on your back, and others think you're here to settle down in the ghost world. Night quicksand looked at Tang Xuansong in front of him and said with a laugh.

The three of them had just passed the ghost gate and officially entered the ghost world. Because of the disappearance of the king of Hades, the ghost world is no longer controlled, and there are no ghosts in front of this ghost gate, whether it is a person or a ghost, a demon or a fairy, as long as you can find the ghost gate, you can enter and exit at will.

On Huangquan Road, there are ghostly shadows. Tang Xuansong followed the monkey closely, and he sneezed several times along the way. Because of the heavy yin qi in the ghost world, his cultivation is weak, and he is a little unsuitable for the environment here.

Tang Xuansong looked around, looked back at the night quicksand behind him, and said, "Don't underestimate the bags on my body, these bags are full of treasures to exorcise ghosts." ”

"You are really good enough, this posture seems to be coming to the ghost world to exorcise ghosts, it is really swaggering. The monkey said with a light smile.

Tang Xuansong smiled, a little embarrassed. He stared at the surrounding scenery and said, "I heard my master say that after passing the Ghost Gate, he walked on a road called Huangquan Road, and the road was full of flowers on the other side that saw only flowers but no leaves. The flowers on the other side are very poignant, the flowers and leaves are not seen, and they will never lose each other. At the end of the road, there is a river called the Lechuan River, and there is a bridge on the river called the Nai He Bridge. There is an earthen platform called Wangxiang Terrace after crossing the Nai He Bridge. There is a pavilion called Meng Po Pavilion on the side of Wangxiang Terrace, and there is a woman named Meng Po waiting there, handing a bowl of Meng Po soup to every passer-by, and drinking Meng Po soup makes people forget everything. There is a stone by the Lechuan River called Sansheng Stone, which records the past life, this life, and the next life. Walking across the Nai He Bridge and looking at the last look at the world on the lookout platform, it was the last souvenir. ”

The monkey said: "When people die, they first go to the Ghost Gate, go out of the Ghost Gate, pass through Huangquan Road, and come to the Lechuan River, which is the Nai He Bridge." The bridge is divided into three layers, the upper layer is red, the middle layer is yellow, and the bottom layer is black. The lower the level, the more dangerous it becomes, and it is full of lonely ghosts and ghosts who cannot be reincarnated. Those who do good deeds in life go to the upper level, those who are both good and evil go to the middle level, and those who do evil go to the lower level. ”

Night quicksand said: "I also heard my master talk about Meng Po, Meng Po is a profession of Yin Si, who is not true in the six realms of reincarnation, infatuated and affectionate, willing to give up reincarnation, you can be Meng Po in Yin Si, sell soup to others to drink, until the person who really loves her remembers her, will be replaced by others, or when selling soup has seen enough negative and infatuated people, and finally willing to give up the search for true love, it will be done by others." I don't understand these people who are obsessed with love, I always think they are too hypocritical. ”

Tang Xuansong pouted and said, "If you are an old bachelor, it would be strange if you could understand what love is." ”

Speaking of this Meng Po, the monkey suddenly became worried, and said: "There is Meng Po on the bridge, if you want to cross the bridge, you have to drink Meng Po soup, if you don't drink Meng Po soup, you will cross the bridge of helplessness, and if you can't cross the bridge, you will not be reincarnated." Anyone who has drunk Meng Po soup will forget all the ties in this life and this life, enter the path of reincarnation without any worries, and begin the reincarnation of the next life. I can easily avoid Meng Po's sight, what should you two do?"

Tang Xuansong said: "Haven't all the kings of Hades disappeared, will Meng Po still stick to her duties?"

The monkey shook his head and said: "Meng Po is the most stubborn profession, they have never been able to say, if you want to cross the bridge, you must drink soup, you can not drink soup, but you must jump into the river, the ghosts in the Lechuan River are fierce ghosts in addition to the infatuated ghosts." ”

"Then it's going to be a problem, and we'll have to figure it out. Tang Xuansong frowned.

Night quicksand said disdainfully: "She Meng Po is a woman after all, it's a big deal, we will break in, anyway, the king of Hades is gone, what are you afraid of?"

"I can only break in. The monkey said.

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. Everyone in the yang world has their own bowl here, and the Meng Po soup in the bowl is actually the tears shed by the living people in their lives.

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 one by one, boiled them into soup, and when they left the world and walked on the bridge, let them drink them, forget their love and hatred when they were alive, clean up, and re-enter the six realms, either as immortals, or as people, or as animals.

The three of them had already walked to the front of the Nai He Bridge, Tang Xuansong admired the flowers on the other side of the road, he always felt that these flowers were poignant with deep infatuation, just as he had forgotten Taotao, but he couldn't let go of her in his heart.

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.

Several new ghosts walked ahead of the three of them, walked up the Nai He Bridge, and came to Meng Po's side. There was a ghost who looked very young and he didn't want to drink this bowl of soup, and Meng Po smiled and told him: "The tears you shed for her life have been boiled into this bowl of soup, and to drink it is to drink your love for her." The last memory in the young ghost's eyes was the love of his life, and as he drank the soup, the figure in his eyes slowly faded away, and his eyes were as clear as newborn babies.

The young ghost forgot the sorrows of his past life and left the Meng Po Pavilion.

At this time, it was an old man who walked to Meng Po's side. No matter how Meng Po persuaded him, the old ghost refused to drink the soup. Eventually, Meng Po said, "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 Lechuan 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. ”

"My wife and I have made a promise that we will always remember each other and will not drink this bowl of soup. What about a thousand years, I can afford to wait, and she can afford to wait. With a calm smile on his face, the old ghost jumped into the Lethe River as he spoke.

However, by the bridge, Tang Xuansong saw a piece of bluestone and said, "This is the Sansheng Stone, right?"

The monkey said "yes".

Sansheng Stone records everyone's past and present lives, the words on the stone are bright red as blood, and there are four big characters engraved on the top of the stone "early landing on the other side"

In this life, I know the things of the previous life, and I leave my surname on the stone of Sansheng, I don't know who she is in the next life, and I forget about the three lives when I drink the soup.

There is a medicine in the world called "dragon grass", which can make the dying immortal, but not the living.

Legend has it that there is also a medicine in the world called "Meng Po Tang", which can restore people's yang, but make people forget the past.

There is a kind of grass in the world called "Broken Intestine Grass", which will restore people's memories, but it can also be fatal, and once taken within three days, it will die violently.

Tang Xuansong gently touched the Sansheng Stone, looked at the Nai He Bridge in front of him, with a touch of sadness in his eyes, and said with emotion: "Drink a bowl of Meng Po soup, it is difficult to give up the love of this life; walk back to the Nai He Bridge, wet the attachment of the previous life; Nai He Bridge, wait for you to miss the thousand years of this life, lose the oath of the previous life, see in the wind, your tears are like flying petals and eyes are staggered, we are already strangers!"

"I really can't stand your infatuated love!" Night Quicksand covered his ears and strode towards the bridge, the monkey and Tang Xuansong glanced at each other, and then followed.