Chapter Twenty-Five: The Lethe River Has Love

Bypassing the gate pavilion to Huangquan Road, the stone monkey's eyes suddenly lit up, and he saw that Huangquan Road was full of fiery red flowers. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe vivid fiery red color breaks the monotonous black and white colors of the underworld, but the three are harmoniously blended together, presenting a strange beauty.

Ma Mian pointed to these fiery red flowers and said to the stone monkey, "These are the flowers on the other side!"

Huangquan Road is very narrow, only two meters wide, and it is indeed difficult to walk, or it makes people feel uncomfortable and uncomfortable. The potholes make people lean forward and backwards, and it's easy to get to your feet.

Before I had walked far on the Huangquan Road, I saw lonely souls and wild ghosts emerging from the flowers on the other side, stretching out countless stumps and broken arms, competing to catch the stone monkeys and his party. Some even crawled on the ground, trying to hug the stone monkeys on their thighs. The whining wind suddenly became louder.

Seeing this, the stone monkey changed the ghost head gold medal and held it in his hand.

I saw that as soon as the ghost head gold medal came out, all these lonely souls and wild ghosts disappeared, as if they had never appeared, and even the yin wind was much smaller!

Seeing this, Niu Tou couldn't help but say happily: "Without these troublesome lonely souls and wild ghosts, it would be much easier to walk on the Huangquan Road!"

Ma Mian also said with a smile: "We are ghosts, we have already drunk Meng Po soup, and we have no memory of our previous lives, so we don't care about these other flowers." Bull head, hold this monkey ghost and don't let it run around. We quickened our pace and strived to cross Huangquan Road as soon as possible. ”

There is no sun and moon in the underworld, it has always been black and white, and I don't know how long it has passed, but I feel that a long time has passed......

The bull head shouted happily: "The Huangquan Road is almost coming to an end! I hear the sound of the flowing water of the Lechuan River! Let's speed up a little more." ”

Listening to the sound of running water, and walking briskly for a while, the stone monkey really saw the Lechuan River in the mouth of the bull's head.

The water of the Lechuan River is blood-yellow, and it is sticky and does not splash. Countless lonely souls and wild ghosts that could not be reincarnated were immersed in the blood water, stretched out countless pairs of arms, and one by one the rotten faces broke free from the water, silently roaring! Snakes and insects covered the surface of the river, crawling on these arms and faces. But there was a gurgling sound of running water beneath the surface of the water, and along with the sound of running water, there was also a fishy smell coming from the nose!

Ma Mian pointed to a lonely ghost in the Lechuan River and said to the stone monkey: "That female ghost was hooked by our brothers, but when she arrived at the Nai He Bridge, she refused to drink Meng Po soup, saying that she didn't want to forget her previous life! I didn't want to forget her husband! I wanted to wait for her husband's ghost on the Nai He Bridge." Seeing that she was persistent, Meng Po did not force her, and asked her if she wanted to marry her husband in the next life? Meng Po told her that as long as she could jump into the Lethe River for a thousand years, she would be able to do what she wished! Now she has been soaking in the Lethe River for 500 years. ”

After hearing Ma Mian's words, the stone monkey, who had planned to hold his breath and walk quickly across the Nai He Bridge, couldn't help but stop in place and look at the lonely ghost.

Although she was also rotting like the other lonely ghosts, she did not struggle and scream silently like the other lonely ghosts, and there was only silence on her face, as if she was waiting quietly, waiting for a familiar figure to walk across the bridge.

The stone monkey asked, "Then did she wait for her husband?"

Ma Mian replied, "She has waited! She watched her husband walk over the bridge twelve times and drink the Meng Po soup twelve times!"

The stone monkey asked, "Can't she stop his husband?"

Ma Mian replied, "The lonely ghosts in the Lethe River cannot make a sound! And none of the ghosts walking on the bridge are willing to take a second look at the lonely ghosts in the Lethe River! She can only wait for her husband again and again, and watch him go away again and again. She only hopes to be married to him in a thousand years!"

The stone monkey looked at her eyes full of calm and happiness, and couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart. The same eyes, the stone monkey has also seen in the Five Dragon Girls. The stone monkey understood what that meant, so he didn't try to pursue the Five Dragon Maidens.

Ma Mian looked at the stone monkey's cherished expression, and asked: "Stone Monkey Daoyou, the reason why I mentioned her to you is that I hope you can meet the Emperor of Beiyin Xudu and ask the Emperor for her to intercede, so that she can do what she wishes as soon as possible!"

Niu Tou also pleaded out loud: "Our brothers have been hooking countless souls for seven hundred years, and she is the only one who can hold on to the Lechuan River for five hundred years for her husband! I begged the king of Yama, but the king of Yama had no choice. So now I can only beg the stone monkey Taoist friends!"

The stone monkey lifted the head of the ox and the horse that had saluted him, and promised them: "I will go to meet the Emperor of the Northern Yin Dynasty and intercede with the Emperor for her! ”

Hearing the stone monkey's promise, the bull head and the horse face thanked the stone monkey again.

The stone monkey took one last look at her, then turned around and walked towards the Nai He Bridge!

However, the bridge is a bluestone bridge deck, with five steps, across the Lechuan River, leading directly to the underworld. At the end of the bridge is an old woman who is boiling a pot of soup, stirring it back and forth with a spoon in the pot. On the other side of the old woman is Wangxiangtai.

Standing on the Nai He Bridge, you can have a panoramic view of Huangquan Road, Lichuan River and Wangxiang Terrace.

Walking on the Nai He Bridge, an inexplicable sadness slowly crept up in my heart, and I didn't know the so-called tears.

The stone monkey walked a few steps away from the bridge and came to the old woman.

Far away, Niu Tou shouted to the old woman, "Meng Po prepares a bowl of soup!"

Meng Po glanced at the ghost head gold medal in the stone monkey's hand, ignored the stone monkey, scooped a bowl of soup and handed it to the cow head.

The head of the bull fed the monkey ghost and drank it, and the monkey ghost immediately became stupid and stupid, and his eyes lost their brilliance.

The stone monkey smelled the smell of Meng Po soup in the pot, and only felt astringent and bitter, like the smell of tears.

Ma Mian pointed to Wangxiangtai and said to the stone monkey: "Do you want to go to Wangxiangtai to have a look?" ”

The stone monkey thought about it, although he didn't have a family in this life, he could also look at the people he cared about and see how they were doing.

Standing on the Wangxiang platform, the stone monkey first thought of the seventh junior brother of the boy in his heart. So, the stone monkey's gaze seemed to penetrate countless barriers and saw the seventh junior brother of the boy. Sure enough, as he expected, the seventh junior brother of Tong Zi was reading a book in the library.

Then the stone monkey thought of Xiao Jiu and Xiao Ten in his heart, so he saw Xiao Jiu and Xiao Shi. I saw two girls playing in the Dragon Palace, and the Dragon King of the East China Sea was dealing with official documents on the side. The stone monkey looked at it with a smile for a while.

After watching Xiao Jiu and Xiao Shi, the stone monkey left Wangxiangtai, but turned back again.

The stone monkey thought of the Five Dragon Maidens in his heart, and saw a small red dragon swimming in the spring......

Then we arrived at our destination: Sansheng Stone!

The stone monkey wants to see how his grandparents in his previous life are doing through the Sansheng Stone, but he just doesn't know if he can see it. After all, it is no longer in the same world, and it has been more than 300 years! But the stone monkey still has a glimmer of hope in his heart.

Sanshengshi is a reddish-brown sandstone six meters high and two meters wide, with clear wood grain grain and some black spots on the surface. But the most striking thing is that there are three ravines throughout the body, which seem to divide the three-life stone into three.

The stone monkey touched the Sansheng Stone and closed his eyes unconsciously......

It seems like the flood era, a woman who makes the stone monkey's heart feel kind is using loess to pinch out a small person, and every time a small person is pinched, she takes a grain of sand from the villain to count. Gradually, she pinched out more and more villains, and the sand used to count slowly piled up into a huge sand stone.

I don't know how long it took, but Sandstone seemed to have its own intelligence, and it wanted to fly into the sky. She hurriedly cast a spirit rune on Shashi's body, and the spirit rune turned into three ravines on Shashi's body. The sand and gravel fell from the sky to her side again.

She passed on a method called 'Three Lives Formula' and placed the sand and stone next to the Lechuan River.

Ever since Shashi had a memory, Shashi has known that his name is 'Sansheng Stone', and he is in charge of the marriage of all beings in three lifetimes, and he can see through the past, present and future lives of all beings.

A voice suddenly sounded in the heart of the stone monkey: "The multicolored stone left by Mother Mending the Sky gave birth to you, and Mother also created me when she created all things." It's a pleasure to meet you, brother!"

The stone monkey asked in his heart, "You are the Sansheng Stone, then can you let me see my past life?"

Sanshengshi said: "You have no past life, only this life. You have only this life, and there is no hereafter. ”

Hearing this, the last hope in the stone monkey's heart was shattered! I hope that all the people who cared about me and the people I cared about in the past will be well!

Seeing that the stone monkey didn't speak for a long time, Sanshengshi said again: "Brother, I am in charge of the marriage of the third generation of sentient beings, I don't know what you want for your own marriage?"

Calming down, the stone monkey replied, "Let it be! There is no need to force anything. ”

Sanshengshi responded, "That's fine! All demands are a source of pain." ”

The stone monkey opened his eyes, said goodbye to the Sansheng Stone, and walked over to the bull-headed horse waiting on the side.

The bull head asked the stone monkey curiously, "Stone monkey fellow, have you seen your past life and future life? No, I said the wrong thing again." You have attained the Fruit of Immortality, and you have no afterlife. ”

The stone monkey replied, "I didn't see it, so have you seen your past and future lives?"

Niu Tou said with a look of loss: "The underworld can't get close to the Sansheng Stone because of the officials, let alone contact the Sansheng Stone." So we haven't seen our past and future lives. ”

Ever since he drank Meng Po soup, the monkey ghost was like a rag puppet without a soul, and he was led by the head of the bull. Seeing this, the stone monkey couldn't help but ask curiously: "Is this what the ghosts look like after drinking Meng Po soup?

Ma Mian responded: "The ghosts are like this after drinking Meng Po soup, forgetting the memories of their previous lives, and their brains are blank. I've heard that the soup is made from the tears of ghosts! ”

The horse's voice grew lower and lower, and when it came to ghost tears, it was almost inaudible.

Seeing this, the stone monkey asked Ma Mian in a low voice, "Speaking of Meng Po soup, what do you brothers seem to be afraid of? Could it be that this Meng Po soup is a taboo in the underworld?"

Ma Mian said in a low voice: "Meng Po soup is not a taboo, Meng Po is the taboo of the underworld! When you see Meng Po, even the king of Yama must be respectful! Although no one in the underworld knows why, Judge Cui has sternly warned everyone not to be rude to Meng Po! The offender will be hit by eighteen layers of hell, so that he will never be able to turn over!"

Hearing this, the stone monkey couldn't help but look back at the ordinary-looking old woman, and didn't notice anything very powerful about her!

The stone monkey shook his head, no longer paying attention to Meng Po's question, and asked, "Where is the eighteenth layer of hell?"

A few people had already left Wangxiangtai far away while they were talking, and Niu Tou suddenly became active at this time, and said happily: "The eighteenth layer of hell is in the city of Xudu, suppressed by the Six Heavenly Palaces of Xudu Luotian, and guarded by the Emperor of the Northern Yin Dynasty. I heard that the King of Jizo Bodhisattva is also in hell, I wonder if it's true?"

It seems that the city of Xudu has gone to settle on its own, and the stone monkey really wants to see what the eighteenth layer of hell looks like.

At this time, Ma Mian pointed to a mountain range and a mountain peak in front of him and said: "In front are the Evil Dog Ridge and Jinji Mountain! ”

Standing in place and looking at the Vicious Dog Ridge, I saw bursts of dog sounds from time to time between the dead wood and strange rocks, and they came and went.

The stone monkey couldn't help but ask curiously, "There are so many dogs in this underworld?

Ma Mian explained: "The dogs of this evil dog ridge are used to distinguish between good and evil in front of ghosts, and to bite those ghosts who do evil in front of them! This is the first level of judging ghosts. So not all ghosts have a chance to be judged by King Yama. ”

The stone monkey couldn't help but ask: "Is Jinji Mountain full of golden chickens? It is also the second level of the ghost trial?"

Ma Mian nodded and replied, "Yes, Jinji Mountain is full of golden roosters, and the golden rooster is the second level to judge ghosts." And the golden rooster is also the only time tool in the underworld. The crowing of the golden rooster means that the world has entered the daytime, and the ghosts and ghosts in the underworld are about to get off work and rest. ”

Niu Tou interjected: "But this monkey ghost is a beast in front of him, and there is no good or evil in beasts, so it is all up to the monkey ghost to cross the Evil Dog Ridge and Jinji Mountain." If the vicious dog and the golden rooster are in a bad mood today, they will come forward to bite and peck at the monkey ghost, and our brothers can't stop it. That's why I want to borrow the ghost head gold medal of the stone monkey Taoist friend to suppress the evil dog and the golden rooster. And the ghost head gold medal in the wild ghost village behind is even better!"

"Wild ghost village?", the stone monkey asked, "There are also wild ghosts in the underworld, don't these wild ghosts need to be reincarnated?"

Ma Mian replied: "There are some ghosts who are just petty evils in front of them, and they have not committed any heinous sins, so they can barely pass through the Evil Dog Ridge and Jinji Mountain, but at this time their ghosts are already in tatters, either missing arms or legs, and even missing heads! ”

"Then what are these broken ghosts doing in the Wild Ghost Village, can they only stay in the Underworld forever?" the stone monkey continued.