At the highest place in the underworld, there is a very long river, stretching for tens of thousands of miles, with no head or tail. The souls who go there can be reincarnated as humans as long as they jump into this river. Returning to the mortal world again, this river is called the Wangchuan River.
Both sides of the river are covered with beautiful red flowers. They bloom for a thousand years and fall for a thousand years. The flowers and leaves cannot see each other. This flower is called the other side flower.
There is a bridge deep in the sea of ??flowers, called Naihe Bridge. There is an earth platform arched high on the bridge, called Wangxiang Platform. There is a beautiful woman on the platform. The ghosts in the past call her "Meng Po".
She has been stationed here for some time, cooking soup called "Meng Po Soup" with Wangchuan water, and selling it to the reincarnated souls, so that they can forget their past lives and go to reincarnation. Being a human being
She is also in charge of a three-life stone, which records the past and present lives of all living beings. There were souls who were thinking about people in the world, so they kindly let them take a look and put their worries aside so that they could be reincarnated
Po Meng welcomed batches of souls and left behind a token that could not be taken away. In exchange for the money for Meng Po Tang
The "business" here is very good every day. Sometimes it is too busy, so I ask the day and night gods on Huangquan Road to help take care of it
Today, It had been a busy day, and at this time, Po Meng was still welcoming her "guest", an old woman with gray hair, listening to her talk about her past.
In fact, Po Meng doesn’t need to listen to it. It’s just about joys and sorrows, separation and reunion, death and rebirth. She has been in the underworld for thousands of years and has already seen everything clearly. However, there were some souls who couldn't finish talking about their own affairs and were unwilling to reincarnate. They would stay for a while and talk to themselves. When there was nothing more to say, they went on their own
The old woman was still there As she spoke, Meng Po listened to her talk: "I have worked hard all my life. In the first half of my life, my family was poor. For the sake of my brother's marriage, my parents married me to a lame man as his wife in exchange for his sister. She was given to my brother as his wife. Fortunately, my husband's family's financial situation was better than that of my mother's family, and the two of us were living a normal life. However, my husband died prematurely, leaving me alone to raise a pair of children, work, and take care of children. Shit, he had no way to speak out when he was bullied, so he had to endure it alone, and finally raised his children and enjoyed a happy life, but fell ill and died unexpectedly, and lived a miserable life just to be born into a good family in the next life. , Just don’t work so hard.”
After hearing this, Po Meng didn’t say a word. She just scooped out a bowl of soup from the side and handed it to the old woman and said, “I used the gold hairpin in your hair to exchange for this. After drinking the soup, walk to the end of the bridge and jump into the Wangchuan River, and you will be free from worries and reincarnated as a human being."
The old woman looked at the bowl of soup, but did not want to take it. The meaning in the past was just a vague statement: "Sir, in my life, except for my two children, I have nothing to worry about..."
"This is simple, you only need to look at this stone" Po Meng waved her hand and pointed to the Sansheng Stone on the balcony: "You will know everything they have in the world."
As soon as she finished speaking, the stone was already covered with countless changes. Life is over
After seeing this, the old lady just stood there blankly, with a lot of thoughts
"You gave me the gold hairpin, drank the soup, and left quickly. Go ahead, your children and grandchildren will have their own blessings, and there is nothing you can do about it."
After hearing this, the old woman sighed deeply and pulled out the golden hairpin from her hair: "My son gave it to me. Hairpin, this is also the most expensive jewelry in my life..." The old lady couldn't bear to say any more, and pushed the gold hairpin into Po Meng's hand, took Po Meng's soup and drank it in one gulp.
Meng Po looked at the golden hairpin leisurely, then watched the old woman drink the soup, and slowly said: "What does this soup taste like?"
The old lady frowned. , said: "Bitter"
"Oh!" Meng Po nodded lonely: "Some people say that this soup is bitter and sweet, because he has tasted all the bitterness in the world, so this bitter It’s actually sweet to him! Forget it, just go forward. When you reach the end of the bridge, you will forget everything and jump into the river, and you will be a human again!”
Old woman! After hearing this, he looked back at the stone again, as if he was reluctant to leave it, but he still walked slowly towards the end of the bridge...
When he arrived at the end of the bridge, the effect of Meng Po Tang should have taken effect. The woman seemed to have changed her appearance. She no longer looked sad, but she was much more energetic and refreshed. She jumped into the vast Wangchuan River and disappeared without a trace
After the old woman left , Meng Po threw the bowl casually, with a "bump", it fell to the ground and shattered, and instantly turned into dust. When the wind blew by the Wangchuan River, it turned into mud by the Wangchuan River. And what about the gold hairpin? Po Meng had long been thrown down by the river and turned into a flower on the other side
Another middle-aged man appeared on the Yellow River Road. The man seemed to have some sense of character, so he came here and looked around all the way. It didn't look like he was reincarnated. It seemed like he was traveling
Po Meng sat down indifferently. She had been tired for a long time and needed to take a rest
The man stopped and walked all the way, and finally arrived. In front of Po Meng, when the man saw Po Meng, he bowed his hands respectfully: "But Po Meng?"
Po Meng looked up, didn't pay much attention, and just nodded.
Then he stood up, pulled out a bowl with his hand, and filled the soup with him as he said: "If you have any concerns or anything you want to ask, you can tell me."
The man made up his mind. , as if thinking, after thinking for a while, he said: "I have no unresolved concerns in this life, and I have nothing to say. There is just one thing. I just want to ask, am I still a good person in this life?"
Mrs. Meng tilted her head, a little confused: "What is a bad person?" The hand holding the bowl was a little sour, so she took it back: "There are eighteen levels of hell, and countless people with no conscience are locked in each level. Human beings are exposed to mountains of swords, seas of fire, countless sufferings, and reincarnation is also in the animal realm.