The person who can forget a bowl of Meng Po soup is not important enough.
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one
"Girl, don't wait."
"Mother-in-law, he said he would marry me."
Still this sentence, Meng Po looked at the woman dressed in red in front of the Naihe Bridge, sighed, and did not say anything more.
The woman in red, named Lu Geyan, has been standing by the Meng Po Bridge for a hundred years, she said, waiting for her husband.
At that time, Lu Geyan was just a double decade, came to the underworld, looked extremely beautiful, but there was always a hint of sadness between her eyebrows.
Meng Po said to Lu Geyan as usual, as for all the souls who had gone to the underworld, "When you come, drink a bowl of soup and go again." ”
The soup in her hand was not taken away, Meng Po looked up at Lu Geyan more, only to see that she was a little hesitant and asked Meng Po: "Mother-in-law, has there ever been a man named Zhong Yi?" ”
Meng Po paused, did not answer, but asked back, "Who is he?" ”
"He's my husband."
Meng Po seemed to remember something, she sighed in her heart, and handed the soup to Lu Geyan again.
"So many people come here every day, how do I remember it?" Girl, you still drank the soup early and left. ”
"Mother-in-law, then I will not drink it first, I am afraid that he will not see me, he will be in a hurry." As she spoke, she seemed to remember something happy, and the corners of her mouth fluttered.
It can be seen that Lu Geyan was also a big lady before she was born, and her words and deeds were extremely educated. Meng Po looked at the woman in front of her and wanted to say something, but she didn't open the exit, so she also went with her.
two
Later, everyone who crossed the Meng Po Bridge saw a woman dressed in red standing in front of the Meng Po Bridge, not knowing what was waiting for.
"Mother-in-law, I have to wait, he said he was going to marry me." The woman's look was still as sweet and happy as ever, so that Meng Po did not know how to persuade.
"It's been ten years."
"This shows that he is living well, then I should wait even more, if he can't see me, he will be in a hurry." The woman's cheerful tone seemed to bring a little anger to this silent underworld, but it was also a little out of place.
"Girl, why don't you just have a bridge?" Again, people who don't know why are asking.
In the past ten years, there have always been people who wonder why a good girl does not enter the cycle of reincarnation.
"I'm waiting for someone, I'm waiting for my husband, we have a very good relationship, he said he will marry me in the next life." 」 Whenever she heard someone ask, she would seriously explain it to them.
Gradually, everyone else also knew that this Lu girl was originally a lady of everyone, but she liked the jianghu teenager. The teenager treated her very well, always pampering her, pulling her hair and drawing her eyebrows. Unfortunately, the good times were not long, the country was in turmoil, and her husband went to war, and later, they never saw each other again.
Ten years and ten years, the ghosts of the people who crossed the Naihe Bridge knew that there was a girl in red waiting for her husband in front of the Naihe Bridge, and her surname was Lu.
No one asked why Lu Geyan did not enter the reincarnation, and Lu Geyan did not mention it all the time.
The only constant is Meng Po's annual sentence, "Girl, don't wait." ”
three
Fifty years later, Lu Geyan is still dressed in red, standing in front of the NaiHe Bridge, she still has not waited for her husband. The difference is that the girl who once had a little sadness but was full of joy when she mentioned her husband was gone.
She still did not want to drink Meng Po soup, nor did she enter the reincarnation.
"Mother-in-law," Lu Geyan's tone was no longer happy and joyful, she asked with a bit of loneliness, "you say, why hasn't he come yet?" ”
"Girl, do you have to wait?"
"Naturally, Xu is... Maybe it's his longevity. In her words, it was the uncertainty she herself could feel.
Time passed like a white colt, and in the blink of an eye, it had been seventy years since she had come to the underworld, and the girl in red was still standing there quietly.
"Girl, don't you have the answer in your heart?" What are you waiting for? Meng Po looked at Lu Geyan and asked unbearably.
"Wait a word of sorry, wait for an explanation." Lu Geyan replied in a calm tone.
From her face, I could no longer see what she had been like that year. When she said this, there was no resentment, no sadness, and no expectation on her face, as if the person who had waited for seventy years in vain was not her.
People come and go by the Meng Po Bridge, the flowers on the other side also bloom and thank you, thank you and open, Meng Po still says "don't wait" every year, and it is ultimately useless, so far, it has been a hundred years of flowering.
Until this day --
"Mother-in-law, is there any soup?"
"Yes."
Meng Po looked at Lu Ge Yan and drank Meng Po soup, thinking that she could not afford to wait in the end, but she did not think that the quiet girl had done a big thing that turned the world upside down.
Lu Geyan secretly poured the Meng Po soup, pretended to have forgotten the previous dust, crossed the Meng Po Bridge, but was still discovered.
She made a big fuss about Santu Chuan, her red clothes were stained with blood, and she couldn't tell whether it was red clothes or blood red, but she didn't fall down, unwilling to go back with them.
No, this commotion actually alarmed Bodhi.
Bodhi looked at the scaly woman, and her eyes revealed a little compassion.
"What are you looking for?"
"He said, if I die and marry in the next life, I can't wait."
shop
She still returned to the human world.
At the price of not being able to enter the cycle of reincarnation for a thousand years and being a thousand-year ferryman under the NaiHe Bridge, in exchange for returning to the human world for Three months.
She crossed the lake embankment, walked over the top of the mountain, sleeplessly, and finally found him in a village on the banks of the small river.
He got married.
She should have thought about it a long time ago, she was suddenly in a trance, and only then did she clearly feel that there had been a hundred years between him and her, and people and ghosts had passed.
She watched them worship and become relatives, she watched them concubines, she watched him make a vow, she looked at the pity in the corner of her eyes...
She trance-like remembered her past lives, and so did they.
After all, she still couldn't hear a word of sorry, and she couldn't wait for the explanation she wanted, their past was already a cloud of smoke.
She floated in the world, suddenly not knowing where to go.
She watched the people coming and going, and listened to a song of acacia, as if she suddenly understood something.
She returned to Bodhi Buddha and told her story of all kinds in the human world, without sorrow or joy.
He said that in the next life, he would ride a white horse and wear a red coat, and marry me as he had done in the past. However, I couldn't wait. Then he forgot about me and married another woman. The funny thing is that the people I wait for have long been different. ”
"Pouring Meng Po soup privately and making a big fuss about Santu Chuan, have you ever exchanged what you wanted?"
"Everything goes with the flow, and you can get comfortable."
The Buddha said that everything is delusional, and letting go is also a condition.
So, Meng Po saw the woman in red walking towards her again, as if the quiet girl of a hundred years ago had returned.
She said, "Mother-in-law, is there still soup?" ”
Lu Geyan took up half a bowl of Meng Po soup, and she seemed to see the teenager who had once been——
"Madam, let me help you pull your hair in a bun, I just learned it."
"Madam, in the next life you will remember to wait for me, and I will marry you."
"Madam, the country is in turmoil, and it is incumbent upon the boy to kill the enemy when he is in the battle."
"Madame, you wait for me to come back, and we will go to a small village together, just the two of us."
……
five
She did not cry when she was found in the human world; she did not cry when she saw him happily married; she did not cry when she returned to the Buddha to tell the story of the human world; but now she suddenly wanted to cry.
She did not hesitate any longer, looked up and drank the Meng Po soup.
"Mother-in-law, how I have shed tears, I still want to cry."
This time, she really forgot.
"Mother-in-law, let's have another bowl, I always feel that I should drink two bowls."
Hearing this, Meng Po's stirring action paused, and she filled her with a bowl of soup, and she should have drunk two bowls, and the bowl that she had not drunk a hundred years ago would drink it now.
It's just that Meng Po was a little confused, she still didn't hold back, and asked while serving the soup: "Don't you want to know about your life?" ”
"My mother-in-law said with a smile, why should I know something that makes me unhappy." Besides, how important is it for a person who can forget a bowl of Meng Po soup? ”
After saying that, she took the second bowl of Meng Po soup and drank it. Thanking Meng Po, he crossed the NaiHe Bridge and never looked back.
Meng Po looked at the red back on the bridge and remembered that a hundred years ago, there was also a young man and others, that is, a general. However, he only waited for two years.
I can't tell whether it is fate that makes people, or whether she has mistakenly paid for her infatuation, and since ancient times, she has always been red-faced and short-lived, and her love is not long-lived.
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