The Dog King of Siheyuan Tears and Rebirth

In the 21st century, one night, it was snowing heavily and the north wind was blowing fiercely.

In Sijiu City, under a bridge, several wild dogs were not afraid of the bad weather at all. They were starving and had fierce looks in their eyes. They spread out in a V-shaped formation and surrounded a man in his seventies.

The old man was waving his right hand with a look of grief and anger on his face, trying to drive the wild dog away.

But how could the hungry wild dogs give up this delicious midnight snack? Just when the old man had just taken a nap, the leading dog king seized the opportunity, pounced on and bit the old man's right hand. Then the remaining wild dogs all pounced on him and started biting him madly.

"Forget it, forget it, I deserve it, haha! I've been a dog all my life and now it's my fate to be fed to dogs." The old man smiled bitterly and gave up resisting.

At the moment of life and death, helplessness, resentment, self-mockery and regret filled his heart.

It was dawn, and when the sun came out, the soul of the Dog King disappeared from the world, drifting away from this world that he loved and hated but no longer belonged to him.

The Dog King floated all the way to the land temple. In the temple, the land god who was guarding the gate cancelled his household registration in the human world and told him that it was said that the road in the human world was difficult to walk, but the road in the underworld was even more difficult. Next, he had to go through seventeen levels. In these seventeen levels, he had to experience torture and tests of his soul and ghost body. Only after going through these could he be reborn as a human being.

"Go, people often say that life is not easy, but who knows that death is not easy either!" said the God of Land.

The Dog King drifted along the way and unknowingly arrived at the Ghost Gate and reported. At the Ghost Gate, no one was asked who the visitor was and they would be beaten 100 times before being allowed to pass.

The numb dog king was hit with a hundred sticks without feeling anything. At this time, his heart was full of regret and hatred, and he didn't feel the pain of his body at all.

Then the Dog King came to the Yellow Springs Road, looking at the bright red red spider lilies on the roadside, the Dog King's heart ached. It was said that when the red spider lilies bloomed, the leaves disappeared, and the leaves appeared only after the flowers fell. "Haha, flowers and leaves don't want to see each other? How much like Lou Xiao'e and I! We will never see each other again in this life. And to my son who I cheated, I'm sorry. If there is really an afterlife, I will never let you down again!" The Dog King said to himself with tears streaming down his face.

In this way, the Dog King passed another level and came to the Wangxiang Terrace. On the Wangxiang Terrace, the Dog King took a deep look at the place where he once lived, and thought of the people and things there, "Haha, you are all living well! Qin Huairu, Banggeng, Xiaodang, Huaihua, you are really happy...but I..." The Dog King said hatefully.

At this time, the Dog King felt really miserable, and the misery in his heart was much worse than the hundred blows.

Beside the Three Lives Stone, the Dog King saw his past, present and future lives.

"Hahahahahaha, in my next life, will I be a bootlicker again? God, can you let me be a normal person? The kind with my own love and family? And my own children, even if they are livestock!" Seeing his next life, the Dog King cried and cried blood.

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Soon, the Dog King crossed the Evil Dog Ridge, passed through the Golden Rooster Mountain, was teased by the wild ghosts in the Wild Ghost Village, and then came to the underworld.

Along the way, the Dog King experienced extremely miserable mental torture, and finally came to the Naihe Bridge numbly.

He knew that here he would drink a bowl of Meng Po soup and then be reborn as a bootlicker, but he was unwilling to do so and did not want to. He would rather be reincarnated as an animal.

"Young man, come on! Drink the soup. Drink a bowl of Mengpo soup that I, an old woman, cooked. After drinking this soup, all past events will be forgotten. Come on, drink it! After drinking it, you will be able to let go of all love, hatred, and grudges, and enter the next reincarnation."

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On the Naihe Bridge, an old woman handed over a bowl of soup with a pair of dry hands, muttering over and over in a hoarse voice.

"Will you really forget?" the Dog King asked doubtfully.

Confused, the Dog King took the soup and drank it in a daze.

As soon as I took a bite, the sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty flavors all flooded into my heart in an instant.

"Old woman, I can't forget. I can't forget the hatred in this life, nor can I forget the people I owe. Give me another bowl!" said the Dog King miserably.

"profound?"

After a cry of "Oh", Meng Po handed over another bowl.

Just like that, bowl after bowl, the water in the Forgotten River dropped at a speed visible to the naked eye, but the Dog King still kept saying that he could not forget.

"Strange? Young man, stop drinking. If you drink any more water from the Wangchuan River, it will be drunk dry by you. Come, sit down and tell me your story slowly!" said Meng Po.

So the Dog King began to talk in a rambling manner, from the time he could remember to the time when he was dismembered by wild dogs. He talked for three days and three nights and finally finished his story.

"Oh! The most complicated thing in the world is the human heart. Old woman, I feel sorry for you, so I will tell you my story!" said Meng Po.

So, Meng Po also began to tell her story.

It turns out that Meng Po and Yue Lao had a tragic love story. Later, for various reasons, Yue Lao left Meng Po. After the breakup, Meng Po was heartbroken and committed suicide by jumping into the river.

When she arrived in the underworld, Meng Po begged the King of Hell not to erase her memory and not to reincarnate. In return, she would work for the underworld forever, and the King of Hell agreed.

Because Meng Po suffered from emotional torture herself, she didn't want the infatuated men and women in the world to be unable to let go of their love, hatred and grudges after death, so she collected tears of joy, anger, sorrow and happiness and added them to the water of the Wangchuan River to make Meng Po Soup.

Just by drinking the soup she made, one could forget all love, hate, and emotions, and easily reincarnate as a human being.

However, today her soup failed to work, the water level of the Forgotten River dropped, but the young man still could not forget the past.

"Oh! I originally thought that I was the only one in heaven and on earth who could not forget everything, but it turns out that someone has more regrets in his heart than me. Forget it, young man, since you can't forget, you can't cross the Naihe Bridge, and you can't reincarnate. So, since you and I are both miserable people, I will use up a little of my magic power to send you to rebirth!" Meng Po said sympathetically.

"Can I? Can I relive the life I just passed?" the Dog King asked excitedly.

"Yes, or will you guard the Naihe Bridge with me? I don't want you to accompany me to guard the bridge, but this is to escape the six reincarnations. In addition to consuming my magic power, I have to give you a magic weapon." Meng Po said.

"What magic weapon?"

"Qiankun Buckle, this is a token of love given to me by Yue Lao. Alas! Things have changed. He is matching people in the human world, while I am making people forget their love and hatred by the Naihe Bridge. Well, I'll give it to you. Maybe this is fate. Remember this jade buckle can accommodate everything, and I will implant the mantra into your soul." Meng Po said.

"Thank you!" The Dog King knelt down deeply and bowed.

"Don't accommodate others when you live your life again. Live your life according to your own ideas. It doesn't matter even if you fall into the animal realm in the future, as long as you have no regrets. I don't want to see you and forget you again." Meng Po said.

After saying this, Meng Po muttered something, and in an instant, the Dog King was put into the Qiankun Buckle and disappeared at the end of the bridge.

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