Meng Po moved back to the dormitory
Tian Baozhu was stunned. She couldn't imagine who else lived in this dormitory and called her "sister". Could it be a ghost?
In the dead of night, there was a hurried knock on the door, and an unfamiliar little girl's voice called her sister as if she were an acquaintance.
She had seen many ghosts, but there had never been a moment like this that made her hair stand on end and she had hallucinations of scenes from some horror movies.
"Sister, open the door. I am Meng Po."
Meng Po? The person outside the door actually said she was Meng Po? Meng Po was a mature woman with a cold and proud demeanor, but at this moment, the voice outside the door was that of a little girl. She heard it clearly.
Tian Baozhu reached into the hidden space and hid the shrunken rake in her hand.
She opened the door a little and observed the situation outside calmly.
Unexpectedly, a figure reacted faster than Tian Baozhu, and suddenly rushed through the door and pounced on her.
"Thank you, sister. Just as you said, you've eliminated the peeping eyeball. I can finally have a good night's sleep tonight."
A little girl hugged her very excitedly.
What a passionate little girl, what a strange situation.
She was clearly talking about things only Meng Po would know, but the person holding Tian Baozhu in front of her was a cute and sweet little girl with twin pigtails. Her face didn't have the paleness common among the inhabitants of the underworld, but was instead pink and tender, incredibly cute, like a bright red and juicy peach.
"You are also called Meng Po? Is there another Meng Po in the underworld?"
"Yes, I am Meng Po. There is only one Meng Po in the whole underworld, and that is me, sister." She took a step back, but still held Tian Baozhu's hand so that she could see herself clearly.
"Isn't Meng Po a mature woman dressed in black, wearing a long cape and having a high and cold voice?"
"Haha, that one." The little girl laughed. Suddenly, a person in a black cloak appeared from behind her. She appeared so quickly that the cloak on her head swayed and fell off, revealing a pale and wooden face.
"Meng Po!" Tian Baozhu couldn't help but shout. Yes, this was the Meng Po that Tian Baozhu was familiar with.
"This is just my substitute. I am the real Meng Po."
Seeing Tian Baozhu's confused expression, the little girl who called herself Meng Po pouted and looked a little unhappy.
"Sister, you still don't recognize me, and you still don't trust me? Then... Bai Wuchang, do you remember that I promised to lend you the red spider lily seeds?"
The innocent and crisp voice suddenly turned into a lazy and cold mature female voice.
"Remember!" Tian Baozhu answered her. This was something only Meng Po herself would know.
"Oh, you believe this, don't you?"
What's going on? Tian Baozhu was shocked, but she slowly sorted things out and seemed to have grasped the answer. "That is, the image of Meng Po we usually see is actually your disguise."
"Sister is really smart, she saw it right away, yes~"
"Haha..." Tian Baozhu smiled awkwardly. She was not smart, but the facts were right in front of her. Once she recognized the reality, she would accept it quickly.
Just like she drowned in a cesspool while trying to save a child, she accepted it quickly.
By the way, it turns out that the running little girl seen in the wind and sand after Meng Po left that day was not Tian Baozhu's hallucination. The little girl was Meng Po herself.
"Master Mengpo, is it okay for you to show me your true form now?"
"Sister, you're so kind! You're still willing to call me 'Adult' after seeing my true form. Those employees of the underworld who judge people by appearance should really learn from you. When I first came here, they looked down on me because of my child-like true form. Later, after I made this cloak, they became afraid of me. But sister, please don't call me 'Adult' anymore. It's so distant. Just call me Meng Po."
After Meng Po revealed her true form, she became more talkative than before. Tian Baozhu couldn't get used to this lively Meng Po for a while. In her impression, Meng Po was still that arrogant and aloof person. Meng Po hadn't revealed her true form and spoken for many years. She must have been holding it in for a long time.
"So you're worried that your appearance won't convince others? Meng Po, there's a huge contrast between your stand-in and you."
"Actually, my stand-in looks just like me."
"Huh? What does this mean?"
Tian Baozhu didn't understand, but when she saw Meng Po suddenly fall silent, she thought, everyone has secrets in their hearts that they don't want to tell, and she has some too.
"Sorry, I won't ask if you don't want to."
"Sister, have you ever been in love?"
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Unexpectedly, Meng Po brought up this topic. Suddenly being asked this question by a child much younger than herself, Tian Baozhu blushed. How should she respond? If she said yes, that certainly wouldn't be realistic, but if she said no, she felt guilty...
The true form of Meng Po's child looked at her mischievously, and Tian Baozhu felt her heart brightened. She shouldn't hide herself.
It’s just that I’ve never been in a relationship and have no experience in love. Why are you afraid of being laughed at?
She chose to tell the truth, saying it was wrong to laugh at her talent because she was inexperienced. She said:
"I've never been in a relationship, but I've met many couples who have great relationships. I believe there is true love in the world."
"Sister, people who haven't been in this game don't know the pain involved. They can only swallow it. I loved that guy so much back then, but he kicked me out, divorced me, and married someone new."
"Divorce? Child marriage? He's worse than an animal!"
Tian Baozhu felt chilled to the bone that such a young girl had been deceived.
"No, we were childhood sweethearts of the same age. When we were young, we promised to spend our lives together. We made a promise and bowed to heaven and earth as witnesses. He never married me in a formal ceremony. After we became adults, he moved far away. Later, I only heard about his marriage from people in the same village.
"I thought if I knelt in front of his door and begged them, they would tell me where he was. But his family said I was wishful thinking and eventually moved away. I contracted pneumonia from kneeling and begging every day. I was so disheartened that I made a bowl of forgetfulness soup to help me forget all worldly ties, but my body was already broken by then, and I died after drinking it.
"The person who was left behind has never been cared about by anyone. If he wants to leave or change his heart, just tell me face to face. I won't pester him. I just can't accept him leaving without saying goodbye. How could I fall in love with such a coward? I wish I had never met him."
In Meng Po's narration, Tian Baozhu saw the condensed life of a woman trapped in love.
The predecessor of Mengpo Soup is actually "Forgetfulness Soup".
"So your true form now is what you looked like when you were younger, right?"
"Yes, the me before I made an engagement with him is the me I most want to remain."
"I'm sorry for bringing up sad memories for you."
Meng Po shook her head, without a trace of emotion in her eyes.
"I don't feel anything anymore. That was all a fleeting experience in my past. Now, I've drunk the forgetfulness potion and been reborn."
"Meng Po, have you ever thought about reincarnation?"
"The world brings me nothing but boredom and disappointment. Anyway, my final destination is the underworld. I don't want to struggle any longer. Fortunately, the King of Hell has given me this job."
"When the Ghost Gate opened that day, I saw many more people being reincarnated, but you, Mengpo, are very efficient at your work."
"It could have been higher. Humph, there are always some bad guys who don't follow the rules. It's giving me a headache."
Meng Po seemed to have finally caught someone to listen to her complaints, and she said incessantly:
"They damaged the planks of the Naihe Bridge, leaving them worn and rotten. Ghosts that could have been reincarnated were squeezed under the bridge by them. Do you know what happens to ghosts that fall into the Wangchuan River?"
"What will happen?"
"There will never be reincarnation."
"Forever?!" Tian Baozhu gasped unconsciously, "Is it that serious?"
No wonder Hei Wuchang reacted so strongly to the dereliction of duty of the unicorn employee. As a ghost catcher, he must have witnessed ghosts falling into the Wangchuan River, right?
"And those who cut in line just to be reborn quickly also bother me."
Tian Baozhu was startled when she heard the word "queue jumping". Why did it feel like Meng Po was pointing at me...
"Actually, when I went to look for you that day, I almost got reincarnated accidentally. Although it was unintentional, I accidentally cut in line. I'm sorry." Tian Baozhu decided to speak out and repent.
Although Hei Wuchang was the instigator of this incident and came up with a "bad idea" to make her reincarnate quickly, Tian Baozhu did not want to explain it in too much detail, as she was afraid that Meng Po would blame Hei Wuchang.
"Those people can't, but my sister can."
"I'm happy that you're defending me, but you have to treat ghosts equally."
"Humph, they are all opportunists who don't follow the rules. I hate those kind of people who cut in line the most!
"If we're going to the human world, then of course it would be only good people like my sister who go. That way, there will be more good people in the human world, and all the bad ones should stay in the underworld, just like that peeping demon, being hammered and cut into pieces in purgatory."
Meng Po is worthy of being a person from the underworld. Her love and hate are clearly defined, and both sides are very extreme. There is no middle ground.
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The two girls were chatting happily, but they didn't forget their business. Meng Po asked Tian Baozhu to go to her room and look for the red spider lily seeds.
Tian Baozhu said, "Let's go tell Hei Wuchang too." Meng Po said, "Then wait until I change my clothes before showing them to others."
Meng Po naturally opened her arms, "Come out!", and the substitute immediately appeared behind her. She also had her own hiding space.
The stand-in is a puppet. Under Meng Po's control, she bends down and lets the puppet sit on her shoulders. Then she waves her hand and puts on a wide cloak. It is impossible to tell that there is another person inside the cloak. Meng Po's disguise hides her true identity very well, which is why she has always been regarded as mysterious.
Tian Baozhu originally wanted to ask Hei Wuchang to come along, but he was an orthodox person and would not enter a girl's room casually. Thinking of this, she knocked on the door and told him.
The Black Impermanence in the room replied briefly: "I understand."
In the end, Tian Baozhu followed Meng Po down the sixteenth floor alone.
As they walked downstairs, Meng Po chatted with Tian Baozhu: "Sister, I didn't expect that you and that Black Impermanence could actually have a conversation and even discuss something."
Tian Baozhu said: "Although he is a quiet person, he cooperates with me in our work. We are ghost police partners, so we should cooperate with each other and share information."
Tian Baozhu thought of the rumor that the Black and White Impermanence were not in harmony.
She asked, "Meng Po, I want to know how the rumor about the Black and White Impermanence not getting along came about?"
"It's not just a rumor. There's real evidence. I've seen it myself. The Black and White Impermanence act separately. When you see the White Impermanence, you don't see the Black Impermanence; and when you see the Black Impermanence, the White Impermanence isn't there either. Don't you think this proves they're incompatible?"
"This is totally unexpected... I thought Heibai Wuchang were just work partners on missions together..." She had even thought Heibai Wuchang wanted to kick her out because he wanted to work with the old Bai Wuchang and didn't want to take over and train the newcomer. But she hadn't expected that Heibai Wuchang was actually dissatisfied with Bai Wuchang? Was this true, old or new?
"Hei Wuchang is the 99th generation. They change so quickly that they can't build up a good working relationship with Bai Wuchang."
Meng Po's words finally woke Tian Baozhu up, "Why is it that I am the second generation of Bai Wuchang, but Hei Wuchang has already had ninety-nine generations?"
"I don't know about that, sister. Perhaps you can find out by asking him himself."
"Ask the person himself...?"
Tian Baozhu was thinking about this possibility when Meng Po, who had already walked to the door of the sixteenth floor, called out to her:
"Sister, come in."
They entered Meng Po's room.
Meng Po's house was a mess. It was a small room to begin with, piled with notes and books, and stuffed with many herbs needed to make Meng Po soup, making it even more cramped.
Tian Baozhu picked up something and asked Meng Po, "What is this?"
Meng Po thought for a while and said, "I don't remember."
Tian Baozhu was embarrassed. "Isn't this room filled with things you've used for years? Don't you remember?"
Meng Po said, "The ingredients used in Meng Po soup have the effect of amnesia. For a long time, when I went to collect herbs, or smelled the scent of Meng Po soup, I would have some amnesia."
Tian Baozhu was secretly shocked. Is this considered a work-related injury? "Is it not a big deal? If you forget something, it will really affect your life."
"Forget it, then forget it. We've experienced so many things in life. If you remember every detail, it will cause you unbearable pain. If you forget it, it means it's not important. If you can't remember it later, forget it. Besides, I still have my notes here, which are better than remembering it in my head."
"You're right. Where do you put the seeds?"
"Where are the seeds? I need to think about this."
Well...it's better not to forget everything.
"There's so much stuff. I remember I put the seeds in this area. Let me look for them."
Meng Po was rummaging through a pile of items, and Tian Baozhu also helped her find seeds. Two people are faster than one.
Meng Po's disguised substitute looks neat and serious in appearance, and so does her work attitude, but her room is a mess with all kinds of things placed here and there. But according to her own words, this is order in chaos.
In order to find the seeds for tomorrow, this is destined to be another sleepless night.
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