Meng Po's Soup

He asked, “Heaven has taken pity on you. Do you have a wish?”

She replied, “I only hope to see him again.”

He said, “He still has years left to live. If you wait for him, one day on earth will be a thousand years in the underworld.”

She said, “I’m willing to wait for him, for a thousand autumns and ten thousand generations.”

He said, “Why can’t you see through this word, love? You are like this, and so is he. Very well. From this day forth, you will be the one to erase the word love.”

And so, in the underworld, beside the Bridge of Helplessness, there appeared a woman tending a great pot of soup. The soup smelled wonderful, and could make people forget their past lives. Everyone called it Meng Po Soup, and the woman became Meng Po.

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