The Transparent mesa of Yimeng Seventy Two mesas. There is a cave at the top of the mesa, and at one end of the cave, you can see through to the sky at the other end. Regarding it, there is a beautiful legend about Er Lang Shen （二郎神） helping mortals.
Long, long ago, in the Yi Meng mesas, there were two families. One lived in front of the mesa and was surnamed Wang, while the other lived behind the mesa and was surnamed Zhao. Both families were very poor.
One year, both families had a new baby on the same day. The Wang family had a daughter named Shuixiu, and the Zhao family had a son named Shanming.
The two families visited each other often and had a good relationship, so the elders decided to make a marriage contract between them.
When the children grew up to be sixteen or seventeen years old, the Wang family started doing business and became rich, while the Zhao family remained poor.
The Wang family began to look down on the Zhao family and didn’t want to marry Shuixiu to Shanming anymore.
But since there was already a marriage contract between the two families, the Wang family was embarrassed to say they wanted to break it and tried to find an excuse.
Shuixiu and Shanming had been close since childhood and loved each other even more when they grew up.
Shanming’s father saw how much the children loved each other and wanted to engage them early.
He brought gifts to the Wang family to discuss the marriage, but was bullied by them. They demanded that a tunnel be dug within three days before they would marry their daughter.
Shanming’s father thought it was impossible and returned home feeling humiliated.
Shanming was very sad when he heard the news and wanted to kill himself. Fortunately, Er Lang Shen of the Second Heaven passed by, heard his cries, and decided to help him.
Er Lang Shen of the Second Heaven used his pole to make a big hole in the middle of the mesa, creating a shortcut from the Zhao family’s home to the Wang family’s.
The Wang family had no choice but to marry Shuixiu to Shanming.
From then on, Shanming did business and Shuixiu took care of the household. Their life got better and better.
Er Lang God of the Second Heaven angered the Jade Emperor by helping the people, and his pole was taken back to heaven. But the mesa remained there, and people called it “Transparent mesa.”
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