On October 8, 2008, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the landscape of the ruins of "Yuwang Pavilion" in the suburbs of a small city in Shandong, Shandong.

In the bamboo forest behind the palace of King Yu, a young man wearing a peaked hat took his girlfriend and walked to the side hall where the unearthed cultural relics were displayed.

Not far behind them, Wu Ya grabbed a bamboo leaf and complained to the people around her with a resentful face: "Captain." How can you do this, those two are our own people, why didn't you tell me earlier!"

"Haha, Wu Ya, you didn't ask me. However, yes, your observation skills are still very good, and it is a success to be able to find our own people. ”

"Then that fake monk over there is also one of our people?"

"No, that's not. According to the clues collected so far, there is an 80% chance that this monk has been in contact with our target. ”

"Really, do you want to keep an eye on him?"

"No, there are other brothers to do this kind of thing, you better follow me first. Let's go, let's go and see the real Dayu water control site. ”

As the captain spoke, he turned around and bent his arm, Wu Ya reluctantly went over to hold him, and the two walked backwards.

All the way to the back door of the renovated Yuwang Palace, after each person paid ten yuan, crossed the threshold to the outside, and the first thing that caught his eye was a small dirt slope thirty or forty meters high.

On this side of the palace of King Yu, there is a ten-meter-wide steep stone staircase that has been artificially corrected, and the steps lead straight to a pavilion at the top of the soil slope.

And at the foot of the dirt slope, next to the stone steps. There is a stone tablet erected there, and the words "Yuwang Pavilion Ruins" are engraved with the dragon flying and the phoenix dancing.

Wu Ya curiously reached out and touched the stele, and couldn't help but turn her head sideways and ask: "Captain, is such a small dirt slope, is the place where King Yu ruled the water thousands of years ago?"

"Yes, legend has it that Dayu has been controlling the water for thirteen years, and he has been here for three years. ”

"Really?"

"Of course it's true. Legend has it that King Yu was ordered by Emperor Shun to take over his father Kun to manage the Yellow River floods, at first he did not think about how to govern, he could only go to the place where his father walked to check the current situation of governance. When he came here. Just in time for the pouring rain. The water level of the Yellow River has skyrocketed. The embankment that Kun had built before to block the flood jumped instantly, and the surging river hit, and King Yu could only take his retinue to find a place to take refuge.

In the midst of the panic, they came to a high ground. And King Yu just stood on the top of the high ground. The flood that pursued them split in two in an instant. Skirting the heights and flowing in both directions. King Yu looked at the river flowing under his feet, and found that the water gushed out of the river bank and diverted under his feet. Then it flows again along the naturally formed ditches below the high ground. In an instant, he thought of the truth that it is better to sparse than to block the flood.

So he asked someone to bring a rough map and sketch on it, looking for a place to regulate. When the flood had passed, he immediately gathered men to dig an artificial channel in accordance with the ditch at the foot of the high slope where he had taken refuge. In order to be able to command the progress of the project at any time, King Yu ordered someone to pick up a pavilion on the high slope, so that he could command condescendingly. Yuwang Pavilion came from this. ”

"Uh......" After listening to the story told by the captain, Wu Ya couldn't help but look up at the dirt slope in front of her, swallowed her saliva twice, and asked softly: "Captain, the Yuwang Pavilion you are talking about is the Yuwang Pavilion in front of us now? It's just such a small dirt slope, it has existed for thousands of years, isn't it?"

"Haha, the pavilion must have been built by later generations, and this step was obviously newly paved a few years ago, but this dirt slope should be the place where King Yu stood thousands of years ago.

I have seen a record that when King Yu was here to control the water, he took refuge here for the first time in the flood, and the flood took a detour. Later, in the process of controlling the water, the Yellow River flooded many times, and the radius of more than ten or even dozens of kilometers became a vast ocean, but there was no damage here, and even the soil and stones were washed away by the flood, and when the flood passed, there would be new soil and stones piled up here.

The ruins of this Yuwang Pavilion are really standing for thousands of years. Let's go up and have a look. ”

The captain led the way, and the two stepped up the stone steps, and within a few minutes they reached the top of the slope.

A small high slope that is less than fifty meters is impossible to make people feel heroic like the famous mountains and rivers, Wu Ya walked around it, looked around, and finally shook her head in disappointment.

It was just the captain's next sentence that made her feel different.

"Wu Ya, do you see, the place we are standing now is where King Yu stood back then, and this is where the first hereditary emperor in ancient China became famous!"

"Shhh...... Captain, hearing you say that, it really feels different. By the way, are there any other legends and stories in this place, captain, you can hear about it. ”

"Well, you can't go without mentioning a river. ”

"What river?"

"In vain.

Thousands of years ago, Dayu treated the water here, although he has thought of a perfect solution, but it does not mean that the flood can be immediately lifted. In the process of excavating artificial channels, the Yellow River has flooded many times, and the people are struggling to make a living. In the process of excavation, when passing through some mountains and dense forests, there are always wild beasts infesting and invading the people who are working.

At that time, King Yu personally led the army soldiers to hunt wild beasts, and personally dug the river with the coolie slaves, and even the people were bitter. So three years later, when this artificial river channel was successfully excavated, King Yu stood here and looked at the Yellow River water that flowed according to his will, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. For a while, I remembered the hardships I had experienced over the years.

He said, "After three years of flood control, the people are horrified by floods, beasts by beasts, and by me, who are urging overseers, so it is better to call this dug river the river in vain!"

"Tuxiao River?" Wu Ya scratched her head and looked into the distance, and said softly: "Captain, I know that Tuxiao River, when we drove here before, didn't we just pass through that river, far away from here, how did it become left by Dayu to control the water?"

"Alas, this is not the other. The Tuxiao River you saw before belongs to the Haihe River Basin, which was excavated during the Yuan Dynasty, but borrowed the name of 'Tuxiao'. The real Tuxiao River is long gone, and if you think about it, the Yellow River has been diverted for thousands of years, and how can a ditch dug by hand remain. ”

"Yes, too. Captain, you have done your homework so comprehensively on this mission, and you know so much. ”

"Of course, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can survive a hundred battles. I swore to the leader that I would find out King Yu Jiuding before the tomb robbers. Let's go, there's nothing to see here. ”

After the captain finished speaking, he bent his arm and was about to take Wu Ya away.

It's just that he was halfway through this action when an urgent shout suddenly came from behind the dirt slope.

"Help!" (To be continued......)