The Yellow River is the second longest river in China and the fifth longest river in the world, originating in the Kayuqu at the northern foot of the Bayankala Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Qinghai Province, and flowing into the Bohai Sea in the east, with a total length of about 5,464 kilometers. This big river flowing in the shape of "several" is one of the most important birthplaces of the Chinese nation, and the Chinese call it the "mother river".

In the long history of 5,000 years, countless stories have been staged on both sides of the Yellow River, with heroes and dry bones, and countless joys and sorrows buried under the long yellow sand.

There were seven or eight tents set up in some deserted place, and this was an archaeological team.

The night was deep, it was pitch black, and the clouds in the sky were extremely low, and there was no wind at all.

"Grandma's, this is the weather!"

Luo Tian walked out of the tent, poured a bottle of gasoline in his hand on the pyre, and as soon as the lighter was raised, the fire "whirred" into the sky.

As soon as it got dark today, Luo Tian felt that something was wrong, he always felt that something was going to happen, and he couldn't sit still in the stuffy tent, so he just came out.

Sitting down, Luo Tian pulled out a dagger with a cold light from the side of his calf, pried open a canned luncheon meat in his hand with a "ding" and ate it.

"It's delicious."

There was a faint aroma behind him, and Luo Tian knew that it was Fang Ru who came.

Luo Tian has learned some information about Fang Ru, at the age of twenty-five or sixteen, she is a professor of history at Guanghai University where she once studied, her surname is cheerful and generous, she studied in the United States after graduating from Beijing University with a master's degree at the age of twenty, and she got a doctorate from Harvard in only three years, she is definitely not a simple character. In this archaeological team this time, she is the deputy captain, although there is also a team leader Jiang Tiesheng above, but she is still in charge of most things.

"Luncheon meat, or not?"

As he spoke, Luo Tian put a piece of luncheon meat into his mouth, and the dagger flashed with a star-like cold light under the firelight.

"Okay, let's have a piece."

Fang Ru nodded, and took out a small bottle of wine from his pocket.

Put the cut luncheon meat on the fire with the tip of the knife and roast it on the fire, then stretched it out to Fang Ru and said, "It's hot and delicious." ”

Fang Ru directly opened his mouth and bit down the steaming luncheon meat, as if he didn't see the cold and shining tip of the knife.

"Whew~~~~ Nice! Pretty good! Come, take a sip. ”

Fang Ru handed the wine bottle in his hand to Luo Tian. Luo Tian was not polite, and took a big sip.

"Oh, this wine is strong, pure vodka."

Luo Tian looked at Fang Ru in surprise, there weren't many women with wine, let alone a beauty like her.

The eyebrows are like willow eyebrows, watery eyes, the bridge of the nose is straight like a mountain, the corners of the mouth are slightly raised, and the face is as delicate as the most beautiful porcelain in the world.

Because of the relationship between work, he wears a wide denim suit, but he still outlines a bulging and rounded arc on his chest, and his height of one meter seven shows amazingly slender legs and straight buttocks even when he is sitting, and the age of twenty-six or seven is even more charming, many times Luo Tian feels that how can a woman like Fang Ru come to such a wilderness to do some archaeology.

"Why, you men can drink and eat meat?"

Luo Tian smiled and didn't say anything, and after taking a sip of wine, he handed the bottle back to Fang Ru. Fang Ru didn't mind that Luo Tian drank it from the bottle just now, and also took a sip of it.

"Gu Fei said that you used to be a special soldier?"

Fang Ru could see that Luo Tian was not very old, maybe even a year or two younger than himself, about 1.85 meters, and his body was as strong as a leopard:

Under the flickering firelight, the naked ~ bare upper body muscles are clearly defined, the shoulders are like mountains, and under the broad pectoral muscles are eight neatly arranged abdominal muscles, and then suddenly narrowed, the entire upper body presents a perfect inverted triangle, coupled with strong and powerful, the arms with obvious biceps bulging from time to time between the waves and the thick eyebrows and big eyes, and the well-defined face, the whole person is full of absolute male charm.

Such a man will make a woman feel powerful and safe, and every time she sees Luo Tianfangru, she can't help but take a second look.

This time, because the archaeology entered the wilderness far away from the people, out of safety considerations, a bodyguard was hired - Luo Tian was introduced by Fang Ru's best friend Gu Fei, Gu Fei only used one sentence to describe it: This kid is definitely a good murderer.

Facts have proved that Gu Fei's words are not wrong at all, three days ago, more than a dozen people who came out of nowhere rushed to the archaeological team to grab something, many of them were still carrying powder guns, and they were scattered by Luo Tian with a dagger.

Fang Ru still remembers that Luo Tian's evasive action in the face of those gunpowder guns was like a spirit snake - the distance was close at hand, and the other party was stunned and missed, and in the end, it only took less than 30 seconds for Luo Tian to put the dagger on the neck of the last leader!

"Well, it used to be."

Luo Tian nodded lightly, with a silent look in his eyes.

"What are those scars?"

Fang Ru didn't notice the strangeness of Luo Tian's expression, shook the wine bottle, found that it was empty, threw it out with his hand, and smashed it on the ground with a "bang". She noticed that Luo Tian had more than a dozen horizontal and vertical scars on his body, round or flat.

"It's nothing, it's just some ordinary scars."

Luo Tian couldn't help but feel a little distracted, when he was 18 years old, he was admitted to Guanghai University and then responded to the call to enlist in the army, because he liked sports since he was a child, and his physical fitness was extremely good, he was selected into the special brigade one year after enlistment, and after two years of hellish training, he became a top existence, defeated countless strong opponents in the Southeast Military Region's big competition, and then went out to perform special tasks all successfully, and the scenery was infinite for a while - he even began to dream of becoming a general in the future. However, half a year ago, when I went out on vacation, I met a person who was molesting a girl, and when I saw injustice, I naturally drew a knife to help and teach the other party a hard lesson, but I didn't expect that the person who was disabled by myself turned out to be the son of a division commander in the military region.

After this incident, not only did he shatter his dream of stardom, but he was also expelled from school after being forced to leave the army, and he didn't even have a school status.

Luo Tian never regretted beating the division commander's son, the only thing he felt sorry for was his parents, if they knew that they had been swept away by the army, they would definitely be very sad.

In order to prevent his parents at home from finding out about this incident, Luo Tian became a bodyguard and worked hard to take on the task, so that he could scrape together enough money to send back when he was still in the army.

Although Luo Tian's eyes were only sad for a flash, Fang Ru still noticed it-she had always thought that Luo Tian was a sunny boy, and being a soldier or bodyguard was just greedy for an exciting life, but now it seems that this is definitely not the case.

I don't know why, Fang Ru suddenly felt sour in his heart, and even had a feeling of wanting to hold Luo Tian in his arms and comfort him - the young man in front of him must have experienced something very difficult, but even so, he was still optimistic, it was not so easy to be able to do this, but it was precisely because of this that it was even more heart-wrenching.

Fang Ru didn't ask any further, she could see that Luo Tian didn't want to talk about this matter, so she changed the topic:

"The work here will be over soon, and it will take another month."

"Professor Fang, what are you looking for?"

Putting the last piece of luncheon meat in his mouth, Luo Tian casually threw the empty can into the fire.

Perhaps after drinking a little wine, Fang Ru was very relaxed tonight, first plucked the wood in the fire with a stick, and then said:

"'Mo Dao Shiren has one eye, stirring up the Yellow River and the world is rebelling', have you heard of this sentence?"

"I know, when I was studying, there was a history textbook that said that there was a TV series that acted in this story before, about the Red Turban Uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty."

Nodding, Fang Ru said: "In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, the people of the natural disaster [***] were not able to make a living, and there was a folk song circulating in various places: 'Mo Dao Shiren has one eye, instigating the Yellow River to rebel in the world'. In 1351, the imperial court forcibly requisitioned the people from all over the country to repair the Yellow River that broke the mouth, and the people found that there was a one-eyed stone man in the muddy water when digging the river, so in May of the same year, Han Shantong and Liu Futong gathered 3,000 people in Yongnian Bailu (Road) Village, killed the white horse and the black bull to form an alliance uprising, with the red turban as the number, which is the famous red turban uprising in history. ”

"That's right, that's what happened."

Luo Tian nodded and continued: "Han Shantong is a member of the White Lotus Sect, the folk songs were spread by him, and the stone people were also buried by him in advance. ”

"It's really written in the history books, but I think the real situation of this uprising is not that simple, I think this uprising was done by a wizard, in a sense, it was an attempt by a wizard to seize power in the world, Han Shantong is a person who has mastered witchcraft, and that stone man is a witchcraft he used to curse the Yuan Dynasty and trick others into rebelling with him."

"How is this possible?"

Luo Tian looked at Fang Ru fiercely, this thing was really incredible.

"To figure out this problem, let's first take a look at how the White Lotus Sect came about, it originated from a branch of Buddhism in the Southern Song Dynasty, worshipping Maitreya Buddha, in the legend in the Song Dynasty Gaozong Shaoxing three years by Mao Ziyuan founded, because the believers are careful with green onions, do not kill or drink, so it is also called the White Lotus Cuisine, and then slowly evolved into the White Lotus Sect, a civil community organization, is the most mysterious religion in history."

"If you study history, you will find that whenever there is a sectarian uprising, the leaders often produce prophetic ballads to stir up the passions of the lower classes, or use witchcraft as a means of bringing people together. Spells and spells are tools used to maintain the organization, and the same is true of the White Lotus Sect, so most of the famous leaders of the White Lotus Sect in the past dynasties are wizards, for example, in the sixth volume of "Strange Tales of Liao Zhai" "White Lotus Sect", it is said that Xu Hongru, the leader of the White Lotus, has obtained the Book of the Left Dao and can serve ghosts and gods. In Volume 8 'Xing Ziyi', Yang learned the art of the left path from the White Lotus, and he was able to fly on a wooden kite. The third volume of "Ye Tan Sui Lu" "Hammerhead Daoren" writes that the White Lotus Daoist "can climb the clouds and make mist, call the rain and the wind, summon the gods and ghosts, etc.", these are actually witchcraft. ”

"Han Shantong's grandfather is a member of the White Lotus Sect, set up an altar to preach, Fu Shui cures diseases, once lived in Luancheng, Zhaozhou, because of burning incense to confuse everyone and was called Guangping Yong ~ Year ~ County, these are all materials to be examined, how can Han Shantong, who was born in such a wizard family, not be a wizard?"

The more Fang Ru spoke, the more excited she became, the wine she had just drunk was slowly taking effect, a hint of blush rose on her pretty face, and her silky eyes made Luo Tian's heart flicker.

"This ...... Do you mean to say that the fall of the Yuan Dynasty was cursed by Han Shantong's witchcraft? ”

Fang Ru's charm at this time was really amazing, and Luo Tian finally forced himself to withdraw his gaze. But he still couldn't believe it—wasn't witchcraft feudal superstition? With such a lot of energy? Can you still curse a dynasty to perish?

"There is no such great energy, after all, Han Shantong failed in the end. But why can a one-eyed stone man make countless people crazy? Traditional historical research believes that this is the reason for the extremely acute social contradictions, but I don't think so, I think that this uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was related to witchcraft, the wizard Han Shantong used witchcraft to bewitch the common people and eventually revolted, witchcraft played a key role in this uprising, I want to use this research to unravel the mystery of witchcraft. ”

Luo Tian was startled and blurted out, "Huh? You mean we're here to find the stone man with only one eye? ”

"Yes, I'm here to find this stone man - this stone figure is the key to the whole uprising, the magic weapon that works on witchcraft, so I must find it, and I know it's nearby!"

"Nearby?"

Luo Tian couldn't help but look around, and found that it was pitch black beyond the firelight, and he couldn't see anything at all.

"Yes, it's nearby!"

Fang Ru waved his hand vigorously, as if to emphasize that he was right.

"So you seem to be able to psychic, are you a wizard?"

Fang Ru smiled and said, "Of course I'm not a wizard, I have a basis for saying this. ”

Han Shantong was arrested and killed in the uprising, he had a son named Han Lin'er fled to Wu'an with his mother, and later Liu Futong took Han Lin'er to Bozhou and established him as the emperor, called King Xiaoming, the country name was the Great Song Dynasty, and later the capital was set in Anfeng. During this time, although Han Lin'er was the emperor, the real power was held by Liu Futong, Anfeng was besieged by Zhang Shicheng's subordinate Lu Zhen, Han Lin'er was rescued by Zhu Yuanzhang, who was still nominally part of the Great Song Dynasty, and settled in Chuzhou, and was held hostage by Zhu Yuanzhang from then on. In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Liao Yongzhong to take Han Lin'er to Yingtian, which is now Nanjing, Jiangsu, and was sunk in the river when he passed through Guabu, which is the pumpkin port of [***] County, Jiangsu. ”

"Some of the information I have collected shows that the stone man at the time of the uprising has been taken by Han Lin'er, and our archaeology has actually been carried out along the route he used to be active in the past few months, and now it is almost to Pumpkin Port, so I said that I will find the stone man soon."

Stirring the fire, a "pop" fire shot up into the sky, a cluster of sparks flew up, Fang Ru said, "I must find it!" ”

"Oh, okay."

Luo Tian was a little unimpressed by Fang Ru's statement, regardless of whether her opinion was correct or not, it was not easy to find an 800-year-old stone man in the vast land.

"By the way, what's it around your neck? I haven't seen you wear it before. ”

Fang Ru had a sign around his neck that looked like a stone but not a stone, and a wood but not a wood, and he had never found out that Fang Ru had ever worn this thing when they had met every day in the past few months.

"That's what you're talking about. It was dug up during the daytime archaeology, and it shouldn't be an antiquity, so I put it on when I looked good. ”

Fang Ru had long noticed that Luo Tian was staring at her chest from time to time, and she thought that she was attracted by her proud figure, but she didn't expect that this was the case, she didn't know how to describe her mood at this time: on the one hand, she was very happy that Luo Tian was not lustful, and on the other hand, she was indignantly thinking that her figure was not good, and it was not as good as a black brand?

"Well, yes, can I take a look?"

I don't know why, from the moment he saw this brand, Luo Tian thought it was very special.

"Okay...... You ......"

Fang Ru was startled, and before he could finish his words, Luo Tian's hand stretched out directly.

Luo Tian was also dumbfounded, when he stretched out his hand, he only thought about taking the brand, but he didn't expect that the brand was hanging on Fang Ru's chest, and his hand grabbed the brand and pressed it on Fang Ru's chest at the same time.

Soft and hard, full of amazing bullet surnames.

"Don't take it away yet!"

Fang Ruqiao's face was flushed, as if she was about to drip blood.

"Oh...... I...... I didn't mean to......"

Luo Tian came back to his senses now, and his hand shrank and retracted it suddenly, and this time he ripped off the sign by the way.

Neither of them expected such a thing to happen, and they didn't know what to say in embarrassment, and fell silent for a while, only the fire was burning, making a crackling sound, until there was a sound of footsteps.

"Fang Ru, you're here."

Looking up and finding that it was Li Zhu, Fang Ru's brows furrowed, and his originally good mood suddenly became bad. The Li Zhu in front of him graduated from Guanghai Medical College, a famous medical school, with good looks, excellent academic performance, and money in his family.

"It's late, I'm going to rest."

Fang Ru stood up and walked towards the tent, she didn't answer Li Zhu's words.

"Fang Ru, I'm ......"

Li Zhu opened his mouth, but before he could finish speaking, Fang Ru had already walked quickly into the tent.

Seeing that Fang Ru would leave as soon as he came, Li Zhu was quite annoyed, turned around and glared at Luo Tian fiercely and roared:

"Boy, I warn you, if you get close to Fang Ru again in the future, I will break your dog's legs......"

Before he finished speaking, Li Zhu suddenly felt a cold light flashing in front of him, and subconsciously looked down to find that there was a dagger stuck at his feet, less than a centimeter apart, and he couldn't stop trembling.

"Ahh

His back shrank, cold sweat broke out all of a sudden, Li Zhu took a few steps back, fell to the ground, and said continuously: "You...... What do you want! ”

"You'd better remember one thing - you're not my boss, so don't chirp here."

Luo Tian stood up, walked over, pulled out the dagger, put the brand torn off Fang Ru's neck into his pocket, and turned around and walked into the darkness with an extended flashlight. Where would he take such a person to heart? If you don't mess with yourself, treat him as air, and you will never be polite if you provoke yourself.

"Bang!"

Li Zhu's face was red and white for a while, and he slammed his fist on the ground, gasping for breath, and said, "Grandma, Luo Tian, I will never let you go!" ”

In the silence of the night, Li Zhu's voice was very loud and spread far away, but no one paid attention to him.