That night, the three of us talked a lot, and we talked late, Qiu Yan told me that Huang Yueling would come over with the sword early tomorrow morning, and she said that it was agreed by them before, because Long Quan was in a hurry to leave, so he wanted to see the sword before leaving.

The next morning, Qiu Yan came to the hotel with a sword and my clothes, and as soon as we met, she said with a bitter face: "Really, I was annoyed to death early in the morning because you were scolded for nothing!" ”

"Grandma scolded you?" I laughed.

"Yes, she said that I didn't take you back even though I knew you were sick, and blamed me for not just grabbing you medicine, by the way, she told me that I had to take you back today, otherwise I wouldn't be allowed to eat dinner!"

"This grandmother is really, how old are they, and they are not allowed to eat at every turn, Yue Ling'er, no wonder every time you come out to eat, you are like a flower child, did you often go hungry when you were a child?" As soon as I saw Huang Yueling, I couldn't help but tease her.

Huang Yueling gave me a blank look and threw the ancient sword and clothes on the coffee table.

We ordered something to eat, called all the dragons over, and then sat down on the couch and began to study the ancient sword.

I took a closer look at the ancient sword, and I already remembered the appearance of the sword, so I just sat on the side and ate breakfast.

Huang Yueling was not interested in Gu Jian, she turned on the TV and watched the TV series as if no one was around.

Long Quan and Qiu Yan were completely attracted by the ancient sword, and they looked at the ancient sword over and over again, like that, it was like they wanted to see the ancient sword in their eyes.

"Looking at this texture, it is indeed very similar to my sword, it should be bronze, but I have not studied bronze, and I can't see why." Long Quan looked at it for a while, handed the ancient sword to Qiu Yan, and then said.

Qiu Yan rubbed the hilt of the sword for a moment, then suddenly frowned and said, "I don't know what these two inscriptions mean. ”

Long Quan took the ancient sword again, and also touched the inscription, "The inscription on the sword is generally engraved by the sword owner himself, either to indicate his identity, or to express some feelings, maybe these two words are the name of the sword owner." ”

"But it's so corroded that you can't see it at all!" Qiu Yan added.

I made a move and asked Qiu Yan, "Where's your lipstick?" Lend me for it! ”

As soon as I said this, all three looked at me at the same time.

"What do you want lipstick for?" Qiu Yan asked.

"Hey, don't ask, just give it to me!"

Although Qiu Yan was puzzled, she still got up and took her bag.

"This lipstick isn't expensive, don't be the kind of hundreds or thousands." I wrung out the lipstick, put it in front of Qiu Yan's eyes and asked.

Qiu Yan was still at a loss, "More than two hundred, if you want it, I can give you one." ”

"Hehe, it doesn't take that much, this half is enough!"

With that, I rubbed my lipstick on the inscription on the sword, and by this time, all three of us knew what I was going to do.

I carefully rubbed the lipstick all over the sword, Qiu Yan immediately handed over two more tissues, I took the tissues, carefully pasted them on the sword, and then Qiu Yan handed over a brush that she used to wipe the powder.

I brushed it again with a brush and then took the tissue off.

This time, although the paper towel is very mottled, you can see the general shape.

This is obviously two seal characters, crooked, but the four of us looked at the old for a long time, but no one knew these words, and then we searched on the computer for a while, but still can't find these two words.

"Wait a minute!" Just as we were thinking hard, Qiu Yan suddenly shouted, "Are we looking at it the opposite?" ”

After listening to this, it dawned on me that we were studying the side of the lipstick printed just now, but elementary school students all knew that Tuoben should be looked at from the opposite side, and it was pitiful that the four of us in our twenties were stumped by such a small question for a long time.

I quickly turned the tissue over, because Qiu Yan gave me a paper towel with very good absorbency, so the color of the lipstick had already penetrated at this time, so it was easy to see clearly.

After turning over the tissue, not only Qiu Yan, but even Huang Yueling recognized those two words.

"Yangling? What is it? Huang Yueling asked.

Yangling! It's the first time I've heard this name, and looking at Qiu Yan's expression, she has never heard of it, but Long Quan is huddled alone in the corner of the sofa at this time, biting his nails and not knowing what he is thinking.

"Long Quan, have you heard of this name?" I asked.

Long Quan raised his eyes and looked at the three of us in a circle, and stopped talking.

"Long Quan, if you know anything, just say it." Qiu Yan persuaded.

"Hehe, Long Quan, this shouldn't have anything to do with you soul killers!"

Long Quan leaned forward at this time, put his elbows on his knees, and said calmly: "Maybe this really has something to do with me!" ”

I was stunned after hearing this, this ancient sword is said to have the effect of suppressing evil and driving away evil, so it was inserted at the bottom of Poyang Lake back then and used to suppress the powerful ghosts attracted by Chen Youliang.

I thought that this sword would be useless after it was pulled out of the bottom of Poyang Lake, which is why Chen Fangyuan gave it to me so generously.

But at this time, Long Quan said that this sword is related to the soul killer, if what Long Quan said is true, then this sword is also related to tortoise shell, since it is related to tortoise shell, why did Chen Fangyuan give it to me again? Isn't he worried that I'll find another tortoise shell along this sword?

"If I'm not mistaken," Long Quan said, "The word Yangling on this represents the identity of the owner of the sword, and the owner of this sword may be Zhu Anshi, the hero of Yangling!" ”

"Yangling Hero? Long Quan, don't be kidding, what kind of characters from martial arts novels are used to perfunctory us! ”

"Brother He, this Yangling hero is not a character in martial arts novels, but a real one in history, maybe you don't know just about Yangling hero, but if you talk about the scourge of witches, you should know, right?" Long Quan looked at me expectantly, as if I should know what kind of witch curse this was.

As soon as I heard the word "witch Gu", I instinctively thought of Xiangxi, and I thought that no matter what kind of disaster this was, these two words should be related to what we want to investigate.

However, I really don't know what the witch curse is, my knowledge of all aspects stopped in high school, and after high school, all I learned was some skills in warfare, and I really didn't know anything about history and humanities.

But at this moment, Qiu Yan seemed to remember something, she frowned and said while thinking, "The scourge of witches? I seem to have heard my grandfather tell me before that it happened during the period of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, right? ”

Long Quan nodded at Qiu Yan again and again as if he had found a relative, "That's right, it's this witch curse, it is said that this Yangling hero is the initiator of the witch curse." ”

I'm a historical idiot, these dynasties or something, I can also go back to the Yuan Dynasty, this is what Qiu Yan and I have recently researched to know.

I didn't want to act like an idiot in front of these people, so I counted them one by one on my fingers, "Three emperors and five emperors, Yao Shunyu has been passed down." Xia Shang and Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou are divided into two sections. The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period unified the Qin and Han dynasties. Three points of Wei Shu Wu, two Jin before and after. The northern and southern dynasties stood side by side, and the Sui and Tang dynasties were passed down from generation to generation. After the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the dynasty came to an end. ”

This is the dynasty mantra I learned in middle school, I thought to myself that what they said about the Western Han Dynasty should be in this sentence "unify the Qin and Han Dynasty", and after this sentence, there are many sentences to the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties that I know, I can't help but sigh in my heart, so many dynasties, how many years ago should it be!

At this time, Qiu Yan and Long Quan were still discussing.

"Long Quan, the witch curse happened in Chang'an, which is now Xi'an, what does it have to do with you Miao people?"

"I don't know the specifics, I just heard my grandfather say that he said that among our soul killers, there is a Zhu Anshi who is called Yangling Hero, as for what happened back then, and why he is called Yangling Hero, I don't know."

Hearing this, I quickly interjected and asked, "You mean that this Yangling hero is also a soul killer?" ”

Long Quan nodded.

Qiu Yan walked to the computer desk at this time, and after typing a few words, she shouted at us: "There you are, Yangling Hero!" ”

We hurriedly gathered around, and even Huang Yueling, who had never cared much about it, turned off the TV and walked curiously to the computer desk.

"Yangling hero Zhu Anshi, a native of the Western Han Dynasty during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the year of birth and death is unknown. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty issued an edict to be wanted, and after being arrested, he framed the Gongsun He family who pursued him and cursed Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty with witchcraft, resulting in the death of Gongsun He and others, which became the beginning of the later witch curse. The history books say: The scourge of witchcraft originated from Zhu Anshi. Qiu Yan said.

"And there's more!

Zhu Anshi, a native of the Western Han Dynasty and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the year of birth and death is unknown, when he is mentioned in the history books, he is called "Yangling Hero Zhu Anshi" and "Yangling Zhu Anshi", and his birthplace or place of residence should be Yangling County.

There is no way to verify what crime Zhu Anshi committed, but judging from the fact that he was wanted by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and was still at large for a long time afterward, he was by no means an ordinary evildoer.

In the second year of Zhenghe, Zhu Anshi was arrested and imprisoned, and the history books have not recorded whether he died in the same year.

In the second year of Zhenghe, the son of Prime Minister Gongsun He, the servant Gongsun Jingsheng, was arrogant and did not obey the law, and used 19 million military funds without authorization, and was arrested and imprisoned after the incident.

At that time, Emperor Wu issued an edict to arrest Zhu Anshi and was very annoyed. In order to atone for his son's sins, Gongsun He asked the emperor to let him hunt him down, and Emperor Wu agreed. Gongsun He went through hardships and captured Zhu Anshi and transferred him to the imperial court, seeing that his son's sins would be pardoned.

Zhu Anshi naturally held a grudge against Gongsun He, who arrested him, and said with a smile: "The prime minister is in trouble. The bamboo of the South Mountain is not enough for me to resign, and the wood of the slope valley is not enough for me. So he wrote in prison, claiming that Gongsun Jingsheng had an affair with Princess Yangshi, the daughter of Emperor Wu, and buried wooden figures on the emperor's special road to curse the emperor. Emperor Wu, who was ill at the time, was furious and ordered an investigation.

"Hanshu Wu Wuzi Biography": "At the end of Emperor Wu, Empress Wei was favored and declined, Jiang Chong used things, and there was a gap between the prince and the Wei family. At that time, the spring and autumn period was high, and there were many evils, thinking that the left and right were all curses of the Gu Dao, and they were poor in curing their affairs. Prime Minister Sun He's father and son, Yangshi, Zhuyi Princess, and the queen's disciple Changping Hou Wei were all punished. ”

"Hanshu Gongsun Liu Tian Wang Yang Cai Chen Zheng Biography" said: "The disaster of witchcraft originated from Zhu Anshi, became in Jiang Chong, and then the princess, queen, and prince were all defeated. ””

Qiu Yan read all the content she found on the Internet, because I had never heard of these things, so I couldn't digest them for a while.

At this time, Qiu Yan wanted to check other things, and inadvertently, she clicked on a link to a name, and then the explanation of that name instantly appeared on the computer screen, only to see that it was written:

Jiang Chong, alias: Jiang Qi, Jiang Ciqian

Font size: Ciqian

Era: Western Han Dynasty

Ethnic group: Han Chinese

Death: 91 BC

Nationality: Handan, Zhao (now Handan, Hebei)

Official position: Embroidered messenger, Captain of Shui Heng

When I saw the words "Embroidered Messenger", my mind was like being struck by lightning, and countless images flashed in an instant.