I poured Wen Ru a glass of water and put it in front of him, and looked at him and asked thoughtfully.

"Why, since the meeting was instituted by your ancestors and has lasted for hundreds of years without interruption, and your father was the custodian of the previous register? Why did your father suddenly leave you incognito? And won't let you go to that party again? ”

Wen Ru picked up the water glass and looked at me, took a sip of water, picked up a cigarette and put it in the corner of his mouth, I helped him light it, he took a deep breath and was silent for a moment and told us slowly.

He was looking forward to the party, and wanted to know who was attending this mysterious agreement that had been passed down for hundreds of years, after all, he was studying Mongolian history, and Wen Ru wanted to understand the origin and purpose of this party.

The reason why his father made him go away incognito is still unclear to Wen Ru, but he said it may have something to do with someone who came to his house to see his father one day.

"Who has seen your father?" Han Yu asked.

"Not long after my father got a tattoo on my chest, there was a guest in the house one night, and I went to open the door, and the man was very kind and kind, and it felt very friendly." Wen Ru said to us as he thought about it. "The man came to see my father, I thought it was my father's friend and let him in, and my father was drinking tea at the time, and when he saw the man shake his hand and the teacup fell to the ground, his expression was very shocked and flustered."

"Why did your father react so much?" Nangong Yi asked.

"I didn't know at the time, but it seems that my father knew that person, and I had never seen my father react so panicked, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses." Wen Ru shook his head and continued. "My father asked me to go back to my room, and with a solemn face, I took the man to the study."

"Do you know what they're talking about?" Yun Duruo asked curiously.

"It should be my father's behavior and unusual reaction that worried me, so when they entered the study, I sneaked to the door to eavesdrop."

Wen Ru took a deep breath of cigarette and fell into a long memory, and slowly told us what happened at that time, Wen Ru said that his father was a very elegant person, and was as thick and humble as most scholars engaged in historical research, but that time in the study Wen Ru heard his father be angry for the first time, because the complete conversation through the door could not be heard clearly.

But Wen Ru could vaguely hear that his father was scolding and blaming the man's visit, saying that the man had violated the group motto that you should not interact in private, and even reprimanded the man for finding this place with bad intentions.

Hearing this, we can all guess that the person who came to find Wen Ru's father should also be the descendants of the eighteen red wolves, according to the regulations, these people are not allowed to meet privately, as for the reason, we don't know until now, but listening to Wen Ru's description, it seems that this is a very important regulation, so that his father will be so violent.

Wen Ru continued, he pressed his ear to the door to try to hear more clearly, his father was angry in the study, and he did not hear the man speak until his father's voice gradually calmed down, and Wen Ru heard the man's voice for the first time.

The man's voice was the same as his appearance, calm and wise, and he told his father that he had studied the tattoos for a long time and already knew the secrets, and he bluntly said that his father must have been studying Mongolian history and should know the secrets hidden in them.

"I heard my father's righteous rebuke to the man, saying that he didn't know what the man was talking about, and that my father said that tattoos were just totems inherited from the ancestors, and had no meaning." Wen Ru said to us with a puff of smoke. "The father did not want to hear what the man had to say, so he ordered the man to go, and warned him not to come again."

Yun Duruo and I glanced at each other, if I guessed correctly, most of the people who saw Wen Ru's father knew that the tattoo might be related to Genghis Khan's mausoleum, the tattoo on Wen Ru's chest We have seen it before, Nangong Yi has already asked people to copy it, and from the pattern of the tattoo, it is a fierce wolf head and number.

But if you look closely, you will find that the pattern and lines of the wolf's head are very peculiar, although the wolf's head is outlined, but the lines inside are like marks on a map, there are mountains and rivers but they are intermittent and incomplete.

This is supposed to be a map, but it is cleverly tattooed into a wolf's head, but the map is not complete, presumably the tattoos on the chest of the eighteen Mongols together will show the whole picture of the map, which is why the Fuso people cut off the tattoos after killing, they are piecing together this map of human skin.

The Eighteen Red Wolves were the commanders of Genghis Khan's guards, and it can be said that they were important figures at that time, but after Genghis Khan's death, they mysteriously disappeared from Mongolia and migrated to the Central Plains, and the tattoo map on their chests is likely to have a great relationship with Genghis Khan's mausoleum.

"What else did you hear later?" Thinking of this, I asked anxiously.

"The man told my father that sooner or later the secret would be known to others, and since my father had a roster for him to bring out, he would work with him to find other people and put the picture together." Wen Ru picked up the glass of water and continued. "I vaguely heard the man say that as long as he got the map, he could go anywhere, and he said that he would be half with my father."

It seems that my suspicion is correct, the tattoo is really a treasure map of Genghis Khan's mausoleum, and it seems that the man has insight into the secrets.

Wen Ru took a breath and continued to tell us that at that time, my father refused with righteous words, saying that he would only follow the instructions of the ancestors, and he would not do anything else, and then drove the man away.

I nodded silently in admiration for my gentle father, for I had always despised the treacherous man whose character was no better than that of a Mongol who even remembered the tombs of his ancestors.

"And then?" I asked seriously.

Wen Ru put down the water glass and told us that after the man left, his father locked himself in the study for a long time, Wen Ru saw that the light under the door had not been extinguished all night, presumably his father had been thinking about it all night in the study, and the next night his father called Wen Ru in and told Wen Ru an unknown secret.

"What's the secret?" I'm not sure if Wen Ru already knows that the tattoo on his chest is related to Genghis Khan's mausoleum, so I asked cautiously and tentatively.

"My father told me that the ancestor was a Mongol and a red wolf, and that the other seventeen people who attended the party were also the leaders of the escort army, and had accompanied Genghis Khan on his expedition to the east and west." Wen Ru said this, and his face turned with glory. "I am a researcher of Mongolian history, as a Mongolian, there is no one who does not admire the Tianjiao who led the invincible Mongolian iron cavalry across the Eurasian continent, but I didn't expect my ancestors to be the cronies who followed Genghis Khan."

We nodded thoughtfully, and Wen Ru's father's words confirmed that the rumors about the Eighteen Red Wolves were true.

"Did your father tell you why your ancestors left Mongolia suddenly?" Yun Duruo asked suspiciously.

"My father said that the other seventeen commanders who were with my ancestors received the last order to secretly tattoo patterns on their chests, and the content of the patterns was a wolf, but the content of the patterns on each person's chest was different, and the difference was the number next to the wolf's head." Wen Ru shook his head and continued to speak to us. "Then each selected a war horse to gallop to the Central Plains with Kent Mountain as the center, the horse died and changed but people could not stop, and the eighteen commanders each slept in one direction and rode their horses and whipped for ten days, and the place where the horse died was the place to settle down, and lived and multiplied again."

"No wonder......" I said, taking a deep breath and suddenly realizing. No wonder these eighteen red wolves will be scattered all over the Central Plains, no one knows where they stay, the purpose of this is to prevent them from gathering together. ”

"The tattoos, the tattoos on their chests, are worried that if these eighteen people get together, they will piece together a complete map of the tattoos." Yun Duruo also nodded understandingly.

"The ancestors were told the place of their first meeting before they left the steppe, forty years later, but the conventions and requirements of the meeting must be followed." Wen Ru continued unhurriedly. "The purpose of the gathering is to ensure the continuity and transmission of the tattoo, but there should be no private contact with each other."

"This ...... It doesn't make sense, since you don't want these people to be tattooed together, why bother tattooing them? Han Yu asked in surprise.

"That's what I asked my father at the time." Wen Ru nodded and looked at Han Yu and said. "My father told me that the tattoos on the eighteen red wolves have a very important secret, and that they can't piece together the map inside unless they have to."

I frowned and was a little puzzled, Wen Ru should not know that this tattoo is related to Genghis Khan's mausoleum, but why did he tattoo the secret of the emperor's mausoleum on the body of the eighteen red wolves, is Genghis Khan really so generous that he is not afraid that these people will meet and enter the mausoleum privately?

But listening to what Wen Ru's father told him, it seems that tattoos are allowed to be combined and pieced together under certain circumstances, and Xie Tong's ancestors still have the lock dragon buckle that opens the emperor's tomb, what is the reason for this, why is it so hidden that no one has discovered the tomb of Genghis Khan for hundreds of years, why is there still a time when it is opened?

"Did your father tell you under what circumstances a map on a tattoo can be pieced?" Nangong Yi asked seriously.

"If the remnants of the desert are revived, they will be in harmony with the apocalypse." Wen Ru said it without thinking, probably because he saw our blank expressions, and he spread his hands and said helplessly. "Don't look at me like that, that's what my father said to me at the time, and for a long time I was just as confused as you are, and I didn't understand the meaning of this sentence at all."

The combined picture refers to the tattoos on the chest of the eighteen red wolves to piece together a complete map, the apocalypse...... What does the apocalypse mean, according to my understanding the apocalypse is destruction and the end of the world!

"But then I came to understand what it really meant." Wen Ru lit a cigarette and said casually with a faint smile.

"You understand? What does this mean? ”

Wen Ru took a deep puff of his cigarette and looked at us with a meaningful smile.

"The real secret of the tattoo is actually the Mausoleum of Genghis Khan!"