Just in the few months after Shi Dakai's defeat in the Dadu River and his tragic sacrifice, there was a rumor that made people feel cold and circulated among the people.

It is said that in April of that year, May 1863, Shi Dakai's nearly 10,000 troops were blocked by a flood on the banks of the Dadu River. He forced the Dadu River to cross the Dadu River and lost more than 3,000 soldiers. At that time, there were about 38,000 Qing troops who came to encircle and suppress them. During the life and death robbery, Shi Dakai negotiated with the Qing army in order to protect his troops from massacre and exchanged his life for the safety of the remaining 6,000 soldiers. Sichuan Governor Luo Bingzhang agreed to this condition, and Shi Dakai was taken to Chengdu to accept the punishment of lingchi.

Shi Dakai was afraid that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would completely destroy the country. On the eve of his surrender, he secretly met with his most trusted comrade Feng Yuliang and gave him a treasure map. This treasure map records that somewhere in Kunlun Mountain, there are treasures that can attract powerful monsters. I hope that Feng Yuliang will find the treasure as soon as possible, get the help of the monsters, and help the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom make a comeback.

Feng Yuliang was loyal to Shi Dakai, so he assembled a team of thirteen people, pretended to be a commoner, left Lao Yayun that night, and went to Kunlun Mountain to find treasures. Later, due to the bumpy road, there were constant pursuits. The thirteen people were exhausted all the way, and in the end only five people arrived at Kunlun Mountain.

On Kunlun Mountain, before the five people found the treasure, they encountered powerful monsters. All four except Feng Yuliang were killed by monsters. In the end, Feng Yuliang jumped off the cliff, life and death were uncertain.

This legend is really strange. It happened not long ago and became a hot topic that the world talked about back then. A troupe from Dali came to Lijiang County. Based on this legend, it performed a Yunnan opera called "The Fairy of Taiping" at the market entrance in the east of the city every day.

Of course, the government absolutely does not allow any performance that portrays the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. However, Lijiang was still under the "Islamic Kingdom" established by Du Wenxiu. The Hui uprising army and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had a common enemy. Therefore, such performances not only had a living space, but also deliberately made the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom extremely tragic.

Pu Zixuan is an idle man, and there is not much entertainment in the era of chaos. Now that someone in the county is willing to perform for him, he becomes a regular visitor in the audience. Pu Zixuan never believes in evil and is just for entertainment. More importantly, this stage has developed into a landmark in Lijiang where he can meet friends in groups of three or three here.

One day, Zhu Yuanliang also came here and cursed while watching the performance: "His grandma, these traitorous dog officials! If I find that treasure, I will also want them to taste Lingchi!"

Zhu Yuanliang is the same age as Pu Zixuan, and is only nineteen years old, but he has developed differently from ordinary people since childhood. In front of his fat and strong body, Pu Zixuan is like a poor short man. People often say that people with developed limbs have simple minds. Zhu Yuanliang is a typical person. He is out of place with his classmates in private schools, so he can only get close to Pu Zixuan because both of them hate studying, but the reasons are very different - Pu Zixuan is rebellious because he has heard too many advanced things since childhood, and Zhu Yuanliang is just disgusted with learning because of his stupidity.

Two years ago, the Hui Muslim uprising army captured Lijiang. The young and energetic Zhu Yuanliang had been unable to sit still in the private school. Seeing that his brute force finally had a place to use his strength, he even abandoned school and joined the rebel army despite his dissuasion. Unfortunately, he was not a Hui Muslim and could not join the regular army. He was just hired as a constable in the Islamic country, responsible for patrolling Lijiang and dealing with public security issues.

Although Zhu Yuanliang was unwilling to accept this, he had the power to move freely in the city and did not lose contact with Pu Zixuan. He was burly, extremely powerful, and was willing to stand up for the unjust, and formed a powerful deterrent to the local tyrants and gentry far and near, and was promoted to the captain. Over time, he, who was deeply loved by the military and civilians, was regarded as "Zhu Pioneer" by the people of Lijiang.

However, in Pu Zixuan's mouth, he will always be the "fat man" of his childhood.

Zhu Yuanliang had an indelible prejudice against the rich, but he still valued the initial brotherhood with Pu Zixuan. Pu Zixuan also understood that if Zhu Yuanliang had not been protected by his reputation, he would have long been the treasure of others.

While watching the show, the two of them were drinking wine. When they heard Zhu Yuanliang's indignant thoughts, Pu Zixuan couldn't help but ask: "Brother, do you really believe there are monsters in this world?"

Zhu Yuanliang was unwavering about this: "Of course! There are many things in this world that cannot be explained. Otherwise, I would like to ask you, Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall with only the population and the technology at that time. If there was no help from demons, how could he do it?"

Pu Zixuan responded disdainfully: "Hmph, let alone the Great Wall, my father mentioned to me that there was a country called Egypt. People there built a huge pyramid more than 5,000 years ago, and piled more than 2 million huge rocks neatly for more than 40 meters high! The ancients said that it was built by mysterious power, but the British found through scientific calculations that artificial can do it. They analyzed that the ancient Egyptians used rivers to transport stones, and the rivers connected the reservoir at the bottom of the tower, and then used the buoyancy of the reservoir at the bottom of the tower to hold the stones to a high place. The same is true for our Great Wall. As long as we use physical machinery such as levers and pulleys, we can easily transport the huge rocks to the destination..."

Zhu Yuanliang scolded, "Bitch, is it your father taught you again? Is it something that bullies us without education and can't understand what his grandma's pole or wheel."

Pu Zixuan laughed: "This is called the power of science."

Zhu Yuanliang was dissatisfied and asked again: "What about the big explosion during the Tianqi period of the Ming Dynasty? Is it your pole and what wheel can explain it?"

Pu Zixuan has always been interested in the Apocalypse Big Bang and often thought about it. After hearing what Zhu Yuanliang said, he immediately became interested: "The reason for the Apocalypse Big Bang must be caused by some kind of natural power. More than a thousand years ago, the ancients discovered that collisions of different substances could produce huge explosions during the alchemy process, so they invented gunpowder, but the ancients followed the law of experience first and did not summarize the laws of everything. Now the foreigners have already refined these experiences into a science called chemistry, and experimented with various explosions. At that time, the Wanggong Factory Gunpowder Depot in Beijing was originally a place to stock up on gunpowder. Any accidental event, such as the drop of a meteorite, would cause a big explosion. If I say this, in less than a hundred years, humans will create more terrifying weapons, bringing explosions that can destroy the country."

"Hmph, we can't live for a hundred years anyway, whatever you want." Zhu Yuanliang asked again, "You said the meteorite fell, then I'll ask you, if there were no gods and monsters in the sky, where did those stones come from?"

"Hahahaha." Pu Zixuan laughed, "What is heaven? What is earth? The 'heaven' you see now is just a description of 'heaven' imposed on you by the ancients."

Zhu Yuanliang looked up at the cloudy sky and cursed: "My grandma, can you not say it so mysterious? Just tell me directly, what the hell is the 'heaven' you mentioned?"

Pu Zixuan said: "The world, rivers, mountains and rivers we live in are part of the surface of a giant sphere, called the 'Earth'. Our earth is round, just like the sun, moon and stars in the sky. We are in an endless universe. The universe is composed of countless such planets, and our earth is just a tiny member of it. Each planet is running along its own orbit, but sometimes it is attracted by other planets due to gravity and flew to each other at high speed. This is how meteorites come from, but after the friction and burning of clouds, the planet turns into a huge rock when it reaches the ground."

"Hahaha." This time it was Zhu Yuanliang's turn to laugh, "Pu Zixuan, I only realized today that your imagination is so rich. You actually gave this explanation to our universe. I admire you! What you said is too evil. I think I might as well believe that Pangu cuts the universe into two halves with one knife. The top is the sky and the bottom is the earth. Pangu's internal organs turned into our mountains, rivers and rivers."

Pu Zixuan immediately responded, "Oh, Fatty, it's not that I'm talking about you, I'm holding "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" every day, and "Shan Hai Jing" that makes those strange things that are in chaos. What's the future? People say, 'If you don't talk about "Dream of Red Mansions", this man is confused if he lacks classics.' It's because all the Chinese people have such a pig head, and they don't learn and do not destroy the Qing Dynasty."

Zhu Yuanliang retorted: "It seems like you have read "Dream of Red Mansions". I see that you are confused all day long, and you don't look like a 'poetry and ritual' person."

Pu Zixuan was amused when he heard this. The word "poetry, etiquette, and the thighs" is specifically used to refer to scholarly families and officials' families. In "Dream of the Red Chamber", Cao Xueqin used this word to describe the Jia family. If he had not read "Dream of the Red Chamber", it would be difficult for ordinary people to use such written words. Unexpectedly, this word could pop out of Zhu Yuanliang's mouth, which means that he was not so ignorant.

Pu Zixuan said: "At least I have read all the plots describing men and women's love in "Dream of Red Mansions", which are better than you."

Zhu Yuanliang said: "Okay, you love your men and women, I love my strange powers and gods, I have this little future. What is the world and universe like? It's all my business!"

Pu Zixuan knew that it was too difficult for Zhu Yuanliang to accept this scientific knowledge, so he didn't force it. Instead, he sighed: "This is, what the world looks like is, it's all my business! I just need to eat well and sleep well, drink well every day, have girls to play with, and live happily for the rest of my life, and be satisfied."

Zhu Yuanliang smiled and said, "Dede, I love to hear these words. Brother, where can I play tonight?"

Pu Zixuan smiled and said, "Tonight, you come to my Happy Mansion, I will show you something good."
Chapter completed!