After crossing over for the first time, my brother was called Wu Dalang

  In the eighth year of Jiayou, Emperor Renzong passed away and Emperor Shenzong ascended to the throne. The national title was changed to Xining. In the third year of Xining, Wang Anshi became prime minister and implemented new policies to seek a way to enrich the country and strengthen its military. However, in this same year, there were already signs of chaos in the land, and strange creatures frequently appeared in the countryside. Su Shi, a high-ranking scholar, submitted a memorial to the emperor, using the strange creatures as an excuse to subtly criticize Wang Anshi's chaotic governance. As a result, Emperor Shenzong rebuked him.

  Su Shi returned home and vented his frustrations to a junior official named Gao Zhan. Gao was a skilled writer who had earned Su's recognition, but he thought that as long as Wang Anshi remained in power, Su would be unable to rise through the ranks, and he himself would have even less chance of advancement. So he asked Su for a letter of introduction and went to pay his respects to the imperial son-in-law, Wang Tun, and through this connection also became acquainted with Prince Tong, who later ascended to the throne, whereupon Gao Zhan's fortunes rose rapidly.

  Also in this year, a strange thing happened in Qinghe County, Hebei Province, which caused the villagers to discuss it endlessly and describe it vividly. On that day, it was deep at night, with dark clouds and thunder, and thousands of lightning bolts struck, killing countless livestock. Among them, one bolt of lightning hit the head of a child from the Wu family.

  What's even stranger is that the young man was struck by lightning, but didn't die. Instead, he became a bit foolish and suddenly ran onto the main street, shouting wildly: "I've crossed over! I've crossed over!" The villagers were stunned, none of them knew what he meant. It took a lot of effort to catch him, tie him up, and hand him over to his older brother to take care of.

  On the second day, a shout like killing pigs came from the small courtyard of the Wu family. The villagers rushed over and saw that the young man was riding on his brother's body, waving his fists and hitting him in the face, shouting: "Who is the elder brother, who is the younger brother?"

  "Stop it, stop it! You're the older brother, I'm the younger brother..."

  "Am I not Wu Dalang? Why am I not Wu Erlang? Beat you to death..."

  The villagers rushed forward and separated the two brothers, laughing and saying: "Big brother, you've been eating free meals for years, but you can't even beat your little brother!"

  Wu Dalang chuckled and said, "This guy has a strong physique, how can I compare to him?" He turned to the sturdy young man who looked like a small bull and said, "Second brother, you've been causing trouble for a long time, today our family's pancakes won't sell again."

  The young man glared at him: "How dare you call me Second Brother?"

  Wu Dalang hastily accompanied a smile and said: "You are my younger brother, of course I have to call you second brother, don't you want to be the older brother?"

  "I'd rather not be the big brother, I'll get poisoned..."

  That young man crouched in the corner of the wall, drawing circles and muttering to himself: "The rural customs of the Northern Song Dynasty are really strange, my brother actually calls his younger brother 'Second Brother', which makes me think I'm Wu Dala... Did I cross over into Wu Song's body? Let me think, how did I die... It seems like I was following Song Jiang to attack Fang La, and someone cut off my hand, then I became a monk and died in the temple... Who cut off my hand? Can't remember, science students really don't have an advantage..."

  The villagers saw this and whispered to Wu Dalang: "Go get a doctor, I'm afraid Erlang has been possessed by an evil spirit."

  Wu Dalang hastily ran out to invite Doctor Li from the county. Doctor Li chased everyone away, diagnosed for a while, and couldn't find anything wrong. After hesitating for a moment, he said: "Second Brother, one plus one equals how many?"

  After a moment, everyone saw Mr. Li covering his face and rushing out of the courtyard, tears streaming down his face, and no one knew what had happened.

  Wu Dalang nervously walked into the courtyard and asked: "Second brother, what's wrong with Li Daifu?"

  "He gave me a math problem, and then I also gave him a calculus problem. He couldn't solve it and started crying on the spot." The young man muttered: "Being uncultured is really scary..."

  "Second brother, have you really gone mad?"

  "Not crazy, after all I'm a science major, don't imagine me as a weak liberal arts student."

  "Second brother, you've really gone mad, speaking nonsense again!"

  "Do you believe I'll beat you up?"

  ……

  Since Li Daifu's treatment failed, Wu Song became more and more abnormal, at least in Wu Daliang's eyes. This brother kept talking about "making glass, smelting steel, *zha medicine" and other inexplicable things all day long. After a few days, he became despondent again, drawing circles with his bare arms in the courtyard.

  "It's really terrible to be uncultured. If only I had studied hard when I was in school, I wouldn't have forgotten all those formulas now!"

  Wu Dalang looked at him worriedly and suddenly saw the object behind his back, couldn't help but wonder: "Second brother, when did you tattoo a fierce tiger on your back?"

  Wu Song, let's just call him Wu Song for now. Anyway, he was muddle-headed in his past life, so he might as well abandon his previous identity and live again. He patted his back and said, "Where is the tattoo?"

  Wu Dalang hastily went into the house to fetch a copper mirror, and when Wu Song turned around to look at his back, he saw that indeed on his back was tattooed a fierce tiger's head, with white forehead and hanging eyes, as if it were about to pounce down the mountain to devour people, its ferocity unmatched.

  On both sides of the tiger picture, there were two lines of small characters. Wu Song identified them after a long time.

  "Just like a fierce tiger lying in wait on a desolate hill, hiding its claws and enduring!"

  Wu Dalang heard him recite this sentence, and suddenly felt a chill of murderous intent emanating from his bones, and he couldn't help but shiver. He hastily said: "Second brother, this drawing is inauspicious, let's quickly find someone to wash it away!"

  Wu Song fell silent, if his memory was correct, these two lines of verse should have been written by Song Jiang as a reverse poem, how could they appear on his own back?

  He couldn't help but be stunned, and inexplicably found himself transported to this world, which seemed to have many strange aspects, especially the words behind him, had already violated the laws of history. Could it be that at this moment, history had already changed?

  Wu Song did not know that at the moment he crossed over, the demon beast factor in the body of the first evil god among the 108 demons had already begun to awaken. The unfixed history, at that moment, was filled with infinite variables, and a vast and majestic world of immortals and heroes unfolded before him.

  "I'm no good at making glass, smelting steel or taking medicine, I guess from now on I'll just have to live a simple life."

  Wu Song sighed and suddenly thought of something: Why did he have to go to such great lengths to smelt steel and make zha medicine to promote the industrial revolution?

  Time travel is the strangest thing in itself, so strange that science can't explain it. As a soul who has traveled through time and space, one should learn to reflect on why they have come to this world and what kind of power brought them here.

  This kind of thing can only be explained by the ethereal and mysterious gods, and in the world of Water Margin, there are not a few characters who are like gods. There's Yunlong Gong Sun Sheng, Tai Bao Dai Zong, the enigmatic Luo Tianyi and Zhang Tianshi, and even Gao Lian, who serves as the prefect of a certain state - all of whom can summon the wind and rain with their divine powers.

  What's even stranger is that some of these people who are supposed to be immortals among humans actually hold positions in the imperial court!

  It seems that I was really poisoned by those crossers. Those crossers didn't go to seek immortality, but instead they loudly engaged in construction and fought for dominance. They're really stupid!

  "Brother, I have a question for you." Wu Song thought it through and asked Wu Dalang, "In our Great Song Dynasty, are there immortals?"

  "Of course, how could there not be? If we're talking about the most famous immortal in our Great Song Dynasty, it's got to be Chen Tuan, who won Mount Hua with a single game of chess. Back when our Taizu Emperor was still a soldier, he met Chen Tuan and claimed to be the best chess player under heaven, but he still lost to Chen Tuan. That's why he granted him ownership of Mount Hua. They say that even today, Chen Tuan is still sleeping in the mountains! Think about it, someone who lived from the Tang Dynasty until now - isn't that an immortal?"

  Wu Song said with a curious expression: "Since there are immortals, why doesn't everyone go to visit them and ask for the way to achieve eternal life?"

  Wu Dalang sighed, "How easy is it to talk about? These immortals are particular about opportunities. Even the emperors of several dynasties from the Tang Dynasty to now have summoned him and asked about the way of ascension, but were all declined by Lao Zu. How can we ordinary people be any different?"

  He gave Wu Song a glance, his face changed: "You wouldn't think of becoming a monk, would you? Let me tell you, don't even think about it! If the gods want to take you in, they'll naturally come looking for you. If they don't want to take you in, you could kneel until death in front of them and they still won't pay attention to you!"

  Wu Song burst out laughing and said, "What nonsense is this? Don't think wildly." Although he said so, his mind began to turn, thinking that the best way to ask Xian was to befriend Yunzhong Gong Sun Sheng and through him become a disciple of Luo Zhenren.

  But where is Gong Sunsheng now? Wu Song has no concept of the geography of the Song Dynasty, and he didn't remember Gong Sunsheng's hometown when he read Water Margin before.

  "It seems that I can only wait until I grow up in the future and ask him on Mount Liangshan by the waterside."