Coming out of the hotel, opening an umbrella, Hua Feng, walking alone on the streets of Wuxi, did not see many pedestrians under the rainy black night. Sparsely, tick-tock, hazy night Jiangnan, it seems that he walks alone on the street like a person far away. However, looking around now, there is less noise and more silence, and that feeling is really beautiful. Instead of getting into a taxi, he walked to the mouth of an alley and boarded a small boat four or five meters long on the shore. He had not been in Suzhou and Wuxi for a long time, but he found that he had gradually become fond of such transportation.

"Where are you going, young man?" The middle-aged boatman, who was a little rickety, asked. When it rains, it is usually only for young men and women, or scholars and poets, who take a boat tour on a rainy night, or recite poems and paint. The boatman has seen different people's faces since he was young, but now he sees this young man holding a handful of black rain, but he can't understand the other party's face, if it weren't for the smile on the corner of the other party's mouth, he thought that he was in the dark again, met a young man who was out of love and couldn't think about it for a while.

"Boatman, just take a walk." Hua Feng looked at the boatman and said. When you get into the boat, you don't need to open an umbrella to protect yourself from the rain. And he didn't expect that when he entered the room, he also saw a pair of seventeen or eighteen-year-old men and women reading books in the candlelight swaying in the wind. When Hua Feng came in, just closed the umbrella, and sat down, the young man on the other side only glanced at Hua Feng coldly, and continued to look at a book in his hand.

However, the girl was a little strange to this young passenger, holding the cover of the book with both hands to cover her melon seed face, and secretly looked at Hua Feng with those big eyes. He didn't think that there were other people inside, but these were all people on the water, so he thought clearly, seeing that the young man's appearance was somewhat similar to the rickety middle-aged boatman outside, he guessed that the other party must be the child of the middle-aged boatman just now. After all, the houses outside are expensive now, and it is not easy to buy an ordinary house. Seeing that the two of them were reading so hard, he didn't bother them, but reopened the black umbrella and returned to the deck.

"Young man, why did you get out?" The middle-aged boatman asked while rowing a small boat.

"Hehe, that's your child, right? They're trying to read, so I won't go in and disturb them. Hua Feng looked at the boatman opposite and said with a smile.

"Yes! They grew up living in boats. When I used to fish in Taihu Lake, the two of us followed me. A somewhat rickety middle-aged boatman said.

"Isn't fishing in Taihu Lake more profitable than this? Why don't you do that? He asked with a smile.

"It's not that I don't want to do it, it's just that now Taihu Lake is occupied by the Taihu Gang, and now it's very difficult to fish and raise fish, and I have to pay them a sum of money, so I will come back and be an ordinary boatman, and the family will live an ordinary life in peace, and I will be very satisfied." The middle-aged boatman said.

As he spoke, he put the paddle back on the deck and let the boat drive automatically with the river, but the other party took out a little tobacco from his pocket, made a simple pipe made of a bottle, took out a lighter, lit it, and smoked it leisurely. From the other party's words, it seemed that the other party was a person with a story, so he came to sit down next to the boat family and asked.

"Boatman, don't you have to pay it if you sail here?" When the middle-aged boatman looked up and saw that there were other candlelit boatmen only in the distance, he looked back at the young man who had already stepped over the canvas on the top of the boat. He didn't know why this young man liked to inquire about those things on the road so much, after all, tourists who used to take boats always asked which place in Wuxi was the most fun, and which place in Wuxi had the best food? No one has ever asked about that.

"Young man, be quiet, you have to pay here too. However, it was a lot less, and this income was enough to live as a family, and this is also my hometown, so I came back. The rickety middle-aged boatman said. The kind of smoke that his father smoked, when it came out of the middle-aged boatman's house, became part of the thick smoke on the creek under the rain of the night.

"Boat family, then you must know about the Zhuqing Gang?"

"Know some. However, if we people here know, no one will mention it. The rickety middle-aged boatman still looked around, and only whispered when no one paid attention to the boat. It's just that, at this time, he doesn't speak anymore.

"How about 100,000 acres of bamboo forest in Wuxi, I want to go and see!" He deliberately glanced at the middle-aged boatman next to him nonchalantly and asked in a low voice. In the past, when he came to Wuxi, he sent some members of the Assassination Hall to find information about the Zhuqing Gang. Unexpectedly, the Bamboo Green Gang is much more mysterious than the Money Gang, and the other party does not seem to have much connection with government figures, but most of their connections are related to the 100,000 acres of bamboo forests on the outskirts of Wuxi. Once upon a time, I was surprised to see an acre of bamboo forest, not to mention that now it is 100,000 acres of bamboo forest, what a huge bamboo forest it is, it can be said that it will not be wrong to describe it as "bamboo sea".

It's just that when the members of the Assassination Hall sent out to track down the Zhuqing Gang, many of them felt strange when they arrived outside the 100,000 mu bamboo forest, and even when Li Liang, the leader of the tenth group of the Assassination Hall, took a few team members inside, they encountered a lot of Zhuyeqing, the kind of poisonous snakes hidden in the bamboo leaves, but they felt disoriented, so they didn't dare to go far, and they didn't dare to follow up. Without food and fresh water, it is really difficult to get lost in the bamboo sea and get out alive!

"Young man, I see that you are a foreigner, and I advise you not to go there. Many people go there, either missing, or a few days later, there is a corpse left, there is insidious, people in Wuxi know, except for some outsiders who like that kind of environment to go there, and finally do not listen to the advice and have an accident. The middle-aged boatman whispered, but when the other party said the 100,000 acres of bamboo forest, he looked very nervous.

"Isn't it just a sea of bamboo? What's so strange, I heard that there are other people living in the bamboo forest, and I want to go in and have a look, after all, the bamboo shoots there are the freshest, and maybe you can eat them. He said deliberately pretending not to care.

"Alas, young people are fearless and ignorant, and I don't know how many people have been harmed! Do you see me bending over here? Why did I become like this before I was fifty? Not for a reason. The rickety middle-aged boatman said with a sad face, looking at the other party's expression as if he had suddenly returned to twenty years ago.

"Back then, just a few years after I got married, we had a pair of children. I heard that there were a lot of fresh mushrooms and bamboo shoots in that bamboo forest, so I thought of making some money there, and after giving my children to my parents, I took my wife and a few bamboo baskets to go to that bamboo forest. At that time, my wife and I saw those mushrooms and bamboo shoots, as if we had seen countless amounts of money, and at that time we just thought about why there were so many bamboo shoots and mushrooms in it, why no one else picked them? I didn't notice the changes in the bamboo forest at all. It can be said that in the 80s, although the price of mushrooms and bamboo shoots was not very expensive, the 10,000 yuan households were also very remarkable at that time. So I filled all the bamboo baskets I brought with me, and found that if I could bring them out at that time, I could buy at least a few hundred yuan. At that time, you could sell for a few hundred yuan a day, which is equivalent to earning tens of thousands of yuan a day now, so you know what your mood was like at that time? When the middle-aged rickety boatman finished speaking, he seemed to be a little yearning and seemed to be very painful. He didn't speak, but took out two cigarettes from his pocket, handed one to each other, lit one himself, and slowly inhaled it, listening to the story the other person told.

"It's just that when we looked up, we found that the whole bamboo forest was pitch black, and at that time we went in in the morning, and there was no flashlight at all, so there was no light, and it was also daytime at that time, how could there be moonlight? Where is the way out? At first, I thought it was because the day had turned into a night, but after a long time, my wife and I were very hungry. I could only bite those bamboo shoots and raw mushrooms on the one hand, sucking some water, and the two didn't know how long they walked. When we couldn't walk anymore and could only lean under a bamboo forest, my wife and I, who had already begun to fall into a coma, heard laughter in the distance, and we really heard it very clearly, and the feeling was like being not far ahead, just like now seeing the boatman's family in the boat not far ahead. The rickety middle-aged boatman sucked the cigarette Hua Feng handed him and continued.

So I carried my unconscious wife, cried out loudly, and walked over there. However, I found that my shouts were heard all around, and there was no one else's voice at all. At this time, a bamboo leaf fell from the bamboo leaf at some point and bit my wife's back and neck. The poison of Zhu Yeqing was very strong, and I had no antidote at that time, so I could only help my wife suck out the poisonous snake of Zhu Yeqing. However, it was useless, and by the time I fell to the ground tired, my wife was completely out of breath. If I wasn't greedy for money, how could I be like this? A few tears had already flowed from the eyes of the rickety middle-aged boatman.

"At the beginning, I was still holding my wife tightly on my back, trying to find a way out. It's just that I don't know how long I've been crawling, and when I got outside, I had already fainted. When I woke up, I was already at home, and at that time, my wife was already buried. It's just that I've been weird because in my last moments of fainting, I feel like the intense sunlight outside is still as strong as it was when I went in. I also extrapolated from the time, I felt that there was not enough time in it for a day, but why did it become night inside? Later, I took a long rope with me, and several young people in the village who were not afraid of death, and when they pulled the rope to tie me outside, when I went inside, I found that it was almost the same as the first time, and the long rope did not know when it broke. By the time I was still crawling out like I had climbed out for the first time, I was in the same frame as I am now, and several young people from the same village had disappeared by that time. The clumsy middle-aged boatman said, and at this time, the other party was already in tears and didn't speak anymore.

Although what the other party said was a little weird, it was not strange that people like him, although they were still young, had experienced a lot of things. However, he also felt that this bamboo sea seemed to be somewhat similar to the gossip array on the eighth floor of Japan's underground base on Hengsha Island, after all, that bamboo sea was very large. At the beginning, the rickety middle-aged man and his wife must have just entered the edge of the bamboo forest, and it was easy to get out of it at all. It's just that now it's the opposite of what he said.