"You know it's only going to get worse. Piqued my curiosity. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" Lin Mu looked at Lao Mu, "If I can, I would like to know your true identity." ”

"As you can see, I'm just a re-ordinary. But the gardener! Lao Mu smiled bitterly and shook his head, making Lin Mu doubt his identity, which was obviously not his original intention.

"I'm referring to the body before your gardener. This is a question that has puzzled me all the time, because my intuition tells me that you are a person with a story, but in that story, you are obviously not talking about yourself. Lin Mu said the doubts in his heart. Please forgive a screenwriter for his rich imagination, because I always feel that you should have some kind of connection to the story you just had. ”

"It's not so much a rich imagination as a keen judgment. Let's do it! Lao Mu knew that Lin Mu had noticed some details in the story, and then had doubts from inference.

"I have another story here, but it's better than the previous one. It's a lot more bland. Lao Mu sighed softly, "The story also takes place in the United States in the 50s, when the 'Self-Improvement Association' had just been established, and the mother of a young man who had just turned 18 had just been killed in a race riot. With his flexible mind and a bloody nature that dares to fight and dare to break through, he soon emerged in the 'Self-improvement Association'. ”

"If it goes according to the normal development model, he will go from 'self. A small leader of the strong will, step by step crawling to the heart of power. If it doesn't go well, in a certain battle, he will prove his loyalty to the organization with his worthless life. But all this was completely changed by the reception of the young man as the leader of the gods! ”

"The leader's. . . The amazing talent is not something that ordinary people can imagine, and even at the beginning of the establishment of the 'Self-improvement Association', he already had a premonition of what might happen in the future. Perhaps a character like him can always grasp some so-called 'potential', so he continues to expand the 'self-improvement club' while beginning to prepare for the back road early. And at this time, the youth was entrusted with a secret plan! ”

"The young man has received the management of an amazing fortune from the leader, and he has been given the task as simple as it sounds, and the leader hopes that in 20 years, the youth will be able to build an economic empire of their own, and this is the way back for the 'Self-Improvement Association'. But it's hard to actually do it. At first, the young man didn't even know what to do, but then he realized that the leader had already laid everything out, and he was nothing more than the concrete executor of that huge plan. ”

"Since then, all the records of the young man in the 'Self-Improvement Association' have been deleted, and it is as if he has disappeared from the 'Self-Improvement Association' out of thin air. On the other hand, the transformed youth appeared at various gatherings in New York's upper-class Chinese society. In the past 20 years, the young man who died on the streets has tens of billions of dollars in assets in his hands, and because his wealth is scattered all over the world, his name has never appeared on any wealth list. After the "Self-Improvement Association" completed the task of promoting the national equality movement, in order to decentralize American politics. The government noticed that the leader finally dissolved the 'Self-Improvement Association', and many of the industries of the 'Self-Improvement Association' were also bleached one by one through the operation of young people and became legal enterprises in the United States. ”

Lin Mu is now beginning to regret knowing this story, because if his guess is right, Lao Mu should be the young man in the story, his previous guess is completely true, Lao Mu really has an inseparable connection with the 'Self-improvement Association'. Lin Mu plans to write gang/gang movies, but he doesn't plan to have any connection with gang/gang forces. For the kind of organization that grows on the dark side of society, Lin Mu has an instinctive resistance.

"I seem to know something I shouldn't know!" Lin Mu said with some annoyance.

"It's too late to regret it now, you know it's all inconsequential." Lao Mu left the choice to Lin Mu, and he was still unsure if Lin Mu would be able to accept an organization like the 'Self-Improvement Association'. Knowing too much about some things isn't necessarily a good thing, especially for a smart person like Lin Mu.

"You said you chose to be a gardener because you were forced to make a living, but I don't think you should be the kind of person who would worry about money." After guessing Lao Mu's true identity, Lin Mu immediately had such a question. How could a man who once held tens of billions of dollars in assets be willing to be a gardener and spend every day building flowers and plants.

"To be exact, I've left that organization!" Lao Mu's answer was very simple, "I am already satisfied that an old man in his 50s, who can't do physical work and doesn't have any academic qualifications, can get such a job." ”

"What about your family?" Lin Mu couldn't help but ask.

"Since the day I joined the 'Self-Improvement Club', I have no home!" Lao Mu's indifferent expression could not see any emotional fluctuations.

"And what about when you joined, you weren't married?" Lin Mu took the liberty of asking.

"I had a failed marriage, so I'm still alone."

"You didn't want to involve your wife, that's why you chose to divorce her, right?"

"How could you have such an idea?"

"People in the rivers and lakes, can't help themselves, although the 'self-improvement association' has been bleached in your hands, but the gang/gang is still the gang/gang, just like an iceberg, people only see a small part of it exposed. I think you're still up against an unscrupulous crowd. Lin Mu said what he thought. I'm just curious that if the true leader were still alive, he wouldn't let you go so easily. ”

"I've learned so many things, and for someone like me, it's safer to die than to live?" Lao Mu said self-deprecatingly.

Lin Mu nodded, "Generally, in movies and novels about gangsters, the story develops like this. ”

"Now that Mr. Lin also knows this secret, aren't you afraid that the organization behind me will be unfavorable to you?" Lao Mu asked very calmly.

"You're not worried, so what do I have to worry about?" Lin Mu smiled slyly.

"I'm just tired of living without ego where all the people I come into contact with wear an invisible mask. You never know their real faces underneath the mask, so in the end I chose to leave. The condition they agreed to my departure was simple: I had to find a suitable successor to continue to lead the underground kingdom. Lao Mu's implication was to tell Lin Mu that as long as he didn't give up looking for that suitable candidate, the organization behind him wouldn't take any action against him.

"I'm sure you've found it!" Lin Mu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he was also worried that Lao Mu's trouble had not been completely resolved, so even he himself would face a lot of trouble.

"In fact, I am not the only one looking for the organization, and there are several suitable candidates in the organization now." Lao Mu looked at Lin Mu very seriously, "I regret to tell you that there is no name of your name on that list yet!" ”

"I think that's good news for me!" Lin Mu didn't want to have anything to do with that kind of organization right now.

"I was going to tell you another piece of good news, but now it seems to be bad news for you!" Lao Mu glanced at Lin Mu with regret, "He wants to see you!" ”

"Him?" Lin Mu didn't react for a while, he obviously heard the awe of "him" in Lao Mu's tone.

"He never sees outsiders, and you're an exception."

Lin Mu had a feeling that he had been deceived by design. "So you've planned everything since you came to my house to be a gardener, and even the original owner of this house was arranged by you in advance?"

"You weren't famous enough to get his attention at the time, I'm sorry it was because of me that he noticed you!" Lao Mu looked at Lin Mu apologetically, "I never wanted to deliberately get close to you, I admit that you are the best young man I have ever met, but because you are so famous, you are not the person I am looking for." Our encounters were accidental, not man-made, I can assure you! ”

"When you meet him, you will immediately understand a lot of things!" Before Lin Mu met with the former leader of the Self-Improvement Association, Lao Mu refused to answer any of his questions.

Lin Mu was unusually calm, but when he followed Lao Mu through the empty church, he couldn't hold back the growing desire that if Lao Mu's words meant anything, then he was now on the threshold of uncovering the truth. After a while, he will understand whether there is a discrepancy between his half-formed impression and the actual situation. Apparently this meeting was not as mysterious as Lin Mu had imagined, he was not blindfolded, and even he felt that the protection around the church was loose. Such a place is not like a black. The place where the Taoist fathers lived.

But Lin Mu was sure that it would be an interesting meeting, he had met many strange people in power before, and he had an unbiased interest in them. Generally speaking, his evaluation of a person is fair and unbiased. On the spiral staircase, the lighting is a little dim. Walking to a door, Lao Mu knocked on the door, and the door opened, and it was a Chinese monk who opened the door.

The door opened so quickly, which made Lin Mu feel that he had been placed behind the door all along. The person who opened the door made Lin Mu vaguely guess the identity of the leader who lived in seclusion in the church. This part is on the upper floor of the church, and is decorated as elegantly as the rest of the church, but the air here is a little dry, as if all the doors and windows are closed, and the air is not very circulating.

Lao Mu stopped in front of another door, "He wants to see you alone." He opened the door for Lin Mu, closed it again, and quietly left.

Lin Mu's eyes are not easy to be. Adjusting to the dimness of the room, he gradually recognized it as a room with closed curtains and a low ceiling. There was only a table and a few chairs in the room, and on one of them sat a pale, diminutive man with a wrinkled face. He appeared in the dim light in an incomprehensible way, and looked like a black and white figure from a faded old painting. If reality can really separate any elves from the avatar, then sitting in front of Lin Mu is this noble masterpiece with classical reverence.

Lin Mu suddenly had a desire and. The impulse of such a character to speak, he felt strange about the longing he generated, and he could not understand whether it was a real longing or a physiological reaction to this dim and oppressive atmosphere. He took a few steps forward and stopped. The silhouette of the man in the chair was no longer so hazy, it was a little old man, he was very thin, and his body was loose and shriveled against his flat, shriveled skeleton.

"You're Mr. Lin Mu?" He used it excellently. asked in a low-key manner. The sound is pleasant, with a touch of melancholy. Perhaps because of some nervousness, Lin Mu didn't notice that the tone of his voice was so familiar for the first time in a long time.

Lin Mu nodded.

The voice continued, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Lin. I ask you. It's because I think we should have a good talk. Don't worry, please sit next to me. I'm an old man, and I can't hurt anyone! ”

Lin Mu replied, "I don't think it's a good idea to be able to be received by you. An honor enjoyed by ordinary people. ”

"Thank you, dear Mr. Lin. I call you sir by the basis of the West. Fang people's habits, if my memory is not wrong, most of your life, you have received a Western-style education. ”

"That's true."

"And so young as you are. It's a very happy time for someone like me to meet. My eyesight is terrible, but trust me, I can see you with my mind, and it is as real as my eyes. Before you came, Mulder told me you were interested in the history of Chinese gangs."

"I'm just interested in the stories themselves, you know I'm a storyteller!" Lin Mu said this intentionally to dissociate himself from the gang/gang.

"If you can give me a moment, I'll give you a brief description of our basic ideas."

"There's nothing I appreciate more than that."

"I've always had this idea and want to... First of all, before we talk—" His hand moved slightly, and through a summoning method that the forest could not feel, a waiter entered silently, and brought in a very delicate tea set: a lacquered tea tray with a small, thin porcelain tea bowl with almost no color in it. Lin Mu knew how to drink tea, and the voice continued: "Mr. Lin is very familiar with this set of etiquette in our China/country? (To be continued.) )