Subsequently, Ma Yanghua lowered her voice again: "I heard that the rat fairy has started to kill people again recently, not to mention the vicinity of Junshan Island, now it is the other waters of Dongting Lake, and there are no fishermen who dare to fish at night. ”

When Ma Yanghua spoke, her tone was quite complaining, it is estimated that they also belong to the fishermen who were frightened by the ghost legend, Song Siyuan had an idea, and said slowly: "Brother Fushun, otherwise, I will rent your boat for one night, and at night you will put us near Junshan Island, and we will go to the Broken Island Rat Immortal Temple by ourselves, how about it?" ”

"This ...... Girl, if you go to other places, the two of us can still take you there, Junshan Island is really not good, but I will tell you a secret passage to Broken Island, which can pass through Broken Island without knowing it, and get close to the Rat Immortal Temple. ”

"There is still a secret passage to Broken Island?"

Song Siyuan became curious.

"Oh, it's not a secret passage, do you remember I told your big brother Fushun, the origin of our Dongting boat people, as early as the previous dynasty, some water bandits were mostly ...... near Dongting"

The story of the passage of the broken island has to start from the previous dynasty.

At the end of the Zhu Dynasty, the cavalry entered the customs, and the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty first set the capital of Jinling, and then the territory continued to shrink, and finally even the partial Yunnan could not be done, and the land was completely lost.

Countless Southern Ming generals refused to give in to the new dynasty, and decided to build a ship into Dongting Lake, relying on the 800 miles of Dongting water, to cover their whereabouts, and in the following decades, the Southern Ming soldiers were divided into two factions, one of which was the Dongting boat people, and the other was the Dongting water bandits.

Not to mention the Dongting boat people who are kind to others and never do robbery and killing, the secret passage of the broken island is exactly the Dongting water bandit who robbed the house and killed people and oversold goods, and it was specially used to do illegal things.

When the previous dynasty first opened the country, there was still the intention of exterminating the generals of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and ordered the government along the coast of Dongting Lake not to communicate with the generals of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and not to allow passing ships to replenish supplies with the remnants of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Under this kind of netting and interception, the Nanming soldiers were finally forced to a desperate situation, and in their opinion, the former government forcibly cut off their way.

Since the new dynasty was immoral and the officials forced the people to rebel, these Southern Ming generals had no choice but to abandon their courtesy, righteousness and shame, and seriously started to do the work of Dongting water bandits, began to rob passing boats, harass fishermen along the lake, and gradually became treacherous and cunning Dongting water bandits who were well versed in water.

The hiding place of this group of Dongting bandits is near the broken island of Junshan, at that time, it was not called broken island, but Chiba Island, which means that the island in this lake is like a thousand green leaves floating in the lake.

The water bandits chose to be here, and there must be their considerations.

Far from the shores of the lake, Chiba Island belongs to the Dongting Lake area, and while being able to get close to the land, it is not enough to walk on the shore of the lake without breaking their vows, and at the same time, the thousand islands here are strange and craggy like stars, and it is extremely easy to hide in them, and it is easy to get lost completely if there is no one to guide them.

In addition, any boat that enters Dongting Lake from the river will be close to Chiba Island, and use it as a nest for bandits, so that they can observe the situation on the river and even facilitate the robbery of boats.

For this reason, the Dongting Water Bandits finally used Chiba Island as a lair and built a dense secret passage here.

Even if it is really winter, the flowers and plants will wither, but they will still be covered by withered grass and snow, so that people cannot distinguish the traces.

The countless bandit villages rely on the secret passages like the roots of the anthill trees, and are built in various karst caves, and these secret passages and karst cave bandit villages make the sheltering function of Chiba Island magnified by ten million times, as long as people walk into it without water bandits leading the way, they will definitely get lost in it.

Even if the officials and soldiers came, it was useless, these officers and soldiers sent warships to clean up many times, often in vain, but because of the countless casualties in entering Chiba Island, they saw that they returned in vain every time, and the government on the coast of Dongting Lake was too lazy to do useless work, and never came to Chiba Island to suppress bandits.

As for the further era, the imperial court relaxed the encirclement and suppression of the Nanming water bandits, and these water bandits began to cooperate with the government on the shore to do dirty things for them, and then Chiba Island was completely stable.

In the past three hundred years, Chiba Island has always been the base camp of the water bandits in Dongting Lake, until the Ding Mao famine and the civil unrest, the government was abolished in those decades, and these water bandits had a way to live, so they went ashore from Chiba Island, established various trading houses and dart bureaus, and martial arts halls, and this Chiba Island was slowly deserted.

Now, after the establishment of the Dragon King Temple on Junshan Island, the nearby has become a prosperous town, and the broken island will no longer have any effect, in the past two years, with the establishment of the Rat Immortal Temple, there are more people who come to incense near the broken island, but because these people are walking on the bright line of the waterway, they still don't know anything about the secret secret line.

"Then since you don't know, how did you two know about these secret passages?"

Yue Guanchao became curious, he remembered that Ma Yanghua said that they belonged to the Dongting boat people, not the Dongting bandits.

Zhu Fushun waved his hand: "Hey, it's true that we are Dongting boat people, but the older generation is indeed a Dongting water bandit, my grandfather was the master of the water bandit camp back then, in charge of the drawings of the secret passage of Chiba Island, after his old man died, he passed the drawings to my father, and when they came to my hands, the drawings were indeed there, but no one has been to this secret passage for decades, and no one knows what it has become." ”

"Although I have the drawings of the secret passage, I haven't been to the secret passage much over the years, and the place has been abandoned for seventy or eighty years, and I don't know what happened, and it is useless for ordinary people to go to that place."

"I see."

Yue and Song suddenly realized.

"Then Brother Zhu, we will entrust it to you, and when the moon is full, we will work hard for you to take us to the secret passage."

Yue Guanchao originally wanted to rent a big ship to anchor near Junshan Island, but seeing that there was a secret passage to directly enter the broken island, there was no longer any risk of being discovered, as long as they were guided by the Juma couple, this could be regarded as solving their immediate difficulties.

"Okay, no problem, you wait, I'll give you the drawings first, you are familiar with the route, and we can go in a few days."

Zhu Fushun took them into the cabin, and after rummaging in the living room for a while, they took out a cowhide diagram from it, walked into the living room and immediately handed it to Song Siyuan: "Here, keep it, but don't lose it." ”

"Okay."

The two didn't expect that there would be a new harvest at the lakeside wharf today, and when they returned to the Qingtong Inn, they immediately told Yue Qingshan about today's events.

"That's great."

Yue Guanchao immediately took out the map, spread it on the table and picked up the flashlight to carefully observe the details, the cowhide map is about half a meter square, the rectangle is regular, and it is specially softened, the surface is similar to the frosted texture of the cloth.

Look carefully, you can see that the gray and yellow surface is full of years of cracks, with Junshan Island as the center, the Qianye Island is directly drawn in the center, countless islands are aimed at the white edge to appear very clear, it can be seen that the distance of the island is high and wide, the secret road starts from the island near Junshan Island, and continues to enter the broken island along the waterway.

Judging from the floor plan, the whole secret passage is really like a tree root ant nest, starting from one point can lead to different islands, as if it is an irregular labyrinth, in this secret passage, there are no countless black spots are marked, and there are small characters in the cave bandit village next to it, the whole is distributed according to the southeast and northwest, and together surrounds the Jade Hook Island.

On the whole, Chiba Island was hollowed out by the Dongting bandits, so that the island was adapted to local conditions and made the best use of the island, and all the tunnel sections were marked with symbols such as A, B, C, D, and one to nine, so you can easily identify the route of the tunnel.

With this map in hand, you can pass through the secret passage with your eyes closed.

"Just!"

Song Siyuan became curious, pointed at the largest of them, Jade Hook Island, and said: "I don't have any idea about the others, it's just that why these bandit villages are almost all built around Jade Hook Island, don't you think it's strange?" ”

About this, everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to mean.

Sun Daqiao hissed: "We don't know very well, maybe it's because there is the largest bandit village on Yugou Island, or because Yugou Island is the center of the Chiba Island Belt, if you want to say that, I think of it, these cave bandit villages seem to be arranged according to the direction of gossip, and there are exactly eight different bandit villages." ”

Lao Sun Tou divided the beans into the various karst cave bandit villages, after throwing away the interference of lines, it is easy to see that the direction of the bandit village is close to the gossip, the jade hook island is located in the center of the gossip, shaped like half a yin and yang fish, of course, this is symbolic, in fact, it is just a crescent moon shape.

"This is strange, could it be that the water bandits build bandit villages, and they also pay attention to feng shui?"

Yue Erpao's words made everyone feel incredible, but the fact is that it is extremely appropriate.

Song Siyuan said: "Probably possible, if you think about the last years of the Zhu Dynasty, it was at least three hundred years away from today, what happened three hundred years ago, we don't know, perhaps, in order to be safer, the ancients really built a bandit village according to the theory of feng shui, which is also reasonable." ”

"Fortunately, we don't need to rent a boat to get to Yugou Island, just see if the rats on Yugou Island will worship the moon."

She paused, and her tone became mysterious: "I've always wondered why the rats worship the moon on Jade Hook Island, whether it has something to do with the feng shui pattern on this island." ”

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and Yue Guanchao sighed: "There are too many secrets, the Dongting bandit village may not be as simple as it seems, and when we have time, we must let Brother Fushun tell us why the pattern of this bandit village is like this." ”

Some people died, but not completely......