On a pile of yellow sand, there is a black pearl, which is pure and beautiful, but who would have thought that it would cause a series of complicated and mysterious things... When Chu Liuxiang returned to his boat, it was like a wanderer returning home. The wind on the sea was humid and warm, as warm as his mood. Deep in the sea and sky, there is a white cloud flying slowly, the ship is rippling in the blue waves, and the smooth deck is brighter than a mirror under the bright sun.He took off his clothes, shoes and socks, the hot deck made him feel lazy, and he seemed to be floating. He couldn't help but let go and shouted: "Su Rongrong, Li Hongxiu, Song Tian'er, if you don't bring out delicious food, I will swallow the boat."

There was no sound, no response, and there was no one on the whole boat. Su Rongrong, Li Hongxiu, and Song Tian'er were all gone. In an instant, all the warm and comfortable feeling in Chu Liuxiang's heart disappeared. He searched every corner of the ship, even in the closet and the rice vat. He didn't find even a hair of their hair. Where are they going? Sometimes, Li Hongxiu would go ashore to buy a box of sandalwood, and Song Tian'er would go shopping in the market, but it never happened that the three of them left the boat together. Will they leave without saying goodbye?

This is even more impossible. Over the years, they and Chu Liuxiang have become one body, they are already a part of Chu Liuxiang's life, and no one can separate them. So why were they not on board?Could it be that he was poisoned by others? Chu Liuxiang rushed into the cabin again. He was sure that the martial arts and wit of the three of them were enough to deal with any accidents, but he still installed forty-nine ingenious mechanisms in the cabin. These organs can incapacitate people in the blink of an eye-some can stun people, some can lock people's limbs, and some can send people into the sea.

But now, none of these mechanisms have been touched, and there is no mess inside or outside the cabin. In the green gauze cabinet, there are three roasted chickens.His cherished wine is still hanging in the sea water, and the wine glass he likes has long since been polished. Li Hongxiu's bedside, there is a copy of "Remembering", the pages of the book are folded on the part of the dream, Su Rongrong's bed head, and a pair of socks that she hasn't made yet. They obviously left the boat quietly, unless someone could restrain the three of them together in an instant. But such a person has not yet been born!

Chu Liuxiang didn't understand even more. The more he couldn't figure out what was going on, the more anxious he became. He was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, running in and out of the boat, turning around, and after seventy or eighty circles, he suddenly realized—— On the big chair he likes, there is a pile of glowing yellow sand. There is a shiny black pearl on the yellow sand. This is the easiest place to find, but when a person is anxious, he often misses the most obvious place. Chu Liuxiang grabbed a handful of yellow sand, and the sand fell from his fingers like rain.

So he found another piece of paper buried in the sand, which read: Now, Chu Liuxiang was riding on Black Pearl's horse. This is a small town on the Malian River. Scorching sun, wind and sand, loess.In a poor town, a woman in scanty clothes, holding a child with a disheveled face, ducks behind the wooden door and peeks at people. But on the barren Loess Plateau, this small town can be considered prosperous and prosperous, because it is the only place with clear water within a hundred miles nearby. Therefore, there are actually a few brick houses and a few shops in the town. After Chu Liuxiang has gone through a difficult journey, it seems to be in heaven here.

He was driving on the road almost day and night, and he had almost forgotten what wine was like, and his sleep seemed to be a few days ago. If it wasn't for this horse, he wouldn't have been able to get here so quickly. Here, on a sunny day with no wind, he could already see the battlements of the Great Wall in the distance. But today it was windy, and the loess was flying on the road. The shopkeeper of the small wine shop by the street was constantly blowing the sand on the pancakes with a broom. As long as he stops his hand, a layer of butter-like loess will accumulate on the cake. This kind of cake is considered delicious in this kind of place.

Chu Liuxiang caressed the horse's mane and sighed: "It's been hard for you these two days, it seems like we both should have a good meal today." A dilapidated carriage came windily coming from the other side of the street. The big man who drove the carriage seemed to want to whip every ounce of strength out of the pitifully skinny horse. At this moment, a cat jumped out of the wine shop and wanted to cross the street. When the carriage came, it was too late to hide, and it was about to be trampled to death by the horse's hoof. At this moment, another figure sprang out from the wine shop, as fast as an arrow shot out, and covered the cat with its body.

So the horse's hooves stepped on him, and the wheels ran over him. The people on the side of the road couldn't help exclaiming, and Chu Liuxiang also changed color. This person is not hesitant to save a cat with his own life. Could it be that he is a lunatic? The big man driving the carriage was not surprised when he saw the death, so he quickly stopped the carriage, jumped off, and ran back to have a look. I saw the man lying on the ground, holding the cat in his arms, smiling and saying: "Little boy, be careful next time you cross the street, there are a lot of blind people with their eyes open these days, wouldn't it be wrong to be crushed to death by such a bastard?" ?”

The entire carriage passed over him, and he didn't have a single bit of damage from head to toe, but the ragged clothes on his body became a little more ragged. The driver of the car was startled and terrified, and cursed: "Who is the bastard, you are the bastard. If you die, I will accompany you in the lawsuit..." The more he spoke, the more angry he became, and he kicked him. The man was still stroking the cat with his right hand, but he didn't even look at it. With just a slight push of his left hand, the big driver was sent to the roof. Passers-by were shocked and laughed, and the big man driving the car was shocked and scared on the roof, but he walked slowly towards the wine shop with the cat in his arms, as if nothing had happened.

The sun shines on his miserable beard, the lazy smile on his face, and his big black and bright eyes. He was faster than an arrow just now, and he was really alive and well, but now he is too lazy to even walk the road, wishing to find someone to carry him to the wine shop. Chu Liuxiang suddenly jumped off the horse and shouted, "Hu Tiehua, crazy flower, why are you here?" The man turned around and saw Chu Liuxiang, jumped up too, and laughed loudly: "Chu Liuxiang, you old bug, why are you here?" He didn't even care about the cat in his hand, he rushed over like flying, and punched Chu Liuxiang on the shoulder, Chu Liuxiang didn't suffer, and punched him in the stomach. Both of them screamed in pain, but they almost burst into tears from laughter. Chu Liuxiang smiled bitterly and said, "No wonder I haven't seen you for so many years. I thought you were too lazy, so you actually hid here!" Hu Tiehua said with a smile: "You old bug, why did you come here? Could it be that Niuer forced you to have nowhere to go?" The two fought and laughed, stumbled into the small wine shop, and sat down at a rickety table, and the big tabby cat also jumped on the table with a "meow". But Hu Tiehua picked it up and said with a smile: "Little boy, don't be jealous, this old bug is my old friend, he is here, you have to squat aside..." Chu Liuxiang actually turned into an old bug in his mouth, and he laughed himself out laughing just thinking about it. Chu Liuxiang laughed loudly and said, "I haven't seen you for many years, I never thought that you, a lazy cat, have made a friend again...Come on! Little boy, since you are his friend, why don't you have a drink with me too!" Hu Tiehua stared and said, "Drink two cups? If I don't drink two hundred cups for you today, even if I'm not enough friends." He patted the table and shouted: "Wine! Wine! Bring the wine, don't you want to kill my friend?" A thin, small, dark, dry woman came out with a tin jug, threw the jug on the table with a "bang", turned her head and walked back. She didn't even glance at Hu Tiehua from the corner of her eyes, but Hu Tiehua's eyes were fixed on her all the time, as if she was the most beautiful woman in the world. Chu Liuxiang laughed secretly: "This lazy cat must have seen a woman for a long time. I'm afraid he has forgotten what a beautiful woman looks like." This woman is not ugly, she is not very old, and her eyes are not small, but she is so thin that she has no flesh, she looks like a dried hen. Only when she was gone, Hu Tiehua turned her head, poured two bowls of wine, and said with a smile: "Chu Liuxiang, you have to be more careful. Today's Hu Tiehua can't drink as much as in the past. I still remember that you drank all Drunk me eighty-eight times, now I'm going to start revenge." Chu Liuxiang smiled and said, "Eighty-nine times...have you forgotten the time in the wine tank?" Hu Tiehua laughed loudly and said: "How could I forget that time I just put half a catty of croton in your wine, but you threw me into Zhang's big wine vat and made me drunk for three days." Chu Liuxiang said leisurely: "Do you remember how long ago that happened?" Hu Tiehua smiled and said: "Eighteen years... I'm afraid it's almost nineteen years. At that time, I was only a child of eight or nine years old. If I hadn't made a bad friend like you, how would I have learned to drink." Chu Liuxiang laughed loudly and said, "Don't forget, the wine we drank for the first time was stolen by you!" Hu Tiehua said with a bitter face: "Really? I forgot..." He finally couldn't help laughing and said: "To be honest, the stolen wine tastes the best. I've never drank such a good wine in my life..." He just tilted his neck, and suddenly there was such a big bowl of wine. gone. Chu Liuxiang drank it too, but wrinkled her nose and said, "Is this really wine?" Hu Tiehua said: "What is it if it's not wine?" Chu Liuxiang smiled and said, "I thought it was vinegar!" Hu Tiehua laughed loudly, poured wine again, and said with a smile: "You are lucky to have this kind of wine in this kind of place." Chu Liuxiang took his wine and murmured: "It seems that this lazy cat has not only forgotten the woman's appearance, but also the taste of the wine." More than a dozen jugs of wine were drunk in the blink of an eye, and the little woman naturally came out more than a dozen times, each time throwing the jug heavily on the table, turning her head and walking away. Later, as soon as she walked out of the door, Chu Liuxiang became nervous and almost couldn't help covering her ears with her hands, but her hands had to go to support the table first, otherwise the table would be thrown down by her. But as soon as Hu Tiehua saw her walking out the door, his eyes lit up, his laughter rang out, and the lazy person seemed to suddenly regain his energy. Chu Liuxiang couldn't help sighing: "Poor boy, how long have you lived in this ghostly place?" Hu Tiehua blinked and said, "Do you remember, how many years has it been since I last met you?" Chu Liuxiang sighed: "Seven years, unexpectedly it will be seven years in the blink of an eye!" Hu Tiehua stared into the distance, and said leisurely: "It was summer at that time, in Mochou Lake...the lotus flowers on Mochou Lake bloomed so beautifully that year, we rolled lotus leaves into wine glasses, drank a glass of wine, threw a leaf, In the end, our boat was almost full of lotus leaves, and the lotus leaves beside you were piled up higher than your nose." Chu Liuxiang smiled and said, "That summer day passed so quickly..." Hu Tiehua suddenly smiled and said: "Do you remember who else was with us that year?" Chu Liuxiang laughed and said, "Even if I forget everyone else, I will never forget Gao Yanan. At that time, she had just learned a set of 'Huifengwu Liujian' from Mount Hua. Whenever she got drunk, she would practice this set of swordsmanship." Let us see, the reason why people in Jinling Wulin waited beside our boat all day long is to secretly learn her sword skills." Hu Tiehua said: "To be honest, her swordsmanship is really not very good. Later, as soon as she practiced the sword, I would have to pee. I'm really surprised, how did she get the name 'Breeze Female Swordsman'. " Chu Liuxiang smiled and said: "You said her sword skills are not good, but Ji Bingyan always said that her sword skills are three points better than Xu Shuzhen, the head of Huashan in the past." Hu Tiehua clapped his hands and said: "That's right, this dead rooster can go three days without saying a word, and when he speaks, he praises her 'sword skills'. I guess he probably has a crush on her." Chu Liuxiang smiled and said: "But she is looking for you, otherwise how could she seek out us drunk fools? Do you remember that day you were drunk and promised to marry her?" Hu Tiehua said with a bitter face: "Why don't I remember? I sobered up the next day and forgot about it. Who knew she hadn't forgotten yet, and forced me to marry her, and said that if I reneged, She also has no face to live on, she was about to commit suicide, so I had no choice but to jump into the lake overnight and flee..." Before he finished speaking, Chu Liuxiang fell down on the table with a smile, panting, "No wonder I suddenly found that both of you disappeared at dawn the next day. I thought you had eloped! It's so bad." Ji Bingyan drowned his sorrows with wine, and almost died of drunkenness that night, and left the next day, and I haven't seen him again until now." Hu Tiehua smiled bitterly: "If Gao Yanan hadn't chased him desperately, how could I have escaped so far?" Chu Liuxiang lost her voice and said, "You fled here seven years ago, haven't you left?" Hu Tiehua said: "I escaped here after she chased me for three years." Chu Liuxiang said: "So, you have been here for four years?" Hu Tiehua gulped down a bowl of wine and said, "Three years and ten months." Chu Liuxiang said: "I really can't believe that there is anything in this hellish place that can keep a person like you." Hu Tiehua gulped down another bowl of wine, suddenly stared straight at Chu Liuxiang and said with a smile, "Do you really want me to tell you?" Chu Liuxiang said: "Quickly say it!" Hu Tiehua leaned her head to Chu Liuxiang's ear, and said, "Can you see the woman who brought us wine just now?" Chu Liuxiang jumped up and said, "You...you stay here just for her?" Hu Tiehua said: "Not bad!" Chu Liuxiang hurriedly supported the table with her hands, as if she was afraid of going into a coma. He went up and down, looked at Hu Tiehua dozens of times, as if he had never seen Hu Tiehua in his life, then he sat down slowly, poured a bowl of wine, drank it, and then said slowly: "I want to ask you something thing." Hu Tiehua said: "What's the matter?" Chu Liuxiang said: "This woman's whole body is better than Gao Yanan, can you tell me?" Hu Tiehua gulped down another bowl of wine, and said, "I'm telling you, Gao Yanan wanted to chase me, but I wanted to chase her, and I haven't caught up with her for four years. This is her only advantage, do you understand?" ?” Chu Liuxiang stared at his face for a full cup of tea, and then suddenly became happy again. He leaned on the table and laughed loudly: "Retribution, I only believe now that there is such a thing as 'retribution' in the world. gone." Hu Tiehua said bitterly: "What are you laughing at? I know this kind of great feeling. A layman like you will never understand it in his whole life." Chu Liuxiang clutched his stomach and said, "God! Great feelings! Can you spare me?" Hu Tiehua kept silent, drank three bowls of wine in one go, and suddenly burst out laughing, the two of them leaned on the table and laughed so hard that they shed tears. Chu Liuxiang gasped and said, "How did this 'great feeling' happen, why don't you tell me?" Hu Tiehua stared and said: "You are not allowed to laugh when you hear that." Chu Liuxiang said: "Don't laugh! Never laugh!" Hu Tiehua whispered: "When I came here, I haven't seen a woman for three months. When you see her, you can say that she is not beautiful, but you have to admit that she is the most beautiful in this place!" Chu Liuxiang said, "I admit it." Hu Tiehua said: "So I just want to play with her... in my opinion, it's not easy, but she actually treats me like a dead person, and doesn't even look at me." Chu Liuxiang suppressed a smile and said, "The majestic leader of the romantic leader, Hua Die, is treated like nothing by a mere little girl. Is it tolerable? Is it unbearable? Even I am angry for you." Hu Tiehua said: "The more she ignores me, the more interested I am. I am going to spend a month of effort. Who knows that after one month, there is still no progress. I will prepare for three months. Who knows..." He smiled wryly and said, "You can tell even if I don't tell you, I spent three years and ten months of hard work. In her eyes, I am still a dead person. She has never even laughed stupidly at me." Chu Liuxiang really didn't laugh, and he really couldn't laugh anymore. Hu Tiehua drank three more bowls of wine in one breath, and said loudly: "If you show any pity for me, I will pour the wine into your nose." Chu Liuxiang said: "I don't pity you, I only admire you, I admire you to death!" Hu Tiehua laughed so loudly that he sprayed wine all over the table. He smiled and said: "Now, I want to listen to you, why did you come here? Could it be that someone is forcing you to marry her as a wife?" Chu Liuxiang's expression suddenly became heavy, and after a long silence, he said slowly: "Do you still remember Su Rongrong, Li Hongxiu, and Song Tian'er?" Hu Tiehua smiled and said: "Of course I remember. They were little girls at that time, and they must have grown up now. Could it be that the three of them are going to marry you together? No wonder you ran so far." Chu Liuxiang sighed: "Others think that my relationship with them is a bit abnormal, but in fact, they have followed me since they were eleven or twelve years old. They just regard me as their big brother and their good friend, and I... You should always trust me, I always regard them as my sisters." Hu Tiehua said seriously: "Others can't trust you, but I know you, you old bug, it's a headache when it's bad, but it's so good that people can't even dream of it when it gets better." Chu Liuxiang let out a long sigh, and said sadly, "Now, all three of them have been taken away." Hu Tiehua moved and said: "Abducted by someone? Who has such courage?" Chu Liuxiang said: "Have you heard of 'King of the Desert' Jamuka?" Hu Tiehua said angrily: "How dare this kid provoke you? I tore him up and fed him to the dogs!" Chu Liuxiang said: "It's not him, it's his son Hei Zhuzhu." Hu Tiehua yelled: "Whether he is a black pearl or a white pearl, how dare he have the guts to provoke our brothers?" He slapped the table and jumped up, saying, "Let's go! Let's settle the score with him." Chu Liuxiang said: "You want to come with me?" Hu Tiehua said angrily: "You old bug, who do you think I am? You are in trouble, if I don't help you, who will help you?" Chu Liuxiang also jumped up, and laughed loudly: "With you walking with me, it would be no wonder if the desert wasn't turned upside down." He suddenly stopped laughing, glanced at the back door, and said, "But what about her? Don't you care?"