Chapter 4 The Fourth Rainstorm Pear Blossom Nails

Hu Tiehua smiled and said: "It's okay, I know that this 'Rainstorm Pear Blossom Nail' has never been poisoned, because it doesn't need to be poisoned, and it is enough to kill people." When the two returned to the house, Hu Tiehua poured all the pear blossom nails on the table, picked up the wine glass and said with a smile: "Now I can always have a glass of wine! Do you want to have a glass too?" Chu Liuxiang smiled and said, "I'll drink tea." He put down the lamp and went for the teapot. At this time, Hu Tiehua had raised the wine glass to his mouth.

He didn't see the bug that fell down due to the poisonous gas, so he naturally didn't know that as long as he drank this glass of wine, he would be reimbursed. This was his last glass of wine, and he was about to drink it. Unexpectedly, at this moment, Chu Liuxiang suddenly waved his hand and knocked the glass of wine flying.Hu Tiehua was startled, and lost his voice: "Are you epileptic?" Chu Liuxiang ignored him, but said: "Have you seen this teapot?" Hu Tiehua said: "Of course I saw it." Chu Liuxiang said: "Look at my hand again." Hu Tiehua cried out, and said, "What's wrong with you? Why did you tell me to look at your hand? Could it be that a trumpet flower suddenly grew on your hand?"

Chu Liuxiang said: "This hand of mine was originally used to hold the teapot, but you can notice that the handle of the teapot is not on my side now." Hu Tiehua said: "So what if it's not on your side?" Chu Liuxiang said: "I just sat here, poured a cup of tea, and put the teapot in the original place, but now the handle of the teapot is not in my hand." Hu Tiehua laughed and said, "There's nothing to make a fuss about, you may have changed your hand to hold the teapot." Chu Liuxiang said: "I have always poured tea with my left hand. It has become a habit for a long time and I will never change it."

Hu Tiehua said: "So... so what?" Chu Liuxiang said: "That is to say, after I pour the tea, someone must have touched the teapot, and you will never touch the teapot except when you are seriously ill." Hu Tiehua said: "Even if I am seriously ill, I will never touch the teapot, because others get drunk and drink tea to hangover, but I get even more drunk when I smell tea." Chu Liuxiang said: "Since you haven't moved the teapot, the teapot can't move by itself, but how could it change its position?" Hu Tiehua said: "I also feel a little strange when you say that."

Chu Liuxiang said in a deep voice: "This means that when you and I went out just now, someone must have come in and touched the teapot. Why did he come in and touch the teapot for no reason?" Hu Tiehua was moved: "Could it be that he poisoned the teapot?" Chu Liuxiang said: "That's right, he calculated that we would be thirsty and drink tea when we came back, so he poisoned the teapot, but he didn't expect that I always poured tea with my left hand, so I poisoned it Finally, I put the teapot back casually, and the handle of the teapot changed its direction."

Hu Tiehua was stunned when he heard that, and after a while, he said: "Since he poisoned the tea, the wine must also be poisoned." Chu Liuxiang smiled and said: "Otherwise, why would I overturn your wine? Although there are all kinds of alcoholics in the world, every alcoholic has the same problem, that is, they regard alcohol more than their lives He won't be angry if you burn his house down, but he will go mad if you knock over his wine." Hu Tiehua smiled wryly and said: "Good scolding, good scolding..." Chu Liuxiang smiled and said, "I'm not scolding you, I just want you to know that I'm not epileptic."

He poured half a pot of tea into the jug, only to hear a "chi" sound, and the green smoke rose suddenly, just like pouring cold water into a hot oil pan. Hu Tiehua took a deep breath and said, "It's such a powerful poison, it seems to be almost the same as Shi Guanyin's poison." Chu Liuxiang kept her face sullen and did not speak. Hu Tiehua said again: "From this point of view, the person who put the hidden weapon and the person who poisoned must be on the same side, isn't it?" Chu Liuxiang said: "Yes!" Hu Tiehua was silent for a while and then laughed again, and said: "I really didn't notice that you pour tea with your left hand. You use your right hand for other things. Why do you pour tea with your left hand?"

Chu Liuxiang said: "Because I have been living on the boat for many years, the space in the cabin is very small, so everything must be placed in the most suitable place, especially things like teapots. It is often knocked over, so Ronger made a shelf for the teapot on the left side of the chair I often sit on, and I can reach it with just one hand." He smiled, and continued: "After a long time, I have developed the habit of pouring tea with my left hand." Hu Tiehua smiled and said: "It's wonderful, but why didn't Rong'er put that shelf on your right?"

Chu Liuxiang said: "The reason is very simple, because there is no space on the right side to install the shelf." Hu Tiehua sighed: "I never thought there would be so many benefits to living on a boat." Chu Liuxiang said: "Although living on a boat sometimes feels a little cramped, the smaller the place you live in, the easier it is for you to develop a good habit of not leaving things casually, and you will gradually become more regular in doing things. This habit You don't see any benefit when you care, but when it's dangerous, it often saves your life."

Hu Tiehua laughed and said, "So, if I move to live in a pigeon cage, won't I definitely become the most regular person in the world?" He suddenly seemed to remember something, the smile on his face disappeared immediately, and he said in a broken voice: "There is not even a sound in Li Yuhan's room, could it be that they have been murdered by them?" Chu Liuxiang smiled and said: "No, no matter who wants to kill this couple, it will not be easy." Hu Tiehua said: "But when they came, Liu Wumei was suffering from illness, I'm afraid he has no strength to resist... No matter what, I have to watch them."

Chu Liuxiang pondered: "It's good to go and have a look, maybe they will hear something..." Hu Tiehua rushed out without waiting for him to finish speaking. Although it was not yet dawn at this time, roosters were already crowing in the distance. Hu Tiehua called twice, Li Yuhan had already lit the lamp, opened the door, and came out with his clothes on. Although there was some surprise on his face, he still smiled and said, "It's really early for you two to wake up." Seeing him come out alive, Hu Tiehua breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "It's not that we got up early, but we haven't slept yet!" Li Yuhan's eyes flashed, and he said, "Could something happen?" Hu Tiehua sighed, and said: "It's a long story, since you're already up, why don't you go to our room and have a chat!" Li Yuhan glanced back, closed the door quietly, sighed, and said: "My wife is a little uncomfortable, my younger brother has just fallen asleep." Hu Tiehua said: "Sister-in-law's... illness is not a problem?" Li Yuhan smiled wryly and said: "This is her old problem. It happens twice a month. It doesn't matter much, but it's very troublesome." Hu Tiehua glanced at Chu Liuxiang, as if to say to him: "You guessed wrong, she wasn't poisoned, it was just an old problem." Chu Liuxiang smiled, but said: "Since Brother Li just fell asleep, did you hear any noise?" Li Yuhan sighed: "my wife has been complaining over and over again, just like a child, I had to try my best to coax her, but I didn't notice other things." Just as he stopped talking, he suddenly asked again: "What happened, could it be..." Hu Tiehua smiled and said: "It's not a big deal, it's just that two people want Chu Liuxiang's life. This is also his old problem, and it will happen several times a month." Li Yuhan said movedly: "Someone wants to plot against Brother Chu? Who has such courage?" Hu Tiehua smiled bitterly and said: "I chased him for a long time, but I didn't even catch up with his shadow. It seems that there are more and more kung fu masters in the world." At this time they had already walked back into the room, Li Yuhan caught a glimpse of the silver nails on the table, and suddenly changed his color: "Could it be that the hidden weapon on this table is what that person wants to use to assassinate Brother Chu?" Chu Liuxiang stared at his face and said, "Could it be possible that brother Li also recognizes this hidden weapon?" Li Yuhan said: "It looks like a rainstorm pear blossom nail." Chu Liuxiang said: "Not bad." Li Yuhan sighed and smiled, "Chu Xiangshuai really deserves his name. As far as my little brother knows, this rainstorm pear blossom nail is so powerful that it can be called the best in the world. Every time it is shot, blood is bound to be seen. It seems that no one can dodge it. Even Daoist Yichen, who used to run across the Southern Wilderness, died under this hidden weapon, and Brother Chu was safe and sound. It can be seen that Brother Chu's martial arts is actually better than that Yichen from the past. Jianping Nanhuang's great swordsman is even better." Hu Tiehua said with a smile: "It's just that he has always had better luck than others." Li Yuhan said: "Under the rainstorm pear blossom nails, there is absolutely no word 'luck'. Except for Brother Chu, no matter how good the luck is, no one can avoid these twenty-seven silver nails." Hu Tiehua said: "You seem to know a lot about this damn hidden weapon." Li Yuhan said: "This is the most famous hidden weapon in the world. My father told me everything about this hidden weapon when my younger brother started to learn martial arts, and told me to pay more attention to it in the future. He said that there are six most famous hidden weapons in the world. Scary stuff, and this 'Rainstorm Pear Blossom Nail' is one of them." Chu Liuxiang said: "Senior Li is very knowledgeable, he must have told Brother Li about the source of this hidden weapon." Li Yuhan said: "The person who made this hidden weapon is also a son of a martial arts family. His name is Zhou Shiming. His father was the famous Nanhu Twin Swords at that time." Hu Tiehua said: "As far as we know, the person who made this hidden weapon doesn't know any martial arts. How could the son of 'Nanhu Twin Swords' not know martial arts? Could it be that the rumors are wrong?" Li Yuhan said: "Brother Hu's rumors are not wrong. Zhou Shiming really doesn't know martial arts this time, because he suffered from a very strange cartilage paralysis since he was a child. Not only can he not learn martial arts, but he can't even stand up." stand up." Hu Tiehua sighed: "Poor!" Li Yuhan said: "There are five brothers in their family, and Zhou Shiming is the third. His intelligence is much higher than the other four brothers. He only hates being disabled. Seeing that his brothers have become famous in the Jianghu, Naturally, grief and indignation were unavoidable in my heart, so I vowed that one day I would do something amazing and show it to others.” Chu Liuxiang said: "Could it be that his brothers are the four seniors who used to be called 'The Four Righteousnesses of the Jianghu'?" Li Yuhan said: "Exactly." He went on to say: "This Zhou Shiming has been lingering on the sick bed all year round. Apart from reading books, he plays wood cutting. Not only is he extremely talented, but his hands are even more skillful. It is said that the room he lives in is full of extremely He imitated Zhuge Wuhou's wooden ox and horse, and made many movable wooden figures, as long as he grasped the spring, these wooden figures would serve him tea." Hu Tiehua smiled and said: "This house must be very interesting. If Mr. Zhou hadn't passed away long ago, we would really like to pay a visit to this strange man." Li Yuhan said: "After so many years, he cut a spring box out of wood, and asked his brother to find a skillful silversmith to make one like him. His brother thought it was his toy again, and he also wanted it. I didn't care, so I found him the most famous silversmith at that time in Gusu, named Skillful Song." He took a breath, and then continued: "Skillful Song has stayed in Zhou Shiming's room for three years, and no one knows what they are doing in the room, but Zhou Shiming makes people spend a lot of money every month. The settling expenses are sent back to Qiaoshou Song's family, so his wife is relieved." Chu Liuxiang sighed, and said, "I'm afraid she doesn't know that Zhou Shiming used the money to buy her husband's life." Li Yuhan said: "That's right. Three years later, as soon as Qiaoshou Song walked out of the house, he fell to the ground. It is said that he died of exhaustion, but no one knows the truth. Nanhu Zhou's family was also rich at that time. He is powerful and well-known, so the family of Skillful Song Song did not dare to question him." Chu Liuxiang sighed: "Since the skillful Song Song knows the secret of making 'Rainstorm Pear Blossom Nails', Zhou Shiming will never let him live again. I'm afraid he will be the first person to die for 'Rainstorm Pear Blossom Nails'." gone." Li Yuhan said: "After another half a month, Zhou Shiming suddenly posted a lot of posts, inviting the most famous hidden weapon masters at that time. It was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the moon was very bright. On the face of Si Yi, quite a few people came, and they were all guessing why this Mr. Zhou, who had never set foot in the rivers and lakes, invited so many heroes to the banquet?" Hu Tiehua seemed to want to interrupt, but finally endured it again. Li Yuhan only heard Li Yuhan continue: "Who knows that after drinking for three rounds, Zhou Shiming suddenly asked Hou Nanhui to come and fight with him." Hu Tiehua still couldn't help interjecting: "Is this Hou Nanhui the one known as the 'Eight-armed Ape'?" Li Yuhan said: "Exactly, not only is this person full of hidden weapons all over his body, it is said that he can release eight kinds of hidden weapons at the same time, and his skill in receiving hidden weapons is also outstanding, as if he had eight hands. He is a first-class hidden weapon master in martial arts, how can such a person compare hidden weapon kung fu with a cripple? What's more, he is a friend of 'Jiangnan Siyi'." Hu Tiehua said: "That's right, even if he wins, he won't have much glory." Li Yuhan said: "Everyone thought that Zhou Shiming was joking, but Zhou Shiming insisted on making Hou Nanhui do something, and he also said a lot of harsh words, forcing Hou Nanhui to lose his face gradually." Hu Tiehua said: "What happened later?" Li Yuhan said: "To make a long story short, not only Hou Nanhui died under the 'Rainstorm Pear Blossom Nail', but also several hidden weapon masters died together. Everyone knew that the hidden weapon was shot from a small silver box in Zhou Shiming's hand. , but no one can dodge it." Chu Liuxiang sighed: "This Mr. Zhou has such hot hands!" Hu Tiehua said: "This person has been disabled since he was a child, and his temperament is naturally extreme and eccentric, but don't the 'Nanhu Twin Swords' and 'Jiangnan Siyi' also ignore him?" Li Yuhan said: "At that time, the old Nanhu Shuangjian brothers had both passed away, but Jiangnan Siyi had ulterior motives." Hu Tiehua said: "What's the intention?" Li Yuhan said: "They saw that their brother had such a powerful hidden weapon, and they wanted to use it to establish the prestige of the Taihu Zhou family, but they didn't expect that in this way, everyone in the world would regard the Zhou family brothers as their own. As a public enemy, no one wants this kind of hidden weapon to remain in the hands of the Zhou family brothers, because everyone wants to get rid of it quickly, because everyone is afraid that they will use this hidden weapon against themselves." Hu Tiehua said: "Especially those who have a little feud with the Zhou family brothers, knowing that they have such a vicious hidden weapon in their hands, I'm afraid they won't even be able to sleep at night." Li Yuhan said: "So these people acted preemptively and tried various methods to remove the four righteousnesses in the south of the Yangtze River one by one, and set fire to burn Zhou's family village to clean, and Zhou Shiming was also buried in the fire. in the cave." At this moment, Chu Liuxiang couldn't help asking: "Then who did this 'Rainstorm Pear Blossom Nail' fall into?" Li Yuhan said: "No one knows who this hidden weapon has fallen into, because no matter who gets it, they are absolutely unwilling to tell it, but every three to five months, someone in the world will always die in the world. Under the 'Rainstorm Pear Blossom Nail', the person who holds the 'Rainstorm Pear Blossom Nail' can't keep it for a long time, because as long as there is a whisper of wind, someone will take away the hidden weapon and kill his people." Chu Liuxiang said: "So, doesn't this hidden weapon have become an ominous thing?" Li Yuhan sighed: "That's right. Over the past few decades, this hidden weapon has changed hands many times. The person who got it never ended well. Until many years ago, this hidden weapon suddenly disappeared. It must be because of the person who got it this time." , and did not use it, so although this generation of martial arts heroes still often hear the legend about the 'Rainstorm Pear Blossom Nail', and even many people know its shape and power, but no one has really seen it .” Hu Tiehua glanced at Chu Liuxiang, and said with a smile: "In this way, our luck is pretty good." Li Yuhan frowned and said: "This time this person must have tried to get this hidden weapon to deal with Brother Chu, so it can be seen that this person must have great hatred with Brother Chu, because he , It's robbery, it's theft, it's definitely not easy to get this hidden weapon." Hu Tiehua said: "This is even more strange, he worked so hard to get this hidden weapon, why did he throw it away so casually?" Li Yuhan murmured: "Maybe it's because he saw this hidden weapon, since it can't hurt Brother Chu, it's useless to keep it, maybe it's because he stole this hidden weapon, and he was afraid that the owner of the hidden weapon would settle accounts with him. So I just threw it away so that no one can find out who stole it.” Hu Tiehua clapped his hands and said, "That's right, that must be the reason." Li Yuhan said: "And I heard that blood must be seen when this hidden weapon is released, otherwise it will be bad for the master. He must have heard the ominousness of this hidden weapon for a long time, how dare he bring it with him again?" Hu Tiehua said: "Yes, this is also possible, but..." Li Yuhan said: "But who is this person? Brother Chu, can't even guess at all?" Chu Liuxiang smiled and said: "Since I haven't been able to see this person's face, making wild guesses is just to confuse people's hearts, but since he is so deliberate in trying to kill me, if he doesn't succeed once, there must be a second time. I will know him one day." Whose." Only one person laughed like a silver bell and said, "That's right. Over the years, I haven't heard of anyone who can escape Chu Xiangshuai's palm." The murderous night, weird hidden weapons, mysterious assassins, and bloody stories, the atmosphere in this room was already heavy and suffocating. But as soon as Liu Wumei walked in, the room seemed to suddenly become radiant and alive, and even the faltering oil lamp seemed to become brighter. She just tied her hair loosely into a bun and swept the Emei lightly. Although she didn't apply makeup or powder, her face didn't look haggard or tired at all. Hu Tiehua could hardly believe that the gorgeous woman standing in front of her was still struggling and moaning in pain just now. The most amazing thing is that she is still holding a jug of wine in her hand. Hu Tiehua's eyes lit up again, and she couldn't help but wanted to take the pot of wine. Unexpectedly, as soon as he stretched out his hand, Chu Liuxiang suddenly locked his pulse door like lightning, turned his arm around, Hu Tiehua cried out, and said, "What's wrong with you again?" Before finishing this sentence, Chu Liuxiang's moves were like lightning, and he already tapped five acupoints of "Tianquan", "Xiabai", "Chize", "Kongzui" and "Daling".