Chapter 12 The Twelfth Inspiration in the Coffin

Once the coffin lid was in the hands of Chu Liuxiang, Hu Tiehua and Zhang San, it was very different. The six coffins seemed to have really turned into a light boat, sailing through the waves. Jin Ganoderma lucidum sat there with her head bowed, she looked at her pair of jade hands that were like bamboo shoots, they had turned red and purple, and the palms were still full of yellow blisters. Looking at it, tears were already rolling in her eyes. But this crime is her own to bear, she can't blame others, and she has to swallow tears when she has tears. Hu Tiehua didn't seem to look at her, but muttered in her mouth: "A woman is a woman, but she is different from a man. At least her hands are always softer than a man's. So if a woman insists on seeing herself like a man, she is asking herself. Bitter."

Bai Lie suddenly jumped up, glared at Hu Tiehua, and said in a deep voice: "Speaking is also very difficult, why don't Brother Hu save some energy for rowing?" Hu Tiehua smiled lightly and ignored him at all. Instead, Bai Lie's face turned a little red, he turned around embarrassingly, and said with an apologetic smile: "Miss Jin, don't be angry. Some people say, girl, you'd better not listen to him." He did have good intentions, but Jin Lingzhi stared and said sharply: "Who I want to listen to and who I don't listen to has nothing to do with you, what are you meddling with?"

Bai Lie was stunned, his face was as red as an eggplant, and he wanted to jump into the sea. Ying Wanli coughed twice, forced a smile and said, "The sun is too big and there is no water to drink. People will inevitably be irritable and not in a good mood. It's better to cover the coffin and go to sleep. If you have anything to say, wait until sunset .” Chu Liuxiang licked her chapped lips and said, "That's right, if I continue, I'm afraid even I will fall down." "Bang", Jin Lingzhi was the first to put the lid on the coffin. Ying Wanli also pulled Bai Lie to lie down, and said, "Don't cover it too tightly, leave some room for ventilation."

Zhang San yawned, and murmured: "If there is a cup of frozen sour plum soup now, it doesn't matter if I sell everyone." Hu Tiehua couldn't help licking her lips, and scolded with a smile: "Don't forget, you've already sold it once." Zhang San stared and said, "One time is also a sale, and the second time is also a sale. With a beginning, wouldn't it be more convenient to sell again?" Hu Tiehua sighed and said with a smile: "Thank God, fortunately you are not a woman..." Lying in the coffin is actually not as comfortable as they imagined.

Although the sun didn't directly shine on them, it was even more uncomfortable to bake them. Hu Tiehua couldn't bear it anymore, pushed open the coffin lid, and sat up, only to realize that Zhang San had already sat up, shirtless, fanning the wind with the clothes he had taken off. Hu Tiehua smiled and said: "So you can't stand it either!" Zhang San sighed, and said with a wry smile: "I can't stand it anymore, I almost thought I became a grilled fish too." Hu Tiehua smiled and said: "He who roasts people will roast them himself. You have roasted too much fish. You should also taste the taste of being roasted."

He rolled his eyes and said again, "Where's the old bug?" Zhang Sandao: "I'm afraid I fell asleep." Hu Tiehua said: "Besides the dead, if there is a living person who can sleep in a coffin, this person must be an old bug." Zhang San laughed and said: "That's right, even if this person is lying in the cesspit, I'm afraid he can fall asleep." Hu Tiehua glanced around, but still couldn't even see the shadow of the land. But the sun was finally getting weaker. Zhang San suddenly said again: "I was lying in the coffin just now, thinking about it, there is always something I can't figure out."

Hu Tiehua said: "Tell me, let me teach you." Zhang San said slowly: "It's reasonable for Ding Feng to kill us, but why did he kill Hai Kuotian? Doesn't Hai Kuotian belong to the same party as him?" Hu Tiehua touched his nose, and said seriously: "Maybe Hai Kuotian treated him as a woman in the middle of the night and settled the matter." Zhang San laughed and scolded: "Fuck your fart, are you teaching me?" Hu Tiehua couldn't help laughing, and said: "If you don't keep your mouth clean, be careful, I will use it as a chamber pot."

Suddenly someone said: "Two stinky mouths put together smell worse than a cesspit. How can I sleep?" Chu Liuxiang also sat up. Hu Tiehua couldn't help laughing and said: "This man's ears are really longer than a rabbit. If you want to scold him in the future, you have to be careful." Chu Liuxiang stretched out his hands to scoop up sea water, splashed it on his body, and suddenly said: "Ding Feng wants to kill Hai Kuotian, there is only one reason." Hu Tiehua said: "What reason?" Chu Liuxiang said: "They have a meeting every year. Naturally, they need a lot of boats to pick up and drop off guests. Even though Hai Kuo Tian has been bought and sold by them, it's still not as convenient as directing it yourself."

Zhang San suddenly said: "That's right, he killed Hai Kuotian, and the dozens of ships of the Purple Whale Gang became theirs." Chu Liuxiang said: "Xiang Tianfei is Hai Kuotian's life-and-death friend, if you want to kill Hai Kuotian, you have to kill Xiang Tianfei first!" Hu Tiehua nodded and said, "It makes sense." Chu Liuxiang said: "But the scope of activities of the Purple Whale Gang is only at sea, and most of their guests come from inland. To go to sea, they must pass through the Yangtze River." Zhang Sandao: "Not bad." Chu Liuxiang said: "To pass the Yangtze River, the ships under Wu Weiyang and Yun Conglong have to be used, so before killing Hai Kuo Tian, ​​they have to be killed first."

Hu Tiehua didn't understand, and said: "But Wu Weiyang not only did not die, but also served as the leader of the two gangs." Chu Liuxiang said: "Who says Wu Weiyang is not dead?" Hu Tiehua said: "Didn't we see him kill Yun Conglong with our own eyes that day?" Chu Liuxiang said: "That person is a fake!" Hu Tiehua said in amazement: "Fake?" Chu Liuxiang said: "Ding Feng has already killed Wu Weiyang, and then find someone similar to Wu Weiyang and pretend to be him." He went on to explain: "They deliberately killed those two people with Wu Weiyang's arrows, just to make us think that Wu Weiyang is not dead yet."

Hu Tiehua touched his nose and said, "I still don't understand." Chu Liuxiang said: "That day in the restaurant, we didn't see that Wu Weiyang was a fake, because we were not familiar with Wu Weiyang, but someone saw it." Hu Tiehua said: "Who?" Chu Liuxiang said, "Yun Conglong." He continued: "Because he has seen that Wu Weiyang is someone else's disguise, that's why he was very surprised at that time." Hu Tiehua said: "But...we didn't see it, how could he see it?" Chu Liuxiang said: "Because the legends in the Jianghu are true, in the past few years, Yun Conglong and Wu Weiyang have indeed changed from enemies to friends, so he ordered in his suicide note to pass on the position of gang leader to Wu Weiyang, It can be seen from this that not only he has a good friendship with Wu Weiyang, but also has a lot of trust." Hu Tiehua was touching her nose again, and said with a wry smile: "Not only do I still not understand, but I am getting more and more confused." Chu Liuxiang said: "Yun Conglong must have known that Ding Feng and the others had the intention to kill him, so they left a suicide note in advance." Hu Tiehua said: "Yes." Chu Liuxiang said: "Those two people who died under the arrows were indeed Yun Conglong's subordinates. It was only because he and Wu Weiyang had become good friends that they were sent to Twelve Links." Hu Tiehua said: "You mean...Wu Weiyang already knew about this?" Chu Liuxiang said: "That's right, so that day in the restaurant, 'Wu Weiyang' accused them of sneaking into Twelve Links to spy on the news, and Yun Conglong decided that he was a fake." Hu Tiehua said: "Please explain more clearly." Chu Liuxiang said: "Because Yun Conglong and Wu Weiyang have often met each other in the past few years, Yun Conglong has already noticed the strangeness of 'Wu Weiyang' as soon as he entered, because it is difficult to hide the secret from acquaintances." Hu Tiehua said: "But Ying Wanli's disguise technique has been hidden from you." Chu Liuxiang smiled, and said: "That's because he is not pretending to be someone we are familiar with, and he deliberately pretends to be weird. If he pretends to be you, I can spot it at a glance." Hu Tiehua said: "So, isn't the disguise technique useless at all?" Chu Liuxiang said: "The purpose of disguise technique is just to cover up one's true face so that others cannot recognize him, but it does not make him a different person." Zhang San suddenly said: "But I have heard about one thing. There used to be a person...for example, Wang Er. Wang Er pretended to be Li Si, sneaked into Li Si's house, and killed dozens of people in Li Si's family, big and small. They were all fooled, and none of them recognized him." Chu Liuxiang said: "That's nonsense." Zhang Sandao: "You said this is absolutely impossible?" Chu Liuxiang said: "Of course it's impossible. If there is such a thing in the world, it's not disguise, but juggling." Hu Tiehua said: "Since Yun Conglong has seen that Wu Weiyang is a fake, why didn't he tell the truth?" Chu Liuxiang said: "Because Ding Feng was beside him at that time, he had no chance to speak at all, but..." Hu Tiehua said: "But what?" Chu Liuxiang said: "Yun Conglong hinted at us in other ways, but it's a pity that everyone didn't pay attention at that time." Hu Tiehua said: "What method did he use?" Chu Liuxiang said: "He deliberately used the wrong idiom and said the four characters 'bone in the throat', just to let us know that there is something in his heart that he can't speak out quickly', but he just can't spit it out." Hu Tiehua said: "You have already said that." Chu Liuxiang said: "Later, he deliberately threw out the fish eye and flicked it into Wu Weiyang's plate, just to let us know that Wu Weiyang was a fake." Hu Tiehua sighed, and said with a wry smile: "Although this hint is ingenious, it is too difficult to understand." Chu Liuxiang smiled and said, "If it's easy to understand, then it's not a hint." He went on to say: "Since Yun Conglong already knew that Wu Weiyang was a fake, so before the fight, he knew that there would be no hope of death, so he made those hints. As long as we can understand, his death , and finally there is some price." Zhang San sighed: "It's no wonder he was so sad and angry before going out." Hu Tiehua also sighed: "I was just wondering, Yun Conglong's martial arts book is almost the same as Wu Weiyang, how could Wu Weiyang kill him as soon as he made a move?" Chu Liuxiang said: "Ding Feng used that 'Wu Weiyang' to kill Yun Conglong, and then let Wu Weiyang take over the 'Shenlong Gang'. From then on, all the ships under the Fengwei and Shenlong gangs can be dispatched. Ziroom, the thousands of miles up and down the Yangtze River are also under their control..." Zhang San sighed, and said: "In this way, Ding Feng is really a great person. This strategy of 'killing two birds with one stone' is really clever and ruthless." Chu Liuxiang murmured, and said: "If my guess is right, Ding Feng probably doesn't have such high skills, and there must be a more powerful and terrifying person behind the scenes!" Hu Tiehua smiled bitterly: "No matter who this person is, I'm afraid we will never see him again." Zhang San suddenly said again: "There is still one thing I can't figure out." Chu Liuxiang said: "What matter?" Zhang Sandao: "Since even Yun Conglong can recognize that Wu Weiyang is a fake, and the subordinates of the Fengwei Gang have been with him day and night for many years, how can they not recognize him? Will this secret be discovered sooner or later?" Chu Liuxiang said: "You are wrong." He went on to say: "Wu Weiyang is a stern man, law enforcement is like a mountain, the Fengwei gang not only loves him, but also respects him, who dares to stare at him?" Zhang San thought for a while, then sighed: "That's right, things that don't make sense at first, are completely reasonable once you say them." Chu Liuxiang also sighed, and said: "This matter is indeed mysterious and complicated, and there are at least seven or eight key points in it. As long as there is one thing that can't be figured out, it will not be connected before and after this matter." Hu Tiehua smiled bitterly and said: "Don't ask me to think about this kind of thing, even if I ask you to repeat it, it will be very difficult." He stared at Chu Liuxiang and said, "I really don't understand how you came up with this idea? Could it be that the structure of your brain is different from others'?" Chu Liuxiang smiled and said, "I couldn't figure out a few things at first, but I just thought about it for a long time in the coffin, and then piece by piece I pieced together this matter from beginning to end." Hu Tiehua said with a smile: "So this is an idea given to you by the coffin." Chu Liuxiang said seriously: "It's true, if a person wants to find a place to think about something quietly, the coffin is really a good place." Hu Tiehua said: "Oh?" Chu Liuxiang said: "Because if a person lies in a coffin, he will suddenly feel cut off from the world of mortals, and his mind will become as calm as water. Many things that he would not have thought of at ordinary times will be thought of at this time. It will all reappear in front of my eyes one by one.” Zhang San said with a smile: "In this way, Xiao Hu should lie in the coffin all day. He really drinks too much and thinks too little." Hu Tiehua glared at him, then frowned and said, "I do have something that I haven't figured out yet." Chu Liuxiang said, "Is that the picture?" Hu Tiehua said: "That's right, before Yun Conglong died, he solemnly handed over that picture to you secretly, so it can be seen that the relationship between that picture must be very important, isn't it?" Chu Liuxiang said: "Yes." Hu Tiehua sighed and said, "But there is only a bat on that picture." Chu Liuxiang pondered, and said: "This bat must also be the key, and the meaning must be very deep." Hu Tiehua said: "Have you figured it out yet?" Chu Liuxiang said: "No." His reply was indeed very simple. Hu Tiehua smiled, as if he wanted to swear at him again. Suddenly someone said: "I know what the bat means." The person who spoke was Jin Lingzhi. Zhang San smiled, and said quietly: "It turns out that her ears are also very long." Hu Tiehua said: "There are two things in women that are longer than men, and one of them is ears." Zhang Sandao: "Is there one more thing?" Hu Tiehua said: "Tongue." He spoke in a low voice, because Jin Lingzhi had sat up from the coffin, since she hit a big nail on Bai Lie, Hu Tiehua seemed to be more polite to her. Chu Liuxiang said: "Miss Jin, do you know the meaning of the bat on that picture?" Jin Lingzhi nodded and said, "Yes." Her eyes were red, as if she had cried secretly. Chu Liuxiang said: "Does the bat represent a person?" Jin Lingzhi said: "No, it represents a place." Chu Liuxiang asked, "Where?" Jin Lingzhi said: "Bat Island, the place where the 'Pinning Gold Cave' is located is called Bat Island." Chu Liuxiang's eyes lit up, and said: "In this way, those curves represent sea water!" Zhang San hurriedly said: "The circle is the sun, indicating the direction of Bat Island." Hu Tiehua said happily: "In this way, we can find Bat Island as long as we follow that direction; as long as we can find Bat Island, all problems can be solved." Jin Lingzhi said coldly: "I'm afraid that when you arrive at Bat Island, all your problems will have been solved long ago!" Hu Tiehua said: "What does this mean?" Jin Lingzhi kept his mouth shut and ignored him. Chu Liuxiang said: "Once a person dies, all problems will be solved—is that what Miss Jin means?" Jin Lingzhi finally nodded, and said: "After we went out to sea last time, it took us another five or six days to reach Bat Island. Now we still have at least three or four days to go by boat, not to mention..." Having said that, she didn't say any more. But everyone already understood what she meant. Even if the voyage is smooth, neither encountering a storm nor getting lost, even if the six of them are made of iron, they can still row non-stop—— Calculated at their fastest speed, it will take seven or eight days to get to Bat Island. Can they still support it for seven or eight days? This is simply impossible. Hu Tiehua rubbed her nose and said, "I might be able to survive without food for seven or eight days, but no one can stand without water." Zhang San said with a wry smile: "Don't say that it will take another seven or eight days, I'm already dying of thirst." Hu Tiehua said coldly: "It's probably because you talk too much." Zhang San said with a stern face, "Dying to death from thirst is a small matter, but suffocating to death is a serious matter. Even if you die of thirst, you have to say something." Ying Wanli looked up at the sky, suddenly smiled, and said, "Maybe everyone won't die of thirst." Hu Tiehua said: "Why?" Ying Wanli's smile was bitter and astringent, and he said slowly: "The sky seems to be getting lower and lower, I'm afraid the wind and rain will come soon." The sky was really low, and the sky was gloomy, as if it was about to press down on their heads. Everyone suddenly felt very stuffy, almost suffocating. Zhang San raised his head to look at the sky, his brows were furrowed tighter, and he said: "Sure enough, it looks like there will be wind and rain." Hu Tiehua said: "Is it wind and rain? Or a storm?" Zhang San sighed, and said, "Whether it's rain or storm, it's hard for us to get through it." Everyone stayed for a long while, and they all lowered their heads involuntarily, and looked at the coffin they were sitting on. The coffin is made of high-quality nanmu, which is very elegant, so it has not leaked until now. But a coffin is a coffin after all, not a boat. When the wind and rain come, the six coffins will probably be smashed to pieces by the big waves. Hu Tiehua smiled suddenly, and said: "We have a wise man here, no matter what happens, he has a way to deal with it, why should you worry?" He obviously expected everyone else to smile along with him, but no one did. At this moment, even if he said the funniest joke in the world, no one would be able to laugh, let alone this sentence is not funny at all. Because everyone knows that Chu Liuxiang is not a god after all, he may be able to win every battle against the enemy, but if he wants to deal with the sky, he is also helpless. "Manpower can overcome heaven" is just the saying of someone sitting in a study with the windows closed and a fire burning in the stove drinking hot tea. If he was sitting in a coffin in the sea, facing the boundless waves, the sky was full of wind and rain, he would never have said these words. The sun has been swallowed by the ocean at some point, and the sky is getting darker. Only Chu Liuxiang's eyes seemed to be still shining. Hu Tiehua couldn't help it, and said again: "Have you come up with any ideas?" Chu Liuxiang said slowly: "I only have one idea now." Hu Tiehua said happily: "Quickly, let everyone hear it, what's your idea?" Chu Liuxiang said: "Wait." Hu Tiehua was stunned, and shouted: "Wait! Is this your idea?" Chu Liuxiang sighed, smiled wryly, "I only have this idea." Ying Wanli sighed, "That's right, we just have to wait, now, who else can come up with a second idea?" Hu Tiehua said loudly: "What are you waiting for? Are you waiting to die?" Both Chu Liuxiang and Ying Wanli kept their mouths shut, acquiescing. Hu Tiehua was stunned for a while, then fell asleep suddenly, and murmured: "Since you are waiting for death, you should at least wait comfortably. Why don't you lie down... At least not everyone can enjoy the feeling of waiting for death." You can taste it." Whether standing, sitting, or lying down, the feeling of waiting to die is not good. But everyone can only wait, because no one has a second way to go. In his life, Chu Liuxiang has encountered many formidable opponents, but no matter who he meets or what he encounters, he never loses his courage. He never felt hopeless. The more terrifying the enemy he meets, the greater his courage and the faster his brain moves. He believes that no matter what, there is a solution. Only this time, his mind seemed to be blank. The wind is getting stronger and the waves are getting higher. The coffin was jumping on the surface of the sea, and everyone could do nothing but hold on to it tightly. As long as they let go, the whole person will be thrown into the sea. But it might be more pleasant that way—"death" itself is not painful, what is painful is the waiting period before dying. If a person can still struggle, struggle, and resist, no matter what happens to him, he is not afraid, but if he can only sit there and wait, it is terrible. Only at such times can a person's courage be seen. Although Chu Liuxiang's face turned pale, she was still very calm, almost the same as usual. Hu Tiehua actually slept there all the time, and seemed to have fallen asleep. Ying Wanli lowered his head, Jin Ganoderma lucidum bit his lip, and Zhang San was muttering something, as if he was talking to himself, or singing a fisherman's song in a low voice. Only Bai Lie, sitting there with his chest up all the time, stared at the golden ganoderma with wide-eyed eyes, sweat dripping from his head like raindrops. I don't know how long it took before Bai Lie stood up suddenly, stared at Jin Lingzhi, and said, "Miss Jin, I have to take a step first, I...I..." Before finishing this sentence, his person suddenly jumped up, as if he was going to jump into the sea. Jin Lingzhi exclaimed, and Chu Liuxiang's hand had already grasped his belt like lightning. At this moment, Zhang San also called out, shouting loudly: "Look, what is that?" On the surface of the dark sea, a little starlight suddenly appeared. How can there be stars when the storm is coming? Hu Tiehua was excited and shouted: "That's a lamp!"