Chapter 2 The second crescent moon on a pure silk handkerchief

High walls, huge houses, and large courtyards. Chu Liuxiang took Jiao Lin to a corner door of the back house, and told Jiao Lin: "You wait for me here, don't leave." Jiao Lin was stunned. Because after this strange stranger finished speaking, he was blown into the high wall by a gust of wind like a kite, and suddenly disappeared. This person's way of doing things seems to be completely different from others. Jiao Lin doesn't know him at all, not even his name. But Jiao Lin trusted him. Jiao Lin never trusted anyone, but he trusted him. Even Jiao Lin himself didn't understand why he trusted him so much.

The long night was coming to an end, and the rain had stopped again. Jiao Lin didn't have to wait long before the corner door opened.Two cute boys with long hair, holding lanterns and smiling to welcome the guests. Jiao Lin actually went with them. The garden is deep, and in the afterglow of the lanterns, only some picturesque flowers, trees, rocks, lake pavilions and pavilions can be discerned. Chu Liuxiang is already waiting for him outside the gate of a small courtyard with five Ming Xuan, with a cheerful smile on his face, The lights in the room are bright, wine is already placed on the table, everything is enough to make a wanderer in the world feel warm from the heart.

Jiao Lin was not a talkative person, but at this time he had to ask. "where is this place?" "It's a place where you can live for three months." Chu Liuxiang replied with a smile: "Actually, you can stay longer if you want, but I know that no matter where you stay, you won't stay for more than three months." "Why should I live here for three months?" "Because no one can imagine that you will live here, and no one will bother you. After three months, things will change, and probably no one will be in a hurry to find you." Chu Liuxiang said: "Everyone has only one Life, those who have no life will have no wine to drink."

Jiao Lin began to drink, the cold wine soaked into the hot blood, the wine was also warm, and the blood became even hotter. "I'm just a poor man in the rivers and lakes. My hands are already unstable and my ambition is exhausted. If I didn't have you today, I'm afraid I would have died under someone else's sword." Jiao Lin said sadly: "I can say It's over, why are you still doing this to me?" "I don't know why," Chu Liuxiang said, "I usually don't have any good reasons for doing things." "Do you know who the couple who sell the noodles are? Do you know why they wanted us here tonight?"

"I don't know, and I don't want to know." "why?" "Because I have enough troubles." Chu Liuxiang rubbed her nose and smiled wryly, "I can guarantee that if you randomly find eighty people, if you add up their troubles, they will not have half as many troubles as mine." "But you've got yourself into another trouble." "Oh?" "The people who sat at the stall and ate noodles just now killed people quickly and demanded a high price. There are not many people in today's Jianghu who can compare with them, and there are not many people who can afford their price." Jiao Jiao "You should probably imagine that what they're doing must be a huge, top-secret thing," Lin said.

"I can always think of something." "As long as they can think of a little bit of people, they will probably not let them go." Jiao Lin said: "If they want to kill one more person, they will never care." Chu Liuxiang smiled. "I have thought of this too, but they may be more polite to me, and they will always give me a little face." "why?" "Because one of them seemed to recognize me." Jiao Lin kept his head down, staring at the wine in the glass, and suddenly raised his head when he heard this sentence. "Now I understand why they let me go." His haggard and lifeless eyes suddenly lit up: "The long black bamboo pole has no one to live on, but even he didn't touch me."

Jiao Lin drank his glass and laughed loudly, "Now I understand who they are afraid of. I, Jiao Lin, have been so careless, I never thought I would be lucky enough to see you." He drank three more in a row, feeling drunk. "I really wanted to get that job. I knew that the price they offered would not be low. At least it would be enough for me to live comfortably for a year or two. I also knew who they were going to kill. That person deserved to die." Lin said: "Although I have blood on my hands, I have never taken any ill-gotten gains. I want that job, but I don't want to starve to death." To be able to meet Chu Xiangshuai who is famous all over the world, I will die without regret."

"You won't die." Chu Liuxiang said, "It's not easy for a person who doesn't deserve to die." He suddenly started touching his nose again: "I have a friend who just can't die. Everyone thinks he's going to die, but he never dies." When mentioning this friend, Chu Liuxiang couldn't help but touch his nose, and couldn't help but sigh: "I haven't seen him for several years, and I didn't expect to hear about him again." "what news?" "He wants me to find him, to find him in a tree." "You mean a tree?" Jiao Lin tried his best to hide his surprise: "A tree with branches and leaves?"

"That's the kind of tree." "That friend of yours is waiting for you in a tree to find him?" "I'm afraid he has been waiting there for a long time." Chu Liuxiang said, "I am afraid he has been waiting for ten or twenty days." "Waiting on the tree all this time?" "Probably always." "I don't understand, I really don't understand." Jiao Lin smiled bitterly: "Sometimes I also like to sit on a tree, get a gourd of wine on it, and pick some fruits to eat. But no matter who asks me to wait , I will not wait so long on a tree."

But Chu Liuxiang only asked him a word, and he understood. "What if you can't get off that tree?" Jiao Lin immediately understood. "Your friend is in danger, so I hid in that tree and waited for you to save him." Jiao Lin said, "You must be old friends, and that tree must be where you used to go. You must have made an appointment to call for help in case of emergency, even if you are not nearby, your friends will find a way to tell you when they see it.” He said: "Chu Xiangshuai travels all over the world and has friends everywhere. The owner here must also be your friend, otherwise why would he take me in?"

After saying this, Jiao Lin quickly drank another glass of wine, because he suddenly found that he was not only not drunk, but also extremely clear-headed, and much smarter than most people. Chu Liuxiang smiled. "You seem to speak more clearly than I myself, so now I have only two words to tell you." "Which two words?" "goodbye!" The two words "goodbye" are two very simple words, but their meanings are often complicated, sometimes it means: "I really want to meet again".Sometimes it means, "See you again soon." Sometimes it means, "Never again." There is only one thing that will not change - when you say these two words, it is either when you want to leave, or when you want others to leave. Chu Liuxiang didn't want Jiao Lin to leave, he wanted to leave by himself. He always said go away.But this time Jiao Lin let him stay, he only said five words to let him stay. "You go, I go too." Seeing that Chu Liuxiang's body, which was about to be blown away by the wind, stopped again, Jiao Lin continued. "I know that the friend you are going to find must be Hu Tiehua, and I also know that you can temporarily put aside everything for him." Jiao Lin said, "But I also want to find someone. The relationship between you and Hu Tiehua is far deeper than that between you and Hu Tiehua." "Who is this guy?" "It's my daughter, my own daughter." Jiao Lin said, "Although I don't know where she is, I want to find her." "You don't even know where your own daughter is?" "I don't know." Jiao Lin said, "But I know I have a daughter. Do you think I can not go to her?" Chu Liuxiang was touching her nose again, and after touching it for a long time, she said, "You don't have to go." He has never been an unreasonable person, but this sentence is really a bit unreasonable. Of course, Jiao Lin couldn't help asking him: "Why?" "Because I just saved you, I really don't want you to die." Chu Liuxiang said, "Besides, you don't know where your daughter is, so how can you find her?" "I have my way." "As long as you tell me your method, I can help you find her, so you don't have to go." Chu Liuxiang said, "If you can't even find her, you can't." No one can deny this sentence, Chu Liuxiang is still a very reasonable person after all. Jiao Lin's eyes lit up immediately, and immediately conjured up a pure silk handkerchief like a magic trick. The snow-white silk handkerchief has turned yellow, and a curved crescent moon is embroidered with red silk thread. "Her mother separated from me before she was born. All I know is that she has a birthmark like this on the bottom of her neck, just like the crescent moon embroidered on this handkerchief." Jiao Lin said, "It's a pity that I Don't know where her mother went after she left me because that was eighteen years ago." A handkerchief, a birthmark, a birthmark just below the neck. "Below the neck" usually means above the breasts. Even if an eighteen-year-old girl is an idiot, it is impossible to show this kind of place casually for others to see. Chu Liuxiang was dumbfounded. Seeing the expression on Jiao Lin's face, when he took the handkerchief, he already knew that he had jumped on another pirate ship, and he wanted to jump on it willingly. Jiao Lin added: "Of course I know it's not easy to find someone like this. Fortunately, I also know that there is nothing Chu Liuxiang can't do in his life, so I feel very relieved." Of course he was very relieved, because he had thrown this difficult problem that he himself would never be able to solve, like throwing a hot potato to others, to the only person in the world who was willing to take his hot potato. Chu Liuxiang looked at him for a long time, then suddenly smiled: "You old fox, why don't you want me to go to the sky to pick such a moon and bring it down for you?" But what worries Chu Liuxiang the most now is not the crescent moon far away in the sky, but a doghouse on a big tree in the nearby mountains, and a person hiding in the doghouse. A very big tree.So high, so high. At that time, he and Hu Tiehua were still children. They used the same color of wood as this tree to build a small wooden house between the thickest branches of this tree. Wild beasts attack at night, the kind of house built on a tree is almost the same. At that time, they did it for fun, and their lightness skills were already very good at that time, so they built such a wooden house. Hu Tiehua suggested: "Shall we call this place a kennel?" "Why is it called a kennel?" Chu Liuxiang was unwilling: "Only the eagle Dapeng would build a nest in such a place. We are neither dogs nor can dogs climb trees. Why do we call this a kennel?" "Because I like dogs." Hu Tiehua's answer usually makes Chu Liuxiang touch his nose: "And maybe one day we will be chased by others like wild dogs and have nowhere to go, then we can hide here coming." So this place was named the Kennel. Although they were not chased by others and ran around like wild dogs, they still came here, brought a gourd of wine, picked a few fruits, drank to the point where they climbed all over the trees, and poured out all the inability, dare not, and unwillingness in their hearts. Say everything you say to others before you leave. When they were about to leave for the last time, they also agreed: "As long as we are in danger, we will hide here. No matter who comes first, another person must come to save him." Hu Tiehua also said: "If I want to come, I will definitely leave the word 'kennel' in every place you frequent. Although others don't understand what it means, you must understand." He told Chu Liuxiang : "At that time, my situation must be very urgent, so as soon as you see it, you must come here immediately. If you see that I am written with white powder, then you may have to buy a coffin for me if you come later." .” Chu Liuxiang saw these two words.Written in white powder, seen in many places. The dust had already fallen off when he saw it. Judging from his experience, it had been at least fifteen to twenty days since Hu Tiehua left his writing. Although he has often been in the south of the Yangtze River recently, and in this area, the scope of this area is still very wide. He was able to see the two words they agreed on ten years ago within 20 days, which is considered Hu Tiehua's luck. . But 20 days is not too short. People who died in these 20 days are likely to see more ants than anyone alive, and Hu Tiehua is probably one of them. Hu Tiehua did not die, but Chu Liuxiang was about to die of anger. When he saw Hu Tiehua, not only was Hu Tiehua not even in any danger, but he was also far happier than most people in the world. The mountain is still that mountain, and the tree is still that tree. Seen in this melancholy cloud and mist and gloomy mountain scenery, nothing seems to have changed. And the kennel in the tree has changed. It may not have changed in appearance, for it was wrought with the best kind of wood and the most dexterous hands, and so has remained the same after years of weather and weather. But it has changed inside. There is no one in this world who would think this place is a doghouse. Even if it is a nest, no matter whether it is a nest of comfort or a nest of immortals, it is by no means a dog nest. Hu Tiehua's appearance definitely doesn't look like a wild dog being chased to nowhere. There should have been only a small wooden table, two broken grass bunks, a few empty wine bottles and a Hu Tiehua in this den. But now everything has changed.It's as if a fairy once came here, and stopped by after flying over Dongting Lake, and touched everything here with a finger that can turn iron into gold. Then the two shabby bunks suddenly turned into a room full of the softest, warmest and most expensive furs in the world. So those empty wine bottles made of dry mud suddenly turned into white jade golden bottles, and they were all filled with fine wines from all over the world. So the bearded Hu Tiehua, who was in the world, became five people—one man and four women. Of course, women are all women who can make men fascinated. Just one glance at them will make you unable to sleep. One is petite and exquisite, one is gentle and sweet, one is healthy and strong, and the other is weak. The man is certainly a man worthy of these beauties. He is tall, strong and mature, with well-combed hair and clean shaven. Hu Tiehua, who didn't change clothes, was simply two people, two completely different people. Unfortunately, Chu Liuxiang saw at a glance that these two completely different people were one person. Even if Hu Tiehua was burned to ashes, Chu Liuxiang could still recognize him at a glance. How did this person become like this?How did this place become like this? Chu Liuxiang couldn't figure it out. If there is such a god in this world who descends to earth, if there is such a finger that can turn decay into magic, Chu Liuxiang really wants to borrow this finger and use it. Hu Tiehua's Hu Tiehua put a little bit on his body, turning him into a pig.