Laughing at Chang'an

"Who told you to come? Li Tieyi?"

In front of the main entrance of Li Mansion on Gubai Road, Li Shen lowered his head and lit a cigarette, took a sip, and asked.

"No, it's us..."

"Okay." Li Shen interrupted the other party's defense unceremoniously, showing impatient eyes, "I don't have time to talk to you, go back and tell your master, tell him not to make trouble for me... you go away."

More than a dozen people, men, women and children looked at him in panic, knelt on the ground and remained motionless.Li Shen frowned, turned around and walked to the car, too lazy to talk nonsense with these people.He opened the car door, his feet suddenly sank, a small face with swollen eyes from crying was stuck to his trouser legs, and he looked at him eagerly: "Uncle Li..."

Li Shen held on to the car door, bent down and touched her head for a while, then tore her off her legs abruptly and threw her aside, got in the car, reversed the car, turned around, and walked away.

He called Li Xifeng in the car.

"A dozen people kneeled in front of my house early in the morning, did you know about this?" he asked the other party.

"I know." Li Xifeng on the other side of the communicator seemed to be eating, and said inarticulately, "You saved the mother and son of the Huizhou Li family, and you openly told Du Zhong, how awesome...what's the matter, just give it to you Let’s turn our home into a shelter, and the house number will say, Li Dashan’s Mansion..."

Li Shen held the communicator between his shoulders, and listened to the cynicism with a gun and a club on his expressionless face, and when he had said enough, he answered in a nonchalant way: "Then what do you think should be done?"

"What should I do? Cold salad." Li Xifeng gulped down his saliva, and said angrily, "Just pretend you didn't see it, you really want to care about it, are you out of your mind?"

Li Shen was silent for a long time, then hummed.

There was also a moment of silence on the communicator side, and then Li Xifeng dropped the spoon with a bang, grabbed the communicator and yelled at Li Shen: "Get out! Leave it to yourself! Don't look for me!!!"

—he hung up.

Li Shen took the phone off his shoulder, slowed down and waited in line to pass the checkpoint and enter Nancheng. When he passed the inspection and drove into Nancheng, Li Xifeng called back.

"Li Shen, you're having a lot of fun this time." Li Xifeng said without a trace of a smile, "Bingshan Zhu's, Qiuhe's Li's, Baifeng Yu's, Jiutouli Zhang's, and Wuzhutan's Shi, just made a public statement, neither Li Tieyi nor Li Mubai, he wants to follow you."

Li Shen didn't say anything.

"If you really don't want to get involved in the muddy waters of Huiguang, then don't do things that will cause people to misunderstand." Li Xifeng rarely advised seriously, "Before the matter gets serious, I will help you issue a statement, just Said that you will not participate in Huiguang's housework, and you will not allow anyone to use your name without authorization, and the other one, the mother and son, do you want to hide in another place, and say you are dead to the outside world."

"No need."

"What?" Li Xifeng didn't hear clearly, "What did you say?"

"I said, there is no need to make a statement, and there is no need to hide." Li Shen looked ahead and said calmly, "If you want to borrow my name, let them go. No one can touch the people I want to protect."

Li Xifeng wanted to scold when he opened his mouth, but in the blink of an eye he realized something was wrong, hesitantly asked, "What are you doing?"

Li Shen smiled.

"Why?" He asked back with a smile, stepping on the gas pedal to the bottom.

"Since I'm unhappy, let's all be unhappy together."

………………

Beside the ancient city wall, a blind old entertainer pulled his erhu quietly, weeping and lamenting, someone threw two banknotes in front of him and asked, will it happen soon?

The old artist nodded and said yes.

Then come a song, that's humane.

So the old artist held the bow and used the erhu to pull up a nondescript piece of "Pozhenzi".

Li Tieyi leaned on a cane, stood upright, and listened to him playing the piano quietly.After the song, I clapped my hands lightly.

The old man smiled reservedly and said, are you leaving?

Li Tieyi also smiled at him, and replied, it's time to go.

——On this day, Li Tieyi entered Chang'an, killed three people in 640, and bloodbathed Guang Guang.

Sitting on the blood-stained stone steps, he called Lin Guo, Chief Military Advisor of the Geng Army.

"Tell Li Shen to come and see me, or we will start a war."

The chief strategist of the Geng Army weighed the veracity of this statement, then connected Li Shen's airship without hesitation, and ordered the captain to return.

So that night, when Li Shen opened his eyes, he found that he had returned to Yan Poyuan.

He was driven by Lin Guo to the gate of the Huiguang Clubhouse.

Li Tieyi was sitting there, wearing a battle armor, holding a sword in his hand, and cigarette butts fell on the ground by his feet.He looked up at Li Shen, grabbed the wine jar beside him, and poured it into the two bowls in front of him.

"Come here and have a drink with me."

Li Shen looked at Li Tieyi, who was completely unfamiliar in front of him, and after a while, walked over and sat cross-legged in front of him.

Li Tieyi filled the two wine bowls, took a puff of cigarettes, and threw the wine jar into Li Shen's arms, "Your mother brewed it, and I have never been willing to drink the last jar. I'm not here anymore, I'm still thinking about it."

The rich aroma of wine entered his nostrils from the mouth of the jar, Li Shen hugged the jar in silence, and gently stroked the old lines on it with his fingers.

"I'm not a good father, nor a good husband." Li Tieyi brought the cigarette to his lips, looked past Li Shen, and looked at the dark night behind him, "I'm not a good man either."

He said to Li Shen: "Don't learn from me."

Li Shen looked at him indifferently, and said, "You're drunk."

Li Tieyi laughed out loud, the laughter was indescribably vigorous and desolate.

"I've been drunk all my life, and I just woke up." He whispered, "Fame and wealth, power and desire are more intoxicating than alcohol."

"At the age of 16, my father died. I was not sad at all, but very happy." Li Tieyi's voice echoed quietly in the night, "He died, and I succeeded as the head of the family. I started fighting with Li Rufan, and the fight lasted for 30 years... ..."

Li Tieyi squinted his eyes, as if recalling those long-gone years. The cigarette butt between his fingers had burned to the end, and the gray-white ash had condensed into a long section, crumbling.

"Your temper is like mine. It's too stinky, but your temperament follows your mother. It's too soft. It's not good."

Li Shen raised his eyelids to look at him, his only remaining one eye was black and white, it was cold and cruel.

Li Tieyi threw away the cigarette butt, picked up the wine bowl, and said, "Drink."

Li Shen picked up the other wine bowl and touched him, the two raised their heads in silence and drank the wine in the bowl, put down the bowl one after the other, Li Shen took the wine jar and refilled the two bowls.

"The glow will be left to you."

"I do not want."

"If you don't want it, you have to." Li Tieyi squinted his eyes and smiled, his appearance was as cold as Li Shen's, "If you say no again, I will tell Hui Guang to go to war with the Geng Army."

"Try it." Li Shen said calmly, "I promise to kill your glow."

The two stared at each other, they had the same cold face, and too similar eyes.At this moment, no one would doubt the blood relationship between them, they were undoubtedly father and son.

"Why not?" Li Tieyi asked, "What can Geng Jun give you? What can Geng Yan give you?"

Li Shen couldn't answer this question.

Li Tieyi waited for a while, then waved at him, Li Shen leaned forward and got a slap on the face.

There was a loud snap.

He slapped him back without saying a word, but Li Tieyi blocked it with his arm.

"My son, Li Tieyi, is willing to be someone else's dog." Li Tieyi grabbed Li Shen's wrist, his eyes were deep and terrifying, "Shouldn't I hit you?"

Li Shen's eyes dimmed, and after a while, he slowly lowered his arms.

For a long time, neither of them spoke again.Until the sky turned white, Li Tieyi picked up the sword in his hand and threw it to Li Shen's side.The long sword fell to the ground with a clang, breaking the silence between the two.

Li Shen looked up at Li Tieyi.

"I'm sorry for your mother, and I'm sorry for you too. Yang Xingxing's death was caused by me alone, and I forced the saintess of light, Haiweila, to leave. You hate me, as it should be."

Li Tieyi pointed to the long sword in Li Shen's hand.

"Pick up the sword and stab it wherever you want, I will give you an explanation."

………………

Du Zhong fled into Landao Prairie with Li Mubai on his back.

Li Mubai was slashed in the chest with a sword, his whole body was almost split in half, he was rescued by Du Zhong desperately, and he tossed and turned in a coma, muttering "impossible".Du Zhong carried Li Mubai on his back all the way to the north, and ran for hundreds of miles in the Landao prairie before stopping with all his strength. He found a leeward hillside and put Li Mubai down.

He was also severely wounded, and it was Li Tieyi who hit Li Tieyi ruthlessly, piercing his heart with one sword, and cutting him almost in half with the other.If it weren't for the protection of the god armor, he would have died without a whole body.

——Li Tieyi, it's actually an altar.

After injecting the last first-aid agent into Li Mubai's body, Du Zhong clutched the wound in his waist and abdomen, and lay weakly on his back next to Li Mubai.He tried to keep his eyes open, knowing that once he lost consciousness, he might never wake up again.However, the tide of exhaustion flooded the sky and overwhelmed the brilliance in his pupils.

He bit the tip of his tongue hard, maintained his consciousness with severe pain, slowly stood up sideways, and stretched out his hand to caress Li Mubai's cheek.

"I'm sorry." He said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, I..."

He caressed that pale and delicate face, and there were too many unspeakable words in his heart. After playing a scene for so long, even he himself gradually couldn't tell whether this feeling was true or not.

He even thought about taking the other party away after everything was over.

"Cough, cough cough..." Li Mubai coughed and opened his eyes, staring blankly at the night sky. After a long time, he turned his head to look at Du Zhong beside him.

He opened his chapped lips.

"cold."

Du Zhong hugged him silently.

They are just travelers who met in the ice and snow. No matter how close their bodies are, their hearts will never intersect.Only by leaving this icy world can we pursue true warmth.

It's easier said than done to leave.