Laughing at Chang'an

Fast forward to March.

Li Shen, who had gained two catties again, thought gloomily, should he ask the following to find a diet to lose weight? He obviously rowed and rode a horse and played shuttlecock with the little girl, so why is he still fat?

The adjutant still frequently travels back and forth between Donghuang and Zhongtu, and at the same time brings back the latest news about Chang'an. It is said that Geng Liancheng personally led the team to go out on a mission and fell down. .It is said that on the second day after Xuetu 73 recovered from his injuries, he was beaten up again by an unknown person, and almost died. Now he depends on a lot of precious medicinal materials to hang his life, how miserable it is.

Li Shen was sitting in the gazebo, in front of him was the long knife that Geng Yan gave him, with a piece of white and tender tofu hanging on the blade.The waiter standing by pinched his watch, calculating how long it would take for the tofu to fall by itself.

Patta, the waiter said, 16 seconds.

"A good knife." Li Shen admired sincerely, "It really is a good knife."

The waiter was thin-skinned, so he was ashamed to agree with Li Shen's words against his will. This knife is so blunt that it can only be hung up as a decoration, and it can barely be used to cut vegetables.A really good knife, which one doesn't cut hair and cut iron like mud?

Li Shen stretched out his hand to caress the blade, and unexpectedly recalled the scene when Geng Yan gave him the knife, in pairs...why in pairs?Who can pair with whom?

He was lost in thought for a moment, and the fingertips pressing on the edge of the blade unconsciously exerted force. The rough blade cut a long and narrow slit in the pulp of the finger, and scarlet blood gushed out from it, falling drop by drop on the blade.

Li Shen stared at the dazzling scarlet in a daze, and the tyranny that was suppressed in his heart surged into his chest like a boiling flame. He grabbed the handle of the knife, stood up, raised his hand and slashed it down——

A cold plum branch outside the pavilion swayed lightly, and a small white flower floated into the pavilion, and landed silently on the still knife tip.

It extinguished the fire in Li Shen's heart.

——On March [-], Li Shen set off for Chang'an to visit Yang Huxing's grave.

………………

Going around and around, a year has passed.

Chang'an North, the cemetery is still so desolate.Li Shen walked through the forest of steles leaning on a cane, and came to Yang Huxing's tombstone.

"I thought you weren't coming anymore." Feng He stood up from behind the grave, threw away the weeds clutched in his hands, and walked over clapping his hands, "Going to Donghuang without a word, did you break up with your boss?"

Li Shen sat down in front of the stele, lowered his head and lit a cigarette, grinned when he heard this, and said, "Guess?"

"I guess your size." Feng He sat down next to him, and said angrily, "This time, don't you plan to come back?"

"Ah."

Feng He was silent for a while, then said in a low voice: "OK, it seems that you have finally thought about it... Big Brother is gone, and you are gone too. I am the only one left in Chang'an City."

"There is always a banquet in the world, don't be sad."

"You are very free and easy."

Li Shen leaned over and hugged his shoulders, two heads touched, intimacy and melancholy, parting goodbye and nostalgia.Feng He stared at the name of Yang Huxing on the tombstone, his eyes were a little far away. In the huge city of Chang'an, the three brothers supported each other all the way to the present day. Those days of crying and laughing, blood and tears are gone. return.

He will never have such a brother again.

Yang Huxing, who seems to be upright but full of bad taste, Li Shen, who is arrogant and annoying, and himself, who is cold-hearted and cold-hearted, God asked the three of them to get together, it seemed like a joke.

"If I hadn't joined the Geng Army..." Li Shen said suddenly, half-sentenced, but closed his mouth again.

Feng He was touched by this sentence. Back then, the three of them, Yang Huxing was an abandoned disciple of the war eagle, Feng He was still dawdling in the peripheral team in the desert, and Li Shen, like Yang Huxing, was also a lone ranger.If Li Shen hadn't joined the Geng Army, then the three of them would probably have formed a small group, and now I don't know what it would look like... With Yang Huxing's brain, Feng He's wrist, and Li Shen's fighting power, they would surely be no better than the Geng Army bad.

"Where are there so many ifs in the world." Feng He sighed quietly, "I didn't listen to your advice at the beginning, so it's no use regretting it now."

Li Shen, with the butt of his cigarette in his mouth, turned his head to look back. He didn't understand why he was so obsessed with ghosts, and he was determined to identify with Geng Yan.But regret is indeed useless, time cannot be turned back, he has fallen into the situation he is today, and he asked for it.

With one hand, he removed the cigarette butt that was already burning to the end, and Feng He frowned and looked at his right arm hanging by his side, and asked, "What's the matter with your body? You left Chang'an, did you... ...It can't be cured?"

Li Shen let go of Feng He's arm, sat up straight, lifted the blindfold on his right eye, and opened his eyelid to show Feng He.

"It's the alien origin energy left by Yun Xiangkong. This thing can absorb the origin energy in my body and erode the origin veins. According to the current speed, I should be able to last for another two or three years."

"and then?"

"The source veins are exhausted, the whole body is paralyzed, waiting to die."

Feng He had nothing to say, Li Shen sat side by side with him, and said lightly: "At the beginning, you said that a mercenary has human lives in his hands, and he deserves to die... Actually, it makes sense."

"People fight and kill each other for what? When I was a child, I grew up in a small country in the Eastern Wasteland. Every year, people came to the town to loot. They were either bandits or rebels. At that time, I always wanted to become stronger. , can protect my mother, protect the people in the town, and kill those bad guys... Later, when I arrived in Chang'an, I realized that everything I experienced was good. A war between two countries would kill countless people. There are so many people in this world. Calls from many countries, ghosts know how many people die every day."

Feng He finally laughed when he heard it, and said: "I never thought you would think about these things."

"Killing people all day long is not a lunatic, so you have to think about why." Li Shen picked up a weed in front of the grave and played with it between his fingers, "Yang Huxing wants everyone to have the right to become stronger, and Geng Yan wants to reach the top." In fact, I also had such an ideal in the city of Chang'an."

"I want to make this world no longer have fighting."

………………

Feng He and Li Shen left the cemetery, and met an unexpected person at the entrance.

The chief strategist of the Geng Army held a big black umbrella in broad daylight, pushed his glasses, nodded at Fenghe, and said to Li Shen: "I have something to do with you, come with me."

Li Shen instinctively felt that something was wrong, he was led by Lin Guo into the car and brought all the way back to the Geng Army Guild Hall.Seeing that Lin Guo was about to drive the car in, he finally couldn't help but asked, "Can you change the place?"

Lin Guo glanced at him indifferently, and said, "Geng Yan is not here."

So Li Shen stopped talking.

The two took the elevator up to the 35th floor, and entered Lin Guo's office one after the other.Standing by the door, Lin Guo turned on the light, pointed to the chair beside the desk, and said to Li Shen, "Sit." Then he locked the door with a click.

A row of hairs stood up on the back of Li Shen's neck.

"I have a few questions for you." Lin Guo made two cups of coffee, walked over with them, and put down a cup in front of Li Shen.This unprecedented treatment flattered Li Shen, and at the same time, the ominous premonition in his heart became stronger.

Lin Guo sat down across the desk, took a sip of coffee, and asked the first question.

"Are you serious about quitting the Geng Army?"

Li Shen nodded stiffly, said yes, and waited silently for Lin Guo to pour over a cup of hot coffee.

Lin Guo didn't splash him.

"You have a physical problem, to what extent?" Lin Guo asked.

Li Shen was taken aback for a moment, and said, "It's nothing..."

"He's dying, isn't he?" Lin Guo interrupted him bluntly, guessing the truth accurately, "A while ago, Gong Yun searched for famous doctors, and Geng Yan went to the North to find Kongshan Temple, all for you, If it wasn't serious, they wouldn't be so nervous."

Li Shen was speechless.

Lin Guo already got the answer he wanted, nodded and said, "The last question, are you in love with Geng Yan?"

The knife was stabbed hard and fast, Li Shen's heart ached, he opened his mouth to take a breath, and said in a muffled voice, "No."

Surprise flashed across Lin Guo's eyes, and his tone was a little uncertain: "No?"

"I made a mistake." Li Shen laughed at himself, "I don't love him, I just want to..."

I just want to humiliate him, fuck him, trample on his dignity, play with his body, tear open that tall face, see him crying and begging for mercy, showing his ugly appearance... If this twisted desire can also be called Love, that must be a joke.

"A Guo, I'm sorry." Li Shen suppressed these bad thoughts to the bottom of his heart, and said to Lin Guo, "I forced you to join the Geng Army, I know you don't like Geng Yan, I..."

"I really don't like Geng Yan." Lin Guo said calmly, "If you want to leave, then I have no reason to stay."

Facing Li Shen's astonished gaze, Lin Guo stated his plan calmly: "It will take some time to deal with the first and last, and I will go to Donghuang to find you after the work in hand is handed over."

"Uh." Li Shen didn't know what to say, Lin Guo's decision was so straightforward, which made him a little uneasy, and hesitantly asked, "Isn't it true that you have wanted to do this for a long time?"

"Give me a copy of the Li family's information as soon as possible." Lin Guo ignored Li Shen's question and ordered, "Also, I think you should have a formal talk with Geng Yan. If you don’t want to reuse it, you can consider exchanging with Geng Yan at a certain price and taking him away together. Liu Abao is taking care of the property under your name? I need to meet with him, you can arrange it.”

Why does it feel weirder the more you say it?Li Shenjiong looked at Lin Guo with enthusiasm, and said slowly: "A Guo, I'm going to Donghuang to retire..."

"It's not yet thirty, you want to retire?" Lin Guo finally poured a cup of coffee, Li Shen was unexpected, his face was poured, and he looked at Lin Guo blankly.

Lin Guo put down the empty cup, took off the glasses that concealed the color of his pupils, and stared at Li Shen unblinkingly with two monster eyes glowing with blood.

"Who said that there was Li Sanduo in ancient times, but now there is you, Li Shen?"