Bulwark of Light

Chapter 97
The old city at 11:30, the lights are sporadic, and the night is dim. It is different from the prosperity of the main city of Dadu and the riverside. The voices seemed more quiet, as if there were old songs flowing in the air.

Some people say that this is pyrotechnic and humanistic.

But in the eyes of more people who don't speak... this is the breath of being eliminated by the times.

Only Xiuren models will make a special trip to the old city of Dadu. In fact, it is to take pictures and put them on their personal social platforms to show their unique taste of art, or to accept business orders.These people left after taking the photo. Before the shutter was pressed, they leaned against the old alley with coffee in their hands and smiled sweetly. After the photo was frozen, they would just rush to the next location, thinking of finishing the photo as soon as possible and calling it a day.

Things that are truly eliminated by the times will not be reviled.

The real elimination is forgetting, leaving the stage quietly, everyone will only feel surprised when they suddenly think of it, maybe there is a second of regret, but they will be forgotten in a flash.

This old city no longer occupies much space in everyone's memory... People who are nostalgic cannot survive in Dadu.

Gu Shen stood at the corner of the alley.

He glanced at the time and couldn't help but touch his forehead, thinking that he must be crazy.

Follow your usual schedule.

At this point in time, he should have rested.

But Wu Ya dialed Gu Shen's phone number, and as a friend, kindly invited him to come to the old town for supper... An invitation that sounded unattractive, Gu Shen didn't know where his brain was cramping, He chose to show up for the appointment on time.

As expected, the shady fellow who extended the gracious invitation was not there yet.

Isn't it going to cuckoo?

"I'm coming!"

There was someone waving from a distance in the night.

A man in a suit and leather shoes wore a heavy motorcycle helmet on his head. While waving his hands, he tried to remove the helmet with one hand. Perhaps because the helmet was stuffed too tightly, he failed after two attempts... The man was top-heavy The running posture is quite funny.

In the end, Song Ci stopped abruptly with both feet, bent over and bowed, lowered his head and knocked on his forehead, and said in a muffled voice.

"The hatband is a little tight...you help me pull it out."

Gu Shen was a little helpless, and put his hand on it. I have to say that the helmet is really tight. He straightened his hands and pulled it out...

"Boom" sound.

"Yohoho... It's comfortable, it's comfortable."

The crow breathed out a big mouthful of smoke refreshedly, and he still had a woman's cigarette butt that burned up to his buttocks in his mouth. I really don't know how he was riding a bicycle in the smoky vision of the goggles.

"The cigarette was given to me by my wife, so I don't want to throw it away."

Song Ci vigorously shook the helmet with both hands, shaking out the sky full of cigarette ash. Taking advantage of this time, he took another big mouthful of cigarette butt, and said with a smile, "Why do you have displeasure written all over your face?"

Gu Shen said angrily: "I believed in your evil, blowing in the cold wind for half an hour!"

"Hey, hey... Has it been so long? After hanging up the phone, I did something temporarily."

Song Ci scratched his head, "The old city is different from Jiangtan. Everyone is asleep at this point. Riding a motorcycle to blow up the street will be scolded by others. Although my mother is dead, I don't care about being scolded, but after all Wearing this suit can be regarded as representing Madam's face, so please don't do anything immoral...I pushed my cart for the last part of the way, and just parked my motorcycle outside the alley."

"Just come, I'm not cheated." Gu Shen sighed softly.

"What kind of talk is that! Is the crow that I promise is that kind of person?" Song Ci beamed and said, "Let's eat open tonight, I'm treating you!"

……

……

"Here it is."

At 11:30 in the middle of the night, the old Xu beef noodle restaurant is not closed yet, but it will be soon. The boss greeted Song Ci with a smile, "I'll fry it for you if you want to eat, and I won't pick up customers later. Location……"

Song Ci chuckled, and looked at the second floor of the store with his neck curled up.

"Don't worry...you're already asleep."

The boss gestured in a low voice: "Don't disturb her, or...she will drive you away."

Song Ci quickly made a gesture of understanding, and dragged Gu Shen to carefully sit in front of the small table in the corner. He whispered: "The proprietress doesn't like me very much, let's keep my voice down later."

Gu Shen smiled, "Isn't it because of the immoral things you usually do?"

Song Ci snorted, and muttered: "I usually escape the bill, but it's not that no one pays the bill... and I don't owe her a penny, this woman has a bad face all day long."

"How do you know that those people you brought in before will obediently pay the bill?"

Song Ci sneered, stretched out his fist the size of a sandbag, and said triumphantly, "Here, did you see it? With this, people can buy the bill."

Gu Shen was a little helpless.

"Here's a beef offal hotpot, and then some fried pork, and spicy fried chicken gizzards..." Song Ci never opened the upside-down menu from beginning to end, ordered three dishes in one go, and asked suggestively: "What do you want?" What else do you want to add?"

Gu Shen understood the guy's meaning at a glance: "No need...that's enough."

"Cough...why are you looking at me with this look?" Song Ci smiled shyly and said, "We're just vulgar people, we don't have high hobbies, and we don't usually like to go to the river beach to drink [-] cups of unjust money. Foreign wine, the wine here is delicious and cheap!"

"Young people in Jiangtan like to drink sake at night. It's a drink from Yinghai District. It sounds bourgeois and elegant. You can try this..." Song Ci and the boss whispered a few words, and Lao Xu came from the innermost part of the cabinet. Taking out a mysterious long bottle wrapped in black newspaper packaging, he chuckled softly, "A pure man should drink this!"

Gu Shen squinted his eyes and looked at the small cup of white wine in front of him, thinking that this wine was even smaller than the one in Qingtao Bar, such a small cup, wouldn't it be enough to finish it in one gulp?

For a good-natured young man like him, drinking is probably the worst thing he is good at. Out of investigation needs, last time he went to Jiangtan to taste [-] cups of "Metropolis", the taste was not bad, not as good as Song Ci's. So unbearable.

With the thought of giving it a try, Gu Shen raised his glass and drank it down.

Taking a sip, Gu Shen choked and almost spit out snot and tears.

This time the wine was obviously different from the previous ones, it was extremely spicy in the mouth, as if swallowing a raging fire, the flame spread down the throat until it burned the whole body.

"You are really... fierce."

Seeing Gu Shen make a fool of himself, Song Ci couldn't help laughing.

He took a small sip and said softly: "This cup of wine should be drunk slowly, divided into seven or eight times before it can be finished."

"What kind of wine is this?" Gu Shen felt a wave of heat rushing towards Tianling Gai.

Song Ci narrowed his eyes, and said lightly, "The name of this wine... is 'Lion Awakening'. A sleeping lion wakes up with angry eyes. After drinking it, he will feel that his body has inexhaustible strength. The name is not important anymore, because the lion wakes up with anger. Waking up was discontinued ten years ago, and every drink is less than one cup. I have kept it with the boss for several years, and this is the first time I have taken it out to share with others.”

He raised his wine glass and said softly, "How does the lion's wake taste?"

The sleepiness in the middle of the night dissipated before a small cup of wine.

Gu Shen felt a strange illusion.

He seems to be looking at himself... From the perspective of looking down, his consciousness is not a little bit drunk, but extremely sober.

"I have a feeling that I finally woke up."

Gu Shen murmured: "This wine is very good, why is it discontinued?"

"It's actually not accurate to describe it as discontinued, because Lion Xing has never been mass-produced." Song Ci lowered his eyebrows, "Its formula only exists in the mind of one person, and that person died ten years ago. So the lion wakes up, naturally it doesn't exist anymore."

Gu Shen was startled.

Song Ci took out his dilapidated wallet, pinched out a yellowed photo from the inside, and said with a smile, "Last time I was really in a hurry to urinate, and I didn't have time to show you off when I evaded orders...Here, my father's My childhood sweetheart, Xiao Lu, do you look good?"

The photo has been rubbed by fingers many times, and it has turned yellow and old to the point where it is almost patinaed.

In the photo, the girl's face is blurry, her head is tilted slightly, showing a shallow smile, and a canine tooth.

Sure enough...Xiao Lu is the senior sister.

Lu Nanjin.

Unexpectedly, Senior Sister is usually such a person who is not easy to smile, and she laughed so sweetly when she was a child.

Gu Shen said honestly: "It looks good..."

The voice didn't finish.

"Of course it looks good!" Crow took back the photo in a chattering voice, knocked on the table showing off, and said, "Xiao Lu is mine, so don't look at it too much!"

Gu Shen smiled and asked a question: "It's good-looking, but why do I think...she looks a little like Madam?"

"...they are sisters, biological sisters."

The crow took another sip of the lion and woke up: "Don't think about it wrongly. It's one thing for me to like Xiao Lu, but it's another thing to work for my wife. There is no relationship between the two. My wife sent me from the old The city has been brought out, I owe my wife too much, there is nothing to repay, only this bad life."

"Bad life?"

Gu Shen glanced at the crow.

Although I don't know this guy well, the person who can be the personal bodyguard of the wife must be a top transcendent person.

"I owe Madam... and the entire Lu family."

Song Ci's voice was brewing in his throat. After drinking the lion's wake, his voice was hoarse like a beast. This is indeed not a wine that can be mass-produced, because every drop of wine contains extraordinary spiritual elements, which will make people Mistakenly thinking I was sober... until I was so drunk that I passed out.

"Oh... how do you say?"

Gu Shen was in excellent condition and was not affected by "Lion Awakening" at all.

He sipped the wine cup in small sips, just because the wine was really strong, and it would choke his throat if he drank it too fast... From the beginning to the end, except for the slight burning of his cheeks, there was no adverse reaction.

The spiritual elements in the alcohol are immersed in the mind, and they are devoured by all those who come by the blazing fire. He is the one who is really suitable for drinking lions to sober up.

A hundred lamps are not drunk.

A thousand cups are not poured.

(End of this chapter)