Laughing at Chang'an

After dinner, Wang Zhenjian rejected the other party's suggestion to go shopping for clothes, bid farewell to the adjutant, and returned to his home in Yuehe District alone.

His home is in Jiutong Street, Yuehe River. It is a small house of only [-] square meters. There are two rooms separated by broken boards and curtains. The smaller one belongs to him, and the bigger one belongs to his father.Because it is an inner room, there are no windows, and an old chandelier is placed across the partition, illuminating both ends at the same time.

Standing outside the door, he heard the noisy TV inside, and when he opened the door, a strong smell of alcohol came to his face.Wang Zhen walked in without squinting, walked around the beer bottles and garbage all over the floor, passed by his father who was lying on the sofa sleeping soundly, lifted the curtain and walked into his own side.

This side is the same as when he left. Although the space is small, everything is neatly arranged and cleaned very clean.Wang Zhen took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, went outside with a broom and dustpan, and cleaned silently.At this time, his father was supposed to be working in a commercial firm, but since his mother fell ill and used up all the savings in the family, and sold the house in the western suburbs, the family moved to this dilapidated place, and everything became worse.

You see, this is life, and there are always various accidents that disrupt the original schedule.

Wang Zhen picked up a broken cardboard box from outside, put the garbage in it, and carried it downstairs.Sanitation comes only once a ten-day period, and the entire road is littered with randomly discarded garbage. Looking up, you can see dirty children chasing and playing with each other on the side of the road, girls with scantily clad clothes sitting in the shadows smoking, and old people sitting on garbage dumps Basking in the sun, men with vicious appearance gathered together to play cards and gamble... This is also Chang'an.

His master Yang Huxing wanted to change the city. Wang Zhen respected his ideals, but felt that it was impossible from the bottom of his heart.He was walking on the street with a cardboard box full of rubbish, exuding a clean atmosphere that was incompatible with the surroundings. His cleanliness got worse after moving to Jiutong Street. The dirtier the surroundings, the more he wanted to become Clean, this may already be a kind of sickness.

At the end of the street is a rubbish disposal point built with stones, but there are only a handful of people who actually come here to throw rubbish.Wang Zhen threw the cardboard box in, clapped his hands, then turned his head slowly, and met the person standing not far behind him.

Gray clothes, mask, looks suspicious enough, not to mention people followed him all the way... Wang Zhen was a little helpless, with his hands hanging down to his side, ready to pull out the Dragon and Sparrow Twin Blades hanging on his waist at any time.He felt that he should still join the Geng Army. Li Shen's guarantee was too ineffective, and he was blocked by people before it was half a day... Being emotional is really bad, and it is even more stupid to want to rely on others, but now Regret is also pointless.

Wang Zhen took a deep breath.

He jumped up, stepped to the upper right, stepped on the stone brick wall of the arcade, took advantage of the momentum to climb up the outer edge of the second floor, and flew across the floor at a 45-degree angle with his body.He couldn't see the masked man in sight, but he could feel that the man was behind him, getting closer... He rushed down without hesitation, turned and sprinted into the corridor of the arcade, and stood in the sun while playing cards. On the street, he ran past these people, attracting a series of exclamations and scolding. Hearing the sound of no abnormal voice behind him, Wang Zhenxin was slightly relieved. Since the other party did not kill people wantonly, it means that he The chance of survival will be slightly higher.

The not-so-long Jiutong Street came to an end in a blink of an eye, and the green Moon River flowed quietly in sight. The night market vendors who came early had already set up their stalls by the river. When night fell, many gourmets would come from the city to make a special trip , Take a stroll around this unique Yuehe Night Market.

Wang Zhen didn't stop walking, he slammed into the wonton stall directly across the street, picked up a stool amidst the owner's scolding, threw it forward, and then jumped down the Yue'er River.The tea-red bench sank and floated on the surface of the water, Wang Zhen used it as a foothold, and crossed the river in one jump.

He kept running.

Yang Xingxing often said that you should be single-minded in doing things, and if you have one thought in your heart, don't worry about other things.Wang Zhen thinks this is very reasonable, but it is not so easy to actually do it, just like now, he can't help but want to look back, see if the masked man is still there, and see where the other party is .

He felt the need to take a look.

So he turned around.

—The masked man is gone.

Wang Zhen stopped and looked around vigilantly, feeling an unspeakable uneasiness in his heart.He reached for the cell phone in his pocket, pressed a series of numbers from memory, then slowly put the cell phone into his sleeve and raised it to his ear.

He dialed Li Shen's number, of course.

"Datang Communications Group's friendly reminder that the number you dialed is temporarily unavailable..."

Standing alone on the street, little friend Wang Zhen put down his phone dumbly, and uttered the first swear word in his life——

"I beep."

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Saying goodbye to Hades, Li Shen left the Blood Slaughter Guild wearing a half-wet shirt.

Before he left, he wanted to say hello to the baby, but unfortunately, he ran into Xuetu 73, who was about to come over with a knife to fight him desperately. Li Shen didn't bother to bother with him, so he just left.

He walked out of Heping Road and turned into the adjacent Huiguang Road.It's funny to say that Xuetu and Huiguang are two deadly rivals, and the guild hall was built together. It can be said that they can't see each other when they look up.

Stepping up the pure white mountain and sea stone steps, Li Shen stood in front of the glorious and magnificent main entrance, facing Li Mubai who was walking out of the door.

Li Mubai was dressed plainly today, wearing a gray suit and a plaid scarf. He nodded at Li Shen with a cold expression, and asked him what he was doing here.

Li Shen said I came to find your father.

"Oh, he's in the Xiaoyu Building." Li Mubai stretched out his hand and pointed to the back, "Enter the door and turn left, go to the end, there is a sign at the door, go by yourself." After speaking, he put his hands in his trouser pockets, They bypassed Li Shen and left.

This attitude of not treating Li Shen as an outsider at all made Li Shen, an outsider, a little confused.Li Shen stood still for a while, and then walked in according to the path pointed by the other party. Along the way, when he met a person from Hui Guang, the other party either nodded at him or simply turned a blind eye to him. This strange attitude made him feel uncomfortable Fluffy.

To be honest, the relationship between the Geng Army and Huiguang is very ordinary. During the years of expansion, there have been many frictions between the two families, large and small.It's just that they all restrained each other, didn't make the problem bigger, and it's just passable on face.

Li Shen arrived at Xiaoyu Tower unimpeded all the way.

He looked at the sign at the door to confirm that he had found the right place, and the question was, did he just go up there?In case Li Tieyi was bullying the little girl upstairs, wouldn't it be embarrassing for him to bump into her?Well, this assumption is not true, but it doesn't seem appropriate to say it... Li Shen felt a little regretful. If he had known earlier, he shouldn't have listened to Li Mubai. It would be reasonable to find someone at the door to inform and lead the way.

He was hesitating here when someone appeared from the upstairs window and called his name.

Li Shen raised his head upon hearing the sound, and saw Li Tieyi standing at the window, waving at him.

"The door is unlocked, come up." Li Tieyi said casually.

Li Shen was defeated by this casual and natural attitude. When he went upstairs, before he had time to speak, Li Tieyi called over and asked him to help support the wooden shelf.Li Tieyi took iron nails and a hammer, fixed the four corners of the wooden frame, turned it over, and nailed the other end.While helping him, Li Shen scanned the interior of the house, and found carpenter tools and finished products everywhere, wooden tables, chairs, wooden ornaments, etc., and the most outrageous thing is that there is a true-to-scale wooden goat. Not much, it looks ugly.

Li Tieyi is 73 this year, and he took over as the head of Huiguang at the age of 17, and it has been more than [-] years since then.Outsiders' evaluation of him is nothing more than the word 'mediocre'.After finally fixing the entire wooden frame, Li Tieyi untied the cape used to prevent dust, wiped his hands and led Li Shen to the next room.

"You came just in time. A few catties of freshly dug spring bamboo shoots were sent from the other courtyard today. They are very tender. I remember you like this." Li Tieyi beckoned Li Shen to sit down, and rang the bell to order his servants to boil water and make tea. He also took out a small jar of wine-soaked plums, took out a small dish, and put it in front of Li Shen.

Li Shen looked at the plate of plums, feeling a little complicated.

"What's the matter with your eyes? Didn't sleep well at night?" Li Tieyi sat down across the table, with a rather concerned tone, "I have a dietary prescription for calming the nerves, which is very effective, and I will copy it for you later. Take it back."

Li Shen played cards all night yesterday, which made the dark circles under his eyes even worse. After being told by Li Tieyi, he really didn't know what to say.

"Oh, that's right." Li Tieyi finally got to the point, "You came to see me, what's the matter?"

Li Shen was about to answer, but he waved his hand again when he saw someone, and said naturally: "Forget it, let's eat first, we'll talk after the meal, let's go, let's eat."

Li Shen: "..."

His attitude was so kind, and Li Shen wanted something from others, so naturally he couldn't say no to it.Going downstairs to the restaurant, there are three meat and two vegetables on the table, and a bowl of clear bamboo shoot soup.It's true that Li Shen likes to eat bamboo shoots. He doesn't know how Li Tieyi knew about them, and the wine-stained plums. He hasn't eaten that stuff since he came to Chang'an. Logically speaking, no one would know about it... Really. strangeness.

Fortunately, there were no more troubles during the meal. Li Shensheng was afraid that the other party would bring food for him, so he really couldn't help it and wanted to run away.After the meal, the two finally sat down to discuss business. Li Shen just mentioned Wang Zhen's name, and Li Tieyi waved his hand to make it clear.

"I haven't found out the true details of this king, and I won't do anything for the time being... He is obsessed with knives, but his master Yang Hsing made it a gun, so who taught him to use a knife?"

Li Tieyi was holding a teacup, and his words were quite meaningful.

"Xiao Shen, it's not that I'm alarmist, this matter is very strange."