Laughing at Chang'an

Consciousness sinks into darkness and wakes up in light again.For a brief moment, Li Shen thought he was dead.

He looks up in the sea of ​​light.

It was really a wonderful scene. Countless golden clover were flying in the sea of ​​light. It was like a fairy dream world. The inhuman part of his blood was about to move. Li Shen lowered his head in a daze, and saw the Behind the transparent wings bent in front of him, he hesitated to touch the film-like flaps with his fingertips, the touch from both sides made him shiver uncontrollably.

This thing... grew out of his back.

His mind was filled with the emotion of 'seeing a ghost'. Li Shen turned his eyes around again. He didn't know where this place was, nor why he was here. The last picture in his memory was that of losing his breath and lying in his arms Geng Yan.

He smiled a little coldly.

If Geng Yan wanted to die for him, that would be the best... He really thought so, and expected so, and laughed at himself while looking forward to it.Li Shen closed his eyes, the thin wings on his back slowly stretched in the sea of ​​light, the sharp and narrow transparent wing membrane raised high, trembling silently, extending awe-inspiringly towards the end of the sea of ​​light.

In the dark, he is asked to take off with wings, fly out of this sea of ​​light, and go to an unknown distance.

He didn't move.

Because he knows that once it is over, it will never come back.He will lose his body named 'Li Shen' and become another form of existence. He will leave this place named 'Fang Lu' and bid farewell to everything in the past.

But he couldn't bear it.

………………

In the spring of the following year, Geng Yan went to Weiyang Palace to take up a street sweeping job, and became a member of the cleaning team in Chang'an City.When Li Mubai came to visit Li Shen, he joked that he was selling miserably. Geng Yan did not respond to this. Every morning and evening, he changed into work clothes and went out to work with a broom and dustpan. Over time, it became a famous scene in Chang'an, and many people admired it. Come and watch, there are those who are brave enough to ask for his autograph.

The Chang'an Evening News ran three consecutive follow-up reports with the headline "The old boss is now sweeping the streets", which brought him tears of sympathy.Li Mubai's joke of 'selling miserable' was to the point, and now the public opinion in Chang'an City is one-sided to Geng Yan, making some people feel very uncomfortable, even if they want to do something, they are still tied.

Geng Yan'an cleans the streets peacefully, saves money to pay the rent, buys vegetables and learns to cook, wears cheap clothes and pants sold at roadside stalls, smokes low-quality cigarettes that cost ten yuan a pack, and occasionally buys a bottle or two of bad wine. The fried peanuts bought on the street drink slowly alone.

Huang Sha came a few times, while Li Mubai came once a month regularly, usually just to see if Li Shen was alive or dead before leaving, and didn't bother to say a word to Geng Yan.Zhang Puqiu was more enthusiastic about awakening Li Shen than Geng Yan, but to be precise, he was fascinated by the alien energy in Li Shen's body. This extraordinary enthusiasm was purely due to his desire for research. If it wasn't for Geng Yan, I'm afraid he already dissected Li Shen and used it as experimental material.

In the year 60 of the Tang Dynasty, one day in late June, Feng He, who hadn't shown up for a long time, came to visit suddenly, carrying two bottles of [-]-year-old Da Caomen in his hand.

"I've come to say goodbye."

He said so, put three wine glasses on the table, drank two bottles of good wine silently with Geng Yan, then patted his buttocks and walked away.

The next day, Feng He resigned from his position as deputy head of the desert, left Chang'an with a gun in his hand, and became a lone ranger wandering around the world. From time to time, there were rumors that he went somewhere and abandoned a certain woman. As a result, he was hunted down with a huge reward... Most people in Chang'an expressed their joy.

Flash forward to another year.

Time is a powerful weapon, it can obliterate everything, two years have passed, people have gradually forgotten the turmoil of Geng Yan's awakening, and the [-] regiment leaders who received the hidden letter at the beginning, now there are only insufficient eighty.Many things happen and end quietly, whether it is good or bad, life always goes on.

In the season of cicadas singing, the early morning sun was already horribly bright, Geng Yan finished sweeping the section of the road he was in charge of, and sat down by the roadside flower bed to rest.He lowered his head and took a cigarette from his pocket, put it on his mouth, and was about to light it, when suddenly there was a lighter in front of him.The fiery red hair was braided into long braids hanging behind him, and the proud young man held a lit lighter, lit Geng Yan on fire, and then sat down beside him very naturally.

"I've wanted to see you for a long time." He said to Geng Yan, "But the situation was too sensitive before, so I didn't make fun of myself... My name is Gu Dong, from east to west, north to south."

Geng Yan took the cigarette out of his mouth and said, "I know."

Gu Dong laughed, looking very happy. A young man of his age is full of vigor when he smiles, and his eyes are full of hope and the future.Geng Yan couldn't help but smile a little, raised his head to look at the scorching sun in the sky, and took a deep breath of cigarette.

"Two years ago, someone offered 30 billion Tang coins and asked me to take your life." Gu Dongdao, "After that failure, I took people to the Northland, and I made nearly a hundred dollars in the past two years." One hundred million, I wanted to buy a piece of land in Nancheng to build a building, but I couldn't find the one I liked... The location is too big and too expensive, and the cheap one is too small."

"You can buy a piece in the middle first, rent out the surrounding area, and then buy it little by little." Geng Yan said with a smile, "If you see it, you can start it. Be quick and do it all at once. Don't let people see it Occupying it will cause you trouble."

Gu Dong blinked, then suddenly slapped his head, and let out an ah.

"I really don't know how you people have long brains." He muttered, then suddenly changed the subject and asked Geng Yan, "Are you really planning to sweep the streets for the rest of your life?"

This question was asked abruptly and very impolitely. Geng Yan was startled, then suppressed his smile, leaned over and put the cigarette butt on the ground, and crushed it with the sole of his shoe.

Gu Dong frowned and said, "Li Shen won't wake up for the rest of his life, so you will guard him for the rest of his life? Is it worth it?"

Geng Yan tilted his head and glanced at him.

Gu Dong felt that all his small thoughts were seen through by this glance, and he stiffened his neck in embarrassment, and said stiffly: "I won't be around the corner anymore, I just want to invite you to be a consultant in my regiment. Just give me some ideas, you can be regarded as my master in name... What do you think?"

Facing his expectant gaze, Geng Yan stood up holding the broom, said lightly, "It's not that good," turned around and left.

From then on, even if Gu Dong was attached to Geng Yan, even Geng Yan's job of sweeping the streets was snatched up by him. fire.The gossip tabloids in Chang'an were so stimulated that they distorted the facts in a hurry, so everyone in Chang'an knew that Gu Dong, the new generation of limelight, was not only gay, but also crazily pursuing Geng Yan.

The love triangle between Gu Dong, Geng Yan, and Li Shen has become the latest topic of conversation among the people of Chang'an. Li Mubai joked that Geng Yan was attracting bees and attracting butterflies, and he kindly suggested that Geng Yan entrust Li Shen to him for safekeeping. Yan ignored.

The weather was hot in summer, and the first thing Geng Yan did when he came home from work was to wrap his arms around Li Shen, a big natural ice cube, to cool himself down.Unfortunately, one day he entered the room with his front foot, and just as he took off his clothes and put his arms around Li Shen, the door was kicked open from the outside with his back foot. Geng Yan on the bed crossed his eyes.

Three seconds later, Gu Dongmu backed out with a straight face, not forgetting to close the door behind him.

Geng Yan watched him go out, and when the door closed, he burst out laughing, buried his head in Li Shen's shoulder, and his shoulders were trembling when he laughed.After a while, he raised his head, bit Li Shen's lip viciously, and then licked it gently.

"If you don't wake up again, I will rape you." He said to Li Shen solemnly.

Gu Dong, who didn't go far outside the door, covered his face with his hands, feeling that the image of Geng Yan he had dreamed of collapsed in an instant, collapsed to the point of nowhere.

………………

Gu Dong came to Geng Yan anxiously because of a relic.

In the past two years, he led a team to the Northland, and while doing missions, he also established some foundations in the Northland. The news of this ruin was learned from a befriended orc tribe.He came to find Geng Yan in a hurry, even if he got an object dug up from the ruins, the people in the group brought it to a special appraiser, but he couldn't find it. It was said that it might be a relic of the previous generation.

It was a metal plate the size of a palm, and the pattern engraved on it was somewhat blurred. Geng Yan held it in his hand, rubbed the strange lines sunken into the surface, and remained silent for a long time.

He specializes in technology. Although Geng Yan led the team to excavate many relics, in fact he does not have a deep research on the culture of ancient relics. Fenghe is an expert in this regard.It's just that when he saw this sign, he suddenly remembered something.

Something a long time ago that hasn't happened yet.

In the last life, at about this time, he received news that a new ruin had been discovered in the Northland, which was said to contain a god that could bring the dead back to life.He didn't care about it or even took it as a joke at first, but after receiving the news that Li Shen had personally rushed to the Northland, he really paid attention to it.

The frontline was in full swing, but Li Shen was still in the mood to go to the Northland to dig the ruins. After all, Geng Yan couldn't hide his curiosity, and he brought people to follow him and rushed to the Northland, intending to be an oriole.What happened afterwards is something he will never forget, because it was the first time, and probably the last time, that he witnessed a miracle that was not created by human beings.

"Go back and block the news."

Geng Yan had already made a decision in his mind, so he ordered Gu Dong to go back and select someone who was absolutely reliable. After waiting for the news, he held the metal plate and turned to look at Li Shen who was lying on the bed and sleeping quietly.

Maybe it's all a coincidence, whether it's Gu Dong, or this metal plate that came to him suddenly, or maybe it's a trap set by fate for him at all... But there is no doubt that he was tempted.

He was tired of waiting without doing anything, and with less than three years, he overestimated his patience.Every night, holding Li Shen's temperatureless body in his arms, was a silent torment.

What's more, he has to find a way to keep himself alive, to bet on the [-]% success rate?Do not make jokes.

"Looks like I'll have to borrow a little luck from you."

Geng Yan smiled and kissed the tip of Li Shen's nose, with unshakable determination in his eyes.

"Wish me luck, my love."