Laughing at Chang'an

Eyes closed and opened... the fifth life.

Geng Yan touched his immature face, silent for a long time in front of the mirror.This may be his most successful rebirth. Li Shen has not yet been born at this time, and he has a lot of time to change his destiny and do everything he wants.

But he no longer had that passion.

There are no secrets in this world for him. In the four lifetimes in his mind, he has seen all kinds of things in the world. What about conquering Fang Lu? Without the pleasure of unknown surprises and challenges, everything can predict the result , the rest is just boring.

He finally understood why those vampires with long lives would be weary of the world, and the young Geng Yan smiled at himself in the mirror.

Having said that, he still habitually smoothed the wings of the empire, cultivated a group of loyal subordinates, and went to Donghuang to see Li Shen, who was still a kid.This is the first time that Geng Yan saw Li Shen's mother with his own eyes, she is indeed a stunning beauty, Li Shen's appearance is [-]% like that of his mother, especially when he was a child, he was indistinguishable from male and female, extremely cute.

But his temperament is not cute at all, it is smelly and hard, his body is covered with spikes, and his eyes are gloomy... Geng Yan heard from Li Shen that he could sense the malice of others since he was a child, and also So it is difficult to develop trust in others.This is probably quite difficult. In the warm weather, Li Shen had a fight with other children and fell asleep on the grass by the Yanhu Lake covered in bruises. Geng Yan took a box of Put the snacks quietly beside him, squat down, and poke the tips of his ears like a thief.

Li Shen frowned, opened his eyes, and found the snack box beside him after a while. He sat up in a daze and looked around. Geng Yan, who was hiding in the dark, watched him slowly open the box, raised eyebrows. Wrinkled all the way up, with a look of hesitation on his face, after a long time, he broke off a little bit of crumbs on his fingertips, and licked it uncertainly.Immediately after seeing Li Shen showing a clear expression of disgust, he threw the snack box aside, patted his butt, stood up and left.

Geng Yan was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing.

He returned to Westland with the box of discarded snacks - he gave up.

Geng Yan spent a year to make himself die justifiably. Death is not troublesome. The trouble is to make everyone believe that he is dead, including those party members and dead men.Then he changed his name to Geng Yan and embarked on a traveling journey alone.There is no specific destination, just walk around as you like, look at this land, and see all living beings in this world.

If the law of the jungle is an unshakable law, then Li Shen, who wants to change this law, is naive and ridiculous no matter what life he lives in.Geng Yan once helped him realize this innocent ideal, but the result was not very ideal. In the final analysis, they themselves are the adherents of this law, and they have gained power and status because of this...People are weak and cannot feel at ease without power Creatures, like beasts, are like this.And once you have power, more desires will follow. This is an unsolvable knot.

Geng Yan traveled to many places, and finally came to Chang'an again. He bought a teahouse in the west of the city and became the shopkeeper himself.Chang'an City is indeed the most lively place in the world, and there are all kinds of new things every day, even if he is occasionally aroused, he will listen to the gossip.But most of the time, life is peaceful and boring, like a pool of stagnant water.

In the second year after settling in Chang'an, Geng Yan met the penniless Li Shen on Yue'er Bridge.

At this time, Li Shen was at an age between a teenager and a young man, and there was still a greenness on that pretty face that hadn't faded away. He put his hands in his trouser pockets and walked with his head buried in the road. of indifference.

It really was a chance encounter.

The moment they passed each other, Geng Yan asked like a ghost, "Are you looking for a job?"

Li Shen paused in his footsteps, stopped, stared straight at Geng Yan with a pair of pitch-black eyes, and hummed lightly after a while.

So Li Shen became a waiter in Gengyan Teahouse.

Abducting Li Shen, who hadn't had time to go to Weiyang Palace to register as a mercenary, into his teahouse, Geng Yan knew that he had ruined his fate again, and was ready to be troubled.But unexpectedly, such a stable life lasted for more than two years, and Li Shen also obediently worked as a waiter in his teahouse for more than two years.

When the third year was about to enter, Li Shen asked Geng Yan to resign, and left the teahouse with a small package. He went to Weiyang Palace to register as a matter of course, and embarked on his original destiny.Geng Yan guarded the teahouse by himself, and gradually began to hear about him from the tea customers. Although more than two years wasted, Li Shen was Li Shen after all. One of the brightest young men.

On the sixth New Year in Chang'an, on the day of Shangyuan Festival, Geng Yan got up early as usual, and went downstairs to open the door to welcome guests.He opened the door panels one by one, and the cold wind and skylight rushed in together, bringing with it a few fine snowflakes.

There was a man standing outside the door with a small package on his back. His head and shoulders were covered with snowflakes. He stood there for an unknown how long. His dark eyes looked at Geng Yan without blinking. After a while, he took a step forward and called Shout out to the shopkeeper.

He said, shopkeeper, I have saved some money, you can see if it is enough to buy half of your tea house.

He said, shopkeeper, if the money is not enough, I will be your buddy for the rest of your life, will it work?

Geng Yan counted the stack of bank notes, folded them up and put them in his arms, nodded, saying yes.

Since then, the scariest teahouse in the history of Chang'an City was born, and no matter how fierce the character is, they have to shrink back obediently when they arrive here.Li Tieyi, the master of Huiguang, went to the door to look for his son, but was thrown out by the big shopkeeper with a cup of hot tea. Thousands of people from Huiguang surrounded the teahouse, and asked the second shopkeeper to sit at the door with a stool, and kicked three streets with one foot.

Many, many, many years later, Geng Yan, whose life had finally come to an end, was lying on the bed, and at this last moment, he regretted it.

Geng Yan held his breath, and told Li Shen to go to the backyard of the teahouse, under the crooked-neck tree, and dig out the box he had buried many, many years ago.There were only two things in the box, a pocket watch and a stone.

—He had already given up.

Geng Yan thought to himself mockingly, while waiting for Li Shen to bring the things, he heard the sound of footsteps outside the door, he raised his eyes and looked over, and saw Li Shen was holding a pocket watch in his hand, and said to him in a bewildered expression: : "There was still a stone, but suddenly it disappeared..."

Geng Yan blinked and blinked, but didn't come up in one breath, and hung up.

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Li Shen was dazed when he woke up.

If it weren't for the scrapped pocket watch still in his hand, he would even think that he was having a dream.He looked at the room he was in, and his gaze was fixed on the corner of the mirror that appeared in the bathroom door not far away. The face in the mirror was still his face, to be precise, it was his face when he was young.

Standing silently in front of the mirror for a while, he turned around without saying a word, and went out. When he went out, he casually picked up someone and asked him what year, month, and day in the Tang calendar, and where is this place, Li Shen. Finally confirmed his situation.

He returned to Chang'an when he was 20 years old.

With his heart beating wildly, Li Shen followed his memory and ran on the street, only the figure that he missed so much and thought like crazy remained in his mind.

The teahouse is still there, but the shopkeeper is not Geng Yan.

Li Shen was very confused.

He smashed the teahouse, grabbed the shopkeeper by the collar and forced him to ask about Geng Yan's news, but was dragged away by Yang Huxing who rushed over after hearing the news, and then he sat there motionless in a daze like a fool.Yang Huxing and Feng He sat with him for most of the day, Feng He patted his head and said it was impossible, he took a bottle of high-grade liquor, pinched open his chin and poured it in, knocking him down.

Li Shen was drunk for a day and a night, and after he sobered up, he finally became sober.He learned about his current situation from Yang Xingxing and Feng Hekou, which was quite different from his memory, and the time did not match at all. At this time in his memory, he should still be working as a waiter in Geng Yan's teahouse. .

Once again, he began to wonder if he had a dream. If it was really a dream, it would be too scary to be real.Yang Huxing and Feng He guessed that he suffered a brain injury and lost his memory, and Li Shen didn't know how to explain his situation, so he simply acquiesced in their guess.

On the third day after his rebirth, Li Shen made a decision—he decided to go to Geng Yan.

He was sure that he was not dreaming, and those memories were real, even if the discarded pocket watch was not mentioned, it was not difficult to verify.He knows that Yang Xingxing has the identity of a "torturer" behind his back, that Feng He has suffered from a "blood curse", and even knows that he is the illegitimate son of Huiguang Li Tieyi. If these are true, it doesn't make sense But Geng Yan is fake.

As for Geng Yan's true identity, Li Shen is not completely clueless. He has been with him all his life, and he naturally knows that Geng Yan is not just a teahouse owner.Geng Yan came from the west land, was born aristocrats, knew the secret art of light, and had a high level of cultivation. This kind of search scope was greatly reduced. Li Shen knew that looking for it by himself was tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack, so he took the initiative to find his own. Li Tieyi, the cheap old man, bluntly said that he needs to borrow Huiguang's intelligence network.

Facts have proved that he found the right person, because apart from Li Tieyi, who has already started secretly cooperating with the Illuminati, other people may not be able to find Geng Yan, who is still deeply hidden at this moment.

Geng Yan, who is the third prince of the Guangming Empire, is keeping a low profile at this moment, secretly cultivating his wings, planning to kill his father and brother.

Although there are some differences in appearance, Li Shen recognized Geng Yan at a glance among the many photos of people who fit his description.So even if Li Shendang left for the west land, no matter what, he had to meet Geng Yan in person...to confirm whether the other party was the Geng Yan he remembered.

On the airship heading to Westland, Li Shen was thinking about a question: If Geng Yan had already forgotten him, what should he do?

Somewhere, he felt the malice from fate.