Laughing at Chang'an

The light above his head was so white that it was a bit cold. The nurse gave Wang Zhen a hospital gown. The spring in Chang'an City was still very cold, and the hospital gown on his body was also very thin. He sat silently, his lips turned white from the cold.

Clear footsteps sounded from the front, Wang Zhen raised his head and looked at Li Shen who was walking towards him.He looked at the other person's slightly tired face, and unconsciously looked over the other side to look behind him. He was a little dazed for a while, as if he saw a huge black and red vortex, and the white bones rose and fell, turning into chains, wrapped around the other party's neck. body, limbs...

He shook his head slightly, closed his eyes and opened them again, probably due to excessive blood loss, he was a little unconscious.

Li Shen walked in front of him, turned around and sat down on the chair next to him, leaned against the wall, and exhaled lightly.

"What would you like to eat tonight?"

Wang Zhen was stunned for a moment before realizing that the other party was asking him something, and subconsciously replied: "Anything is fine, I don't care."

Li Shen turned his head to look at him, did not speak, and looked away again.

"Let's go." He stood up while speaking, and Wang Zhenzhen was about to stand up, when he saw a slight pause under his feet, and rushed to meet the old man who had just walked out of the elevator.

"Old Yu!"

The old man was wearing a white doctor's gown, and he was also surprised to see Li Shen.His name was Yu Feng, and he was once a famous doctor in the Eastern Wilderness, but he was dug back to his home by the Geng Army by all means.Before Li Shen left Chang'an, the old man was responsible for serious illnesses, minor illnesses and injuries. Thanks to his superb medical skills and meticulous care, Li Shen was able to run around in the front line of the battle alive and well.

"Come back? Come, come, let me see..."

The old man grabbed Li Shen's wrist as he spoke, but the latter avoided him with a smile.Li Shen touched his nose with his hand, and said with a smile, "Mr. Yu, I'm fine. I'm here with someone. Don't be so busy... Did you go down to eat just now?"

He intentionally changed the topic, but the old man didn't answer, just looked at him with a smile, and stretched out his right hand.

The smile on Li Shen's face faded little by little.

Wang Zhen watched silently from behind, and for some reason suddenly felt that Li Shen's back seemed to sink, as if something invisible fell heavily on that slightly thin shoulder.

Facing the calm gaze of the old man who seemed to have insight into everything, Li Shen raised his right hand and placed it in the other's flat hand.

After closing his eyes quietly for half a minute, the old man frowned slightly, and said to Li Shen, "Come with me."

Li Shen nodded, confessed to Wang Zhen, and followed the old man back to the office dedicated to the other party.This is actually an old man's consultation room. The space is not small. In addition to desks and bookshelves, it is also filled with various medical equipment and supplies.

The old man walked behind the desk and asked Li Shen to sit on the chair in front of the desk.He was not in a hurry to speak, he clasped his hands on the table, lowered his head as if he was thinking about something.

Li Shen put his hands on the chair and waited silently.

He knew what the other party would say.

"When did it happen?" The old man raised his head and asked, "How long has it been going on? It was... two years ago?"

"Well, I found it after I arrived at Hongdao. It was serious at first, and I was conscious, but I couldn't move or speak. It's been about half a year." Li Shen narrated calmly, "The doctor I invited couldn't help it, and then I used it forcibly. After the rainbow chalcedony washed the veins, I regained the ability to move..."

"Ridiculous." The old man interrupted him, with a rare look of anger, and reprimanded, "The rainbow chalcedony will also become the nourishment of different energy while washing the veins. You are drinking poison to quench your thirst, and it will only make the situation worse."

Li Shen grinned, smiling helplessly.

"It's better than lying down for a lifetime. As long as I pay attention to it, I should be fine for another ten or eight years."

The old man looked at him silently, as if he had seen through the pretended smiling face and the bottomless despair underneath.

"If this goes on like this, within two years, you will be a useless person."

………………

Dinner is hot pot.

Shanshanlou in Dongyangji is a century-old brand, and the cured meat hot pot is a must in Chang'an.Li Shen and Wang Zhen ate a cured duck and two cured rabbits, their tongues became numb and they were sweating hotly.Li Shen drank a bottle of cold beer, then leaned back on the chair and lay dead. It was not until the bill was woken up by Wang Zhen that he squinted his eyes to pay, and stumbled into a taxi home with Wang Zhen's support.

His embarrassing drinking capacity also opened Wang Zhen's eyes. Fortunately, the wine quality is not bad, he is not crazy or noisy, and he is obediently dead.Wang Zhen dragged the man into the house with his arms, and sent him all the way back to the bedroom. Seeing that the man fell on the bed without taking off his clothes and shoes, he had to help.After he took off Li Shen's clothes, trousers and shoes, wiped his face and feet with a hot towel, and then covered him with the quilt, he suddenly wondered how he did it so smoothly...

Wang Zhen returned to his own small concierge, sat down on the bed, and fell on his back, feeling extremely tired, his whole body seemed to be falling apart, and he didn't want to move.

On this day, he was tied up and killed again, tossing and tossing, a small life was saved, but a heart could not be calm for a long time.In the past, the splendor that the audience talked about in the past really happened to me, and it didn't feel too good... I could see my own weakness and powerlessness at a glance, and I could only stare wide-eyed in the face of death, like a fool.

He covered his eyes with his hands, showing a self-deprecating smile.

... not reconciled.

After lying in a daze for an unknown amount of time, Wang Zhen struggled to sit up, his damn cleanliness was giving him a strong warning, asking him to clean himself up as soon as possible.He dragged his tired body into the courtyard to pick up the clothes that had been hung up during the day, but after rounding the corner of the corridor, he saw Li Shen standing in the courtyard practicing boxing.

He rubbed his eyes to make sure that he read it correctly, it was indeed Li Shen who was still as drunk as mud just now.

The cold moonlight poured down from the sky cover, illuminating the ground with frost.Li Shen only wore a pair of shorts, and stood barefoot on the clearing piled with bluestones, quietly punching a set of slow punches.Sinking shoulders, dropping elbows, embracing chest, pulling back... His body attracted Wang Zhen's eyes firmly like a magnet, and he couldn't leave for a moment.

When Li Shen stamped his right foot, Wang Zhen instinctively shrank his body back, and when he realized that the expected impact had not come, it was already a few seconds later.

It was so quiet that even the wind seemed to have disappeared.

Li Shen punched intently and silently, moving like a tiger, every part of his body was filled with an unstoppable sense of strength, and glistening sweat kept waving outwards from his forehead, back, chest, and arms. However, completely contrary to all of this, an indescribable silence enveloped the space he was in.

In the eyes of Wang Zhen who was watching, everything seemed to be an illusion, unreal to the extreme.

The night is getting darker.

After repeating a set of punches several times, Li Shen finally stopped, wiped the sweat off his face, and walked back.He walked along the corridor into the backyard, stood by the pool outside the house, filled up the watering bucket for Begonia flowers, picked it up and poured it on his head.The cold water splashed down on the hood made my mind clearer.

Wang Zhen followed silently, and stood not far away, watching him quietly.

Li Shen turned his head, his wet hair was messy and drooping in front of his face, his eyes were terribly bright in the dark night.He looked at Wang Zhen without blinking, and after a while, he raised his hand and waved.

"It's midnight, why don't you go to sleep?"

"Well, I can't sleep." Wang Zhen whispered, "What kind of punch did you punch just now?"

"Light fist, Yang Huxing didn't teach you? ... Oh yes, you don't need to learn it yet." Li Shen patted his forehead and explained to Wang Zhen, "This is the one invented by the mercenary king Li Sanduo. Home exercise method, we all call it light boxing. Below the fairy road, it is not easy to practice heavy, that's what we are talking about."

Wang Zhen nodded. Li Shen knew the home exercise method as soon as he mentioned it.Countless versions of the deeds of the Mercenary King have been compiled, among which there are not many true records, and the home exercise method is one of them.The booklet written by the mercenary king himself is kept in the exhibition hall of the guild headquarters. It not only contains the cultivation method of home exercise method, but also the origin of his creation of this skill.

The mercenary king wrote in his self-report: When he was 30 years old, he practiced a set of boxing and destroyed a mountain. At the age of 40, if you want to practice boxing, you have to clear the five-mile radius.At the age of 50, a large yard of several hundred square meters is almost enough.At the age of 60, he can practice boxing in his bedroom without waking his wife who is sleeping next to him.He sorted out the experience and experience of home exercise over the years, and he came up with this set of home exercise method.

"Let Abao tidy up the East Wing for you tomorrow and use it as a practice room." Li Shen said, "When you lose control and destroy the house, I will teach you this set of light boxing. Alright, it's getting late, you go to bed Bar."

Wang Zhen nodded according to his words, turned around and walked a few steps, and couldn't help turning his head again.In his line of sight, Li Shen propped his hands on the wall of the pool, lowered his head, wondering what he was thinking, the moonlight shone on the faintly exposed side face of the other party, as if illuminating a lifeless stone statue.

The more we get along, the more Wang Zhen can't understand Li Shen.

Wang Zhen repeatedly warned himself in his heart not to have undue curiosity, the more he knows, the harder it is to get out.Standing behind the colonnade, he forced himself to look back at Li Shen, and was about to leave when he accidentally saw another figure standing in the shadows in the distance.

Even the plain dresses could not hide the innate grace and nobleness, and the face without makeup was still as beautiful as a fairy. Putting the women Wang Zhen had ever seen in her life in front of her, there was no doubt that she was a firefly. Competing with the moon is not worth mentioning.

It's Haitang, madam.

She didn't know how long she had been standing there, her figure and face were shrouded in shadows, and she couldn't see the expression clearly.In Wang Zhen's sight, she walked out of the shadows and walked behind Li Shen step by step. After about two steps away, she stopped and stood still.

As if aware of her coming, Li Shen slowly let go of his arm propped by the pool and turned around.

The cold and silent moonlight quietly fell on the two of them, illuminating their respective faces.

Without the slightest bit of warmth, the expressions of the two were actually calm and indifferent.

Li Shen suddenly smiled and said in a low voice.

"Happy? If I die, you will be free."