Laughing at Chang'an

On May [-], [-] in the Tang Dynasty, Zhongtu, Chang'an.

Nancheng was very lively on this day. Luxury cars blocked the small Danfeng Road. Now the place has changed a lot. The whole street has been demolished and rebuilt. Green willows are planted outside the long courtyard walls. The street stretches all the way to the end of the street.

The original No. 77 Danfeng Road, the gate of the Martian Club Hall, is connected with the courtyard wall, but it still retains its original appearance.The black plaque with a bit of peeling paint still hangs in place.

It's just that, at the gate, there is an extra stone tablet with ten large characters written on it——

Mars Mercenary Vocational Technical College.

Today was a good day for the ribbon-cutting of its opening, and the person standing at the gate to greet the guests was Li Xifeng.This guy is also dressed in a very festive way today, with a red body and a melon skin cap on his head. He greeted waves of guests into the courtyard with a smile, and occasionally raised his hand to look at his watch, cursing his mother silently in his heart.

The guests are almost here, but the host is still late, what kind of spectacle is it?

Li Xifeng, who was about to find time to make a phone call to urge someone, looked up, and saw his family commander walking along the courtyard wall, walking beside him, with black hair, one-eyed, and a fierce aura three feet away. He could smell it from far away, so who else could it be if it wasn't Li Shen?

Li Shen and Geng Yan came together.

When the two walked to the gate, Geng Yan nodded and greeted the guests, Li Shen stood beside him with a stinky face, Li Xifeng's eyelids twitched when he saw it, and he wanted to go up and get rid of his stinky face.

But Li Shen had a reason for his stinky face.

As soon as he woke up, he was inexplicably given the title of dean, and was dragged to the negotiating table as an air-conditioning release machine, listening to Geng Yan arguing with Li Tieyi and Hades about what kind of Mars Mercenary Vocational Technical College... Oh, this broken name is of course derived from Geng, simple, unpretentious, and very awkward.

This was not the only thing that made him feel bad. His cultivation base had dropped back half a step, and there was even a faint sign of a decline. This was what really upset him.

Dead is not dead, but disabled.

Li Shen walked into the hall where the banquet was held, threw Geng Yan alone to the surrounding guests, walked through the crowd, and came to the main table.There were already two old people sitting at the table, staring at each other, everyone could see that the arrows were on the verge of breaking out.

He pulled out the chair and sat down on the top chief seat.

"Xiao Shen, how is your health?" Li Tieyi, who was sitting next to Li Shen's right hand, asked, with a very concerned expression, as if he was not the one who wanted to put Li Shen to death before.Compared with him, Hades sitting on the other side behaved more normally. The old man whose heart was pierced by Li Shen's fist just got up from the hospital bed not long ago, looking at Li Tieyi who was courteous to Li Shen , let out a cold snort from his nostrils very disdainfully.

Li Shen's expression softened a bit, he nodded at Li Tieyi, and said, "It's okay."

It was May, but he was still wearing a coat, which was obviously a sign of weakness and chills, and the black eyepatch slanted across his cheeks also proved the price he paid for that madness.Li Shen was not used to pouring tea with his left hand. With this hand, he could hold a knife and a gun, but he had to practice holding chopsticks.

Taking the teapot from the side with one hand, he and Li Tieyi Hades filled up the tea one after another. Geng Yan put down the teapot and sat down in the vacant seat beside Li Shen.

This situation is somewhat familiar.

"Cut the ribbon later, don't show your face." Geng Yan took a piece of snack for him, put it in a bowl, and said, "Come on, let me see if you smile."

Li Shen grinned, and gave him a wicked smile that was not on the surface.

Hades burst out laughing, patted the table and said to Geng Yan, "You better stop making him laugh, it's scary to death."

Geng Yan sighed quietly.

Some people have been in a bad mood for more than a month, and put on a bad face every day. He tried various methods to make people happy, but it didn't work at all.Even the bully cat who doesn't want to see him can at least put on a good face when feeding him. It is indeed much more difficult to raise a person than a cat.

Li Shen poked the dim sum in the bowl with his chopsticks, stabbed it in half, raised it to his mouth and swallowed it in one gulp.He chewed his snacks, remembered something, and said vaguely to Li Tieyi and Hades: "I don't agree with the graduation assignment. You must give people the right to choose. This is not negotiable."

At this time, he mentioned the business, which instantly made the atmosphere tense.This Mars Mercenary Vocational Technical College is currently headed by Li Shen, and the other three big bosses are also honorary directors. The resources and exercises are provided by the three schools, and even the lecturers are sent by the three schools in rotation. This kind of selfless dedication Naturally, no fool is willing to do it. Their requirement is that students must be selected by them for graduation, and each has a quota. To put it simply, they regard this as an additional training base for new blood.

It's just that the threshold is lower, the requirements are lower, and the attitude is more perfunctory, with a little bit of charity.

However, Li Shen insisted on their only profit point, and firmly refused to agree to arrange the distribution. Geng Yan said that he didn't care about it, Hades insisted on the distribution, and Li Tieyi was a fencer... so the entanglement has continued until now.

In fact, if any real student looked at this problem, if he could enter any of these three, he might wake up from his dream with a smile. It's not a problem at all, okay?

This is probably the authorities delusional.

The opening banquet was noisy, and the guests gradually took their leave. The members of the Geng Army looked at their own commander and Li Shen, and consciously stayed to clean the venue.The college has opened, but it hasn't even hired a concierge. It's not that Geng Yan and the others didn't think carefully. This should have been considered by the dean Li Shen.

Facing a table of leftovers and cold dishes, Li Shen held his unskilled left hand and slowly picked up vegetables for dinner.Geng Yan watched from the side without reaching out to help, and occasionally said a few irrelevant gossips, and accompanied Li Shen to finish the meal slowly.

The two went for a walk in the backyard to digest food.

"You built this academy to make me happy." Li Shen sat down on the stone bench and looked up at Geng Yan who was standing in front of him, "But when I look at it, I find it ironic."

Geng Yan smiled.

"Some things have to be done step by step." He stretched out his hand and picked up a bunch of bangs on Li Shen's forehead. Start with two."

"You and I are still young, and we still have a lot of time to do this. Don't underestimate this academy. The future that Yang Martian expects will start from it."

Li Shen was silent.

——I'm afraid he doesn't have that much time.

Geng Yan lifted his blindfold, opened his closed right eye, stared at the golden dull eyeball inside, and put down his hand for a long time.

"Why didn't you tell me?" he asked Li Shen.

This question has been pressed in his mind for a long time, but in fact he doesn't need to ask, he already knows Li Shen's answer.

It's nothing more than being unable to speak out, unwilling to expose one's own weakness to anyone, preferring to lick the wound alone, and unwilling to show any weakness in front of others...even in front of him.

Li Shen looked at the pomegranate flowers blooming in the courtyard, and just when Geng Yan thought he would not answer, he suddenly said, "At that time, I was a little scared."

"fear death."

Geng Yan was startled.

The warm soft wind in early summer brushed his long golden hair. Li Shen, who was sitting on the stone bench, raised his face, his dark pupils reflected his figure, and there were fine ripples silently.

Li Shen smiled.

"Also afraid, you will cry for me."

………………

It is still an ancient tea room.

—Let’s call it the Secret Tea Room for now.

Wang Zhen pushed open the door, walked around the wooden lattice in the entrance, and looked at the person sitting on the low couch.

His eyes widened in surprise.

"It's you!?"

"Of course it's me." The person on the low couch held a cup of tea without raising his head and said, "Didn't you threaten to see me again and again? Now that you see me, what else do you want to say?"

Wang Zhen was so confused that he didn't know how to answer the words for a while.

"Okay, come and sit." The man on the low couch finally looked over and waved at him, "To make a long story short, you can ask whatever you want."

Wang Zhen walked over hesitantly and took a seat on the other side of Autao. He suppressed the shock in his heart and asked, "What exactly do you want?"

The person on the opposite side glanced at him with a look of 'you are sick'.

"Isn't what I want to do the same as what you want to do?" The other party asked, "Or are you planning to break the vow you made and plunge into darkness?"

Wang Zhen was so choked that he couldn't speak, and after a long while, he slowly considered his words: "I mean, why did you want to kill Master, Yang Xingxing, and drive Li Shen crazy?"

The person on the opposite side seemed to have heard something funny, so he started laughing until Wang Zhen's face was gloomy enough to drip, then he stopped laughing and replied: "It's that person who wanted to kill Yang Xingxing, I let you and the mentor The little tricks behind the scenes are already turning a blind eye, but unfortunately you failed to stop him, and even told him to smack Li Tieyi and kill Xuetu Gaoyi."

"But I can't blame you." The other party said again, "The amount of information is not equal, and it is inevitable to be led by the nose. As for driving Li Shen crazy, this matter is not in anyone's calculations. Even I know what Li Shen wants. When I was doing something, I was also taken aback."

"Li Shen's thoughts are really too elusive. You think him complicated, but he is too simple. You think him simple, but he can be unexpectedly complicated... He really is worthy of God's will."

Wang Zhen was taken aback for a moment, this was the first time he heard this kind of statement—God's will?He didn't have a deep understanding of occultism, and he didn't quite understand the true meaning hidden in the other party's words.

"Your identity has been exposed, and you can no longer stay in Chang'an." The other party said to him, "Go back to Westland next, I just have something for you to do."

Wang Zhen nodded silently.

"It's a pity." The man on the short floor turned the teacup in his hand and said meaningfully, "The next Chang'an will be truly turbulent and turned upside down."

"This is a good show, I will wait and see."