Laughing at Chang'an

On the last day of his stay in Yan Country, Li Shen went to Fushan again alone.

"That man has a good life, I won't recognize him, and I don't think you want that either... Remember the song you sang to me, I will go to your hometown, the grassland to see..."

He rolled up his sleeves, dug up his mother's grave with his hands, and took out his mother's ashes from the decayed coffin.

He wiped the dust on the altar with an indescribably gentle tone.

"I'll take you home."

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Knowing what happened from the envoy, King Yan prepared the reward almost overnight, even [-]% more than what was negotiated before.He looked at Mu Xiaobai who was standing behind Li Shen with an obedient and shy face, and he didn't dare to make the mistake of judging people by their appearance again.

Li Shen was amused in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face. He kindly handed over the reward to the other party and offered to leave.Lu Zheng felt a little regretful when he heard that he was leaving so soon, so he hurriedly piled boxes of special products from Xiao Xiaoyan Country on his car.Li Shen couldn't stop her, so he let her go. Mu Xiaobai was very happy, because most of it was food.

Among the people Li Shen knew, Feng He also liked food, but he didn't have to be like that. To put it bluntly, he was pursuing enjoyment, but Mu Xiaobai was purely a foodie, and the only thing he pursued was eating.

As for Li Shen himself, he is not interested in these things. Living in a golden kennel, living in a dog kennel, money, food and even women are not necessary for him.To paraphrase Feng He's words, if one day Li Shen becomes impotent, and someone puts a knife on someone and finds a battlefield to throw it in, it will be fine within a day.

Lu Zheng introduced all kinds of Yanguo specialties stuffed in the back box to Mu Xiaobai one by one, and told him how to rectify them. The latter listened and took notes with a small notebook, and his attitude was more serious than that of a group meeting.Li Shen had nothing to say to these two people, so he went to talk to old man Yu.

Old General Yu said that he was annoying to see him.

"Oh, that's right." Li Shen chattered a few words, suddenly remembered something, lowered his voice and leaned over to ask, "Did you secretly keep a few jars of the plum wine that my mother brewed?"

"How is that possible." Old Man Yu flatly denied, "I didn't even touch it, I sent it back to Chang'an for your father."

Li Shen laughed.

"When I was young, one time in the middle of the night, I saw that the light was still on in your wine cellar, so I poked the window and peeked at what you were doing." He squinted at Old Man Yu with a half-smile, and was not surprised to see him turn pale. And red, red and white, really interesting.

"I saw someone pour the wine from this tank into that tank, and pour the wine from that tank into this tank..."

Old man Yu looked at him with a pale face, and said coldly, "If you were looking for those wines, I would have already finished them."

Li Shen laughed loudly, and patted the old man's shoulder vigorously with a smile.

"Just kidding, take it seriously." He held back his smile and said lightly, "After today, you and I will never see each other again. I've seen you before, so let's bury it in our hearts."

Old man Yu heard the meaning behind his words, and silently frowned.

"You are not a servant of the Li family, and I am not Li Tieyi's son." Li Shen said in a non-joking tone, with a serious attitude clearly written in his dark one-eyed eyes, "I don't need that title, my surname is Li , Li Yun's Li, not Hui Guang Li Tieyi's Li..."

"If you want to report this matter to Li Tieyi no matter what, then bring my words to him."

Li Shen put down his left hand on the old man's shoulder, a self-deprecating smile appeared on his lips, but it only disappeared in an instant.

— After all, it’s not a big deal.

Li Shen looked at Lu Zheng and Mu Xiaobai who were talking one after another not far away, and there was no wave or wave in his heart. The old man standing beside him looked at him quietly, and closed his eyes silently for a long time.

A sigh.

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The wild goose lake shimmered in the sun, and the white reeds by the lake were undulating like ripples by the breeze. Li Shen's off-road vehicle drove in front, and Lu Zheng's little blue car followed behind.

She sent him to the border of Yan Country.

Seeing that she was about to cross the border line with the stele, she felt a little nervous. If he stopped to say goodbye to her, she might cry.

The off-road vehicle drove across the border in her sight without stopping.

She tried her best to force herself to park the car on the side of the stele.

- Stop chasing.

——Also, I can’t catch up.

She was still a little mud monkey, but she couldn't catch up with that beautiful boy, and she who grew up to be more beautiful, still couldn't catch up with that still good-looking man.

Her best years were devoted to this hopeless chase.

She curled up on the car seat, crying like an ugly monkey.

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Mu Xiaobai glanced at Lu Zheng who was crying pitifully in the car behind him from the rearview mirror, hesitated for a while, but kept his mouth shut and said nothing.

He could see it, and Li Shen, who was sitting beside him, could also see it.

There is a saying that it is the hardest thing to live up to the grace of a beauty.Although Li Shen has a good face, he has never had a decent relationship so far. It is rare for him to fall in love with Mu Zhenzhen, and he is still unwilling to be with him.In the final analysis, the problem still lies with him.

He is a very sober man.

The relationship between people is full of lies, especially the love between men and women. Most of the time, not only to deceive each other, but also to deceive yourself.The so-called love makes people blind, but it is just that people don't want to see so clearly.

Li Shen didn't bother to deceive others, let alone deceive himself.Perhaps it was because he saw that he only regarded himself as a plaything for entertainment, and didn't even show the superficial hypocrisy, that Mu Zhenzhen, who was the woman in the inn, refused this offer, which was too cool even for her. Thin, cold unbearable feelings.

Li Shen leaned on the back of the chair and closed his eyes, not looking at the weeping woman in the mirror anymore.

There was nothing to say along the way, and it was already evening when I returned to Yingdu.

The off-road vehicle stopped at the gate of the Geng Army branch in the city. Li Shen got out of the vehicle and stretched his neck tiredly.He was about to order Mu Xiaobai to unload the car when he saw the person in charge of the Yingdu branch hurried up to meet him, lowered his voice and whispered in his ear: "Master Shen, there is an urgent message from Chang'an. Something happened at home..."

Li Shen stood on the spot, and slowly lowered his left hand that was resting on his neck.

He hummed lightly.

"Go in and talk."

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Middle Earth, Chang'an.

In a few days it will be the Double Ninth Festival, and the city of Chang'an is already full of festive atmosphere.Vendors peddling along the street tried their best to sell their own dazzling array of dogwood sacs, wine stalls and food shops also launched their own chrysanthemum cakes and chrysanthemum wine at the right time, and the scenic hills around Chang'an were filled with placeholder flags in advance. There are also people who specially collect money for the guards to occupy the reserved seats.

The mercenaries who were still single and had no relatives or family members turned their attention to the wine inn area one after another. They each used their pockets to use their means and invited the women they liked to climb the heights during the Double Ninth Festival.

On the side of the Geng Army, the bachelor brigade headed by Li Xifeng, including Mu Xiaofang and Zhan Lan, unanimously decided to borrow Geng Yan's Baishan courtyard on the day of Chongjiu to hold a picnic and barbecue meeting.

Geng Yan said don't pull me, I am not with you.

Yet he was absolutely, truly, a bachelor.

"It's so sad." Sitting on a chair, Li Xifeng pointed to the Geng Army cadres at the conference table one by one. Nine out of ten of them were bachelors. He felt very sad, and secretly glanced sadly at the person sitting at the top. A bachelor named Geng Yan.

Geng Yan pretended not to see his sad little eyes, and knocked on the table to draw everyone's attention back.

"Okay, let's discuss the holiday in private. If you have no other questions, let's end the meeting."

Right now it is the Geng Army's regular cadre meeting every ten days, and after the turmoil in the first half of the year has gradually subsided, there are many things to wrap up.Although in the end they did not face off against Huiguang and Xuetu head-on, all aspects of preparations are still in the process of taking precautions step by step. There are also many familiar faces missing.

Accepting Zhanying's inheritance is another troublesome matter. Although the cooperation with Damo Huofeng and others is pleasant, there will inevitably be some disputes after the distribution of spoils. However, under the strong suppression of Geng Yan and Huang Sha, all conflicts are controlled within a controllable range , but still troublesome.

Li Shen, who was sent to Donghuang for inspection, had an empty seat. Although he was demoted, his seat did not move, and he was still the first one on the right.Geng Liancheng didn't say anything about this matter. On the one hand, it seemed that he was too fussy, and on the other hand, he also wanted other people to watch, and he spontaneously felt uncomfortable.

After the meeting adjourned, Geng Yan left Gong Yun behind and asked him about the results of his visit to famous doctors.

"The situation is not very optimistic." Gong Yun held his teacup and said, "It is not unheard of like Li Shen before. I specifically found a famous doctor in the Eastern Wilderness who once diagnosed and treated patients whose bodies were invaded by alien energy. He told I, in a situation like this, is like a vine parasitic on a tree. The seeds grow in the heart of the tree. To eradicate it, you must dig out the heart of the tree. In that case, the person will die. But if If it is not eradicated, it will absorb the nutrients in the human body, grow stronger day by day, and eventually overwhelm the host."

In the Geng Army, only Li Shen himself, Geng Yan and Gong Yun knew about Li Shen's body.Geng Yan propped his forehead, and his expression was a bit dull. He didn't know until this situation happened. He was angry in his heart, but he couldn't express it to Li Shen. On the contrary, he had to try his best to make him happy.

"Since this source energy was injected into Li Shen's body by Yun Xiangkong before his death, I want to go to the Kongshan Temple." He pondered, saying that he wanted to, but he had actually made up his mind, "It still takes a tie to untie the bell." Suzuto, maybe we can find something there."

Gong Yun gave a look of disapproval.

Yun Xiangkong was the next head of the Kongshan Temple, but he died in the hands of Li Shen. This enmity cannot be resolved. Geng Yan's going to the Kongshan Temple is naturally impossible to seek a peaceful solution, and force must be used.But he is only one person after all, and it is too risky to face such a huge empty mountain temple, where there are many hidden strong men who are also altars.

However, he knew that it was useless to persuade Geng Yan to make a decision.

"When will Xiao Shen come back?" Gong Yun asked.

"Look at him."

Geng Yan shook his head, and turned his gaze to the floor-to-ceiling windows behind him, outside the window, the warm autumn sun was in the sky.

There was a coldness in his eyes.

"When it's time to come back, it will come back naturally."