Laughing at Chang'an

Datang calendar October 26, [-], Zhongtu, Chang'an.

Early this morning, a rare guest came to the gate of Li's Mansion on Gubai Road.

Ever since Li Shen went to Donghuang for inspection, the adjutant has been focusing on his own business, and the dragon has seen the end all day long, and the huge Li Mansion has returned to the lonely and desolate Li Shen when he was in the South China Sea. In that small courtyard, even ten and a half months may not show up once.

But on this day, the adjutant happened to be at home.

As soon as he got up, he heard a knock on the door, and he answered the door with a pair of slippers and yawned. When the door opened, he saw a man standing outside, with silver hair and black dress, and a silver pair on his high nose. side glasses.

"Who are you?" The adjutant looked at the person up and down several times, and asked.

The other party pressed his right hand to his chest, bowed to him, and made a standard greeting for the nobles of the Western Land.

"I am Tushan Weisu, the special envoy of the Guangming Empire in Chang'an. I am here to ask Her Royal Highness Haiweila Shu'en. Please let me know."

The adjutant stopped holding his fingers with messy hair, and silently widened his eyes.

"You, who are you looking for?" He shook his index finger and pointed at Wei Su, with an incredulous expression, "What, Your Highness? You have found the wrong place, this is Li's mansion, look clearly, Li Shen's mansion. "

"That's right, I know this is Li Shen's residence." Wei Su pushed his glasses and bowed to the adjutant again, "If His Royal Highness Hai Weila refuses to see me, please tell her something for me, That said, they've come."

"What the hell?" The adjutant waved his hand irritably, and said impatiently, "I told you that I don't have anyone you're looking for, and you've found the wrong place...that's it, I won't send it away."

He slammed the door shut.

Wei Su, who was locked outside the door, raised his head thoughtfully, looked at the black plaque hanging on the door, and showed a playful smile on his face.

That night, Li's house was attacked by thieves.

Seven or eight figures wrapped tightly in black cloth lay on the ground in the courtyard, tortured by all kinds of strange mechanisms in this seemingly defenseless house, holding a strange-looking Lieutenant Shi Shiran walked to the yard in square steps, raised his head triumphantly and laughed before lifting the corpse on the ground.

After laughing, panting, he tied up this group of uninvited guests tightly, threw the buns he had bought, and drove them to the Chang'an City Public Security Bureau to report the crime.

The sheriff on duty who was in charge of this type of case was bald, with a half-moon bald circle on his head. After hearing what the adjutant said, he lazily waved his hand and said yes, and asked him to go back and wait for news.

"I've brought you all the witnesses. What news are you waiting for?" The adjutant was a little surprised, and asked with staring eyes, "What's the matter with your attitude? Believe it or not, I'm going to complain to you?"

The bald-headed magistrate looked up at him for a while, then lowered his head, and leisurely lit a cigarette.

"The complaint window is upstairs at [-]. They don't work at night. Come back tomorrow."

The adjutant was irritated by his attitude of being a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, and was about to get angry, when he took a closer look, he suddenly felt that this person looked familiar.He stared at the pitiful circle of hair on the other side, and suddenly remembered——

Half a year ago, when he came to pay the fine to Li Shen, it seemed that this person also received him.

That time when Li Shen fought Hades and almost demolished the city of Chang'an, the amount of the fine was naturally astronomical.On Hades' side, there is Xue Tu, but on Li Shen's side, the adjutant will naturally have to step in.

At that time, facing the bald-headed sheriff's chattering lectures, the adjutant took out his checkbook impatiently, wrote a bank note, and slapped the other party's face with his hands.

It was a cash ticket from the Penglai head office worth one billion Tang coins.

The adjutant admitted that his attitude was a bit arrogant at the time, he shouldn't have stretched out his hand to touch the top of the other's bald head after throwing the check, to make people eat more sesame seeds and grow hair on the head... This world news, it's still coming so fast.

The adjutant, who thought he had figured out the ins and outs, silently turned off the fire, and hesitantly asked someone to serve him a snack and give him news as soon as possible.

In fact, the adjutant was completely mistaken.

All the problems came from his check.As a not-so-secret secret, every time a fine is received, the sheriff in charge gets a cut of it.But the check that the adjutant threw at that time was a super large cash check directly drawn by the Penglai head office. If something like this was in the hands of the handling magistrate, it would definitely not be able to handle it, so it had to be handed in... just watching it so big A flower head flew away from his hand, no wonder the bald man was in a better mood.

The two of them stared at each other at the table. In the middle of the night, it was actually not easy, but they couldn't understand each other.

The desktop shook suddenly.

The glass of tea was buzzing on the table, the adjutant was stunned, and looked down at the ground under his feet. The bald sheriff who was sitting opposite him moved faster than him. look out.

The adjutant followed after belatedly, and also poked his head out of the window.

—The night is getting dark.

One after another lights were lit from all over Chang'an in the middle of the night. People who woke up from their sleep went to the window, outside the door, and on the rooftop, raising their heads in astonishment.

Look at the overwhelming white fleet.

One after another, huge silver battleships, like giant silver beasts, formed a long silver line from the other end of the night sky, silently pressing towards Chang'an.The deafening roar of the engine rang from far to near, resounding everywhere in Chang'an, and the huge sound waves even caused the water cups, tables and chairs to vibrate.

The Chang'an people stared blankly at all this.

Countless beams of bright lights shot up from the city of Chang'an, dispelling the darkness of the night. From a distance, the entire Chang'an was shrouded in light.

It suddenly woke up.

The city of Chang'an, shrouded in light, confronted the silver fleet coming from afar without a sound.

………………

Pieces of spirit plaques were placed on tall wooden stands, and every name on them had once been famous in this city.In the center of these countless spiritual cards is a large monument made of dark iron rock.

Inscribed on the stele - the position of the ancestor Li Sanduo.

This is the ancestral hall of the Huiguang Li family.

Li Tieyi knelt in front of the stele.

"The ancestors are above all, and the unworthy descendant Li Tieyi respects you. I have two sons. The second son, Mubai, has a city in his chest, but his temperament is weak. He is an outstanding person in the whole world, I want to call him back to his family, and pass it on to him... I also hope that the spirit of the ancestors and ancestors in the sky will protect this son from the luck of my Li family and honor my lintel."

He kowtowed three times in front of the stele.

Many years ago, he also kowtowed here to tell his ancestors that he wanted to marry the mixed-blood slave girl.That time, he failed to do it after all, but this time, he won't break his promise again.

Two sons, he will lose one of them after all.But just as he said to his ancestors just now, troubled times are approaching, and it may not be a blessing to force the younger son to carry things that cannot be carried.

Li Tieyi has made up his mind.

The heavy gate of Li's ancestral hall opened and closed, and the old man meandered up the deep corridor, and stopped at the entrance that was illuminated by lights as if it were daylight.

He raised his head and looked at the silver fleet that was suspended in the distant night sky and confronted Chang Jing quietly.

"It's coming very fast."

The old man laughed mockingly, but his eyes couldn't help but look solemn.

………………

In Weiyang Palace City, the long-unused meeting hall opened its doors, and Hades, dressed in a noble black robe sweeping the floor, stepped into the hall, covered his mouth and nose, frowned, looked around, and asked the guild affairs officer who was following him.

"Where's that old thing Li Tieyi? Where did he go at this time?"

The clerk shook his head solemnly, expressing that he didn't know either.

"How fresh." Xue Tu's undead prime minister said coolly, walked to the first place on the right of the discussion table, pulled out his chair and sat down.The long meeting table was still empty at the moment, and he was obviously the only head of the mercenary group who came without waiting for the guild's notice.

"The last time someone beat you to your door was a hundred years ago." Hades picked up the hot tea offered to him by the steward, and said calmly.The latter didn't know how to answer, so he hummed in a low voice.

While speaking, Li Tieyi, who was wearing the uniform of the Commander of Glory, appeared outside the palace gate with a solemn face.

"You came too early." He nodded at Hades, who was already seated, and then ordered in a deep voice to the guild affairs officers who followed him, "Send someone to negotiate with the other party and ask them what they want to do. Open the defensive walls of the outer city, set up the destroyer guns, and enforce martial law throughout the city, so that idlers are not allowed to go on the road, let’s do it.”

"Also, turn off the lights." Hades, who was sitting at the meeting table, interjected, "Who told you to turn on the lights, are you stupid?"

The affairs officers were speechless. When encountering an enemy attack at night, turn on the warning lights of the whole city as an emergency notification. It is written in the emergency regulations... But it is really stupid to think about it, so no one made a sound to contradict Hades. .

"The purpose of turning on the lights is to reassure people's hearts. They did nothing wrong." Li Tieyi said, walked to the top of the discussion table and sat down. He looked at Hades on his left, with a hint of a smile on his face .

"You and I are old, it's time for young people to let go and do it." He said to Hades, "This may not be a chance to exercise, just shut up and talk less."

Hearing this, Hades raised his head in surprise. He looked at the determined Li Tieyi, silently stroking the teacup in his hand, and a flash of understanding flashed in his eyes.

"Ah."

He chuckled.

"You old bastard, in order to marry your son a wife, you really dare to play... What a great skill."