Laughing at Chang'an

November [-]rd, [-] in the Tang Dynasty, Zhongtu, Chang'an.

This day is Chongjiu.

Family reunion, the day when relatives and friends climb high and go autumn.The weather is beautiful, it's a beautiful autumn day, everyone in the street is wearing cornel in their arms, and their faces are smiling... Li Xifeng and a group of male and female bachelors from the Geng Army really borrowed Geng Yan's Baishan other courtyard to hold a barbecue and gambling conference.Even though he knew that Li Shen was back, he didn't harass people ignorantly. You see, the Double Ninth Festival is a family reunion, but Li Shen ran away from his wife, how embarrassing.

Maybe I'm wiping my tears alone in the room - Li Xifeng thought secretly.

So what is Li Shen actually doing?

Answer: He is doing laundry.

He dug out the old clothes that Haitang made for himself one by one, piled up a small mountain on the bed, and then looked at each one, and found something new—this is indeed not the first time this woman has done it. He had embroidered characters on his clothes, and there was a green gown with the word 'annoying' embroidered on it. Li Shen scratched his head and thought for a long time, but couldn't remember what he did to annoy her at that time.

There is also a pair of black cloth trousers with a poem embroidered on the corner - Yujiesheng Bailu.

Embarrassed, he called Lin Guo and asked him what kind of poem this was... Yujie gave birth to Bailu, and Yejiu invaded Luo socks.But under the crystal curtain, Linglong looks at the autumn moon.

—she was thinking of him.

It's so hard to understand, this woman.Li Shen grabbed the embroidered trousers and sat beside the mountain of clothes piled up high, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, he smiled and laughed, and gradually he couldn't laugh anymore.

After flipping through the clothes, he started to wash the clothes.Haitang left, and the adjutant was driven away by him, and the house was really empty.He piled the clothes into the bamboo cage, carried them to the water room, found all the pots, soaked the clothes one by one, poured detergent on them, stirred them twice, then washed his hands and went to the yard to smoke.

The autumn is high and the sun is cool, and the Chongjiu Festival.

Last year, he was still in Nanhai, the year before last, the year before last...There were always some reasons, these and other things, that prevented him from returning to this home.This year, he would not have come back.

Self-inflicted evil, who can blame?

The garden was full of chrysanthemums without people to take care of them, some withered and in full bloom, bleak in its splendor, Li Shen bit his cigarette and looked up at the sky, the people around him came and went, and in the end, there was no one left.

——Even he feels lonely.

The breeze blew across the human face, blowing away the smoke swirling around Li Shen. He sat propped up on the railing, squinted his eyes and lowered his head, and saw Geng Yan standing at the other end of the corridor.

A few withered and yellow leaves flew past.

Geng Yan stood there, holding two wine jars in his hand, smiling slightly.The loose white robe spread out with the wind, and the hair like sunlight fluttered gently in the air.

Li Shen was biting his cigarette, and was suddenly insane.

………………

There are two jars of wine, all of which belong to Li Shen.

Holding an altar in his arms and guarding the other at his feet, he unreasonably asked Geng Yan to drink tea.Geng Yan didn't argue with him, anyway, this guy's drinking capacity is only so small, after a while, the rest should be left for Geng Yan to drink.

Li Shen held a duck neck in his mouth and asked Geng Yan if his duck paw was delicious. Geng Yan held the duck paw he had just bitten into, and was stared at eagerly by people, and suddenly he couldn't bite down.

He silently took off the duck's neck from Li Shen's mouth, and stuffed the duck's paw in his hand.

"This lo-mei restaurant is newly opened. It's just around the corner from where you go. I haven't eaten it before." Geng Yan slowly gnawed at the duck neck in his hand, and finally licked his fingertips, commenting: "It's still delicious." OK."

Li Shen pointed at his face and laughed, there was some wax on it, which happened to be on his nose, Geng Yan wiped it with his thumb, and gave him an annoyed look.

"It's a good thing you can still laugh." He stretched out his arm and tapped Li Shen's forehead, "I still thought you were crying alone."

"Just kidding, am I right?" Li Shen took a sip of the wine jar, and said in a frivolous voice, "It's not that the world is collapsing and dying, it's just that a woman ran away..."

His voice gradually dropped.

In the end, there is no sound.

The wine jar fell to the table, Li Shen tore off the button fastened to the neckline, raised the wine jar and poured it wildly.He has a poor capacity for alcohol, but it's not that he can't drink alcohol. When he is sad, what else can he have besides alcohol?

A hero's life can't withstand a moment of sadness, and the inch-long knife is stabbed in the heart, whether it is pain or pain, but it is also empty.

"This wine is bitter." He said to Geng Yan.

Geng Yan didn't speak.

How can the best Lihuachun be bitter?Geng Yan thought, he was the one who forced him too hard.

Li Shen emptied the jar of wine, threw his hand and dropped the jar, picked up the jar under his feet again, he slapped the mud seal, but suddenly shook and fell backwards.

Geng Yan made a wrong step, his body flashed with lightning, and he firmly put the person in his arms.

"drunk?"

"Not...drunk."

Really drunk.

He was about to pick him up and send him back to his room, but he heard the man in his arms touch his lips and say 'stupid lady'.

Geng Yan frowned.

Li Shen put his hands on his shoulders, supported him to sit up, persistently lifted the wine jar on the table, and raised it tremblingly to his mouth.The wine dripped all over his head and face, but he just smiled and opened his mouth to drink.

"Stupid woman," he said again.

The wine jar fell to the ground with a thump and shattered into countless pieces.Li Shen leaned on the table and stared blankly.

he murmured.

"Tell me to save me, even if it is the Great Bright Palace, I will show you."

………………

The chaos in his mind was mixed with paste, but Li Shen still remembered those clothes he was washing.

—and then he found himself unable to move.

The quilt was wrapped in a roll, and one arm was tightly wrapped around his waist. When Li Shen opened his eyes, this was the situation.He was dumbfounded for a long while before twisting in the bed, when he heard a sleepy voice next to his ear say: "Don't make trouble, let me sleep again."

ha?

Li Shenjiong looked intently at Geng Yan's sleeping face in front of him. The other party's eyes were closed, his face was soft and soft, and with a lazy tiredness, he turned sideways and held him tightly in his arms. inside.

"Master?"

The eyelashes that were close at hand moved, and the dark eyes opened. Geng Yan looked at him quietly, and after a while, closed them again.

"You've been making a fuss all night, you should let me take a break."

Li Shen reacted belatedly, and looked outside at the still bright sky. His feelings had already turned upside down... He hesitated and opened his mouth, wanting to say that it's okay for you to rest, let go of your hands first, and the words come to the mouth side, and silently swallowed back.

There was an imperceptible shadow under Geng Yan's eyelids, and he was really tired.Li Shen looked at him without blinking, in his impression that the other party seldom showed weakness in front of him, but in this regard, they were considered each other.

Geng Yan silently opened his eyes.

"Marshal." Li Shen looked at him, with a slight smile in his voice, "If you are a woman, I will definitely marry you."

Geng Yan moved his lips, sighed slightly, leaned closer, buried his head in Li Shen's neck, and gently rubbed his cheek against the side of Li Shen's neck.

"Go to sleep, it's not yet dawn."

………………

The clothes that had been soaked for a day were all wrinkled, Li Shen was driven away by Geng Yan to squat aside, watching people clean each piece of clothes neatly and hang them on the clothesline.

Geng Yan's blond hair was casually tied into a ponytail with a headband, and he was wearing Li Shen's home clothes with sleeves rolled up to his elbows, busily going back and forth between the water room and the courtyard.Li Shen squatted on the side with his head propped up and watched, and then he became sleepy.

He raised his hand and yawned, Geng Yan saw him, and threw a basin of water, hitting his forehead.

"Go buy lunch if you have nothing to do." Geng Yan threw the washed clothes and hung them on the clothesline without looking back, "I want the crane pot from the Fenqin Tower, and the roasted cabbage from the Qinzi Pavilion, Yipin Pavilion The cold dried bamboo shoots...why are you standing there? Hurry up."

Li Shen showed melancholy little eyes. There are houses in the southeast and northwest, and he was told to travel all over Chang'an... Is it necessary to have a meal?

But he went obediently.

When he returned home with a big box and a small box, as soon as he entered the door, he saw clothes flying all over the yard. Geng Yan, who had finished his work, was sitting on the railing, untied the hair tie behind his head, shook off his golden hair, and turned to the side. Face, squinting and smiling from the folded corners of his clothes.

Li Shen stood at the gate of the courtyard, paused, and smiled.

"I'm going to the Northland for a while in two days. Take care of yourself, don't cause trouble, and don't use this broken body to kill others."

"To the North?" Li Shen stopped his chopsticks and looked at Geng Yan in surprise, "What happened over there?"

"Go to Kongshan Temple."

Even if it is an understatement, the three words Kongshan Temple said, but it hit Li Shen's heart like a sledgehammer.Holding the chopsticks, his complexion changed a few times, and finally raised his head, and said to Geng Yan seriously: "Don't go."

"I said I won't let you die." Geng Yan picked up a dried bamboo shoot with a flat expression, "When did I stop counting what I said?"

Li Shen was silent.

——If you can be treated like this, you will die without regret.

"When I come back from the Northland, you can move to Baishan and live with me." Geng Yan put a chopstick of crane meat into Li Shen's bowl, with a smile on his face, "When the time comes, please Good cook, bring back the flesh on your face and see how thin it has become, if you don’t know, you might think I abused my subordinates.”

Li Shen rubbed his chin when he heard the words, and was about to nod, when he suddenly realized something was wrong, he stared at Geng Yan: "Don't interrupt, I just said Kongshan Temple, if you want to go, then I will go with you..."

"You can finish the Donghuang business first." Geng Yan interrupted him, and said with a half-smile, "An empty mountain temple is not a dragon's pond or a tiger's den. Take care of your body obediently and wait for my good news."

Li Shen was about to speak, but his mouth was gagged by a piece of crane meat.

"Eat." Geng Yan glared at him, "The food is cold."

After dinner, Geng Yan changed back to his own clothes, explained to Li Shen a few trivial matters about adding clothes and eating, and then left.Seeing people walking to the gate of the courtyard, Li Shen couldn't hold back after all, ran after him, and grabbed Geng Yan's arm.

"It's fine to go to Kongshan Temple, but don't force it, do what you can, if not, I'll be with you next time..."

He was pulled into Geng Yan's arms.

"Your life is mine."

Geng Yan's voice echoed softly in his ears, there is no doubt that no one can deny the determination in that.

"No one can take it except me."