The deepest and most incomprehensible desire in human nature is actually sex. Nero, the nymphomaniac, because he couldn't get the beautiful woman he wanted, set Rome on fire. Hume commented on what he had done, saying that it was not irrational for the itching of a small piece of flesh to destroy the whole world.

Sex, more than any commodity, can lead people crazy, from ancient times to the present, this industry has always been prosperous.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, how can there be no place for selling joy and laughter?

The underground of the ancient city contains rolling black gold, which brings prosperity to the city's surface and attracts Tang Rulin and his splendid hotel.

"You have been gone for eight years, and the ancient city has changed a lot, and the most disgusting change is that there is more pig." Hao Luna followed Chen Hui's gaze and said with a slight frown. "And his splendid hotel, is a sheep's head to sell dog meat, hiding dirt and dirt disgusting place, two years ago we went undercover to find materials, but never returned, so far there is no news, I entrusted a friend from the public security to help investigate, but there is no progress at all."

This Tang Rulin is really full of evil, Li Le pursed a wicked smile at the corner of his lips, "Originally, I planned to be too much for myself, just get enough money to get it, this turtle egg actually dared to make our Nana so angry, saying that he would let him have more blood tonight." ”

"Gotta make him flesh ache!" Hao Luna's eyes lit up, she liked Li Le's expression, and similarly, she had no doubt about Li Le's words, and said in an expectant tone: "The more the merrier!" ”

With a mischievous smile in her eyes, she looked at Li Le expectantly.

Li Le couldn't help but sigh again, but he couldn't tell if this sigh was because of self-blame or other reasons? In short, it is a contradictory and complicated feeling. As she looked at herself intently, the feeling suddenly came. Li Le reminded himself in his heart that it was not because of love, at least not because of the love between men and women.

In the past eight years, Li Le has suppressed some feelings in the depths of his memory, enjoying the lonely and bleak feeling of living on the edge of blood and fire, life and death. Finally condensed into a hard shell in his heart, extremely hard and extremely hard, but at the same time, it was infinitely close to the hard and brittle that was too rigid and easy to break.

Maybe I've really been lonely for too long? Li Le's gaze seemed to inadvertently pass over Hao Luna's snow-white and plump chest, and he sighed slightly in his heart. The sun rises in the east and rains in the west, the road is sunny but sunny, if it is really ruthless, why bother to ask?

Li Le buried the melancholy in his heart, his face was silent, and he smiled: "Okay, let's scrape some oil from the fat man today." ”

"You love to take off your pants and fart." Chen Hui was a little unimpressed by Li Le's fact that he made money from Tang Rulin by selling things. Glancing at Hao Luna, who was looking at Li Le intently, with a look of expectation and busyness in agreement. Chen Hui pretended to be annoyed and sneered: "It's just that some people still eat your set." ”

Li Le knew that this kid belonged to a smiling tiger, and the harder his mouth, the softer his heart. When you're really angry, you'll be ruthless with a kind face. And Hao Luna may be more important to him than Anyani is to herself. As long as Hao Luna agrees, he will definitely give his full support.

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Li Le smiled and assigned tasks, Hao Luna smiled and listened, and Chen Hui looked helpless.

It was as if time had been set back eight years. The only one who is not as dazzling as Hao Luna is from any angle, and always says to Li Le with a serious face all day long, no matter what you do, I will sue your grandfather Yunyun, and An Yani who monopolizes the depths of Li Le's soul.

Thinking of An Yani, Li Le drank another glass, this wine was extremely strong, but he still couldn't suppress the loneliness and regret in his heart.

Since returning to the ancient city, those memories that have been buried for a long time have been galloping through my mind like wild horses, and every casual detail can evoke this memory.

Tang Rulin is a ruthless old Jianghu, and it is very difficult to make him succumb. Li Le used to like difficult things the most, and after these eight years, he still likes difficult things, but he no longer has the rashness and urgency he had at the beginning, replaced by the caution and calmness of countless deaths.

Li Le walked straight to Tang Rulin, stopped when he got closer, and greeted: "Tang Bao'er." ”

This is Tang Rulin's nickname when he was a gangster in the provincial capital in his early years. There are only two kinds of people in the ancient city who can call him that, the first is a person who is qualified, and this qualification must be at least equal to Tang Rulin, such as Zhao Fengbo and others. Another example is the leaders of government departments who are in high positions and hold authority. There are about no more than ten such figures in the ancient city. The other is a person who is not afraid of death, Tang Rulin has only one way to deal with this kind of person, first write it down in a small book, and then wait for the opportunity to die.

Li Le has no power or power, and he is more precious than gold, so neither of them is either.

Tang Rulin turned his head when he heard the sound, his face was displeased, he didn't have an immediate attack, but his eyes were already showing hostility.

Li Le smiled in the face of this hostility, compared with the vicious people he had experienced in the past, Tang Rulin was at best a toad, and he would not bite if he landed on his feet, but his toxin in Laipi was indeed very adaptable. In order not to allow yourself to be diaphragm, it is necessary to exercise the necessary caution.

"It turned out to be the young boss of Taihang Building." Tang Rulin didn't smile, looked at Li Le with a smile, and asked, "You also called the soup dumplings?" ”

"I can't call you a soup toad, can I?" Li Le only didn't see the anger in Tang Rulin's eyes, and further provoked: "Actually, I want to call you old soup, but you may know that for me, who is from a culinary family, old soups are all 'concocted', so I really don't have much respect for you, even if you ran to my grandfather's mourning hall and put a few stinky farts before, I really can't be willing to call you that, because 'tuning' you is really a matter that requires courage." ”

Tang Rulin's face immediately swelled into the color of pig liver, glared at Li Le angrily, and said in an unkind tone: "I have been giving Chen Hui face these days, and I didn't take the initiative to look for you, but I used you out of your temper." ”

"Face?" Li Le suddenly raised his hand and pressed it on his shoulder, and said indifferently: "I have never given Chen Hui much face, and I have also swept Zhao Fengbo's face, most people in this room used to know me, but now they all pretend not to know, do you know why?" As he spoke, a little more force was quietly added to his hand.

Tang Rulin felt the pressure on his shoulders, and suddenly remembered the legend about the feud between Li Le and Zhao Fengbo. Li Le compared him to a toad, but this toad is not a guy who sits in a well and watches the sky, when he was still in the provincial capital, he had seen a certain master with special skills easily break a person's arm, so he could imagine what the hand pressing on his shoulder could do.

Spit on the lips represents love, and spit on the face indicates enmity. The hand actually has the same function, and even the meaning it can express is more complex. A clap can represent encouragement, a shake can convey friendship, and a press can indicate intimacy, but a little more force will convey the opposite intention.

"Because my favorite thing to do before was to make them lose face." Li Le's hand increased slightly, and he asked himself: "They all know this, so they would rather not intersect with me, but you followed Zhao Fengbo, a fool, to provoke me, I came today to ask, how much is your face worth?" ”

Tang Rulin looked around, and the people around him had been scattered in all directions, and there were only himself and Li Le within five meters. The people who were originally around him were talking around Chen Hui and Hao Luna. Tang Rulin was furious in his heart, but his eyes calmed down.

"What do you want to do?"

"I'm going to sell you something that you say is worth a lot of money, and if you say it's worthless, it's worth nothing." Li Le said, his left hand shook in front of Tang Rulin's eyes, and he spread his hand to show the Tianhuangshi Maitreya Buddha handle. Said: "Laughing often laughs at the ridiculous people in the world, the big belly can tolerate the intolerable things in the world, do you want to be a joke for a while or want to endure the intolerable things for a while?" ”

Tang Rulin changed color and said, "Are you planning to openly blackmail me?" ”

"Do you do less of this kind of thing yourself?" Li Le's hand was heavier by half a point, and said: "This is a dumb loss, you, eat it in a muffled voice, I, I won't mention it to anyone, and it's up to you if you want to help Zhao Fengbo go to my side to make trouble afterwards, but now, if you don't want to suffer this loss, I will immediately take off one of your arms, and divide your muscles and bones, in addition to the pain of you rolling all over the ground and showing your ugliness, I also ensure that no one in the entire ancient city can pick you up except for me, and in the end you have to beg me." ”

Tang Rulin's face was cold, but his voice trembled slightly because of the tearing pain coming from his shoulder: "You're not afraid of my revenge?" ”

Li Le smiled: "Even if you want to take revenge, you have to rank behind Zhao Fengbo." "The implication is that in the ancient city, his Zhao Fengbo's Taoism may not be worse than you Tang Rulin, Lao Tzu doesn't care about the surname Zhao, how can he care about you?

Tang Rulin finally accepted the fact that there was another person in the ancient city who called him Tang Bao'er, and even if he didn't recognize this person's identity as having this qualification, but for a while, he had nothing to do with this person except for the small book. The big guy in the east of the city nodded helplessly.

Li Le ridiculed: "We live in a country that stresses the rule of law, and public buying and selling is a good deal, and your expression seems as if I am forcing you." ”

Tang Rulin gritted his teeth and forced out a smile, "If you see a good one, you will accept it, surnamed Li, you say a price, let's fight quickly." Looking around, he snorted coldly and said, "Beware of playing big, you can't hold back with your little tricks." ”

"Then you don't need to worry." Li Le put a little force on his hand and said, "Five million, you have thirty seconds to make a decision." ”

"How dare you ask me for ten times the price of such a gadget?" Tang Rulin has made countless money, but he is a well-known iron rooster. He likes Tian Huang, and he is an expert in playing Tian Huang, and he can see the true value of this piece in Li Le's hand at a glance.

Li Le didn't think about it and said, "You still have fifteen seconds." As he spoke, he added a little more strength to his hand.

Tang Rulin was born as a gangster, and he knows best how to be a single person who doesn't suffer losses in front of him, he really can't bear the pain, he doesn't care how much money he has, and grinned and said: "Don't do it, I want this stone!" ”

Chen Hui staggered, walked over as if he had drunk too much, and asked, "What treasure did Lao Tang meet?" Happy to shout out? ”

Li Le's strength in his hand was reduced by a few points, and he said with a smile: "Mr. Tang took a fancy to a stone in my hand, and planned to buy it for five million, and the trade was fair, you just came to give us a witness." Gently pressed Tang Rulin's shoulder and said, "Mr. Tang, is that what happened?" ”

Tang Rulin gritted his teeth and nodded.

Chen Hui smiled at him narrowly, and said loudly: "This is a good thing, I did this guarantor, who doesn't know Mr. Tang's reputation in the ancient city business community?" ”

Tang Rulin was dumb and ate coptis, so he had to laugh and echo again and again.

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At twelve o'clock at night, in front of the Ananda Pagoda, one of the eight unique places in the ancient city.

"I'm so glad that these eight years of military life haven't turned you into a popular and dedicated Li Le."

In front of the Ananda Pagoda, which is forty-nine meters high, completely stacked with blue bricks and red tiles from top to bottom, and has no beams and columns, Hao Luna sat in front of the steps and said to Li Le with a smile: "It's still that guy who doesn't skimp." ”

"People change, but there are some things that are hard to change." Chen Hui took over the conversation: "This is called easy to change, and temperament is difficult to change." ”

"I just like his temperament!" Hao Luna looked at Li Le, her eyes were full of appreciation, "Reckless, heroic and unscrupulous." ”

"Romain Rolland said: There is only one kind of heroism in this world, which is to recognize the truth of life and still love life." Li Le asked Chen Hui for a cigarette, lit it, took a deep breath, and continued: "In the past, I only knew how to act recklessly, and at the same time I was happy with myself and caused a lot of trouble to others, so naturally I was far from being a hero. ”

"And now?" Hao Luna looked expectant.

"Now?" Li Le laughed at himself, "Now you are the TV station leader, Chen Hui is the ancient city tycoon, you all seem to have found the life you want, and I am a nobody, I just want to live a little dull and happy life, it doesn't matter if I am a hero or not." ”

"As soon as he made a move, he blackmailed Tang Rulin for five million." Chen Hui snorted lightly and said, "This is the dull day you are looking forward to?" ”

Li Le smiled and said, "I will meet old friends for a while, tease the hooligans, such days are very comfortable for me." ”

"Tang Rulin is not an ordinary hooligan." Hao Luna reminded with a positive color.

Li Le flicked the cigarette butt in his hand, lay on the stone steps with his head in his hand, looked up at the starry sky, and said easily: "Look at this sky, the stars are shining, if you compare it to a person, Tang Rulin's kind of goods are just a speck of dust in the universe. ”

Hao Luna sighed softly and said, "You must have lived an extraordinary life in the past eight years. As he spoke, he looked at Li Le expectantly: "Can you tell me about it?" ”

Li Le shook his head slowly and said perfunctorily: "There is nothing to say." ”

Chen Hui was annoyed: "I really want to pick up your head and find out the memories of the past eight years to see what kind of days have turned you into this virtue." ”

"If there are eighteen layers of hell, the unit I serve in is the nineteenth layer, as long as I enter there, it is equivalent to embarking on the road of a lifelong professional soldier, in the thirty-five years since its establishment, this unit has produced martyrs, generals, and no one has ever left it as a demobilized soldier, and I am the only exception." Li Le shirked but had to explain a few words, smiled apologetically, and said, "I signed a strict confidentiality agreement before leaving, so even if you two are my best friends, there is only so much I can tell you." ”

"What the hell is this place?"

"Why are you the only exception?"

The first question was asked by Chen Hui, this kid came from a military family and knew the structure and system of the army well, but he had never heard of such a unit. The second question was naturally asked by Hao Luna, in her eyes, Li Le is like a suspense novel full of fun but never ending, which can always arouse her curious excitement.

"If I could, I would like to forget these eight years forever." Li Le tilted his head and glanced at Hao Luna, this answer was obviously not satisfactory to her, and said: "I have performed some special tasks there, and I have finally made a little meritorious service. ”

"Why do you want to go back to the ancient city?" Hao Luna seems to be suffering from an occupational disease, and she has a posture of breaking the casserole and asking the end.

"I'm still far from the age when I have returned to my roots, and the reason why I came back is, of course, because there are people and things that are important to me."

"For example, the old man and the stone, and the Taihang Tower." Hao Luna's tone was a little sour: "The most important thing is to find her, right?" ”

Li Le added: "Actually, there are still you. ”

The faint tone and simple six words made Hao Luna's eyes full of tears. Li Le asked her what she was crying for? She said that it was an occupational disease that was always sensational after becoming a host, and as long as she drank too much wine, her tear ducts didn't open the door as soon as she came up.

Chen Hui pointed at Li Le and scolded: "Get out of you, your teeth will be soured by you." ”

As the night got darker, the three of them had their own thoughts, and the conversation faded.

Li Le instructed Chen Hui to send Hao Luna, who seemed to be drunk, home, and did not forget to remind him before parting: "Don't forget, from tomorrow, there is no need to arrange people around Taihang Tower to protect you, buddy's own dreams come true." ”

While Chen Hui said yes again and again, he secretly gave Li Le a thumbs up. Hao Luna suddenly sobered up, refused Chen Hui's support, jumped on her purple little MG quickly, and didn't say goodbye to Li Le as if she was angry, and left in the dust.

Chen Hui sat back on the steps like a deflated ball.