Chapter 17 Lion Lane

"Old Town, Lion Lane… It’s just three streets over, a ten-minute walk, you can see it."

Crow laughed, "Lion Lane, heard of it?"

Gu Shen's mind stirred, and he slowly frowned.

Lion Lane, he really had heard of it!

Gu Shen grew up in a remote corner of Qinghe District, which was already out of the way and behind on the news, so he basically didn't know about any major events… But he happened to remember the name Lion Lane.

The welfare home's wireless channel broadcast the name Lion Lane, because the case at the time had a very significant impact, so it was broadcast for several days in a row, and Gu Shen still had an impression of the news… A big shot who had just topped the Capital District's richest list was assassinated and killed in Lion Lane.

"From when I was a kid, the winters in the Capital have been very cold, and everyone doesn't go out much, but I often wandered around outside. Back then, I always smelled a very strange aroma of wine… I was originally thinking of climbing over the wall and stealing wine, but I was caught red-handed."

Song Ci smiled sadly and said, "That man was interesting, he caught a little thief but wasn't angry, and even gave me a sip to try… The wine was so spicy that my snot and tears came out, he laughed heartily and cursed me as a coward, so I took another big gulp, and after drinking it, I passed out directly and stayed in that yard for the whole night. Anyway, I was a stinky kid with no parents, so it was the same wherever I slept."

"That man was called Lu Cheng, I called him Lao Lu."

Song Ci's voice was hoarse, "I thought that a guy like Lao Lu, who idled around the old town all day, shouldn't have any prospects, and when he got older, he wouldn't be able to find a wife, so he could only be an unemployed vagrant… Until one day when I climbed over the wall, the walls of Lion Lane were stained with blood, and the scene was surrounded by hundreds of people, I saw a lot of police, doctors, lawyers, these people were arguing endlessly, Lao Lu was lying quietly in the middle of those people, with a pool of blood spreading under him."

"Later… They took Lao Lu away. I saw on TV that Lao Lu was the richest man in the Capital, and these people were arguing because Lao Lu had too much money, and everyone wanted to get a share of it." Crow looked at Gu Shen and laughed, "What do you say… Isn't that bullshit?"

The great hermit hides in the city.

Everyone has heard this saying, but how many people can really do what Lu Cheng did?

"After Lao Lu died, some people cursed me as a jinx, who killed my parents and then killed my neighbors." Song Ci shrugged and said in a low voice, "They didn't say these things until Xiao Lu came, not because they were kind-hearted and didn't want to poke at people's pain, but because Xiao Lu was born beautiful like ice and snow, and looked like she came from a phoenix nest, they didn't dare to say bad things behind her back casually."

"Xiao Lu…?"

"Actually, they don't know anything," Song Ci sneered twice, "Xiao Lu is what I call her. After Lao Lu died, the yard was empty, and she moved in to live alone, so I called her Xiao Lu. Everyone guessed that she was Lao Lu's daughter, but her temperament was really inconsistent, so they could only guess that she was a distant relative or something… If you don't believe me, ask them, who knows what Xiao Lu's name is?"

I asked before…

Gu Shen said softly, "Why did Xiao Lu leave?"

"Not sure." Crow's energy and spirit collapsed all of a sudden, and he said with a mournful face, "Xiao Lu is just such an elusive person, she comes when she comes, and leaves when she leaves. When she left, she didn't even say hello to me, or make an appointment for when we'd meet next… It wasn't until Madam Nan Zhi took me away that I knew that the two of them had a fight, and Xiao Lu left the Capital with her luggage in a fit of anger, and said that she would never come back."

He took a big gulp.

Crow said angrily, "Just leave if you want, but why couldn't she take me with her? I can resist, I can fight, I can be flexible, does she think I'm a burden?"

Gu Shen's expression was complicated, and he thought to himself, isn't it because you're too unreliable?

"Heh, women." Song Ci waved his hand, "When she returns to the Capital, I will give her a chance to repent."

"After Lao Lu left, only this wine was left, Xiao Lu didn't take it away, so that's mine." He invited Gu Shen to clink glasses, and asked curiously, "Hey Gu… How is your alcohol tolerance so good? Don't you feel anything at all?"

"Well… I'm almost done for…" Gu Shen was silent for a moment, supported his forehead, and asked, "One more cup?"

"Tonight, I will definitely knock you down!" Song Ci gritted his teeth and raised his glass, "You kid, you tricked me so badly before… So you ran away because you really did something wrong and felt guilty, honestly confess, what kind of conscienceless things did you do!"

"Actually, I told the truth at the time…" Gu Shen clinked glasses and smiled helplessly, "It's just that you didn't believe it."

Song Ci shook his head, supporting his chin with one hand, barely keeping his head from hitting the table.

He tried hard to recall Gu Shen's explanation at the time.

After a moment.

His eyebrows were twisted into a figure eight, and his tongue began to slur, "What… What you said at the time was… you scammed… Cui Zhongcheng's… money…"

"Yes."

Gu Shen nodded lightly.

"Wo… Wo… Fuck…"

Song Ci hissed and took a breath of cold air, he slowly leaned back tactically, looking at Gu Shen in disbelief, and confirmed once again: "Cui Zhongcheng?"

After receiving confirmation.

He shook his head vigorously, shaking off the alcohol, laughed loudly, and put his arm around Gu Shen's shoulder, "You're really good at bragging, but… I believe it!"

At this time, Song Ci belatedly realized that Gu Shen was sipping the Lion's Wake wine little by little at a constant speed and frequency. At this rate, the other party had already drunk two or three times as much as he had.

"Were you born in a wine jar?" Song Ci became anxious, and while he was still conscious, he quickly protected the wine bottle, "Drinking today ends here!"

Twenty minutes later, the two of them staggered out of the alley.

To be precise, one person staggered, and the other person was forced to stagger.

Gu Shen was supporting Crow, and even at this moment, he was still savoring the taste of Lion's Wake wine… He tasted the mental elements in the wine, and silently recalled the "Lion Lane Case" that Crow had mentioned.

Ten years ago, after Lao Lu died, the Lu family collapsed, and all the property was swallowed up. If he remembered correctly, the Zhao family had begun to awaken from that year.

Gu Shen didn't know what exactly happened back then, but he knew that in the Tribunal, his senior sister's registered name was Nan Jin.

His senior sister had abandoned the surname Lu.

Crow said that the two sisters had once had a very intense quarrel, and from that day on, Lu Nanjin left the Capital, and had never returned even once since… This information was enough to infer some things.

"A desperate man is mostly burdened with a blood feud that cannot be relieved…"

Gu Shen murmured softly, and then he remembered what Chu Ling had said, so he said in a low voice: "You can't harbor malice towards other people's past."

He helped Crow to the outside of the alley, and the latter vomited a lot by the grass, after vomiting, he reached out to Gu Shen for the helmet, and tried to stuff his head in.

"You want to go back like this?" Gu Shen said seriously, "In the Capital, drunk driving will get your license revoked, and motorcycles are no exception."

He wasn't worried about Crow having any accidents.

"I'm not drunk…" Song Ci spat and laughed, "The reason I'm drunk is because I want to be drunk, you understand?"

Gu Shen was silent all of a sudden.

According to his intuition, what Crow said was right.

Adept, regardless of which system, needs to temper his mental strength. When the mental strength is strong enough, alcohol can no longer dissolve the will. No matter how much you drink, as long as you want to regain consciousness, you only need to run the breathing technique… With Song Ci's strength, even if he drank the "Lion's Wake Wine" containing mental elements, he would never be drunk, at least not so embarrassed and unbearable.

"If I don't get drunk, there are some things… I can't say."

Crow leaned against the corner of the wall, signaling Gu Shen to stand closer.

He said with a low laugh, "You are a smart person, I just told you about the Lion Lane case, you should have guessed some things, right…"

Gu Shen opened his mouth, not because he didn't want to speak, but because he really didn't know what to say.

"I have never believed that there would be such a coincidence. Lao Lu was such a good person, how could he provoke enemies, he had already hidden in the old town, but he was still targeted." Crow laughed in a low voice, "Who do you think did it?"

Gu Shen said calmly, "You think it was the Zhao family."

"Not bad, not bad!" Song Ci patted Gu Shen's shoulder vigorously, and said intimately, "As expected of someone favored by Little Cui… You really understand me, like father like… Ah, spit."

"What do you want to do?" Gu Shen's eyes were strange.

"Of course…" Crow stretched out a palm and gently swiped it across his neck, making a kill gesture, his eyes were hot, and he asked with a smile, "What do you think?"

"Who do you want to kill, Zhao Qi?" Gu Shen said, "Or…"

"Ah ha…"

"Just kidding, just kidding." Song Ci quickly interrupted Gu Shen's words.

"Although everyone outside is very afraid of me… But actually, I'm very cowardly." Crow sighed, and said with a smile, "Besides having hard fists and a hard life, I don't have any other advantages to offer. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm afraid of getting a hot head and doing some impulsive things that will implicate Madam. Do you know why I ran away the day I met you?"

Gu Shen silently waited for the following text.

"A man came to smash my place, before he could report his identity, I shot… I swear, I only used one punch, I didn't expect him to be so unable to resist, half of his life was beaten into the underworld by me, almost going to see the King of Hell."

Crow smiled, and said quite ostentatiously, "That person is called Chen Jingtan, and he is Chen San's nephew."

After waiting for a long time, he didn't wait for Gu Shen's words.

Crow raised his eyebrows and said angrily, "Are you mute?"

"Chen San's nephew…" Gu Shen said, "So what?"

"Is this the first time you've heard Chen San's name?" Crow was very annoyed and a little discouraged.

"It's not the first time, but… Should I have some reaction when I hear his name?" Gu Shen was a little embarrassed and said, "I know that Chen San is someone who is on par with that Zhao family's councilor, a very powerful big shot."

Song Ci sighed quietly, completely giving up the idea of explaining to Gu Shen.

"Probably, it's very cool."

"You'll know when you try it one day… Beating up the powerful is really different from fighting normally. Under this dog-day law, rules, and framework of fate, my life is a worthless life, but his is not. So when this punch is thrown out, his pain will achieve double the happiness for you. This is a kind of pleasure that is above the rules."

Crow stretched out his fist with some excitement, clenched it and then released it, as if he was savoring the feeling at the time. He stared at the rough calluses on his skin, grinned and said, "I have thought more than once… What would it be like if these fists landed on Zhao Qi's face?"

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but wail again, but he was already wearing a helmet, so he quickly held it back, and leaned against the corner of the wall in a dizzy spell.

Gu Shen sighed softly and patted his back.

At this moment—

Across a block, about several hundred meters away, a few people slowly walked out of a long alley.

The person in the lead, when leaving the alley, glanced at the corner of the street by chance and saw the two people.

He paused for a moment.

The man wearing the helmet looked vaguely familiar, but he only glanced at him once before withdrawing his gaze.

The cowboy carrying a large hunting rifle also looked over with his gaze, he silently grasped the handle of the gun and asked softly, "Young Master Zhao?"

"It's nothing… Just two drunken stray dogs who are unconscious, no need to waste time."

Zhao Qi spoke softly, he suddenly frowned, reached out his palm, wiped his originally white and clean cheek, his palm was stained with dirt, it should have been stained in the abandoned factory.

He silently stared at the dirt on his palm and said softly, "There are really too many dirty things in the old town…"