Shen Lian stretched and sat down on the stone beside the stream.
He took off his shoes and put his feet in the stream.
The stream is not cold and flows gurglingly. There are many small fish in the stream, so it is very comfortable to soak your feet.
Shen Lian sighed with satisfaction.
He turned to look at Tianji, who had been frowning, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the shadow guard is here, it is absolutely safe."
Tianji said coldly: "You know what I'm worried about is not the safety here."
"I understand that you are worried about the safety of Dali City."
Shen Lian said calmly: "While we haven't gone to Dali City yet, I can give you a choice. If you are afraid, you can choose not to go."
Tianji frowned: "How to stimulate generals?"
"No."
Shen Lian smiled and said, "It's just the truth."
"You really can choose not to go."
Tianji sat on the stone below, looked at the stream, and said, "What are the consequences of not going?"
"Smartness means the right way."
Shen Lian smiled and said: "It's very simple, die here."
"If you don't go, you will die now."
"After all, Dali City is already very dangerous. If you run away and betray me secretly, wouldn't I be dead?"
"Therefore, in order to reassure me, I can only kill you first."
Tianji had an expression that he knew was like this.
She said: "Can't you say something nice to lie to me?"
"Lied to you? Can you believe a cunning guy like you?"
Shen Lian smiled and said: "If you can't believe it, then what's the use of me lying to you?"
Shen Lian doesn't hate lying.
On the contrary, he has deceived many people during his long life.
After all, his IQ is too high and he is too smart. He regards other people as idiots and deceives many people in order to avoid trouble.
He doesn't hate lying to people, but he doesn't like lying to smart people.
Because smart people can see through his deception. If I lie to others in this situation, what is the difference between it and the clown who is myself?
Tianji sighed: "So, do I have a choice?"
"Shen Lian, you are really heartless. We have lived and died together now, and you are still so cruel to me!"
Shen Lian smiled and said: "If I am not cruel to you, I will be cruel to my other brothers, so if you choose one of them, I can only choose to be cruel to you."
Tianji sighed: "You are really honest."
"I am an honest person." Qin Wenyuan said modestly.
Tianji rolled his eyes.
She didn't want to talk to Shen Lian anymore.
Shen Lian laughed. He lay on the stone with his feet waving in the water. He looked at the starry sky and said, "Tell me, how many forces you have in Dali City. This time you enter Dali City and Taihe City." The situation will be completely different."
"We are no longer in an encounter."
"It's a prepared game."
"So, let's talk about our mutual power. This time... we have to be honest."
Seeing Shen Lian become serious, Tianji's expression perked up slightly.
She took a deep breath and looked at the crystal clear stream. She watched the fish in the stream swimming around Shen Lian's feet curiously, as if wondering what they were.
"I am honest with you, and I hope you can be honest. You don't want me to tell you my secrets, but you don't say anything."
Shen Lian was lying on the big rock, looking up at the sky above his head. Behind him were the voices of the shadow guards who were busy. He suddenly shrugged his shoulders, as if he was suppressing a laugh.
"In your mind, am I such an unreliable person?"
Shen Lian asked with a smile.
Tianji rolled his eyes: "Stop insulting the unreliable word."
"Ha ha ha ha."
Shen Lian burst out laughing.
He flipped up and down in the stream, causing waves to splash in all directions, scaring away the curious fish.
Shen Lian laughed for a while and then said, "Hey, why do you know me so well?"
Tianji's eyes twitched: "...Get out!"
Shen Lian laughed a few more times before trying hard to stop his smile.
He looked at the sky above his head and said: "Don't worry, there is no need to hide it from you. After all, we are grasshoppers on a rope now. You have to believe me."
I believe you!
Tianji cursed in her heart.
She looked at the happy Shen Lian and couldn't help but said, "Why are you so happy so easily?"
When Shen Lian heard this, the smile on his face faded. He crossed his hands and put them under his head. He looked at the twinkling stars and said, "Life is already so hard. If I'm not happy, wouldn't I be proud of my hard life?" ?”
"My mother died when I was very young."
"When I was only five or six years old, my father also died for saving His Majesty."
"And I don't seem to have any other relatives. At least I haven't seen any relatives from my father or mother looking for me or seeing me."
"So, you say... I am a five- or six-year-old child, do I have to suffer?"
"Of course, His Majesty never treated me badly and gave me everything I needed. Later, I also met Mr. Xiao, who treated me as his own grandson..."
"But no matter how nice they are to me, it still feels different if they are not my biological parents."
"And I should be more precocious than other children, so even if I was only four or five years old at that time, I knew... In this life, no one can pamper me and love me for no reason anymore, and no one will care whether I am happy or not. , no one even cares about my life or death."
"So, if that's the case, if this fucking god treats me like this and wants to make me suffer, how can I let him get his wish?"
Shen Lian looked at the sky, looked at the stars, and said with a smile: "I told myself that I want to be strong. I want to be like the green mountain, which cannot be destroyed by wind or knocked down by rain."
"I also told myself that in the future, I will face a world as cruel as a knife. I will walk on a road full of thorns, and every step will be dripping with blood, but I can't bow my head, let alone admit defeat."
"I will always hold my head high and smile forever. If the world doesn't want me to live well, then I will live every day with a smile."
"I will live happily and optimistically until...the day I die."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Tianji fell silent after listening to Shen Lian's words.
This was the first time she knew about Shen Lian's past.
She only knew that Shen Lian was as smart as a monster.
He is scheming against others all the time, and he is so calm and calm all the time.
But she didn't know that Shen Lian had such a past.
She couldn't help but look at Shen Lian, thought for a long time, and then said, "You are very strong."
Shen Lian was startled for a moment, then suddenly covered his stomach and burst into laughter.
He laughed so hard that tears came down his face. He looked at Tianji and said, "Do you really believe it?"
"..."
Tianji looked at Shen Lian with wide eyes and said, "Did you lie to me?"
Shen Lian laughed and did not answer Tianji. He just laughed and rolled on the rocks.
Tianji was so angry that her teeth almost broke.
It was a rare occasion for me to be kind, and in the end I was deceived.
Sure enough, Shen Lian is a bastard! A liar and a bastard!
She turned around angrily, not looking at Shen Lian.
As for Shen Lian, he stopped smiling and said calmly: "I don't need anyone to pity me, so don't say such things in the future."
"Besides, it was indeed a lie. Since I was a child, I have never had any relationship with the Tang Dynasty royal family."
Tianji's angry expression suddenly stopped.
…………
"okay."
Shen Lian sat up, took his feet out of the stream, sat cross-legged on the stone, looked at Tianji, whose expression was stunned, and said, "Let's talk about our respective powers in Dali City."
"This time, in order to show my sincerity, I will speak first!"
Tianji's stunned expression moved slightly.
Shen Lian said directly without any hesitation: "Under the forces I control, there is an Intelligence Department. The mission of the Intelligence Department is to place some spies in the Tang Dynasty and other countries to provide various intelligence to the Tang Dynasty. "
"And Nanzhao is adjacent to the Tang Dynasty, and it is not too honest, so the Tang Dynasty paid special attention to it, so it sent some spies to Nanzhao."
"But Datang monitors many places and has a limited number of spies. Moreover, we are only here to obtain information, not to deal with anyone, so the number of people is even smaller."
"Furthermore, in order to ensure that we can know the movements of every large city in Nanzhao, we have to distribute the limited number of people in each city, which makes the number of people in a single city even smaller."
"Therefore, in Dali City, I have only ten people in the intelligence department."
Ten people, this is Qin Wenyuan's current power in Dali City.
He told Tianji without hiding anything.
Tianji pursed her lips and thought carefully about what Qin Wenyuan just said. After a moment, she nodded, believing Qin Wenyuan.
Since Shen Lian was so proactive, Tianji no longer delayed.
She said: "I have more people in Dali City than you do."
"In order to leave a way out for myself and ensure that I could protect myself no matter where I went, I arranged some manpower in some places."
"Dali City is one of the escape routes I left behind, so I have thirty-five subordinates in Dali City, but... this is also from before. I have not been in contact with them in recent times. So I’m not sure yet whether someone had an accident.”
Shen Lian nodded: "Thirty-five people, a little less than Taihe City."
Tianji said: "You think it's less, but I don't. You know, I only have one person. I have to provide for them to eat and drink, and I also have to make sure that they don't betray. This is not an easy task."
"You think I am your Tang Dynasty? I am a country!"
Shen Lian smiled and said: "You are more awesome than the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty only has ten people, and you have thirty-five. You are even more awesome. There is no need to be modest."
Tianji rolled his eyes.
She looked at Shen Lian's smile and recalled what Shen Lian had just said. At this moment, Tianji seemed to truly understand Shen Lian.
The Shen Lian in front of him has added a layer of armor made of optimism and smile to himself to protect his fragile heart.
She took a deep breath and said: "In total, there are only more than forty of us. How can we fight against the Beidou Society and Beichen with just such a small number of people?"
"Shen Lian, even if this is the case, do you still want to take action?"
Shen Lian smiled: "Isn't this even more interesting? In history, battles in which more people win than less are not qualified to be remembered by future generations."
"Only those battles in which fewer people win more than more are more memorable, aren't they?"
Tianji said: "There are so many battles in history where a small number of people fought a large number, but there are only a few that you can name that are truly victorious! Why don't you talk about the probability issue?"
Shen Lian smiled and patted Tianji: "Don't talk nonsense, history books won't tell you this."
"history book?"
Tianji tilted his head.
Shen Lian didn't explain. He smiled and said: "The probability of defeating more with less may be only one percent, or even one thousandth."
"But so what? Since it exists, it means someone can do it."
"And I don't think I'm any worse than those who can do it. If they can do it, why can't I do it?"
Shen Lian looked at Tianji with emotion and said, "Tianji, you have to have great ambitions. You don't want to make progress."
Tianji had nothing to say, and Shen Lian was so angry that he refused to pay with his life.
Shen Lian laughed, and immediately saw his eyes narrowing slightly, a smile on his lips, and said: "Forty people are indeed few, but... this can only mean that we have few people now."
"It doesn't mean..."
Shen Lian said meaningfully: "It will be the same in the future!"
"Tianji, just watch and watch. In the battle of Dali City, I will let you know what it means to transform a living person, and what it means to defeat more with less."
When Tianji heard Shen Lian's words, his eyes suddenly flashed.
She knew that Shen Lian must be holding back some bad tricks again.
Qin Chenlian will not suffer any loss. Since Shen Lian dares to go and say such words, he definitely has a corresponding plan.
That being the case...
Tianji let out a long breath: "Since you have the solution, I won't say anything more. I just hope you don't involve me to death."
Shen Lian laughed and said, "We have such a good relationship. If I die, I will definitely look for you to take my back... Oh no, I will definitely look for you to be buried with me. Don't worry, I won't let you go."
Tianji: "..."
It hurts my heart, old man!
Tianji felt that if she stayed with Shen Lian for too long, she would be angry to death sooner or later.
Shen Lian is really the kind of person who is so angry that he will not pay for his life.
"Master, the meal is ready."
At this time, the sound of the snake came.
Shen Lian stood up directly, put on his shoes, and said: "Let's go, people are iron, food is steel, you can do nothing, but you can't stop eating."
As he spoke, he ran directly to Si She and others, sat down around the fire, took a bowl of rice from Si She, and started eating directly.
Tianji saw Shen Lian, Si She and others laughing and joking, and didn't know what they said, which made everyone else burst into laughter.
She shook her head slightly.
"Shen Lian, Shen Lian, what are you thinking about? What kind of person are you? Why can't I understand you more and more!"
Tianji sighed in her heart, she thought she already understood Shen Lian.
But now, she found that she understood Shen Lian less and less.
This person is too complicated.
It's so complicated that people can't tell whether he is showing his true feelings or whether he is joking and bluffing.
Maybe, in this world, only Shen Lian knows what he is really like, right?