Datang: Hiding private money, exposed by Xiao Sizi

Shen Lian's eyes flickered, he raised his finger slightly, and smiled calmly: "I think you'd better see clearly what the result is before you decide whether to win or lose."

"Otherwise, I'll get slapped in the face by myself, and that won't be a very good feeling."

"You are really stubborn enough. Well, I will make you admit defeat! I heard that you have never lost before. Today, I am very lucky to see you lose for the first time in your life."

Beichen blew directly on his hand, and a "wu" sound came out, a very penetrating sound.

Then Shen Lian heard the sound of flapping wings approaching quickly, and the next moment, a crow landed directly on Beichen's shoulder.

Beichen looked at the crow, and just as he was about to take off the bamboo tube tied to the crow's feet, his eyes suddenly paused.

At this moment, his eyes suddenly narrowed.

Because he found... this crow had an obvious wound on its body, and there was a lot of blood on it.

It looks like he escaped death.

The appearance of the crow suddenly gave him a bad feeling.

He subconsciously looked at Shen Lian opposite him.

Then Shen Lian still had that confident smile on his face, "Look at what I, Shen, am doing. There's no result on my face."

Beichen frowned, took down the bamboo slips, raised his hand, and let the crow fly away.

Phew! !
But at this moment, the moment the crow flew up, a dagger instantly pierced through the crow's head and nailed it directly to the trunk of the old sunflower tree next to it.

Beichen looked at Shen Lian suddenly.

Then Shen Lian slowly retracted his raised hands and said with a smile: "If you don't remove the roots, it will grow again in the spring breeze. Although it is just a crow, if it lives, it may help you convey a fatal message in the future, so it is reasonable to kill it now."

The Taoist controlled by Beichen frowned deeply, looking at Shen Lian in front of him. At this moment, he actually felt a chill in his heart.

He suddenly felt that his previous judgment of Shen Lian and the temperament Shen Lian showed in the chess game seemed to have some problems.

Could it be... that Shen Lian was intentionally deceiving himself?

Beichen became more and more alert.

He took out the note from the bamboo tube, opened it, and saw only a line of small words on it.
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The Li Wencheng here is also fake. Except for me, the entire army was wiped out.

Seeing this line of words, Beichen's pupils shrank suddenly.

The whole person's expression seemed to be out of control in an instant, with a trace of confusion, a trace of disbelief, a trace of shock, and a trace of... panic.

This was the first time tonight that Beichen revealed so many and such complex emotions.

He suddenly raised his head and stared at Shen Lian with sharp eyes.

At this moment, he no longer had any of the aura of an immortal. He actually looked a little crazy. A huge pressure suddenly rose from him, like a mountain, and instantly pressed down on Shen Lian opposite him.

And Shen Lian just shook it lightly, and all the pressure disappeared into thin air.

This Beidou Society,

Shen Lian didn't know how many times he had planned this. Even Li Shimin had taken the initiative to be Shen Lian's pawn this time, so he didn't feel anything at all about this kind of oppressive momentum.

No matter how strong your momentum is, can it be stronger than that of a king?
"What's going on?"

Beichen spoke hoarsely.

Shen Lian listened to Beichen's question, smiled, and said, "Do you know you lost?"

what?
What does my young master mean? Beichen lost!?

When Sishe and others heard Shen Lian's words, their eyes suddenly lit up and they quickly looked at Beichen.

Beichen, facing the gazes of the crowd, exhaled lightly and said, "I'm willing to admit defeat. This time, you win."

"Not only did I fail to kill Li Wencheng, but I also suffered heavy losses. Almost all the personnel involved were wiped out, and the power of Chang'an was almost uprooted by you."

Even for Beichen, these words seemed a bit heavy.

The loss this time is really too great.

This is a far greater loss than the one at Huasheng Temple!
After all, these forces were accumulated by Beidouhui in Chang'an with great difficulty over the years.

As a result, one night.

Just like that, in just one night!
He came here in person to plan, but in the end... he fell completely into Shen Lian's trap.

Almost uprooted.

This time, it really caused him a lot of pain.

"What is going on? Where is Li Wencheng? Among the first group of people taken away, there was no Li Wencheng at all!"

"And the second group of Li Wencheng who followed you and left in person was also disguised as Sishe!"

"So... where is the real Li Wencheng?"

This is something that Beichen still can't figure out.

It is also the most important reason for his failure tonight!
Li Wencheng, where is Li Wencheng?
He specifically left a backup plan just in case the Li Wencheng that Shen Lian brought with him was a fake!

So, after discovering that Li Wencheng was actually Si Snake in disguise.

He asked her backup, a person of high status in the Beidou Society, to hunt down the first group of twenty people, because he believed that Li Wencheng must be there.

And this was Shen Lian’s plan, to transport Li Wencheng away in a way that no one could have imagined.

…………

But who could have thought... that Li Wencheng was also fake!
So, where is the real Li Wencheng?

The Taoist controlled by Beichen stared at Shen Lian without blinking, wanting to know what was going on behind all this.

And now, everything has been decided.

Shen Lian gently took out a chess piece from the chess box.

He looked at Beichen and said, "Two things."

"First."

Shen Lian suddenly placed a piece on the chessboard.

He said calmly, "You and I are not evenly matched. The chess game on the board is not as you said, it will be hard to tell who will win until the end, because I have already won."

"what?"

Beichen was stunned for a moment.

He quickly lowered his head and looked at the chessboard.

next moment……

"This this……"

He suddenly cried out in shock.

The whole person was filled with disbelief.

On the chessboard, with the fall of Shen Lian's chess piece, the originally stalemate chess game suddenly fell to one side.

Shen Lian actually cut off his entire advantage and split it into two!
He lost!

"This...you, when did you set this up?"

Beichen didn't notice it at all.

Shen Lian raised his lips slightly and said, "At the beginning, before making a move!"

“And this is the second point I want to make.”

He looked at the extremely shocked Beichen and said calmly: "When do you think I, Shen, started the trap I set tonight?"

Beichen frowned: "...when he found out that Li Wencheng had disappeared, and that my attempts to silence him failed."

"No!"

Shen Lian held the chess piece and let it jump continuously on his fingers.

He said calmly: "That's what you think, and that's what I made you think."

“But in fact…” Shen Lian’s eyes suddenly flashed with a brilliant light, and he said meaningfully: “Before Li Wencheng disappeared, my plan had already begun.”

"In other words...you thought I thought Li Wencheng was missing."

"But in fact, Li Wencheng has been in the Dali Temple prison from beginning to end and has never left the prison."

"That is Li Wencheng from then on..."

Shen Lian curled his lips, looked at Beichen, whose eyes were wide open and shocked, and said with a smile: "They are all fake."

Under the old locust tree.

The moon is mottled.

A gust of wind blew, rustling the leaves, blowing the hair of the crow nailed to the tree trunk by the dagger, and also blowing Shen Lian's black hair and the gray beard of the Taoist controlled by Beichen opposite.

The whole world seemed to have quieted down at this moment.

Number One's expression kept changing, from shock, to disbelief, to doubt... until finally admiration.

He looked at Shen Lian with such a complicated expression that Shen Lian could hardly tell what Beichen was thinking.

"Hey!"

A sigh finally came from the Taoist's mouth, breaking the eerie silence.

He looked at Shen Lian and said with emotion: "Heroes emerge from youth!"

"I really never thought that all this... was a scam!"

"It turns out that everything I knew and believed in was a huge scam you created to deceive me!"

Beichen was really filled with emotion.

This time he was convinced.

More than ever, I am convinced.

Because this time, I was directly involved in it.

On the surface, behind the scenes, hidden on the third floor... and the real knife in his hand.

In order to deal with Li Wencheng, he set up four lines of defense.

Xiong Chenglin, Yin Yang Master, Old Man Zhang and the Drunkard.

Four people in total, four lines of insurance in total.

But in the end, he now realized that everything he had done... from the beginning, was meaningless.

From the very beginning, you were doomed to fail.

Not to mention four, even if there are forty insurance questions, it’s the same!
Because all of this was a scam from the beginning.

Li Wencheng, from the very beginning, never ran away, never disappeared!

Shen Lian had already captured Li Wencheng and hid him.

Then, Li Wencheng’s disappearance... was entirely directed by Shen Lian.

Therefore, from the moment their killers discovered that Li Wencheng was missing, they had already fallen into Shen Lian's trap.

It was destined that they could not catch Li Wencheng or kill Li Wencheng.

After all, all the Li Wencheng they thought they knew was fake.

How can we talk about killing?

This was a plan that had no surprises at all. Shen Lian had deceived himself from the very beginning.

But I was totally unaware of it.

In the end, it ended up like this.

Chang'an's power was almost completely lost!
Even Beichen felt a little painful about this loss.

But he was convinced.

He thought that he had made no obvious mistakes anywhere, and there were no problems in staffing or caution.

The only thing is that I didn’t realize whether this matter itself was true.

This is also because he underestimated Shen Lian.

I underestimated the abilities of a monster with extraordinary talent.

Before, Shen Lian's abilities were demonstrated in one incident and case after another, and Shen Lian had never taken the initiative to do anything.

Therefore, Beichen did not understand Shen Lian's ability to plan proactively.

As a result, he suffered a severe setback this time.

Fortunately, he was cautious enough and did not expose his true identity. Otherwise, Beichen felt that perhaps tonight would be his death anniversary.

He couldn't help but sigh: "Shen Lian, if you take the same path as me, I think... you will surpass me."

"Chang'an is too small, and the Tang Dynasty is too small. We should look at the whole world! With your ability, you can stir up the world and make the world move according to your will. This is what deserves you!"

"Otherwise, if you stay in a small corner of Chang'an, it would be a waste of natural resources. It would be a huge waste."

"Or... is it your wife who is limiting your ambitions?"

When Shen Lian heard Beichen's words, he just chuckled: "Beichen, since you mentioned my wife, I just want to say something. Isn't it even worse that you lost to someone without ambition today?"

Beichen was speechless.

Shen Lian saw this and continued with a wider smile, "So comparing my wife to you is just a manifestation of your incompetence."

"Apart from this, if Chang'an is really as you said, then why are you making so many plans in Chang'an? Why don't you just get out of here? Why do you have to stay near Chang'an?"

"Beichen, don't treat me like a fool. If you don't believe it yourself, do you think I, Shen, will believe it?"

Upon hearing this, Beichen was silent for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter.

"You are worthy of being the smartest person in the Tang Dynasty. I can't hide anything from you!"

"But Shen Lian, I'm not lying to you. My sights are really set on the whole world. Stirring up the wind and clouds, creating a chaotic world, and striving to dominate the world is my real goal! But... I'm betting on the Tang Dynasty. The spirit of the Tang Dynasty is rising, and no other country in the world can match it!"

"So the Tang Dynasty will definitely be the center of the world in the future. Therefore, if we rule the Tang Dynasty, we will rule the world! And Chang'an is the capital of the Tang Dynasty, so I will naturally not go far away!"

Shen Lian raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect Beichen to have such vision.

In this era, the Tang Dynasty is indeed the center of the world, and it will be only a matter of time before all nations pay homage to it.

By the time,
Tuyuhun and Turks all had to kneel down.

He laughed, "What a coincidence, I, Shen, also think so."

Beichen looked at Shen Lian deeply, as if he wanted to engrave Shen Lian's face deeply in his mind.

He said: "There is no room for two tigers in one mountain, and there is no room for two rulers in one country. If there is Yu, why is there Liang... Shen Lian, between you and me, the law of nature only allows one person to stir up the situation, so... you and I, it is destined that only one of us can survive."

"As long as the battle between you and me comes to an end, the world... will belong to another person! Even if he is not an emperor, the rise and fall of the empire depends on our thoughts."

"A smart person works hard with his mind, not his hands. Emperor, that's just the hard work of a smart person! I think you know exactly what I mean."

Shen Lian narrowed his eyes and did not respond to Beichen's outrageous words.

On the one hand, he and Li Shimin, well... in some ways, have a good relationship.

Secondly... as a salted fish, knowing the future history, he naturally would not accompany Beichen to go against the will of heaven.

Li Shimin is the orthodox one, so we should just live obediently in the Tang Dynasty under his governance.

The future Tang Dynasty is destined to be worshipped by all nations. Such a future is enough for me and my stupid wife at home to squander our lives!

As for the chaotic rule of Empress Wu Zetian after the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, Shen Lian said that it was still a long way to go and we would have to wait and see.

Anyway, the first important task in my life is to have a wife and children, so why am I worrying about national affairs?

(End of this chapter)