Chen Guanlou dug three feet into the ground and dug out ten taels of silver from his home to buy gifts. If you don't have much money, the gift should be big. The bigger the gift, the more respectable it is. He bought two air-dried chickens and two air-dried ducks. Worried that the recipients would dislike them, he bought two more pieces of soy sauce meat, sealed a bag of silver, and went to Steward Liu's house in the back alley of Pingjiang Hou Mansion. When I came to Liu's Mansion, hey, it's such a grand house with a courtyard with two entrances. All the officials in the Hou Mansion live in big houses that only gentlemen can live in, which is incredible. The Hou Mansion is rich and noble! Go up the three steps, pull up the brass ring on the door, and knock three times. After a while, the side door next to the main door opened, and a young concierge stretched out his head to look at him. Seeing that he looked unfamiliar and was not well-dressed, his eyes immediately appeared on the top of his head. Chen Guanlou hurried forward and laughed with him, "Brother, please inform Manager Liu. I am Chen Guanlou from the east alley next door, the son of Chen Chengzong." After that, he took out a few copper coins from his pocket and stuffed them into the hands of the young concierge unskillfully. Ten copper coins made Chen Guanlou feel distressed. Fortunately, it doesn't show on the face and the hands don't shake, showing that the hands are very generous. The concierge took the money and immediately changed his attitude, showing a smile and said, "Wait."
As soon as he finished speaking, the side door closed with a snap. Chen Guanlou:...... He could only stand in front of the door and wait patiently. The surname of Pingjiang Marquis is Chen, and Chen Guanlou is also surnamed Chen, passed down from one ancestor. It's a pity that Chen Guanlou was reincarnated too late and did not catch up with the good time. By the time of Chen Guanlou's father's generation, Tonghou Mansion had already released five servers. In the past, during the sacrifices, one could meet with the heads of the Marquis Mansion, but now they are not even eligible to participate in the sacrifices. The Hou Mansion has long since disowned these relatives who came out of the fifth service. To say they are relatives is just a polite word. The dignified first generation descendants of Pingjiang Marquis are now inferior to even the servants of the Marquis Mansion. When something goes wrong, you have to go to the steward of the Hou Mansion and buy gifts carefully, for fear that others will dislike you and refuse to help. Chen Guanlou's family had been in decline as early as his grandfather's generation and had become a shabby settlement. In desperation, he took up a lowly job and found a job in Tianlao. This is a good job. It is passed down from father to son, and from son to grandson. It is a perfect hereditary system and a top-shift system. It is an iron rice bowl that cannot be more iron-clad and the safety is guaranteed. As long as you don't dislike the lowliness of this profession and being looked down upon by others, you can continue to work until you die. If you die midway, that is a bad fate. Chen Guanlou's father is a person with bad luck. When Chen Guanlou was ten years old, he died in the line of duty. The next year, my mother became ill with worry and passed away. He was raised by his eldest sister. The eldest sister got married a few years ago, and with him being a dragster, she secretly suffered a lot from her husband's family. Now, Chen Guanlou is eighteen years old and is old enough to take over his father's business. A man who is a dignified man cannot always follow his eldest sister to eat at his brother-in-law's house and drink at his brother-in-law's house. He must stand up as soon as possible. Chen Guanlou had been in a state of confusion for the past eighteen years. Affected by the social climate of the world and other people's words, he had always resisted inheriting his father's business, saying that it was a lowly business. For this reason, the eldest sister secretly cried many times. Until two months ago, he suddenly woke up from Su Hui and remembered what happened in his previous life. In my previous life, I lived in modern times. There was no such thing as lowliness or lowliness. Only fools would refuse a solid iron rice bowl. More importantly, when he awakened to Su Hui, the immortality path fruit in the sea of consciousness also revived. He gained immortality, immortality, not immortality. The Great Xia Dynasty relied on military force to establish the country and respected military force. When people are young, they test their martial arts. Those with innate martial arts can practice martial arts. With a little success in martial arts, one is promoted to a first-grade warrior, then to a second-grade or third-grade warrior... all the way up to a ninth-grade warrior. Those above the ninth rank are said to be masters. Those above the master level are too mysterious for the common people to know. By becoming a warrior, you can gain status, and your situation is superior to that of ordinary people. Because of this, the market is filled with violence. If you don't have any self-defense skills, you may be killed at any time. Chen Guanlou has no martial arts background, so of course he is not willing to accept it. He even had the immortality that the emperor and his father had been striving for but could not get. As a wise man, he was the chosen one. There was no reason why he could not practice martial arts or become a warrior. It was too late to study Confucianism and enter Jixia Academy to become a Confucian scholar and warrior. He didn't have the talent, let alone the money. Studying costs money, and it costs a lot of money. Is there any place in this world where you can learn all kinds of martial arts without spending money?
After much thought, the only option was Tianlao. The people detained there are all talented people, and they all speak nicely and are very interesting. Therefore, he must inherit his father's job and work in Tianlao. As early as two months ago, he submitted his application to take over the job, but nothing came of it, not even a response. A few days ago, my brother-in-law couldn't resist his eldest sister's pleas and did a favor for him. Only then did he realize that the job vacancy left by his father had already been filled with money. A carrot and a pit, there is no place for him now. The meaning there is that I hope he can wise up and find another job. Chen Guanlou was furious! With just one sentence, I wanted him to give up his job in Tianlao, give up the opportunity to become a warrior, and just dream. Therefore, he thought of the Pingjiang Hou Mansion, which was passed down from the same ancestor. Now that he was in trouble, he should ask the Hou Mansion for help. The head of the Hou Mansion must have looked down upon his low status, and they didn't even have a chance to meet him. He didn't waste any energy or money, so he decided to settle for the next best thing and follow the path of Manager Liu. Manager Liu is the second steward of the Hou Mansion, a seventh-rank official of the Prime Minister's Concierge, and a dignified steward of the Hou Mansion. The vacancy of a mere Tianlao position is just a matter of one sentence. For this sentence, Chen Guanlou is willing to be a little boy and a grandson. As long as you can enter the Heavenly Prison, you can do whatever you want. In his previous life, he was a working man, and he had already learned through experience that he had some skin but no face. Make money, don’t be shabby! These days, no matter what you do, it’s hard to make money and eat shit. He was already prepared to be embarrassed and face the most embarrassing situation! Not long after, the side door opened again, and it was the same young concierge who said, "Madam, please come in." "Thank you, little brother!" Chen Guanlou breathed a sigh of relief and finally stepped into Liu's house. Hearing the concierge call Manager Liu's wife Madam, I couldn't help but sigh. She's so grand, a wife who's in charge of things, and she dares to call her "ma'am". Then I thought about it, Guanshi Liu seemed to be a second-grade warrior, and the wife of a second-grade warrior was called madam. It was not too much, it should be. Entering Liu's house, passing through the Yimen, and walking through the cloister, my eyes lit up. I saw rockeries, rocks, and precious flowers and trees, so luxurious. What a steward of the Hou Mansion, Chen Guanlou envied him from the bottom of his heart for living such a small life. It's much better than his poor settlement. No wonder some incompetent descendants of the Hou family call Manager Liu Master Liu, or Grandpa Liu. A slave was riding on the head of his master's descendants, dominating him. When the ancestor of the Chen family found out, he didn't know if the coffin board would be overturned.