Chen Guanlou came to Old Zhang's house with wine and food. Today he wanted to have a good chat with Old Zhang. Old Zhang lived alone, and his son and daughter-in-law lived somewhere else. This was an extremely rare situation. Usually three or even four generations lived together. As long as the elders were still alive, the younger generation could not separate and live alone. A large family squeezed together, it was really lively, but also really troublesome, and conflicts were even more difficult to avoid. However, no one had thought about it, or thought about it but did not dare to bring it up. If the young couple moved out to live alone, they would be poked in the back and scolded for being unfilial. Of course, it is more likely that the family's financial conditions are limited and cannot support the rental expenses. Chen Guanlou was curious about why Old Zhang lived alone, but he was very tactful and did not ask. Unexpectedly, Old Zhang took the initiative to explain, "In my line of work, I have a lot of blood and qi, which is ominous, and it is easy to bump into people around me, especially children. Children who come into contact with me will have nightmares at night." Chen Guanlou opened his mouth, not knowing where to start. Similar sayings were also popular in later generations. For example, people who work in funeral homes and crematoriums, no one likes to contact, let alone shake hands. Regardless of psychological effects, or whether they really have similar beliefs, everyone subconsciously rejects such people and tries not to interact with them as much as possible. "It's good to live alone, it's quiet." Chen Guanlou finally found his voice, "I live alone, one person is full and the whole family is not hungry."
Old Zhang laughed, "You are different from me. When you get married, that's the real home. It's a home with a wife and children." "I'm not in a hurry to get married." Chen Guanlou said lightly. "I'm taking advantage of my age to persuade you, don't despise me. Hanging out in brothels all day is not a long-term solution. You still have to hurry up to get married and raise a few children, this is the serious matter." "Yes, yes, you are right. When I meet the right person in the future, I will definitely get married." Old Zhang saw that Chen Guanlou didn't take the matter of getting married to heart at all, so he stopped trying to persuade him. He didn't understand. Chen Guanlou had money, good looks, and was young. He practiced martial arts for many years and was in good health. Why didn't he want to get married? Even if he was worried about being controlled after getting married, he could just take two concubines or marry a weak-willed woman. He couldn't figure it out. Chen Guanlou quickly changed the subject, put the appetizers on the plate, and put two pots of rice wine on the table, "Let's have a good meal today." "Get rich?" Old Zhang teased. Chen Guanlou laughed, "A small fortune is nothing. I came here today because I have a question I want to ask you." "You talk, I listen." Old Zhang drank and ate, feeling warm in his heart. Chen Guanlou put down his chopsticks, weighed his words, and asked after a while: "Is there any medicine or other way in the world to make a person fall into suspended animation, so that even the best doctor can't find out." Old Zhang was a little surprised, "Why are you asking this?" "I'm just curious." "Are you suspecting someone?" "Don't talk nonsense. Who can I suspect? I don't suspect anyone. I just read a storybook and found something similar, so I came to ask you." Old Zhang looked at Chen Guanlou deeply, and he gave up trying to find out the reason. If the other party didn't want to talk, then forget it. Just treat it as a casual chat, "There are indeed ways to do suspended animation." "Even the coroner can't find out?" Chen Guanlou immediately came up and asked anxiously. Old Zhang thought for a moment and said, "I don't know if drugs can do it, I haven't come into contact with them. I've heard a few things, but I can't take them seriously. However, I can be sure that there are very few skills that can achieve a state of suspended death and deceive the world." "Do you have to practice skills? Can't you just rely on drugs?"
"Anyway, I haven't seen anyone using drugs to fake death and get away with it in all these years. Where did you hear that from? Don't believe the gossip on the street, it's all nonsense." Chen Guanlou hummed twice, but in his heart, he was thinking, maybe because Old Zhang had limited contact with people, he had no way of knowing some secret methods that only existed in the upper class. He always believed that whether it was the mysterious and huge Jixia Academy or the mysterious and huge royal family, they must have secrets that were unknown to the world, and some shocking and incomprehensible secret methods. The core secrets of this world are definitely not in books or folk legends, but in the hands of a few people. The truth, like the truth, is always in the hands of a few people. Of course, he also gained something. At least he knew that there are a few secret techniques in this world that can help people fake their death and escape. A few days later, an unidentified corpse was found outside the city, and it was said to be the housekeeper of Liu's mansion. When Chen Guan heard this, he immediately asked his connections to go to the morgue to check the body. The body was extremely corrupted and its original appearance could not be seen at all. Unless there is DNA technology in this day and age. He asked the coroner next to him, "What basis do you have to determine that this body is the housekeeper of Liu's mansion?" The coroner told him that when the body was found, there was a jade ring next to the body. He asked someone who was familiar with the housekeeper of Liu's mansion, and he knew that the housekeeper of Liu's mansion did have a ring on him, which was given to him by Liu Daowen and he never took it off. With the ring as evidence, the identity of the body was obvious. "Just relying on a ring?" "Of course!" Chen Guanlou sighed secretly. With these conditions, he couldn't ask for more. As a result, the housekeeper of the Liu Mansion died and a warrant for his arrest was issued. If he really faked his death, he would have changed his appearance from then on, and the sky would be high for birds to fly and the sea would be wide for fish to jump. Walking out of the government office, Chen Guanlou took a deep breath of fresh air to wash away the stench of corpses. Just a little closer, he already smelled terrible. No wonder being a coroner is a lower and meaner job than being a jailer. Jailers at least deal with living people. At this moment, he became more and more convinced that Liu Daowen was probably not dead. Don't ask why. The answer is intuition. He firmly believed that his intuition would not be wrong. Liu Daowen escaped with a trick, and the housekeeper of the Liu Mansion faked his death and escaped. This master and servant, hehe... You really can't underestimate the world! Liu Daowen has no martial arts, but he plays with the officials of the court in his hands. Who said that the world can only be won by force? Narrow-minded! The famous corrupt official really has his own unique skills. Once again verified the saying: Anyone who has made a name for himself in this industry should not be underestimated. That night, Chen Guanlou put on a vest, transformed into a rich and noble son, and went to the brothel to be chic. Amid the noise, he seemed to see a familiar figure. When he chased after it, the figure disappeared without a trace. He was puzzled and could only attribute it to being drunk and blurry. However, right under his feet, there was a secret passage where dozens of people were secretly transferring.
