Chapter 1166

Chen Guanlou was down on his luck.

He could have sponged off Old Sun and basked in Old Sun's reflected glory to enjoy a free night of revelry.

It was all to blame on his big mouth, speaking without thinking. The final result was that he paid the money and took Old Sun to another place to revel for half the night.

Old Sun was wary of his status and didn't dare stay the night. But he booked the top courtesan for half a month, and the money was paid by Chen Guanlou.

In the dead of night, when he walked out of the brothel, his mood was quite melancholy.

He slapped himself in the face; how could he just blurt out what was on his mind? Old Sun was indeed not a decent person, but he couldn't say it directly to the person's face.

Sigh!

A loss!

A huge loss tonight!

He didn't get to enjoy the top courtesan, and he still had to pay to support her for half a month.

Sure enough, his luck was bad this year!

At night, the capital was under curfew.

For Sun Daoning and for him, this was not an issue.

It was just that he forgot the time while watching the moon, forgot the secular world while feeling melancholy, and felt a bit awkward when he ran into the patrolling Brocade Uniform Guards.

"Master Xiao, why are you patrolling the streets yourself? Is there no one left in the Brocade Uniform Guard?"

As soon as Chen Guanlou saw the person, he began to tease him.

"I was wondering who was still wandering the streets in the middle of the night; it turns out to be Prison Warden Chen. Are you unable to sleep and out for a stroll?"

"I just finished reveling and am preparing to go home to sleep."

"Oh!" Xiao Jincheng sat on his horse, looking down from above.

Chen Guanlou leaned against the wall, his posture casual.

One wanted to suppress the other with momentum, while the other was like water, encompassing all things and easily neutralizing it.

"So, can I go now?" he asked.

"What do you think about the fire a few days ago?"

"I'm lying flat while thinking about it." Chen Guanlou curled his lips into a smile, mocking the other for asking the wrong person. Does the fire have even half a cent of a relationship with the Heavenly Prison? No!

Xiao Jincheng raised his eyebrows slightly, "This official thought that you and Master Sun were reveling in the middle of the night, but were actually discussing the case."

"Are you a dog? You're everywhere." Chen Guanlou was very disgusted, and his opening words were a greeting.

"Presumptuous!"

A group of Brocade Uniform Guards drew their blades one after another. How could subordinates remain indifferent when their superior was insulted?

Everyone glared at Chen Guanlou with anger.

Xiao Jincheng raised his hand and pressed down vaguely, suppressing the anger of the Brocade Uniform Guards, and the scene immediately became quiet again. Only the sound of the horses breathing and the uneasy sound of hooves stepping on the ground remained.

Chen Guanlou smiled without smiling, scanned everyone present, and finally fixed his gaze on Xiao Jincheng, "If you have something to say, say it quickly; if you have a fart, let it out. I still have to rush back to sleep. Or, I can go to your Brocade Uniform Guard for a night. I just don't know if you dare to invite me for tea."

"How dare I!" Xiao Jincheng had had a coffin-like face for ten years. The difference was that he was more gloomy and darker than ten years ago.

"Since you don't dare, I won't keep you company."

Chen Guanlou waved his hand and got up to leave.

The Brocade Uniform Guards were all slightly restless and uneasy.

Since they started their service, they had rarely encountered such a presumptuous person who gave the Brocade Uniform Guard so little face.

Of course, they knew Chen Guanlou was a Ninth-Rank warrior. It was just that they hadn't encountered a Ninth-Rank warrior before. Those Grandmasters were even more legendary. So, encountering one for the first time in such a situation, it was inevitable that they would be a bit flustered.

They were patrolling the streets legally and intercepting legally, but the other party was even more arrogant than the Brocade Uniform Guard. The contrast between usually acting like masters in front of ordinary people and even officials, but having to act like grandsons in front of a Ninth-Rank warrior, made some Brocade Uniform Guards who had never seen Chen Guanlou take action feel very resentful.

The Brocade Uniform Guards who had seen Chen Guanlou compete with Master Qi had a very calm mentality, and could even be called respectful. If it weren't for the sake of face and the occasion, they would have wanted to personally send the other party back to sleep.

Xiao Jincheng suddenly shouted at Chen Guanlou's back, "How long has it been since you contacted your rebel brothers?"

Chen Guanlou frowned, but he ignored the other party.

Why did the one surnamed Xiao suddenly bring up Zhang Daohe? What did he mean?

Could it be that he was implying that the fire this time was related to the rebels?

He went straight back to the Heavenly Prison to rest.

Just as he lay down, Eunuch Wang Hai arrived.

He had to get up and entertain the other party with the leftover tea from the day.

Wang Hai was extremely disgusted.

"When you need our help, it's wine and food. No matter how late, you welcome us. Now that the matter is settled, Brother Chen, look at yourself, is this appropriate? You actually use leftover tea to entertain us? It seems that in your place, we don't even have the qualifications to drink a cup of hot tea?"

Chen Guanlou yawned, "Are you finished? If you're finished, you can get lost."

He portrayed the face of someone who turns against others without mercy to the fullest.

If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't beat him, Wang Hai would have flipped the table long ago.

Suppressing the anger in his heart, Wang Hai sat down and made do with the leftover tea, taking a sip to barely relieve the heat.

"I came over today to settle the final payment."

Chen Guanlou said 'oh', took a stack of banknotes directly from the drawer, and placed them in front of the other party, "Count it yourself! I won't entertain you."

"Brother Chen, do you dislike me that much?"

"I treat you as a brother, that's why I'm so casual. If I really disliked you, would I let you count the money yourself?"

Chen Guanlou snorted and continued to complain, "You've learned the rules in the palace until you're obsessed; everything emphasizes rules and etiquette. Isn't it tiring? When ordinary people interact, where is there so much etiquette? It's good enough as it is. It's just in the palace, where there's nothing to do, they are picky all day long. Using rules and etiquette to deal with enemies, completely using rules and etiquette as a tool and weapon to deal with people. It's purely tormenting people!"

Wang Hai listened while counting the banknotes. After listening, he said, "You are clearly spouting nonsense! No wonder the world says you are rebellious. You are lazy yourself and don't want to entertain me, so you deliberately talk nonsense, distort rules and etiquette, demonize the imperial palace, and make excuses for yourself. Chen Guanlou, why didn't I notice you were so treacherous before?"

"I'm treacherous?" Chen Guanlou jumped up, "If I were really treacherous, could I have been blackmailed for half a month's overnight fee today? How unreasonable! People as upright as me in this world can no longer be found. Brother Wang, you can't lift the bowl to eat and put down the bowl to curse the mother! You are shameless!"

The two held a debate on who was more shameless, occasionally adding a little bit of physical sparring.

Wang Hai was crushed in every aspect.

He was no match for Chen Guanlou in a war of words, and even less of a match in physical combat.

He lost miserably!

Finally, he summarized: Don't visit a man when he has lost money. Although Chen Guanlou wasn't gambling, the nature was equivalent to losing money.

When he was about to leave, he remembered an important matter, "Let me tell you a piece of news: Senior Zhou is about to come out of seclusion."

"Are you talking about that scourge Zhou Mobai?"

"Shh! Keep your voice down. Let me ask you, did you give Senior Zhou a cultivation manual before?"

"I didn't just give it to the one surnamed Zhou; I also gave it to your godfather, the immortal Wei. What's wrong?"

Wang Hai hesitated for a moment and whispered, "I heard it inadvertently, and I don't know the specific situation. It seems that Senior Zhou's ailment has been cured by practicing the manual you gave him."

When Chen Guanlou heard this, he immediately frowned.

"The one surnamed Zhou didn't die?"

When he practiced the "Ascension Record", at the beginning, he had to die a few times every time. If it weren't for the Longevity Dao Fruit, he would have died suddenly the first time he came into contact with the "Ascension Record".

That scourge Zhou Mobai, why didn't he have to experience the test of life and death? Could it be just because he is a Grandmaster?