Chapter 1419: Filling in the Last Lesson of Life

Chen Guanlou took his apprentice Zhang Kang to a brothel to drink.

Under the pretext of: making up a lesson!

"In the past, I taught you how to rebel, how to earn money. Now I'll teach you the last lesson, how to enjoy life."

Chen Guanlou asked the most beautiful girl in the building to roll cigarettes for him.

Nowadays, rolled cigarettes had become one of the most popular and best-selling goods across the country. Every tobacco shop had hired beautiful girls to roll cigarettes by hand.

I don't know how this trend became popular.

In the past, people smoked cigarettes made by old masters, authentic!

Nowadays, if it wasn't a beautiful girl rolling the cigarette, the men wouldn't smoke it!

Pretentious!

The business war had also developed from whose tobacco quality was superior to whose cigarette girl was beautiful and young. It was completely distorted.

Chen Guanlou didn't have a smoking addiction, not even a drinking addiction.

But now, in order to give his apprentice the last lesson, he started smoking.

"Like me, don't inhale into the lungs, you can live a few more years. Do you smoke usually?"

Zhang Kang shook his head.

His life was extremely self-disciplined.

Since coming out of the Heavenly Prison, he had no reason to indulge, and even less excuse to cultivate bad habits.

Chen Guanlou sneered, very disgusted. "Truly a waste, can't even enjoy. Don't say you're my apprentice when you go out; I don't have such a stupid apprentice. Anyway, I won't acknowledge you. Come, take a puff. You might not be used to it at first, but you'll love this feeling later!"

He handed the lit cigarette to the other party.

Zhang Kang looked hesitant.

Chen Guanlou's face immediately turned cold. "Don't even listen to Master's words anymore?"

Zhang Kang laughed immediately. "Now you acknowledge me as an apprentice, and in a moment you'll be impatient and expel me from the sect again. Is the Tianlou Sect so casual?"

"Too much nonsense. Truly regret letting you apprentice back then! Should have let you fend for yourself!"

Chen Guanlou stuffed the cigarette directly into Zhang Kang's mouth.

Zhang Kang didn't refuse; he started smoking like his master. Unsurprisingly, the first puff burned his heart and lungs, and he was very unaccustomed to it.

Then he took a second puff and smiled: "I'm smoking under Master's orders now! Quite good!"

"The biggest problem with you is that you're too serious!" Chen Guanlou said objectively, rarely. "People like you, I've seen quite a few in the Heavenly Prison. Without exception, none of them lived their lives well."

"Is being serious bad? Doing things requires being serious! I don't believe Master isn't serious when doing things." Zhang Kang retorted.

"Look at you, being serious again. Doing things requires being serious, but life isn't doing things, it isn't rebelling, it doesn't need to be serious. Smoking a cigarette, going to a brothel to sleep with a girl, drinking some wine, and you're so serious, is there any meaning?"

Chen Guanlou's expression was ambiguous.

He turned on the mode of spouting nonsense seriously, saying vaguely: "Career is career, life is life, you must distinguish clearly. Rebelling requires being prepared for battle, while life requires relaxation and comfort.

Otherwise, if you are tight for twelve hours a day, you will go crazy sooner or later. It doesn't matter if you go crazy, but those who take nine clans to mix with you will be in big trouble.

Do you know why anyone who sits on the dragon throne becomes a pervert? The older they get, the more perverted they become. Because those who don't want to be perverted emperors all become the "dull monarchs" in the mouths of civil officials.

Stupid rulers are never serious, they only torture the officials, and the officials can't stand it, so they grant the title of stupid ruler. Emperors who don't want to be stupid rulers, well, there's no way, even if they sleep with a concubine, they have to be serious. Hehe... it's hard not to become a pervert! Tell me, do you want to be a stupid ruler, or a pervert?"

Zhang Kang smiled self-deprecatingly. "I just want to try hard to live now; be an emperor? There's no hope yet."

Chen Guanlou nodded. "Self-aware, very good! However, from now on, you must cultivate a bad habit. Only then, without accidents, can you live long, and ensure you won't go crazy.

Marry a few more women, sleep with women more, it won't hurt. Their gentleness can soothe you. Them giving birth to children for you can make you reignite your passion for life. Moreover, this is one of your responsibilities to live, to carry on the family line for the Wu family."

Chen Guanlou almost packed him up and sent him to a woman's bed.

Picking up a little stubborn person to go home as an apprentice, it was truly bad luck for eight lifetimes!

Already expelled from the sect, yet still couldn't be quiet!

Does he have to force him to find a place, set up a sect plaque, and set up a sect genealogy before it counts? Does expelling from the sect orally have no effect at all?

Absurd!

Apprentice countering master, rebelling against the sky!

Zhang Kang took a deep puff of the cigarette; he seemed to have truly fallen in love with this taste.

He lowered his voice and said: "In Master's eyes, what kind of person am I? Do I have a chance to succeed?"

Chen Guanlou deliberated. "In my eyes, you are a standard little pervert of a great family. Educated stupid by that set of Confucian theories of 'ruler-ruler, minister-minister, father-father, son-son', truly treating yourself as a saint.

Although you are doing the business of rebelling, your sense of morality is clearly higher than others. This is very bad! The burden on your body is too heavy; if this continues, I suspect you won't last long and will be finished sooner or later.

Put down the burden, you might not be able to enter the capital, but you can definitely split the land and become a hegemon. Actually, you should have chosen the second path back then, go to Nanzhao, go south of Nanzhao, further places, achieve a great career, and establish a country. Use country against country, attack the Great Gan!

But you chose the hardest path, rebelling! Hehe, this business of rebelling is not easy to do! For thousands of years, people who rebelled were like crucian carp crossing the river, but how many succeeded? Even many rebels don't deserve to have their names left in history books. Only a few words: Third year of Emperor Jian Shi, people rebelled in a certain place. Fifth year, wiped out!"

Zhang Kang frowned slightly. "In Master's eyes, I will definitely fail?"

Chen Guanlou chuckled. "Whether you will fail or not depends on the war in the north. Once Marquis Pingjiang decides to give up the military power in the northwest and takes his men overseas, your good days will be over.

You yourself should know that the imperial court army attacking you is at most a second-rate army in the Great Gan. The Great Gan's true combat power, the strongest field army, is all in the northwest, dragged down by the war in the northwest. Once Marquis Pingjiang moves, none of you will have a way to live.

It's not that I'm bragging, none of you combined are Marquis Pingjiang's opponent, not even Chen Guanfu's. Even Xie Changling, a pure civil official who hasn't even seen a battlefield, once they make a move, they can wipe you out."

"You all can still make trouble because the core figures of the Great Gan's power haven't made a move. They are busy fighting internally right now! Once you threaten their interests, just like the Prince of Chu, you will be wiped out in the blink of an eye.

Compared to the Prince of Chu, what are you? Back then, the Prince of Chu occupied several provinces of territory, all of which were the most prosperous places, with talented people under him, and soldiers who didn't fear death in battle. What was the result? Xie Changling sat in the capital, just needing a promise, and took out most of the resources hidden among the people, helping the imperial court win this battle. Tell me, what do you have to fight with!" ===== CHAPTER 1420 =====