Chapter 326

Chen Guanlou was slightly panicked and uneasy.

What virtue or ability, what virtue or ability, his small courtyard welcomed three Grandmasters tonight, and now he had to brew tea to entertain a Grandmaster.

He was really just being polite; why did the other party take it seriously and really not leave?

Chen Guanlou's scalp tingled, as if needles were pricking his back; he brewed the tea according to the steps, held it with both hands, and offered it to Eunuch Wei Wubing. "Senior, please drink tea!"

Wei Wubing took a sip very casually. "Indeed, it is good tea! You are surnamed Chen, the Chen of Marquis Pingjiang?"

"Exactly!"

"Your post is a prison clerk in the Heavenly Prison?" Wei Wubing seemed to have already understood his situation.

Chen Guanlou nodded. "Nothing can be hidden from the senior."

"The matter tonight..."

"Senior, rest assured, tonight I saw nothing, heard nothing, and nothing happened. I will definitely keep my mouth shut and guarantee that not half a word will leak out."

"It doesn't matter! Even if you bragged to the heavens, I probably wouldn't believe it."

After saying that, Wei Wubing gave him a black jade pendant. "If anyone troubles you because of tonight's matter, you just need to show this jade pendant."

"This is?" Chen Guanlou held the jade pendant with both hands; it was the first time he had seen black jade. The one in his hand was almost covered in patina, clearly an object the other party had worn for a long time.

"This is too valuable, the junior cannot accept it!" He was very sensible and hurriedly pushed it back.

"The things this servant sends out have never been taken back. This servant observes that you have other mysteries on you; this servant won't ask what they are specifically. In the future, if Cheng Lingzi comes to the capital again and needs you, don't decline! That will be all!"

Chen Guanlou was surprised. "Will Senior Cheng come to the capital again?"

"She will come." Wei Wubing said affirmatively. "You have a bond with her closing disciple; when the time comes, if this servant needs you to contribute, don't push back."

"Senior, rest assured, as long as there is a dispatch, the junior will not refuse."

"Not afraid of offending Senior Cheng?" Wei Wubing teased with a smile.

Chen Guanlou deliberated and said, "Afraid! I am afraid of offending Senior Cheng, and I am also afraid of offending the senior. However, the senior protected my life and has kindness to me; I know how to choose."

"If it weren't for Cheng Lingzi, this servant wouldn't have protected you." Wei Wubing continued to force him, seemingly wanting to force out his true face.

Chen Guanlou did as the other party wished, cold sweat streaming down. "Both seniors have kindness to me. If it's not necessary, the junior really doesn't want to be caught in the middle and be difficult to be a person. But if I have to choose one side, the junior is eating the public's rice after all."

The implication was that public people naturally help public people.

Wei Wubing raised an eyebrow slightly, seemingly a bit surprised.

"As expected of a Chen family member, everyone is slippery. This servant doesn't care if you are sincere or fake; remember what you said today."

Before the words fell, the person had already disappeared into thin air on the spot.

Chen Guanlou chased out of the door, looking at the silent night sky; where was the shadow of the Grandmaster? Even the barking of dogs couldn't be heard; the surroundings were as quiet as a mass grave, only the lingering killing intent proved that the small courtyard had once been "prosperous."

Welcoming three Grandmasters in one night, it was definitely a Feng Shui treasure land. If it spread out, it wouldn't be excessive to increase the price by three to five times!

He looked at the night sky, slightly melancholy.

A perfectly good wedding room, wasted!

Two days later, his eldest sister Chen Xiaolan chased him home. "Where is the younger sister-in-law? Didn't you say you were getting married, where is she?"

"You heard wrong; there is no younger sister-in-law, and there is no marriage." Chen Guanlou prevaricated, wanting to fool her and send her away quickly.

"Chen Guanlou, can you be serious! A few days ago you kept saying you were getting married and asked me to help you arrange it, and now you're going back on your word. What exactly do you want to do?"

"The bride ran away, where am I supposed to get married?" Chen Guanlou complained. "Sister, don't worry about me. You should hurry up and have two more nephews with brother-in-law; that's better than anything."

"Chen Guanlou, if Father and Mother were still here, they would definitely break your legs."

"What a pity, they are not here anymore."

"Did the younger sister-in-law really run away?"

"Yeah, ran away?"

"You look like this, and there are still girls who dislike you?" Chen Xiaolan suspected Chen Guanlou was talking nonsense and had been teasing her from the beginning.

"No matter what I look like, there are people who dislike me."

"That can't be! With your appearance, plenty of girls would rush to marry you. Since you've already bought the wedding room, why not just get married. If the previous bride ran away, she ran away; I'll find you another one. I guarantee you'll be married within three days."

"No, I don't want to get married for the time being."

Chen Guanlou was depressed; he really didn't have any plans to get married.

Zhong Susu was the first girl he had encountered who made him think about starting a family.

Without Zhong Susu, he had temporarily given up the idea of getting married; living alone was quite good.

He even suspected that he didn't have any luck with women in this lifetime. The women he encountered were either someone else's women, or they were plotting against him, or they were using him, or they were handing him a "good person" card.

As for the women who rushed to stick to him, he didn't look down on them.

Typically, he couldn't reach the high ones and didn't want the low ones.

Plus, harboring a big secret, getting married was really the worst strategy.

What moved him about Zhong Susu wasn't her beauty, but the exquisite heart beneath the beauty, a clever brain. Who doesn't like a girl who is both beautiful and clever? It satisfies both the love of beauty and the needs of life's emotions.

Other girls were all a bit lacking.

Chen Xiaolan was so angry that she picked up a stick and beat him until he ran all over the courtyard.

"Sister, don't think I don't dare to fight back!"

"If you have the guts, fight back!" Chen Xiaolan was never polite when beating her younger brother.

After a flurry of chaos, it wasn't until Sister-in-law Chunxiang came forward to stop Chen Xiaolan that the siblings finally settled down.

Chen Xiaolan poured out her bitterness to Sister-in-law Chunxiang. The two married women joined forces and criticized Chen Guanlou from head to toe.

If you can't afford to offend, you can afford to hide!

Chen Guanlou decisively ran away from home, ran to the brothel, hugged a girl to sleep, and the next morning, refreshed, went to the Heavenly Prison to serve.

His colleagues in the Heavenly Prison, not knowing the situation, still wanted to tease him about being a groom.

As soon as the words left their mouths, they were stopped and pulled away.

"Stop talking, be careful that Prison Clerk Chen deducts your money."

"It's a good thing he's a groom."

"What's good about it, the bride ran away."

"What the hell! Is the Zhong family girl crazy? What exactly happened?"

"I heard the Zhong family girl ran away with someone. I don't know the specifics."

"She must have run away with a wild man outside."

"Isn't Prison Clerk Chen..."

"Don't talk, don't talk, be careful that Prison Clerk Chen is unhappy and finds fault with everyone."

"I said it long ago, we prison clerks shouldn't expect to marry a daughter of a wealthy family. Just find a girl from the neighborhood and make do. Look, Prison Clerk Chen is a living example."

"Prison Clerk Chen is different from us after all; he is surnamed Chen, backed by the Hou Fu, and has high aspirations, so it's normal for him to look down on neighborhood girls. It's a pity, though, that the daughter of an official family also looks down on him; even if the family is ruined, she would rather elope and run away than marry him. Haha..."

For a time, Chen Guanlou became the center of gossip in the Heavenly Prison, an object of schadenfreude for some, all waiting to see him make a fool of himself.