Chapter 397: Young people should be arrogant

Master Tian tried hard to open a pair of eyes and looked at him.

Chen Guanlou didn't see wisdom in the other party's eyes, only saw eye boogers. Perhaps the other party's eyes were too small and too turbid. People who were old couldn't avoid sagging skin, covering the originally wise eyes.

"You live so cautiously and carefully; you really don't look like a prison guard." Master Tian sighed. "This place, the Heavenly Prison, is not to that extent."

"My lord, no matter how you deceive me, it's impossible for me to give you free. If you want to take air, you have to pay the money." Chen Guanlou had an attitude of not entering oil and salt, talking about heaven and earth, talking about anything, just don't talk to him about free.

In this day and age, money is hard to earn, shit is hard to eat, and everyone is not easy. So don't think about free.

Master Tian gave a snort, seemingly very dissatisfied. Was he someone who coveted free? He just couldn't bear to see a good seedling being wasted, so he chatted a bit more. He kept thinking of people in the bad place; he wasn't that stingy, and a mere hundred taels wasn't something he couldn't pay.

"In your Heavenly Prison, besides money, is there any other pursuit?"

"Look at what my lord said; if you don't pursue money, do you pursue fame? We do have a heart that seeks fame, but you scholars and court officials, can you tolerate low-class prison guards being officials in the same court as you? You have blocked the road tightly, and it is not transparent on all four sides, only leaving one passage, and you must play according to the game rules you formulated, not allowing any deviant words and deeds. The road is blocked; you say that besides pursuing money, what else can prison guards pursue?"

Chen Guanlou smiled, but the words he said hit the core of the problem without any roundabout turns.

This is like capitalists taking away all the surplus value, but in turn blaming ordinary people for why they don't buy houses, don't buy cars, and don't consume? Why don't they empty their pockets to buy, buy, buy? If you don't have money, go be a cow or a horse!

Master Tian was not embarrassed.

He was already sixty-something, and the yellow soil had already been buried to his neck, and he didn't have a few years to live. In his career, he had heard many words that were harder to listen to and more piercing than this.

He moved slowly, changing a foot to bear the weight of his body, and said: "People, besides pursuing money, must have some conscience."

Chen Guanlou smiled, unhurriedly, just like the flat tone of saying today's weather is really good, saying words that punish the heart one by one: "On one hand, you don't give a way to live, blaming prison guards for being greedy for money, and on the other hand, you require prison guards to have conscience. Why do you officials never hang the word conscience on your mouths? The words I heard you say, those texts that inspire scholars, have never had the word conscience.

The bottom-level people are already living very tired, but the court and the government have more and more requirements for bottom-level people. Be diligent, be willing to work hard, learn to endure hardship, learn to endure, and this life is miserable because of bad fate, anyway, it is definitely not the responsibility of the court and the government. Also can't be greedy for money, just talk about paying and being a cow or a horse, but don't talk about return. I wish the common people wouldn't eat or rest, working as a cow or a horse for twelve hours a day. Finished, also require conscience, require morality. Why are there so many requirements?

Why haven't I seen officials have so many requirements? It seems that officials only need to pass the exam, have a background, have a backer, and everything is fine, don't need to endure hardship, don't need to be diligent, don't need to endure, don't need to comfort themselves that their fate is bad, openly greedy for money, and don't need to be a cow or a horse, paying a little bit will have a large return. Eating and drinking spicy food every day, and having eighteen concubines to warm the bed at night, and there is no requirement for morality and conscience. Being an official is really good!"

After speaking, Chen Guanlou looked at Master Tian in the cell and smiled: "I want to be an official. Master Tian, do you think I am suitable to be an official?"

Master Tian's mouth twitched, and his beard trembled. "You..."

"Am I not suitable? Thinking about it, I am a prison guard, and it is indeed not suitable for me to be an official in the same court as you lords; you have no face. I understand, I understand everything!" Chen Guanlou laughed, his attitude was always kind, even if he was telling the truth, it was also telling the story in a self-deprecating tone.

"My lord, being an official is so good, now that you have fallen, just treat it as spending money to eliminate disasters. The more you spend in the Heavenly Prison, the further the disaster will be from you. I believe that sooner or later, there will be a day of turning around, and my lord will be able to return to the officialdom, wearing an official robe, and asking for the people. I believe there will be such a day. Then it is settled, I will call someone to draw a hundred taels, and when the weather improves, I will arrange for you to go out for air."

Chen Guanlou took it all on himself, although he was smiling, his attitude was not allowed to be refused. Regardless of whether Master Tian agreed or not, the money would be deducted from the account.

Master Tian gave a light cough, leaning on the cell door bars, reducing the burden on his feet. "Prison Clerk Chen, you are really surprising."

"My lord, don't praise me. Because similar praise, I have already heard a lot, and my ears are almost calloused."

Old vegetable gang, seemingly kind attitude, but in reality, the class consciousness, the concept of hierarchy, and the cognition of high and low, noble and cheap, are deeply engraved in the bones. Don't look at Master Tian speaking politely, he is actually more discriminatory and disgusted with the prison guards of the Heavenly Prison than those officials who shout and scold. In the other party's eyes, everyone in the Heavenly Prison is a low-class stinky bug. The other party is willing to chat with him, that is called charity. Chen Guanlou, as the party being charitable, should be grateful.

As a result, Chen Guanlou not only was not grateful, but also ridiculed, and Master Tian had already recorded him in the blacklist in the depths of his heart, becoming the one who should be spurned most in the Heavenly Prison.

On the contrary, young officials like Xie Changling didn't have such a strong concept of hierarchy, and the high and low, noble and cheap weren't divided so clearly, and the boundaries were sometimes blurred. Communicating with prison guards, chatting, they didn't think they were charitable.

Master Tian gave a light snort; he could use countless sage articles to refute Chen Guanlou and scold the other party fiercely. However, it was meaningless.

He even suspected, does the other party understand his words? Does he know the source of those famous quotes he cited? Playing the piano to a cow is purely a waste of saliva. Scolding a person, if the other party doesn't understand and doesn't give a reaction, scolding, besides self-high, seems to have no great use.

Master Tian finally said only one sentence: "Young and arrogant!"

Chen Guanlou lowered his head and smiled, his attitude contemptuously said: "If you are not arrogant, are you still a young man? My lord, you are old, so don't have the same knowledge as us young people. You, sit in jail well, reflect well, think about why you were locked in the big prison, and whether there are remedial measures. Whether we prison guards are greedy for money or have no conscience, you old man don't worry. It's not your turn to worry. I'm right, right." ===== CHAPTER 398 =====

Master Tian only said one thing at the end, "Young and impetuous!"

Chen Guanlou lowered his head and chuckled, saying with a contemptuous attitude, "If one isn't impetuous, are they still a young person? My lord, you are getting on in years, so don't lower yourself to the level of us young people. As for you, just sit in prison properly, reform and reflect well, and think about why you were locked in prison and if there are any remedial measures. Whether we prison guards are greedy for money or lack conscience, don't you worry about it, old man. It's not your place to worry about it either. Am I right?"