"You don't offend others, and if others offend you, you will be a vengeance!"

After leaving Li Yong and his home, Xu Ping has been thinking about this sentence, and he feels a little enlightened. Many things that were not open before suddenly became clear.

In the officialdom, unless he made up his mind to live a life without doing anything, he would not offend others, otherwise how could he be less able to make enemies with others? Who did Feng Zheng offend him? He was bullied just because he was looked down upon by Kou Zhun. If he just accepted that, he might be a small official in the local area all his life. He was unwilling to accept it, and he would fight back and pull the priest Kou Zhun off the horse, so that he had the capital to watch the changes in the officialdom.

Unless they are ministers of the library and censors, who are from the Qing Dynasty, and who are other officials who are determined to ascend to a high position, are they not thorns in the eyes of the censors? They do this. If you don’t offend them, they will also offend you.

Once you figure it out, Xu Ping felt much more relaxed. Experience from his previous life is sometimes a burden, and he would worry for no reason that he would leave a bad reputation in his later life, and sometimes he would be reluctant to do things.

In fact, no matter how much they do, their merits and demerits are also judged by later generations.

After leaving the Li family, Xu Ping went out of Donghua Gate. Today, some of his good colleagues made an appointment to have a drink in the restaurant there.

The food industry in Tokyo is developed. Many families do not open fire these days in the early lunar month, and meet with relatives and friends to celebrate and drink in various restaurants. There are many officials in the capital, and many of them do not settle down in the capital. In this era, traffic is slow. The seven-day holiday during the New Year is not enough for those who go home to visit their relatives. They drink this family every day.

Xu Ping went outside Donghua Gate to find his colleagues. At this time, Xu Chang also went to the city to find a group of his friends to gather.

As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together, and Xu Ping has his own circle of friends, so Xu Chang naturally has it. Now the Xu family has become a wealthy family in the capital. As a great housekeeper, Xu Chang's identity is no better than before.

Among the wealthy families, there are many slaves, and two of them have special status. One is to help the owner manage the miscellaneous affairs in the family, which is called "Zhizhai" and "Zhiyuan", which is the housekeeper mentioned in later generations. The other is to help the owner manage various businesses, which is called "Doing people".

The income of the housekeeper mainly comes from the wages and rewards given by the owner, mainly from closeness, while the income of the person who works comes from the dividends of the business, mainly from the ability. The housekeeper will of course accept bribes, but no matter what, his income is controllable. The income of the person who works comes from the dividends of the business. If the business is well managed, the income will be very considerable, and it can even be compared with the wealthy businessmen in the capital.

Xu Chang has two identities: housekeeper and cadre in the Xu family. Unlike Liu Xiaoyi, he is purely a cadre and basically does not participate in the affairs of the Xu family's inner residence. He has both positions, which makes Xu Chang very confident in front of his peers.

When I arrived by the Bian River, I didn’t walk far away, and I saw a restaurant in front of me. There was only one wine trick outside, no door plaque, and there was no knotty building. There was no female prostitute recruiting guests outside the door. It looked extremely shabby.

Xu Chang was puzzled. At least he had some identity in the capital now. When his companions invited him to drink, why did he find such an inconspicuous restaurant? Not to mention going to Fanlou to compete for positions with those officials and nobles, he had to find a main store.

Xu Chang was wandering outside the restaurant, hesitating whether to go in, but the people inside had already seen it.

A man dressed as a rich man from the restaurant came out of the restaurant, grabbed Xu Chang, and said, "When Mr. Xu arrived at the door, why did he pace here and not sit inside?"

Xu Chang took his hand and said, "This restaurant looks too shabby. It's not that I love luxury. It's just that we drink in such a restaurant on New Year's Day. It's not that we are drinking in such a restaurant. It's not that good-looking when it comes to it! If you have money in your hands, just count it as mine. There is a Qingfenglou store not far away. We'll go there and don't lose face!"

The white-faced man laughed out loud: "Brother, although it is said that Taoists rely on clothes and Buddhas rely on gold clothes, everything in the world depends on their faces. However, we all have faces on our own masters, and our family is just a little affordable. Why bother to care about those vulgar ones? You look shabby in this restaurant. There are not many people who can drink in the capital. As the saying goes, there is another world. You will know that you will never insult your identity as a minister."

The Xu family is recently rich, and no matter whether it is the master or servant, it cannot compare with those rich families in the capital for many years. Xu Chang also did not know the tricks here, and he was half-believing and half-doubted, and went into the restaurant with the white-faced official.

The restaurant lobby is not different from the ordinary foot shop, and there are even a few tables of guests. At first glance, they are ordinary families in the capital. Even if they are indulging in the New Year Festival, they may enter such restaurants.

When the white-faced official saw Xu Chang staring at the guests, he smiled mysteriously: "I'm going to tell you my brother, these guests are all servants from our families, and they are used as eyeliners here. You will naturally know if the days are long in the future."

There are still slaves in the house of slaves, and there are servants in the house of servants. Some even have more slaves in the house than in the master's house. Anyway, they are all hired, as long as the family has money, it's fine. This era is common.

Xu Chang hired a few people to take care of his family. It was not surprising that he nodded and continued to walk with the White-Faced Officer.

After passing through the restaurant lobby, there was an inconspicuous small door behind the pillar. The white-faced man took Xu Chang's hand and opened the door and walked in.

Behind this small door is a corridor, and nothing special.

The white-faced man waited without stopping, and kept pulling Xu Chang through the corridor, and then he reached the back garden.

As soon as I arrived at the back garden, I suddenly felt like I had changed my world. Xu Chang was stunned when he looked at it and stopped in place.

I saw the best Shu brocade hanging on the trees in the garden ahead, and there was a sound of silk and bamboo behind the curtain, and you could vaguely see graceful figures dancing. In the singing and dancing of silk and bamboo, bursts of unrestrained laughter came from time to time.

Xu Chang turned around and looked behind him, and then looked in front of him. He was in a daze. Did he just come in from such a store? Or did he enter the fairyland as the artist in the tile said?

The white-faced man looked at Xu Chang with a smile on his face. When Xu Chang's expression calmed down, he said, "Shilarious Secretary Zhang, please. Don't worry, no matter what you eat, drink, listen, play, and keep it in the house, it is even more exciting than in Fanlou!"

Xu Changqiang calmed down and followed the outside of the man behind him and walked into the garden.

Not long after walking, I saw three people drinking behind the curtains separated by Shu Jin. Among the three, the elderly were in their sixties and seventies, with white hair and hair, and the young were only in their thirties, with oily heads and powdery faces.

Beside the three, there were two little prostitutes playing songs and lyrics, and three of them leaned against the three with heavy makeup, serving wine and food to the people around them, and their faces were full of spring love.

Bai Yuanwai introduced: "The person from Zhang Pushe's mansion, the person from Duan, the person from Liu, and the person from Chai's mansion, Tan Situ."

Listening to the introduction of the White-Faced Officer, Xu Chang had an absurd feeling. These servants from various officials' families actually created a full atmosphere of a full house of princes in this small world. Xu Chang was with Xu Ping for many years and had never seen Xu Ping experience such a scene. Unexpectedly, he saw it, as if he had arrived at the ghost world in the underworld.
Chapter completed!