It is said that there are opportunities everywhere in the capital, but in fact, this is not necessarily the case. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe way out for those who practice martial arts is nothing more than a few:

The first is to devote himself to the public and eat the emperor's grain. Whether it is the six doors or the army, it is the best choice, but it is a pity that if you want to enter the six doors and be the worst catcher, you must have the qualification certificate of the six masters, and you have to beat all the competitors like a single wooden bridge. This is not compared to a hundred years ago, when the arrest was just a miscellaneous servant, since Emperor Jianwen implemented the rule of law and vigorously improved the status of the judicial system, especially the six gates, this position has become the safest way out for those who practice martial arts to get ahead; as for joining the army, you must have the belief that death is like home, now the border is not very peaceful, there are Japanese in the southeast, there are Warat Tatars in the north, and there are Jurchen tribes in the northeast, once a war breaks out, it is very likely to become one of the tens of millions of cannon fodder. Although it is easy to get promoted with good luck, people who are not very ambitious still do not want to take this path.

The second is to devote yourself to various gangs or organizations, starting from the grassroots level, step by step, you may be able to mix a boss, this is the easiest job to find, and it does not require a relationship or too much ability. At present, the most inspirational in the rivers and lakes is the boss of the Axe Gang, the blood axe Zhu Laohu, who joined the Axe Gang after leaving the Golden Knife Gate, and spent 30 years fighting himself from a nameless Zhu Xiaodao to a blood axe Zhu Laohu.

The third is to commit to the door of the powerful or officials from all walks of life, to be a safe and stable guard, as long as there is no obvious fault, it can be regarded as an iron rice bowl, if the master has a good social status, of course, if you follow the wrong person to become a slave with three surnames is also a very normal thing, as long as you can habitually bow your head and waist, you can mix very well.

Of course, there are other ways out, but they are not conventional. Liu Ping'an carefully analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of all aspects, given that he was also a private company worker before the crossing, it was easy to decide to climb a small organization and slowly climb up, as for the decision to conquer the rivers and lakes, he had already lost it in Huashan Shimen. In fact, it's not that I don't want to be attached to the public, but the main reason is that my hardware is not qualified. As for being a guard, I want to bow my head to others when I want to cross over?

There are also many kinds of organizations, such as the Axe Gang, which licks blood from the knife all day long, Qingfeng Village, which occupies the mountain, and Changle Fang, which is a casino...... It's best to find a business-oriented organization like the Tibetan Sword Villa and the Cao Gang, as a person who has come from a civilized society, fighting and killing can be avoided or avoided as much as possible, even if it is a martial arts competition, everyone is quiet to compare the magnificence of the moves.

After making up my mind, I began to nervously look for a job the next day, but before that, I would like to push off the upper room of 200 wen a night and replace it with an ordinary room of 80 wen a night.

The seemingly prosperous capital is not as beautiful as imagined, and it is not full of opportunities. Liu Ping'an first went to the branch of Tibetan Sword Villa in the capital, which is the largest weapons trading place in the capital, and after waiting for an hour, he met a steward, but he only asked three questions, and said that if he met one of them, he could be hired:

First, is there a five-grade master certificate?

Second, is there an advanced certificate in casting skills?

Third, does anyone in the family work in Tibetan Sword Villa?

Liu Ping'an had no choice but to retreat, although he was already a seven-grade master, he was still several years away from the fifth-grade master;

What is the casting skill? Can you eat it? As a single man who lived alone for a few years in the future, his cooking skills are almost at the end of the level;

As for whether there is anyone in the family who works in the Tibetan Sword Villa, maybe the future wife will be from the Tibetan Sword Villa? I heard that the latest four beauties in the rivers and lakes evaluated by Six Doors, the seventh lady of the Tibetan Sword Villa ranked third.

After coming out of the Tibetan Sword Villa, Liu Ping'an went to the Cao Gang, the Cao Gang did not have any requirements, as long as he was strong and strong, although the salary was a little low, one or two halves of silver a month, but the food and accommodation were not bad.

After doing it for a day, Liu Ping'an couldn't stand it. "Well, I don't mean to look down on porters, working people are the most glorious, but this job is obviously not suitable for me. ”

After experiencing the failure of his first job, Second Brother Liu had to continue to look for a job, and this time he went to Qingfeng Building, Yuxi Qianzhuang and other places to apply for guards.

When I went to change the room today, the innkeeper told Liu Ping'an that the room was going to be renewed, and on the way back from Yuxi Qianzhuang, he went around to the black market and handed over the big dark horse that followed him for more than half a year. I sold ten taels of silver, but I lost two taels compared to when I started it. However, it is very good to be able to sell it at this price in a hurry.

If you don't run long distances, there is actually not much difference between having a horse and not having a horse, and since you have made a decision to take root in the capital, it is better to completely cut off your own back road.

However, today's application process made Liu Ping'an regret a little on the way back to the inn, just now the boss of Qingfeng Building was ready to hire him, and the three taels of silver were also very good, but he finally refused bitterly.

Although the guard is a little closer, at least he is still a man in the rivers and lakes, he can carry a weapon on his back openly, and he can show off a few tricks when a thief who doesn't open his eyes comes over, but what does it mean for you to hire me as a chef? Although the chef also uses a knife all day long, is it embarrassing to carry a kitchen knife and tell people that I am a seven-grade master?

The boss was very sincere, and asked Liu Ping'an to think about it for a few days, and if he was willing to go to work at any time, he also included room and board. Liu Ping'an refused very the spot, but when he returned from Yuxi Qianzhuang again, he regretted it a little...... The chef also uses a knife, and the sword is about the same, and the knight who uses the knife seems to be not too far from the knight who uses the sword? Besides, three taels of silver a month are twice as much as the Cao Gang, and it also includes food and lodging, which is not impossible to consider.

Well, think about it for a few days before you check it out.

Liu Ping'an lived in the inn called the champion inn, I heard that a few years ago there was a champion who lived here when he was admitted to the champion, although he did not get the inscription of the champion prince, but the boss immediately decided to change the name of the inn. The room price is also appropriate, the exquisite room is 200 wen a night, but the ordinary room can also live in 80 wen, and the monthly package can also be discounted by 20%.

In front of the inn is a tea tavern, with more than ten tables, those guests who don't want to stay in the room can also chat and relax here, and often there are some singing girls and old men who play erhu come here to ask for a few rewards. Second Brother Liu is a frequent visitor here, he is interested in everything when he first enters the rivers and lakes, he wants to hear it, this kind of place is full of gossip, what is the son of a certain prince's family who teased the people yesterday, what the three masters of the salt gang were cut the day before yesterday, what the four beauties of the rivers and lakes were wandering around on West Chang'an Street yesterday, whether it is true or not. Occasionally, some recruitment information will be circulated, for example, the two people at the table next to Second Brother Liu are talking about the recruitment of dart masters by the Four Seas Dart Bureau tomorrow.

Tomorrow? I have to check it out.

So there is the opening scene of this article.

Liu Ping'an filled in a document in the side gatehouse of the Sihai Dart Bureau, which was nothing more than his name, hometown, age, inheritance sect, good at martial arts, job application, etc., and was told to come over for an interview the day after tomorrow after handing it over to the porter. Suddenly, Liu Ping'an, who stayed up late last night and memorized the interview routine all night, had a feeling of flapping his fist and twisting his waist, this is the kind of routine that he encountered the most when he was looking for a job in his previous life, handed in his resume and then went back to wait for the notice, is this all this kind of vice in the business society just enlightened?

It's still early after coming out of the Four Seas Dart Bureau, look at the sky, and it will not be time to see if it will be over, that is, around three o'clock in the afternoon. It's too early to go back to the inn, it's better to walk around, I've been in Beijing for so long, and I haven't visited those familiar brothers, so it's better to take this opportunity to take a look.

Liu Ping'an has a senior brother who left the school two years earlier than him, and now works as a guard in a Beijing official's house, and the relationship is particularly good when he is in Huashan, and he happened to meet the senior brother before leaving the school last year, and before leaving, he repeatedly told him to have the opportunity to go to the capital to find him, and take advantage of the time to go to it quickly, if he continues to find a job in a few days, he will have fewer opportunities to wander the rivers and lakes to meet.

The senior brother's name is Xu Xiaohua, don't look at the name like a woman, but back then she was a figure with her eyes above the top, all the way Xiyi swordsmanship made the sky cover the sun, no one in Huashan could match, when he came out of the school, he had already obtained the six-grade master certificate of the six doors, I don't know if he has broken through the five-grade now.

Liu Ping'an has never understood why such an excellent senior brother can be a guard in a Beijing official's house with peace of mind, it stands to reason that his ability is very good even if he goes to the martial arts test, although his father and his father's father are the housekeepers of other people's families, but the law has long abolished the system of domestic slaves, maybe this loyalty has long been engraved in the bones.

Besides, now that he is pushing his own situation, he wants to be a guard and has nowhere to take him in.

Senior Brother Xu's main house is very low-key, just a very ordinary three-entry quadrangle, with a plaque hanging on the door, on which the words "Xie Fu" are written, and there is no payment, it is estimated that it was written by the master himself. However, with too much innate alertness beyond the seventh-grade masters, Liu Ping'an found that there were no less than four fifth-grade masters hiding in the dark around this gate, and it seemed that this master was not an ordinary Beijing official.

Second Brother Liu naturally walked to the side gatehouse, did not knock on the vermilion lacquer door, and generally came to visit through the gatehouse first, not to mention that he did not come to visit the master's house, but only came to visit a subordinate of the master's house.

The porter was a middle-aged uncle in his thirties and forties, dressed generously and decently, without a little dog-eyed posture, after asking Liu Ping'an's intentions, the uncle smiled and said: "It turned out to be Da Xu's junior brother, and he happened to be on duty in the house today." I just don't know if the young master has a task arrangement. ”

As he spoke, he arranged for a small guy next to him to call someone.