As he heard a father brag about his own son, Li Huowang gradually learned more and more about the life of Hou Laoer.1

It was quite inspirational. The Hou family hadn’t really been that rich in the past. They were just as poor as the others. Since the few acres of land they owned wasn’t enough to feed their entire family, the second son was forced to leave the family in search of a job.0

Li Huowang was suspicious about the ‘general’ that the old man kept talking about; from the looks of it, the old man thought that a general was the only high-ranking official within a camp.0

“Sigh. It was even worse in the past. We didn’t even have enough food to feed ourselves, and only had a single pair of pants. Back then, whoever wanted to head...1