Chapter 1421: "No Lack of Money (2)"
And it was only these rich refugees with loads of money who would throw such astronomical sums just to buy a piece of land and that peace.
And it was that sore need that a shop popped up right beside the magistrate's office in the Clear Breeze City specifically for the purpose of buying and selling all kinds of real estate. Many of the refugees who were rich in their purses would turn up at this place not long after they came into the city, seeking for a suitable manor for themselves.
When Jun Wu Xie walked into the shop, there were already several lavishly dressed refugees standing inside, their demeanor exemplifying the very epitome of "Your Lord has loads of money, so come make a slaughtering off me.".
Even after having undergone a period of days living as homeless drifters, these people were still rosy cheeked and looking perfectly fine. Two pretty young ladies were serving one who had gold and silver decorating his rotund and pudgy body, a prosperous merchant dressed in a fully brocaded robe as he listened to the two petite voices making incessant introductions.
Upon the two hands of that man, all ten of his fingers were wearing big rings of glittery gold and he looked every inch a fat sheep about to be put to slaughter.
"Old Master Liu, what we have here are some of the best manors in this area and not only does it sit upon a vast piece of land, the constructions in the courtyards are also highly ideal. Look, there's even a lily pond where you would be able to relax and sip on wine by its side when the weather gets warm in summer. You will surely find it ideal for your needs." The pretty assistant in the shop said, already having acquired the skill to speak the right words to suit the occasion. Upon seeing this highly gaudily dressed Old Master Liu with his coarse and uncouth mannerisms who had just come to the Clear Breeze City today coming straight to this place, it had made the two little ladies at his side stumbling over themselves to gush and fawn upon him seeking to deal a big deal today.
"The place is not too bad, but it's still a little too small. Do you have anything bigger in this place?" Old Master Liu said with an exceptional flourish, his face putting on a contemptuous look to show he had no lack of money, causing the two pretty ladies to gush coyly.
He was originally a grain merchant in the Fan Country and when the Poison Men had just started to spread chaos and turmoil, he had taken the opportunity to raise the prices of his grains and made a big killing. But alas, the place he had been residing in had also finally been taken down by the Poison Men and in order for him to save his own life, he had dragged uprooted his entire family and they had all come to the Clear Breeze City. He had then spent quite a bit of silver before he had been able to get everyone within his family inside the Clear Breeze City.
Having gotten used to living a life of kleptocracy through abuse of the people for so many years, Old Master Liu wasn't about to make himself suffer. Afterall, all the money in his hands were ill gotten gains and he did not feel the slightest heartache splurging it.
When the pretty assistant heard Old Master Liu's words, their laughter grew more shrill as they turned and went to look for the painting album of bigger manors.
When Jun Wu Xie stepped into the shop, not a single assistant went forward, all of them ignoring her. Even those who were standing around idle did not bother to ask her a single word.
Jun Wu Xie had just come over here from the refugee camp and she was dressed in coarse and crude clothes. With the added fact that she had infiltrated and in order to blend herself in with the others refugees, she had smeared charcoal upon her clothes and her face covered in dirt. Looking one glance at her, she would not look in the least like she would have much money. Moreover, she was very young with a petite and thin body, and she did not have a single attendant accompanying her.
She had most naturally been looked upon as the most unwelcomed kind of guest in that shop.
But Jun Wu Xie herself had not noticed that at all. With such kind of treatment, compared to having someone chattering non stop beside her ear, she would very much rather she be left alone to choose what she needed.
Afterall, upon the shelves in the shop, were already displayed albums filled with paintings of the manors up for sale and the shelves themselves already segregated the approximate sizes of the manors systematically, so it wasn't too hard for her to pick from them.
Jun Wu Xie quickly disregarded the albums for those with only a single house and turned her attention directly onto the manors with larger pieces of land.
She had just stretched her hand out to pick up an album when before she had even touched it, the album was snatched up and taken away by an assistant in the shop.
Chapter 1422: "Not Short of Money (3)"
"Shoo shoo shoo, don't come here to stir trouble when you're not buying. Sheesh, they come in all kinds nowadays. This is not a place that beggars like you should be coming to. Hurry up and scram." The assistant was in a hurry to bring the album to continue to fawn upon that Old Master Liu and when her sweeping glance caught sight of the unimpressive looking little youth dressed in dirty clothes, her face immediately turned ugly.
The little black cat lying upon Jun Wu Xie's shoulder had upon hearing the little assistant's words, almost pounced wanted to pounce onto her and bite through the puny little neck but fortunately Jun Wu Xie calmed its heckles right down.
Jun Wu Xie did not pay the assistant's mocking tone any attention and merely chose from the other albums on the shelf.
The assistant was too eager to go earn herself some money and had no interest in dealing any further with the penniless little kid. She carried a few albums in her hands and brought them to go right before Old Master Liu.
Jun Wu Xie picked out a few more albums from those shelves and took all those that she needed and placed them all together upon an empty shelf. Some of the rich people within the shop started to sneer audibly in derision when they saw Jun Wu Xie's actions.
"Another penniless wretch dreaming under this broad daylight? Trash like this should just obediently remain back within their pig sty. Look at the way he looks, would he have the money to even buy a tiny hut? I'm sure he wouldn't even be able to afford the smallest house they have available for sale here." Someone jeered venomously.
"I've seen too many of his kind. On the way here to the Clear Breeze City, they type of people I've seen the most are these penniless bloodsuckers. They only know how to stretch out their hands to beg, they are all no different from beggars."
"From what I think, trash like this should stop putting up a struggle and just remain out there. Just allow themselves to be eaten by those monsters and it'll save everybody a whole lot of trouble, instead of having them in here eating and drinking for free."
In the eyes of the bunch of rich people who paid good money to come into the Clear Breeze City, they clearly bore hatred against the batches of frail elderly and weak children who had been able to come into the city just the same without needing to spend a single copper. The fact that these impoverished and useless refugees without any ability whatsoever had actually been able to gain entry into the Clear Breeze City without any payment riled them up to no end.
However, the rule was set by the Clear Breeze City's City Lord and no matter how unsatisfied they were, they did not dare to really say anything against that, but would instead take it out upon the disadvantaged refugees suffering under the wretched conditions.
They could not understand what the Lord of the Clear Breeze City was thinking. Letting trash like these in would only increase the burden upon the Clear Breeze City and what kind of use would they be good for?
Towards the ridicule from the people there, Jun Wu Xie was seemingly unaffected. She continued to flip through a few more shelves and after consolidating one big pile of albums, she carried up those albums she had selected and walked towards the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper was busy tallying up how big a haul they would be able to make that day. All the houses and mansions were exorbitantly priced and having them entrusted to be put up for sale here, he was also able to charge a part of the price as commission.
As he was tallying up how much more money would be coming in, the shopkeeper suddenly heard a loud rustling. The sun's rays in front of him was blocked out by a dark shadow when he raised his head up, seeing that his own table right before him had tens of albums in a big pile dropped with a thump upon it. From the exterior of the albums, he could see that they were albums of manors with very large land areas!
With that one glance he took, his heart filled with absolute delight and his face quickly split into an ingratiating smile, all prepared to face the prosperous tycoon with such a generous hand. But when he saw that the person standing in front of his table was just a tiny pint sized youth dressed in filthy clothes, the smile upon his face instantly faded away and turned a dark shade instead.
Chapter 1423: "Not Short of Money (4)"
The shopkeeper's brows furrowed together as he stared at the expressionless and decrepit looking youth, his eyes filled with disdain.
He had seen many of these impoverished scoundrels before. There had been several other refugees who had wanted to buy land in the Clear Breeze City to live in some time ago and they did not have much money on them. They had then just knelt on their knees at his place to plead and beg without shame, refusing to budge, disturbing him from conducting his business in the shop and had even broken some things.
A businessman only had eyes for profit and the shopkeeper did not have the leisure to want to save those refugees.
"What are you doing?" The shopkeeper asked, his voice tinged with impatience.
Jun Wu Xie replied: "Buying land."
The shopkeeper cast his glance over Jun Wu Xie and his eyes filled up with contempt. He did not say anything to Jun Wu Xie but turned his head towards two assistants who were standing idle at the side to say: "You two dumb buffoons, what are you still doing there dreaming? Aren't you going to throw this idiot who doesn't know what he's talking about out already! ? Don't let him hold me back from doing business here!"
The two assistants immediately rolled up their sleeves as they walked towards Jun Wu Xie, looking like they were really going to throw Jun Wu Xie out of the place.
Jun Wu Xie's brows creased together slightly as she stared at the shopkeeper's disdainful expression before sweeping her gaze over the two approaching assistants.
"What? You do not want to sell them?" Jun Wu Xie asked with a sneer.
The shopkeeper then burst out laughing as he swung his highly mocking glare up and down over Jun Wu Xie.
"Our doors are open for business and we would naturally not refuse to sell. But we still have to look at what kind of people we are selling to as we only sell to people who can afford to pay. Little scoundrels like you should just get out of here and not remain here to be scorned."
Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes slightly and they filled up with a chill.
At that same moment, that prosperous tycoon Old Master Liu had also selected his new manor and under the assistant's urging, he came walking over to stand before the shopkeeper.
The moment the shopkeeper saw the bling upon Old Master Liu, he immediately knew that that was a big deal coming in and he quickly eased his straight browed frown and chilly eyes, his face a mask of delight as he rubbed his hands in glee before Old Master Liu.
"Has the Old Master picked out his piece of land?" The speed of his change in attitude was truly astounding.
Old Master Liu nodded his head arrogantly, his pudgy arms happily slung around the assistants on each side of him as he said: "It's alright I guess, being just barely big enough. It will have to do for now."
"Yes yes yes, seeing that Old Master Liu is a dragon among men, ordinary manors would not be worth of you. You'll have to put up with this one for the time being and when I come across a good piece of land in future, I will get someone to send the news over to you." The shopkeeper said with a wide smile.
Old Master Liu nodded in satisfaction.
Meanwhile, the completely disregarded Jun Wu Xie at the side had a chilly expression on her face. The two assistants had already reached her sides and they reached the hands out wanting to throw her outside.
Jun Wu Xie's eyes flashed with a chilling glint.
In an instant, two howls of anguish rang out within the shop!
"ARRGGGH!"
Those howls that sounded just like the squealing of pigs immediately attracted the attention of others within the shop. Even the shopkeeper who was busy entertaining the "expensive" customer was shocked by the sound and he immediately turned his head over to see.
But that one look completely caused his heart to jump!
He saw the two assistants fallen onto the floor and grabbing at their elbows tightly, rolling across the floor in pain. The garish white of bones could be seen protruding out pierced through their arms, a large pool of blood flowing across the floor, the thick stench of blood immediately filling up the entire shop!
Jun Wu Xie still stood chillingly in her original spot, her glacier eyes piercing into one's soul as she stared at the pale faced shopkeeper.
"You! What do you think you are doing!" The shopkeeper said as his heart thumped loudly.
Chapter 1424: "Not Short of Money (5)"
The shopkeeper stared at the shop assistants fallen to ground and his back broke out in cold sweat. He had not thought that the seemingly frail and weak little youth would possess such amazing skills!
But although he was still feeling the shock in his heart, the shopkeeper had not been fully intimidated.
"Kid, let me tell you this! This is the Clear Breeze City here! I do not care how you managed to sneak into the city, but when you're here in the Clear Breeze City, you will have to adhere to the Clear Breeze City's rules! This is not a place you can run wild with your unruly behaviour! The magistrate's office is right next to us and I will just have to give a shout! You will then find your damned self being thrown out of here!" The shopkeeper said through gritted teeth as he glared at Jun Wu Xie, thinking he really had never met such an unruly refugee who dared to stir up such a ruckus in his shop!
Old Master Liu was also shocked by the scene before his eyes but it was different from what the shopkeeper was feeling. He was instead finding Jun Wu Xie rather interesting. "I see that this Little Brother here has some great skills. Why don't you come with me instead? You can just become my personal attendant for now on and ensure my safety. You will then not have to worry about not having a place to live as I have just purchased a large manor and I will give you a room in there."
Old Master Liu's words were intended to sound charitable as from what he could see, unruly and fierce youths such as this were all financially embarrassed and they had no choice but to fight. As long as he gave them some benefits, they would immediately become tame like a dog to stay by his feet.
"No need." Jun Wu Xie said, shooting a cold glance over at Old Master Liu.
Old Master Liu had not expected that Jun Wu Xie would reject him so cleanly and his face immediately showed slight displeasure.
"I'll say this, you brat. You had better not reject the offered wine and end up being given wine in punishment. This is not a place that you can afford to do as you please. The shopkeeper will just have to holler once and you will then be in trouble."
Jun Wu Xie stared at the disgustingly obese pig before her eyes with a cold glare and then turned to look at the shopkeeper standing there looking highly infuriated where she then pulled out two gold bars that were each the width of two fingers and threw them upon the bodies of the two men still howling upon the ground.
"Enough?" The two dense thunks sounded accompanied by the two syllables that Jun Wu Xie spat out coldly crashed upon the bodies of the two assistants.
Where would the two assistants have ever seen such a big gold bar and they immediately became flabbergasted with their eyes staring widely, the pain seemingly having disappeared without a trace in an instant.
"Enough! It's enough!" The two assistants very quickly used their uninjured hand to clutch the gold bar tightly against their chest and nodded their heads vigorously.
"You two had voluntarily asked to be beaten up here. Is that understood?" Jun Wu Xie said coldly, not even bothering to look at them.
"We had volunteered ourselves! We had volunteered ourselves!" The two assistants immediately chorused together.
And that scene, had everyone within the shop watching them stunned into silence.
Who would have thought that such a decrepit looking young youth would throw out two solid gold bars so carelessly! ?
The other shop assistants who had been secretly laughing at the unfortunate pair who had their blood spilled were at that moment suddenly wishing they could take their places to suffer a beating from Jun Wu Xie!
That was just too damned generous!
Those were solid gold bars for Heaven's sake!
The shopkeeper was also stunned speechless, his eyes wide with amazement, his finger that was pointed at Jun Wu Xie completely frozen in midair, the expression of rage on his face twisted up by utter shock.
'Thunk thunk thunk!'
Without even another word, Jun Wu Xie nonchalantly pulled out gold bars one by one, tossing them one after another onto the table before the shopkeeper. The brilliant glitter of gold shone brilliantly from the gradually growing pile of gold bars, driving everyone watching deeper into speechless amazement. The wasn't a single other sound within the entire shop. The shopkeeper who had just moments before been shouting for Jun Wu Xie to be sent to the magistrate's office was now too scared to even break wind!
.....
Chapter 1425: "Not Short of Money (6)"
Having initially thought with the loads of money he had, Old Master Liu had thought to hire Jun Wu Xie to risk her life for him and at that moment, his eyes were almost popping out of his head. Even with his abundance of prosperity, he wasn't able to be as freely generous as Jun Wu Xie was doing. Seeing that terrifying amount of gold bars being tossed onto the table so nonchalantly as it piled up on the table, it suddenly made Old Master Liu feel like slapping himself on his mouth as his face bloated up to turn to the colour of pig's liver.
However, Jun Wu Xie showed no signs of stopping, as all the pairs of eyes saw the pile of gold upon the table growing more and more, to the extent that they were falling off from the table. The heavy clatter drummed upon the hearts of everyone in the shop, completely blowing their minds.
The shopkeeper finally snapped back to his senses and he hurriedly raised up his hand to stop Jun Wu Xie!
"Our Little Lord! My eyes have been blind for not being able to see Mount Tai. I hope that our Lord would not hold it against such trash like me. What..... Whatever you want to buy, you just need to say the word and little me will immediately get it all ready for you!"
The shopkeeper at that moment felt like he wanted to cry. How was he supposed to know that the decrepit looking youth before his eyes would turn out to be the true nouveau riche! And he was so brutally rich at that! Watching Jun Wu Xie throw out gold bars like she was throwing out fried dough sticks had caused the shopkeeper's heart to tremble and shake and if she was allowed to continue on, he would soon be buried under by gold bars.
Having mistaken such a insanely rich tycoon as a beggar, the regret the shopkeeper felt in his heart made him feel like gouging his own useless eyes out.
Deeply afraid that he had angered and driven away the big spender Jun Wu Xie, the shopkeeper quickly signaled with his eyes to the assistants in the shop who were still standing at the side too stunned for words.
The several stunned assistants immediately surged forward, crowding around Jun Wu Xie with adulating faces as they said.
"Does our Lord intend to buy a manor? What kind of a manor would you like?"
Oh Lord, how tiring it must be for you to be standing. You should sit down and make yourself comfortable." "My Lord! Please have some tea!"
All the assistants acted like they could almost worship Jun Wu Xie like they did for their ancestors, eagerly bringing tea and fetching water, as if afraid that others would do it before them.
Those people were rushing forward so eagerly that they were squeezing the flabbergasted Old Master Liu and the two little pretty ladies out.
Old Master Liu who had just moments before been fawned all over by everyone was at that moment completely speechless, unable to give voice to the bitterness he felt. The two delicate little beauties were pushed to move their feet by all the others and they whined coquettishly to say: "Old Master, look at all of them."
"What's there to look at! ? Do you think I have not been humiliated enough? I'm getting out of here and will not remain here to disgrace myself." Old Master Liu blubbered, his face red as beet. When he thought back to what he had said to Jun Wu Xie earlier, he began to feel a stinging burn come upon his face. He swept his glance over in reckoning and realized that the amount of gold bars that Jun Wu Xie had tossed out earlier was already more than his entire fortune. How could he still have the cheek to continue to remain there?
In an instant, he no longer wanted to buy the manor anymore and Old Master Liu slipped away silently without a word.
And the shopkeeper wasn't really in the right frame of mind to urge him to stay. His back was soaked in cold sweat as he forced a smile on his face to apologise continuously to Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie sat upon a chair and looked at the shopkeeper who had a forced smile upon his face, her eyes chilly.
"My Lord, I have seen all the albums that you have picked out, and I must say that you have a killer eye for these things! They are all located in the best areas within this city of ours!" The shopkeeper gushed, hurriedly sticking out a big thumb.
The shopkeeper's words, weren't really all just feigned flattery. Jun Wu Xie had indeed picked out rather good locations and they were all gathered together in the same district. That was originally an inconspicuous area in the Clear Breeze City but as refugees came pouring in continuously, the courtyards and manors there had been reconstructed but the selling prices for them were extremely high and they were not something normal people were able to afford.
Chapter 1426: "Not Short of Money (7)"
"I wonder what kind of requisites would our Lord here have for the manor? So as to allow me a little reference to recommend you something." The shopkeeper smiled fawningly as he said, his attitude and demeanour completely different from before.
"These here. I'll take them all." Jun Wu Xie said, the expression on his face still chilly, completely not affected by the change that had come over the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper was immediately frozen in place as he stared at Jun Wu Xie before his head swiveled stare at the pile of albums upon the table.
There were a total of tens of albums in that pile and he had initially thought that Jun Wu Xie was intending to pick one out from among them. Even if he was beaten to death, he would never have thought that Jun Wu Xie was actually intending to..... purchase them all? !
"My Lord, you..... wouldn't be joking with me would you? There's so many manors here and you want to buy them all? !" The shopkeeper's voice had suddenly changed in pitch.
"Yes." Jun Wu Xie said coldly.
The shopkeeper's face immediately changed in colour. He had thought that it was a immensely rich tycoon before his eyes, but it was at that moment that he realized that it was the God of Fortune himself! ! His face paled as it dawned on him that he had just very nearly run this God of Fortune out of the place!
He suddenly found himself bathed in cold sweat.
"Please wait a moment here my Great Lord! While I go tally up the total price." This was the first time that the shopkeeper was seeing a person purchase luxurious manors in such a indifferent manner like he was merely buying pieces of beancurd. But no matter how shocked he was, he didn't dare say a word but instead rushed to pull out his abacus to calculate the total.
When the assistants on the sides heard Jun Wu Xie say those words, the astonishment drove them to tears. They were already bowing their heads and bending their backs over and from that instant, they became even more obsequious and deferent. With the whole pile of gold bars that Jun Wu Xie had nonchalantly tossed upon the table glittering so brilliantly, they believed that the Lord wasn't just paying lip service and really meant every word she said!
In just a few short moments, the shopkeeper had already tallied up the total price for the several tens of manors. The price was so astronomical that just the commission from this sale alone would be able to overshadow what he had earned in total for the past half a year!
By then, the shopkeeper was worshipping Jun Wu Xie like he would his ancestors and did not dare tarry a moment before her.
"The total is seven hundred and eighty thousand taels of gold. As our Great Lord is buying so many at a time, we'll round it down just for you and make it just seven hundred thousand taels of gold." The shopkeeper said with a blooming smile upon his face, the hands upon the abacus beginning to tremble.
Jun Wu Xie turned her eyes to look at the shopkeeper who had an absolutely greasy and sycophantic smile upon his face and said: "I'll give you three times that."
"Wh..... What....." The shopkeeper could not find any words to reply. [That's not the way to play the game even if you have too much money you know! ? Just by opening his mouth, he had actually increased the price by three times!]
"I do not want just the deed to the manors, I want the deed for the land as well. For the next fifty years, the lands that these manors sit on will belong to me. Yes or no?" Jun Wu Xie asked in a cold voice.
The shopkeeper swallowed a big gulp, thinking that this Lord's mind was not working too well. Usually when a deed for the house was sold, it would basically mean that the supposed land deed was already included together with it but was just not explicitly stated in writing only. Afterall, the house already belonged to the purchaser and as long as the house was still there, the purchaser would be able to stay there as long as he wanted. Nobody had ever picked on such a thing as the deed to the land and made it a separate issue.
Jun Wu Xie was the first and only person to ask for the deed to the land underneath!
But.....
One who refuses money they can earn are idiots! Suddenly being given another two times of the price to him, the shopkeeper must be nuts to reject it.
"Of course! No problem! I'll give you the deeds to the manor and the land together!" The shopkeeper said in hurry, afraid that Jun Wu Xie would change her mind. He turned his head and immediately got the assistants to bring out the chest containing the deeds to the houses and land, quickly digging out the deeds to the manors and the land that Jun Wu Xie was buying. He then laid them all out neatly to allow Jun Wu Xie to verify them.
Chapter 1427: "Wilful (1)"
After Jun Wu Xie checked through the things one by one, she asked the shopkeeper another few questions. The shopkeeper had thought that Jun Wu Xie wanted to ask about the manors themselves and had not expected that Jun Wu Xie would actually ask him where she would be able to find people to build houses and lofts.
That question had made the shopkeeper's heart jump. This Lord that had just spent such an unbelievably astronomical sum of money to purchase the manors had not even gone to the site and he was already thinking of tearing them down to reconstruct?
"My Lord, the entire stretch of manors you just selected were all just newly constructed this very year and completely spanking new, never occupied by anyone. Is there really a need to spend more money to have them reconstructed again? Why don't..... you just reside in it for awhile and see first, and if it's not suitable, it still wouldn't be that late to do it then." Even the shopkeeper was feeling the pinch for Jun Wu Xie who had just splurged more than two million taels of gold and the Lord was thinking to throw his money out again?
Having money didn't mean that one could be so wilful as to tear down manors just for fun could he?
Jun Wu Xie could not be bothered with the shopkeeper's nonsense and slapped two more gold bars upon the table .
"If it can be done, take them. If not, I'll get someone else."
"Caaan! Can! Can! I'll bring you over there right this instant!" The shopkeeper gave up, caving in to Jun Wu Xie's demands. Never had he ever seen a tycoon behaving so ostentatiously, throwing good money so carelessly.
The shopkeeper was a man of a little standing in the Clear Breeze City and it was not difficult for him to find a bunch of people who could reconstruct houses.
But Jun Wu Xie's demands was highly extreme.
She demanded for both speed and quality to be ensured. In seven days, the stretch of manors had to be flattened and multi storied lofts were to be built, with every single one reaching seven storeys.
Such a massive undertaking immediately threw the shopkeeper and the people for the construction into a state of shock. Those demands were just terrifying and they had never heard anyone making such a maniacal request before.
But when Jun Wu Xie once again made another example of her unbelievable riches by throwing out gold bars like tiles that began to fill the floor, the bunch of men were utterly convinced and they accepted the job right at that instant according to Jun Wu Xie's demands.
Having accepted the deposit, the men went around in a hurry to gather men, preparing themselves to embark on a big one. The shopkeeper after gaining some benefits from Jun Wu Xie then made himself scarce, laughing happily.
After having busied herself an entire round, Jun Wu Xie finally had time to return back to the inn. By the time she got back, the skies were already dark, and the little black cat plopped upon her shoulder had become numbed by the way its Mistress had been scattering gold bars everywhere the entire day.
In reality, Jun Wu Xie's expenditure today when calculated against the riches they had gained from the Dark Emperor's tomb, was merely a hair off the bull's back. Even if she spent at this rate everyday from now onwards, the money they had would be able to sustain her splurging for a few lifetimes and more.....
The amount of gold bars that Jun Wu Xie had in her Cosmos Sack was merely just a speck of the spittle that the Hell Rodent would be able to spit out through the gap between its teeth.
"Young Miss!" Jun Wu Xie had just come upstairs when she saw Ye Sha and Ye Mei standing before Jun Wu Yao's door, the complexion on their faces not looking too good.
Having just been shown a highly darkened face by Jun Wu Yao, the two of them had been tiptoeing around their Lord with tails between their legs.
When Jun Wu Xie saw Ye Sha and Ye Mei, she then recalled about having completely forgotten about them earlier. She nodded slightly at them and then seemingly looked like she just remembered something before she pulled out the stack of deeds to the houses and land to toss them to Ye Sha and Ye Mei.
The two of them were at a complete loss with the entire stack of papers before their faces. They picked them up and then saw what was written upon them.
But.....
They became highly curious about why their Young Miss had suddenly become so interested in buying up these manors? And she had even bought so many at one go as well. Would they be able to fill up all that space?
A pity Ye Sha and Ye Mei had never witnessed the kind of speculation in real estate during the twenty fourth century, or they would only think that Jun Wu Xie had discovered another way to enrich themselves beyond belief.
Chapter 1428: "Wilful (2)"
Jun Wu Xie had just returned to her room and sat down when Jun Wu Yao came walking in, not even bothering to knock and just entered the room.
"Did you manage to find out anything?" Jun Wu Yao asked as he sat down at the table, turning to look at Jun Wu Xie who had just unbuttoned her robe and was about to change.
Jun Wu Xie immediately froze. That person was just sitting there leisurely and looking completely at ease, his attitude so nonchalant like he had every right to be sitting there.
But.....
She wanted to change!
Feeling all stinky, Jun Wu Xie only wanted to immerse herself in a good hot bath and change herself into a clean set of clothes..... But that somebody just had to deny her of that!
Self! Awareness! ? Jun Wu Xie's gaze clearly showed Jun Wu Yao of the impropriety and her eyes were asking him to get out but Jun Wu Yao who had been abandoned and left in the inn for the entire day was oblivious to all of this, even pouring out a cup of water for himself as he sat there with his long legs gracefully crossed, seemingly intending to admire the "beautiful sight" before his eyes.
Jun Wu Xie's face was cold and chilly as she buttoned back her robe and sat herself down directly across Jun Wu Yao, before snatching the teacup that Jun Wu Yao had just filled up from him, to pour it down her throat with a swing of her head back.
Jun Wu Yao looked at her in amusement but did not say anything.
Jun Wu Xie had moistened her throat and she then told Jun Wu Yao about all that she found out today.
"White Bamboo..... That is a herb that can be found only in the Middle Realm. There isn't any of that in the Lower Realm here, but it's very commonly seen in the Middle Realm." Jun Wu Yao commented as he rested his chin in the palm of one hand, watching Jun Wu Xie's tiny face with her serious expression.
"I do not think that Luo Xi is from the Twelve Palaces. Based on his circumstances, he should just be a pawn of the Twelve Palaces like the others and is just being used by them. The real mastermind behind all of this must still be hiding behind in the shadows. I had taken a look around to look on my way back but did not make any special discovery. If those people are not within the Clear Breeze City, they must have hidden themselves very deeply and would not be easily discovered." Jun Wu Xie had pondered deeply upon it on her way back and she was sure that the Poison Men must be linked in some way to the Clear Breeze City.
"Oh? Then how does Little Xie intend to drive those rats from the hole they are hiding in?" Jun Wu Yao asked with eyes narrowed together.
Jun Wu Xie did not intend to hide anything.
"They need those refugees coming into the city. Although I am still unable to ascertain what their reason is, but what the enemy needs most will be what I will destroy. Once I disrupt their plans, the rats will panic and be forced out from hiding."
Buying those manors were just the beginning. She will slowly crush the plans of those culprits hiding within the shadows behind the Clear Breeze City and force the mastermind to come out!
Once the enemy shows himself, that would then be the best time for her to strike.
When Jun Wu Xie had dealt with the Twelve Palaces in the past, she had mostly carried it out covertly with the enemies clearly seen while she lurked in the shadows, but this time, she intended to change the way she played the game.
She wanted to crushed the crisis right upon the faces of the people from the Twelve Palaces and they would surely not be able to hold themselves back but come jumping right out!
"Then, I'll just have wait and see?" Jun Wu Yao asked with a light laugh.
"Yes, just wait and see." Jun Wu Xie said as her eyebrow arched, her chilling eyes flashing with a glint of confidence and resolve.
With so many large manors in the Clear Breeze City having been sold at one go and they were all clustered within the same area, it would very soon attract the attention of the residents there. What puzzled those people more was that before anyone had moved into those completely brand new manors, a whole bunch of towering burly men had come in to smash them into the mud, to immediately begin constructing new multi storeyed lofts.
In an instant, everyone within the Clear Breeze City became highly curious about the lunatic who had been so wilful to tear down completely brand new manors to rebuild!
The large group of burly men were all squeezed within that one area, working tirelessly through both day and night, to speedily rebuild the houses they had just torn down at a speed that was almost visible to the eye!
Chapter 1429: "Wilful (3)"
Seven days later, a large area in the northern side of the Clear Breeze City was suddenly presented with the sudden appearance of high multi storeyed buildings. Tens of the massive sized highly quiet and tranquil manors had now become many seven storeyed loft buildings. The facade of all the buildings were the same and they all stood in neat rows looking very eye catching as many of the nearby residents there gathered around them to gawk in curiosity.
Initially, they all felt that the little lofts looked a little strange but after awhile, they seemed to somehow feel..... rather nice.
The houses in this world were mostly stood independently, detached from other houses and there were seldom houses with two levels. Usually, only inns and in some specific places would construct buildings higher than two levels and it was highly rare that it would be like this in residential areas.
Towards this new and bizarre idea, many of the residents in the Clear Breeze City gathered to take a look at it.
Even the group of men who had built these lofts had no idea what the owner of the buildings intended to do with them.
If they only knew what kind of living environment people in the twenty fourth century lived in, they would not be so surprised by all this. Jun Wu Xie did not know that much about building and construction and she did not have the time to go research into it. She had merely copied the idea from the buildings that was most commonly seen in the twenty fourth century and duplicated it here.
The biggest advantage of such construction was..... the land area it took was small, while its holding capacity for people was large!
Tens of the loft buildings were inspected and received by Jun Wu Xie and she generously showered the burly men who were already completely exhausted with loads of gold bars. She then went to seek out several of the biggest carpentry shops within the Clear Breeze City and moved all the furniture that consisted of tables, chairs, stools and wardrobes she had ordered earlier into the little loft units.
The residents who were gathered around to see "modern architecture" saw before their eyes the horse carriages delivering large batches of furniture into the little loft units, the design of the pieces exactly the same, looking like they had been mass produced. But judging from the quality of the wood used, they could see that they were not crudely made pieces, but just that they looked rather unique.
"How?" After Jun Wu Xie had everything within the little loft units all prepared, she had invited Jun Wu Yao to come forward to have a look around.
Jun Wu Yao looked around at the clean and neat rooms, the layout and furnishing within every one of those rooms exactly the same. But he found that the beds looked different from what he usually saw where they were split into an upper and lower level. Every bed could accommodate one or two people to rest and every room had two of such beds. They looked a little strange to him but overall, it was not that bad.
For someone who had been afflicted with autism and being able to import all these ideas for furniture from the modern world to be used in this alternative world, Jun Wu Xie's ability at copying wholesale was able to be put to very practical use!
"All these things, you've prepared them for the refugees?" Jun Wu Yao asked while looking at Jun Wu Xie as his eyebrow lifted.
Jun Wu Xie nodded with a smile.
"I would want to see, with this place here, who else would want to still go to that hovel." Jun Wu Xie said with her eyebrows raised. She had thrown a good sum of money into this, all just to take the next step in her plans.
Outside the door, Ye Sha and Ye Mei led Ye Jie to wander around among the many small rooms. The three of them were highly fascinated and they actually lied down upon the brand news beds that had just been laid out, to try out these quirky and novel beds.
Till, Jun Wu Yao was about to leave and go back, did they quickly shot to their feet, but their eyes were somehow filled with a kind of reluctance to leave the bunk beds.
Jun Wu Xie watched the trio together and without knowing why, she suddenly thought of the lyrics to a song from her past life.
[Brother who sleeps in the bunk above me.....]
Jun Wu Xie felt that she was becoming stranger and stranger.
Chapter 1430: "This is the First Step (1)"
The refugee camp within the Clear Breeze City had always remained a dark and dank environment. Lying upon the large damp communal bed, the elderly and young children curled themselves up tightly to hug their knees.
It was right in the middle of the scorching summer and the room's door was left ajar. The wind blowing in from outside through the door brought in waves of heat into the crowded room, turning the entire place into a steamer, making it highly unbearable. Under the stifling heat, quite a number of the children suffered from heat stroke and the woman who had no one else to rely on could only use water to try to bring the children's temperature down.
Suddenly, a jarring bout of someone striking a gong outside the refugee camp sounded, the clamour spreading into the still silence within the camp. The refugees who had been hiding inside the rooms started to walk out in puzzlement and they saw upon the narrow street in front, a notice that had been pasted on the wall. A man holding the bronze gong was striking it continuously, driving all of them to gather around and see.
The things that were written upon the notice and what was being announced in a loud voice by the man made everyone inside to become aware of an astounding piece of news!
It was not known which kind hearted person had actually cleared out a large plot of land in the northern part of the city for all of them to move into. What was even more shocking was that there was no charge of any kind and they provided three meals a day, completely free for them to live in and eat at!
Once that piece of news was released, the refugee camp was instantly turned into a wave of frenzy, many of them reserving their suspicions and only half believing in it. It was really hard for them to believe that there would really be someone who would not seek anything in return for such a deed, by providing them with a place to stay and even giving them three meals a day on top of that.
Some people maintained a suspicious attitude towards it, thinking that there were other motives behind it and refused to shift out from the hovel.
It was those ladies with young children who were moved by the prospect but it wasn't because they were just being naive but because their children really would not survive the scorching summer in that dark and damp room that was like a steamer where the young children would not be able to get any rest. They decided that they could no longer continue to to live in that place.
Those ladies picked up their children in their arms determined to at least give the other place a try and went towards the city's north. There, they saw many highly novel loft units and the man in charge of the loft building lead them inside the building and immediately arranged a room for them.
Looking at the clean and neat rooms, and seeing the blue sky with white clouds outside the window, the ladies just could not believe their own eyes. Before they came, they had only harboured helplessness from having no other way out and had not expected the place to be any much better than the refugee camp from before. But having really made the trip here, they realized that the reality was that things here were so much better that they had thought before!
Before they had even woken up from their delight and surprise, hot and steaming food was brought into their rooms. When the fragrant aroma of the food spread through the air, the ladies suddenly began crying out in delight!
The refugees camp burst into a flurry of activity!
Ever since the first batch of ladies had gone to the little lofts in the city's north and came back to the camp with red rimmed eyes, the news had immediately spread like wildfire, speedily reaching every single corner of the refugee camp. More and more people quickly picked up their sparse belongings and went in groups towards the northern part of the city. They really wanted to know whether that place was truly as great as those people had claimed.
And every single one person who came to the little lofts in the northern part of the city, did not ever return to stay a single day at the refugee camp. They merely relayed the news excitedly and then ran off, to tell more of the refugees about just how great the northern part of the city really was.....
Jun Wu Xie stood at the window of a little loft upon the second level to look down at the constant stream of refugees rushing here and her eyes glinted with a smile.
This particular loft unit was one that she had prepared for herself and the interior design was different from the other units in the loft, which served as her temporary abode here in the Clear Breeze City.