Gu Long's World: Starting with the Legend of Chu Liuxiang

Chapter 127 Wealthiest in the World

A simple wooden cabin stands alone in a jujube grove on the mountainside.

Shangguan Xue'er exclaimed, "What a desolate place! What a dilapidated house! Would Lu Xiaofeng really hide in a place like this?"

Jiang Fengyue smiled and said, "Sometimes, you can't judge a thing by its appearance alone."

The carriage trekked through mountains and rivers, passing through jujube groves, and stopped in front of this wooden house.

Shangguan Xue'er got out of the car and gently knocked on the door of the wooden house. These things should not have been done by her. If Liu Yuhen and his three bodyguards were still there, they would probably have smashed several holes in the house long ago.

There had been sounds of people inside just moments before, but now that Shangguan Xue'er was knocking on the door, it fell completely silent.

Shangguan Xue'er angrily knocked a few more times and shouted, "Let's just break into this dilapidated house. It's not worth much anyway."

She turned her gaze to Jiang Fengyue, clearly knowing that a young woman like her wouldn't do something like banging on a door.

Jiang Fengyue waved her hand and said helplessly, "I won't crash it. Not to mention me, even you might not be able to afford to pay for this house."

Shangguan Xue'er pouted, suddenly getting angry, and said, "You underestimate us? It's just a dilapidated house."

As she spoke, she took out several ingots of silver and tossed them to Jiang Fengyue, adding, "Go ahead and smash them; these will definitely be enough for you to pay for them."

Jiang Fengyue did not catch the silver ingots. The silver ingots fell to the ground and made several small dents in the mud. They looked to be quite heavy, at least fifty taels.

Fifty taels of gold could build countless wooden houses like these.

Jiang Fengyue sighed, "That's not enough. If you want me to demolish this house for you, you'll need to prepare at least forty or fifty thousand taels of silver."

Shangguan Xue'er scoffed, thinking Jiang Fengyue was bragging, and said, "What house is so amazing?"

Jiang Fengyue shouted, "Do you know who used to live in this wooden house?"

The three of them were very close to the cabin, so the people inside the cabin could definitely hear what they were saying. Jiang Fengyue deliberately raised her voice so that the people inside the cabin could hear her more clearly.

Shangguan Xue'er asked curiously, "Could such a wooden house have been inhabited by some remarkable person?"

Jiang Fengyue nodded and smiled, "This is the former residence of the great poet Lu You."

Upon hearing the name, Shangguan Xue'er was startled and exclaimed, "If it's true, who could afford to live in a house like this?"

Jiang Fengyue said loudly, "Of course he's the richest person in the world, am I right, Grandpa Huo?"

This was said to the people inside the room.

Upon hearing this name, Shangguan Feiyan's expression changed. She couldn't understand how Jiang Fengyue could guess who was in the room.

With a creak, the door of the wooden house opened, and a very short old man opened it. He sighed and said, "Come in."

"Check-in!"

"Successfully checked in with Huo Xiu and gained five years of internal energy."

Lu Xiaofeng was indeed in the wooden house, holding a half-finished glass of Persian red wine.

Huo Xiu complained to Lu Xiaofeng, "It's all your fault. Now look what's happened, I can't even stay here anymore."

Jiang Fengyue smiled and said, "Why can't I stay here?"

Huo Xiu sighed, "Now that people know I live here, how can I possibly stay here any longer?"

He was a reclusive and quiet person. Although he was the richest man in the world, he preferred to live the life of a hermit and disliked letting people see his true face.

Huo Xiu turned his head again, stared at Jiang Fengyue, and slowly said, "Young man, I see that you have an extraordinary aura and can see the intricacies of this wooden house. You must be the young master of some wealthy family."

Jiang Fengyue shook her head and smiled, "Those who can tell the origin of this house are not necessarily rich people; they might even be archaeologists."

Huo Xiu smiled, patted Lu Xiaofeng on the shoulder, and said, "When you want to escape, perhaps no one in the world can catch you. It's just a pity that there are many other things in the world besides people."

This time, Lu Xiaofeng was finally unable to escape by crashing through someone else's roof, so he had no choice but to walk out of the wooden house through the doorway.

Shangguan Xue'er pointed to the carriage at the door, gestured for it to proceed, and said, "Our princess is waiting for you in the carriage. Please go up quickly."

Lu Xiaofeng asked in surprise, "Get in the car? And then?"

Shangguan Xue'er said mysteriously, "Then this carriage will take you to a place you've never seen before. Once we get there, I guarantee you won't regret it."

Lu Xiaofeng took a few more steps outside, laughing as he went, "Of course I won't regret it, because I wouldn't have gone in the first place."

Shangguan Xue'er was taken aback, clearly not expecting Lu Xiaofeng to do this. She exclaimed, "Why aren't you going?"

Lu Xiaofeng said, "Why would I go to an unfamiliar place with strangers?"

Shangguan Xue'er then pulled out her gold ingots, tossed them high in the air, and laughed, "If you agree to go with us, we have plenty of gold to give you!"

Lu Xiaofeng did not respond and continued walking out.

Shangguan Xue'er shouted, "Don't you like gold?"

Lu Xiaofeng said, "I like gold, but I won't risk my life for it."

Shangguan Xue'er asked, "Then why were you willing to risk your life?"

Lu Xiaofeng said, "For my own sake."

Shangguan Xue'er said, "Besides this, is there nothing in the world worth risking your life for?"

Lu Xiaofeng said, "No."

Shangguan Xue'er said, "You won't even do it for Hua Manlou? You should at least know Hua Manlou; he's already waiting for you there."

Lu Xiaofeng suddenly burst into laughter, as if he had heard something very funny. He laughed loudly, "If you can control Hua Manlou, what in the world can't you do? Why bother coming to me?"

Shangguan Xue'er said, "You don't believe me?"

Lu Xiaofeng said, "I don't believe it."

Jiang Fengyue, who was standing to the side, interjected, "Although children often lie, she didn't lie in this matter at all."

Shangguan Xue'er shouted, "Who's a child? I'm not a child! I'm Princess Danfeng's cousin! Princess Danfeng is nineteen years old, and I'm already twenty!"

Jiang Fengyue ignored her. A twelve-year-old pretending to be twenty was far-fetched no matter how you looked at it.

Lu Xiaofeng smiled and said, "If that's the case, could this young master tell me why Hua Manlou went there?"

Jiang Fengyue sighed, "It's because he trusts everyone too much, and a young girl ran up to him and won his sympathy. It's obviously not difficult for these two girls to go to such lengths to find you and use some tricks to fool Hua Manlou."

The more Shangguan Feiyan listened in the carriage, the darker her face became, as if she were the lying girl Jiang Fengyue was talking about.