Chapter 482: Unexpected Harvest
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
18th year of Minghua in the Great Chang Nation, 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, sunny.
The clear winter sky spread out above the snow-covered city. On the wide streets of Fu City, there were people sweeping the snow from time to time.
There were also two very low-key carriages that slowly left the prefecture capital.
The carriage in front was filled with all kinds of random items.
There were also three men inside who looked at each other for a long time.
Because the weather was too cold, Old Madam w.a.n.g made the decision to buy another carriage.
She also hired two specialized carriage drivers.
To be precise, she had bought two people.
Old Madam w.a.n.g had bought these two people from the agent. According to the agent, a large family’s a.s.sets had been confiscated and all the servants under them had been sold. These two people were not strong and ate a lot. After transferring among a few buyers, they were returned.
Fortunately, they could still drive the carriages, so Old Madam w.a.n.g spent two taels of silver to buy them.
If it was the day before, w.a.n.g Chuanfu’s men would definitely have come to persuade Old Madam w.a.n.g again. For example, he would say that they already had enough servants now, so they did not need to buy servants from outside at all.
Even Tang Yuan was not bought because they wanted to.
But now, the three of them no longer had such thoughts.
This was because not long ago, Old Madam w.a.n.g had directly bought two properties, the two that the agent had introduced.
The property listed for 1,300 taels of silver was bought by Old Madam w.a.n.g, less the agent fee.
The property listed for 1,000 taels of silver even came with some second-hand furniture.
She also found out what had happened in that property, it turned out that there had been a murder in that house. More than half of the masters had been killed. Later on, when the constables went to investigate the case, a constable was seriously injured.
The family felt that the house was very ominous and wanted to sell it.
They had managed to deceive a few people into buying it before. But later on, those who lived there either became sick or injured. All of them rushed to resell the house and eventually, it became a sack of hot potatoes.
Old Madam w.a.n.g was the least afraid of these things and bought the house at a low price.
However, Old Madam w.a.n.g did not intend to let her family live there. Instead, she said to w.a.n.g Chuanman, “We’ve stayed at the Mighty Escort Agency for the night. We should at least thank them. Find a place to hold a banquet and invite them over for a meal.”
At the same time, she could have them come and take a look at the w.a.n.g Family’s new home in the prefecture capital.
w.a.n.g Chuanman treated the brothers of the escort agency to a meal and asked everyone to enter the house to investigate.
Only then did they realize that there was a secret pa.s.sage in the house. The secret pa.s.sage was actually connected to another underground s.p.a.ce. In that underground s.p.a.ce, there were actually many beasts.
They were very ferocious.
There were also the bones of people who had been eaten.
This alarmed Magistrate Wei.
Magistrate Wei brought people over to take a look and found out that among the clues left behind by the corpses, there was actually a bandit, w.a.n.g Yang, and the murderer of this murder case.
There was also evidence of the research that this family had originally done underground.
The house was sealed up by the officials.
Originally, the house would have been confiscated. But who asked Magistrate Wei to know Old Madam w.a.n.g? He naturally took another method.
The officials came forward to evaluate the true value of the house. In the end, they concluded that with the two courtyards above and the s.p.a.ce underground, coupled with the fact that the murder case was over, the house would be bought by the government at the normal price.
In the end, it was a.s.sessed that the property was worth 1,800 taels.
In just two days, Old Madam w.a.n.g had earned 800 taels.
Without another word, she looked for the agent and bought a bigger property. This time, the price was not much lower and she spent another 1,300 taels.
This was not the end. After buying two properties, Old Madam w.a.n.g went to look at the shops and bought two. This cost another 900 taels of silver..