Chapter 557: His Wife Is a Genius (1)
The smile on Dong Xuezhen’s face disappeared. He did not expect her to make such a request.
He didn’t want to sell the land, but he had just said that Mu Huan could approach the Dong family if she ever needed anything. She had saved what amounted to his life, so if he didn’t sell the land she wanted him to sell, then he would be too ungrateful.
However, that place was his home. It had memories of him and his wife to sustain him for the rest of his life. No matter what, he didn’t want it to disappear. He didn’t want her to disappear again. It felt like if it disappeared, there would be no more trace of his wife left in this world. It would be as if she had never existed, as if the past was just a dream.
Furthermore, his family had a history of Alzheimer’s. This illness had a high chance of being inherited. Now, his memory was no longer as good as before. If he didn’t have memories of the old house, he was afraid that one day, he would forget his wife.
Even if everyone in this world could forget her, only he couldn’t.
If he could sell the land, he would have sold it long ago given his relations.h.i.+p with the Bo family.
But if he didn’t sell it now, this…
If he sold it, he…
Meng Yueman frowned when she saw Dong Xuezhen’s face becoming increasingly sullen. Although it would be a huge loss if they couldn’t buy this piece of land, losing a few hundred million wouldn’t damage the relations.h.i.+p between the two families. She couldn’t let anyone know that the Bo family was blackmailing him.
Just as she was about to say something…
She could only hear the following.
Mu Huan continued, “Uncle Dong, I know that you don’t want to sell the land because it belongs to you and your wife.”
Mu Huan had never been a person who would blackmail others into repaying their kindness. She could understand the old man’s desire to keep his memories. Hence, she would not force him to sell his land to repay her kindness. However, she would not let her husband lose so much either. This would not do. If that did not work, then she would make peace!
Not only did she want Elder Dong to keep his memories, but she also wanted her husband to successfully develop this piece of land!
“Yes, that’s where we’ve lived all our lives. When I came back, I wanted to continue living there. If it weren’t for the fact that I really couldn’t sell it, I would have sold it to Junyan long ago.” Mu Huan had saved their lives, so she had raised this condition. If he didn’t sell it, it wouldn’t make sense. However, Dong Xuezhen really didn’t want to sell it. Hence, when he spoke, he looked reluctant.
He hoped that Mu Huan could make another request.
“Uncle Dong still wants to stay there, so you can just continue living there! Uncle Dong just needs to keep your family’s home and courtyard and sell the rest to my husband!”
The Dong family was a well-known family in Yun Cheng. Apart from the old house of the Dong family, the land of the Dong family included horse farms, gardens, theaters, and many other facilities. The total area was over a hundred acres.
“This…” Dong Xuezheng really didn’t know what to say. This was because Bao Junyan wanted to develop a commercial center and a residential area. If their family’s home got surrounded by skysc.r.a.pers and bustling commercial centers, how was he going to live in such an old house?
“Uncle Dong, are you afraid that the surroundings will be filled with skysc.r.a.pers to block the sunlight?”
“Yes.”
“Look at this map…” Mu Huan said as she took out a map of Yun Cheng.
“Uncle Dong, do you see the old temple here?” Bo Junyan had gone in to call Mu Huan, but she came out only after a while. It was because Mu Huan had prepared some things, including this map.
“Yes.” Dong Xuezheng did not know why she suddenly asked him to look at the map and the temple. However, he still nodded when she asked him about it.