ebookland Chapter 477 1 Friend
Chapter 477 1 Friend
The middle-aged man said, "I see it's not easy for you to buy a house at such a young age, so I'll give you a cheaper price of 70 gold coins. What do you think?"
Chu Xiaomu was pleasantly surprised to think that he could buy such a nice house at such a low price. He planned to give most of the remaining money to his Uncle Bai and his family for daily expenses.
Seeing Chu Xiaomu remained silent, the middle-aged man said, "Seventy gold is the price I sold it to others. I see that you two look friendly, so how about this? You pay sixty gold and the house will belong to you."
Chu Xiaomu couldn't believe his ears and said excitedly: "This...this...this is too..." As he spoke, he took out his purse from his pocket.
The middle-aged man asked, "Little brother, what's too much?"
Chu Xiaomu couldn't find the right words for a moment, and said, "This is too... too that."
The middle-aged man sighed, looked up at the sky, and then acted very embarrassed and said, "I think today is a good day, I will give you a discount, fifty gold! This is the lowest price."
Chu Xiaomu and Xiaoying looked at each other in bewilderment. They couldn't believe that they were short of twenty gold without even saying anything. That was a considerable amount of money.
The middle-aged man urged, "Little brother, you have to give me a word whether it is successful or not."
Chu Xiaomu nodded slowly.
The middle-aged man was afraid that Chu Xiaomu would go back on his word, so he hurriedly took out a piece of paper from his arms and said, "This is the deed. Take a good look at it. If you have no objection, sign and stamp it." Then he took out a pen, dipped it in his saliva, and wrote the three words "Fifty Gold" on the corner of the deed.
Chu Xiaomu didn't understand what a "house deed" was, but he could roughly understand what was written inside. What it meant was that both parties reached an agreement, and after Chu Xiaomu paid fifty gold, the house would belong to him.
Chu Xiaomu couldn't help but laugh in his heart. He didn't expect that Qisheng actually earned himself a big house. He could be considered a house owner now.
So he wrote the three words "Chu Xiaomu" crookedly on the house deed, then dipped his right thumb in red mud and pressed his own fingerprint.
The middle-aged man counted the bag of gold coins that Chu Xiaomu handed over, and found that there were exactly fifty coins. He then happily stuffed a key into Chu Xiaomu's hand, bowed and said, "Business people believe in 'benefiting others is also beneficial to oneself'. Little brother, you are quick to act and will surely be a very lucky person in the future."
Chu Xiaomu didn't know how to answer him, so he just bowed his hands to show politeness.
The middle-aged man added: "From today on, this house belongs to you two. I wish you happiness and a baby soon. We will meet again if we are lucky." After that, he rode away.
After the middle-aged man walked away, Xiaoying asked, "Brother Xiaomu, what does he mean by 'couple'?"
Chu Xiaomu naturally meant the couple, but it was difficult to tell Xiaoying directly, so he said, "People here count people by mouth. 'One mouth' means one person, and 'two mouths' means two people."
Xiaoying said, "Using your mouth to count the number of people, isn't this too weird?"
Chu Xiaomu smiled and said, "That's right, two people are just two people, why call them 'couple'?"
Xiaoying said, "But Sister Xiaoxuan said that when we go out, we should follow the customs of the locals to avoid arousing suspicion. They call us 'couple', so we are 'couple'."
Chu Xiaomu hummed repeatedly and didn't dare to answer.
"No, no, when we go to Bicheng, we have to include Sister Xiaoxuan. We can't call ourselves a couple anymore, we should call ourselves a couple of three. I'll talk to Sister Xiaoxuan about this later."
"No, no, you must not tell this to Sister Xiaoxuan."
"why not?"
"Anyway... it's just not possible. It might make her angry."
"How could that be? Sister Xiaoxuan is the best to me..."
The two returned to the ship and told everyone on Baihua Island that they had bought a house. Everyone was very happy and packed up their things and moved into the house together.
They didn't have much stuff with them to begin with, so they moved almost everything in two trips. They could move the remaining stuff another day since they had plenty of time anyway.
Of course, the big boat couldn't be abandoned, as it would be useful when they returned to Baihua Island. Baishantang arranged for two people to live on the boat every day to take care of it.
Chu Xiaomu took out another bag of gold shell coins from selling horses and handed it to Bai Shantang, saying that it was for everyone to spend. Bai Shantang knew that in this strange place, food and daily necessities had to be exchanged for these gold shell coins, so he did not refuse, but took out half and stuffed it back to Chu Xiaomu, saying that you will need it along the way, you can't give it all to us, and besides, we all have strength, so we can help others to exchange for these coins.
Chu Xiaomu had no choice but to accept it.
After lunch, the three of them reluctantly said goodbye to the people from Baihua Island and walked out of the house to the alley.
Chu Xiaomu said: "Sister Xiaoxuan, Yingying, I have to ask a friend to go with us."
The two hurriedly asked who it was. Chu Xiaomu pretended to be mysterious and said, "Sister Xiaoxuan might know him, but Yingying definitely doesn't."
Xiaoxuan was a little confused at this, thinking, how could I know your friend? We had only met once before at Baihuading.
Chu Xiaomu asked someone about Mo Haodong's residence. This young lady surnamed Mo was notorious in Baijun City, so everyone knew her and they would know her address with just one question.
Xiaoying said angrily: "You jerk, is the friend you are talking about that guy named Mo?!" As she said that, she came over and pulled his ears.
Chu Xiaomu jumped away in a hurry and said, "Of course it's not him. If I meet him again, I want to teach him a lesson!"
Xiaoying changed from anger to joy and said, "That's good, otherwise you will be in trouble."
The three of them walked for a while according to the route they had inquired about, and indeed they saw a long and high white wall with a huge manor inside, which was naturally the Mo family garden.
Chu Xiaomu jumped onto a big tree outside the wall, looked inside for a while, and then let out a few long howls. The howls were infused with the Force, sending the sound far away.
The two girls stood under the tree, puzzled, not knowing what this boy was doing.
After waiting for a while, he heard the sound of horse hooves from inside the wall. A majestic dark golden horse leaped out from the wall and landed steadily beside Chu Xiaomu, neighing around him.
Chu Xiaomu stroked Cheng Huang's mane on the back of his neck and said, "Huggies, you are so wronged these past two days."
The two girls were very curious and came over together, asking, "Is this horse your friend?"
Chu Xiaomu smiled and said, "Then who do you think it is?" He then asked Xiaoxuan if she knew it.
Xiaoxuan looked at it carefully, shook her head and said she didn't recognize it.
Chu Xiaomu whispered in her ear: "Qisheng is the divine horse riding yellow."
Xiaoxuan was suddenly shocked. She looked at Chenghuang in surprise, then at Chu Xiaomu, and could hardly believe her eyes.
Xiaoying came over and asked the two what they were whispering about. The two smiled and didn't answer. Xiaoying was so angry that she chased Chu Xiaomu and wanted to twist his ear again.
Chu Xiaomu dodged in a hurry.