Ms. Diviner: The Prodigal Daughter's Return

Chapter 743: 743 Ye Lanfeng was seen as a pretty boy

Although the village couldn’t yet be described as flourishing, Mu Hanyan could see the great potential in the workshop market. More importantly, the Heart-washing Sword Soul Pool was still hidden behind the village: her Cold Sky Sword was also there, only guarded by Qu Shanling alone, which seemed overly solitary and his daily necessities were also too inconvenient. It was better to have the Fang Family around for mutual support.

As for the Rong Family, she didn’t care about them at all. If they dared to cause trouble again, she would crush them! Buying this place could also provide a chance to help the Fang Family.

”Young Master Mu, are you serious about this?” Fang Xuemao asked with surprise and joy.

If he could cling to the Mu Family’s support, he wouldn’t have to worry about the Rong Family bothering them anymore. Such a good opportunity was something he couldn’t even dream of.

”Why would I deceive you for no reason?” Mu Hanyan laughed and said, ”Let’s sign the land deeds first, and then I’ll have someone notify the Nanyan Commerce.”

”Good, good.” Fang Xuemao, accidentally securing the support of the Mu Family, was naturally overjoyed. He quickly pulled out a stack of carefully preserved land deeds, handed one to Mu Hanyan, glanced over the others, shook his head with a sigh, and casually tossed them aside.

”How much?” Mu Hanyan glanced at it, confirming it was indeed the village’s land deed, and asked.

”It’s just a long-abandoned village, Young Master Mu; I can give it to you for free as long as you allow us to stay and have a place to settle down,” Fang Xuemao said, waving his hand.

The Fang Family’s current need was merely a place to stand on. As long as the Mu Family was willing to take over the village and continue to manage the workshop market restaurant and inn, allowing them to stay, the Rong Family wouldn’t dare to start trouble again, so how could he brazenly bring up money?

”That won’t do, I don’t have the habit of taking advantage of others. Just tell me how much you need in silver taels,” Mu Hanyan insisted, knowing what Fang Xuemao was thinking, not wanting them to suffer a loss. She pulled out a thick stack of silver notes and said.

Fang Xuemao’s eyes dazzled at the sight of the silver notes in Mu Hanyan’s hand.

That must be tens of millions of silver taels, at least. Situated in a strategic point near the Capital and having seen plenty of wealthy families and individuals with fortunes of tens of millions, it was indeed rare for someone to casually produce tens of millions in silver notes.

The Mu Family of Heishi City, which Mu Hanyan belonged to, was only one branch of the extended Mu Family. Fang Xuemao couldn’t imagine just how wealthy the main Mu Family branch must be?

What the elder didn’t know was that Mu Hanyan was separate from the Mu Family. If it really came down to talking about family treasures, even Mu Rui’an, the Lord City Master himself, often envied his own treasured daughter. Thinking of himself, the grand City Lord, he didn’t possess nearly as much money as his daughter.

”Our ancestor originally bought this village from the Royal Family for millions of patterned silver taels. However, it is now even more desolate and rundown than before, so I’ll reduce the price to fifty million taels,” Fang Xuemao thought it over and said. Seeing the fortune of Eldest Young Master Mu, he felt that any further formalities would be disrespectful to him.

”Alright.” Mu Hanyan, not being pretentious, took the deed, handed over fifty million taels in silver notes to Fang Xuemao, and also signed the contract.

”By the way, where are those land deeds from?” Mu Hanyan noticed the deeds Fang Xuemao had tossed aside and asked out of curiosity.

”They’re just some wilderness and forest nearby, not worth much,” Fang Xuemao handed them to Mu Hanyan.

Indeed, they were all deeds for some wilderness and forest areas. Ever since the ancient trade routes outside the village were closed, the village had become increasingly desolate, and naturally, the nearby wilderness and forests were even less valuable. No wonder Fang Xuemao was shaking his head and sighing as if they were just scrap paper, casually thrown aside.

Mu Hanyan was about to give the land deed back to Fang Xuemao, when suddenly a familiar voice rang in her mind, ”Buy it all, buy all of it.”

”You’re awake!” Mu Hanyan exclaimed with joy. Since they had left the Exotic Beast Valley, Star Illusion Thousand Machine had been in a deep sleep for a long time, and Mu Hanyan had been worried that he might continue to sleep indefinitely.

”First, buy all these land deeds, and also, never let anyone know of my existence,” Star Illusion Thousand Machine’s voice was more serious and alert than ever before.

After saying this, Star Illusion Thousand Machine fell silent again. Mu Hanyan had an intuition that he was guarding against something.

What could it be, Mu Hanyan thought subconsciously, sharpening her mental focus and paying attention to the surroundings, but she didn’t detect anything unusual.

Could it be someone close by? Mu Hanyan scanned the people around her, especially the Fang Family disciples, but still found nothing out of the ordinary.

”Young Master Mu?” Seeing Mu Hanyan silent and staring at the land deed as if lost in thought, Fang Xuemao called out cautiously.

”Family Head Fang, why don’t I just buy all these wilderness lands as well?” Mu Hanyan temporarily put aside the matter of Star Illusion Thousand Machine and said to Fang Xuemao.

”Young Master Mu, that’s absolutely unnecessary. You’ve already taken good care of our Fang Family by buying this village. These wilderness lands aren’t worth much, so if you want them, just take them. To talk of money again would be an insult to our Fang Family,” Fang Xuemao insisted firmly.

”No matter what, they are properties of your Fang Family; no matter how little they’re worth, I can’t just take them for free,” Mu Hanyan said with a smile.

Being noticed by Star Illusion Thousand Machine, these couldn’t just be simple wilderness forests; she didn’t want the Fang Family to suffer a loss.

”If you really insist on paying,” Fang Xuemao said with a bitter smile, ”then, give me ten thousand taels of patterned silver. That’s about how much it cost to buy these wilderness lands initially.”

Though they hadn’t known each other for long, he could tell Mu Hanyan was a person of her word and it was hard to refuse her further. So, he decided to sell them to Mu Hanyan at the original price.

”Alright, ten thousand taels then,” Mu Hanyan searched high and low and finally managed to find a silver note of ten thousand taels and handed it over to Fang Xuemao.

Looking at the pile of silver notes she had turned into a mess, even Ye Lanfeng couldn’t help but smile wryly. For an ordinary family, gathering ten thousand silver taels in a lifetime would be a dream; yet for her, the smallest denomination she carried were notes worth tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands taels. Finding a note of ten thousand taels was so difficult.

Being the lover of such a tycoon, a subtle sense crept into his heart that he might be seen as a gold-digger in the future.

Afterwards, Mu Hanyan and her companions bid farewell to Qu Shanling and headed towards the Capital. However, before they left, she specifically instructed Family Head Fang once again.

Heishi City was a distant journey away, and with Nanyan Commerce rapidly expanding, it wasn’t possible to send a large number of people in the short term. Thus, Mu Hanyan entrusted the workshop market restaurant and inn to the management of the Fang Family.

Her main reason for buying this territory was still the Heart-washing Sword Soul Pool and her Cold Sky Sword. With the additional hint from Star Illusion Thousand Machine, the workshop market restaurant and inn were less of a priority.

After one night, the carriage and the two Scale Armor Rhinoceros pulling it remained untouched in the same spot, not stolen by opportunists.