klisemfg Chapter 276 Official Duties Are Buying Houses
Chapter 276 Official Duties Are Buying Houses
Li Lianhua glanced helplessly at the direction where Wu You and Nan Feng were hiding, but did not refuse. She waited for the host to come out, as she also wanted to ask him any questions.
"Master, please wait a moment." Li Lianhua stopped an abbot who was about to leave.
"What urgent matter do you have, benefactor?" Liao Yuan looked at the stranger in front of him and stopped pushing the wheelchair.
"My name is Li Lianhua. I have two questions I would like to ask the master. May I ask?"
"Amitabha, what troubles you, benefactor?" Liao Yuan chanted a Buddhist prayer.
"Master, you're not from around here, are you?"
"Times have changed, and I have been here for more than ten years."
"Master, you are unable to walk properly. I wonder why you chose to come to this small mountain town?" Li Lianhua said, pointing to the wheelchair beneath Liao Yuan.
“My legs were lost in the wildfire. Now that the King of Hell has appeared in the world, the people are suffering. If I can help the dead be reborn in the Pure Land, what does my little inconvenience matter?”
Liaoyuan: I came here with healthy legs, but they were broken by the wildfire, and I can no longer leave this place.
"Master, your merits are immeasurable. I wish to meet this King Yama. I wonder if you could show me the way to the Yellow Springs?" Li Lianhua said these unusual words with a serious expression.
"Everyone goes to that place after they die, so why are you in such a hurry, benefactor?" If you're so eager to die, you could just send yourself to meet the King of Hell with a single stab.
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"Buying a house? Is this what you meant by 'official business'?" Fang Duobing looked at his mother with surprise, then at the new house in front of him.
"It's still about ten days away from our home by horse-drawn carriage, why did you come here to buy a house?"
"Hey, do you even know what 'money making money' means?"
He Xiaohui looked at Fang Duobing with disapproval and pulled him inside.
"See, I told you long ago to take over our family business, but you wouldn't listen. With the current emperor being wise and the country prosperous and the people living in peace and contentment, it's the perfect time to buy property everywhere."
He Xiaohui, with an air of fervor and confidence, spoke to Fang, who was often ill, in detail.
"Our Tianji Hall has seized every investment opportunity, which is why we have achieved our current prosperity and why you are living such a carefree life. This time, your father is returning to the capital to report on his duties. Along the way, Li'er and I have already bought 36 houses and thousands of acres of fertile land, hahahahaha."
"Are you afraid my dad will stop you from buying things?" Fang Duobing saw right through his mother.
“I’m not afraid at all, son. You don’t know this place. It’s rich in hot springs, and this house is backed by the mountain. It’s quiet and cool, perfect for making a hot spring well.”
He Xiaohui continued to plan her newly purchased courtyard.
"I plan to build a beauty hot spring with eighteen pools here, to compete with the beauty hot spring in Nanshan, and it will surely be famous in the southwest."
Fang Duobing was bored listening to his mother's "grand plans" but didn't want to interrupt her.
"The only downside is that, uh, the backyard once caught fire, and it burned quite badly, so we need to find someone to repair it."
"It caught fire! Isn't this a haunted house? Why did you still buy it?" Isn't Mother afraid that someone died in this house? And yet she still bought it.
“The haunted house is cheap. Do you think we have a lot of money? We saved up this and that by cutting back on everything. It’s alright, I’ve already asked the local abbot to perform a ritual to help the deceased pass on.”
"Do you know that this house usually sells for 5000 taels of silver? Do you know how much your mother bought it for?"
He Xiaohui spoke of this with a face full of pride, and before Fang Duobing could answer, she continued to say it to herself.
"Fifty taels, how about that? Your mother has good taste, right? Praise me, praise me!"