After Liu Qingshuang understood the case in detail and recorded it, more than an hour had passed. Xue Chen saw that there was no need to stay any longer, so he stood up and left.
Huo Shaolin stood up to see him off, but was rejected by Xue Chen: "Mr. Huo, please sit down and rest. You don't need to see me off. I know the way myself."
Huo Shaolin looked directly at Xue Chen and nodded lightly without saying anything, but his eyes had changed a lot from the past.
Standing in front of the damaged villa gate, Liu Qingshuang asked Xue Chen in a low voice, who was about to go down the mountain: "Do you really not know the identity of this old gentleman?"
"My family must be very rich, otherwise I wouldn't be able to live in such a nice villa. I'm not sure about the details." Xue Chen glanced at the courtyard with admiring eyes.
"Then you're not curious to know? After all, you saved his life." Liu Qingshuang said with a smile.
Xue Chen smiled and said nothing. Although he had not asked, nor had he specifically investigated the old man who he knew Yue Yu and practiced boxing with every morning, but he could roughly figure it out by relying on some speculation.
You guessed it, it's almost like ten.
"And Mr. Huo's family should be arriving soon. If you don't stay to meet them, I think they will be very grateful to you as a great benefactor. Maybe they will give you a big red envelope worth 1.8 million yuan." Liu Qingshuang smiled.
said.
"If I really got a red envelope, I'll give it to you." After waving goodbye to Liu Qingshuang, Xue Chen walked down the mountain with his hands behind his back.
Liu Qingshuang stood at the door of the villa and looked at Xue Chen's walking back. Suddenly, a two-line poem that she had read by chance and liked very much popped up in her heart: When the matter is over, you can leave behind and hide your merit and fame.
Although she said she was joining forces with Mr. Huo, she concluded in her heart that Xue Chen basically did it alone. She couldn't bring down six kidnappers with their heads tied to their waistbands and holding weapons. In her opinion, it was his brother.
It may not be possible to do it, and even if it is done, it will not be so easy and freehand.
"Freak!" Thinking of some of the methods and abilities that Xue Chen had shown to her before, Liu Qingshuang gently spit out these two words from her pink and thin lips.
Less than ten minutes after Xue Chen came down the mountain, two luxury cars sped over. It was Mr. Huo’s son and family members who arrived. When they were notified that the villa had been broken into by gangsters who wanted to kidnap them, the Huo family immediately drove from Su
Nan Huo rushed over and saw the old gentleman sitting on the sofa in the living room safe and sound, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The Huo family expressed their gratitude to Liu Qingshuang, but Liu Qingshuang explained the matter clearly and did not accept the easy credit, and explained the case simply and clearly.
"Then he saved my dad?" Surprise flashed in Huo Shaolin's son's deep eyes. He could hardly remember the face of the young man who had met him even once from afar.
The next day, Xue Chen came to the edge of the Lotus Pond as usual, and at the moment of sunrise in the east, Gu Yu sucked in a wisp of spiritual energy out of thin air, feeling satisfied.
Nearly a month of getting up early has not been wasted. Now the spiritual energy in the ancient jade has reached 40%, and it will be close to half soon!
"Two more months..."
Taking a deep breath of the cool air, Xue Chen turned around and walked towards the woods.
He saw Huo Shaolin from a distance, but unlike in the past, Huo Shaolin was not boxing today, but stood by the lake and looked at the water. The bodyguards in the distance were no longer two, but five.
indivual!
When Xue Chen approached, Huo Shaolin nodded: "Xue boy, you are here."
"Yeah." Xue Chen walked over and stood aside, watching the lake with him.
After a while, Huo Shaolin let out a long sigh and said with some reluctance: "I'm afraid I won't be able to teach you boxing in the future, and I won't be able to practice boxing here. My family insists that I go back to Sunan."
"Oh." Xue Chen understood very well. After such an incident, his family must have been frightened out of their wits. Naturally, they would not let the old man stay alone in this villa in the wilderness.
"Although we have not known each other for a long time, Mr. Xue, you are indeed very good and very good. I am also willing to teach you boxing. I didn't expect you to be grateful to me. I didn't expect that you saved me once, but I was the one who saved my life."
I have to thank you." Huo Shaolin said with a smile.
Xue Chen touched his nose and smiled too.
"I can no longer urge you to practice boxing every day like I did in the past, but you can't waste it either."
After listening to Huo Shaolin's instructions, Xue Chen fully agreed.
Finally, Huo Shaolin took out a piece of paper from his pocket, with an address and phone number on it: "If you go to southern Jiangsu, you can find me here."
"Okay, I will." Xue Chen took the piece of paper and said, "My new store in southern Jiangsu may be opening soon. I will go there every three to five. I will definitely bother Mr. Huo.
, I’m asking for two meals a day, and if I don’t understand anything about my boxing skills, I still need to ask you for advice.”
"Okay, okay, you're welcome at any time." Huo Shaolin smiled broadly, reached out and patted Xue Chen's shoulder heavily, with a more serious look on his face, "Xue boy, you should have noticed that my family still has some money.
Yes, I have some influence in Yunzhou Province. If you encounter any trouble or need my help, just ask, I, Huo Shaolin, am not a person who refuses to repay a favor."
Xue Chen touched his chin and said thoughtfully, "I really have something I want to talk to Mr. Huo about."
"Huh?" Huo Shaolin paused and motioned for Xue Chen to speak out. He was really curious about what Xue Chen would say. Would he ask him to do something? Or...
"Mr. Huo is going back to Sunan City. I'm afraid he won't be back here again in a short time, right?" Xue Chen asked thoughtfully.
"Well, I won't hide it from you. I'm afraid there won't be many opportunities. Although I don't want to be old, I have to lament that the years are ruthless." Huo Shaolin shook his head.
"So, can you sell that villa to me?" Xue Chen pointed at the villa halfway up the mountain.
Huo Shaolin was stunned for a moment, turned to look at the villa halfway up the mountain, and was very surprised: "Do you want to buy that villa?" He thought that Xue Chen would ask him for something, but he never expected that Xue Chen actually wanted to buy the villa. He looked at
Xue Chen was surprised.
"Yes, to be honest, I liked it very much the first time I went there. Of course, if it's inconvenient, Mr. Huo doesn't have to be embarrassed, just pretend I didn't say anything." Xue Chen said with a smile.
Huo Shaolin began to think rapidly, and after a moment, he said slowly: "Xue boy, since you like it there, just move in. If it is empty, it will be empty, and you will not be charged rent."
"Thank you Mr. Huo for your kindness, but is it really inconvenient to take action? Or does Mr. Huo think I can't afford the price?" Xue Chen asked with a raised corner of his mouth.
Huo Shaolin's face was a bit unnatural. He had indeed thought that Xue Chen might not be able to pay the price, so he retreated and asked for free accommodation for Xue Chen.
After Xue Chen returned from the mountainside villa for the first time, he also deliberately learned about the prices of villa areas around Haicheng City. Based on the geographical location and the specifications and decoration of the villa, he estimated a similar price in his mind.
"How about twenty million, Mr. Huo?"
This villa is strategically located next to the lotus pond with beautiful mountains and clear waters. Normally, it is not allowed to build residences next to the lotus pond. Obtaining permission is not a simple matter. It can be said to be the only one. There is no other permission.
The value of a villa is definitely higher than that of a normal villa.
Huo Shaolin twitched his eyebrows, glanced at Xue Chen unexpectedly, and said with a surprised smile: "Xue boy, I have never asked you what you do before. I originally thought you might be a teacher in a school, or work in a government department.
But after what happened yesterday, I know that I guessed wrong. Now it looks very different from what I thought. Could it be that my family runs a company?"
Even ordinary company bosses have to think carefully about spending 20 million in cash to buy a villa casually. You must know that some well-known companies with total assets worth hundreds of millions may only have this amount of liquidity.
Xue Chen had nothing to hide and said bluntly: "My parents are farmers, and I don't own a company. I just open an antique store and do some side jobs on weekdays."
"Opening an antique shop?" Huo Shaolin was very surprised. In his impression, most of the people who play antiques are in their forties or fifties, and they look stale. Otherwise, how could they have that kind of vision?
"Mr. Huo, what do you think of the price I just gave?"
Huo Shaolin thought for a while: "Xue boy, since you have fallen in love with that villa, I will live in it for you. After all, I have lived here for several years, and I don't want to see it become deserted. As for the price,
, just do half of what you said."
Ten million? This price can buy the most ordinary villa around Haicheng. It is far from the real value of the villa halfway up the mountain beside the lotus pond.
But before Xue Chen could speak, Huo Shaolin said without hesitation: "Xue boy, hurry up, don't talk about mother-in-law and mother-in-law, and don't say those nonsense, just do as I say. If you are not satisfied, then forget it.
I won’t sell it, you can live there if you like, and you can live there as long as you like.”
Looking at the frowning Mr. Huo, Xue Chen hesitated for a moment and then did not refuse. He nodded and agreed to the cabbage price of 10 million.
"That's right, well, tomorrow, when you come here, someone will be waiting for you in the villa to sign the transaction contract." Huo Shaolin nodded happily and smiled, "If I come back in the future, I will be a guest at your home."
"Don't worry, when Mr. Huo comes to visit, I will sweep the bed and prepare a sumptuous meal. It won't be just plain porridge and steamed buns." Xue Chen said with a smile.
"What? You think I'm serving you porridge and steamed buns, and you feel dissatisfied and shabby?" Huo Shaolin pretended to be angry.
"How could it be? If you were not satisfied, why would you eat so much?" Xue Chen replied with a smile.
"That's true, what you eat in one meal alone is almost as much as my rations for a week." Huo Shaolin squinted at the lake and let out a long sigh of relief.
"I'm leaving tomorrow. I really can't bear to leave these mountains and waters."
"Um."
The old man and the young man stood by the lake. They didn't say anything for a long time, just looking at the rippling lake surface quietly. (To be continued)