Chapter 630: Two Familiar Names (1/2)

Lin Mu got interested in this so called Council of merchants and asked more about it. He discovered that it was composed of ten merchants, some of which represented large and prominent merchant families.

Though there were two names that caught Lin Mu's attention. The first name was none other than the Mu clan which Wu Hei had visited in his younger years. This was also the clan from which Lin Mu had disguised himself as.

The second name that caught his attention was actually an individual merchant who had made his own company and grown it quite a bit. He recently reached the point where he had managed to buy a position in the council by outbidding others.

This individual merchant was actually someone Lin Mu had met before, Jingming Shang!

”Tell me more about the Mu clan and Jingming Shang.” Lin Mu asked.

”Hmm… the Mu clan is in a difficult state right now.” The waiter spoke.

”Oh? Why's that?” Lin Mu questioned.

”We do not know exactly why, as the matter was suppressed by both the royal family and the other members of the merchant council, but we do know that the Mu clan has fallen greatly in their status.

Even their position in the merchant council is now threatened and could be taken away at any moment.” The waiter replied.

”But how could such a drastic change happen?” Lin Mu asked further, having a bad feeling about it.

”It hall happened around three years ago. The people of the Mu clan suddenly went into hiding, and only a few external workers were left to run their businesses. Of course, this couldn't be kept up as without the guidance of the main members, the businesses started to fall into a loss.

The clan didn't reappear for about two years and even the merchant council wondered if they were okay or not. They sent many letters to the clan, but all of them were unanswered. If it were not for the fact that the Mu clan had several cultivators, the merchants might have even gone to visit them directly.

But then about a year ago, the clan reappeared, or more like their people did. The person that appeared was not someone we had expected though. The person was the youngest son of the Mu clan patriarch, Mu Tao.

He is the one who took over the administrative part of his clan and declared that their patriarch had passed away. The merchants were suspicious about it and did their own investigations.

They ended up finding out that the majority of Mu clan's people were killed two years ago one a single night!” The waiter revealed.

Lin Mu's brows were raised after hearings the words of the waiter. He even doubted the authenticity of his words, but then realized that he could confirm this very well himself.