Chapter 18 (2/2)

But no matter how he looked at it, it was still much better than his run-down Lin Manor.

Three huge stone houses were situated within the courtyard and the exterior was encircled by a ten meters tall wall. Even the main door was made from a huge whole-piece of wood. Dyed in red, it gave off a solemn feeling.

He had been to quite the number of places in the village, despite not all of them, in these three days. They had also traversed almost half of the village along the way here. But he never saw a house similar to this one.

It was simply the square peg in the round hole in the village!

“Little Yi, do you think coming here so abruptly is a bit weird?”

Lin Hao halted his steps and asked in hesitation.

Seeing the stone courtyard, he felt like he was a poor relative coming to seek shelter. Or it could be said that he could not even be counted as a relative.

If the relations.h.i.+p between their families was not that good like what Fatty described, but instead it was an ordinary one, then he would be really throwing his face this time.

One could tell that the Nie Family was not an ordinary one with just a single glance. Being able to keep such a house in the village was impossible without some special status. If the relations.h.i.+p between their families was not bad, things would not turn ugly. But if the mastermind behind all of this was ……

Lin Hao shuddered suddenly when he had this thought.

But since they were already here, it was impossible to leave just like that.

“Second Uncle, don’t be intimidated by the house.”

Fatty, who heard those words, immediately reacted and continued, “These houses were built after your disappearance by that Nie Li chick for her father. You don’t know the many things that happened during these three years.”

“Tell me more about it.” Hearing this, Lin Hao asked in hurry.

Finally there’s a chance to beat around the bush.

(TL: 旁敲侧击 i don’t know what this is either but I think it meant he finally can probe for information here)

He relaxed his mind for a bit.

“It is like this.”

Fatty nodded his head then said, “There are altogether three big events that happened during these three years. The first one was that Zhu Mingyu managed to breakthrough and reached the perfection of Condensed Fighter Blood Stage but I don’t want to talk about him.”

Once the name ‘Zhu Mingyu’ was mentioned, he would remember how s.h.i.+ Dashan came to the Lin Family twice and kept mentioning Childe Zhu.

Although he did not know whether there were any relations between Zhu Mingyu and all of what happened, but he felt vexed by just hearing his name.

“What about the other two?”

Lin Hao furrowed his brows and asked.

These past few days, he had heard many people flattering Zhu Mingyu, a reputative figure. But he was the same as Fatty, hearing this name just worsened his mood. He thought that with Zhu Mingyu’s status, there were no reasons for him to covet Lin Family’s things so he did not pay him much attention. But in the case that he was really involved, then things would become problematic.

“Actually the other two events could be considered as one.”

Fatty then puffed his chest and said proudly, “A year ago, Great Master Li from Heavenly Eagle Tribe came to our village, saying that he wanted to craft a sword.

Great Master Li is very powerful. It was said that he has long since surpa.s.sed Condensed Fighter Blood Stage and is a real expert. He did not even put Zhi Mingyu in his sight. Against all expectations, he set his eyes on Nie Li, who had not even broken through the blood vessels’ restraint at that time, instead!”

Finis.h.i.+ng his words, faint excitement could be seen in eyes.

He had subconsciously treated Nie Li as his Second Uncle’s wife. Nie Li being powerful meant that his Second Uncle was powerful as well. Of course he would be excited!

On the other side, Lin Hao, who heard this, was perspiring cold sweat profusely.

He did not knew Fatty’s views on this matter, but he understood that although Nie Family did not have too much acc.u.mulation of either wealth or power, they had a daughter with shockingly incredible background. It was even much more incredible compared to the acc.u.mulative background of everyone in the village!

Moreover, this daughter with incredible background of theirs, was someone his ident.i.ty’s owner always dreamt of!

Now this is a big rip off!

(TL: 这下坑大了！I don’t know if i got this part right. As far as i know, it means “being cheated” or “got taken advantage by the others”)

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