There Will Be Big Trouble

Feng Jiuwu hastily slipped away.

An engineering mother who kept urging for marriage was someone she could not afford to provoke, but she could at least hide from her!

…

“Did you hear? The Wei family in Qingyun City was investigated, and several people including Wei Zhong were arrested.”

“I heard about this too. Even Lord Wei was implicated. I’m afraid he won’t be able to keep his official hat.”

“That young lady’s family background is indeed not small.”

“She and the young master, I think they are a good match. It would be quite nice if they could be together.”

The next day, Luo Chen arrived at his shop.

The two shops had already been connected.

People no longer had to squeeze on the street, and there was a place to sit, so even more people gathered inside the shop.

Before Luo Chen even entered the shop, he heard all kinds of discussions inside.

“The young master is here!”

“Hello, young master.”

“Young master, I have been coming for ten consecutive days. Can you give me a spot today?”

Seeing Luo Chen enter the shop, the one to two hundred people waiting inside all greeted him one after another.

“Boss.”

Chen Guiyuan said respectfully.

Luo Chen nodded with satisfaction. With Chen Guiyuan helping to run things, the shop was much cleaner than usual.

Moreover, the ink had already been ground, and the tea was also being brewed.

“Everyone, number seventeen, number seventy-three, number one hundred and forty-five!”

Luo Chen asked the system and then spoke.

Number seventeen quickly sat before him.

This was a woman in her thirties.

“Young master, calculate for me. My man fell into the water and died, and I don’t know where he hid the property deed to our house.”

The woman was well-dressed. Though she was a bit older, she still possessed some beauty.

Luo Chen smiled: “Let us calculate the past first. You joined him thirteen years ago. He does business and only returns for a few days a month.”

“However, he gave you a lot of money every month, and you did not care that he could not return.”

The woman frowned: “Young master, you do not need to say anything else. Just tell me where the property deed is.”

“I will give you ten times the fortune-telling fee.”

Luo Chen’s tone was flat: “The fortune-telling fee is only one tael. I must still say what needs to be said.”

“The two of you were together for thirteen years and had no children. A while ago, you wanted to sell the house and leave Qingling City with your lover, only to find that the property deed was missing.”

The woman’s expression changed.

She said somewhat shrilly, “That dead ghost was not at home most of the time. What is wrong with me finding someone to comfort myself? Now that he is dead, there is no problem with me remarrying!”

Luo Chen let out a light laugh: “But he is not dead. His falling into the water and the failure to find his corpse were all fake. He just wanted to use this opportunity to throw you off.”

“He has a wife and family.”

“The property deed is naturally in his hands.”

The onlookers all began to discuss. Neither of these two could really look down on the other.

The woman thought she was the original wife, but turned out to be just a mistress.

While being a mistress, she had also secretly kept a young gigolo.

“You are talking nonsense!”

“He is definitely dead, and the house is mine! Do you know where the property deed is and want to swallow that house? I tell you, stop dreaming!”

The woman was incredibly furious.

Luo Chen took a sip of tea and said unhurriedly, “He will come find you very soon. When the time comes, you will understand everything. The fortune-telling fee is one tael of silver, thank you.”

The woman was very annoyed, but she still gave the money.

She had long inquired that if one did not pay the money here, there would be big trouble.

Number seventy-three sat before Luo Chen.

It was an old man in his eighties or nineties, supported by his grandson as he sat on the chair.

“Young master, my grandfather heard about you and insisted on coming to find you.”

“Please calculate for my grandfather.”

The old man’s grandson spoke very politely. He was dressed simply, but the jade pendant on his waist was obviously valuable at a glance.

Luo Chen estimated that the jade pendant was worth at least one hundred thousand taels.

He was truly wealthy.

The old man tremblingly pulled out a neatly folded, already yellowed piece of paper from his pocket.

“Young master, this is the suicide note written by my comrade before he died. He saved my life and asked me to return to hand this suicide note into the hands of his family.”

“But I am useless. I did not find his family.”

The old man shed turbid tears from his eyes.

The grandson beside him continued, “Young master, this matter has been my grandfather’s lifelong regret. Please help. We will definitely show our deep gratitude.”

The system transmitted some of the old man’s situation into Luo Chen’s mind, and Luo Chen instantly felt great admiration in his heart.

The old man had been a soldier in the past and suffered a lot of hardships fighting for the country.

Later, he did business and made a lot of money. The silver he donated to the families of his fallen comrades alone exceeded one million taels.

“Old Master Jiang, you had a comrade named Fang Lin.”

“That year you were twenty-two, and he was three years older than you. When he enlisted, his family already had a two-year-old child. You were friends, and he looked after you quite a bit.”

The old man looked at Luo Chen with both shock and joy.

This was a matter from decades ago, yet Luo Chen could actually calculate it.

Although he heard from his grandson that Luo Chen was very formidable, he had actually not harbored much hope.

After all, too many years had passed!

“Yes, yes, young master, what you said is correct! Young master, where are Brother Fang’s family members now?”

“I cannot find them. I have let Brother Fang down.”

The old man’s face was full of tears, and his voice carried a crying tone as he spoke.

Luo Chen hastily said, “Old gentleman, do not be too excited! Fang Lin’s wife and child are both living well.”

“After Fang Lin enlisted, his father passed away.”

“Fang Lin’s wife and child then returned to the countryside to observe mourning.”

“Later, knowing that Fang Lin had sacrificed himself, they continued to live in the countryside. I will write down the address, and you can go find them!”

Picking up the writing brush, Luo Chen wrote down the address of Fang Lin’s family.

“Young master, thank you, thank you!”

The old man stood up and was about to bow.

Luo Chen stepped aside: “Old gentleman, do not do this. Isn’t this shortening my life?”

Seeing that Luo Chen had avoided it, the old man did not insist on saluting.

He turned his head to look at his grandson: “Xiao Yun, did you bring the thing I told you to bring?”

The old man’s grandson was named Jiang Yun, and he hastily said: “Grandfather, I brought it.”

As he spoke, Jiang Yun pulled out a property deed.

“Young master, come with me to the government office to transfer the ownership, and this house will belong to you. The house is not far from here, a three-entry courtyard.”

Jiang Yun’s words astounded the one to two hundred people around them.

A three-entry courtyard not far away was worth at least fifty thousand taels of silver.

Luo Chen was stunned for a moment. They were indeed truly wealthy.

If he accepted it, the three-entry courtyard he wanted to save money to buy would be directly in his hands.

The system did not forbid this.

However, doing so would break the rules Luo Chen had set for himself.

He possessed the system, and the system’s capability was very great. If he had no bottom line and relied on spying on other people’s memories to make money, it would be too easy.

At first, there might not be any major problems.

But once a bottom line was broken, one would have less of a bottom line and fewer principles!

Luo Chen did not want to become that kind of person.

“Sir, please keep this item.”

“I accept the fortune-telling fee, but I do not accept gifts. I only take what I should take and absolutely nothing extra. This is my rule. My apologies.”

Luo Chen refused.

The surrounding people looked at him in disbelief.

Luo Chen had also refused some items before, but those items were not considered too valuable.

The tea set given by Zhang Yuntian was considered the most expensive, and it was only worth one thousand taels of silver.