Chapter 37 Linghu Chong!
Xin Zhen smiled helplessly and said, "It seems I have no choice but to accept it."

Liu Zhengfeng was overjoyed to see that Xin Zhen was willing to accept it. He waved Mi Weiyi over and whispered, "Go and get the box from my room from your mistress."

Mi Weiyi hurried over and brought out a not-so-big sandalwood box after a while.

Liu Zhengfeng took it without even looking at it, and put it next to Xin Zhen's hand and said, "Brother Xin, don't forget to take this."

Xin Zhen nodded.

There were hurried footsteps outside, and Fei Bin and others walked in quickly, followed by two people.

Xin Zhen took a look and saw that it was Lin Zhennan and his wife.

Fei Bin said with a look of relief: "Xin Tanhua, fortunately you have fulfilled your mission. We searched most of Hengshan City and indeed found a group of robbers holding hostages in a residential area.

After rescuing the people, we asked and found out that they were indeed Brother Lin’s parents.

What a coincidence! If I hadn't arrived just in time, they would have killed someone. I'm so lucky!"

When Lin Pingzhi saw Lin Zhennan and his wife, tears were about to flow. He quickly pulled Lin Zhennan and his wife behind Xin Zhen and asked excitedly, "Dad and Mom, are you not hurt?"

Xin Zhen ignored their family's conversation and looked at Lu Bai and said, "Brother Lu, the matter here is over. Let's go."

Lu Bai looked at Xin Zhen deeply, waved his hand and shouted: "Let's go!"

The people from Songshan left quickly.

The rest of the people in the hall also said goodbye to Liu Zhengfeng one after another. Thousands of people left in a short while, leaving the place in a mess.

Liu Zhengfeng wanted to stay and talk with Xin Zhen, but Xin Zhen shook his head and said, "Senior Brother Liu, go and arrange things quickly, there is no time to lose.

If you wait until the Songshan Sect comes to its senses, you won’t be able to leave.”

Liu Zhengfeng also knew that the situation was urgent, so he clasped his fists with Xin Zhen and immediately went back to make arrangements.

Xin Zhen did not leave immediately. Instead, he sent Liu Zhengfeng and his family on the boat, watched the boat leave from a distance, and then returned to Liu's house.

Liu Zhengfeng only took away some strong single servants, and the rest of the housekeepers and servants remained.

When Xin Zhen returned, the entire Liu Mansion had been cleaned up.

The butler was already waiting in the hall for Xin Zhen's instructions. Before leaving, Liu Zhengfeng had told the butler to follow Xin Zhen's instructions.

When the housekeeper asked Xin Zhen what to do with the land, houses and shops, Xin Zhen asked Lin Pingzhi to bring the sandalwood box and open it for inspection.

Inside were stacks of silver bills, land deeds, house deeds, shop deeds, etc., and even some wineries, dyeing factories, pawn shops, and rice shops.

Based on Xin Zhen's own experience and judgment, combined with the information from the housekeeper, the total value of these things is as high as 40,000 to 50,000 taels of wealth!

Such a huge wealth made Lin Zhennan and his wife astonished.

The housekeeper suggested that Xin Zhen stay to run these businesses and shops, thinking that it would be a pity to sell them and that staying to run them would maximize profits. If he sold them, he would lose at least 10,000 taels of silver.

Xin Zhen certainly knew this truth, but where did he find the time to run his business now?
So he followed the butler and sold all his properties, fields, shops, etc. It took about a few days to recover nearly 40,000 taels of funds, which was more than he had estimated before.

It turned out that Liu Zhengfeng's land was of very high quality. After several generations of management, the paddy fields were basically all top-quality land.

All industries have mature channels and skilled workers. Buyers can directly produce and ship goods after buying them. They are like hens that lay golden eggs, and the price can naturally be sold at a high price. On the contrary, the Liu family's mansion is not easy to sell. The main reason is that the mansion is too big and the decorations are extremely expensive. Not many people in Hengshan City can afford it, so it took a little longer.

However, after all, the location was good and the house was rare, so it was eventually bought by an official family in Hengshan, and Xin Zhen received 12,000 taels of silver.

Finally, Xin Zhen took inventory and found that the things left by Liu Zhengfeng were worth a total of 60,000 taels of silver.

This was an unexpected surprise.

Xin Zhen passed the imperial examination and became an official in recent years, but he remained incorruptible.

At the beginning, Shujishi were clean officials and had no benefits at all.

Later he became a magistrate, but Xin Zhen had great ambitions and naturally did not want to make mistakes with money.

Therefore, he did not make any money, and he often had to send money to his parents at home, so when he left his job, he only had a few dozen taels of silver in his pocket.

Xin Zhen laughed at himself, saying that he had worked diligently as an official but had not saved any wealth. Instead, he looked down on the world, but it was ironic that he was rewarded with a huge fortune of tens of thousands of taels as soon as he entered the world.

After dealing with things here, the four continued to head north. Lin Zhennan showed up and hired a small boat. This time they set out from Hengshan, heading north along the Xiang River, and then entered Dongting Lake and merged into the Yangtze River.

On this day, the boat was sailing on the Xiang River. The sea was calm all the way. At night, when it anchored in a small river bay, the sound of a waterfall hitting the pool could be heard not far away.

Xin Zhen suddenly became curious. He had never seen a waterfall, either in his previous life or in this life, and he immediately wanted to go and see it.

Seeing Xin Zhen's expression, Lin Pingzhi smiled and said, "Brother, just go ahead. With my current sword skills, even if there is an enemy attack, I can hold out for a quarter of an hour until you come back to help."

Xin Zhen smiled and nodded: "Okay, if you are attacked, just scream for help and I will come back immediately."

So Xin Zhen walked upstream along the river for only ten minutes, turned a corner, and saw a waterfall hitting a deep pool under the night sky.

A huge amount of water vapor blew towards me, which instantly made me feel cool and dispelled the summer heat.

Xin Zhen walked closer inside, where the moisture was even more plentiful. He took a deep breath of the fresh air mixed with moisture and shivered comfortably.

Just as he was about to whistle to express his joy, he suddenly heard a few clanging sounds not far away, as if someone was playing the piano.

"Eh? No way?"

Xin Zhen thought that more than ten days had passed, and Liu Zhengfeng and his family should have gone south to sea. They couldn't still be here, right?
Xin Zhen wanted to find out what was going on, so he walked inside. When he turned a corner, he saw a young man and a... little nun lying on the corner and peeking behind a rock.

Xin Zhen's sudden appearance startled both the young man and the little nun.

The young man protected the little nun behind him and whispered, "Who are you?"

Xin Zhen looked at the young man, then at the unusually beautiful little nun, and smiled and said, "Little Nun Yilin?"

Yi Lin clasped her hands together and said, "Greetings to Master Xin of Huashan Sword Sect."

They had seen it before at Liu Zhengfeng's house. The young man's face changed: "Huashan Sword Sect? When did Huashan have a Sword Sect?"

Xin Zhen smiled and said, "Are you Linghu Chong's nephew?"

Linghu Chong took a closer look at Xin Zhen in the darkness of the night and thought to himself: This man is truly the most handsome man in the world that I have ever seen. When a man is too handsome, it is inevitable that he will have some rouge-like air, but this man has a calm and dignified demeanor, which makes people fall in love with him at first sight. It is really amazing.

(End of this chapter)