Chapter 1183 Accompanying Gu Dongxing to Buy a House (Nine)

These courtyard houses in the West City would sell for over a hundred million in the future, much more valuable than the house she bought in Yang’an Alley.

She wouldn’t even need to do much herself; just renting them out would earn her a fortune. She’d be foolish not to buy them.

When they had finished the transfer of ownership for several houses, Le Shan had also returned. He reported to Mengyu the results of his investigation.

Indeed, the owner of the house wasn’t Cao Laojiu but was actually Qin Chaowen.

Qin Chaowen was an intellectual, and the house was passed down from his ancestors when he was an Assistant Minister. During the cultural movement, he went to the Five-Seventh Dry School, his wife divorced him and remarried, leaving his elderly mother and son at home. His son, longing for his parents, secretly boarded a train to find them, and as a result, went missing.

The grandson’s disappearance naturally made the grandmother anxious, and she died from a sudden heart attack.

Qin Chaowen vowed that whoever could help him find his son, Qin Wenju, would be given the house.

His son had a very distinctive feature—double pupils.

Historically, people with double pupils were considered to have a sign of great fortune, so Qin Chaowen was very concerned about his son. Since returning to the city, he had been searching for him. Therefore, the house remained vacant.

Double pupils?

Something flashed in Mengyu’s mind. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

"So, the person selling this house was a con artist?"

"Yes, those people took advantage of the owner’s absence by spreading rumors that the owner wanted to sell the house. They would then pretend to be the owner to interact with potential buyers and collect their deposits. When people came demanding the fulfillment of the contract and transfer procedures, they would claim they couldn’t find the property deed and refuse to process the transfer.

They would even send a different person to intimidate the buyer.

Of course, the deposits they collected were usually only a few hundred yuan. It’s quite rare to see someone like the Eldest Lady today who signed a contract with a ten percent deposit."

"So, that Cao Laojiu must be quite pleased with himself?"

"He isn’t actually named Cao, nor is he the Ninth. His father’s surname is Wen, and his mother’s surname is Jiang, so he called himself Wen Jiang. Once, he was caught by Qin Chaowen for using his house to scam people and was detained for half a month. After that, he changed his name to Cao Laojiu, because that Qiu Chaowen was an intellectual, and during the cultural movement, intellectuals were referred to as the Ninth."

Upon hearing this, Mengyu silently cursed this Wen Jiang, thinking he was indeed an outlaw.

However, remembering she had a signed contract of sale from him, she coldly laughed: Wen Jiang probably didn’t expect that he had set a trap for himself, right? In time, she would make him pay on behalf of all the buyers he scammed.

Thinking about Qin Chaowen, he offered his three-section courtyard house as a reward just to find his son Qin Wenju.

Suddenly, something flashed in her mind again.

Right, double pupils, she had seen double pupils!

To be exact, she had seen double pupils in her previous life.

Indeed, Mengyu had seen double pupils.

She was sold into Tiger Valley in her past life and spent ten years there.

She had often given food to a boy who was extremely thin. It was said that a man bought him because his wife couldn’t have children, raising him as their son.

Unknowingly, whether it was because the boy "brought" siblings or for some other reason, the boy’s adoptive parents started having children one after another four years after buying him as their son.