Chapter 234: Dagger
As Xu Youyou had anticipated, her offers had repeatedly pushed Little Green-Haired Guy to the edge of his bottom line.
The young man’s face was filled with an endurance far beyond his years.
“I… I can’t sell…” Little Green-Haired Guy said with difficulty.
Xu Youyou gave him a long look, finding this response somewhat unexpected.
Little Green-Haired Guy was someone whose love for money was evident at first glance, yet she hadn’t expected him to stubbornly refuse to sell.
“Since you refuse to sell, I’ll respect your decision and won’t force you,” Xu Youyou said, feeling a bit of respect for him, which was rare for her to feel toward Little Green-Haired Guy.
However, Little Green-Haired Guy suddenly looked frustrated. “Fine, fine… I want the money! It’s sixty million, not a few bucks!”
Xu Youyou rolled her eyes. “I thought you had principles. Looks like I misjudged you.”
Little Green-Haired Guy immediately responded, “If you want the house, you not only need to pay me sixty million but also send me abroad. I can’t stay in the country anymore.”
Xu Youyou asked, “What exactly are you afraid of?”
Little Green-Haired Guy remained silent.
It was Lu Jingyao who spoke up, saying, “The country is the safest place. If you think it’s unsafe here, things will only get worse for you abroad.”
Little Green-Haired Guy: !!!
Although Little Green-Haired Guy hadn’t had much education, hearing such words from the big boss in front of him, he instinctively believed it.
“I’m not selling anymore…” But before he finished speaking, Little Green-Haired Guy shook his head frantically, his face showing a fierce expression. “This is my house, why can’t I sell it? I can do whatever I want with it, no one can stop me!”
Xu Youyou looked at him helplessly. “Who is stopping you?”
Little Green-Haired Guy immediately started stammering, unwilling to tell the truth.
“It seems that, on the surface, this house is yours, but in reality, you don’t have the right to dispose of it. Who is it that makes you so afraid?” Xu Youyou asked.
Little Green-Haired Guy still didn’t want to speak.
Lu Jingyao finished the conversation again, saying, “Fifty thousand, give us an explanation.”
Little Green-Haired Guy’s eyes lit up, and he quickly spilled out the information like beans from a spilled jar. “I don’t really know who’s targeting this house, but before my father passed away, he repeatedly warned me not to sell this house. If I did, I’d die a terrible death.”
Xu Youyou couldn’t help but ask, “Such a serious warning, aren’t you afraid of dying and still dare to sell the house?”
Little Green-Haired Guy replied, “A poor ghost is still a ghost. It’s better to be a dead ghost than a poor ghost.”
Xu Youyou was momentarily speechless.
Little Green-Haired Guy continued, “Mr. Lu, you’re a big shot everyone knows, you won’t make me take the fall for this, right?”
Lu Jingyao’s face remained expressionless. “Bank account number.”
Little Green-Haired Guy, with a smile on his face, quickly gave his bank account number, and Assistant Liu transferred the money immediately.
“My father always said this house protected our family, but honestly, over the years I’ve been so poor I had to fight dogs for food. I never saw this house bring any good to my family. Now I see clearly, the best thing in the world is money. Even if I’m doomed to die a bad death, at least I can live and enjoy it while I can,” Little Green-Haired Guy said.
Xu Fang quickly brought over a standard property transfer agreement, and Little Green-Haired Guy signed it efficiently.
Only then did he remember, “Where’s my mom? She hasn’t had a good day in her life, and now that I have money, I’ll hire ten or eight nannies to take care of her.”
Xu Youyou hadn’t expected him to be a filial son. Recalling the crazy, eccentric Ms. Fangfei, although she was chained by the foot and her clothes were ragged, her cheeks had flesh, indicating she was well-fed.
On the other hand, Little Green-Haired Guy was thin as a bamboo pole, a typical example of a young man with mental issues.
“Your mother is doing well now, and someone is taking care of her. After we finish the property transfer, we’ll accompany you to pick her up,” Lu Jingyao explained.
Little Green-Haired Guy nodded casually and muttered, “As long as someone’s taking care of her, that’s fine,” without asking who was taking care of his mother.
“Aren’t you curious about the other lady?” Xu Youyou asked.
Little Green-Haired Guy thought for a moment, then realized Xu Youyou was referring to Gu Xueying. “She bled so much in my yard. I didn’t have money back then, but now that I do, I wouldn’t mind compensating her a bit. After all, she’s my sister. If she has a conscience, she shouldn’t ask me for too much.”
Xu Youyou raised her eyebrows, suddenly feeling that Little Green-Haired Guy wasn’t such a bad person.
But the next second, Little Green-Haired Guy added, “But looking at the car they’re driving, it looks like they have money too. I’m just afraid they’ll want to vent their anger and feel satisfied after beating me up.”
Xu Youyou felt his thought process was a bit strange. Remembering the events of the past couple of days when he’d gone missing, she couldn’t help but ask, “Have you had a rough time in these past years?”
As soon as this topic was brought up, Little Green-Haired Guy immediately perked up. He slapped his thigh and said, “You have no idea how tough I’ve had it. I’d get a toothpick even when drinking cold water. When I watch the fun, people throw bricks at me. I once tried to be kind and helped someone across the street, only to have them trick me for three thousand eight hundred…”
Xu Youyou listened to his complaints, almost laughing. She couldn’t understand how Little Green-Haired Guy was such an unlucky person. Even meeting them had seemed relatively smooth for him.
No wonder he ran away so quickly when he saw Gu Xueying bleeding, giving in faster than anyone else.
What Xu Youyou didn’t know was that after Gu Yujing left, he felt increasingly uneasy. He didn’t think it was his constant pressuring of Gu Xueying that led to the miscarriage. Instead, he blamed Xu Youyou and Little Green-Haired Guy.
If it weren’t for the provocation from these two, Gu Xueying wouldn’t have lost the child!
Gu Yujing couldn’t deal with Xu Youyou for now, but he thought dealing with a little punk like Little Green-Haired Guy would be easy.
If Little Green-Haired Guy hadn’t run so fast that night, Gu Yujing thought he would have probably had some thugs beat him up.
After Little Green-Haired Guy came to terms with things, he cooperated fully with the property transfer. The next morning, he finished all the paperwork.
Even though Xu Youyou didn’t plan to send him abroad, he quickly applied for a passport and sent his mentally unstable mother to a well-regarded psychiatric hospital, disappearing without a trace after that. Of course, that was all for later.
After Xu Youyou got the house, she wasted no time and immediately went to investigate.
Following the system’s instructions, she found a small box hidden within the wall cavity of the house.
Inside, there was a dagger about twenty centimeters long. The dagger was extremely sharp, its blade glowing coldly, and its scabbard was inlaid with several rubies, making the scabbard appear more valuable than the dagger itself.
“What kind of dagger is this? Is it a famous historical dagger?” Xu Youyou asked the system.
