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Chapter 85 Buying a House, Overheard by a Bearded Man

The next morning, when Su Tu went to find the merchant selling the house, he noticed that there were more people on the street with strange looks on their faces.

After making a few inquiries, I realized it was the consequence of my robbing the rich to help the poor last night.

Anyway, it didn't affect him much, and he couldn't be bothered to pay attention, so he just walked towards his destination.

Just like on Earth in my previous life, there are real estate developers here who buy and sell houses.

However, these real estate developers are all members of the royal family, and are related to the king in some way.

This is normal; after all, the land being bought and sold belongs to the capital and, in name, to the imperial family.

They send people to manage this business, and it's naturally much easier to have relatives manage it.

After all, the empire belongs to the entire royal family, and as members of the royal family, they will naturally protect the interests of the empire.

The profits from the trading were used, apart from a small share, to build the empire.

At least one-tenth of the empire's revenue comes from its real estate business.

As for why the church didn't contest this land, the reason is actually quite simple.

On one hand, the church's main source of income is the business of magical artifacts; on the other hand, it is the land inhabited by the empire, which is managed by the imperial royal family and is enshrined in law.

The church is still nominally under the rule of the empire, so it is naturally not arrogant enough to violate this law.

Once the royal family has a handle against them, the emperor can use it to spread rumors and garner trust in the church among its supporters.

Believers are the foundation of the church, and they will naturally not leave any faults that would give others the opportunity to undermine their foundation.

Of course, this is all the information Su Tu can currently gather; as for more specific details, he doesn't know.

There's no other way; the main body is at the base, and the amount of information they can gather is already the limit.

If you want to delve deeper, it involves the secrets of the empire, which is naturally beyond my authority to investigate as the main body.

Only after one's status and position are elevated will one be able to obtain more information.

As for how to improve one's status, one should naturally cling to Princess Eve as a channel.

It would be foolish not to take advantage of connections, and Su Tu didn't want to waste the resources he had at his disposal.

Before he knew it, he had arrived at the place that handled buying and selling houses in the eastern part of the capital.

As Su Tu entered the house, he found that many of the people he had met on the street were also there.

It seems that the slave trader had a rather complex network of relationships in this area.

They actually allowed their own people to openly search for people who stole gold notes in such a place.

If it were anyone else, they would probably have been thrown out in an instant.

This shows that this slave trader had a strong network of connections in the region.

Su Tu thought for a moment, then briefly explained his purpose to the staff who came up to him, and was immediately warmly invited to a private room.

However, it was precisely because of this that he naturally attracted the attention of the people sent by the slave traders.

A man with a full beard immediately followed after seeing this scene.

Since entering the room, Su Tu had been observing the group of people, intentionally or unintentionally.

So Su Tu noticed them the moment they caught up.

Of course, he wasn't the only one who noticed it immediately; the service staff member next to him also noticed it.

To his surprise, the staff member only glanced at him sideways before turning around and leading Su Tu with a big smile.

The bearded man following him behind seemed to be just an ordinary customer.

Su Tu wasn't too surprised by the service staff's behavior.

Since the slave traders were able to openly follow behind them, these service personnel must have been instructed not to interfere with or drive them away.

It's estimated that the waiter now knows what the bearded man behind him is thinking, but he won't interfere too much.

However, just because you don't mind people following you doesn't mean I won't.

Su Tu silently thought to himself, preparing to make those who were following him pay a heavy price when he went out later.

As for now, he doesn't want to take any action yet; he plans to settle the house first.

Led by a staff member, Su Tu entered a room and began discussing the purchase of the house.

Finally, to the surprise of the person in charge, he took out three five-hundred-yuan notes and gently placed them on the table.

"You can arrange the house. I only have one request: peace and quiet, and no one to bother me."

Su Tu leaned back in his chair, his gaze indifferent, as if what was placed on the table was not a gold note worth 1,500 gold coins, but three worthless pieces of paper.

The person in charge took the gold note, looked at it carefully for a few moments, and an excited smile immediately appeared on his face.

"Don't worry, sir, I will definitely arrange a house for you. Please wait a moment, and we will find a house that meets your requirements soon!"

He rubbed his hands together, looking like a fly that had discovered a delicious meal.

This is normal, though. According to their usual prices, even the most expensive house wouldn't cost more than a hundred or two gold coins.

Moreover, such expensive houses are usually located in the central area of ​​the city, and the surrounding area is mostly inhabited by businessmen or church members.

But the customer in front of me wanted a quiet place; to put it simply, he wanted a deserted place.

In places like that, prices are very low, mostly around 800 gold coins.

The scenery is beautiful, but it's also far from towns, making transportation and buying daily necessities much more troublesome.

But since the customer in front of him had offered 1,500 gold coins, he had no choice but to meet the customer's request and introduce him to such a house.

A short while later, the person in charge returned to the room with several documents.

The moment he opened the door, Su Tu vaguely saw the bearded man standing in the doorway.

Clearly, this person had overheard him discussing the house with the person in charge inside the house.

Fortunately, to avoid some unnecessary trouble, he specifically exchanged the large-denomination gold notes for small-denomination gold notes.

This can prevent the gold tickets from being marked by others.

As for where to exchange gold notes, it was naturally other merchants in the capital.

He went to five different households last night before he was finally convinced to use those gold notes to buy a house.

So, the bearded man eavesdropping at the door was nothing to Su Tu.

Even if he came in together and stared at the gold notes until he died, he absolutely wouldn't be able to see anything amiss.

"Sir, these houses all seem to meet your requirements, what do you think..."

Su Tu took the documents and glanced at them. He noticed that most of the houses in the documents were located in relatively remote wooded areas in the eastern part of the city.

This house is not only large, but it also meets his requirement for peace and quiet.

The only drawback is that there is a church near each of these houses.

After a brief silence, he chose a house that didn't seem too remote or too noisy, and quickly completed the transaction.

From now on, the official hiding place of his avatar has been determined.