Chapter 950: Find a Foothold
Soon, Gu Fan and Lord Xiong arrived at the next small town, where they used their coins to buy a somewhat dilapidated house before boarding up all the windows with planks.
Originally, Lord Xiong thought they could hire people to do this but Gu Fan insisted on doing it themselves for a simple reason: immediately boarding up all the windows of a newly purchased house would be too suspicious and would certainly arouse the curiosity of others.
Seeing how thoroughly Gu Fan had considered the situation, Lord Xiong was very satisfied and began to trust Gu Fan.
"Good heavens, I’m not that foolish." Gu Fan knew with Lord Xiong’s wisdom, he would have thought about the risk of hiring people to board up the windows. He must have brought it up intentionally just to see Gu Fan’s reaction.
And Gu Fan, considering the safety of the Xue Clan, rejected the proposal, which was akin to passing a test from Lord Xiong.
As evening fell, Gu Fan and Lord Xiong went to the city gates and after a long wait, finally saw Xue Wang, Mo Yun, and the others scaling the city walls.
As soon as Xue Wang saw Gu Fan and Lord Xiong, he smiled, "How did it go, you two?"
This is how Lord Xiong responded, "Although the place is a bit simple, at least it’s somewhere to stay, we’ve got everything arranged."
"I trust in your work." Then Xue Wang and the others followed Lord Xiong and Gu Fan to their new residence, only to find it was indeed very basic.