Gu Nian waited for a long time before Cuihua hurried back.
As soon as she saw her figure, Gu Nian couldn’t wait to go up and ask, "How did it go?"
"Third Uncle went to the alley on the back street, then entered a little courtyard. I waited for a while but didn’t see him come out, so I came back," Cuihua said.
"Did he notice you?" Gu Nian asked her.
Cuihua shook her head, and only then did Gu Nian feel at ease.
"Let’s go, let’s go take a look." Gu Nian pulled Cuihua to lead the way. This back and forth fussing, according to Cuihua’s logic, she couldn’t make sense of it, but Gu Nian asked her to go, and she could only comply.
In the alley on the back street, Gu Nian followed Cuihua to the door of the courtyard where Lin Sanshui was, waited for a long time, but didn’t see anyone come out.
Gu Nian wondered if he might have already left while Cuihua was away.
But as soon as she had this thought, the previously tightly closed door suddenly opened a crack from the inside. The crack wasn’t wide, Lin Sanshui came out, smiling, and after coming out, he turned back to talk to someone inside.
However, because of the door’s cover, from Gu Nian’s angle, she couldn’t see clearly whether the person inside was male or female.
Gu Nian waited a while longer, and after Lin Sanshui reluctantly left, she came out, gazing in the direction he departed, deep in thought.
She always felt Lin Sanshui was quite a decent man, at least for this male-dominated era, he was good enough.
But now, she only hoped the scene inside the door wasn’t what she imagined.
Even as naive as Cuihua was, she vaguely guessed something, looking back at Gu Nian and asked, "Should we rush in?"
Gu Nian lowered her eyelids, thought for a long time, then shook her head.
"Let’s go." Gu Nian’s tone was filled with unavoidable disappointment, yet also determined and resolute.
"Go... where?" Gu Nian, always with a cute, smiling demeanor, suddenly had a cold face, making Cuihua somewhat nervous.
"To the broker’s." Gu Nian didn’t hesitate at all, said it and walked.
Cuihua tightly followed him, not daring to speak.
As soon as she entered the broker’s, Gu Nian bluntly stated she wanted to see Xie Yaren, the middleman who once introduced them to buying land.
Gu Nian had come with Lin Sanshui at that time; the land purchased wasn’t small, counted as a major client, plus her good looks, Xie Yaren hadn’t forgotten Gu Nian till now.
Upon seeing Gu Nian, Xie Yaren instantly smiled happily, "You’re... the young girl from Lin’s family, right? How come you’re here alone? Where’s your father?"
"My father didn’t come. Today I came alone with someone; I want to make a deal with Mr. Xie, but I wonder if you’d like to!"
Gu Nian’s originally soft voice was somewhat muffled, allowing the seasoned Xie Yaren to instantly sense something was amiss.
Immediately, Xie Yaren also toned down his expression, "Our broker deals with middleman business. If you’re buying or selling things, or need a guarantor, this Mr. Xie can indeed help. As for other matters, it depends on what it is and if it’s suitable for me to intervene."
After all, apart from buying land once, they had no other dealings.
Gu Nian understood that the so-called suitability was really about whether there was enough benefit.
Without hesitation, she directly placed a ten-tael silver ingot on the table in front of her, "I just want to ask Mr. Xie for some information. Don’t worry, I won’t put you in a difficult position."