Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 248 - 129: The Intriguing Swindler Master! The Witch Immortal Reappears! (10,000-word Mega - , Please Subscribe)_1

Chapter 248: Chapter 129: The Intriguing Swindler Master! The Witch Immortal Reappears! (10,000-word Mega Chapter, Please Subscribe)_1

About his own origins and such, Fan Wu had never given it much thought or been curious. Moreover, he didn’t have any impressions of that in his memory.

After all, he was no longer the Fan Wu he used to be. What did origins matter to him?

Perhaps, the only use was to serve as a diversion in his boring life!

That was all.

Back then... When the City God of Yinghe Prefecture couldn’t discern his origins, Fan Wu realized that he might not be simple. But so what if he wasn’t simple?

However, facing his so-called sister’s question, Fan Wu still gave a normal reply, "Master has never mentioned anything to me about my origins."

Fan Jinzhi nodded as if she just realized something and said, "There is some content in the letter that is private, and I am not at liberty to show you. But I can tell you some things about you verbally."

"My... my father wrote in the letter that he found you in the Imperial City of the Great Zhou Dynasty. He said that you were a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes at the time, and he saw something extraordinary in you at first glance."

"At that time, he also took a jade pendant from you, but that jade pendant was pawned by him... he pawned it."

Upon reaching this point, Fan Jinzhi was at a loss for words.

All she could do was to comfort Fan Wu by saying, "You should know what kind of person he is, the type who only looks out for himself. However, he also said... that he specifically instructed the pawnshop owner to buy back the jade pendant at ten times its price after twenty-three years, and not to sell it to anyone else."

"Right, he said that the pawnshop is called Fuyuan Pawnshop."

Fan Jinzhi was taken aback, she looked at Fan Wu and asked, "May I ask, how old are you now?"

"Just right, twenty-three," Fan Wu’s eyes narrowed slightly.

Fan Jinzhi exclaimed in surprise, "What a coincidence?"

"Yeah," Fan Wu clicked his tongue.

He sniffed out a bit of something unusual.

The charlatan master had said, twenty-three years ago, that he would pay ten times the price to retrieve the so-called jade pendant after twenty-three years. It sounded normal, but...

The charlatan master happened to die just after twenty-three years, and he, Fan Wu, had also left Qiu Long County to come to the prefecture just after twenty-three years.

Wasn’t this all too coincidental?

It felt as if the charlatan master knew that he was going to die after twenty-three years. So how did he know that he would die after twenty-three years?

Fan Wu frowned.

He had always thought that his charlatan master was just a simple swindler, as some of his actions recalled in memory really made him seem incompatible with a cultivator.

And that charlatan master had never demonstrated any so-called cultivating techniques. It was just that his scamming skills were advanced and proficient, able to fool everyone in Qiu Long County.

Moreover, in the eyes of his daughter Fan Jinzhi, as well as his son-in-law Yun Shouji, the image of his charlatan master was also that of a despicable swindler with no sense of morality.

"What... do you plan to do?" Fan Jinzhi asked curiously, then immediately continued, "According to what my father said in the letter, if you want to know the secret of your origins, you may need to redeem the jade pendant."

"He wrote in the letter that twenty-three years ago, he pawned the pendant for fifty taels of silver. To buy it back at ten times the price, that would be five hundred taels of silver."

"If you are short on silver, I can give you one thousand taels. Because if you only have five hundred and something unexpected happens, that would be troublesome."

"It is safer to prepare one thousand taels of silver."

Perhaps acknowledging that Fan Wu was her sworn brother.

Fan Jinzhi was exceptionally generous, speaking of one thousand taels of silver as if it were a mere tael.

Maybe even less than a tael.

"No need, I appreciate the gesture," Fan Wu shook his head and replied, "I am not as interested in my origins as you all think. Who I am, who my parents are, I have no concept, nor do I need one."

The words Fan Wu said carried not a hint of falsehood; he truly felt that way as he went on to say, "If there’s something that catches my interest, maybe I’ll take a look."

"Not interested."

"Then never mind."

After hearing these words from Fan Wu, Fan Jinzhi nodded thoughtfully and said, "It is good you have your own views and decisions. It’s all my father’s mess. If he hadn’t pawned the jade pendant back then, there would not be such a dilemma."

"Never mind, master must have had his reasons for doing that, perhaps," Fan Wu said with a smile, unconcerned.

Just as he was preparing to leave, Fan Wu’s peripheral vision caught a glimpse of the letter in Fan Jinzhi’s hand.

Fan Wu’s movements paused.

"What’s wrong?" Fan Jinzhi noticed something off about Fan Wu and asked curiously.

Fan Wu said, "Can you hold up the letter in your hand?"

Fan Jinzhi responded in surprise, "Hold it up?"

She seemed hesitant, as some of the content in the letter involved her own privacy.