Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss Volume 15

by North Night (夜北)

  For someone who had been afflicted with autism and being able to import all these ideas for furniture from the modern world to be used in this alternative world, Jun Wu Xie’s ability at copying wholesale was able to be put to very practical use!

  “All these things, you’ve prepared them for the refugees?” Jun Wu Yao asked while looking at Jun Wu Xie as his eyebrow lifted.

  Jun Wu Xie nodded with a smile.

  “I would want to see, with this place here, who else would want to still go to that hovel.” Jun Wu Xie said with her eyebrows raised. She had thrown a good sum of money into this, all just to take the next step in her plans.

  Outside the door, Ye Sha and Ye Mei led Ye Jie to wander around among the many small rooms. The three of them were highly fascinated and they actually lied down upon the brand news beds that had just been laid out, to try out these quirky and novel beds.

  Till, Jun Wu Yao was about to leave and go back, did they quickly shot to their feet, but their eyes were somehow filled with a kind of reluctance to leave the bunk beds.

  Jun Wu Xie watched the trio together and without knowing why, she suddenly thought of the lyrics to a song from her past life.

  [Brother who sleeps in the bunk above me…..]

  Jun Wu Xie felt that she was becoming stranger and stranger.

  Volume 15

  Chapter 1430: “This is the First Step (1)”

  The refugee camp within the Clear Breeze City had always remained a dark and dank environment. Lying upon the large damp communal bed, the elderly and young children curled themselves up tightly to hug their knees.

  It was right in the middle of the scorching summer and the room’s door was left ajar. The wind blowing in from outside through the door brought in waves of heat into the crowded room, turning the entire place into a steamer, making it highly unbearable. Under the stifling heat, quite a number of the children suffered from heat stroke and the woman who had no one else to rely on could only use water to try to bring the children’s temperature down.

  Suddenly, a jarring bout of someone striking a gong outside the refugee camp sounded, the clamour spreading into the still silence within the camp. The refugees who had been hiding inside the rooms started to walk out in puzzlement and they saw upon the narrow street in front, a notice that had been pasted on the wall. A man holding the bronze gong was striking it continuously, driving all of them to gather around and see.

  The things that were written upon the notice and what was being announced in a loud voice by the man made everyone inside to become aware of an astounding piece of news!

  It was not known which kind hearted person had actually cleared out a large plot of land in the northern part of the city for all of them to move into. What was even more shocking was that there was no charge of any kind and they provided three meals a day, completely free for them to live in and eat at!

  Once that piece of news was released, the refugee camp was instantly turned into a wave of frenzy, many of them reserving their suspicions and only half believing in it. It was really hard for them to believe that there would really be someone who would not seek anything in return for such a deed, by providing them with a place to stay and even giving them three meals a day on top of that.

  Some people maintained a suspicious attitude towards it, thinking that there were other motives behind it and refused to shift out from the hovel.

  It was those ladies with young children who were moved by the prospect but it wasn’t because they were just being naive but because their children really would not survive the scorching summer in that dark and damp room that was like a steamer where the young children would not be able to get any rest. They decided that they could no longer continue to to live in that place.

  Those ladies picked up their children in their arms determined to at least give the other place a try and went towards the city’s north. There, they saw many highly novel loft units and the man in charge of the loft building lead them inside the building and immediately arranged a room for them.

  Looking at the clean and neat rooms, and seeing the blue sky with white clouds outside the window, the ladies just could not believe their own eyes. Before they came, they had only harboured helplessness from having no other way out and had not expected the place to be any much better than the refugee camp from before. But having really made the trip here, they realized that the reality was that things here were so much better that they had thought before!

  Before they had even woken up from their delight and surprise, hot and steaming food was brought into their rooms. When the fragrant aroma of the food spread through the air, the ladies suddenly began crying out in delight!

  The refugees camp burst into a flurry of activity!

  Ever since the first batch of ladies had gone to the little lofts in the city’s north and came back to the camp with red rimmed eyes, the news had immediately spread like wildfire, speedily reaching every single corner of the refugee camp. More and more people quickly picked up their sparse belongings and went in groups towards the northern part of the city. They really wanted to know whether that place was truly as great as those people had claimed.

  And every single one person who came to the little lofts in the northern part of the city, did not ever return to stay a single day at the refugee camp. They merely relayed the news excitedly and then ran off, to tell more of the refugees about just how great the northern part of the city really was…..

  Jun Wu Xie stood at the window of a little loft upon the second level to look down at the constant stream of refugees rushing here and her eyes glinted with a smile.

  This particular loft unit was one that she had prepared for herself and the interior design was different from the other units in the loft, which served as her temporary abode here in the Clear Breeze City.

  Volume 15

  Chapter 1431: “This is the First Step (2)”

  “Young Miss, five hundred and thirty seven arrived today and arrangements have been made for all of them.” Ye Sha stood outside the door, reporting the tally for the day.

  “Five hundred already?” Jun Wu Xie asked with her eyes slightly lowered.

  “How many are there left in the refugee camp?”

  “About a thousand.” Ye Sha had already looked into the original number of people there were in the refugee camp and as the Clear Breeze City allowed about three hundred refugees into the city daily which included the rich merchants who bribed their way in which took up a small part of that quota, he was able to conclude that the number of impoverished refugees coming in daily would be less than three hundred.

  “Continue.” Jun Wu Xie nodded.

  “Reporting to the Young Miss. Your subordinate had secretly tailed the group of refugees that had been taken out from the refugee camp and discovered that they had all been sent directly into the City Lord’s Manor.” Ye Sha then said. After the refugees have been in the city for seven days, would they then be arranged to go somewhere else. But where they went exactly, no one knew. Ye Sha had followed them till they reached the City Lord’s Manor but he had not gone inside fearing that he would be discovered. He had then waited outside the door for the rest of the day but did not see a single one of those refugees coming out, where they had all seemingly remained inside the City Lord’s Manor.

  Ye Sha told everything that he had found out to Jun Wu XIe and Jun Wu Xie lifted an eyebrow slightly hearing the report.

  It seemed that there was indeed something fishy about the Lord of the city!

  “Continue to pay attention to the City Lord’s Manor and the Fortune Spring Hall from now on and if you discover anything strange, report it to me in the first instance.” Jun Wu Xie said.

  “Yes!” Ye Sha acknowledged his orders and retreated.

  Jun Wu Xie’s gaze shifted to look out the window, as her eyes seemingly flashed with a unidentifiable glint.

  Luo Xi was acting just like usual, leading several of his lackeys behind him to “spread benevolence” in the refug
ee camp. But he had just stepped into the refugee for a short while when he noticed that something did not seem right. The refugee camp was largely empty and the once narrow and squeezy street had only a measly few scattered people moving on it. In their hands, they carried their sparse luggage that comprised all their belongings and the usual haggard and gaunt look on their faces had disappeared, replaced by smiles upon them.

  “What happened here?” Luo Xi asked, his brows instantly furrowing up. He had only not come here for the past two days and why had the entire place changed so completely? The refugees that should have been surging towards him had more than half the amount missing and the entire refugee camp felt so much emptier. Luo Xi was puzzled and he got his lackeys to go ask those refugees who were about to leave the camp and his lackeys soon came running back.

  “Young Master, those people are going to the city’s north.” The attendant told him.

  “City north?” Luo Xi’s brows creased together in puzzlement. “Go to the city’s north for what?”

  “I heard that some time ago, someone spent a fortune snapping up a large part of the city north’s manors and flattened the entire place, to build up a lot of little lofts. They then used them to provide the refugees with free lodging and food and that is exactly where these refugees are shifting to.” The attendant began saying warily.

  Luo Xi’s eyes then glared in fury and he grabbed at the attendant’s collar to ask: “What did you say? Someone is actually giving these stinky bugs brand new accommodations?”

  The attendant gulped and replied in a stutter: “Yes….. That’s right…..”

  “What the hell are they up to! ?” Luo Xi’s brows gathered together alarmingly. “Do you know who is behind everything up at city north?”

  “Your servant does not know…..” The attendant said, shaking his head.

  “Could it be that the revered one has other arrangements made?” Luo Xi muttered to himself, unable to be certain of what’s happening. “We’ll first go up to the city’s north to take a look.”

  “Yes!”

  It did not take them long before Luo Xi and his lackeys arrived at the northern part of the city. When Luo Xi saw the rows of little loft buildings laid out in neat rows, he could not help himself but stare at them slightly taken aback. Before every building, there were several men in uniform, receiving the refugees who had just arrived in a rush.

  Volume 15

  Chapter 1432: “Colluding Evil (1)”

  “Go! Go ask who is in charge here and tell them that Luo Xi from Fortune Spring Hall is here to pay an official visit.” Luo Xi said with a frown. From what he could gather based on his own insight, the lofts were not too bad. Such a nice place given out free to benefit a bunch of refugees was really rather strange. Normal people would never waste so much money on those refugees and Luo Xi was guessing that this place was most probably due to some arrangements made by the revered one. Since they were both serving the same master, for him to come up here to offer greetings would not be out of place.

  Luo Xi had not managed to notice in the least that from a second storey window among the blocks of lofts, someone was watching him with a cold gaze from the moment he had appeared.

  “Young Miss! Luo Xi says he wants to see you.” Ye Mei said.

  “That was fast…..” Jun Wu Xie said as she stared at Luo Xi standing down below, and her eyes suddenly flashed with a chilling glint.

  “Tell him, I’m not free.” Upon saying that, she retracted her gaze and sat herself down beside the table.

  Ye Mei immediately got someone to convey Jun Wu Xie’s words to Luo Xi.

  When Luo Xi failed to meet the person here in the city’s north, he felt a little puzzled but did not really mind it very much. The entire Clear Breeze City, had long fallen under their control and nobody would be able to create too big a stir in here.

  But having been snubbed like this, the expression on Luo Xi’s face wasn’t exactly looking too good either. After he left, he did not return to the Fortune Spring Hall straightaway but instead walked towards the direction of the City Lord’s Manor.

  “Young Master, are you going to the City Lord’s Manor?” An attendant asked cautiously at his side.

  “Since that person does not want to meet, wouldn’t asking the City Lord about it tell me who that person is?” Luo Xi said.

  The attendant then nodded his head, seeming like he understood.

  Inside the City Lord’s Manor, Luo Xi sat within the main hall, sipping at the tea the servants had served him.

  After a short while, a middle aged man with a big and rotund belly came in huffing and puffing as he walked, dressed in highly lavish clothes with a smile upon his face, the flesh on his cheeks puffed up, looking highly jovial.

  “My brother Luo, how did you manage to find time to come here today?” This fatty was the Lord of the Clear Breeze City and the benevolent and righteous man that many refugees talked about. But looking at that body of his, it was really very hard to link him up as a caring official who loved the country and its people indiscriminately.

  Luo Xi swept his gaze to glance at the City Lord and he discreetly clicked his tongue. His eyes glinted with a tiny trace of disgust but it was quickly covered. He dusted off his sleeves and immediately went straight to the topic to say: “A large part of the manors in the city’s north had been purchased by someone. Do you know anything about that?”

  The City Lord was rather taken aback. He had not thought that Luo Xi had come here regarding this matter. “I am aware of that. His intention for the land in the northern part of the city had always been to be sold to those morons with a lot of money and he had managed to sell off quite a bit of them at one go which gained him a rather hefty profit.”

  In fact, the shop beside the magistrate’s office that sold houses and manors was opened by a person privately under the City Lord’s orders. Although it wasn’t in the City Lord’s name on the surface, but a large part of the money would finally end up in his pocket. Some time ago when the shopkeeper had come to submit the accounts to the City Lord, the City Lord had been highly delighted when he found out that someone had bought so many place in one go. It must be known that the prices of houses in the Clear Breeze City had risen to a level that was comparable to the Fan Country’s Imperial Capital and it was no small sum!

  “Do you know who the person who bought them was?” Luo Xi asked as he looked at the City Lord. He was well aware of the things about the shop.

  “I was told it was a unfamiliar youth. It was guessed that he used the money route to come into the city. Why are you suddenly so concerned about this matter? Could the revered one have given any instructions?” The City Lord asked, the expression on his face quickly changing, his tone becoming tinged with anxiety.

  Luo Xi said: “The revered one only wants us to continue with what we’re doing and nothing much has changed in that aspect. The reason I came here to find you today is because of those manors in the city’s north. Do you know that those houses in the northern part of the city has all been used by that youth to house the refugees? !”

  Volume 15

  Chapter 1433: “Colluding Evil (2)”

  “Wha….. What did you say? What do you mean when you said house those refugees?” The City Lord asked in shock as he looked at Luo Xi.

  The moment Luo Xi saw the City Lord’s reaction, he knew that the City Lord did not know anything about the matter. Luo Xi’s brows creased up and he began to feel that things were getting a little strange. If those houses had been done by someone under the revered one’s instructions, it would be reasonable to assume that he and the City Lord would at least be told a word about it, as the two of them had been controlling everything in the Clear Breeze City all this while afterall and the situation had been stable without any major hiccups. Having a youth pop up out of the blue like this would seem rather odd.

  “That person had after buying the manors, flattened them completely to build up many little lofts, allowing the ref
ugees to be transferred over there. I heard that they had not only provided free lodgings but do not charge for food and drinks as well.” Luo Xi told the City Lord while looking at him.

  The City Lord’s face immediately turned an ugly shade. “Who is that person behind all of that? The refugees I allowed into the city are mostly just the elderly and women with young children and most people would not have any interest towards them. A bunch of trash like them would be no different from beggars if they were thrown out on the streets, so who would actually do all these for them?”

  The City Lord paused a moment before he said: “Could it be someone the revered one brought in? Could the revered one have made some other plans?”

  Luo Xi then shook his head and said: “I am not sure either. I actually went there today with the intention to try to sound that person out but was unable to meet him. The manors in the Clear Breeze City are all sold by people you have privately arranged and your men should at least know what kind of person the buyer is wouldn’t they?”

  With that reminder from Luo Xi, the City Lord quickly realized it and immediately sent men out to fetch the shopkeeper here. When the shopkeeper saw the City Lord, he immediately knelt and prostrated himself grandly, his face filling up with a fawning smile.

  “What instructions does the City Lord have by asking your servant to come here today?” The shopkeeper asked, slightly jittery.

  “Some time ago, the youth who came to the shop and bought a large number of manors, do you know anything about his identity?” The City Lord asked with a darkened expression on his face. When the shopkeeper had initially reported the matter to him, he had just treated it as an idiot who fell down from the Heavens that dropped a whole load of gold onto his lap and not asked about the youth’s identity, merely brushing it off as some immensely rich refugee who had escaped from some place.