"In other words, this was a case of good deeds bringing good rewards. His Majesty could not say anything about it, and it would stand up even before the Imperial Court. You're jealous now, but why didn't you buy back then? Besides, with your wife's temperament, even if you had wanted to buy, would she have been willing to loosen her purse strings?"
Yin Chu shrank his neck. Come to think of it, given the situation back then, with the war holding such huge potential for reversals, how many people would have dared to throw their money into that water?
After being told off like that, he could only resign himself and sigh. "Looks like I wasn't born with the fate to get rich like Marshal Meng and Commander Shao."
"Fate?" Gao Pin turned back and stared at him with a cold sneer. "Could it be that you still think it was luck?"
Yin Chu was stunned. "If it wasn't luck, what else could it have been?"
Gao Pin said, "I didn't think much of it before either. It was only when word spread of the Capital City being moved and the value of the properties in my hands soared that I realized something was wrong. I dug up that Commander Shao's past and sorted through it. The answer was plain as day."
"He had been planning the war against Qi and Wei Kingdom for years. He suddenly went off to become a teacher, and how many people laughed at him then? Who could laugh now? Look carefully at everything he did—was Commander Shao the kind of man to act on a momentary impulse? What sort of cover required him to acquire so many properties?"
"Looking back now, once Qi and Wei Kingdom had been occupied, the old capital's location