Chapter: 2449

In its place, there are various upscale beauty and hair salons that offer subpar services, where instructors with mediocre skills can charge exorbitant prices for a haircut. Sometimes, unscrupulous businesses will even dupe customers into signing up for membership, only to get ripped off for thousands of yuan.

In the past, there were many horse-drawn carts and donkey carts on the streets, all belonging to rural farmers who would bring fresh produce from their fields to sell in the city.

However, these types of vehicles have been banned from entering the city, let alone traditional vegetable markets. As a result, most people can only buy vegetables at supermarkets.

The vegetables at supermarkets are subpar and expensive, with even a single head of lettuce costing 10 yuan or more. This has also led to the gradual loss of the city's traditional way of life.

In reality, Leaf Chen never liked buying vegetables at supermarkets because it felt meaningless.

So, he often goes to the old residential area in the ancient city, where there is a lively vegetable market.

He likes going to that area not just because it has a more down-to-earth atmosphere, but also for another reason hidden deep within his heart. No one knows about this.

In the past, when Leaf Chen and his parents first arrived in Jinling City, his parents were particularly fond of the city's old town features.

There are many ancient buildings left over from the Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as those from the Republic era, which have a unique architectural style that is quite different from that found in the north. His parents loved it all.

It's because he loves traditional culture that his parents rented an old house in the old town area, which they renovated after his father's fixing. They lived very happily there.

Later, when his parents passed away, Leaf Chen entered an orphanage, but he still often sneaked out with his friends Zhao Hao and Li Xiaofen to come here and take a look around.

At that time, Zhao Hao and Li Xiaofen thought Leaf Chen was just playing truant, wanting to play outside.

But they didn't know is that Leaf Chen was actually missing his parents.

After his parents passed away, the house was rented out successively over the years, replaced by batch after batch of tenants.

Later, the house was bought by someone who wanted to invest in real estate, waiting for demolition and reconstruction.

Later, this house and the old buildings around it were designated as a historical building protection area, strictly prohibiting demolition and renovation. As a result, the house remained vacant for a long time.

Leaf Chen has also secretly investigated, saying that the investor behind this house is the founder of a real estate development company in Wen City. Although this old house didn't have any value in his hands, it wasn't much money to him, so he just left it as it was.

Later, this real estate developer became embroiled in an illegal fundraising case and was arrested, and the house was seized by the court.

About two years ago, there were rumors about auctioning off the property, but because of his involvement in that case, it took two years to conclude, so it didn't enter the auction program yet.

Leaf Chen went to buy vegetables at the market, not far from this old house, so he decided to drop by and take a look.

As Leaf Chen rode his bike towards the house, a luxury car had already stopped in front of the dilapidated old mansion.

The driver of the car got out, followed by an elderly man who turned out to be the old butler of the Du family from Jinling.

After getting off the car, the agile butler opened the rear door and politely told the woman sitting inside: "Miss Number Two, we're here."

The woman inside the car was none other than Du Hailin.

She had arrived at the airport, brought two children along with her, and returned to the old Du family mansion together with the butler. After settling in and arranging their belongings, she hurriedly asked the butler to bring her to see where Leaf Zhengying used to live before his death. JrNovels.com