Actually, when all is said and done, Ruan Qiong is currently the biggest backer for both Chen Ping'an and Wang Jing.
They chose the small slope of Pearl Mountain simply because it was cheap, costing only a single usher-spring coin. Choosing the relatively remote Downfall Mountain was purely an act of destiny—a bird happened to drop its droppings right on the map, making it a stroke of fate so hard to refuse.
Aside from that, they still had two bags of gold-refined copper coins left, along with a dozen scattered coins. It wasn't that they were unwilling to buy more mountains, but Ruan Qiong had told them that if they bought too many, he wouldn't be able to protect them all.
Chapter 29