Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields

Chapter 145: Persist (1)

TN: I can’t help but think that YHS took one look at his parents and immediately was like ‘I need to marry the most timid (but beautiful) girl in the country’.
Too bad LFZ isn’t so timid anymore!

“I didn’t think much about this before but now I regret it! It’s an ancestral property, how could we sell it? We brought these banknotes, could Sir Liu return the title deed to us?” Old Man Yang asked with a polite smile.

“This matter…” Liu Jia said in a low voice, lowering his head to slowly drink his tea, as if he was deep in thought.
He sat like this for a long time without making a sound.

Old Man Yang and Old Lady Yang glanced at each other and didn’t dare to disturb him, but both of them had become a little nervous and uneasy.

After waiting patiently for a long time, Liu Jia was still drinking tea with his head down, as if the tea in the cup could not be finished.

“Sir Liu, we have brought a lot of silver.
We just want to get back our own land!” Old Madam Yang couldn’t help but burst out.

“Your land?” Liu Jia suddenly raised his head, staring at Old Madam Yang with his eyes.

Old Madam Yang was startled, her mouth slightly opened and she couldn’t speak.

Old man Yang didn’t know where she had made a mistake but he quickly smiled and said, “Sir Liu, look, when will you return the title deed to us…”

“Brother Yang, sister-in-law, what you have said is wrong!” Liu Jia said sternly.
“We all know that we have exchanged money and goods with no debt! You received the money and the title deed is in my hands.
Where is this ‘your land’? What do you mean by ‘return’ the title deed to you? Haha, is it possible I burrowed your lands or stole your title?”

“No, no!”

Old Man Yang and Old Madam Yang quickly shouted together, shocked.

“No, of course not! I didn’t think that you were unreasonable people.” Liu Jia laughed.

He moved freely, but Old Man Yang and Old Madam Yang were so frightened that their teeth chattered.

Old Madam Yang didn’t dare to rush to speak anymore.
She looked at Old Man Yang and asked him to finish speaking.
“Us rural people are a bit awkward.
However, we haven’t moved a cent from this silver.
Do you think it’s possible, Sir Liu, to…”

“Did you not understand me?” Liu Jia frowned slightly, place down his tea cup to look at them.
“Didn’t I make it clear just now? This land is no longer yours! Understand? So you can’t talk about what you want to sell or don’t want to sell! Now that the land is owned by someone else, its not for you to talk about!”

When Old Madam Yang heard this, she couldn’t help but get angry again and said: “Wasn’t that place bought by the little girl, Lian Fang Zhou from Dafang Village? I asked her yesterday and she said she would sell it and told us to come to you!”

“Are you her?” Liu Jia asked with a smile.

Old Madam Yang was taken aback and hesitated.
“No, we, we are not… but she is! But what does that have to do with this?”

“Since you are not her, how can you be her mouth and sell the land for her? If she wants to sell the land, naturally she would come to me instead of you?” Liu Jia frowned.

Old Madam Yang felt dizzy when she heard this and was stunned for a while.
Finally, she said: “Is it because she is not here that the land can’t be returned?”

Liu Jia smiled and said, “To tell you the truth, I just applied for the land deed for the land at San Chakou, over 1,500 acres, yesterday.
Is an official deed so easy to handle? I just finished working on it but now two days of work are about to be destroyed.
As the county magistrate, you are very leisurely! So I should just give over the thirty acres of land to your Yang family?”

This is a serious statement.
The hearts of Old Man Yang and Old Lady Yang were beating hard, and they didn’t dare to speak again.

Liu Jia sneered and said, “You must be very idle to be joking with me like this.
The land was sold only two days ago but now that you don’t want to sell it, you come here to make trouble?”

The old Yang couple repeatedly said that they didn’t dare, and Old Madam Yang was particularly panicked and looked at Old Man Yang, at a loss.

She was a master at home and she despised Lian Fang Zhou, so she dared to make trouble at Lian Fang Zhou’s house, but in front of the land steward, where could she speak? Besides, the county magistrate was now involved!

“Don’t dare? That’s good!” Liu Jia said lightly, “I have a lot to do.
If you have nothing else, please leave!”

“That’s our ancestral property, we—”

Old Madam Yang was not reconciled!

“What’s wrong with selling an ancestral property?” Saying this in front of the villagers could win a lot of sympathy and recognition, but it is really useless in front of Liu Jia, the land steward.
Liu Jia said impatiently, “Many people sell their ancestral properties! There are even are countless people who have sold their ancestral homes!”

Old Madam Yang was speechless, and said, “If you wait until tomorrow, I will bring Lian Fang Zhou to come with me—”

“What do you mean?” Liu Jia said coldly, “Isn’t what I said clear enough? The land you just sold has already been bought.
Are you deliberately played with me? The official lease has already been completed.
Want to go to the government to clear the case? Then, how can I explain to the county magistrate? Something like this, won’t he blame me?”

“No, no, you can let Lian Fang Zhou sell…” Old Madam Yang hurriedly laughed.

“Ha!” Liu Jia laughed, and looked at Old Man Yang and sighed meaningfully: “I say, Brother Yang, the siblings of the Lian family are pitiful enough, isn’t this just bullying people? Although I don’t like to be nosy, I don’t like this kind of thing either! You are the elders, so please accumulate some virtue for your children and grandchildren!”

Old man Yang blushed and was speechless

Liu Jia couldn’t help but sneer privately, he really didn’t like the virtue of the Yang family.

How smart is he? What kind of temperament Old Madam Yang has, he can see.
What ancestral property? Old Madam Yang deliberately wanted to make problems for Lian Fang Zhou!

It’s was really hard for her, just to make Lian Fang Zhou uncomfortable, this grandma deliberately went to the city and found him here.

“Let me tell you something,” Liu Jia glanced at them, and said without hurry: “You haven’t thought about where Lian Fang Zhou got so much money to buy land? Just who is behind her… think, are you able to compete with them?”

Old Madam Yang didn’t care about this but Old Man Yang was already in a cold sweat thinking about it.
He understood Liu Jia’s meaning, there was some one behind Lian Fang Zhou and it was someone with a lot of background!

Thinking about it, if this person was not someone big, how could Lian Fang Zhou move and buy thousands of acres of land? If the person wasn’t important, how could Liu Jia not even dare to say their name?

“Sir Liu is correct.
If the land has been sold, it is sold.
We really shouldn’t have come today, really shouldn’t have come! It’s our fault, Sir Liu.
You are very busy so we will leave first.
Goodbye, goodbye!” Old Man stammered in shock, quickly taking his wife to leave.
Liu Jia didn’t see them out, sneering at their departing back.
This Yang family was really interesting!

“Honestly, what’s wrong with you all of a sudden!” Old Madam Yang stumbled away from the old man, feeling very dissatisfied.