Chapter 29

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

He didn’t have an advantage in his hands, and his mouth didn’t seem to be a match.

The guard in the lead was furious. He shouted angrily, “All of you, move aside. I’m going to kill him myself.”

That’s what I was waiting for!

Just as the guard in the lead reached out to hit Ye Qingge, she turned sideways and quickly grabbed the man’s arm.

She turned around and walked behind the servant, then kicked him to the ground. The servant fell to the ground and Ye Qingge’s knee landed on his back tailbone.

She said calmly, “Don’t move.”

The servant wanted to struggle, but Ye Qingge exerted a little force, causing him to cry out in pain.

She grabbed his arm with one hand and hit him on the head with the other.

“Didn’t I tell you not to move?”

Seeing that the servants under her knees had become obedient, Ye Qingge raised her head to look at the other servants.

“Don’t do anything rash. All I have to do is exert pressure on his knees and he’ll never be able to stand up again.”

The servants looked at each other. Although they did not believe it, they did not dare to act rashly.

“Don’t you believe me?”

As Ye Qingge spoke, she exerted force on her knees. The servant on the ground immediately cried out repeatedly, crying and begging Ye Qingge for mercy.

The other servants immediately did not dare to go up.

“Tell me, how much do these tenants owe you? How are you going to deal with them?”

Ye Qingge asked the servant below her knees.

“You owe us five… five hundred taels.”

It was too painful. The servant stuttered and his forehead was covered in sweat.

“Five hundred taels is so much? What kind of money is this?”

The gold and silver of this dynasty were real. Five hundred taels of silver could buy a house with a single courtyard in the capital.

Therefore, Ye Qingge, who had more than 100,000 taels of silver in her pocket, felt that she was already a rich woman.

If there was a list of the richest women here, she would probably be able to get on the rankings with honor, right?

“This is… the tenant rent for our Zhou Mansion’s fields.”

Ye Qingge nodded and continued to ask, “How much land did they rent from you?”

‘Well, I don’t know about that. I’m only responsible for collecting rent.’

“Hey, how much land did you rent from them?”

Ye Qingge was asking about the tenants. They were already dumbfounded by what they saw. When they saw the hero who had defeated the Zhou family’s servants talking to them, they were a little terrified.

“Hero, we… we rented them a hundred acres of land.”

The woman among the tenants who was crying with her son in her arms replied while sobbing.

“A hundred acres? How much can a hundred acres be sold for?”

She had no memory of the original owner of this era’s food trade, and she had not studied it in the past few days.

However, she vaguely felt that with such a domineering servant, the Zhou family, who ate people like vegetables, was definitely not a kind person.

Perhaps this problem was in the rental contract.

“When the weather is good, it can be sold for about a hundred taels of silver, but when the weather is bad, it’s even less. Last year, we didn’t get anything from the drought, so we only sold it for fifty taels of silver.”

Another tenant spoke hesitantly, but what he said shocked the neighbors.

The people on the street immediately discussed.

Ye Qingge’s heart was also shaken.

“In other words, you guys worked hard to farm for a year, but in the end, not only are you unable to support yourselves, but you also owe the Zhou Mansion rent for the next four years?”

Was this what Uncle Ben Shan meant by winning the lottery and causing a famine?

Ye Qingge gave a simple summary, but after that, the discussions on the streets became even fiercer.

Initially, they only felt that these tenants had suffered a loss, but they did not expect them to suffer such a loss.

“Then how did you make up for your previous rent?”

Logically speaking, it was impossible to rent land for a year. It should have been for many years.

However, according to their way of owing money, they would most likely have to sell their children.

“Our… our entire family signed an indenture contract.”

As expected, not only did he sell his son and daughter, but he also sold himself.

“The Zhou Mansion is really good.”

Ye Qingge nodded and glanced at the servants. She didn’t know what to feel.

“I’ll pay the debts of these people on their behalf, but you have to give me the indenture and tenant contract. As for the silver, I can’t give it to you now. Wait for you to take the contract… Go to General Zhanbei’s Estate and look for me.”

The people from the Zhou Mansion seemed to be used to being domineering. Even if she gave them the silver today, they might secretly capture these people back tomorrow.

It was better to settle this once and for all and let them know that these people were also protected.

As for the people who could protect them, after thinking about it, it could only be General Zhanbei’s Estate.

If she brought these people to the Ye Residence, Madam Bai might hand him and these people over.

Therefore, it was better to cheat her father.

“General Zhanbei’s Estate?”

When the people on the street heard this, they immediately pricked up their ears. This was a sign that there was news.

The guard in the lead was also stunned. He had thought that it was a small fry, but he did not expect it to be someone from General Zhanbei’s Estate.

The people from General Zhanbei’s Estate had always been overprotective and rash. They never cared about the consequences.

Even Old Master had to greet the people in their residence with a smile. Sometimes, he could not even get a good expression.

However, the people of General Zhanbei’s Estate had always been tall and burly. Even though they were wearing casual clothes, they had a natural bandit aura.

This kid in front of him really did not look like one. Otherwise, he would not be so rash.

Like him, Tang Mo, who had been silently listening, was also surprised.

He really did not understand. Actually, he did not meet her by chance today. He had planned this for a long time.

Ever since he discovered many suspicious points about her that night, he wanted to find out the truth.

Especially the gun in her hand, which made him even more curious.

However, this girl looked cute on the outside, but she was actually very sneaky.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have failed so easily and been knocked down by a little girl like her.

He recalled that he had met her once under Tang Mo’s identity.

Moreover, it seemed that she took very good care of Tang Mo, so he decided to use this identity to contact her.

That was why he was almost knocked down by a carriage today.

However, from her reaction, she did not seem to know martial arts, but she easily subdued the servants of the Zhou Mansion.

He had never seen such a strange move before, but it seemed to be especially effective.

At this moment, she was clearly the young lady of General Zhengxi’s Estate, but she asked the servants to go to General Zhanbei’s Estate to get the silver.

Others might not know, but he knew. With Zhanbei, there is no Zhengxi, and the grudges between the two families would probably not be finished in three days.

Was she trying to discredit General Zhanbei’s Estate? Or was she really related to General Zhanbei’s Estate?

Just as Tang Mo was deep in thought, Ye Qingge had already let go of the head servant.

Of course, she would not let him off so easily.

Ye Qingge used Murong Fu’s method of giving her a taste of her own medicine and directly dislocated the arms of the head servant.

“Alright, go and get the proof. I’ll wait for you at General Zhanbei’s Estate.”

Ye Qingge looked at the other servants and said unhurriedly. When the other servants saw that his arms were broken, they didn’t dare to force their way in.

The leading servant’s arms hurt so much that he could not even walk. Hence, he got someone to carry him to the Zhou Mansion.

All the servants also left.

After the servants left, the women and children came over and kowtowed to Ye Qingge.

“There’s no need to be so polite. Let me see how the child is.”

Ye Qingge walked to the child’s side and helped him up.

She wiped his arms to confirm that she had not seen wrongly. The child’s arms were only dislocated and not broken.

Hence, Ye Qingge used the method of battlefield first aid and gave the child’s arm a hard push.