"You're insane!"

Jia Yu roared angrily.

However, due to the brief suffocation, he developed some problems with his throat, resulting in a hoarse and unpleasant voice.

“This house is worth at least three thousand taels of silver. Don’t you even bother to find out where it is? It’s located in the best part of Zhengyang Street, right next to Chunfeng Tower. So many people have offered higher prices, but I haven’t sold it to them…”

"Eight hundred, I guess," Tang Huan calmly interrupted Jia Yu.

Jia Yu frowned, wishing he could strangle Tang Huan.

They weren't listening to what I was saying at all; they were just relentlessly lowering the price.

"Boy, don't think I'll be afraid of you just because you've broken into my house. This is the capital. If you surrender now, you might save your life, otherwise..."

Tang Huan held up one finger and shook it, "Seven hundred."

"You..." Jia Yu was so angry he couldn't speak, "Do you know who owns this house?"

Tang Huan turned around and winked at Qin Yu.

At the same time, Li Daikui had already rolled up his sleeves in front of Jia Yu, showing off his thick arms.

Not satisfied with that, they even wanted to take off their entire shirt.

“Jia Yu, Lord Tang is coming to the capital by imperial decree. If you’re thinking of using the government to scare him, you’d better forget it.”

Ordered to enter the capital?

Jia Yu thought about it carefully, but he hadn't received any news that His Majesty had recently issued an edict summoning anyone to the capital.

He hadn't received a single word from them, nor had that person given him any warning.

He opened his eyes wide and examined it carefully, only managing to confirm the authenticity of the imperial edict's material and the last trace of the jade seal.

Immediately afterwards, Tang Huan took the imperial edict from Qin Yu and slapped it hard across Jia Yu's face.

"Jia Yu, Jia Yu, you've disappointed me greatly!"

"I heard you've done a lot of bad things over the years. Just the other day, you even sold a girl to the brothel next door. No one in heaven would want someone like you."

"Since I have been ordered to come to the capital this time, and happen to know about such illegal activities, why not take this opportunity to deal with you, this traitor, for His Majesty? That would be a great achievement, wouldn't it?"

Jia Yu was immediately stunned.

He suddenly felt a little scared.

"Sir, I was just following orders..."

"Oh?" Tang Huan stopped what she was doing and asked curiously, "Who told you to do this? Tell me."

I learned from the brokers that Jia Yu has a mysterious identity and a complicated backer, which is why he has become a parasite in the capital and has not been removed for so long.

Tang Huan was quite curious about who was protecting this person.

Jia Yu swallowed hard, feeling much calmer thanks to the powerful backer behind him.

"It's that person from the Ministry of Personnel..."

"The Ministry of Personnel..." Tang Huan gasped, not realizing who Jia Yu was referring to.

Without thinking twice, he kicked Jia Yu.

"Now that things have come to this, you still want to bring in people to scare me?"

Jia Yu fell to the ground, completely enraged.

He braced himself on the ground with both hands, looked up at Tang Huan, and said, "Let me tell you the truth, I work for the Minister. You have already committed a serious offense by barging into his residence today. There is no place for you in the capital. So what if you came by imperial decree? Do you think you are more powerful than a Minister?"

Tang Huan stroked her chin, looking down at Jia Yu.

He sighed, "Have you noticed that you look a lot like a dog right now? The dog that official in the Ministry of Personnel keeps?"

Jia Yu knew this scene was humiliating, but the other party was too strong. More than a dozen of his guards had been beaten to the ground, and he was now helpless.

The only way to intimidate the other party is by relying on the fact that they are adults.

But now it seems that this madman is not afraid at all.

"Don't even think about taking the house. Although it's nominally mine, it's actually the property of the adults. I'm just looking after it. You should leave as soon as possible, and I can pretend nothing happened today."

"So you're going to pretend nothing happened after I beat up so many of your people?" Tang Huan retorted.

"A bunch of useless trash. It's no loss if they die." Jia Yu's tone was cold and indifferent.

Upon hearing this, Tang Huan shook his head and sighed, "It seems the rumors are true. You really are a cold-blooded and disgusting person. Although there's a saying that goes, 'Even when beating a dog, you have to consider its owner,' I'm going to mess with you today, you dog."

After saying that, Tang Huan stepped forward and stomped on Jia Yu's face.

Jia Yu was instantly stomped to the ground, his face pressed and rubbed against the earth.

"Tell me, if I were to actually hurt you, wouldn't your owner come after me because you're a dog?"

Seeing Tang Huan's smiling face, Jia Yu panicked completely.

yes.

The lord is indeed not afraid of the person in front of him. Even if the other party has come by imperial decree to be appreciated by His Majesty, so what? He cannot possibly be more important than a minister.

The Minister was not afraid of him.

But what about myself?

For adults, they may have done a lot and borne a lot of criticism, but in the end, they are just a knife, and there is no need to offend others for these things.

Just as he didn't care at all that the guards in his mansion were injured.

Thinking of this, Jia Yu dared not be careless and quickly raised one hand, shouting, "I agree to sell the house..."

"Very well." Tang Huan released his foot. "However, since you've taken up too much of our time, I'm only willing to offer five hundred taels. What do you think?"

"As long as the adults agree, I have no objections." Jia Yu suddenly became as docile as Tang Huan's own dog.

"Alright, then go and get the land deed."

Jia Yu dared not be careless and hurriedly found the land deed.

When he returned to the courtyard, he saw the burly man playing with a silver ingot in his hand. After noticing Jia Yu's arrival, Li Daikui squeezed the ingot flat.

This scene left Jia Yu speechless.

He shakily handed the land deed to Tang Huan.

Tang Huan said with a smile, "That's more like it. If I had known it would turn out like this, you wouldn't have had to suffer so much. Maybe we could even sit down and drink together again in the future."

Transferring a land title is an extremely simple matter; a simple signature and a fingerprint are all it takes.

Seeing that the matter was settled, Li Daikui placed the flattened silver ingot into Jia Yu's hand.

Jia Yu trembled all over, not daring to breathe.

The next moment, several silver notes were placed in his hand.

Exactly five hundred-tael silver notes, no more, no less.

"Consider that silver ingot a reward for you; after all, even dogs get bones."

Tang Huan sat down calmly and said casually, "I'll give you the time it takes for an incense stick to burn. Take your people and get out of here right now."

Jia Yu disregarded everything else and ignored the guards on the ground, immediately turning around and fleeing.

Even while fleeing, he kept looking back, afraid that Li Daikui would catch up.

Before long, the guards also disappeared.

"A bunch of useless trash. We hired them as bodyguards, and they just play dead when they get into trouble..."

This is the capital city, yet the quality disappointed Tang Huan.

They are nowhere near as good as the mercenaries from my own Qihuai County.

Suddenly, Tang Huan grinned and said, "Do you think if I gave the Empress my method for training mercenaries, she would reward me with a high-ranking official position?"