5. She's a bit fierce
The north wind was blowing in the fine snow, and it was freezing cold. People walking on the street hunched their necks and put their hands in their sleeves. Fan Changyu was holding a boning knife with a black iron blade, with veins bulging on the back of his hand, and walked quickly in the wind and snow.
A number of people had gathered at the entrance of Minxiang Lane in the west of the city to watch the excitement; the sounds of shouting, smashing, admonishing and children crying mixed together.
Someone spotted Fan Changyu and said, "Changyu is back!"
When he saw clearly that she was holding a boning knife in her hand, he couldn't help but gasp.
"Is this girl Changyu going to resort to knife fight with her uncle?"
"That's just too much of a coward. Mr. Fan and his wife are still alive, but he's already thinking of using the orphan girl's house to pay off his gambling debts. He's not even afraid of dreaming about Mr. Fan and his wife looking for him at night..."
"Those people in the casino are not easy to deal with. Even if Changyu, a girl, holds a knife, she may not be able to drive them away..."
The area in front of the Fan family's house was in a mess, with broken bottles and cans and fallen tables, chairs and benches extending from the door all the way into the house. Several burly men were still smashing objects and rummaging through the house, and the bedding on the bed had been thrown to the ground.
Changning was held in Aunt Zhao's arms and cried hysterically. Aunt Zhao's eyes were also red from crying. She could only shout in vain: "Don't smash it! Don't smash it!"
But no one listened to her.
Fan Da nodded and followed a man who looked like a casino manager. He covered his hand and said with a smile, "Master Jin, as long as I get the title deed, I will go to the government to transfer the ownership, and this house will be mine. I have money to pay off my gambling debts. I have money to pay it back."
The man called Jin Ye didn't even look at Fan Da, and sneered: "If I can't find the deed today, I will cut off your hand and take it back."
Fan Da covered his hand tighter, "We can find it, we can find it..."
From the door came a roar so loud that it made one's eardrums ache: "Stop it!"
This sound was so penetrating that it successfully drew the eyes of everyone in the room toward the door.
The woman was wrapped in snow and her eyes were as cold as the sharp edge of the bone-cleaver in her hand. The door lintel, through which a ray of sunlight came through, seemed to have become lower.
The moment Chang Ning saw Fan Changyu, she burst into tears: "Sister..."
When Fan Da saw Fan Changyu, his eyes became evasive. He stood hunched over beside the casino manager and didn't dare to say a word.
However, the casino manager, Mr. Jin, glanced at the butcher knife in Fan Changyu's hand and smiled indifferently: "Oh, it's the eldest daughter of the Fan family."
Fan Changyu glanced coldly at the mess in the room, his face tense as he said, "Get out of here with your people!"
Mr. Jin raised his eyelids, as if he thought that she, an orphan girl, was too arrogant. "The casino is doing things according to the rules. Mr. Fan said that this house is his. The casino is only responsible for using the land deed to pay off his gambling debts. Your private affairs are not the casino's business."
Fan Changyu stabbed Fan Da with a dagger-like gaze: "Is this house yours?"
Fan Da was too guilty to look at Fan Changyu, so he played the emotional card: "Niece, uncle has been forced into a corner. Uncle owes money to the gambling house. If he doesn't pay it back today, uncle will be left with nothing. The second son and his sister-in-law are gone, and you and Ning Niang don't have any brothers. If you don't want to be bullied by your husband's family after you get married, you still need the support of your brothers from your mother's family. You can help uncle first, take out the land deed, and pay off the gambling debt for uncle. In the future, uncle will treat you and Ning Niang as his own daughters, and your cousin will be your brother. When you get married, you will have someone to rely on from your mother's family..."
Fan Changyu didn't want to hear his nonsense and sneered, "If you want to use your house to pay off your gambling debts, why don't you use your own house? Using my house to pay off your debts is bullshit! Your gambling son is just like you. It's good that he doesn't get chased and have his hands chopped off in the future. How can I rely on him?"
Fan Da was scolded and said to Fan Changyu, "Do you have such a vicious heart? You curse your cousin like this? Your cousin still wants to marry, but if you use the house as collateral, what will your cousin use to marry a wife? You and Ning Niang are two girls who will get married in the future. What are you going to do with this house?"
Fan Changyu was extremely angry but laughed: "These are the things my parents left for me and Ning Niang, why do you care what I do with them?"
Seeing that Fan Changyu was determined not to give him the land deed, Fan Da stopped playing the family card and said ruthlessly: "Fan Er has no son. When he dies, even if his property and land are reported to the government, they will still belong to me. What are you, a girl who is about to get married, fighting for? Are you going to take it to your future husband's family?"
"Could it be that you killed your parents and the Song family broke off the engagement, and you are afraid that it will be difficult for you to get married with the reputation of being an unlucky star, so you want to leave the family property to yourself as a dowry? Your sickly sister has also been unlucky by you and will not live for many years, right? Who is not afraid of death and dares to marry an unlucky star like you?"
No one could see clearly how Fan Changyu moved. When they looked closely, the pig-killing knife in her hand had already been thrown out. The blade almost brushed past Fan Da's ear and heavily penetrated the wall behind him. A few strands of broken hair fluttered to the ground.
Fan Da was so frightened that his face turned pale, his legs were shaking like a sieve, and he opened his mouth but couldn't make a sound.
The casino manager Mr. Jin and the thugs he brought with him were originally just watching the show, but after seeing this scene, they seemed to realize that the woman in front of them was a ruthless person, and they couldn't help but become a little more serious.
Fan Changyu raised his eyes and stared at Fan Da: "The family property left by my parents was used to treat Changning's illness and prescribe medicine. You'd better take the people from the casino and get out of here immediately today, otherwise... the casino only wants one of your hands, and I will chop off your whole family before going down to see my parents!"
"You!" Fan Da shuddered fiercely. He was frightened by Fan Changyu's look. He didn't dare to look him in the eye again and stammered, "Then...then let's go to the government to reason and see whether the government will award this property to you or to me!"
He smiled and bowed to the casino manager who was sitting on a chair with a big golden sword, and said, "Master Jin, what do you think... can you give me another two days?"
The casino manager sneered, "There is no precedent for debt collection in Huixian Casino. If word gets out, people might think that we have no one in the casino and can't collect debts!"
He glanced at Fan Da coldly: "Or do you want to use your right hand to pay off the debt?"
Fan Da broke out in a cold sweat and kept saying, "I don't want to, but this girl..."
He glanced at Fan Changyu and still felt frightened.
The casino manager just sneered: "If it is confirmed to be yours, the brothers who brought it can find it directly."
Rather than asking for a hand from Fan Da, he naturally wanted a house that could be exchanged for money. Jin Ye said to the thugs in the casino, "What are you standing there for? Keep looking for the land deed!"
A group of thugs continued to rummage through the drawers and smash things.
Fan Changyu clenched his teeth and his fists made a clattering sound.
Mr. Jin smiled and said, "Don't be surprised, Miss Fan. This is the rule of the casino."
Aunt Zhao looked at this scene with a burning anxiety in her heart, but she seemed to remember something and hurried out.
She didn't go anywhere else, but squeezed through the door to see the bustling crowd, and knocked on the door of the Song family: "Song Yan, Fan Da brought people from the casino to Changyu's house to snatch the land deed. You are a person who studied sage books, and Fan Er and his wife have treated you well. You should at least come out and say something for Changyu! You are a boss, how can the casino give you any face!"
All the neighbors in the whole alley knew that something happened to the Fan family, except for the Song family, whose door remained closed. Even though Aunt Ren Zhao slammed the door loudly, no sound came from inside.
After knocking on the door for a long time, Aunt Zhao couldn't help crying and cursing: "Song Yan, what have you learned? When your father died, he was so poor that he couldn't even afford a coffin. Don't you think about who bought a coffin for your father? Aren't you afraid that your father's bones will be crushed by the coffin in the ground!"
Aunt Zhao's voice was sharp and mournful, and her scolding could be heard throughout the entire alley.
Mother Song was shaking with anger at the door. "That rude woman, you've already broken off the engagement with the girl from the Fan family. What does her family's own mess have to do with you? I have to go out and scold that woman!"
The man who had been reading at his desk finally called out, "Mother."
Only then did Song's mother stop: "Forget it, forget it, that thief just wants to drag our family into trouble, and she will get into trouble if I go out! Brother Yan, don't go out either. You are a person who wants to gain fame, so don't get involved with that family anymore."
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In the attic of the Zhao family, which was only separated from the Fan family by a wall, Xie Zheng naturally heard the loud noise next door and Aunt Zhao's crying and cursing.
The other side seemed to be outnumbered, the woman was alone, and the old couple could not help.
The gray sky outside the window cleared up in the afternoon. The frost on the eaves was illuminated by the sun, reflecting a layer of light golden light without much temperature.
Xie Zheng's face, exposed to the sunlight, was also cold; his lips were pursed, and he seemed to be in a terrible mood.
Those scums are really noisy and make my ears hurt.
He walked up with difficulty, his pale hands covered with blood scabs, leaning on a pair of crutches placed at the head of his bed. These crutches were made for him today by Carpenter Zhao.
The wounds on his body had not healed yet. He fell to the ground suddenly. The wounds that had been bandaged with gauze began to bleed again. However, he did not care at all. He leaned on the ground with his crutches and took every step very steadily.
If he doesn't deal with those troublemakers next door today, he won't be in the mood for a nap.
At the same time, the Fan family's house had been turned upside down by the thugs from the casino, and even the floor tiles were hit one by one with wooden sticks.
Changning huddled behind Fan Changyu and cried silently. Fan Changyu protected her sister with one hand and half-lowered her face so that people could not see her expression at that moment.
A thug was rummaging through the table where the tablets of Fan Changyu's parents were enshrined and knocked the tablets to the ground. Just as he was about to step on it and crush it to see if there was any secret chamber hidden inside, he was suddenly grabbed by the back of the collar and thrown out with a huge force. When he fell in the door and his head hit the door sill, the big man was still in a daze.
The other people in the room were also confused.
Fan Changyu was already standing where the big man had stood just now, silently looking at the tablets of her parents that had fallen to the ground. The cold wind blowing through the hall blew up the strands of hair at her temples, and beads of blood dripped from her palms.
It was pierced by her own fingertips when she was trying to hold it back.
"I'll give you one more chance, do you want to get out or not?"
Her voice was unexpectedly calm, yet inexplicably eerie.
The people in the casino looked at each other in bewilderment, but Fan Da had already quietly retreated to the door with his legs up. The knife that Fan Changyu had thrown before really made him feel scared.
Mr. Jin has been collecting debts for many years, but this is the first time he has been humiliated like this. With so many people watching outside, if he fails to collect the debt today, the entire casino will lose face.
He stood up and kicked a thug standing next to him: "Are you dead? Keep smashing things. I've been collecting debts in Lin'an Town for so many years, and I'm not afraid of a little girl!"
The thugs comforted themselves in the same way, but when they looked at their companion still lying at the door, they couldn't help but feel a little scared.
This girl has extraordinary strength, it's really weird.
A group of people looked at each other and rushed forward. Fan Changyu didn't even look up. He picked up the wooden stick that the thug had just dropped on his feet with his toes, held it with one hand, and made a horizontal sweep. Several thugs were hit in the abdomen and fell out on the spot, some of them spitting out rice crumbs.
Fan Changyu did not give the group of people time to react, and she waved the long stick in her hand vigorously, sweeping, picking, chopping, and slashing... It would be more accurate to say that she was wielding a long-handled knife without a blade rather than using a stick technique.
The thugs from the casino were beaten by her until they cried for their parents and were thrown out of the Fan family’s gate like broken sandbags. The onlookers gasped one after another.
When Fan Da saw Fan Changyu use this set of sword skills, his face turned pale and he huddled in the corner like a quail.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Mr. Jin wanted to run away. However, before he ran out of the door, a black iron boning knife flew from behind and stabbed steadily into the door panel in front of him, almost cutting off his nose.
Master Jin swallowed his saliva and said, "Miss Fan, it's a misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding..."
There was a commotion outside the crowd, "The police are coming! Make way!"
This group of people, who were used to doing evil, all breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the police coming.
Carpenter Zhao led the officials back sweating profusely and said, "You bullied an orphan girl in broad daylight. Do you still have the guts to do that?"
Seeing the casino thug lying dead outside the gate of the Fan family and Mr. Jin blocked at the door with a bone-cutting knife, the words "king's law" got stuck in Carpenter Zhao's throat.
Xie Zheng, who had just walked down from the Zhao family's attic on crutches, saw this scene and his face showed a bit of surprise.
He had previously felt that the woman's breath was long and strong, not inferior to that of a martial artist, but he had never expected that she was indeed like that.
The onlookers were all watching the excitement and no one noticed Xie Zheng. Seeing that his problem had been solved, he glanced at his collar which was stained with blood from the wound and walked back with an expressionless face, but his forehead was already covered with fine beads of cold sweat.
The blue-shirted scholar who had just opened the door and walked out of the Song family, saw the officials outside, glanced at the Fan family with a puzzled expression, and then stepped back and closed the door again.
Inside the house, Fan Changyu suppressed the anger that had been forced out of him, knelt down and picked up the tablets of his parents that had fallen on the ground without saying a word.
The blood on her hands stained the tablet, so she wiped it with her sleeve.
This set of long-handled sword techniques was taught by her father, but her father never allowed her to use it in front of others.
Her father said that it should only be used when it is absolutely necessary and when lives are in danger, otherwise it might cause trouble.
She made an exception today, but not because her life was in danger, but for her parents' tablets.
Fan Changyu held the tablet and closed his red eyes.
Daddy, don’t blame Changyu.
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With the intervention of the officials, the subsequent handling became much more peaceful.
Fan Changyu injured many people in the casino, but the other party broke into her house and destroyed her belongings first. The police reprimanded the people who caused trouble in the casino and only asked Jin Ye to compensate for the losses of Fan Changyu's family, but did not ask Fan Changyu to compensate for the medical expenses of the people in the casino.
Fan Da shouted that according to the law, Fan Changyu's house should belong to him. The official glanced at Fan Da and said, "This matter is handled separately. If you want to claim the house, write a petition and submit it to the government office and ask the county magistrate to make a judgment."
Fan Da didn't dare to say a word for a moment.
The people in the casino left Fan's house in a mess, supporting each other. Fan Da also ran away in a dusty state. The crowd who saw the excitement gradually dispersed.
Fan Changyu said to the chief official, "Thank you, Uncle Wang."
Wang Captou was also an old friend of her father's before his death. Carpenter Zhao went all the way to invite him because he wanted him to help Fan Changyu.
Captain Wang said, "Today they are in the wrong, and I am not biased towards you when I enforce the law impartially. But if Fan Da really goes to the county government to file a complaint, I'm afraid your house will not be saved."
The reason why Fan Da never went to the county government to file a lawsuit was, firstly, that it was troublesome to file a lawsuit, and secondly, that hiring a lawyer would cost a lot of money.
But after realizing that forcing Fan Changyu was useless, he might actually sue him in the county government in order to use the house deed to pay off his gambling debts.
Fan Changyu's face was filled with deep fatigue and frustration. "I have thought of all possible ways. I have also asked someone to consult a lawyer, but they all said that I cannot transfer the land left by my parents."
Lawyers specialize in writing lawsuits for others, and they are very familiar with the laws of the country.
Captain Wang had been handling cases for many years and had a lot of experience. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Maybe there is another way."
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