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After a long while, Qin Sang came out of the Tang residence, sat in the carriage for a moment, and then looked at Xie Suian: "Come on, help me tie someone up."
Xie Sui'an: "..."
Qin Sang: "You dare not?"
Xie Sui'an knocked on the carriage and shouted, "Jinyun, we have work to do!"
Li Mintian probably never dreamed that a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl would dare to bring people to kidnap him!
He was still listening to the opera in the teahouse when Qin Sang suddenly sat down next to him and smiled, "I think we can talk about the tea mountain."
Manager Li leisurely finished singing a line of the opera, then smiled broadly and said, "I knew Miss Qin Sang was sensible." As he spoke, he beckoned to the side, where a servant had already prepared the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone for signing. "We're just waiting for Miss Qin Sang to come over."
Qin Sang pushed the paper and pen back: "No rush, I have a few more conditions. Why don't we move to a private room and discuss them in detail?"
Manager Li glanced at her, said "okay," and stood up, holding onto the handrail. "It's crowded and noisy here; it wouldn't look good if it got out of hand."
Qin Sang led the person to the reserved private room and locked the door outside for Manager Li's servant. Manager Li chuckled, "Miss Qin Sang is, after all, an unmarried young woman. Such behavior might damage her reputation... right?"
Before he could finish his last word, Jinyun, who had been hiding in the beams of the room, silently fell and struck him hard in his unconscious state.
The fat man rolled his eyes and was about to collapse to the ground.
Jinyun rolled his eyes, reached out and lifted the heavy piece of fat, carefully placing it on the ground.
He wiped the sweat from his brow and sighed, "Heavier than an old sow!"
Qin Sang's mouth dropped open. He never expected that the unassuming Jin Yun would be so skilled! He had fallen from the beam without making a sound.
Outside the private room, Manager Li's servant kept an eye on the commotion inside while craning his neck to listen to the opera, his ears constantly busy.
At this moment, Xie Sui'an, drunk, poked his head out from another private room, looked left and right, and after his eyes met those of the servant, he threw out a round silver ingot: "Go, bring me a pot of wine!"
The servant hissed as if he wanted to curse, but after weighing the money in his hand, he happily went off to get him the wine.
Both rooms were located on the ground floor. Behind the street was a small alleyway piled with miscellaneous items. It took Jinyun and Xie Sui'an working together to throw Steward Li out of the back window and onto the burlap sacks that had been prepared beforehand. Finally, they carried him onto the carriage and drove off.
Xie Sui'an had never done this kind of physical work before, except for practicing martial arts. He was so tired that he kicked Fatty Li hard, saying, "What did you eat to get so fat? You're even stronger than our cook!"
Jinyun said, "No, Aunt Zhang is still fatter than him."
Xie Sui'an raised an eyebrow: "Really?"
Jinyun said, "It's true."
Xie Suian asked, "Then can she still work?"
Jinyun nodded: "You're quite agile at chopping melons and vegetables!"
Qin Sang initially felt awkward about dragging these two passersby into the situation, but seeing how quickly Jin Yun acted and how casually the two chatted, she finally confirmed that they indeed had a bigger background behind them.
Listening to their conversation, she couldn't help but chuckle softly.
Xie Sui'an then turned his attention to the question and asked, "What crime did this person commit? And where do you plan to lock him up?"
Qin Sang calmly said, "He wants to forcibly buy my tea plantation."
Xie Sui'an was taken aback. It turned out that Qin Sang's words last night were not unfounded. Then he heard Qin Sang calmly say, "I have several shops in the north of the city, and there are storage rooms where I can lock people up."
Xie Sui'an raised an eyebrow: "And after locking them up?"
Qin Sang simply said one word: "Fight."
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As soon as Li Mintian opened his eyes, he found himself surrounded by darkness, with only a sliver of light slanting down from the high window, making it look like a prison cell. He was a little bewildered: "Where am I?"
"Manager Li," Qin Sang said, waving a bamboo fly swatter in her hand, "finally awake?"
Li Mintian tried to get up, only to find his hands and feet bound with hemp rope. He cried out, "Miss Qin Sang, you've tied someone up without permission! Ouch!"
Qin Sang swatted the fly swatter at him hard. Although it wasn't heavy, the tingling pain felt like ants gnawing at him, and the stinging pain spread throughout his body.
"Ouch... Miss Qin Sang, let's talk this out! Why are you hitting me!"
"Speak properly?" Qin Sang slapped him again in anger. "You'd kill and set fires just to buy land, didn't you ever think you'd end up like this? Tell me! Who's your boss? Why are you forcing me to buy my tea plantation?!"
Li Mintian was already in pain rolling on the ground, and to be beaten constantly only made things worse. Sweat quickly beaded on his forehead, and he gasped for breath, saying, "Miss Qin Sang, since you know I have someone backing me, why did you have to resort to this trick? You might as well just be straightforward. I... I'll take the liberty of giving you double the money, okay?"
"Smack!" Another slap landed on Li Mintian's fat face, instantly leaving several faint bamboo strip marks.
Qin Sang pressed his head down with a bamboo strip and said calmly, "Old man Qian, you just kill people whenever you want. You bribed the other small-time dealers with cheap silver, but when it comes to me... Hmph, I won't say whose face you're saving, but I imagine Manager Li has already investigated. So you went after my master, smashed his clinic, and even injured Tang San! Do you really think I'm a pushover? You think I wouldn't dare mess with you on my turf?"
Just then, the sound of a dagger being drawn rang out in the darkness.
Upon hearing this, Li Mintian trembled and struggled to turn his head to look in the direction of the sound, but he was too fat to see Jinyun.
Jinyun didn't want to be seen either, so he hid in a corner sharpening his knife to embolden Qin Sang.
After all, what if Qin Sang is the important person the Prime Minister wants to take back? Wouldn't his good deed be a great achievement?
“You’ve misspoke, young lady.” Li Mintian swallowed. “You’ve also overlooked something. How is your second young lady, Qin Yue, doing lately?”
Qin Sang's temples throbbed, as if she suddenly realized something. She exclaimed in surprise, "My second sister? Could it be that you were the one who caused her to fall into the valley?...You bribed Han Feng...no, you bribed Su Qingyan?!"
Li Mintian chuckled: "Although I didn't expect you to be so skilled and daring, I still had to have a backup plan. After all, I'm new to this place and doing things that might offend people. Who knows, I might bite when cornered. You see, I've ended up in your hands now?"
Qin Sang placed a cold dagger against his neck, startling Li Mintian, who exclaimed, "Hey, hey, let me ask you something, young lady, you're only fifteen this year, right? How come... how come you like playing with knives..."
Qin Sang inserted the blade two inches into the ground, saw a bit of blood, and gritted her teeth, saying, "You've got guts. Try touching my second sister and see what happens."
Li Mintian dared not joke any longer, cold sweat beading on his forehead. After a long while, he cautiously said, "Young lady, you are truly a remarkable young woman, a heroine! However, if I return safely, Miss Qin Yue will also be safe. If I cannot return, then Miss Qin Yue may..."
"Are you all crazy?" Qin Sang's eyes widened in disbelief. "Why would you go to such lengths for a piece of land?"
Li Mintian laughed weakly: "What are you saying, young lady? These are nothing but petty tricks, everyone's used to them. Miss Sangsang, your Li County is lucky, the magistrate is an honest and simple man. Go and see outside, that's what... tsk."
Qin Sang suddenly squatted down in front of him, playing with the blood-stained dagger in her hand: "Let me guess, you've gone to such lengths, it's probably not just for those few ounces of tea leaves from our tea plantation, is it? Could there be some incredible treasure buried beneath this tea mountain?"
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