Arriving in front of the courtyard in Lotus Alley, Hongtao felt unusually quiet and became a little wary, pushing the door open and entering.
The yard was still the same yard, but it was just a mess, and almost everything that could be smashed or destroyed was smashed.
The door was lightly closed. Hongtao walked over, opened the door and peeked inside, and saw Lian Fangzheng limping towards the table. Hearing the sound of the door being opened, Lian Fang turned his head in horror, waiting to see clearly
After the crowd came, he let out a long sigh of relief and smiled wryly on his face.
Hongtao frowned and entered the house. A lot of things were also broken in the house. Before she could clean up the closet, the stools were overturned to the ground. Clothes and other items fell on the floor, as well as broken cups and teacups.
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"Did Chai ask someone to hit you? Were they also responsible for your injuries?" Hong Tao asked with a stern face.
Lian Fang carefully sat on a stool, poured himself a glass of water, and smiled helplessly, "What do I mean, Tongyuan is not as simple as you think.
You, don’t come here anymore. Find a relationship and see if I can change your place. Those people haven’t found you now. It’s not because they think you are a child, but they haven’t found you yet.”
Hongtao held her chin in one hand and tapped the table with the other, casually saying, "I've found it. They greeted me at the entrance very enthusiastically."
Lian was startled, and quickly put down the teacup, looked at the peach carefully, and found no scars, and asked curiously: "They just let you go like that? Those people should not be soft-hearted, how did you escape?"
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Hong Tao shrugged, "Simple, just let them lie on the ground and be unable to get up."
"You..." Lian Fang looked shocked, but after thinking about it, he realized that the little girl in front of him did have that ability. He smiled bitterly and said: "I can't even compare to a child. This house
A lot of things were smashed for me inside and outside the house, and I was left with injuries all over my body."
"Don't worry, I will make up for all the injuries you broke or injured." Hong Tao Lingran smiled.
Lian Fang shook his head and advised: "Forget it, in Tongyuan, when encountering this kind of thing, everyone just makes peace with it. Revenge this time will only lead to more severe revenge from them next time."
"Then uproot them." Hong Tao said nonchalantly.
Uprooted. Lian Fang sighed, "It's not easy. These people have been in Tongyuan for more than ten years and have long been connected with Tongyuan. To uproot them, the entire Tongyuan land must be torn apart.
Shake it off, this is impossible to do."
"Tell me more about Tongyuan's situation. That's why I came here today." Hong Tao became more serious.
Lian Fang took a sip of water and then slowly said, "There is one thing that I have never told you. Firstly, I feel that it is useless to say it, and secondly, I haven't had time to say it yet.
The residents of Tongyuan and Fangya, mainly those three, have coexisting interests."
"Coexistence of interests?"
“When buying and selling a house, you need to go to the government office to pay the deed tax. However, in Tongyuan, most people actually don’t pay the deed tax.”
Hongtao was slightly surprised: "How dare they?"
"There's nothing you don't dare to do. As long as there's money to be made and profits to be made, there's nothing to be afraid of." Lian Fang snorted with disdain and said, "Those three people named Chai have served as countless mediators like this over the years.
When they handle house sales, they only sign white deeds, so that the buyer can save a deed tax every year. In exchange, they not only receive commissions, but also protection fees."
"Protection money? What is this?" Hong Tao wondered.
“Because the Baiqi Yamen doesn’t recognize it, if someone with bad intentions accepts the money but refuses to give the house, the buyer will lose both the house and the money.
As for the white deeds handled by Chai, they can avoid this situation by paying a protection fee once, because anyone who wants to rely on the white deeds to deny housing will be violently punished by them."
Hongtao was puzzled, "The red deed does not harm the interests of the seller, so why did these people agree obediently?"
Lian Fang smiled helplessly, "This is Tongyuan. It has been like this for more than ten years. The seller was also the buyer, not to mention that the seller can also benefit from it.
If you don’t sign the red deed, you don’t need to ask for an account. If you don’t ask for an account, you can sell the house according to your heart. Isn’t this a lot easier for the seller?”
Hongtao opened her mouth to ask again. Lian Fang interrupted: "I know what you want to ask. Will those relatives and neighbors be willing to ask? Will they not sue the government?
That's right, they didn't dare to complain to the Yamen. In the early years, someone went to complain, but the Yamen sent people to investigate, and found nothing. They didn't say anything. A few days later, the person who complained was beaten to death in the street.
superior.
From then on, no one dared to say another word. As for Tongyuan, you are right to say that it does not belong to Yinzhou. Now, everything here has been connected to each other and formed, and I want to uproot it..." It is almost a dream.
Hong Tao understood that the owner of the house and Fang Ya were connected as one and inseparable.
It would be okay if there were only one or two houses, but in the entire Tongyuan, there are thousands of houses, and more than half of the residents are in this situation. From the perspective of ordinary people, there is really no cure. Because once a foreign enemy invades, they will
Consistent with the outside world.
Seeing Hong Tao's silence, Lian Fang said helplessly: "After listening to what I said, have you figured it out?"
Hong Tao nodded her head and said with certainty, "I understand. I can't keep those three front teeth."
He glared twice, "Are you... going to kill them?"
Hong Tao rolled her eyes at him and said angrily: "Am I that easy to kill? I'm still a child, what are you thinking."
"Then you..." How can you "not keep" them?
Hong Tao chuckled, "Bully, of course you have to use bullies to deal with it. Tell me about a few houses where white deeds were recently signed."
Lian Fang looked puzzled, but still told Hong Tao the information about the sale of three houses that he knew.
After Hongtao wrote it down, he stood up and walked out, "In order to prevent them from turning around and taking revenge on you, wait until I beat them until they can't get up, and then I will take revenge on you."
Lian Fang became more and more confused, and his face was a little anxious, "What are you going to do? Don't mess around. This is Tongyuan, it's like a hornet's nest, you can't poke it."
Hongtao took two steps and then stopped, "By the way, what kind of injury are you suffering from? My teacher...father is good at medicine. You are injured because of me after all. I asked him to treat you."
Take the medicine a few times to ensure that the disease is cured."
Lian Fang saw her careless look and became more and more anxious. He tried to persuade her earnestly, "Little ancestor, really, you must not mess around. I'm afraid that you will make things worse until the end, which will be a big trouble."
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Hong Tao glanced at him and said, "Don't worry. I know what I'm doing. In this case, I'll take a look at your injuries. You wait, I'll call someone to deliver medicine to you later." After saying that, he walked away calmly.
Already.
Lian Fang looked at Hong Tao's back, sighed repeatedly, and limped to sit on the bed.