The Beauties Help Me Become the No.1 Official

Chapter 28: Chapter 28 The Village Tyrant Father and Son

"What are you doing here?"

Lin Fan glared at Cai Kui, he hadn’t asked his father just now because he knew even if he did, his father wouldn’t tell him, after all these years he was known in the village as an honest man, a person who believed that suffering losses was a blessing and often said so.

"Obviously here to sign a contract, your dad sold your family’s land to me. Otherwise, I wouldn’t bother coming into your shabby yard."

Cai Kui took out a pack of Zhonghua from his pocket, lit one and put it in his mouth, then threw a contract onto the kang bed.

"Sold the land?"

Lin Fan was startled and turned his head to look at his father. In the countryside, the farmland was the lifeblood of a family, not something to be surrendered unless absolutely necessary, as it was their only means of survival.

"Yep, it’s that plot on West Mountain... It’s sold now. These past few years grain hasn’t been worth much, the money from the sale can be used for your down payment, and you can buy a place in the city. After all, at your age, it’s time to get married and have kids."

The father picked up the contract; him, being barely literate, couldn’t understand it and simply handed it to Lin Fan: "Since you’re back, if you think there’s nothing wrong with it, just sign it."

"That’s ten acres of land, even just planting corn could yield several thousand a year, and you offer just five thousand yuan? You wish!"

Lin Fan scanned the contract and immediately threw it back onto the kang: "Everybody knows that the town is planning to build a tunnel through West Mountain. When that happens, the compensation will probably be dozens of times higher than what you’re offering. Keep your money."

This news was something Chang Wanyun had mentioned on the way back just now. A few days ago, a survey team had already come to explore. Once the tunnel was through, it would only take fifteen minutes to get back from the town, and the surrounding villages would all benefit.

"Compensation money... You wish."

Cai Kui smirked with his cigarette: "Who do you think you are? Only those registered in the village records get compensation. Who told you that you could get money for those ten acres? If I’m not mistaken, that’s just wasteland. The country is now demanding a return to forestry. Believe me or not, I can have people plow it tomorrow!"

"You wouldn’t dare!"

Lin Fan said coldly: "You really think you can do whatever you want in the village. If you dare to mess around, I won’t let you off. There are plenty of places in this world where reason prevails!"

"Oh, oh, oh, you’re talking reason with me? You really think being a petty clerk in the city makes you high and mighty? Don’t you pull rank on me. And let me tell you something, if I want to, I can get you kicked out of the city job tomorrow. What are you to stand up to me? I know people you can’t even dream of reaching."

Cai Kui jeered, and while Lin Fan had just started his bureaucratic career and indeed did not dare to bully him like before, after a few quiet years, Cai Kui realized Lin Fan was frustrated with his role and thus intensified his bullying. Who made his dad easy to pick on? noveldrama

"Fine, then let’s see how you’re going to make me leave!"

Lin Fan snorted. This was no longer the easily bullied nobody from the past. If things went smoothly, he would soon be able to take up a position back in the town. Although it was not a high position, dealing with a village head would be more than within his capacity.

Just as the two were at a stalemate, the door to the inner room was kicked open, and Cai Kui’s son, Cai Xuliang, rushed in, grabbing Lin Fan by the neck: "Lin Fan, you ungrateful bastard, do you really think you’re something?"

"I don’t know about being a character, but are you planning to force a sale here?"

Lin Fan looked at his former classmate and coldly smiled. In school, because he was good at studying, he was always isolated by him, and he even tore up his books. Despite that, he still managed to get into university, while this bastard failed the entrance exams and could only spend a few years as a soldier before returning to the village to follow in his dad’s footsteps. Now, he is supposedly the Civilian Soldier Captain of the village.

"I am forcing a buy and sell, what are you going to do about it? You piece of trash, sign the damn paper now, or I’ll break your legs too!"

Cai Xuliang glared at Lin Fan fiercely, a sight that frightened his father into urgently waving his hands.

"We’re all neighbors here, there’s no need for violence. It’s just selling land... I’ll sign it, and that’s fine... Our elders are all good brothers. It’s better to be friendly and harmonious."

"We can’t sign it!"

Lin Fan snatched the contract from his father’s hands and tore it to shreds: "I refuse to believe that these two, father and son, can continue to act so lawlessly."

"Damn it, today I’ll show you how lawless I can be!"

Cai Xuliang punched Lin Fan in the face as he looked at the torn contract, knocking the frail Lin Fan to the ground. Cai Kui, standing to the side, laughed while folding his arms, looking down at Lin Fan: "See? This is what you get for crossing me. You should have just taken the money. Even without giving you money, what could you do to me?"

Lin Fan held his nose as blood kept flowing. He knew not to enrage this guy any further; with his physique only suited for holding a pen, he couldn’t possibly fight the two of them. In the end, he would be the one who suffered. But the endless hatred in his heart made the loathing in his eyes impossible to hide.

"What are you staring at? You low-life, still not convinced? Today, I’m definitely going to break your dog legs and show you that you can’t mess with the Old Cai Family!"

Cai Xuliang, already a bit drunk, was getting even more worked up. Upon seeing Lin Fan’s defiant expression, he picked up the thick wooden stick standing next to the door, intended for security at night, and swung it towards Lin Fan with a whoosh.

"Stop... please don’t..."

Seeing his son about to be hurt, his father on the kang bed struggled desperately, but it was too late. Just as Lin Fan was about to be seriously injured, a figure rushed in from outside, bumping into Cai Xuliang’s shoulder and knocking the wooden stick off course.

When Lin Fan saw who it was, his heart warmed, because she was Zhu Zhixuan, his desk mate from middle school and high school, now a teacher at the county elementary school. She also had another identity; she was Cai Xuliang’s wife.

"Cai Xuliang, have you lost your mind... You could kill someone!"

Zhu Zhixuan saw the broken cabinet hit by the wooden stick. He had intended to strike with deadly force. If it had hit Lin Fan, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

"You... you’re defending him?"

Cai Xuliang, fuming, turned his head and glared at Zhu Zhixuan angrily. Her arrival was like pouring a bucket of gasoline on his flames of anger, because everyone in their class knew that Zhu Zhixuan, the school beauty, had always liked Lin Fan. The two also made a handsome couple and the unspoken affection between desk mates for six years was self-evident. If it weren’t for Zhu Zhixuan’s underperformance in the college entrance exams, causing them to part ways, they probably would have already settled down together.

"So what if I’m defending him? You’re seizing someone’s farmland; this is unreasonable!"

Zhu Zhixuan glared back at Cai Xuliang heatedly, but before she could finish, Cai Xuliang slapped her delicate cheek, the inertia sending her tumbling to the ground.