Chapter 337: Three Days Means Three Days
Although Liu Fanglan looked down on Shen Nian because of what she’d heard from the Meng siblings, standing before Shen Nian now, she couldn’t help but feel a bit of pressure.
However, Liu Fanglan quickly recalled that she hadn’t gotten the upper hand in her previous confrontations with Shen Nian at all. It was a serious blow to her usual formidable reputation.
At that thought, Liu Fanglan mustered some courage and glared fiercely at Shen Nian.
Shen Nian paid no mind to Liu Fanglan’s expression and got straight to the point.
"I came to talk to you, Sister-in-law Liu, about the vegetable plot. Before Lu Cheng and I moved in, it was one thing for you to use our plot. But now that we’ve moved here, don’t you think you should return it?"
"Who says I took your plot!"
Liu Fanglan retorted without a second thought. However, after she spoke, she remembered that she had indeed taken over the vegetable plot next to hers, and that one really did belong to Shen Nian and Lu Cheng.
"It seems you remember now, Sister-in-law Liu. In that case, I’ll be waiting for you to return the plot. I’ve already taken a look. The vegetables you planted are all easy to transplant; it wouldn’t even take half a day to finish. Of course, I don’t want to tire you out, so I’ll give you three days. Three days. Even if you work slowly, that should be more than enough time to move everything, don’t you think?"
If the other party had been more agreeable, Shen Nian wouldn’t have laid things out so definitively. But this was Liu Fanglan. To deal with someone like her, one had to seize the initiative.
"You... Why should I have to move them just because you say so!"
Shen Nian had guessed right. When Liu Fanglan heard Shen Nian had come for the vegetable plot, her first instinct was indeed to stall and refuse. After all, this wasn’t the first time she’d done something like this; she’d managed to drag things out for months in the past.
But she hadn’t expected Shen Nian to give her any chance to throw a fit or dither, immediately setting a three-day deadline.
Three days was certainly enough time for Liu Fanglan to move the vegetables, but someone like her, who was so used to taking advantage of others, was hardly going to return the plot so easily!
"On what grounds? On the grounds that the plot belongs to my family! When it was unclaimed, it was one thing for you to use it, Sister-in-law Liu. But now the owners are here. Are you really not planning to return it?"
"You..."
Even if Liu Fanglan truly had no intention of returning it, she didn’t dare say so outright. After all, she had only managed to take it in the first place by playing dirty.
Her behavior had always been about exploiting loopholes. Everything within the corporation was subject to its allocation principles. It was fine as long as nobody pursued the matter, but if someone did, Liu Fanglan’s actions would be completely indefensible.
Liu Fanglan was used to bullying others, but the person standing before her now was Shen Nian.
At first, Shen Nian hadn’t known what kind of person Liu Fanglan was, so she had been tolerant. Now that she knew her true nature, Shen Nian certainly wasn’t going to keep giving in.
After all, with people like her, the more one backed down, the more arrogant they became. The only way to handle someone like that was to be firm.
"No! Three days is impossible. It’s too short!"
"Then how long do you think is acceptable, Sister-in-law Liu? A month? Two months?"
Just as Liu Fanglan was about to agree, she heard Shen Nian speak again.
"Don’t even think about it! I said three days, and that’s final!"