The landlord hemmed and hawed, "It's... it's assigned from above, and they gave me the land deed."
Li Qiao was skeptical, a land deed? How many years ago was that? She followed up, asking, "Do you have a land use certificate?" If it was assigned from above, then a land use certificate should have been processed afterward.
And of course, one could also rob someone else of their house and its land deed.
When grandma left, she only took the love token she had exchanged with grandpa, an album.
The things she left behind, didn't they just end up benefitting outsiders?
Robbers, ah!
Taking advantage of the chaos to steal other people's belongings.
Landlord: "I haven't processed it yet, but you can take the land deed and handle it yourselves."
Li Qiao, using consideration as a pretext, took her leave. Who recognizes a land deed these days? If the house had an owner, when they returned, they just needed to get a proof of identity at the brigade, and any deed she held would be useless.