Traveling through ancient times.

When the doorman came in to report, his voice was trembling.

Jiang Yizhou said: "Close the door and say I'm not here."

The concierge looked embarrassed, and Yucui scolded him, "Can't you hear or understand what the young lady said to you? If you can't even pass on a message, then you can leave now."

The gatekeeper agreed immediately, saying that this job was important. Just guarding the gate and occasionally delivering messages, he could earn one or two taels of silver every month. There was nothing better than this in the world.

Ning Jianren, who was waiting in the courtyard, was mentally prepared to deal with all kinds of emergencies, even if the woman would use this as an excuse to embarrass him or lose face in front of him.

However, the concierge who delivered the message shouted to him at the door: "The young lady is not here..."

Then he closed the door with a bang and bolted it.

Without even a word of explanation, Ning Jianren was left alone in the yard.

Ning Jianren, always with his graceful demeanor, suddenly felt a surge of violent anger in his chest when he faced the closed door.

He wanted to curse, to...

But he was so angry that he could only walk in circles without venting his anger.

The only place where he doesn't need to disguise himself now is Jiang's residence, because that place has completely become his sphere of influence.

But outside, he couldn't tear off the persona he had worked so hard to create.

So I could only hold it in, unable to vent, and almost made myself explode with anger.

He asked Qihao and the coachman to take turns knocking on the door, but there was no movement from inside.

Instead, they attracted the attention of passers-by, who criticized them one after another: "Miss Jiang is not here, why are you banging on the door? You have no manners at all."

Oh, it's my uncle. So what if he's my uncle? Can he just smash the door at will?

I heard that this son-in-law is a scholar and has received education, so how come he is so vulgar?

Ning Jianren had made sufficient preparations, but he did not expect the situation to turn out like this.

Those peasants actually dared to tell him what to do, and he wished he could trample them all into the mud.

He stayed in the yard for more than an hour. Seeing the sun gradually setting, he knew it would take half a day to go back, so he had to leave in disappointment.

Ning Jianren sat in the carriage, his face so gloomy that water seemed to be dripping out of it.

He thought for a moment, called Qihao in, and said, "I asked you to get rid of her a few times before, why didn't you kill her? Did she do something to you that made you unable to do it?"

Ning Jianren knew that Qi Hao was very skilled and was much better than those hooligans on the street who claimed to be members of a certain gang.

But he sent the other party several times, but the other party said that he didn't find any opportunity to attack and failed.

Now that he came in person and was met with rebuff, he had to suspect that the man who had taken the initiative to surrender to him had ulterior motives.

Qi Hao immediately knelt down on one knee, "Master, please understand. I have been your servant since the day I followed you. I will never dare to have second thoughts."

"With your skills, these ordinary people are no match for you. She's just a woman, and you can't handle her?"

Qi Hao paused, as if he had made a major decision, and said, "Master, to be honest, she also has a master by her side."

"Master? Who? Could it be the one called Liao Qi? Why haven't I heard you mention him before?"

Qi Hao: “…”

"So, what is your relationship with Liao Qi?"

Qi Hao: "Master, do you still remember what I told you that year? In fact, he is also a survivor from another family. At first, I thought that what happened to our family was caused by them, so... I almost killed him. He also had a deep prejudice against me."

"and then?"

"The last few times the master sent me here, he was already wary of me, so there was no way he could do anything."

"You can't beat him?"

Qi Hao: "If we fight to the death, maybe I can barely win by a few moves."

Ning Jianren narrowed his eyes slightly, wondering how that bitch got in touch with someone like Liao Qi. Damn it!

Now it’s the deadline given by Lord Jia.

What Lord Jia is worried about now is not the rumors about Jiang Yizhou, his original wife, but her growing reputation.

In addition to the waterwheel, there is now news of a bumper wheat harvest and a thresher that is more powerful than manual labor...

The news spread like wildfire and had already spread to several surrounding counties. Some people even asked him whether the original wife of the successor he had chosen was a woman named Jiang Yizhou.

With such a strong reputation, his daughter will be trampled under the feet of his original wife after she marries Ning Jianren, and he will be laughed at by others all his life.

So Jia Yuzhen’s ultimatum to Ning Jianren was: if the matter could not be resolved within ten days, everything would end there.

That's it?

How is it possible? I have worked hard for several years and finally got the Jiang family's wealth. I have worked hard to pave this path.

How could I just let this go?

In addition, the Chen family, the Huo family, the Zhou family and the Wang family have now formed a solid alliance and are trying to squeeze him out.

Previously, he had gained leverage over the Chen family because of Qihao, and he used gifts and connections, as well as later investments, spending nearly ten thousand taels of silver, but only got half of the share.

And now, not only do they not want to give him even the half share, they even want to wipe him out completely.

After all, he was able to hold the Chen family's handle, so he must have investigated several other families as well. He might know something that they didn't want others to know.

His existence is a hidden danger to the other four families, so it would be better to just wipe him out cleanly.

The reason why they didn't take action before was because they saw that Ning Jianren had hooked up with Lord Jia and they didn't want to break up with him.

Furthermore, if Ning Jianren really squeezed into their circle, he would not be considered an "outsider", and he would not tell anyone even if he was asked to.

...clang, bang——

The carriage suddenly jolted and then fell to the side uncontrollably.

The horse neighed and the carriage fell into the ditch beside it.

Fortunately, the ditch was not high and the two men were not injured. However, the driver was lying in the grass and seemed to have fainted.

Qi Hao quickly helped Ning Jianren out.

call out--

A slight sound of breaking air was heard, Qi Hao quickly pulled Ning Jianren away and swung his sword to block it, it turned out to be a stone.

Looking back again, a figure flashed by in the woods.

Ning Jianren had just fallen and was still in a state of shock. Now he was ambushed again. The first thing he thought of was that those families couldn't wait to kill him.

It's all that woman's fault. She's always making trouble and causing all kinds of trouble. Otherwise, he would have become Mr. Jia's ideal son-in-law by now.

When the attacker saw that Qihao didn't follow him, he attacked Ning Jianren, and Qihao fought with him.

As the fight went on, the man led Qihao into the forest.

At this moment, Ning Jianren's eyes suddenly went dark and a sack fell on his head.

Before he could resist, he was hit on the head and body with several sticks and fainted.

But the two men holding the sticks showed no intention of stopping and hit him dozens of times.