Chang Wan looked at the name on the deed and teased Ling Jiheng, "Why don't you write your wife's name this time?"
Ling Jiheng was neither embarrassed nor annoyed, and smiled and said, "My wife felt sorry for me because I had nothing, so she used her dowry to buy me some property."
This one sentence left Chang Wan speechless. At the same time, he felt a little jealous, thinking, why didn't he meet such a good woman?
Ling Jiheng handed the deed to Chi Xingyue and weighed the gift in his hand: "Xingyue and I are preparing to return to Qingshan Village. We came here to say goodbye to Master Yu and Brother Chang!"
Then he handed a few bags of cakes to Chang Wan and said, "Thank you, Brother Chang, for taking care of us during this time!"
Chang Wan didn't refuse and took the cake with some emotion: "I didn't expect time to pass so quickly. Come to the capital city more often when you have time. Brother will treat you to a drink!"
Ling Jiheng nodded and went to Yu Tingzhang's study under Chang Wan's guidance.
After another round of pleasantries, Yu Tingzhang looked at the writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone on the table and sighed, "It's snowing these past two days. Why don't you wait until spring? I have a room at home, so you don't need to stay in an inn."
Ling Jiheng bowed and said, "I have been away from home for over half a month and I really miss my parents. Before the snow gets too heavy, I can hurry back to Yunrou. Thank you, Lord Yu, for your kindness."
Seeing this, Yu Tingzhang did not try to persuade him to stay. He said a few words that he would help take care of the land, and asked someone to send Ling Jiheng away.
He was busy with official duties, so he didn't get up. There was still a lot of time, and there would be many opportunities to meet in the future.
Ling Jiheng came out of the government office and strolled on the deserted street with Chi Xingyue.
Due to the bad weather, there were few pedestrians on the streets, but the shops were still open as usual.
Chi Xingyue passed by a bun shop and bought twenty-five big meat buns. When he saw some pancakes, he also took a dozen.
There were also pastries. I picked out the ones I liked and stocked up dozens of bags, putting them all on the carriage.
I returned to the inn to pack my luggage, folded the quilt I had taken out and put it into the space.
After canceling the rent with the shopkeeper, he left without looking back.
Chi Xingyue sat in the carriage and carefully looked over the freshly issued title deed.
She wasn't at all angry that her name wasn't written on it.
After all, no parents-in-law or grandparents would be willing to live in the house of their daughter-in-law or granddaughter-in-law.
After making sure there were no problems, he put the house deed into the space and placed it together with her land deed.
Chi Xingyue hummed a song happily and chatted with Ling Jiheng intermittently.
Light snow began to fall from the sky again, and the northwest wind was blowing. Ling Jiheng shouted "Gee", and the carriage galloped away, leaving only a trail of afterimage.
When the Xu family's housekeeper first heard that Master Dong had sold the house, he was completely panicked. He stumbled to report, and in the middle of winter, cold sweat dripped down his forehead.
Xu Daquan frowned and asked, "Are you serious? Who bought the house?"
"This old servant doesn't know anything. I only know that they are two outsiders. They left the city after completing the transfer formalities!"
Xu Daquan's nervous expression relaxed, and he tapped the table lightly with his fingers. After a moment, he chuckled, raised his hand to greet the butler, and whispered a few words in his ear. The butler's face turned pale.
"Got it?"
Did the butler dare to say he didn't know? He didn't dare, because he knew how cruel his master was.
He nodded and said, "I will arrange it!" Then he bowed and left.
Xu Daquan chased after the Buddhist beads and sneered, "Dong, you think you are worthy enough to compete with me?"
He didn't take Ling Jiheng seriously at all and just thought that he was giving him a house.
He drank his tea leisurely, but still felt unsatisfied, so he asked his concubine to sing for him. The singing was so beautiful.
***
Ling Jiheng had been planning to strike back, so he slowed down the car after it left the city, and even stopped by the roadside to get in the car to warm up and have something to eat.
In short, the two of them had a stress-free and comfortable journey without any distractions.
Not long into the afternoon, Ling Jiheng noticed something was amiss. It seemed someone was chasing them.
The reason for his certainty was probably due to the bad weather and the fact that they were the only carriage on the road. The urgent clattering sounds not far away made him wary.
Seeing his serious expression, Chi Xingyue also had a bad feeling. He took out the pistol hidden in the village committee building and put it under his hip, staring intently at the source of the sound.
In just a quarter of an hour, a group of masked strong men rode over and surrounded them.
Straight to the point: "Hand over all the money you have if you know what's best for you!"
Although the man disguised himself as a robber, Ling Jiheng still recognized his voice. It was clearly one of the two brothers who had rummaged through the Dong family's old house last night.
He immediately reached for the machete hidden in the wall of the carriage and yelled, "Get out!"
Xu Daquan's lackey didn't expect this man to be so tough. After being stunned for two seconds, he laughed out loud: "I thought you were smart, but I didn't expect that you are going to die here!
Brothers, go ahead, we must find the title deed!"
The sturdy man thought that with so many of them, Ling Jiheng would definitely die, so he didn't try to hide it at all.
Chi Xingyue rolled his eyes, thinking that the villain died because he talked too much. This idiot had exposed the master's identity so gorgeously.
The sound of weapons clashing was heard outside the carriage. Chi Xingyue looked out through the gap in the curtain and found that they were all good-looking but useless. After just a few moves, they were knocked down by Ling Jiheng.
Chi Xingyue threw out a hemp rope, and Ling Jiheng quickly tied them together.
They had no intention of sending them to Yu Tingzhang. After all, they already wanted to kill them, so why should he and Chi Xingyue leave them any chance of survival?
After Ling Jiheng tied up the last "bandit", he broke their legs one by one with the back of a knife.
Heart-wrenching screams rang out on the empty path, startling a few sparrows, which flapped their wings and flew into the air.
Ling Jiheng stepped on the leader's cheek and asked, "Why did Master Xu ask you to come here?"
One sentence can break people's defenses.
The Xu family's thugs thought that their actions were secretive and did not take the other party seriously at all.
Who would have thought that they had already been thoroughly investigated. You know, even Mr. Dong didn't know their identities.
I wanted to lie, but I couldn't. The thug bared his teeth and said, "Let us take the deed from you... and then we can take it all for ourselves!"
Chi Xingyue exclaimed, "What a guy!" He thought that this guy was planning to kill for money, and he was really cruel.
It's also because they seem too easy to bully. If Xu had power and influence, he wouldn't dare to be so arrogant.
In fact, Ling Jiheng only knew that the person behind the scheme was surnamed Xu, and he was not very clear about the other party's background.
After looking around, I felt that we were still too close to the city.
He raised his hand to knock out a few scumbags, and just as he was about to tie them to the car and take them away, he noticed that the weeds in the distance shook.
Ling Jiheng glanced over and was about to go over to check, when he saw a burly man dressed like the others in Xu Mansion running towards the city.
Ling Jiheng subconsciously chased after him, fearing that he would cause trouble later, but Chi Xingyue called out to him, "Husband, use this!"
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