From a humble farmer to a great martial arts master

Chapter 103, The Death of Hu

Chapter 104, Section 103: The Death of a Thousand-Household Commander

Several horses galloped quickly on the road back to the prefectural city, kicking up clouds of dust.

Ren Qingshan's face was as calm as water, but his heart was half iceberg and half flame.

He was mindful, trying to dispel the regret in his mind: If only I hadn't let Ren Yaowu go.

However, there are no "what ifs" in life.

Besides, he couldn't stop her, let alone prevent her from getting pregnant. How could he not go looking for her?

Furthermore, Ren Yaowu is not a child; adults must bear the consequences.

However, the price is far too heavy.

Ren Qingshan considered several other possibilities in his mind:

First: If he wasn't his own nephew, and he had an affair with the Lan family's daughter, resulting in her getting pregnant out of wedlock, and then came to propose marriage—would he die?

Second: If he hadn't faked his injury and had gone to the Lan family to propose marriage in the manner of a Xiantian martial artist, would he have died?

There was no third option; Ren Qingshan already had his answer.

The first possibility is that he will probably be thrown into prison by the Lan family, or even secretly eliminated, to prevent him from disgracing the family.

Today I originally planned to talk to Liu Fangyuan, ask him what he thought, then prepare to assassinate Qian Chengen late at night, and then hide in Lu Qingyi's boudoir, and sleep with her to create an alibi.

But unexpectedly, things have turned out this way.

Then one will die and the other will be rendered useless.

The fact that he was left alive was intentional; a prefect whose limbs were all broken and who had lost his martial arts skills was more useful than a dead prefect.

If anyone suspects me, then—we'll talk about it later.

Ren Qingshan did not believe that they had no political enemies in the prefectural city.

The rules of the game of power are the same—right or wrong doesn't matter, strength matters.

That's what they taught us.