Chapter 20 - Ambushed

Ren An left the core area and returned to the cheap area.

  Ren An was not in a hurry to go home, but went to the market to buy a horse and a carriage.

  The moving distance was more than 20 miles long, and the little wife who was pregnant at home for seven months could not walk such a long distance, so she had to travel by horse-drawn carriage.

  When Ren An drove the carriage back to his home, his wife and concubine were sitting in front of the house chatting like yesterday.

  As soon as they saw their husband come back, they immediately got up and went to meet him.

   "Husband, why did you suddenly buy a carriage and come back?"

  Song Huaying asked both puzzled and curious.

  Ren An patted her forehead, and joked with a smile: "Stupid, do you want to walk and move with your big belly tomorrow?"

   "Husband, I'm not stupid at all, I'm just a little clumsy."

  Song Huaying pouted her rosy mouth and said coquettishly.

  Ren An smiled and patted her head and said, "Yes, yes, my Yinger is not stupid, just clumsy."

   "That's right, she is proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, how could she be stupid."

  Song Huaying enjoyed her husband touching her head very much. She felt very warm and comfortable, feeling like being pampered.

  [You gently touch your wife Song Huaying, making her feel sweet, and the relationship between husband and wife is +1. ]

   "Husband, drink water."

   Su chen went back to the house and poured out a glass of water. Her voice was as cold as ever, but with a touch of tenderness.

  Ren An smiled and took the water glass and drank it down.

  Well, it's freshly tapped well water, and it's refreshing to drink.

   "Su is really sensible."

  Ren An handed back the water glass after drinking, and reached out to pat Su chen's head tenderly.

   Su chen had a look of enjoyment.

  [You gently touch your wife Su chen, which makes her feel extra enjoyment, and the relationship between husband and wife is +1. ]

  …

   After dinner.

  Under the leadership of Ren An, the three of them began to tidy up the house, packing the things to be moved out tomorrow.

  The main force is Ren An and Su chen.

  The pregnant Song Huaying is only responsible for packing up small things, or pouring tea and water for the two of them occasionally.

   After more than an hour.

  The whole house is neat and tidy.

   "It's getting late, let's go take a shower and go to bed early, and get up early tomorrow."

  Ren An patted the dust on his hands and said.

  Hearing what the husband said, the wife and concubine went to the kitchen to boil water very sensibly.

  After the water is boiled.

  Ren An fetched the ladle and cotton cloth, and carefully bathed Song Huaying in the shower.

   After all, his wife has been pregnant for more than seven months, so it is not suitable for bathing in a wooden barrel.

  [You gently help your wife Song Huaying clean up her body, making her feel full of love, and the relationship between husband and wife is +1. ]

  After helping the little wife wash her body, Ren An sent her to the room to sleep and rest.

   Then he went back to the bathroom, sat in the wooden bucket filled with warm water with Su chen tacitly, and took the long-awaited bath.

   After some time.

  [You and your wife Su chen have in-depth exchanges, and the strength of your spiritual consciousness +1. ]

   "Su, the carriage that your husband bought back today is very luxurious and comfortable inside, do you want to go in and have a look?"

  Ren An stroked Su chen's hair and asked.

  Su chen nodded: "I want to see it."

  As long as it was something her husband wanted to do, she would never say no.

   Not long after, the two got dressed and came out of the bathroom, and walked into the carriage parked in the yard.

  The naive Su chen simply thought that she really came out to look at the carriage, but after entering, she realized that she was completely deceived by her husband.

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  Time passed quickly, eyes closed and opened, and the rooster raised by some family outside began to go mad before dawn, screaming oh-oh at the top of its throat.

  Ren An was woken up.

  He glanced at the sky outside the carriage, the sun only appeared a little bit, and there was still a long time before dawn.

   So he had nothing to do, so he woke up Su chen who was beside her, thinking about continuing to improve his spiritual consciousness, golden finger strength, and the relationship between husband and wife.

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   After the sky gradually brightened, a drizzle began to fall outside.

  The couple got out of the carriage and began to move the luggage packed last night to the carriage one by one.

   Not long after, Song Huaying woke up.

  Su chen went to the kitchen with her to make breakfast.

  Ren An went to the bathroom to find a cotton cloth, wiped off the water flowing everywhere in the carriage, then sat on it and turned on the system panel with a thought.

  [Name: Ren An]

  [Cultivation: Qi Refining Level 4]

  [Alchemy: first-level intermediate (457/500)]

  [Spiritual Consciousness: Level 1 Intermediate (110/500)]

  [Gold Finger: Proficient (133/500)]

  [Spouse: Song Huaying, Su chen]

  [Offspring: Pregnant (July)]

  …

  [Name: Song Huaying]

  [Emotion: 2 stars (389/500)]

  [Alchemy experience provided: 437]

  [Spell proficiency provided: 77]

  …

  [Name: Su chen]

  [Emotion: 1 star (58/100)]

  [Provided Spiritual Consciousness Strength: 110]

  [Spell proficiency provided: 45]

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   After the three of them had breakfast, they each checked to see if there was anything they had forgotten to clean up.

  They Checked it again, and found nothing that they forgot to bring.

  So they just found a place to sit down, chatting and laughing together.

   Time soon came to noon.

  The three of them rested for a while after lunch. Seeing that it was almost time, they boarded the carriage and set off for Steward Zhang's office area.

  After successfully reuniting with Steward Zhang, the group of four drove to the core area in a carriage.

  Ren An and Steward Zhang sat in front of the carriage and steered the horse.

  The wife and concubine lay in the car to sleep and rest.

   It was very peaceful along the way.

   Until the carriage passed through a forest, an accident happened.

   "Shua... Shua... Shua!"

  Only hearing the rubbing sounds of several branches and leaves, several masked men holding machetes suddenly appeared in the originally silent forest.

  Ren An recognized the iconic machete at a glance, it was from the Black Iron Villa!

  As a member of the Bamboo Leaf Gang, Steward Zhang also recognized the machete of Black Irom Villa.

  The moment the opponent appeared, he immediately pulled out the saber from his waist and jumped off the carriage.

   "Tell me, how did you people from Black Iron Villa get in here!"

  Steward Zhang's voice was like thunder, and his cultivation base of the seventh level of qi refining burst out without reservation, trying to deter the opponent.

  However, the other party's expression did not fluctuate, and he even wanted to laugh a little.

  He saw the leading male cultivator walk forward, and said with a funny face: "So what about the seventh level of Qi Refining, don't you think I am the same?"

  After the words fell, he burst out with his cultivation power, and his cultivation was even half a point stronger than Steward Zhang.

  Steward Zhang's eyes widened in an instant, his face full of disbelief. He never expected that the other party was also a Qi-refining seventh-level monk, and even a little stronger than him!

What exactly is going on?

  Why would there be monks from the seventh level of Qi Refining leading a team to attack and kill me?

   Did I offend some big shot?

  Guard Zhang was thinking hard, but he couldn't understand at all in a short time, so he could only look at the other party with a softer attitude, and asked, "Fellow Daoist, is there any misunderstanding?"

  The other party ignored him, and directly said to the group of accomplices behind him: "Leave me to deal with the swordsman at the seventh level of Qi Refining. You guys should quickly take down the alchemist, and return him to the Black Iron Villa to be disposed of by that worthless waste."

"yes!"

  The masked men responded, and immediately walked towards Ren An with a machete in their hands, without saying a word of nonsense.

   It wasn't until this moment that Guanshi Zhang realized that these people from Black Iron Villa were coming for Ren An, and he was only affected by it, so he felt a sudden retreat in his heart.

  He wanted to make friends with Ren An, but he didn't wanted to be killed because of him.

   On the other side, looking at the men in black who were approaching him, Ren An instantly remembered the bearded male cultivator whom he had severely taught yesterday in the market.

   Judging from what the masked man on the seventh level of Qi refining said just now, he roughly understood that he was being retaliated by that bearded male cultivator, and he underestimated the status of his father in Black Iron Mountain Villa.

   "Husband, what happened?"

  Song Huaying had already fallen asleep in the carriage. When she was awakened by the movement outside and found that the carriage had stopped, she couldn't help opening the curtain in a daze, and leaned out to ask with a puzzled expression.

  A masked man saw Song Huaying with a big belly, his eyes lit up immediately, and there was an extremely perverted look in his eyes and said:

   "That pregnant woman, be careful not to miscarry her, I want to take her back to Mountain Villa to enjoy it..."

   "... poof!"

   Before the masked man could finish his sentence, a bright red blood hole suddenly appeared between his eyebrows.

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