"What are you shouting and panicking for? I'm still right here, alive and well!"
Yang Junnan kicked the servant and snapped impatiently.
The servant clutched the spot where he had been kicked and said through the pain:
"The men we sent to intercept the goods today were all beaten up, and... and dumped at the County Magistrate's Residence! There's a whole crowd of commoners gathered around watching now!"
"What?!"
Furious, Yang Junnan fixed his eyes on Jiang Yunsheng and cursed:
"You son of a bitch! You actually dared to beat my men? I don't think you want to leave Qingshui County alive!"
Jiang Yunsheng, who had just sat down and was leisurely eating the food before him, set down his chopsticks at those words.
"I think you're tired of living, daring to speak to me like that. Even the man backing you wouldn't dare address me that way. Believe it or not, I can make it so even he can't save you."
Jiang Yunsheng had no idea who was backing Yang Junnan. Whoever it was made no difference to him. Could anyone possibly outrank him?
"Heh, you certainly talk big. Do you know who's backing me? None other than Great Xia's current chancellor, Chi Hengji! I'm his mother's cousin! Who do you think you are, daring to compare backers with me?"
Yang Junnan looked at Jiang Yunsheng with utter disdain, waiting for shock and regret to appear on his face once he heard who backed him. Everyone before him had reacted that way, and Yang Junnan had grown used to it.
Jiang Nuan had been quietly eating with her head lowered, but at the name Chi Hengji, she abruptly looked up.
She frowned at Yang Junnan, finding it impossible to imagine how Chi Hengji, a man as clear and noble