Many officials were interested when they heard that Su Wan knew how to grow vegetables without soil. They had after all never heard such a thing before and wanted to get more of the inside information but of course, Lord Yan was no fool, he did not tell them anything and yed coy saying that he too was unaware of the matter and only knew the surface knowledge.


    Did they think that he was an idiot, who would tell them everything? He knew that these nobles wanted to grab hold of the form and then present it as their own such that they could climb up the ranks as well. He was not an idiot to drop an axe on his foot, thus Lord Yan did not say a word about how the soilless vegetables could be grown.


    Many of the nobles were dissatisfied but what could they do? After hearing about the incident at the yamen where Su Wan whipped Lai Jinfu until his skin was peeled off, they no longer have the courage to talk to her. What if she med them for going against the Emperor and peeled ayer of skin off their bodies as well?


    This thing even stirred the Lai family. They could not grow decent vegetables even when they had fertilends, if Su Wan grew vegetables without soil then she would be even more infamous than she was already!


    Old Madam Lai sent a letter to her fifth daughter asking her to question Pei Huai and hand them the form but of course Pei Huai refused. Not only because he wanted to keep his job but also because he knew that his mother-inw did not have any good ns.


    " You should stop acting up and live your life peacefully now that you have married me," Pei Huai told his wife whose face paled instantly.


    " I will not say anything about how you have used my seal to hand more authority to the Lai family, it was I who was blind to fall in love with you after all but if you dare to affect the Pei family then I will have no choice but to send you back to your mother."


    Madam Pei was stunned, this was the first time her husband talked to her like this, she wanted toin but Pei Huai did not give her a chance. He narrowed his eyes and said, " Do you even know who is the county magistrate now? She is the woman who skinned and whipped your brother-inw and she also dared to stab Second Grandma.


    She is not the kind of woman who would withstand my actions of turning a blind eye to the Lai family. If I do that then I can forget about staying in my position."


    " How can she do that!?" Madam Pei was just a woman who had no idea how the world outside worked. She only knew how to shop and have fun, once in a while, she would take advantage of her husband''s position. She could not understand how the Lai family who once acted a tyrant was reduced to the point where they had to act carefully.


    Seeing her like this Pei Huai was depressed. In the past, he thought that his wife was a lotus grown in a mud pond but now he realized that he was really wrong.


    He thought of Su Wan who was not only beautiful but also brilliant with her ideas and felt even more ashamed. Why couldn''t his wife be even half as good as Su Wan? It was fine if she was not as intelligent as her but what was with her scheming all day long? Was she even thinking about him or their family?


    He shook his head and said, " She can do that because she is not corrupted and has capability. Stop with these sleazy ideas, you want to steal her idea and then make it your own? If you really dare to do this then I am warning you, your Lai family won''t even know how you died!"


    After he was done speaking, Pei Huai left the house and went to the county magistrate''s office. Su Wan had asked him to find a way to finance the water wheel and irrigation canal, since this was a public expense he needed toe up with an idea to deal with it no matter how.


    When Madam Pei watched her husband leave, she was so angry that tears started to fall from her eyes. This was the first time her husband scolded her like this, her mother was right! Surely Su Wan was spending time seducing all the men in the county magistrate''s office if not why would her husband scold her like this when he had never done it before?


    With anger brimming in her heart she rushed to her maternal house and told Old Madam Lai everything. When Old Madam Lai heard her daughter''sint, she suddenly felt a bit worried. In the past, Pei Huai would listen to them as the county magistrates were under their palms as well but now that Su Wan was out of their control, they could not even control Pei Huai!


    This was a tragic situation!


    More importantly, she heard that the workshop that was making bricks and concrete had earned hundreds and thousands of taels in just a few weeks as it was something that not onlymoners bought but also the government of the other cities bought as they wanted to use it to make roads.


    She heard from Qi Zhen that Su Wan was going to use this money to build roads in the Big Ocean City and strengthen the port as well as the seashore such that small waves would not cause damage to the house closest to the ocean.


    If this goes on then her fame would be widespread and if something happened to her then her family would be the public enemy! No, she could not allow this woman to grow any further. If she was not standing alongside the Lai family then she might as well be nipped before she blooms.


    Old Madam Lai patted her daughter on the back and said, " There is no need to worry. That woman…she will not have good days for long."