Ink panel: Hunting the sun and surveying the sky from the bow

After three days in a row.

As soon as the day dawned, Shen Qing sat up from the warm bed and looked outside the room through the urn window as a habit.

The snow that had been falling for a long time finally stopped, and there was no sound of wind.

The sun is shining brightly in the sky, which is a rare good weather.

"Nine times out of ten, the merchants from the county town will come over today. If you give them some money to take a ride, you can go to the county town and sell all the inventory in the past few days."

Thanks to the harvest from the previous days, Shen Qing could only hunt in the mountains behind the house these days, and caught some hares and pheasants to fill his stomach.

In the remaining time, he devoted all his energy to practicing martial arts and literacy, constantly improving the progress of both.

The results are quite gratifying.

Now he is almost literate, and his Jiu Jin Gong has almost reached the state of great success.

Everything is progressing in an orderly manner.

Shen Qing washed his face with snow water as a habit in the morning, then stayed in the room and continued to stand, waiting for Shen Fang to make breakfast.

Shen Fang, who lived in the same house, saw her brother practicing like this every day in a weird posture from morning to night. She couldn't help but feel worried and shouted: "Qingzi? Are you okay these two days?"

"I heard that my aunt can also draw dotted symbols. Why don't you let her see it?"

Hearing this, Shen Qing couldn't help but laugh.

Obviously, these two days he was practicing the Nine Skills Brocade and reading and writing, so he was so busy that he couldn't leave the ground.

There was even less hunting, and he was completely different from before. Shen Fang thought he had contaminated something unclean in the mountains.

Although my sister has good features and is pretty, she is not very smart and has no independent opinion.

It's not a good thing for her to know too much about some things.

Shen Qing didn't explain too much, and just made up an excuse and said: "This is what I have learned from reading books these days. I learned it from the book and used it to strengthen my body. Didn't you see me growing taller some time ago? I thought there was something to do with it, so I kept practicing."

"Oh." Shen Fang saw that what Shen Qing said made sense and didn't seem to have provoked evil spirits, so she didn't think much more about it.

As usual, he cooked the porridge and handed it to Shen Qing.

These porridges were some he bought from other families, and they were much better than the previous bran.

Shen Qing held hot porridge in both hands and squatted on the threshold.

While basking in the sun, I spread a circle of rice porridge along the edge of the bowl, enjoying the sweet fragrance of the rice juice.

"Let's look at the situation. If today is suitable, we can take out the two animal skin jackets left by Chen An and the others and bring them to the county to sell them. If they are not suitable, we can look at them later and wait for the next opportunity. "

Shen Qing was secretly thinking about how to deal with the objects in the mountain, when he looked up and saw Shen Xiaohu running over from behind his house.

He shouted loudly: "Brother Qingzi, something serious is going wrong!"

"What's going on? Another person in the village was beaten to death by the Chen family?" Shen Qing raised his eyelids and said.

"no!"

Shen Xiaohu squatted next to Shen Qing and said with a grimace: "It's the dealers from the boss's house in the city who won't come to our place anymore."

"The merchant isn't coming?"

Shen Qing's face couldn't help but become a little more serious.

It is fifty or sixty miles from Hongshan Village to the county seat. Generally speaking, when hunters in their village catch prey, they will sell it to their boss's dealers, saving them a trip to the county seat.

According to the established rules, the price sold to traders is slightly lower than that in the county.

If you catch high-value prey and don't want to sell it to a dealer, you can pay some money to ride on the dealer's carriage and go to the county town to sell it yourself.

The wealthy families, martial arts schools, government offices, and restaurants in the county all need their hunting goods and game.

If you want to take action, it's not difficult.

Take more or less, it all depends on your ability.

If you meet a gangster or bully, you will consider yourself unlucky if you get robbed.

"I'm not coming. I heard it very clearly. My grandpa and the others are talking about this. I probably won't be able to go to the county seat in the future." Shen Xiaohu's expression looked a little disappointed and uncomfortable.

Shen Qing knew that he had always wanted to go to the county town. Now that something like this happened, the possibility of him being able to visit the county town was even smaller.

He pondered for a while and then asked: "Chen Baozi's family is the most active in dealing with traders. What do they say? Will everything we hit in the future be smashed into our hands?"

"Damn it, stop talking about them, they are the ones who made this happen." Shen Xiaohu cursed loudly: "I heard from my grandpa and the others that from now on, all the hunting goods in the village will be sold to their family, and their family will If you don’t want to, you have to go to the city and sell it yourself.”

After Shen Qing listened, two words came to mind almost immediately - monopoly!

This Chen Youguang, they regard the entire Hongshan Village as their "land property".

The hunters living in this village have to work for their families and earn money for their families.

Even Shen Qing, who has always had a good temper, couldn't help but curse secretly in his heart.

If you think about it carefully, their family really didn't do many good things in the village.

"Brother Qingzi, although the Zhang family has some complaints about my grandpa and the others, they tend to recognize them. As for the other surnames, even if they are dissatisfied, there is nothing wrong with them. The Chen family has a large number of people, and Chen Yuan heard that he even touched We can't fight them with their fists and kicks."

Shen Xiaohu was in a very depressed mood.

What many hunters catch in a few days is not much after deducting the food and clothing expenses at home.

For such a small thing, it is really not worthwhile to go to the county and stay overnight.

When spring comes, the game will not last long, and the situation will be even worse.

In this way, the lives of people like my uncle will be even more difficult.

Shen Qing couldn't help but feel a little upset.

After Shen Xiaohu left, he put down the bowl and made up his mind not to consider taking the things left by the Chen brothers in the mountains for the time being.

A good ironmaker must be strong himself.

Since he couldn't take a carriage to the county town for the time being, he decided to continue practicing the martial arts book "Nine Merits Brocade".

It's just a little short.

Let's increase some strength first.

Two hours later.

Shen Qing practiced the four major piles of Hunyuan pile, Contradiction pile, Infant pile and Floating Cloud pile in turn. His legs were sore and beads of sweat oozed from his head.

Just when he couldn't hold on any longer, his mind was suddenly shaken, and the ink text in his sight slowly appeared.

[Skill: Nine Merits (Minor Success)]

[Progress: 203/200 points]

[Status: Upgradable]

[Note: Continuous practice can improve progress. When the Qi and Blood are perfect, you can be as strong as an ox and breathe as fast as a thread. ]

Good!

Shen Qing was overjoyed.

After several days of hard study and practice, he finally mastered this martial art to the next level.

If he breaks through again, even if the Qi and Blood are not perfect, he will be almost there, enough to walk sideways in the village.

According to his secret inquiries these days, Chen Yuan of the Chen family has not practiced to such a level.