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

Chapter 90: Gaining the people's support and gaining a firm foothold

After killing these short-sighted scoundrels, the alley returned to peace.

These old hunters in Hongshanzhai still need to eat and sleep as usual.

Anyway, it wasn’t the first time they killed someone, so everyone seemed to feel at ease with it.

house.

After almost settling everything, Shen Qing called Shen Xiaohu and Tian Xiaohu.

"Brother Qingzi, why did you call us here so late? Who do you want to kill?" Tian Xiaohu said happily as he entered the door.

He was lucky in the fight just now, and he got a total of three or four hundred coins from looting several corpses.

Although this amount of money cannot be compared with what Shen Qing earns every time, at least he earned it with his own efforts, so he still feels very happy.

Shen Qing took out a knife, wiped it and said, "We have to go to where Tang Biao lives. Since he can practice martial arts, he must have some family background. I didn't find much on him, so I guess he left it at home. Let's go and take a look."

"Okay, Brother Qingzi, we'll do whatever you say."

"Let's go now without further delay."

Shen Qing put the wiped knife on his waist and walked out with the two tigers.

After leaving the alley, Shen Qing walked to a house that looked like a sturdy shed, knocked on the door and said, "Neighbor, we are new here and want to ask you something."

"I don't know, I don't know, we don't know anything."

Fearful, trembling voices were heard in the room.

Shen Qing frowned, looking a little unhappy, and glanced at Tian Xiaohu beside him.

Tian Xiaohu understood and kicked open the door.

"what!"

A scream was heard from inside the house, and the family of four huddled in the corner.

The leading man held a long wooden stick in his hand and looked at Shen Qing and his companions with fear.

The noise of murder in the alley just now really scared them.

Shen Qing stood at the door but did not go in. He said with a pleasant face, "We are from Hongshan Village. Tang Biao has some problems with us. I want to ask where his home is. You just need to tell me the place."

The man in the household had no choice. He said in a trembling voice, "His house is in... Liuli Lane... There is a big stone behind the door... Turn right from here, go to the end and turn left and you will see... the house with the largest house."

"Row."

Shen Qing clasped his fists and left with Shen Xiaohu and Tian Xiaohu.

After taking two steps, he turned back, causing the man in the room, who had breathed a sigh of relief, to tense his muscles again.

As the family watched, Shen Qing took out ten coins, stacked them together and placed them on the threshold of their house: "Thank you."

Shen Qing smiled at them before leaving.

"Are they really gone?"

"I gonna go see."

The man in the room walked to the door cautiously, holding the long stick tightly in his hand. He looked outside and found that there was no one there.

"Really gone?"

He looked down at the ten-cent coin on the threshold, which shone coldly in the bright moonlight.

……

"Is this where it is?"

Shen Qing followed the directions given by his neighbor and came to a shed.

This house is obviously different from the others around it.

Even though it was a bit simple, it gradually took shape as the outline of a house.

The light was still on in the house.

Shen Qing walked up quickly, knocked on the door, and shouted anxiously: "Oh no, something happened to Brother Biao."

Crash.

There was a flurry of movement from the door, and then it was pulled open from the inside.

"What happened to him?" A woman opened the door with a concerned look on her face.

When I opened the door, I saw Shen Qing and a few unfamiliar faces. They didn't look anxious at all. I immediately felt something was wrong and wanted to close the door again.

Shen Qing held the door with one hand.

"Why are you in such a hurry to close the door?"

Shen Qing pushed forward and pushed the woman aside.

The room was bright, and there was only the woman, an ordinary person.

Tian Xiaohu and Shen Xiaohu followed in.

Shen Qing sat on a chair and asked, "Tang Biao is dead, take out whatever he has."

"I don't know what you're talking about?" the woman gritted her teeth.

Shen Qing took out a piece of gold leaf from his bosom, flashed it in front of the woman and said, "You recognize this thing, right? He must have some hidden at home. I'm giving you a chance, just don't annoy me. If we really start searching, you won't have a chance, you know what I mean."

When the woman saw that Gold Leaf was no longer talking, her face changed and she seemed to have accepted her fate. She lifted a piece of wood from the ground and took out a box.

"It's all here."

Shen Qing caught the wooden box and felt a pulling force.

He glared at the woman, and she reluctantly let him go.

Shen Qing opened the box and found a lot of silver beans, silver fish and some big coins inside, but no gold leaves.

He weighed it in his hand and it seemed to be about fifty or sixty taels.

"alright."

Shen Qing closed the box and stood up.

The woman took two steps back in fear, and said in panic, "Don't kill me. I can do anything you want. I can even sleep with you."

Shen Qing looked her up and down.

Not ugly, but not great looking either.

Maybe because she eats well on weekdays, she has some capital in her body, so she looks plump. Shen Qing didn't respond to her words, but looked around the room and asked, "Tang Biao doesn't have a son, right?"

"No."

"Where are your daughter and son-in-law?"

"No. He came from somewhere else, and his family was killed in the shipwreck."

"That saves a lot of trouble. You are very sensible, so I won't make things difficult for you. Let's go."

Shen Qing didn't say anything more. He waved to Shen Xiaohu and Tian Xiaohu and asked them to leave.

When leaving, Shen Xiaohu couldn't help but glance at the breasts of the woman in the room.

So big and so round.

Shen Xiaohu took a few more quick glances before reluctantly following the pace of Shen Qing and the others.

On the way, Shen Qing took out four taels of silver and gave them to the two men, saying, "You two take it, and then go back and call the men from each family over."

"Row."

Tian Xiaohu and Shen Xiaohu didn't hesitate and agreed on the spot.

"How are you two doing with your Jiu Gong Jin training recently?"

Tian Xiaohu and Shen Xiaohu looked at each other and sighed, "Not so good. We still haven't figured out the trick."

"Well, there's no rush. You've only been training for a short time, so get your bodies in shape first. The world is not peaceful now, and if we want to gain a foothold outside, we should practice martial arts as soon as possible."

"We got it."

Shen Qing said nothing more.

In fact, he knew it clearly in his heart.

The Jiugongjin martial art is a basic training method that requires high aptitude and is somewhat difficult to practice.

It's not easy to learn some skills.

In this case, we should let more people in the village practice. Who knows, the quantitative change will lead to a qualitative change, and there will always be people who can become famous.

Today is different from the past. It is not a good idea to cherish what you have.

Back in the alley, his aunt was complaining to his elder sister Shen Fang in his room.

Seeing Shen Qing and others come back, the aunt did not stop talking and left while mumbling.

Shen Qing saw that her aunt was worried that her elder sister would be hurt if she was alone in the house, so she came over to keep her company even though she was unfamiliar with the place.

"Sister, please go to my aunt's house. I want to talk to you about something." Shen Qing put the box on the table, looked at her aunt's back as she left, and said to her sister.

"Yeah." Shen Fang didn't think much about it. After cleaning up the house, she followed her aunt.

After waiting in the house for a while, the men from each household were called over.

The shed that Shen Qing chose was not small, just enough for the twenty or so men to squeeze in.

Uncle Shen Er sat next to Shen Qing, and a hint of pride appeared on his face as he looked at his increasingly successful nephew.

He, who always had a hunchback, couldn't help but straighten his back.

The men in charge who came in all looked at Shen Qing, waiting for him to speak.

Shen Qing didn't notice his uncle Shen Er's thoughts. He gently patted the wooden box on the table and said, "When we hunt big things together in the village, everyone can get some. I just went to Tang Biao's house and searched for some silver. I won't keep it for myself, so let's share it today."

"But even brothers should settle accounts clearly. I have to take half of this."

Hearing that there was still some silver, the men who came into the room immediately smiled.

Many people outside were killed by Shen Qing, and Shen Qing didn't ask them for a penny, so they all felt they had gotten a good deal.

Now I have extra money, which is a pleasant surprise.

Qingzi just ate it by herself, and they wouldn't have any objections.

"We are all country folks, we have never seen the world. Qingzi, we will do whatever you say."

Someone took the lead, and the rest of the people followed suit and expressed their opinions.

"Well, thanks to your trust, I will divide it up like this. Those who were injured in this 'hunt' will also get more."

Shen Qing immediately made up his mind and started to divide the money.

In his view, the prestige of those in power comes half from their subordinates' fear of power and half from their pursuit of interests.

Shen Qing didn't expect that after arriving in the county town and leaving their hometown, these people would still be able to stick together as usual.

People are very realistic.

There are too many temptations out there.

On the way, Shen Qing called Zhang Shuyuan, the only scholar in the village, and asked him to count and settle the accounts.

After two quarters of an hour, the hunters returned home triumphantly with one or two taels of silver each. They told their families about the incident, and the atmosphere was even more lively than a festival.

They felt more and more that they had made the right decision by following Shen Qing this time.

After seeing off the hunters in the village, Shen Qing grabbed his uncle Shen Er who was about to leave.

"Uncle, wait for me."

"What? What else does Qingzi want?"

Shen Qingduo took out three pieces of silver and stuffed them into his uncle Shen Er's hand, saying, "In the outer city, it's different from the village. You have to spend money on food, clothing, and even firewood. Even though one or two pieces of silver is a lot, it's actually not worth spending. Uncle, take these, and my family will have to take special care of them."

Shen Qing spoke in a very organized manner, and seemed to be determined to make decisions with just one word.

They are all rough people and not so polite.

Uncle Shen Er glanced at the silver and said nothing more. He put it in his arms and said, "Okay, your two cousins ​​have nothing but strength. You can use them to do anything in the future! Although our family is a little poor, at least we are not afraid of death."

Having said that, Shen Qing is a smart man and can hear the worries in his uncle Shen Er's heart.

"Uncle, this is what I think. Xiaohu and I have become familiar with each other these days, so I will let him follow me from now on. Xiaoshan is young, so he should stay at home first. When the conditions are better, I will find him a wife. What do you think, uncle?"

"Okay!" Uncle Shen Er's brows relaxed unconsciously: "I'll go back first, we'll talk about it tomorrow if there's anything."

Shen Qing didn't stay long and sent his uncle Shen Er away.

After a whole day of hard work, most of the others would have been exhausted and started to rest early, but Shen Qing was still full of energy.

He took out the book he borrowed from Zhang Shuyuan's house and began to read it with relish.

(End of this chapter)