Water Ink Panel: Starting with Bow Technique to Hunt the Sun and Patrol the Skies
Chapter 51 - 50: Windfall, Overnight Wealth

He did not choose to act out of rashness.

In fact, long before taking action, he had Tian Xiaohu spend a whole day thoroughly investigating Wang Qiyao's background.

Wang Qiyao was an illegitimate son from a distant branch of the Wang family, who had practiced martial arts but lacked talent, leaving his Qi-Blood unfulfilled.

His family had been declining since his grandfather's generation.

When he was very young, he managed to get a job at the Song family's restaurant through one of the few connections his family had, and now, after twenty years, he had become the manager at Wanfeng Building.

He was known to be stingy, not generous, bullying the weak and fearing the strong.

He didn't have much clout in the county town, though he had some gang connections.

As for his supporters above, at most it was just the shopkeeper of Wanfeng Building, who had no real ties to the Song family.

He had been hunting for mountain delicacies recently, aiming to connect with the Song family for a better future.

There were six or seven managers at Wanfeng Building, each responsible for different matters.

Having one more or one less didn't matter.

In the eyes of the big players, he was just a slightly capable workhorse.

Given this, it was hard to blame him.

While Wang Qiyao was insignificant to the big figures, to them, the hunters, he was a big shot, with the power to decide their life and death with a word.

If he couldn't procure the so-called mountain delicacies by spring, who knew what tricks someone like Wang Qiyao might pull to climb up?

It's easy to meet the king of hell, but little devils are hard to deal with.

It was better to settle it once and for all.

When setting up the ambush at his home, Shen Qing also sent his family servants and wife and children on their way in advance.

"There is no other way, the only chance to kill Wang Qiyao is like this.

If they lived, I would have no way to act.

Even if they didn't recognize me. But what if they did?

I've killed the pillar of their family; they would undoubtedly follow the trail back to seek revenge, which would be more trouble.

Better to eliminate future problems altogether.

After all, killing one is killing, killing the whole family is also killing, there is no essential difference between the two.

Besides, with someone like Wang Qiyao, if he died, his family's fate wouldn't be much better; alive, they were better off dead."

Shen Qing thought to himself as he ran swiftly.

The streets and alleys around Wang Qiyao's residence were plentiful, making it easy for Shen Qing to escape.

Finding a deserted spot, Shen Qing swiftly changed out of the cloth wrapped around his face and the servant's attire, throwing them into a dry well.

Then, taking advantage of the time before the curfew officially began, he sped through the county town in a quick circle to cover his tracks, before finally returning to the inn.

In the inn's guest room.

Shen Qing pulled out a fire stick and lit the candle's wick.

The faint candlelight flickered gently within the guest room.

Shen Qing put away the fire stick and retrieved the bundle looted from Wang Qiyao's house, placing it on the table.

Upon opening it, he found silver jewelry, gold notes, gems, silver, and other valuables.

Calculating roughly, it amounted to nearly forty taels of silver.

To know, in Hongshan Village, an ordinary hunter earned about fifty wen a day.

These forty taels were a fortune to Shen Qing.

Including what he had robbed from Old Ba Zi earlier in the morning, it added up to sixty taels.

He could be said to have become suddenly wealthy in one day.

"I never thought my first windfall in life would come in such a way."

Shen Qing was quite emotional.

The visit to Wang Qiyao's house was mainly to kill, and time was tight.

Thus, the things he pillaged were only part of Wang Qiyao's family assets.

He didn't have time to loot the rest individually, so he had to let it go.

Actually, Shen Qing couldn't quite figure it out.

At first, he only wanted to get rich through hunting labor. He wasn't sure how things ended up like this.

"Sigh…"

Shen Qing let out a long sigh, packing and organizing all the items before lying down on the bed and sleeping with his head covered.

Having toiled all day long, both his body and mind were already very tired.

Soon, he fell into a deep sleep, sleeping soundly until dawn.

Usually an early riser, he found it was broad daylight when he awakened.

Shen Qing stretched comfortably, tidied up a bit, and walked out of the guest room.

Tian Xiaohu and Shen Xiaohu had been waiting in the hall for quite some time.

The two had already vaguely regarded Shen Qing as their backbone, and they both looked over at him.

Shen Xiaohu stood up and asked, "Brother Qingzi, how do we plan today?"

"Today we will stay in Linfeng Hall for half the day, and leave in the afternoon during the Shen Hour." Shen Qing finished speaking and looked at Tian Xiaohu, saying, "When we go practice martial arts, I'll have to trouble you to wander around the city a bit longer and wait for us."

Shen Qing had already given quite a bit of money to Tian Xiaohu, so he was in no rush to return to the mountain to hunt and readily agreed.

The group left the inn, checked out, and headed towards Linfeng Hall.

Considering the bloodstains on him, before entering Linfeng Hall, Shen Qing went alone to the tailor's shop and had a tailor make him a fitting new garment.

As the saying goes, 'Buddhas rely on gold, humans rely on clothes.'

After changing into a new outfit, coupled with Shen Qing's already good foundation, he seemed like a different person.

Both handsome and spirited.

Today, Ouyang Tiezhu was not in the inner courtyard, so Shen Qing practiced his movement technique alone with the Wooden Dummy, focusing on gradually improving the proficiency of his cultivation technique.

…

After Shen Qing's brother went to Linfeng Hall to practice martial arts, Tian Xiaohu wandered idly around the city, having little to occupy him.

Unintentionally, he found himself near Pinghe Square.

At this moment, he saw many government officers from the government office going in and out of Pinghe Square, and vaguely heard the wailing of many women.

Tian Xiaohu walked up, curious, and was instantly stunned.

Isn't this the house of Wang Qiyao, the man he investigated yesterday? How come there are so many government people surrounding his house, even the Guardian Martial Department had come?

Tian Xiaohu found an old lady nearby and asked, "Auntie, what's going on here?"

An old woman from the neighborhood spoke nervously, "Don't you know? Yesterday, the manager of Wanfeng Building suffered a revenge attack at home, and the whole family of five was wiped out, exterminated."

Tian Xiaohu felt as if his brain exploded like a volcano, suddenly erupting.

His throat suddenly felt dry, unable to form words.

The old woman from the street continued to babble, "This is bad. His family is all dead, and without any close kin, relatives from the same clan have emerged, pretending to cry for a while."

"I saw the shopkeeper of Wanfeng Building came to have a look, said nothing, and left, not knowing how they will handle it later."

"Now that such a thing happened in the neighborhood, everyone is very scared…"

As for the rest of her words, Tian Xiaohu didn't take in a single one. A chill surged from his coccyx straight to the top of his head.

Seeing those government officers, Tian Xiaohu couldn't help but shrink his neck, feeling a sense of guilt, wanting to leave immediately.

But just as he took a step, he suddenly stopped and stared at the government officers ahead, seeming deep in thought.

Maybe I should find out more and tell him so he can prepare in advance…

If I follow him from now on, maybe I can achieve something.

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