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

Chapter 11 Returning with a Full Load, Opportunity for Martial Arts

The mountains and forests are covered with snow.

Shen Qing walked on the deep snow, following the traces of the chase, and came to the vicinity of Chen An's body.

From a distance, he saw Chen An's body lying quietly on the silver-white snow.

After just a short while, the corpse was covered with a light layer of white snow, as if it had merged into the ice and snow.

The thick animal skin he was wrapped in, originally to protect him from the severe cold, was now stained with dried blood that had seeped into the snow.

Shen Qing walked over, squatted down, and found that the blood on his chest was no longer a bright liquid, but had become dark and solidified, tightly adhering the originally rough animal skin to Chen An's body.

The cold wind blew, bringing with it gusts of tiny snow particles that hit the surface, covering the large area of ​​crimson.

Ignoring the blood, Shen Qing pulled out the intact arrow from his chest and put it into the empty quiver. Then he used a dagger to pick open his clothes and searched carefully.

From Chen An, he took out a purse, some animal medicine powder, a dagger-like short knife and other common items used by hunters.

"what?"

Suddenly Shen Qing felt a hard object on Chen An's body. It was a square object wrapped in cloth, with many bright red bloodstains on it.

Shen Qing took it in front of him and looked at it. It seemed to be a book.

Without hesitation, he flipped open the cloth and found it was indeed a blue booklet.

There are three big words written on the cover of the book.

Shen Qing didn't know many words in this world, but he recognized the two words "九" and "功".

His expression changed involuntarily and his heart skipped a beat.

Recently, everyone in the village knew that Chen Youguang, the village's mountain herder, got a martial arts book in the county town for his son to practice.

If he remembered correctly, that martial arts book was called "Nine Powers Brocade", which was a martial arts book used to lay the foundation for martial artists to train their qi and blood.

The status of martial artists in the Great Zhou Dynasty was higher than that of workers and peasants.

Earlier when Shen Qing entered the county town, he specifically inquired about this news.

In today's world, the Great Zhou Dynasty court has confiscated all the spiritual weapons in the world and collected all the martial arts. It is not easy to learn martial arts.

These country folk are no match for those young men from wealthy families who were born with a silver spoon in their mouths.

If you want to learn martial arts, you can either enter the court and become an official, where there are many ways to practice martial arts to choose from and there are people to teach you; or you can join a martial arts school and learn some folk martial arts.

But either way, it's difficult.

The former requires recommendation from local reputation, while the latter requires a large amount of money.

The poor in literature are good at martial arts, which is not an empty statement.

Shen Qing estimated that in terms of money alone, this kind of martial arts would probably cost ten taels of silver to buy.

It all depends on the relationship.

There are a lot of fake martial arts on the market, and they are a mixed bag.

If you're not careful, you'll get caught.

Those who are luckier will just lose some money.

If you are unlucky, you might go insane while practicing, and end up with your heart meridians severed and die. This is no joke.

The Chen brothers have been practicing this Nine Skills Brocade for a while, and Chen Yuan has already mastered it to some degree.

This is undoubtedly a real martial art.

In their remote and poor country, such a martial arts book is really precious. Shen Qing exhaled lightly, calmed down, and hid the blue booklet containing the Nine Merits Brocade close to his body.

Shen Qing gathered the items looted from the two brothers, placed them in front of him one by one, and began to count them.

Two tattered animal skin coats and two bows.

Shen Qing recognized that the two animal skin coats were wolf skins, and the bows and arrows were also top-quality elm bows.

Together they could be worth a lot of silver, but Shen Qing knew that he couldn't take these items away.

In the entire village, only Chen Yuan's family has the financial resources to use these things.

If he took it back, he would suddenly become rich, and in Hongshan Village he would be like a child showing off gold in the streets, which would bring him trouble.

What remained were seventy-five copper coins, a bag of poison ashes, scattered hunting tools, and twenty-eight feather arrows.

Almost every household in the village has these items, so there is no problem in taking them away.

After a little thought, Shen Qing found a secret place in the woods, hid the animal skin coat and two good bows, and made a mark that only he could understand, waiting for the chance to take them away in the future.

After doing all this, Shen Qing retrieved the wild roe deer he had hunted, carried it on his shoulders, and strode down the mountain.

Snow grains mixed with sporadic snowflakes fell from the sky.

The mountains and forests are covered in silver, and the branches are hung with crystal snow beads.

After Shen Qing left, the bustling forest became quiet again.

A snow wolf smelled the blood and found itself near Chen Tai's body. It looked around for a while and then approached cautiously.

After making sure there was no danger, it opened its bloody mouth and began to bite Chen Tai's body.

Following closely behind it, seven or eight snow wolves gathered one after another.

However, it only took a moment to eat up Chen Tai's body.

A snow wolf followed at the end. It had a very low status in the wolf pack. It stuck out its tongue, licked its lips, exhaled hot air, and walked to the other side with its nose raised...

Shen Qing, who returned with a full load, was in a happy mood and walked briskly in the mountains and forests.

When he arrived at the entrance of the village, to be on the safe side, he did not take the main road, but chose a small path, went around to the bamboo forest behind his house, and avoided the villagers.

Just as Shen Qing was about to reach the door of his house, he happened to meet Chen Dahe who had just returned from outside.

Chen Dahe saw the wild roe deer on Shen Qing's shoulder and the arrow on his waist at a glance, and a hint of surprise flashed across his face.

"Shen Qing, where did you go hunting?" Chen Dahe asked curiously.

His voice sounded a little loud, which was somewhat inconsistent with his hunched appearance.

Shen Qing paused, and a smile suddenly appeared on his expressionless face. He pointed to the forest behind him and said in a normal tone: "It was in that forest. I was lucky today and hunted this wild roe deer."

Chen Dahe walked forward and carefully looked at the prey that Shen Qing was carrying. He couldn't help but exclaimed: "What a good craftsmanship. This roe deer looks quite fat."

"I put a lot of effort into getting this roe deer. Do you want to buy some to take home as a snack?" Shen Qing asked with a smile, "In addition to this wild roe deer, I also got three mountain roe deer. If you are interested, I will sell them to you for 20 cents each."

Chen Dahe waved his hand and said, "No, no, if I want to eat meat, I can go to the mountains and get it myself. Why waste that money?"

"Hahaha...Okay then. I don't think my sister and I will be able to finish it in a short time. If you ever regret it, just tell me and I can sell it to you anytime. But when the snow stops, I will take it to the county town and won't sell it to you."

Chen Dahe touched his empty purse, nodded awkwardly, and with a somewhat envious look in his eyes, he agreed casually and returned home.

Seeing Chen Dahe return to the room, Shen Qing's face quickly turned cold. He kicked the door open and quickly moved forward.

He went back home, put down his quiver and other things, made sure there was no one outside, and closed the door before he breathed a sigh of relief.

(End of this chapter)