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

Chapter 23: A family, in good order

Chen Youguang looked back and his eyes suddenly widened.

A cold light flashed in his eyes.

puff!
The sharp arrow instantly broke through the clothes on the chest and pierced the skin.

The flesh was torn apart violently, and blood gushed out, scattering in the air like the withered remains of a blooming flower.

The arrow still had force left and it lodged deeply into his chest. The powerful aftereffect caused him to stagger and crash into the wall.

Chen Youguang looked down at his chest and hurriedly covered his chest with his hands. Bright red blood continued to flow out from between his fingers.

The next moment, severe pain spread throughout his body, making it almost impossible for him to stand.

But just one arrow was not enough to take his life.

This old hunter had been working in the mountains for many years, and his desire to survive quickly calmed him down.

He struggled and used all his strength to rush into the yard, intending to use the barrier of the courtyard wall to get a chance to catch his breath.

Probably seeing his intention, Tian Xiaohu, who was rushing in the front, accelerated suddenly and arrived at the gate of Chen's house before Shen Qing.

With the force of inertia of his whole body, he slammed open the gate of the Chen family.

Chen Youguang, who was behind the door, had already lost too much blood and was severely exhausted.

He staggered and fell to the ground.

Tian Xiaohu's eyes were fierce. He took out a rope from his body, wrapped it around Chen Youguang's neck, lifted him up, and then hung him on the door lintel.

Chen Youguang's face was full of despair and struggle, and his legs kept kicking in the air.

He clenched the rough rope with both hands, his fingertips turned white due to the force, and a faint whimper came from his throat, and the word "help" could be vaguely heard.

Unfortunately, no one came to rescue.

Soon Chen Youguang's facial expression became distorted, his lips were tightly pursed, veins on his forehead began to bulge, and his face began to turn red and purple.

But Tian Xiaohu held the rope tightly and showed no sign of letting go.

Gradually, Chen Youguang's body lost strength and finally hung in the air, motionless.

The blood from his chest dripped down along his cotton coat, along his pants, and from his heels, drop by drop.

"what!"

Chen Kaijun, the previous generation patriarch of the Chen family, was so frightened when he saw this scene that he tried to escape by crawling.

After walking a few steps, he saw a pair of worn-out animal skin shoes.

Chen Kaijun slowly raised his head, only to see a dark and handsome young man with a bow drawn to the full moon and the tip of the arrow pointed at him.

His face was horrified and he was about to open his mouth.

There was a muffled sound of "puff".

Shen Qing loosened his fingers.

The arrow cut through the air like lightning and pierced Chen Kaijun's head.

Chen Kaijun's eyes quickly lost their luster and his body fell to the ground.

Shen Qing stepped over Chen Kaijun's body expressionlessly and walked towards the Chen family's gate.

The Tian family members and many villagers who followed behind stopped.

Everyone was moved to see Chen Youguang, a man who once called the shots in Hongshan Village, hanged on the gate of his own home.

They didn't expect Shen Qing and Tian Xiaohu to act so efficiently, with almost no hesitation.

At this time, Shen Er, Shen Xiaohu and Shen Xiaoshan finally arrived near the Chen family.

When he saw three corpses in front of him, his face changed drastically and he stopped suddenly.

"Dad, what do you want us to do?"

Shen Xiaohu bumped into Shen Er's back without noticing and stopped.

He and brother Shen Xiaoshan curiously walked around Shen Er and looked forward.

When they saw the red bloodstains all over the ground and the three bodies of the Chen family, the two brothers' faces turned pale with fright.

"Grandpa, what... is going on... why is Brother Qingzi there..." Shen Xiaohu, who saw someone being killed for the first time, suddenly had trouble speaking clearly and his tongue was tied.

However, Shen Er was also in shock and did not respond.

At the gate of Chen's house, Tian Xiaohu tied the other end of the rope in his hand and spat a mouthful of thick phlegm at the hanged body of Chen Youguang.

He cursed with great pleasure: "I didn't expect that you, old thing, would end up like this, hahaha..." In recent years, as outsiders, the Tian family has not had an easy time in Hongshanzhai.

One of the important reasons is that they were suppressed and excluded by the Chen family headed by Chen Youguang.

Tian Chuan from the Tian family said that he would beat someone to death, and there was no chance to reason with him.

If Shen Qing had not stepped forward today, Tian Xiaohu would have been in great danger.

So when he killed Chen Youguang, he didn't have any psychological burden.

After Tian Xiaohu finished cursing, he looked at Shen Qing.

In his eyes, the docile young man of the past was now calm after killing the Chen family, without any expression of emotion on his face.

Although he is three years older than Shen Qing, he believes that he would never be able to achieve this level if it were him.

He couldn't help but feel more convinced.

Shen Qing turned around and looked.

Having just killed someone, his whole body was filled with an extremely fierce aura.

There was a hint of viciousness in his eyes, like a hungry tiger coming down the mountain, chilling him to the bone in this winter.

Everyone who was glanced at by him took a step back unconsciously.

"Shen Jiaqingzi, why are you so fierce?"

"I didn't see it before, but he kills people just like he's hunting. He's so cruel."

"..."

After so many days of indirect hints, Shen Qing already knew that the price to pay for practicing martial arts in the county was much higher than he had imagined.

It is not something that ordinary people can afford.

In addition to the entry fee and the money for handling matters, there are also the apprenticeship fee, medicine fee, and a lot of tonic fees.

Just come down and throw in hundreds of taels of silver and you may not hear a sound.

He is poor in literature but rich in martial arts, which is absolutely true.

So when he saw that Chen Youguang wanted to monopolize the mountain product distribution channel of Hongshanzhai, he became a little interested.

In order to pave the way for Chen Yuan's martial arts, Chen Youguang probably has stable channels in the county.

If he could seize this channel and have a stable income, then his martial arts training would be better supported.

Chen Yuan happened to bump into him, giving him an opportunity.

He took advantage of this to anger the other party and successfully captured this "mountain-chasing gang" in one fell swoop.

A family, neat and tidy.

However, it's not enough.

The Chen family has more than ten households in Hongshan Village, and four of them have close contacts with Chen Youguang and like to stick together.

Now that he has killed Chen Youguang's entire family, this has infringed on their interests to some extent.

It is possible that some of these households may have connections with people in the county town.

According to the laws of the Great Zhou, anyone who kills someone must pay with his life.

If he acts according to the law, he will be killed at least.

He doesn't have the connections that the Chen family has.

If it is kept, it will definitely be a hidden danger in the future.

He had every right to kill Chen Youguang's entire family, but it would be a bit troublesome to clean up the other families of the Chen family.

The Tian family will definitely not fight with him again.

However, the stage has already been built to this extent, and Shen Qing will not miss this rare opportunity and plans to take advantage of it to give it another push.

He rushed into Chen's house and searched around.

After a while, a box of money was found.

Shen Qing opened it and saw that there were about twenty silver ingots hidden in a pile of copper coins.

Shen Qing's face lit up with joy, and he put all the largest silver ingots into his arms.

Then he took the box to the outside of the gate and held it high.

(End of this chapter)