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

Chapter 17: The Mountain Man
Just after Shen Qing decided to break through, he suddenly felt clarity in his head, as if he had suddenly become enlightened.

In the dark and damp room, the words that had been so awkward just now gradually became friendly.

After studying it carefully twice, the shapes and meanings of these characters appeared clearly in his mind.

When Shen Qing looked down again, his fingers gently slid across the pages of the book, and he felt an unprecedented smoothness.

[Skills: Reading and spelling (skilled)]

[Progress: 1/200 points]

[Status: cannot be upgraded]

Zhang Shuyuan did not notice anything unusual about Shen Qing. For the sake of the pheasant, he patiently taught Shen Qing again.

"Now you have learned sixteen words, plus the sixteen words from yesterday, a total of thirty-two words. Close the book and recite them first, and then write them down for me to see." Zhang Shuyuan stroked his already shiny goatee and said proudly like a real private school teacher.

Shen Qing nodded and said, "Okay, sir."

He closed the book, closed his eyes, and recited aloud: "The sky and earth are dark yellow, the universe is vast and boundless. The sun and moon wax and wane, the stars are in a line. Winter comes and summer goes, autumn harvests and winter stores. The leap year makes a year, and the rhythm of the sun and the moon adjusts to the rhythm of the sun."

Seeing Shen Qing recite it in one breath without any pause, Zhang Shuyuan asked: "Do you know what it means?"

Shen Qing thought for a while and said, "My teacher taught me yesterday that the sky is dark blue, and the earth is..."

Seeing Shen Qing talking freely, Zhang Shuyuan suddenly felt that the man from the Han family in front of him was behaving a little differently.

When he first learned the Thousand Character Classic, he memorized the meanings of the characters by rote, and only later did he slowly digest and understand them, which was far from as smooth as he described.

Zhang Shuyuan took out a dead tree branch and placed it in front of Shen Qing and said, "Go and write these thirty-two words."

Shen Qing nodded in agreement, picked up a branch and started writing on the ground.

In just a short while, he had written out all thirty-two words without missing a single one.

If the handwriting I wrote yesterday was like a turtle crawling, then today it is a real turtle.

Ugly, but standard.

Zhang Shuyuan subconsciously looked at Shen Qing again.

In just one day, this ordinary young man in front of him had gone from being a layman in education to becoming a real scholar.

This is the first time he has seen such understanding in his life.

However, Zhang Shuyuan was not excited by this and treated Shen Qing differently.

There are so many talented people in the world, and without background and connections, how many of them can make it?

In his eyes, this little talent was just a surprise, nothing more.

After seeing Shen Qing finish writing, Zhang Shuyuan said calmly: "Not bad, you need to practice more when you have nothing to do in the future."

Shen Qing nodded and said, "Thank you for your guidance, sir."

After Zhang Shuyuan finished the test, Shen Qing practiced for a while before finishing today's reading and writing.

After coming out of the house, Shen Qing did not stay for long. He rushed back home early and took out the martial arts book and read it for a few more times.

There were still many words he couldn't recognize, but he understood them better than before.

There is indeed some general knowledge about martial arts recorded here.

We need to work harder to make progress.

Shen Qing became full of energy.

……

Outside Hongshan Village, a slow horse pulling a cart slowly walked into the village.

As the leader of Hongshan Village, Chen Youguang sat on the cart with a big smile on his face and looked full of energy.

"Uncle, you're back!" On the roadside, Chen Dajiang's wrinkles were all piled up, and he greeted with a sad face. "You're back." The village chief responded, and nodded to Aunt Zhang in front of him: "Aunt Zhang, are you okay?"

"It's okay, it's okay!" Aunt Zhang looked at Chen Youguang with an unnatural expression on her face, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.

Chen Youguang felt strange.

After just a few days away, the atmosphere in the village became a little dull.

He felt a little strange, as if someone's son had died.

The children gathered around and looked at the cart curiously, but Chen Guanguan waved his hand and drove them away.

Putting away the smile on his face, Chen Youguang drove the cart at full speed back home.

As soon as he opened the door, he felt that the house was unusually deserted: "Big brother, second brother, third brother, come out, your father is back."

After shouting for a long time, only Chen Yuan came out.

He had a stubble on his face and looked a little depressed as he said, "Dad!"

"Where are your two younger brothers?" Chen Youguang took a wine bag from the car and started drinking.

"They...they were killed by the Tian family..."

"Puff..." Chen Guanguan spit out the wine he had just taken with a puff: "What did you say? The second and third brothers died? What happened? Tell me quickly."

"It's like this..." Chen Yuan told him everything that had happened in the past two days.

After hearing this, Chen Youguang's face looked a little grim, and his heart sank to the bottom.

"Dad, what should we do? Should we kill the Tian family..." Chen Yuan made a throat-cutting gesture.

Chen Youguang interrupted, "No, killing them will do nothing except vent our anger."

He paced back and forth, raised his head and asked, "How is your martial arts training going now?"

"I just feel the Qi. Give me a few more months and I can reach perfection in Qi and Blood."

"Okay, then there's a chance." Chen Youguang said, "In addition to meeting with Mr. Song in the county, I also went to the Shenshou Sect. I have already made an agreement with them. When spring comes, if your Qi and blood are perfect, I can collect sixty taels of silver and send you directly into their inner sect."

God's Hand Gate!
Chen Yuan's eyes suddenly lit up.

This martial arts gang is very famous in the county and is no worse than those martial arts schools.

More importantly, this sect has a government background, so in addition to practicing martial arts, it can also generate other revenues.

It just requires a lot of money to join this martial arts gang, which discourages many people.

I didn't expect that his father could have such a relationship.

"A dead person is worthless, but a living person can be worth a lot of money in the pawnbroker's office. Just in case you are short of money, let the Tian family pay for it. If they don't agree, force them to agree!"

"Then the revenge of my two younger brothers..."

Chen Youguang raised his eyelids and said, "I'm still young. I'll make more money and marry two more beautiful concubines and give birth to two more children for you."

Chen Yuan: “…”

"Okay, let's not talk about these things. When the snow stops in the next few days, our family will start buying game goods and bringing them into the city."

Chen Yuan said, "Dad, why are we the ones who are acquiring the company? Isn't it always the Song family who sends people over?"

"It was snowing heavily on the road, and his dealer fell down the mountain and died. From now on, we will be the ones to buy the goods. We have the final say on the price. In Hongshan Village, if anyone doesn't want to sell their hunting goods to us, let him walk to the county town by himself, and don't even think about taking a ride to the county town to sell them."

Their place is quite far from the county town. If they leave, it will take at least one day to return.

If you can’t sell it, you’ll have to stay another night.

Chen Yuan knew that his father was going to treat Hongshan Village as his own exclusive territory and private hunting ground.

(End of this chapter)