Chapter 25: Winter Hunting
"The surname is Lin, it turns out that you really colluded with these thieves, and actually let him escape!" Su Wei immediately pointed at Lynch and scolded.
"Brother Su Wei, you can't speak with your conscience, just now we wanted to help you catch that thief together, but unfortunately his strength is too strong, he injured many of us at once, and he got away by himself, you see I am still injured." Lynch said with his hand on his chest, as if he was hurt, and grinned.
The guards of the Lin family next to him also cooperated with the miserable hum, as if they were all injured a lot.
"Hmph, the ghost knows that you are really injured or falsely injured, in short, it was because you suddenly led someone to block our way that the unicorn went calmly, and what you said before that there were masters cooking in it, now it is obviously not the case, it is simply your Lin guy and the bandits, destroying the mine that should belong to my Su family, this is a fact, your Lin family has to give an explanation. Su Wei's fingers almost poked the tip of Lynch's nose.
But Lynch seems to have made up his mind to deny it, and he just doesn't admit it: "Su Wei, I call you brother, don't be embarrassed, there are still many bandits lying on the ground, at least I didn't let them go, right? Now that the mine has not been handed over to your family, it is still my Lin family's property, and we are still unlucky." β
He kept quibbling, but the smug look in his eyes could be seen by anyone.
"Okay, I'll arrest these thieves in front of General Zhang and ask him to comment on them!" Su Wei really had no choice but to use this trick.
And he was also worried about the situation of Su Qin and the others, so he didn't have time to talk about it here.
At this moment, the ossified copper secret technique on Su Qin's body had reached time, and the feeling of weakness continued to surge, coupled with the fact that he was stepped on in the chest, he only felt tired and sat down directly on the ground.
Su Gan, Li Bin and others had learned from the past, and they didn't dare to touch him casually, so they tried cautiously several times before finally helping Su Qin up.
When the news from here reached the town, Zhang Lecheng and Su Gu quickly brought people over to check.
Looking at the entrance of the mine that was almost sealed, Su Gu's face turned pale.
What's even more infuriating is that because Su Wei was distracted from taking care of Su Qin and the others before, he actually let Lynch quietly let go of a few thieves without checking, especially the two people in the Yuan Qi Realm, and there were only three or five little minions left.
The head was not there, and those people immediately played a scoundrel like Lynch, and they did not admit that they were from Qingfeng Village, but only said that they had fled from a remote place, and they temporarily broke into the Lin family mine to destroy it.
Although Zhang Lecheng also knew that there were too many suspicious points, but there was no evidence, he couldn't do anything with the Lin family, after all, it was a big family in the local area, and he couldn't let him arrest everyone in the Lin family directly, so he had to put a few little minions in prison first, and then go back and try them slowly.
However, he didn't mean to let the Lin family go, and immediately asked Lin Qi to send someone to help the Su family clean up the exit of the mine, and he must let the mine here be restored to use.
Facts have proved that Su Qin guessed correctly, the sabotage action made by Guy Lin and the bandits was indeed started on the same day, and the inside of the mine is basically intact, as long as it takes ten days to clean up, it will be able to dig again.
When the matter spread and the entire Su family began to praise him for his decisive actions, Su Qin himself was cultivating while trying to communicate with the Divine Seal again.
"It's strange, I obviously had a reaction before, why is there no movement now, do you have to wait until I'm in danger?"
After trying more than a dozen times according to the previous way of calling the Divine Seal, but still did not feel the slightest power of thunder, Su Qin was very puzzled.
He subconsciously stretched out his finger and poked the acupuncture point where the divine seal was hidden, but it only made the meridians unobstructed for a while, and the skin and flesh were a little sore.
"Well, this thing is really troublesome, I'm afraid only a certain method can drive it. Master, Master, when did your old man come?"
Obviously he had a strong force, but he couldn't use it, Su Qin was speechless.
The power shown by the Thunder Divine Seal this time, although far less powerful than the previous two times, is better than practicality and concealment, after all, he can't always bear the title of "Son of Thunderbolt".
"Forget it, it's best to practice your own martial arts. This battle has gained a lot of experience, and as long as you don't impulsively challenge an opponent who cultivates too strong in the future, it shouldn't be as dangerous as it is today. But fortunately, I accidentally injured He Dong in the martial arts arena, otherwise there would be more such good players in today's melee, my eldest brother and I may be fine, and the other guards will be unlucky. Seeing that it will be a winter hunt in more than a month, and it will be a good opportunity to hone my actual combat, I will cultivate with peace of mind until then. β
After pondering for a long time, he decided to settle down for a while in the recent past, and put aside the matter of the Divine Seal again, and devoted himself to cultivating martial arts.
At night, when the town is quiet, Unicorn is jumping to his feet and cursing in his new hideout.
"Damn, Lin Tai, this bastard, crossed the river and demolished the bridge, and only gave half of the promised reward, and then didn't send anyone to help treat the injury, just stopped the cooperation with a sentence, and wanted us to go back like this. It's been months to make so much money, you might as well go out and grab a vote, this bastard thing really has eyes on his ass!"
"Big brother one, the city lord of Liucheng has been staring at our cottage for the past two years, and the business is not so easy to do, this time after all, the matter has not been done, half is half. Scarface and the others were persuading.
"Shut up, don't I know what's going on in the village?" Dujiao was still angry, "I thought that the Lin family invited us over, there should be no danger in the matter, it was much easier than going out to rob the road, but I didn't expect it to be planted in the hands of a little ghost, Lao Tzu is simply gone, I can't swallow this breath anyway." β
"Why don't you talk to the Lin family again? Scarface said tentatively.
", I won't go to the people of the Lin family, they don't have anything good in the whole family, and Lin Hong still looks pleasing to the eye before, but he is already half-crazy, and it's useless to look for him. Let's go back to the village first and see what the eldest brother says. β
Due to Lin Tai's change of attitude, Dujiao simply hated the Lin family, and even forgot how he got out during the day.
In fact, Lin Tai is also very helpless, recently the Lin family can be said to be too unlucky, first was destroyed by the continuous thunderstorms, and then Lin Fei lost a mine in the competition, and also had to pay a large amount of remuneration to Dujiao and others, and the family was already in a situation where they could not make ends meet.
In addition, today's incident has aroused Zhang Lecheng's suspicions, in order to protect himself, he didn't dare to do any other actions, so he could only invite Dujiao and the others away.
But he didn't know that his behavior of offending the unicorn by only caring about the immediate situation had laid the root cause for the Lin family and even the entire Wushan Town.
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In the blink of an eye, November is coming.
Due to the continuous rainy days this year, the weather is particularly cold, and it snows as soon as winter begins, and it is still a thunderstorm that is rare for many years, which greatly amazes the people of Osan Town.
Heavy snow has fallen, and villages and towns around Osan have begun to prepare for winter hunting.
The hunt originated many years ago.
At that time, the foot of Wushan was still a desolate area, almost uninhabited, and later there was a war between Cangyan and neighboring countries, and a large number of prisoners of war were captured, and there was nowhere to place them, so they were all distributed here to open up the wasteland.
But at that time, there were many beasts living in Wushan, among which there were many powerful demon beasts who knew how to cultivate, and killed many people in the area at the foot of the mountain.
The prisoners of war naturally refused to bow their heads to death, organized a stubborn resistance, and summed up a lot of experience in the process, the rules of winter hunting were set from that time, because winter is the season of hibernation for many beasts, and there is snow cover, it is also suitable for ambushes and traps in the mountains, the danger of hunting is small, but the results are great.
Of course, the current Wushan is naturally not so dangerous, and the winter hunt has gradually become a kind of competition, and the age of the participants is limited to under twenty years old, and the city lord of Liucheng sends people to supervise it, which is used to select young people with good martial arts in nearby villages and towns, and recruit them into the city guards to cultivate.
And the top few in each hunting ground will also be rewarded, which naturally makes the teenagers flock to it.
In addition, if a certain local family has more children who are excellent, the family can also get the care given by Liucheng.
Of course, Su Qin's purpose in participating in the competition was not to join the city guard, mainly the latter two.
Finally, the day has come to start hunting.
On this day, all the young children of the Su, Lin, and Fang families, as well as the young people from two or three small villages nearby, gathered outside Zhang Lecheng's mansion early, waiting for the arrangement.
Because the area of Wushan is very vast, and the area at the foot of the mountain is hundreds of miles long, it is natural to divide it into multiple hunting grounds to hold hunting competitions, and Zhang Lecheng is of course responsible for leading people to supervise the nearest one.
"Look, that's Su Qin, who defeated Lin Fei, I heard that he broke through to the Yuan Qi Realm soon after the competition, and he is the newly rising genius of the Su family, and his strength is very strong. β
As soon as Su Qin and the children of the Su family appeared, they immediately attracted a burst of discussions.
In previous years, because his cultivation was too low, Su Gu was worried about his safety and never let him participate in hunting.
And Su Gan has always been the highest cultivator among the juniors, and he has always been responsible for leading the team.
But now is different from the past, Su Qin's strength has surpassed Su Gan in one fell swoop, becoming the first junior of the Su family, it is more than enough to participate in hunting battles, and he has the identity of a young patriarch, so the Su family naturally wants him to show the limelight.
The one who spoke before was a child of the Fang family, named Fang Yong, and he was also the stronger one among the juniors of the Fang family, with an eightfold cultivation of quenching the body, which was one level higher than Su Jie.
He had been instructed by the elders of the family to take the opportunity to befriend Su Qin, so as soon as the latter appeared, he deliberately introduced his identity to the surroundings in an attempt to attract Su Qin's attention.
Su Qin naturally saw his intentions.
Motioning for Su Gan, Su Jie and the others to wait in place, Su Qin said with a smile while walking towards Fang Yong: "Brother Fang Yongfang, don't praise me like this, Su Qin really can't afford it." β
He did not refuse to contact the people of the Fang family, after all, the power of the Su family was not big enough to overshadow the Lin family and the Fang family's Cheng dΓΉ at the same time, and while fighting openly and secretly with one party, it was the best policy to win over the other party.
Seeing that he really came over, Fang Yong hurriedly responded with a smile, but his eyes looked at the other Fang family disciple beside him.
That disciple is called Fang Liang, who has a nine-fold body, and is the leader of the Fang family, when he saw Su Qin coming, he bowed his hand and wanted to talk to Su Qin.
At this moment, a gloomy voice suddenly came from the side: "It turns out that you are Su Qin?" I heard that Lin Shan and Lin Fei, two cousins, were both struck by lightning with you, and as a result, they became wastes, but you are still alive, things shouldn't be so coincidental, it must be that you secretly used some means, now that I, Lin Haichuan, are back, I will avenge them sooner or later!"