Hunter Turns Martial Saint Chapter 8

The news of the death spread very quickly in Xiaotang Village.

A scoundrel who followed Niu Er wanted to go to Niu Er's house to get some food and drink as usual, but as soon as he opened the door, he started yelling.

In less than an hour, the news spread throughout Xiaotang Village.

"Niu Er is dead!"

"Oh... who is so brave to kill Niu Er?"

"It's a disaster!"

Once this explosive news came out, even the fact that the daughter of the Bai family was inexplicably living in Nathan Wei's house seemed less important.

Nathan Wei and Bai Ling'er were trying their best to keep a low profile.

While the villagers were at the village entrance, pointing at Niu Er's body on the stretcher, Nathan Wei and Bai Ling'er went to her house and moved the remaining things in her home to their own home.

Bai Ling'er's previous madness worked, and Niu Er didn't empty her house after all. But even so, there was nothing interesting in the house.

An old wooden table, an oil lamp, a collapsing earthen bed, messy pots and pans, and half a bag of glutinous rice, this was all she had in her house.

Before closing the door, Bai Ling'er took a deep look at the home where she had lived for seventeen years, as if she was missing the past.

Nathan Wei didn't say much, he just moved the furniture and left, leaving Bai Ling'er alone for a while.

A few days ago, a happy family of three lived in this house, but now, with the last piece of furniture moved out, this once lively and cozy little house has become extremely desolate.

In the afternoon, some busybody reported the matter to the authorities, and several officers in black official uniforms with long swords at their waists came and began to investigate door to door in Xiaotang Village.

Soon, two officers with swords came to Nathan Wei's house.

Nathan Wei pretended to be terrified. As soon as the officer mentioned Niu Er, he was so scared that he hugged his head, squatted on the ground and sobbed.

Looking at this dilapidated house with nothing but four walls and its stupid son Nathan Wei, the villagers were noisy and talking about the situation of Nathan Wei's family.

Both officers felt very unhappy.

This child is also pitiful. Needless to say, his father must have been harmed by Niu Er.

How could a fool like this, who was frightened by Niu Er, have the courage to fight with Niu Er?

"Let's go, let's go to the next house." The leading officer waved his hand, and under Bai Ling'er's surprised gaze, he left Nathan Wei's house and went to the next house to continue the investigation.

Only after the official left did Nathan Wei breathe a sigh of relief.

The identity of a fool is unexpectedly useful.

He is a weak, dull and stupid boy. Who would suspect him?

But even so, he is the most suspicious.

That's why he gave Liu Tao a pair of bows and arrows yesterday, and even let everyone see the scene.

Needless to say, among the onlookers, there were naturally some hooligans who followed Niu Er.

After creating a conflict between Liu Tao and Niu Er, he was less suspicious than Liu Tao, who had just been beaten and was full of energy.

Liu Lingling's family was not so easily fooled.

The villagers still remember the fight between Liu Tao and Niu Ergang yesterday.

There were even some curious people who told the two officers about how Liu Tao had just received a bow and arrow from the silly boy from the Wei family yesterday. Without wasting any time, they handcuffed Liu Tao and took him away.

They said they were returning to the county government to investigate, but in fact, those officials were too lazy to come to this remote Xiaotang Village.

This is roughly how the matter has been characterized.

When he was dragged out of the house, Liu Tao was so scared that he was like a pig being slaughtered. He kept shouting and crying out for injustice, which made the officer upset. He hit Liu Tao on the head with the handle of his knife. The guy's head was broken and bleeding, and he dared not shout anymore.

After witnessing Liu Tao being taken away, Liu Lingling and her parents cried bitterly. Liu's father was already old, and Liu Tao was the only male in the family. They were afraid that the Liu family would have a hard time in the village in the future.

The world is becoming more and more chaotic. I heard that the rebels from the north are about to attack us. Natural disasters and man-made tragedies continue. Here, a person's death is as easy as a stray dog   dying on the roadside.

Those who could be found out would be handed over and taken the blame. As for those that were difficult to investigate, or if a noble in the city killed a few servants, the government would not even bother to do anything.

"Nathan Wei, it's time to eat."

In the small courtyard, the aroma of porridge wafted, and the long rice was boiling and tumbling in the pot.

Under the oil lamp, the two sat across the table, slowly eating their first meal since their marriage.

Bai Ling'er scooped a large bowl of rice porridge with rice grains for Nathan Wei, while in her own bowl, there were only a few pitiful rice grains floating.

"You eat so little, how can you have enough?" Nathan Wei turned the two bowls over casually. Bai Ling'er seemed a little anxious and quickly grabbed Nathan Wei's wrist.

"You are a man, you need to eat more to gain weight."

"What an old idea! Men and women are the same. I hunted for meat the other day and I'm not greedy for rice."

Nathan Wei was a little bit amused and helpless. He was already eating the food prepared by Bai Ling'er's parents, so how could he have the nerve to eat more?

Seeing that Bai Ling'er still looked away and didn't want the bowl of thick rice, Nathan Wei felt happy and distressed. Could it be that she already loved her husband after just one day of marriage?

He had to display the dignity of the head of the family.

"Eat it if I tell you to!"

Having said that, without caring whether Bai Ling'er was willing or not, he directly stuffed the bowl of thick rice in front of Bai Ling'er, and he picked up the bowl of porridge and took a big sip.

"Well, wait a minute."

Bai Ling'er pursed her lips, looking a little happy, and stood up and scooped a spoonful of bloomed rice grains from the small pot and put it into Nathan Wei's bowl.

That's right.

Nathan Wei shook his head and chuckled, then picked up the spoon and was about to scoop some rice soup to eat.

Although I have been hunting in the mountains all day these days and have eaten a lot of meat, my carbohydrate intake is really insufficient.

Now he was drooling at the aroma of the rice soup.

But Bai Ling'er interrupted him again, and then he saw Bai Ling'er seemed to be looking for some treasure. She rummaged in the small bag she brought with her for a while and took out a piece of brown cloth.

She carefully cut off a small piece and put it into Nathan Wei's bowl. Then she packed up her cloth bag contentedly, sat opposite Nathan Wei, and scooped a large spoonful of rice grains into her mouth.

"This is."

The spoon stirred the small piece of cloth, and soon, a brown liquid seeped out. As it was stirred, the white rice soup gradually turned brown.

"Vinegar cloth?" Nathan Wei took a sip of rice porridge, feeling the light salty and sour taste in his mouth, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

How long has it been since I last tasted salty food?

Bai Ling'er seemed to be in a good mood as well. She hummed a little tune while eating.

Before she got married, she always worried that her husband would be unloving and have a bad temper, but now she realizes that her worries seemed a bit unnecessary.

While eating, she would secretly look up at Nathan Wei sitting opposite her from time to time.

She looks good too, especially her eyebrows, which are like swords.

Nathan Wei naturally noticed Bai Ling'er's little action, but didn't say much.

At this moment, he was thinking about his plan in his mind.

Niu Er is dead and Liu Tao was arrested. Without these two people, he can act more high-profile in the future.

Not only for himself, but also for Bai Ling'er in front of him.

The husband is weak and the wife is beautiful, so naturally there will be some short-sighted people who will covet them.

There are quite a lot of bachelors in the village.

The next step is to save money and raise the tuition for learning martial arts in a martial arts school.

I already have a panel in my hand, wouldn’t it be a shame not to learn martial arts?

But thinking of this, Nathan Wei couldn't help but feel a headache.

The apprenticeship fee for learning martial arts is thirty taels of silver, and I am just an ordinary hunter. Even if I have Niu Er's ten taels of silver as a foundation, the remaining twenty taels are by no means easy to fill.

Looking at the deep blue night outside the window and listening to the increasingly fewer chirping sounds of autumn insects, Nathan Wei's heart sank.

Winter is coming, and it's time to prepare some food for the winter. When winter comes, I'm afraid there will be less and less prey in the mountains.