REVEREND INSANITY
Chapter 69: Life is as cheap as grass

Chapter 69: Life is as cheap as grass

The map of the animal's skin was extremely thick, unlike paper that could be folded and carried around easily. Fang Yuan could only roll up the beast's skin and put it back into the bamboo tube, where he then tied the two ends of the bamboo tube with a hemp rope, and carried it on his back.

The two hunters stared intently at the bamboo coffin, their eyes inevitably showing signs of greed. After all, they are not fools — they know the value of that map.

This savage beast skin map was something that Master Gu would not see, but to humans, especially hunters like them, it was the most precious treasure.

The Wang family began to pass down this map since the time of their ancestors. Wang's parents were able to become famous hunters, his name known throughout the area and its surroundings; the map had many contributions to this. It was truly an authentic family heirloom.

"I'll ask you - at Old Man Wang's house, is there anyone else?" Fang Yuan's gaze darkened, his tone cold as he asked.

The two youths kneeling on the ground instantly shuddered when they heard this question from Fang Yuan. They thought of what had just conspired before, and the greedy expressions from their faces disappeared in an instant, replaced with fear and terror.

"No one else, the whole family is dead, master Gu Master!"

“Hunter Wang originally had a wife, but that was decades ago, and she was killed by a wild wolf that disturbed the village. Before his wife died, he gave birth to two sons and a daughter. But Wang Da's eldest son died on the mountain while hunting three years ago. There was no one else in the Wang family. ”

This was the direct answer of two young hunters.

"It ..." Fang Yuan narrowed his eyes and he looked at the two men kneeling before him, knowing that they were telling the truth. When one's life and death are in the hands of another, the chances of lying are very small.

But he kept asking, "Are you lying to me?"

"We wouldn't dare to lie in the slightest, Master!"

“A-I thought of something! Old man Wang actually also has a daughter-in-law, Wang Da's old wife. But after Wang Da disappeared, his wife died of heartbreak. That year, the village even specifically sent out an arch commemorating chastity! But rumors say that Wang Da's wife wants to remarry, and she is actually hunted to death by Old Man Wang. When you kill Old Man Wang, Master, you help us citizens, root out evil and bring peace to the people!”

Other hunters quickly added, “That's right, that's right. Actually sir, we have long found this old Wang to be unfavorable. Hmph, he's nothing special, it's just that he can hunt better than us. We are all just ordinary humans, yet he thought he was more special than us and purposely moved out of the village to live here. As a younger generation, we would sometimes ask him to teach us and share his experiences, but he would instantly drive us away and never allow us to appear again near the wooden house!”

Fang Yuan listened calmly as he nodded. Although the two of them started to underestimate Old Man Wang in an attempt to preserve their lives, he did not feel any hatred from the mouths of these two men.

Fang Yuan guessed inwardly that the two men who asked to consult for this hunting matter were fake, he guessed that they had just coveted the Wang family's daughter and her good looks. But in the end they were discovered by Old Man Wang and disciplined several times out loud.

“Get rid of evil and let law-abiding citizens live in peace. Simply bootlicking like that, this time I killed them because my motive was only to map the skin of this ferocious beast. Well, you two have shown satisfactory behavior, you two can leave now. ” Fang Yuan's tone softened, but at the same time the right hand behind his back shone with a gloomy moonlight.

The two youths kneeling on the ground felt shock and excitement the moment they heard this.

“Thank you very much for your mercy, Master!"

“God, Your generosity and indulgence, we will remember it in our hearts forever!”

They kowtowed on the ground, their mucus and tears overflowing, blunt knocking sounds could be heard. After a few taps, they immediately got up and turned to leave.

Although Fang Yuan was younger than them in age, but after witnessing firsthand what Fang Yuan was like in doing something, they were extremely frightened and terrified, hoping to never meet Fang Yuan again.

“Hold.” Right at this moment, a voice suddenly flashed.

When it was finished there was a swoosh and Master Gu jumped down from the top of the tree.

“You two can't leave, tell me what happened here. All that." This recently jumped Master Gu was wearing a dark blue uniform, and there was a red belt with a metal plate in the middle. There was a huge 'Two' word carved on the metal plate.

"This ordinary person greeted master Jiang He!" The two young men had just woken up with the intention to leave, but as soon as they saw this Master Gu, they immediately knelt down again, kowtowing in admiration while greeting.

This Mr. Gu is someone they know — it is Mr. Gu who is stationed in the village.

Every year to strengthen their control around them, Gu Yue Village would send Master Gu to small villages and hamlets, placing Master Gu there. It would also prevent other forces from infiltrating and at the same time strengthen their defenses at their borders.

This Master Gu named Jiang He did not care about the two hunters kneeling on the ground, instead staring straight at Fang Yuan, asking in a cold tone, "I am Gu Master Jiang He from the Gu Yue clan who has been stationed here, you are?"

Fang Yuan laughed lightly and stretched out his right palm, where Moonlight Gu took out a ball of moonlight in the center of his palm.

When Gu Master Jiang He saw the moonlight in Fang Yuan's hands, his gaze softened — Moonlight Gu was a sign from the Gu Yue clan, this was something that could not be faked.

“This issue is actually simple. The second son of old man Wang offended me, so I killed the entire family angrily. They can both be my witnesses.” Fang Yuan straightforwardly admitted boldly and confidently, pointing to the two hunters kneeling at the same time.

Fang Yuan did not lie, and these two hunters nodded in haste; there was no doubt.

Jiang He stared blankly for a moment before he started laughing loudly, “You killed well! Just a very few group of peasant maids, to actually dare offend their master, they deserved to be killed !! ”

But he quickly added with a change of tone, full of deep emotion and meaning, “However young junior, what you have done also brings trouble for me. Although Old Man Wang lives far away from the crowd and lives here alone with his family, they are still the villagers I lead. I was sent out of the clan and stationed here in this village, this means I have to protect the villagers and be vigilant as a defense. Now that you have killed these few people, the number of villagers will decrease. During the examination at the end of the year, the clan's assessment of me will go down. ”

Fang Yuan's gaze shone, and he instantly knew that this Jiang He was using this as a pretext to extort money from him.

He laughed and said, “This is not too difficult. Senior, you just need to report the truth back. Just tell me that this entire family was killed by me, and it has nothing to do with seniors at all.”

When Jiang He heard this, his eyelids twitched, anger rising in his heart towards Fang Yuan who did not know how to appreciate help. How to talk to be very serious,“Then I have to run the business impartially here. Junior, if you are not afraid of the clan investigation then report your name, I will take note of it in detail like what actually happened on paper. ”

His words carried powerful threat implications; if it was another youngster, they would have already been frightened by this statement.

But Fang Yuan could see Jiang He's weakness from it, and he immediately said, “Then senior will report as he should. Ah right, my surname is Gu Yue, and my name is Fang Yuan.”

"So you're actually Fang Yuan!" Jiang He's face clearly showed astonishment for a while, “I've been hearing about you the whole time from my younger brother recently. You actually beat up all your classmates, squeeze in front of everyone, getting sixty pieces of ancient stone each time. Whenever my younger brother talked about it, he was always envious of how you could earn money so easily. Not to mention when you risked the Liquor worm and Mudskin Toad consecutively. This kind of luck must have made people envious. Oh right, my younger brother is Jiang Ya, you two should have met a long time ago.”

"So that's him." Fang Yuan nodded and admitted, "Yes, every time I buy Moon orchid petals, I will buy them at Jiang Ya's shop."

“Hahaha, since this is the case then we are both acquaintances. Oh well, forget it, this problem I will handle!” When he said this, Jiang He patted his chest with his hands, dispelling one's appearance with a spirit of loyalty and self-sacrifice.

He was just using these favorable circumstances, there was no way he would actually report this matter.

After reporting such a thing, the clan's assessment of him would still go down. You might as well do a good turn for Fang Yuan, because for Old Man Wang's family's death, he could only report that they were attacked and attacked by ferocious beasts.

This was Old Man Wang's mistake because of his unusual ways of insisting on moving out of the village, building wooden houses away from the residents!

Jiang He was not afraid that the matter was revealed, there were only a few mortal cultivators around. Their lives are cheap donkey grass, who cares if they die? Even if the clan found out about the cover-up they would not care about such a small matter.

“But junior, you haven't graduated from the academy and don't have Master Gu's uniform like the one I'm wearing now. If Wang Er saw this outfit, he would know about your status as Gu Master and would not offend you. Junior you are a smart person, right, hehe, ” Jiang He said again.

Fang Yuan's eyes flickered. Jiang He's words had an implied meaning, and actually warned himself — don't come out of the academy and wander around for no reason, though, and you'd better not come to an area under my jurisdiction here after today to cause trouble and kill people again.

"Then thank you very much for your advice, senior." Fang Yuan cupped his fists to give his greetings, bidding farewell to Jiang He, leaving immediately.