Intelligence Refresh! Li Laocai Is About to Die! Ancestor's Long Fist? Please Vote!

Three hours later.

Qin Wang returned to his home twenty zhang behind the eastern end of Qingniu Town's street.

Two shabby thatched huts with mottled earthen walls stood there. Through the cracks in the walls, one could see the worn bedding inside. A pair of battered bamboo winnowing baskets lay to the left of the door, while a wooden-handled hoe leaned against the right.

He took out his key and opened the door.

The gaps in the walls let in the wind, and the floor was full of potholes, though it had been swept quite clean.

Against the wall stood an old wooden table missing a corner and one leg, balanced atop several earthen bricks. Beside it were two "stools" stacked from earthen bricks.

An iron pot propped over several earthen bricks served as the cooking stove.

With a stove like this, cooking filled the whole room with smoke and made his tears stream, but there was no helping it.

Qin Wang's family had once owned three tiled houses on Qingniu Town's main street. But when his father, Qin Sanhuai, had needed treatment, Li Laocai had schemed against them, leaving them in debt and forcing them to use the houses to settle it.

"Tonight, I'll make fish soup and nourish my body."

Qin Wang touched his washboard-flat chest, put the carp Li Yunhai had given him into the pot, and lit the fire.

He had only coarse salt and no other seasonings.

Although he had just picked up Li Laocai's eighteen taels of silver, on top of the three taels he had earned through the intelligence system over the past dozen days, giving him a total of twenty-one taels, he could only spend it in secret.

If a weakly young man who had not gone out to work started spending lavishly—

Li Laocai and those with ulterior motives would surely set their sights on him!

Watching the fish soup boil in the pot, Qin Wang scooped up a little with the spatula and tasted it. It was still bland as water, but there was nothing he could do. This body had been starved for so long that it was far too thin—the sort that would turn pale after one release.

He had to replenish his nutrition.

He had to build himself up.

With a healthy body, everything else would follow.

After eating, Qin Wang felt warmth spread through his body.

He lay on the bed against the wall, wrapped his blanket tightly around himself, and quietly calculated. I have enough for the martial arts school's entry fee. Tomorrow, I need to visit the Village Chief and ask him to help me get an official seal for a Travel Permit.

If he wanted to live better in this world where men ate men, he had to become stronger.

In the Great Cang Kingdom—

the Baojia System was strict.

If ordinary people wanted to leave their market town for the county seat, they needed a Travel Permit. Otherwise, the soldiers would seize them as vagrants.

As for an excuse to get a seal and go to the county seat, he had long prepared one.

His older sister, Qin Xuemei, was at the Chen Family, one of the Four Great Families in the county seat. He could say he was going to visit her.

Time passed.

Suddenly, Qin Wang heard a notification sound in his mind.

Today's intelligence has refreshed!

Today's Intelligence

1: Yesterday, you buried Rusted Iron Nails to ambush Qingniu Town's landlord, Li Laocai (Li Chunli), and obtained related intelligence. Li Laocai's tetanus will flare up in five days; after suffering unbearable torment, he will die in ten days.

2: Yesterday, you passed Sister Zhen's bun shop and obtained related intelligence. To turn around the bun shop's business, Liu Zhen has introduced a "buy ten, get one free" offer.

3: Yesterday, you met Li Laocai and obtained related intelligence. Granny Yan secretly discussed matters with Li Laocai. This morning, she will come to your door and, under the pretext of introducing you to work in the county seat, sell you to the Gentle Haven of the Great Official as a boy toy for silver.

4: Yesterday, you met Li Laocai and obtained related intelligence. Eight hundred and fifty taels of silver ingots are buried beneath the floor of Li Laocai's bedroom.

5: Yesterday, you saw your father Qin Sanhuai's grave and obtained related intelligence. Qin Sanhuai hated the River God above all else in his life and detested the River God Sacrifice.

6: Yesterday, you passed Qingniu Town's fish market and obtained related intelligence. The water level of the Black River will rise sharply.

7: Yesterday, you passed Hundred Herbs Hall in Qingniu Town and obtained related intelligence. Doctor Bai of Hundred Herbs Hall lamented that his strength was failing and wished to find a disciple to inherit his mantle.

8: Yesterday, you met Guard Li Ligang of Li Family Manor and obtained related intelligence. Li Laocai's most beloved youngest son is actually Guard Li Ligang's flesh and blood.

9: Yesterday, you met Li Laocai and obtained related intelligence. Li Laocai's son Li Tianyi found martial arts training too exhausting and secretly went to play in the Back Mountain Bamboo Grove yesterday afternoon. He lost the handwritten copy of the Martial Arts manual Ancestor's Long Fist, which Li Laocai had obtained through connections, beside a millstone-sized boulder. Li Tianyi is currently pondering how to explain this to his father.

10: Yesterday, you passed Qingniu Town's grain depot and obtained related intelligence. As Great Cang Emperor Yun has only recently taken power, Prince Jin has raised an army in the name of "cleansing the emperor's side." Grain is being hoarded throughout the south, causing grain prices to remain high in the future.

Note: Daily intelligence refreshes at midnight each day.

"The intelligence has refreshed!"

"Li Laocai's tetanus will flare up in five days? He'll die in ten?"

"That old bastard has to suffer alive for five days before he dies? Wonderful! Soaking those Rusted Iron Nails in the pig manure pit overnight wasn't in vain."

Seeing the first piece of intelligence, satisfaction appeared in Qin Wang's eyes.

Tetanus had been nothing much in his previous life.

But in this world, once someone was wounded by a sharp object contaminated with soil or feces, the chance of dying from tetanus reached eighty percent!

Qin Wang was no match for Li Laocai in a direct confrontation.

So, guided by the intelligence system, he had come up with this method. At last, Li Laocai would meet the fate he deserved.

"Granny Yan and that old bastard Li Laocai plotted together to sell me?"

"That old bastard only has a few days left to live, yet he's still jumping about like this—so vicious! And that old witch Granny Yan... I can't let her off either!"

Qin Wang looked at the second and third pieces of intelligence, a chill filling his eyes.

He had not expected it.

Li Laocai was already on the verge of death, yet he still wanted to trick him into going to the county seat and sell him. He was truly vicious!

Unforgivable!

Before finding a way to kill that old hag Granny Yan, he had to take her silver first. Only then could he ease the hatred in his heart!

"Eight hundred and fifty taels of silver ingots are buried beneath the floor of Li Laocai's bedroom?"

Qin Wang looked at the fourth piece of intelligence and shook his head.

Li Laocai knew he had done every evil under heaven, so he had hired four guards and kept four fierce dogs. Qin Wang could not get into the Li Family Courtyard. He could only wait for another opportunity.

"The River God."

Qin Wang looked at the fifth piece of intelligence, his eyes thoughtful.

In his memories, the original owner's mother had been taken away by the River God. That was why Qin Sanhuai had hated the River God most bitterly.

"Doctor Bai of Hundred Herbs Hall wants to find a disciple to inherit his mantle?"

"I could give it a try!"

Qin Wang looked at the seventh piece of intelligence, his eyes thoughtful.

Becoming Doctor Bai's disciple would indeed help him. His body was far too frail, and he could use medicine to nurse it back to health. Besides, medicine and martial arts were not separate families. If he practiced martial arts in the future, he would also need to understand the healing arts. Most importantly, once he became Doctor Bai's disciple, he would have a reasonable explanation for where his silver came from.

After all, being a doctor was among the most profitable trades.

If he became a doctor, having silver would be perfectly natural.

"Li Laocai's most beloved youngest son is Guard Li Ligang's seed? He's been cuckolded?"

"Serves him right! That old bastard has committed every evil!"

Qin Wang looked at the eighth piece of intelligence, deep in thought. Perhaps he could find a chance to spread the news and stir things up, speeding up Li Laocai's wife leaving and sons scattering?

"Eh? Ancestor's Long Fist?"

Qin Wang looked at the ninth piece of intelligence, delight flashing in his eyes.

9: Yesterday, you met Li Laocai and obtained related intelligence. Li Laocai's son Li Tianyi found martial arts training too exhausting and secretly went to play in the Back Mountain Bamboo Grove yesterday afternoon. He lost the handwritten copy of the Martial Arts manual Ancestor's Long Fist, which Li Laocai had obtained through connections, beside a millstone-sized boulder. Li Tianyi is currently pondering how to explain this to his father.

"Something that happened yesterday afternoon?"

"That means the handwritten copy is still in that bamboo grove!"

"No, I have to go to the Back Mountain Bamboo Grove behind Li Laocai's home and look for it now!"

Even though it was midnight, Qin Wang had lost all desire to sleep.

He had not expected today's intelligence to bring such a pleasant surprise.

He had been worrying over the lack of martial arts, and just as sleepiness came, a pillow had arrived!

With Ancestor's Long Fist, there was no need to rush to the county seat. He would first get started in this Martial Arts technique.

Without strength, in the end, one could only be bullied and plotted against!