Hooking Wu De, Opportunity and Disaster

Pitter-patter.

Winter rain fell without end. It was already November, and the weather had turned bitterly cold.

The frigid wind howled, piercing straight to the bone.

There were quite a few plants along both banks of the river, but most had been reduced to bare branches, while the ground was carpeted with dead twigs and fallen leaves.

A lone skiff drifted downstream. Li Qing wore only thin clothes, bearing Wang Mingde's appearance.

He wore a bamboo rain hat on his head and a straw rain cape over his body.

Rain fell, running down the rain cape and dripping onto the skiff.

Every so often, the rainwater in the skiff would be cleared away by the Shadow Paper Dolls.

Li Qing lightly shook his fishing rod. It felt somewhat heavy, and his eyes lit up slightly.

"Eh, could it be a big one?"

"Looks like I'll have a good meal at noon today."

By now, he had reached the Pu River. All he had to do was drift downstream to reach Dragon Province. He had already been floating on the skiff for several days.

Unfortunately, he had not caught a decent fish in all that time, leaving him quite helpless. It was as if luck had drifted far away from him.

As the fishing rod slowly rose, Li Qing frowned slightly. It was simply too heavy.

"Looks like it's not a fish. What is it?"

Something black surfaced from the water. It was a black garment, worn by a person.

"A corpse?" Li Qing could not help pursing his lips. Fishing up a corpse was hardly a good omen.

With a wave of his hand, the Shadow Paper Dolls swiftly moved out and hauled the corpse aboard.

When the corpse was turned over, a trace of surprise appeared in Li Qing's