Chapter 165: Dark Night Pavilion accepts order to assassinate Xiao Ying
After coming out of the Immortal Palace, Xiao Ying gave Chen Xinghe a copy of Pinyin. Now there are a few more children in the family learning to read, and Xinghe must be very distressed. This thing should be able to help him.
Chen Xinghe immediately felt like he had found a treasure. He walked around excitedly for several times, throwing away his usual calmness and composure.
"Mom, why didn't you take out such a good thing earlier? Do you know how useful it is and how many people it can benefit?"
His cheeks turned red with excitement. Mom is really a genius. She can come up with such a brilliant idea.
If this were to spread, people all over the world would save a lot of time and effort in learning to read.
Xiao Ying glanced at him indifferently. She couldn't say that she had forgotten.
"Of course I know how useful this thing is."
"Hey, Mom, I don't mean to blame you..."
Chen Xinghe came to his senses and realized that his tone was a little wrong, and quickly admitted his mistake.
"I, I'm just too excited... Mom, can I bring this pinyin to the academy tomorrow?"
If it can be promoted in the academy, it will surely spread to other academies and even the entire Yue Kingdom very quickly.
"I advise you not to do this." Xiao Ying shook his head and refused.
"Why?"
Chen Xinghe felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over his head. If his mother knew the value of this thing, why wouldn't she promote it? He knew his mother wasn't the type to treasure her own possessions.
Xiao Ying was helpless: "Then if someone asks you where this thing came from, how will you answer?"
Chen Xinghe opened his mouth, calmed down a lot, and realized the seriousness of the situation.
If he had told the truth, others would definitely ask how his mother knew about it.
Even spicy sesame oil aroused the jealousy of the Zhou family and almost endangered their lives, let alone something as important as pinyin.
It is no exaggeration to say that this thing can completely subvert the entire intellectual class of the Moon Kingdom.
The reason why scholars have high status and noble identity is that it is difficult to go to school and the vast majority of ordinary people are illiterate.
But with this, it will become much easier for people to learn to read. Just mark the pinyin in the book and they can learn it at home.
This is beneficial to the common people, but not necessarily to the powerful and some scholars.
"We are just ordinary people. It is best not to attract the attention of the higher-ups until we have enough power to protect ourselves."
Xiao Ying patted his shoulder. She knew that Chen Xinghe had figured it out. This kid was the smartest person she had ever met since she came here.
"If the time comes, I will naturally teach it to you."
Chen Xinghe nodded, the knuckles of his fingers holding the paper turned white, and a feeling of powerlessness arose in his heart.
"I know, Mom, you're right."
"Yeah, but it's still okay for us to teach them at home."
Xiao Ying comforted him again, and Chen Xinghe smiled again.
The next day when he went to the academy, Chen Xinghe was not in a very good mood. Fortunately, today was the last day of the semester, and everyone thought he was reluctant to leave.
Chen Xinghe was indeed reluctant to leave. He had been here for two years and had developed a deep relationship with his teacher and classmates.
But he has decided to go to Qingyun Academy in the county town next semester, after all, the teachers there are more knowledgeable.
With his current knowledge, he believed he could pass the college assessment.
Xiao Ying was also thinking about this matter. Xinghe would officially start his vacation tomorrow, which would last for half a month. She had to use this half month to buy a house for him in the county.
By then, I will have Yu Yezhou accompanying me, and I will also be carrying a fourth-level Qi Refining Overlord Bee and talismans in my hands. I believe that as long as I don’t encounter top masters, I don’t have to worry about my safety.
On second thought, Yun'an County is just a remote county, and it is not easy to meet top masters. Ling Yun alone is already unexpected.
Who would have known that someone would actually hire an expert to deal with her.
It turned out that Zhou Yanqing had been holding a grudge, and after returning to Shangjing, he exaggerated the events in Yun'an County and told Zhou Hong everything.
This included the humiliating incident of him being thrown into a brothel, but at least he still had the dignity to not say that Ding Fang had slept with him.
But Zhou Hong was not someone who could be easily fooled. He immediately called over the dozen or so guards and asked them about the entire incident.
Then there was rage! fury! uncontrollable rage!
Although he despised Zhou Yanqing for being incompetent, he was still the eldest son in the family and now served as the chief minister of the Dali Temple.
How could the Zhou family's reputation be insulted and trampled upon like this?!
Damn Xiao Ying, she’s just a country widow, yet she dares to treat his son like this!
And there's that idiot Ding Fang. He's the chief minister of the Dali Temple, but he could be toyed with like this. I entrusted my son to him to take good care of him, but he took care of him like this.
Just thinking about it made Zhou Hong's old face turn red with shame. He wanted to cut Ding Fang into pieces because his son hadn't even married or had children yet.
If he lost interest in women because of this, wouldn't his Zhou family be left without successors?
Besides, if this matter gets out, how can the Zhou family live?
Although a gag order was issued to the dozen or so guards, there were still people in Yun'an County.
No matter how remote the place is, there is no guarantee that the news will not leak out and reach the capital.
Zhou Hongzhi was so angry that his head felt dizzy and his eyes went black.
Apart from Zhou Yanqing, he only had one legitimate daughter and two illegitimate sons. The legitimate daughter had already married, and the two illegitimate sons were also of marriageable age.
But in his heart, the person he cared about most was Zhou Yanqing, and he absolutely could not let such a thing ruin his future.
He had already sentenced Xiao Ying and Ding Fang to death in his heart. Ding Fang was easy to deal with, but Xiao Ying was difficult to deal with.
Firstly, the distance was too far, and secondly, that woman must have some tricks, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to do such a thing quietly.
If you want revenge, you can only send a master.
Although he was the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple, he was only able to attend court in Shangjing, where the powerful and wealthy gathered. He was really nothing.
He has two masters around him, but they have to stay to protect him and his family. If he wants to deal with Xiao Ying, he can only find someone else.
Within two days, Zhou Hong found out about a killer organization called Dark Night Pavilion. He heard that this organization was very famous in the underworld and had no mission that could not be completed. It was affiliated with a hidden family.
Any family that can be called a secluded family is a family of immortal cultivation, and there are countless talented people in the family.
If we ask such a person to deal with Xiao Ying, he will definitely be successful.
Zhou Yanqing also let out a sigh of relief and went to contact them in person.
After contacting the Dark Night Pavilion's branch in Shangjing, he learned a lot of information.
It turns out that the killers in the Dark Night Pavilion are divided into four levels, from bottom to top: bronze, silver, gold and top.
The prices of these four levels of killers are different. The cheapest bronze level only costs one thousand to three thousand taels, while the silver level starts at ten thousand taels.
The Dark Night Pavilion also has a rule that if a bronze-level killer mission fails, the mission will automatically be upgraded to silver level. At that time, the host only needs to pay half the money, and so on, until the target of the mission is killed.
But there are some missions that we will not accept: assassination of royal family members, assassination of immortal families, and assassination of children under the age of seven.
When the people of the Dark Night Pavilion heard that it was just a matter of assassinating a village woman, they directly recommended a bronze-level killer, treating it as a small task.
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