The Origin of Assassination

  Returned to my courtyard and chatted with Xianya for a while, this little girl is already 8 years old, her lovely smile is really as charming as an angel's after dressing up. Now she is the most popular one in our family, even more welcome than me! After practicing for a while, I fell asleep.

  For more than a month, I became a good student, attending school on time and returning home on time. Previously, I often skipped class, but now it's all changed because my grandfather ordered the eight guardians to follow me every day. How depressing! Eight golden warriors! Why can't they go somewhere else? They have to be assigned to monitor a little kid like me! I asked Shi Huwei, the leader: "Don't you think it's humiliating for someone with your skills to babysit?"

  He said: "Young master, you are the pride of our Dragon family, we are thrilled to be your bodyguards!"

  Ran into a wooden head, depressed! Later, I really couldn't bear the embarrassing situation where even urinating had to be watched by eight people. So, I discussed it with my grandfather and he withdrew six of them, leaving only Shi and Mu, two guards who followed me all the time. Fortunately, they were easy-going, so I could regain some freedom.

  Spent the whole day wandering around, and when I'm free, I guide Xianya and the princess's magic. What a happy life!

  But just a few days later, I found out that Shiroyama Sanroku, this scoundrel, had gathered several other scoundrels from his household and together they started extorting "protection fees" from some schools' weak nobles and commoners. A friend of mine, Kate Wick, who usually gets along with me, told me that the Shiroyama family is now so poor they have to eat bran cakes, and Sanroku's allowance has been cut off completely. They used to be extravagant spenders, but now they have to fund their own lavish lifestyle. So they started collecting "protection fees". They knew most commoners couldn't afford it, but they intentionally targeted them to intimidate others. Within a month, dozens of students were beaten up, three seriously injured, and one even lost a leg! But the principal, Wickram Magic Teacher, didn't care at all. I'm so angry just thinking about him. His face is really thick-skinned; after being beaten by me so badly, he still doesn't resign, but instead stays in his position as principal. This scoundrel was taught a lesson by me and seemed to behave himself on the surface, but secretly he's been causing trouble for me.

  I've had enough of that family's misfortunes, and Grandfather told me not to bother them again, so I've been enduring it without doing anything. But this scoundrel has actually bullied me now! In our class, there's a hardworking little girl named Xiao Yan; her father was my father's sworn brother, and they were taken care of by our family after he died protecting my father. Since she was selected for the magic class, Father personally spoke to us brothers about taking care of her, while her older brother was selected for the martial arts class and was told to be taken care of by my older brothers. But today, she came crying to me saying that her brother had been beaten up by someone from the Ishihara family! By the time I arrived, they were all gone, but her brother was lying in a pool of blood; his arm was bent at an unnatural angle, and it turned out his wrist was broken. When I asked what happened, it turned out that he hadn't paid the "protection fee"!

  My god! His family of three relies on our family for meals, how can they afford to pay protection fees?! At this time, my four brothers also arrived, each and every one of them was furious, their faces turned green. We sent him to the church to be treated by the pastor, after that, we started looking for those bastards! It was my good friend Kate from the Wick family who told me about their whereabouts, this kid is born to gather intelligence! He knows all the gossip news in school!

  When we found those bastards, they were hiding in the back mountain of the school to have a barbecue, a total of eight people. Seeing our five brothers with momentum, they were frightened and quickly guarded against us. I didn't call Xianya, let her accompany Xiao to take care of her brother, and another reason is that today's scene is "quite bloody", which belongs to minors not suitable!

  "What do you want to do?" Shi Yuan San Lang asked timidly.

  "You know what's scary?" The poor guy smiled and said: "You still dare to find trouble with Laozi's friends?"

  "Which of your friends is this?"

  "It was you who just broke my arm! I'm telling you, you dare not admit it?"

  "I don't know?!" Shi Yuan San Lang said with a wronged tone: "If I knew, I wouldn't be beaten like this!"

  "Hum! Now you've broken his arm, what do you say we do?"

  "Damn it! He's just a commoner, what's the big deal if he dies?! Stone Original Three Wolves suddenly became tough and resentfully scolded: "If your mother hadn't gambled away all our family's money, how would we have ended up collecting 'protection fees'? Do you think it's fun to waste time on those cheap commoners? With that kind of time, I'd rather go to the Moon Tower and have some fun! Now even if I want to eat meat, I have to roast it myself! I'm so fed up with this! What do you say we should do?"

  He only thought my mom won the money, didn't know I had a share too, but he dared to scold my mom! It's really annoying, "Kill this bastard!" My big brother is the most filial to his mother, as soon as he heard it, he got anxious and started fighting directly. I don't need to use scrolls either, 3rd level magic is enough to deal with these idiots who can't even fight back. Big brother roared and pounced on Shi Yuan San Lang, swinging his wooden sword and chopping down, the two groups of people were already fighting together. The eight of them hadn't even shown off their skills yet, but they were already in a sorry state after being hit by my instant 1st level magic, wanting to rush up close to me but not daring to, afraid I would use high-level scrolls to greet them. Everyone knows that Long Wu Shao Ye's high-level scrolls are - wholesale! Those who kept their distance could only take the beating, so they didn't last a few rounds before running away with their tails between their legs!

  Ishihara Sanlang was specially taken care of by the poor Taoist with a special 'Teng Man Technique' and tied him up tightly. The poisonous thorn pierced him, causing his whole body to bleed profusely, and the pain made this little boy scream loudly. Big Brother went over and gave him a big slap on the ear, scolding: "What's all the yelling about?"

  Ishihara Sanro immediately stopped, started coughing, and spat out two rotten teeth. Seeing his pitiful appearance, the big brother softened, splashed a handful of "bingpi" (a type of Chinese medicine) on him and said: "You're useless!" Then he took us away!

  At night, I went home and told Grandpa about what happened. Grandpa frowned and said: "The Ishihara family hasn't come yet, but the money has been paid for more than half of it, and there's still a shortage of around 200W that hasn't been deposited! It seems that there is some meaning to it, you guys didn't provoke him in vain this time! However, you have to be careful from now on!"

  "How did you know how much money was left?" Poor Tao asked strangely

  "Your mom has connections in the Ministry of Finance!"

  "Whoa! She's too fierce, her hands are already reaching that far!"

  "It's no secret that every big family has moles, this way it's more beneficial for mutual supervision!" Grandpa said: "You also be careful, don't get sold out by the people around you and help them count their money!"

  "Do I have such a temper?" The poor Taoist smiled and took his leave!

  The Ishihara family was in an uproar again, this time in Kuma's bedroom. The couple sat facing each other, with Kuma sitting on the bed and Sanrō standing to one side. His injuries weren't serious, but they were extremely painful. Thanks to the Archbishop's treatment, he recovered quickly, except for his lost teeth. After hearing his account, Kuma scolded him in a rage: "Can't you just spare me some worry? With your status, how could you collect 'protection fees'! How are you going to lure talent from there again after this? You're really an idiot!"

  Ishihara Sanlang didn't dare to retort, his mother said: "Isn't he just a lowly commoner? What right does the Long family have to interfere? The child hasn't had meat for a month now, why don't you care?"

  "Hey! You know nothing!” Isamu Kumaji was furious, “I know the family that was beaten up, his father died blocking an arrow for Ryūsōten, even the king sent someone to attend his funeral. Do you think the Ryū family would just ignore this? And can't survive without meat for a month? Won't everything return to normal immediately? Hmph! Get down on your knees and reflect on yourself!"

  "Alright! Alright!, you take a rest first!" The mistress of the Ishihara family said: "Your injury is not healed yet, taking care of your body is important! I'll go and discipline him!"

  "Hmph! Take good care of yourself!" With that, Ishihara Kuma finished speaking and lay down to sleep.

  Ishihara Sanlang was so depressed! Not only was he beaten until he was covered in bruises, but his parents also scolded him. Especially his mother, whose sharp tongue lectured him for over two hours before finally letting him go. By then, the sky had already darkened. He stumbled out of his bedroom, his dizzy head causing him to take a wrong turn on the way back. When he came to, he found himself in his father's study, where the lights were always left on, regardless of whether anyone was there. The guards who were supposed to be watching over the place were nowhere to be seen. They knew that the old master was bedridden and wouldn't come here at night, so many skilled and loyal guards had been reassigned. Now, only temporary guards were stationed here, and they weren't very diligent, which is how he managed to sneak in.

  He walked to the table and saw a stack of neatly arranged documents, which would be sent out tomorrow. The most striking one was a black document, which contained the orders for the secret organization Black Dragon Society of the Ishihara family. He picked it up carefully and as he read on, his heart grew more and more shocked. Only then did he learn the secret behind the family's accumulation of vast wealth in just one month.

  It turned out that the family's top experts had all been sent to the eastern kingdom of Cort by the Black Dragon Society, where they robbed nobles and wealthy merchants under the leadership of Ishihara Kojirou, using forced means to extort money from them before silencing them. In just one month, they committed 12 major crimes, accumulating over 800W in cash and many valuable jewels and magical items worth a city.

  The money filled the financial gap of the kingdom, while the goods were secretly transported to another country for auction. And Ishihara Kojirou had not returned yet! After digesting this astonishing news, Ishihara Sanrou's mind flooded with sinful thoughts. He forged an order from the family head, instructing the powerful Black Dragon Society to assassinate the detestable fifth young master of the Long family.

  Hatred clouded his mind, and on a blank sheet of paper, he forged an order to "assassinate Long Qingtian" in imitation of his father's handwriting. He stamped the family crest next to it, hid it in a black envelope, and thought to himself: "The handwriting doesn't look like it? No big deal, Father is seriously ill and his writing is shaky. As long as it's not personally received by Uncle Shi Yuan Xiaogou, no one will dare question the authenticity of the family crest!" With an uneasy heart, he returned to his bedroom, where Stone Sanlang indulged in fantasies of Long Wu being killed, and fell asleep.