There are thoughts in life, and when there are thoughts, there are desires. If the thoughts are not exhausted, there will be endless desires, which form various desires in people's hearts. When desires reach a certain level, they will form greed, greed for beauty, greed for money, greed for power, etc.
This is the commonality of all people and even all living beings with independent consciousness. If you have independent thoughts, you will inevitably have your own needs, which will form your own desires. However, some people can suppress their desires very well and can do this.
Reason suppresses desire and has strong self-control, but some people will be swallowed up by desire, their desire will be infinitely magnified, and they will completely sink into endless desire until they are destroyed.
In Baima Town, early in the morning, before the sun rose and the morning fog on the distant mountains had not cleared, a large group of people gathered at the gate of the town, a total of four to five hundred people. More than a hundred of these people were thugs of the Wang family.
, all carrying privately made muskets on their shoulders, and there were about a hundred people from the security team of the town office, led by the security team captain Zhao Wei, and the remaining two to three hundred people were from Baima Town.
young men and strong men.
Li Qing was also in the team. In front of the team, there were several tall Wang family thugs standing next to him, looking at Li Qing as if they were prisoners. Li Qing lowered his head so that no one could see his face.
There were more than 500 people in the group. Wang Youcai stood at the front of the group, alongside Taoist Priest Tianji. Behind Taoist Priest Tianji was a young Taoist who was Taoist Priest Tianji's disciple.
The procession was huge, and countless people from Baima Town gathered behind the procession, all coming to watch the fun. Men, women, old and young could not see the end of the procession at a glance. There were nearly ten thousand people.
Looking at the huge team of more than 500 people behind him, each of them holding weapons, including more than 200 muskets and two homemade cannons, Wang Youcai felt a surge of confidence in his heart.
Last night, Wang Youcai didn't sleep all night because his mind was filled with thoughts such as ginseng essence and eating immortality and becoming a god. For him, money, power, and women are no longer of great importance.
Attractiveness, because with his current status, he has no shortage of these. He has the most money, power and power in White Horse Town. As for women, he has eight rooms in the house.
But good health is what Wang Youcai desires most now. He is already in his fifties, and he can obviously feel that his body is already a little unable to cope with it, especially the eight wives at home, which makes him realize more and more clearly that he is in poor health.
It was getting worse and worse, but the more it became like this, the more he didn't want to die and wanted to live, because he was rich, powerful and had a woman, so he didn't want to die like this.
So after hearing the news about ginseng essence and seeing that Li Yi, who had been bedridden for a year, improved overnight and even looked more than ten years younger, the desire and greed in his heart increased like weeds, making him a
He didn't fall asleep at night, his mind was filled with ginseng essence, and that's why the scene happened now. Wang Youcai vowed in his heart that he must get ginseng essence, and no one can stop him, no one!
"Into the mountains!"
Finally, Wang Youcai took a deep breath, waved his hand, and the team of more than 500 people immediately marched into the mountains and forests.
Li Qing was watched by the four Wang family thugs as he walked at the front of the team and led the way. He kept his head lowered because he was worried about being exposed to the hatred in his eyes.
"I discovered the ginseng essence, it belongs to me, and none of you can take it away!"
Deep in his heart, Li Qing roared at the top of his lungs, filled with hatred.
He discovered the ginseng essence first, so in Li Qing's opinion, the ginseng essence belongs to him. Even if he didn't catch it, it is still his. However, Wang Youcai relied on his power to arrest him indiscriminately yesterday. Now now
He also forced a team to find the ginseng essence, which was completely a bandit act. The possessive desire for the ginseng essence in his heart coupled with Wang Youcai's persecution made Li Qing full of hatred in his heart.
But he didn't dare to reveal it, because he knew that if he revealed it now, his life would be in danger. The only way was to find the ginseng essence later. If he could find the ginseng essence first and eat it, he would become a god.
, then he doesn’t have to worry about Wang Youcai and these people.
"When I find the ginseng essence, and when I eat the ginseng essence and become an immortal, I want Wang Youcai, your Wang family, and your Wang Youcai family to be ruined, and you, Wang Youcai's bitches, don't even think about it."
Li Qing roared in his heart, full of hatred, and his eyes were full of resentment and coldness, but because he kept walking at the front with his head lowered, no one paid attention.
A large group of troops drove all the way over mountains and ridges. Compared to the day before yesterday, Li Qing was much faster by himself. After all, the day before yesterday, he came here to collect medicines. There were various delays and detours in the middle. Now he is heading directly to the destination, all the way.
Going straight is naturally much faster. We set off early in the morning and arrived at our destination at around eleven o'clock in more than four hours. It was an hour or two earlier than when Li Qing arrived here before.
"Mr. Wang, this is where I found the ginseng essence the day before yesterday."
When they arrived at the place where they found ginseng essence before, Li Qing pointed out the way to Wang Youcai, but he still lowered his head, not daring to let Wang Youcai see his face and eyes, fearing that he would expose his inner emotions if he accidentally failed to hide them.
come out.
However, Wang Youcai didn't look at Li Qing at all. To him, ordinary people like Li Qing were like minions. If he really wanted to solve the problem, it was just a sentence. He didn't bother to pay more attention and looked at the person next to him.
Tianji Taoist priest said.
"Taoist priest, what do you think?"
Upon hearing this, Taoist Master Tianji stepped forward to the place where Li Qing pointed out where the ginseng essence lay, and stretched out his hand to his disciple behind him.
"guy"
Upon hearing this, the little Taoist priest immediately took out a Bagua compass, some talismans and three sticks of incense from the bag hanging in front of him and handed them to Taoist Master Tianji.
Taoist Priest Tianji took the thing, placed the compass flat on the ground where the ginseng spirit had been lying before, lit three sticks of incense and stuck it on the ground, then held the talisman paper in his right hand and sealed it, and shouted softly.
"Gods from all directions, listen to my orders quickly and forgive me!"
puff!
With a soft sound, the talisman in Taoist Priest Tianji's hand spontaneously ignited, then turned into a strange flame that floated around for a few times before suddenly sinking into the ground.
Swish! Swish!
The moment the flames submerged into the ground, the pointer in the Bagua compass that had been placed on the ground began to rotate rapidly. First there was a violent rotation, and then the pointer stopped and pointed in the upstream direction of the river.
Wang Youcai and others behind him were surprised. When they saw the pointer in the Bagua compass stopped, Wang Youcai asked impatiently.
Taoist Master Tianji also picked up the Bagua compass on the ground and stood up, smiling at Wang Youcai.
"Congratulations, Mr. Wang, I have found the direction of the ginseng essence. It is in the upstream direction of the river pointed by my pointer."
Wang Youcai was overjoyed when he heard this, and his spirits were shaken. The fatigue and hard work along the way were instantly wiped away, and he immediately waved his hand and said to the crowd behind him.
"Let's go up the river. Anyone who finds traces of ginseng essence will be rewarded with a reward of 100 yuan, and anyone who catches it will be rewarded with 10,000 yuan."
boom!
All of a sudden, the crowd became excited. These days, ordinary people can't earn more than a few dozen yuan a year by working hard. Wang Youcai's gift of money is undoubtedly a huge sum of money. Suddenly the crowd became excited and excited, and they all came excitedly.
Rushed upstream of the river.
There is a saying that people die for money and birds die for food. This is especially true in this turbulent era.
Of course, there are some people with hidden selfish motives in the crowd, but naturally they will not show it foolishly at this time.
Wang Youcai obviously knew this very well, so after a group of people rushed up, he said to the cronies who were following him.
"Dahu, bring some trustworthy people with you, and watch these people. If anyone is dishonest and dares to have bad intentions, do you know what to do, especially the boy from the Li family, be careful?"
"Yes, sir, don't worry. If anyone is dishonest and dares to have bad intentions, I will kill him."
The trusted subordinate who was ordered immediately said harshly, and immediately followed with some more thugs from the Wang family.
"Taoist Master, let's go."
After ordering his men, Wang Youcai looked at Taoist Master Tianji next to him and said.
"good."
Taoist Master Tianji smiled and said politely, as if he had not seen Wang Youcai's previous instructions to his subordinates.
Going up the river, the group hit the road again.
The mountains are thick with tall trees and deep forests, so walking is not very easy. From time to time, we encounter high hills and steep cliffs and have to take detours, so the speed on the road is not very fast.
Wang Youcai and Taoist Master Tianji walked at the back, followed and protected by seven or eight thugs from the Wang family.
Without realizing it, more than an hour passed, and it was noon.
"Is this a human robbery?"
Upstream of the river, Lin Tianqi, who was next to the river in the bamboo forest outside Zhulin Xiaoyuan Mansion, suddenly looked towards the lower reaches of the river and felt a large number of people coming from the lower reaches of the river.