Life has thoughts, there is desire, and if you don't think enough, you have endless desires, which constitute all kinds of desires in people's hearts, and when desires reach a certain level, they form greed, greed for beauty, greed for money, greed for power, etc.

This is the commonality of all people and even all beings with independent consciousness, there will inevitably be self-needs with independent thoughts, thus forming the desires in the hearts of individuals, but some people can suppress the desires in their hearts very well, and can do the rational suppression of desires, strong self-control, while some people will be swallowed by desires Reason, desires are infinitely magnified, and they are completely immersed in endless desires until they are destroyed.

In Baima Town, early in the morning, before the sun rose, the morning fog on the distant hills had not dissipated, and a large group of people gathered at the gate of the town, four or five hundred people, among whom more than 100 people were thugs of the Wang family, all of them carried the kind of private muskets on their shoulders, and there were more than 100 people who were members of the security team of the town office in the town, led by Zhao Wei, the captain of the security team, and the remaining two or three hundred people were young and strong men in Baima Town.

Li Qing was also in the team, and in front of the team, there were several tall Wang family thugs standing beside him, looking at Li Qing like a prisoner, while Li Qing lowered his head to prevent people from seeing his face.

There were more than 500 people in the group, Wang Youcai stood at the front of the team, and there was also the Tianji Daoist side by side, and there was a little Taoist priest behind the Tianji Daoist, who was the apprentice of the Tianji Daoist.

The team was mighty, and behind the team were countless people from White Horse Town, all of whom came to see the excitement, men, women, and children could not see the end when they looked behind them, and there were nearly 10,000 people.

Looking at the huge team of more than 500 people behind him, all of them holding weapons, more than 200 muskets, and two self-made earthen cannons, Wang Youcai's heart was also shocked and confident.

Last night, Wang Youcai didn't sleep all night, because his mind was full of ginseng essence and the thoughts and thoughts of eating immortality, becoming a god and becoming an immortal, for him, money, power, and women are no longer very attractive, because with his current status, these are no longer lacking, and he is now the best in White Horse Town, and as for women, there are eight rooms in the house.

But good health, is Wang Youcai's most desired now, he is in his fifties, and he can obviously feel that his body is a little inadequate, especially the eight wives in the family, which makes him more and more aware that his health is getting worse and worse, but the more this is the case, the more he doesn't want to die, he wants to live, because he is rich, powerful, and has a woman, and he doesn't want to die like this.

So when I heard the news of ginseng essence and saw that Li Yi, who had been bedridden for a year, got better overnight and even looked younger for more than ten years, the desire and greed in my heart rose like weeds, so that he didn't fall asleep all night, and his mind was full of ginseng essence.

"Into the mountains!"

In the end, Wang Youcai took a deep breath, waved his hand, and a team of more than 500 people immediately drove into the mountains and forests.

Li Qing was watched by the four thugs of the Wang family to lead the way at the front of the line, and he kept his head down, because he was worried about the hatred in his own eyes.

"The ginseng essence was discovered by me, it is mine, and none of you can take it away!"

Deep in his heart, Li Qing roared hoarsely, full of hatred.

Ginseng essence was the first thing he discovered, so in Li Qing's opinion, ginseng essence is his, even if he didn't catch it, but it was also his, but Wang Youcai relied on his power to arrest him indiscriminately yesterday, and now he is forced to lead a team to find ginseng essence, which is completely a banditry act, and the possessiveness of ginseng essence in his heart and Wang Youcai's persecution, Li Qing's heart is also full of hatred.

However, he didn't dare to show it, because he knew that if he showed it now, his life would definitely be in danger, and the only way was to wait to find the ginseng essence, if he could be the first to find the ginseng essence and eat the ginseng essence, and become a person among the immortals, then he would be able to completely ignore Wang Youcai and these people.

"When I find the ginseng essence, when I eat the ginseng essence and become a god, I want the king to be rich, your Wang family is ruined, and you Wang Youcai's dog legs, don't think about any of them. ”

Li Qing roared in his heart, full of hatred, and his eyes were full of resentment and coldness, but because he had been walking in front with his head down, no one paid attention to it.

The large army traveled, all the way over the mountains and mountains, compared to the day before yesterday Li Qing himself was much faster, after all, the day before yesterday he was picking medicine all the way here, there were various delays and detours in the middle, now he went directly to the destination, all the way straight, naturally much faster, set off early in the morning, it took more than four hours to arrive at the destination at eleven o'clock, one or two hours earlier than before Li Qing came here.

"Master Wang, this is here, and it was here the day before yesterday that I found that ginseng essence. ”

When he went to the place where he found the ginseng essence before, Li Qing pointed out to Wang Youcai, but he still lowered his head, not daring to let Wang Youcai see his face and eyes, worried that he would expose the emotions in his heart if he accidentally did not hide it.

However, Wang Youcai didn't look at Li Qing much at all, for him, ordinary people like Li Qing were like little minions, and if they really wanted to solve it, it was just the meaning of a sentence, so they didn't bother to pay attention to it at all, and looked at the Tianji Dao next to him.

"Dao Chief, you see?"

When the Heavenly Machine Dao Master heard this, he stepped forward, walked to the place where Li Qing pointed to the ginseng essence lying before, and stretched out his hand to his disciple behind him.

"Guys"

When the little Taoist priest heard this, he immediately took out a gossip compass and a few pieces of runic paper and three sticks of incense from the bag in front of him and handed them to the Taoist of Tianji.

The Heavenly Machine Daoist took the thing, put the compass flat on the ground where the ginseng essence was lying before, lit three incense sticks and inserted them on the ground, and then pinched the rune paper seal in his right hand, and said softly in his mouth.

"Eight Directions Gods, listen to my orders quickly, forgive!"

Burst!

With a soft sound, the rune paper in the hand of the Heavenly Machine Dao Master spontaneously combusted, and then turned into a strange flame, floating around a few times, and suddenly sank into the ground.

Whew!

And at the moment when the flames sank into the ground, the pointer in the Bagua compass that was originally placed on the ground also turned rapidly, first violently, and then the pointer stopped, pointing in the direction of the upper reaches of the river.

Wang Youcai and the others in the back were amazed, and when they saw the pointer in the gossip compass stopping, Wang Youcai couldn't wait to ask.

The Daoist of Tianji also picked up the gossip compass on the ground and got up, and smiled at Wang Youcai.

"Congratulations, Master Wang, I have found out the direction of the ginseng essence, which is in the upstream direction of the river where my pointer is pointing. ”

Wang Youcai was overjoyed when he heard this, his spirit was shocked, and the fatigue and hard work of the direct front road were swept away in an instant, and he immediately waved his hand to the crowd behind.

"Departing, in the upper reaches of the river, those who find traces of ginseng essence will be rewarded with 100 yuan, and those who catch them will be rewarded with 10,000 yuan. ”

Rumble!

All of a sudden, the crowd boiled, this year, ordinary people can't earn dozens of yuan a year by doing coolies, Wang Youcai's reward money is undoubtedly a huge amount of money, all of a sudden the crowd is excited and excited, and they rush to the upper reaches of the river.

There is a saying that people die for money, and birds die for food, and this is especially true in this turbulent era.

Of course, there are some selfish people in the crowd, but naturally they will not be stupid at this time.

Wang Youcai obviously knew this, so after a group of people rushed up, he said to the cronies who followed him.

"Big Tiger, you bring some trustworthy people, look at these people, if you don't dare to be honest and dare to have bad thoughts, do you know what to do, especially that kid from the Li family, watch it tightly?"

"Yes, don't worry, sir, if anyone is not honest and dares to have bad intentions, I will kill him. ”

The subordinates who were ordered to do so immediately said fiercely, and immediately brought some thugs from the Wang family to follow.

"Dao Chief, let's go. ”

After instructing his subordinates, Wang Youcai looked at the Tianji Dao next to him.

"Good. ”

The Heavenly Machine Daoist smiled and said politely, as if he hadn't seen Wang Youcai's instructions to his subordinates before.

Going up the river, the group hit the road again.

The mountains and forests are high and the forests are deep, and it is not very easy to walk, and from time to time you encounter high cliffs and cliffs, you have to detour the road, so the speed on the road is not fast.

Wang Youcai and the master and apprentice of the Heavenly Machine Dao walked at the back, followed and protected by seven or eight thugs of the Wang family.

Before I knew it, another hour passed, and it was noon.

"Is this, a human robbery?"

In the upper reaches of the river, Lin Tianqi, who was next to the river in the bamboo forest outside the Bamboo Forest Xiaoyuan Mansion, suddenly looked at the downstream of the river and felt a large number of people coming from the lower reaches of the river.

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