Lord: Start with a book of Water Margin

Chapter 633 Harvest
After searching for a while, they found only a bag of gold and silver, about a hundred strings of money, and twenty or thirty sets of clothes in the room of Wusi Taoist and his two disciples, all of which they distributed to the soldiers who came with them. There was no trace of the medicinal herbs such as Polygonatum odoratum.

When they searched a side hall, they saw several old Taoist priests crowded together. When they saw Wu Song and his companions come in, they all prostrated themselves on the ground. One of the old Taoist priests shouted, "Master, spare my life!"

Wu Song raised his sword and shouted, "Where have all the good herbs you picked from the mountains and the money you robbed from the merchants gone?"

The old Taoist priest heard this and quickly shook his head and said, "Brother, we are Taoist priests from the Chunyang Palace and are not in the same group as the selfless Taoist priest. We surrendered because we could not resist. Now that you have eliminated the selfless Taoist priest, we are very grateful."

"I once secretly watched this selfless Taoist priest. I saw that he had people dig in his room. I think he had built a cellar. The stolen money and herbs must be there. The altar under the osmanthus tree in the backyard was originally a dry well. The women that the selfless Taoist priest and his two disciples had robbed were all inside."

After hearing this, Wu Song ignored these Taoists and asked people to go to Taoist Wu Si's room to search carefully.

Wu Song jumped onto the altar, untied the cushion on it, moved the stone slab away, and sure enough, there was a dry well underneath.

Wu Song ignored the obstruction, lit a torch, and went down to take a look himself. Shi En saw this and went down with Wu Song.

After coming up, he said to Gongsun Sheng: "This guy really deserves to be killed."

Gongsun Sheng asked, "What's going on down there?"

Wu Song shook his head. After a while, many people climbed up from below with their eyes covered. More than ten women came out in a row. Only then did Shi En come up. When Gongsun Sheng and others saw this, they all cursed.

After asking, they all found out that they were not from this area, or they had nowhere to go, or the journey was too long. After discussing for a while, they said to the women, "I have two options here, you can choose one. The first option is to give you some gold and silver, and you can go to your relatives or go to the county town to make a living. The second option is to follow us to Jingdong Road to live."

Regardless of what the women discussed, the secret room in the selfless Taoist's room was found, and Shi En went down to the room, folded up the medicinal herbs, gold, silver and silk items inside and sent them up.

Gongsun Sheng and others took a quick look. Although there was no thousand-year-old Polygonatum like the one Chai Jin sent last time, there were two five-hundred-year-old Polygonatum. In addition to Polygonatum, there were also more than ten kinds of high-grade medicinal herbs.

In addition to the medicinal herbs, the gold, silver, cloth and silk taken out of the secret room were also worth thirty to fifty thousand strings of cash.

After folding all these things again, Gongsun Sheng asked the woman in the cellar: "Have you made up your mind? If you want to go back home to visit your relatives, I will give you five or seven strings of money and let you go as you please if you pass through the surrounding counties. If you want to follow us, someone will take you there when you reach Jingdong Road."

All the women knelt down and said to Gongsun Sheng, "Master, we have nowhere else to go. We are willing to follow you to Jingdong Road to live."

Gongsun Sheng nodded and said, "In that case, just follow me and we'll talk when we get to the foot of the mountain."

The woman who was speaking said, "I have no way to repay you for saving my life, so I have a message for you. I was serving the traitor Wang Liang, and I accidentally heard him say that the selfless Taoist got a scroll of Taoist book, and his internal power was all dragon, phoenix, and tadpole characters, which could not be harmed by fire or water. I don't know who told him that he had to use incense to worship and refine in order to comprehend the magic, so he came here to occupy it. The Taoist book is buried in the incense burner, I don't know if you can use it."

After hearing this, Gongsun Sheng asked someone to bring out the incense burner. He reached in and fumbled around. As expected, he found a book on Taoist principles made of animal skin. After careful examination, he found the words "Exorcise Gods" written on it. Gongsun Sheng did not brag about it and said to the woman, "You have done a great deed by finding this book. When you get there, you will be rewarded."

Having said that, he asked his men to pack up and leave.

At this time, several old Taoist priests in the side hall came over and said to Gongsun Sheng, "Brother, even though this selfless Taoist priest has been exterminated, I'm afraid we can't survive here. Please have mercy on us and take us with you."

Gongsun Sheng frowned, not wanting to take the others with him. The Taoist who had spoken earlier said, "We grew up in the Taoist temple. With the convenience of Yunfeng Valley, we have learned some medical skills. Senior brother can always use us."

Wu Jiao said: "Brother, we have brought all these women, so we don't need a few more people."

After hearing this, the old Taoist hurriedly thanked him, pulled down the curtain hanging on the Taoist temple, wrapped up the shrine, took the copper incense burner with him, and found three small carts in the backyard to fold it up.

Wu Song started a fire, and the crowd threw the bodies of Wusihi Taoist and others into the fire, and burned down the Chunyang Palace as well.

Everyone carried their loads and returned along the same route they had come.

Passing by the village ahead, some villagers had already seen the fire in Chunyang Palace. When they saw Gongsun Sheng and the others, the old man Zhang who had spoken to them stepped forward and asked, "Master, are you the thieves from Chunyang Palace?"

Gongsun Sheng nodded and said, "These people are not monks, they are all bandits. Now we have asked you to kill them all and burn down Chunyang Palace. From now on, you can still go out to collect herbs and make a living."

When the mountain people heard this, they were all very happy.

Old Man Zhang said, "Hahaha, that's great. Thank you, Taoist Priest, for getting rid of this evil in the mountain. We don't have to move away now."

After being happy, Old Man Zhang said, "Master, I have two precious herbs hidden in my house. Do you want them?"

As soon as he finished speaking, another mountain dweller said, "Zhang Laohua, the Taoist priest has wiped out the group of the selfless Taoist priest, so why would he need your two precious herbs?"

Old Man Zhang blushed when he heard this and argued, "Bullshit, these two precious medicinal plants in my house are a thousand years old, how do you know they won't grow?"

Gongsun Sheng heard this and said, "Of course I want this precious medicine. If anyone has it, just send it to me. I can exchange it for gold, silver, cloth, or silk."

After hearing this, the villagers all looked at Old Man Zhang.

Old man Zhang didn't say anything, just turned around and left. After a while, he and a big man came over, each carrying a bamboo basket.

After pushing aside the dry grass covering the basket, he heard the man who had just bullied Old Man Zhang exclaim, "Thousand-year-old red essence!"

Old man Zhang smiled complacently and said, "Li Niupi, you also recognize this thing?"

Gongsun Sheng looked at it and asked, "Father, how much do you want?"

Old man Zhang said, "The Polygonatum odoratum that Wang Laosan sells costs two thousand strings of cash, and my Chijingzhi also costs two thousand strings of cash. As for this Tu Fuling, it costs one hundred strings of cash."

Gongsun Sheng listened and nodded in agreement.

Seeing that Gongsun Sheng was in high spirits, the mountain people turned back home and brought some precious herbs to sell to Gongsun Sheng.

Even Li Niupi brought a 500-year-old white ganoderma from his home and exchanged it for a lot of cloth.

After exchanging the herbs, Gongsun Sheng and his companions reorganized the supplies and hired more than ten mountain people to send the supplies down the mountain. They bought ten horse-drawn carriages in a town and drove to Liangshan.

(End of this chapter)