This god is really evil

Chapter 17: When the Moon is High and the Mountain is Digging for Ginseng

Tuo Mountain is named because it looks like a group of prone camels when viewed from a distance.

The entire Tuoshan Mountain stretches for thousands of miles, and the place where Weizi Town is located is just a small corner of Tuoshan Mountain.

It is said that the official name of this mountain range is Wanling Mountain, and it has some connection with Wanling Lord, one of the five great gods.

Li Lin was walking on the path with a medicine basket on his back, a mattock for collecting herbs in one hand and a solo stick for searching for ginseng in the mountains in the other.

There was also a "Qi Si Feng" lantern hanging on his back for lighting.

It was just that there was no wind or cloud tonight, and three bright moons were almost touching each other, hanging in the sky together, illuminating the forests of Tuoshan Mountain dimly, so there was no need for lanterns.

The news about Yaowang ginseng was sent by Gao Yukun, the young master of Fu Ren Tang.

It is said to be in the area of ​​Maotou Peak on Tuo Mountain near Weizi Town.

This area is not small. Hundreds of herbal farmers and their workers are scattered here, just like a handful of sand scattered into a pile of sand. There is no trace of them among each other.

At this moment, a melodious shout came from far away on the top of the mountain:
"The one with the Solo stick is walking in front——"

Li Lin immediately slammed the Solo stick in his hand to the ground. The nine "Da Qi Tong Bao" tied to the top of the stick with a red rope made a crisp sound. Li Lin shouted loudly:

"Hey hey!"

As he shouted, hundreds of people in the surrounding mountains and forests responded with him.

The one who shouted just now is the "ginseng boss" who went into the mountains to collect ginseng this time. He is the most experienced herbal farmer at Fu Ren Tang.

This is also the rule for going into the mountains to look for ginseng. Although everyone is gathered far away, the ginseng leader must take the lead and shout the slogan together.

One is to give each other courage, and the other is to scare away the evil spirits in the mountains.

These herbalists in Weizi Town are considered to be the most adventurous and daring, but they only dare to go a dozen miles deep into Tuo Mountain. No one knows what is in the depths of the forest. All they know is that many people have never come out after entering.

Therefore, the purpose of shouting out the release call is to prevent those who hear it from going too far.

"The one with the treasure basket on his back—"

The voice of the chief minister came again, full of energy.

Li Lin quickly shook the Solo stick in his hand again and shouted "Hey!"

"Go together and search for treasure——"

"Hey hey!"

After walking in for a while, the shouting of Shen Batou and others gradually became farther away. Li Lin looked around and took out a square paper bag and a bottle from his arms.

First, pour the yellow and red powder in the bottle onto the open space between the three trees, draw a circle with a radius of one step, leaving only a palm-sized gap and covering it with cloth. Then take out a dried pig heart, a piece of dog intestines, some medicinal herbs and a handful of human hair from the paper bag, put them in the circle and set them on fire.

A smell that was neither burnt nor burnt immediately wafted out.

The powders were sulfur and cinnabar, and the herbs and hair were the baits and medicines he had carefully prepared over the past two days.

This is the reason why he is confident that he can find the Medicine King to reward him and repay his debt.

This is the recipe his grandfather told him in a dream a few days ago, saying that if you use this thing as bait, the Medicinal King Ginseng will definitely appear.

Li Lin always obeys his grandfather's words.

After doing all this, Li Lin took out a long red rope, made a noose and wrapped it around the medicinal materials. Then he hid behind a big rock, bent his body and waited quietly.

The sound of the leader's call to release the animals could still be heard faintly, but it was getting weaker and weaker. It was obvious that he was gradually fading away.

Li Lin was not in a hurry. He could still hear the response of "Yaohei" not far away. Obviously, there were several herbal farmers around him.

He just held the red rope in one hand and waited patiently.

Suddenly, there was a "swish" sound from the bushes ahead, followed by silence.

Li Lin immediately crouched down and stared at the bushes.

Suddenly, a tentacle-like root suddenly emerged from the bushes.

If you don't look carefully, you would think it is just a piece of dead grass.

Soon after, more and more roots emerged, and then a tangled mass of roots emerged from behind the bushes.

These roots are tangled together, yet each one is distinct. If you look closely you can see that they all converge at a point in the middle, which appears to be a bulb the size of a fingernail.

On top of the bulb, there are a dozen palm-shaped compound leaves.

This is it!
Li Lin held his breath, stretched out his hand and grasped a few copper coins on the Solo stick, making sure not to make any noise to scare away the ginseng in front of him. Then he saw that the ginseng, which was completely made up of roots, seemed to be a living thorn ball, and quickly used its roots to penetrate the ground and move towards the bait arranged by Li Lin.

When it reached the circle of sulfur and cinnabar, it suddenly stopped and dared not enter. It circled around anxiously before it found the gap and drilled in through it.

It's now!

Li Lin immediately pulled the red rope in his hand, pulled open the small piece of cloth, and blocked the last gap in the sulfur and cinnabar powder circle.

The ginseng seemed to have noticed nothing at all, and tried desperately to drill into the dry pig heart and dog intestines, but it simply couldn't get in, and it was so anxious that its tentacles kept waving.

When it discovered that Li Lin wanted to escape, it was trapped in a circle of sulfur and cinnabar and could only roll around.

Li Lin quickly came to the medicine circle, knelt down with a plop, and shouted loudly:

"wooden club!"

Hearing this shout, the ginseng that had been trembling and trying to escape immediately stopped where it was, as if it had been petrified on the spot.

This is the habit of this thing. It will be temporarily frozen when it hears the word "bangchui".

Li Lin shouted this way, firstly to immobilize the ginseng and prevent it from escaping, and secondly to call the surrounding herbal farmers to come and help.

Even if the ginseng is caught by oneself, the person who helps can get a reward of ten taels of silver from Fu Ren Tang.

Immediately, several shouts of joy were heard from not far away:

"How many leaves?"

Li Lin shouted excitedly:

"Ninth grade!"

Six-year-old ginseng is called "fifth-grade leaf" and sixth-grade leaf can be called the "king of ginseng". Generally, ginseng will not grow any further after it grows to six leaves.

The ginseng in front of me has more than a dozen leaves. If it’s not grade nine, then what is it?
Li Lin didn't care about anything else at this time and began to kowtow to the ginseng in front of him.

There are the souls of heaven and earth under the knees of ordinary people, and bowing down means suppressing them.

After four consecutive kowtows, the ginseng could no longer move.

Li Lin quickly put the red rope in his hand over the ginseng in front of him and wrapped around its roots one by one.

A burst of hurried footsteps was heard, and three people ran out of the woods and came in front of Li Lin.

Other herbal farmers have arrived, but how come they came so quickly?
Li Lin turned around and saw three unfamiliar faces. The leader had a big mole on his face. He couldn't help but ask:

"You three brothers look unfamiliar. Are you also from the pharmacy?"

Could he be the boss’s new hire?

The thin man with moles on his face chuckled, as if Li Lin was air, staring at the ginseng in the circle with saliva dripping from his mouth, and said to his two companions:
"This idea is really lucky. He actually found it. Now we brothers have made a profit of 120 taels for free."

Li Lin was startled and stopped winding the red rope. He shouted:

"Who are you?"

These people are not herbal farmers, they are criminals!
He quickly reached out to grab the mattock in the backpack, but was kicked to the ground by someone behind him.

Then two people rushed over, pinned him to the ground, and began to tie up his hands.

The mole-faced man who led the group walked towards the half-tied ginseng in a nonchalant manner, without even looking at Li Lin, and said:
"Master Diao San's money has accumulated interest to the point of three hundred taels, so this ginseng will make up for the shortfall."

Li Lin couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, and then he realized that these people were actually Diao San's men, and they were coming for him!
He angrily shouted:
"I borrowed 40 taels in total. Even if nine out of 13 are returned, there is still less than 300 taels. How dare Diao San take human life so lightly!"

The mole man chuckled and said:

"It is true that nine out and thirteen back, but one return every hour, so mine is still considered less."

"The remaining gap depends on your wife. As for you, the mountain is high and the road is slippery. It would be pitiful if you fell to death on the mountain. You can't let your wife be a widow, right?
As he spoke, he had already come to the circle of medicinal powder, and without pulling the red string, he grabbed the ginseng, examined it carefully, and said:
"Let me see what good stuff it is."

As he was speaking, a scream suddenly rang out.

Then, Shen, who had been restrained by the medicine powder and the red rope, suddenly pounced forward and hugged his face.

The roots, like iron wires, pierced directly into the skin and flesh of the mole man and began to drill in frantically!

Li Lin's eyes flickered, and he realized that this ginseng would finally become ginseng!
Ginseng, ginseng, if it doesn’t eat people, how can it be considered ginseng?

(End of this chapter)