Asking about longevity

Mo Hua told Situ Fang the news.

Situ Fang thought of the poor orphans and widowed mothers, and frowned, feeling very angry.

"That's unreasonable!"

This is making money from dead people and depriving families of money!

The next day, Situ Fang took the monks from Daotingsi to find Wang Lai and others in the gambling house, took them to Daotingsi, and interrogated them.

By the way, they took back the spiritual stones they had stolen.

Situ Fang compensated these spiritual stones to the mine cultivator's family, but there was nothing he could do with Wang Lai and others.

Wang Lai and the others forcibly demanded compensation for the mine repairmen and took most of the compensated spiritual stones as their own. This was not a serious crime.

Daotingsi couldn't impose a too severe sentence.

Situ Fang wanted to clear up their old scores and punish them for several crimes.

These ruffians are causing harm to the countryside and will definitely have a bad record.

But the mine repairmen were weak and no one dared to identify him for fear of retaliation.

Situ Fang had no choice but to imprison them for a month, then used wooden torture and beat them thirty times before releasing them.

When Wang Lai and others came out of Taoist Prison, the first thing they did was go to the house of the dead mine cultivator with a bunch of gangsters, threaten and blackmail them, take the spirit stones back, and even injure a few people, and said:

"If you dare to go to Daotingsi to report a crime again, your whole family will be completely wiped out!"

Situ Fang said this to Mo Hua.

In the small courtyard of the cave, Situ Fang was so angry that she gritted her teeth.

"I wanted to take them to prison again, but I was stopped by some older officers..."

"They told me it was useless and that they had seen this kind of thing a lot over the years."

"Unless we really kill these gangsters, they are like dog-skin plaster and cannot be shaken off."

"Catch and lock up, lock and release again..."

"I am Daotingsi's Diansi, so I am not afraid of them, but the ones who suffer in the end are the poor mining cultivators below who were bullied by them..."

Situ Fang looked deeply helpless.

After chatting for a while, Situ Fang left with a sad face.

Mo Hua sat in the yard, frowning and thinking about something.

After Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi learned the formation from Mr. Zhuang, they went out and passed by the yard. They saw Mo Hua sitting under a big tree and meditating.

Bai Zisheng ran to the ink painting and asked:

"What's wrong?"

Mo Hua thought for a moment and then told the story about Wang Lai and others.

Bai Zisheng heard this and said angrily: "Kill them!"

Bai Zixi also frowned slightly.

Mo Hua said: "You must behave according to the rules and obey the laws of Taoism. If they have not committed a crime that deserves death, they cannot kill people casually..."

Bai Zisheng muttered: "I think they are already dead..."

Mo Hua glanced at him.

Bai Zisheng stopped talking.

Then he was stunned again and looked at Mo Hua suspiciously, "Are you thinking of something bad?"

Mo Hua said displeasedly: "How can you call it a bad idea?"

"You must be trying to trick people..." Bai Zisheng said.

Bai Zixi also looked at Mo Hua doubtfully.

"It's not a scam..." Mo Hua thought for a while and said, "I plan to follow them secretly to see what they do on a daily basis and if there is any clue."

Since these monks have committed many evil deeds, they will definitely leave some clues.

"Following?" Bai Zisheng's eyes lit up.

"You can't go." Mo Hua said.

Bai Zisheng was greatly disappointed, "Why?"

"You don't know how to hide."

"No need..."

"Of course!" Mo Hua raised his tiny eyebrows, "Only by hiding your figure can you follow them. If you follow them blatantly, wouldn't you treat them as fools?"

"All right……"

Bai Zi's enthusiasm for victory waned.

Bai Zixi coughed lightly, reminded Bai Zisheng, and glanced at the ink painting slightly.

Bai Zisheng was stunned for a moment, suddenly realized, and said to Mo Hua:

"Yes, don't you know how to hide in a formation?"

"My concealment formation is not very effective..." Mo Hua declined.

Bai Zixi shook his head and said, "Your concealment array works very well, but the Taoist robe you use is not good."

When Bai Zisheng heard this, he nodded repeatedly:

"That's right, you are my junior brother. How could it be possible that the formation is not good? It's because the Taoist robe you are using is not good..."

"I'll prepare good robes for you, you can help us draw a hiding formation, and then we'll track down those bad guys together."

Bai Zi's winning bet clanged loudly, and then he said confidently:

"I am your senior brother, how can I let you take risks alone? This makes me feel guilty."

Mo Hua looked at him silently, "Are you a 'conscience' person who feels sorry for yourself, or are you a 'playful person' who feels sorry for yourself..."

Bai Zisheng was stunned by Mo Hua and said sarcastically:

"All of them, all of them."

In the past few days, he had been detained by Mr. Zhuang, learning those complicated and advanced formations, and his head was getting big.

Now that I can hang out with Mo Hua for a few days, I naturally want to seize the opportunity.

Mo Hua asked doubtfully: "Where's Master? Don't you want to learn formations?"

Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi have been learning formations these days.

It's the kind of formation that you can't learn by yourself.

"It's okay. Master hasn't taught anything new these days. I just need to take the time to review."

Mo Hua was still a little hesitant.

Bai Zisheng looked at him eagerly.

Bai Zixi's eyes were also sparkling.

Mo Hua sighed, "Okay, but you must be low-key and cautious..."

"You have to listen to me." Mo Hua emphasized again.

The junior brother said this, and the junior senior brother and junior sister both nodded obediently.

After that, Mo Hua began to draw the hiding formation.

Taoist robes are too cumbersome. They can't wear another robe on top of their clothes. It's fine when they're hidden like this, but if they're not, they'll be very conspicuous.

And it’s not very convenient to move around.

Bai Zixi picked out several pieces of clothing for Mo Hua.

I combined the ink painting with the formation method, picked and picked, and finally selected a cloak in the shape of a cloak.

This kind of hooded one can be worn outside to keep warm and block wind and dust. With the hood on, it can also cover your face.

The weather in Xiaohuangzhou was hot and there was no need to keep warm, so Mo Hua chose three lighter cloaks.

The refining techniques for these cloaks are special, and they are all fine spiritual weapons.

Draw on it with ink and draw the hiding formation.

Then the three of them tried it and it worked very well.

At least with the naked eye, nothing can be found.

Of course, Mo Hua's spiritual consciousness was too strong and he could still detect his junior senior brother and junior senior sister, but Bai Zisheng and the other two could not detect Mo Hua.

When they were ready, the three of them started to follow.

The target of surveillance is Wang Lai.

Wang Lai, also known as Wang Laipi, is the leader of this gang of ruffians.

He is not tall, but his cultivation level is not low. He is at the peak of the ninth level of Qi refining. He is the most profound among this group of ruffian monks.

He has earth spiritual roots and follows the path of physical training. His martial arts are quite satisfactory and he is good at using a ring-headed sword. The Tao method is called "Mountain Knife".

On weekdays, he is idle and causing trouble.

When there are spiritual stones, there is a lot of eating, drinking, whoring and gambling.

The street he often goes to is called Jinhua Street, located in the north of Nanyue City. It is the most prosperous place in the entire Nanyue City.

Of course, it is also the most corrupt place.

Qinlou, Chuguan, hook-and-rail tiled houses, restaurants and gambling houses are all there.

There are also some places where I have never seen ink paintings before, and I have never thought of them...

Mo Hua was a little curious, but he still held back and didn't go in to take a look.

It's definitely not a good place anyway.

He just let it go, and the younger senior brother and younger sister also followed him. He couldn't lead them astray, otherwise the master would definitely hit his little head.

Although Jinhua Street is prosperous, it is also divided into three levels.

The only places that Wang could go to were some remote brothels, gambling houses in narrow areas, and low-end wine shops.

In this way, Wang Lai began to "earn" spiritual stones after squandering his fortune through drunkenness, eating, drinking, and gambling.

If he doesn't "earn" spiritual stones, he still owes money to the gambling house.

A horse will not be fat without night grass, and a man will not be rich without windfall.

As Mo Hua expected, Wang Lai's methods of "earning" spiritual stones were not exposed to the light.

There's stealing, there's cheating, there's cheating, there's robbing.

There are rewards earned from working as a lackey for a disciple of a certain family in Nanyue City, beating people to clear the way; there are protection fees extorted from small traders;

There are gambling funds defrauded from outside monks by joining forces in gambling houses; there are property robbed from robberies halfway through;

He also found a brothel nun and did the "Immortal Dance" together to get the spiritual stone...

Ink painting is really an eye-opener.

There is only one way to earn spiritual stones as a miner, which is to work diligently, but it is hard and tiring.

But this king doesn't do any serious work, but spends his days drinking and drinking...

The more diligent you are, the harder you work, and the harder your life is.

This world really bullies honest monks.

Mo Hua was a little emotional, and at the same time, he had some doubts in his heart.

He remembered that Lu Ming had said that when scoundrels like Wang Lai really ran out of spiritual stones, they would go to the mines, do mine repairs and dig for a few days, and earn a few spiritual stones.

But these days, there are times when Wang Lai's pockets are really dry and he doesn't even have a single spiritual stone.

But he has never entered a mine or dug a mine.

"Something's wrong..."

Mo Hua frowned.

This Wang Lai seems to have nothing to do with the mine.

This should be unlikely.

Mo Hua waited patiently, and after a few days, Mo Hua discovered that Wang Lai was finally going to enter the mine.

Because he found an old mine repairman and secretly said:

"In the mine, there are high-quality ores secretly stored by the Lu family. Let's go steal some. We will have no worries about food and drink for the rest of our lives..."

Stealing minerals...

Mo Hua's pupils shrank.

The five missing mine repairmen seemed to have died in the mine because of stealing mines...

Stealing ore is a taboo for mine repairmen.

Why did the five mine repairmen who died tragically suddenly think of stealing the mines?

Mo Hua looked at Wang Lai with a cold light in his eyes.