Chapter 68 The first phase of the laboratory building cost is collected
Deputy City Lord Qin was dumbfounded, and was still resisting until this moment: "I don't understand what Lord Ning Feng said at all..."
"A Dream of Hua Xu is a good thing. Taking a small amount each time can cure injuries. But if you take too much, you will become dependent on it. If I am not mistaken, the size of the pill that Deputy City Lord Qin took is only a quarter of the size of the pills taken by other people in Yedi." Ning Mingmei said, "Deputy City Lord Qin is very considerate. He eats the small one himself and sells the big one to the people of Yecheng."
Deputy City Lord Qin leaned back in his chair, his whole body limp: "How much more do you know?!"
Ning Mingmei said: "More than you can imagine. For example, the court discovered the mines in Yedi four hundred years ago and found that the metals in several of the mines were very useful for making weapons. Unfortunately, the Li people called it a sacred mountain, respected nature, opposed mining, and had witchcraft, so the court never found a way to fully mine it."
"Fortunately, they soon discovered that the Li people's witch doctor had followed the general out. The army was also dissatisfied with the witch doctor. They took advantage of Deputy General Jiang to get rid of the witch doctor, and then got rid of the Li people. From then on, the mine was completely owned by the court."
"For example, after the war, the imperial court continued to mine, digging deeper and deeper, and throwing the discarded items into the river. The east and west rivers, especially the east river, suffered the most. So many years later, strange diseases frequently occurred in Yedi. The people of the imperial court suspected that this was a curse from the witch before his death, or that they had dug up something in the mine... So, they sealed the mine and left Yedi."
"For example, after the imperial court sealed the mine, the Liu family secretly stole the mines, causing themselves to be affected by the 'evil spirit' in the mines, causing adults to die of illness, and their children to die young, which in turn made the pollution of Yedi even worse... Don't rush to refute, I found the account book in the Liu family. For another example, a few years ago, you stole a prescription from the immortal sect, but you couldn't get some of the immortal herbs in it, so you couldn't make the elixir in the prescription. How painful is it to guard the gold mountain but not be able to move? Fortunately, a few years later, you found Doctor Wu and asked him if he could help you make the elixir on the list. Doctor Wu agreed and made the current 'A Dream of Hua Xu'."
Deputy City Lord Qin looked as pale as death. Ning Mingmei continued, "You saw the commercial value of this medicine and were unwilling to let it be taken by only you. But it was really troublesome to mass-produce this medicine. Fortunately, in addition to Doctor Wu, you also found Hu Yang who lived next to the mass grave. Although Hu Yang was a freak, he had a talent for designing machinery, and he was a descendant of the Hu family after all. The ancestors of the Hu and Qin families were comrades-in-arms, and you had some friendship when you were young. At that time, he called you Uncle Qin. So you changed your mind and asked him to cooperate with Doctor Wu, and together with you and a few people from the Qin family, you finally built this production line. From then on, 'A Dream of Hua Xu' spread throughout Ye. I just don't know whether Doctor Wu was trying to avoid suspicion or had other concerns, but his clinic was the only one that did not sell the alternative medicine he personally developed."
Deputy City Lord Qin said: "Why do you say I did it? This is all..."
"Do you think that ordinary financial resources can achieve the goal of mass-producing an unfamiliar medicine and promoting it in Yedi? Moreover, if there is no 'highly respected' person to endorse this medicine, who would take it? Don't ask such stupid questions next time."
Ning Mingmei actually added a comment.
Deputy City Lord Qin murmured, "Master Qi said that you have been in seclusion for many years... Have you really been in seclusion for many years? How did you investigate the matter so clearly in just a few days? It's as if you have been living in Yedi!"
Ning Mingmei said: "Because the hearts of people in the world are all greedy."
Deputy City Lord Qin was completely speechless. After a while, he said loudly: "But what does it matter? This is Yecheng's family affair! Even the court doesn't care... This has nothing to do with Qingji Sect, right?"
This is pushing the person to the limit, and he is starting to struggle in his death throes.
Ning Mingmei said calmly, "This matter has nothing to do with the Qingji Sect, but it has something to do with one of my subordinates. The prescription you stole was from one of my subordinates. In the past few years, you used his prescription to make pirated copies and made a lot of money. Have you asked for his opinion?"
Ning Mingmei suddenly waved his hand, and the study door opened. This blatant display of force frightened Deputy City Lord Qin, and he finally remembered that no matter how beautiful Ning Mingmei looked, he was still an immortal!
An immortal who can split mountains and open seas!
Ning Mingmei: "It's not too much to ask you to hand over all the profits of the past few years to my subordinates."
Deputy City Lord Qin's voice trembled: "Not too much..."
Ning Mingmei: "It's not too much to ask you to pay for the mental damage caused by stealing his prescription."
Deputy City Lord Qin's voice trembled even more: "Not too much..."
Ning Mingmei: "You are the principal offender, and Doctor Wu and Hu Yang are accomplices. It is not too much to hand them over to us for disposal."
Deputy City Lord Qin: “No…”
Where did the last sentence come from?
"The court doesn't care about you because it doesn't know. If the court knew——"
Deputy City Lord Qin said: "I, I, this medicine can really relieve pain, it doesn't count as poisoning the people!"
Ning Mingmei: "You sold medicine secretly. Did you pay the tax to the court? Millions of dollars in tax. Did you pay it? You evaded taxes and the original price was ten times higher. Can you afford it?"
The court of this place, who will tell you about the people?
Deputy City Lord Qin was completely speechless and slumped in his chair. Ning Mingmei said, "Deputy City Lord Qin, please come in. Take out your private account book, and then we can talk about the curse."
"No……"
"No what?"
"I got that prescription from a demon cultivator. I didn't steal it..."
Ning Mingmei keenly noticed the inconsistency in this sentence: "You got it from a demon cultivator? What happened to him?"
How could a mortal like Deputy City Lord Qin "get" something from a demon cultivator?
Therefore, the truth must be that something unexpected happened to this evil cultivator.
"How dare I do anything to him! How dare we mortals provoke the devil cultivators? He was injured and died when he came to this place. He was lying beside the mine. That's why I dared to take away the things from him..." said Deputy City Lord Qin.
Gui Ruoxue said that since the little thief was severely injured by him when he escaped, it was reasonable for him to be picked by Deputy City Lord Qin.
But... Ning Mingmei frowned.
What is this demon cultivator doing here?
Ning Mingmei doesn't believe that there are coincidences in this world. Behind the so-called coincidence, even if there is no careful design, there must be a Markov chain that conforms to the law of causality.
Ning Mingmei was so powerful, even though Deputy City Lord Qin was unwilling, he could only find someone to get the money for Ning Mingmei.
Now it is no longer a question of entrustment, but a matter of being at the mercy of others. Ning Mingmei sat there all day and all night, waiting for Deputy City Lord Qin to settle the accounts, and he also got to know the location of the Qin family's treasury clearly.
All the money of the Qin family was calculated to be more than 20 million!
More than 20 million!
This was the first patent fee Ning Mingmei received after coming to the world of immortal cultivation!
More than 20 million, plus Ning Mingmei's previous savings and the dominoes from the Demon King's Tomb that he had already obtained. On the bright side, there are at least 10 million in the Demon King's Tomb. All the money added up, a total of 40 million.
The teaching building (first level) that Ning Ming had always dreamed of finally had the money to build it!
Since then, Ning Mingmei completed the initial accumulation of primitive wealth. He doesn't have to go out in person to take on horizontal projects, but can exploit students in the peak, publish journals, set up a patent office... Ning Mingmei's ultimate form will be to lie at home every day, with new money, new patents, new nominal papers, new disciples... pouring into him with every breath.
This is how people strive for higher goals. After that, Ning Mingmei will become a fully automatic money-making machine.
Ning Mingmei: "Knowledge is money."
system:……
Who can tell Ning Mingmei that it is not knowledge but cheating other cheaters that makes him rich?
Deputy City Lord Qin's face was full of reluctance, but he still had a glimmer of hope as he said, "Master Ning, so the evil spirit that caused the Ye land to be haunted is indeed that mine, right? Can Master Ning..."
Ning Mingmei: "That's not necessarily true. A mine full of radiation, a demon cultivator who died suddenly, a Liu family who secretly mined, you who sold fake medicine, and a land full of polluted water and soil. Yedi is such a land of outstanding people and beautiful scenery, maybe it is really inseparable from the curse of the witch."
The people are outstanding and the place is beautiful.
It's really a place with more talented people than Gotham.
There is gain and loss. Who knows whether the current mess in Yedi is related to the sudden and unstoppable force of General Wang and others after the witch was burned to death and his clan was exterminated many years ago?
Perhaps, four hundred years ago, the witch was still hesitating whether to cast this curse. Until he was tied to the stake, he witnessed the people who had received his kindness spitting on him and wanting to burn him to death.
Somehow he survived the stake. The young witch no longer wanted to go down the mountain with anyone, and no longer wanted to save people.
He wanted to go home and continue to be a shaman in Li Village, playing the xun on the hillside and watching the small flowers fall from the treetops and onto the ground.
People are born, grow old, get sick and die, and shamans can also suffer misfortunes. This is all normal, it's just a small part of life.
But when he returned to Li Village, what he saw was not the familiar small village, but a scorched earth.
The heads of Li women, children, the old and the young filled the mass graves in the west of the city. Someone picked up their heads with a knife and carried them back to the camp to collect the reward.
Just like they once carried the enemy's heads back to the camp. At that time, the witch was still worried about the safety of those people. At that time, he actually only had a little pity for those heads on the tip of the knife.
Why did the person I saved kill my relatives? In their eyes, my relatives are just like their former enemies?
Why did I help them kill their enemies in the past and think that I was on the side of justice?
Why?
Shamans should not kill people or take their lives. This is an iron rule passed down from generation to generation among the Li ethnic group's shamans. I came down the mountain on principle, I didn't kill anyone, I didn't curse them no matter how badly they were spoken of, I healed them. But had I already become an executioner in the eyes of the enemy at that time?
Because the lives I save will eventually kill other lives... and the lives of my loved ones.
Did I lose my qualifications as a witch doctor from that moment on, from the moment I followed them down the mountain to treat them?
Perhaps, it was at that time that the witch cast the curse for them that they had always dreamed of to defeat the enemy.
Since you are looking forward to it so much.
Then he would let them get what they wanted.
From then on, the glory of Yedi overdrew Yedi’s fortune for a thousand years, and no living person would ever leave Yedi again.
Yin Yedi was supposed to be wiped out in that war.
…
Deputy City Lord Qin hesitated and said, "Master Ning Feng, so the curse is indeed in the mine? Look, I have no money left. Can I..."
Ning Mingmei drank tea and said, "I can go there."
The mines were meant to be visited.
Mortals cannot resist the radiation and cannot continue to mine the minerals here. But Ning Mingmei is a cultivator who has reached the state of spiritual transformation!
We need to study how the impact of radiation on the human body decreases as one’s cultivation level increases. If everything is confirmed to be fine, Ning Mingmei will happily take over the mine from then on.
Ning Mingmei said to the system: "I have eliminated harm for the people and it is a win-win situation. My reputation has become much higher."
System: "...What win-win situation?"
Ning Mingmei: "I won all of City Lord Qin's money and also won a mine. Isn't this a win-win situation?"
A mine costs more than 20 million. With this calculation, there is enough money for the second phase of laboratory expansion.
Ning Mingmei asked for payment first this time. Apart from the real estate that was difficult to take away, Ning Mingmei took away all the money that could be taken away from the Qin Mansion - which is quite interesting to say. After all the people in Liu's mansion died, Qin's mansion also seized all the remaining property of Liu's mansion, which was also dug out by Ning Mingmei.
Rounding off, Ning Mingmei now has a total property of 45 million.
When he left Deputy City Lord Qin's Mansion, the sky was covered with dark clouds. Ning Mingmei looked up and said, "It's going to rain."
He lowered his head and chewed a mouthful of mint leaves, then said to Gong Ling, "Take half of your disciples and leave the City Lord's Mansion, and go to the mountain to destroy the fake medicine manufacturing base... Well, you don't have to destroy all of them. You have a large Qiankun bag, right? You know what's good, so take all the equipment you can take away."
Gui Ruoxue's voice was even more excited than his: "No need for you to remind me... Wait, someone wants to talk to you."
Ning Mingmei:?
"Ning Xianzun, can I come with you? I can help, I'm good at this kind of thing."
Ning Mingmei: ...
It turned out to be Lian Chengyue who recommended himself.
Gui Ruoxue said, "He behaved very well in the past two days when you were not home. He followed your disciples around to study, served them tea and water, and helped Ren Miao. He was quite flattering."
Where did this kid come from with such a different temper?
Ning Mingmei actually said, "Okay. Take him and Ren Miao with you."
Gui Ruoxue:?
What is this for.
Ning Mingmei: "As for the other disciples, ask four of them to go around the city and collect pills. There are only about twenty medical clinics in this city, so they will be quick. The two who have reached the great perfection of foundation building will stay here, they are still useful."
Ning Mingmei didn't say what he was going to do. Gui Ruoxue asked, "What riddle are you talking about?"
"I guess this person might have some last-ditch tricks up his sleeve." Ning Mingmei said, "I can't guess it, it's just my intuition."
Gui Ruoxue:?
Ning Mingmei: "But this is an inevitable risk. You want me to come here and work for the rest of my life? You might as well just kill me."
He hung up the palace bell and continued walking towards the City Lord's Mansion. The system asked him: "Why are you going back now?"
Ning Mingmei said, "I have something else to ask Wu Yun."
The sky was leaden and gray, and heavy rain was about to fall.
At this moment, a man found Huyang who lived behind the mass grave and whispered something to him.
…
When Ning Mingmei arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, the sky was already completely overcast. There was no sound of anyone in the City Lord's Mansion. At a glance, everyone was lying in a mess.
He tried the men's breath.
All fell asleep.
There is no one else who can do this.
There was still a sweet and choking smell in the city lord's room. Before Ning Mingmei reached the gauze curtain, he saw Doctor Wu standing outside it.
He was not wearing a mask, his medicine box was placed on the ground, and he was looking calmly inside the gauze curtain.
There was a person behind the curtain wriggling on the ground, howling pitifully like a wild beast.
"Master Ning," he said, "I have been waiting for you for a long time."
Ning Mingmei said: "Yes, it's a pity that we met at such a time."
Doctor Wu said: "Looking at his expression, don't you feel ashamed? Back then, he abandoned me and the Li people for his own greater good. Now, he crawls on the ground like a dog, begging me to save him. His once heroic mind has become confused, and he can't live without me every day."
Ning Mingmei said, "Yes. As a leader, what he did back then could not be called 'carelessness'."
There is no such thing as “too late to stop” in this world, only “indifference”.
Doctor Wu raised his eyes. He no longer had those querch-blue eyes, and Ning Mingmei saw his skin carefully for the first time.
It doesn't look like human skin, but more like the skin of the living dead.
"It's going to rain soon." Doctor Wu said, "Before the rain falls, shall I tell Immortal Ning a story?"
Ning Mingmei said: "Please speak."
The two sat under the eaves, looking at the gloomy sky. The leaves in the courtyard were rustling in the wind, just like usual.
system:……
Could you two please take care of the former general Wang who is wriggling and twisting in the dark on the ground behind us?
Although the other party is not threatening, isn't it creepy to chat in such a context?
"This story starts with a domino. That domino is a treasure of the Li people. But a thousand years ago, it was a gift from a great demon to a Li shaman... Funny, isn't it? Shamans have always fought against demons to protect humans." Doctor Wu said, "But it was a gift from a demon to humans."
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