Volume 1 The Milk Tiger Roars Valley, and the Beasts Are Terrified! Chapter 66: The Price of Greed
What is the driving force behind human progress in this world?
It's desire.
Seeing good things, people have the idea of snatching, this is greed, whether it is a small person or a relative of the emperor, even if it is the emperor sitting on the gilded dragon chair, he cannot escape the influence of greed.
In order to snatch food from neighbors, our ancestors invented sticks. In order to satisfy the desire to kill, the sword came into being. Even if these things were not originally created for killing, they could only be used as weapons by human desires.
The desire to be able to control is a good thing and a motivator. Uncontrollable desires are very bad, and most of the robbers on Nanshanzhai are affected by uncontrollable desires and become robbers.
Obviously, these two box soldiers now also have a desire for the good things that Tang Ning brought out in Nanshanzhai.
Tang Ning was a little annoyed, he had already seen the obscene van soldier before, why did he still imagine this world too beautifully?
The three of them sat on a horse-drawn cart, with Downing and his two boxes behind them, and the two vanguards in front, one of whom was holding a torch. The two soldiers looked back from time to time, then turned their heads to whisper.
Sometimes their eyes fell on Downing, who pretended to look at the scenery, and sometimes on the two boxes. It's just that the frequency that falls on those two boxes is much higher than the frequency that falls on Tangning......
What kind of scenery can you see with a black rumbling? Driving down from the top of Nanshan, you can't worry about overturning.
Tang Ning sighed, and saw the horse go the other way under the movements of the van soldiers, and knew that he was going to be unlucky.
"Boy, my two brothers want to borrow something from you."
The carriage finally stopped in the middle of a broad-leaved forest, and the horse was still mowing on the grass with his head bowed in a leisurely manner.
One of the vanguards jumped off the frame, a malicious smile on his face. He smiled at Tang Ning, who was unexpected: "This little official, my brothers want to borrow something from you." ”
Tang Ning sighed and said, "You can take these two boxes, and the carriage is also yours." ”
The two soldiers glanced at each other, both a little dazed. These two people hadn't done the robbery before, could it be that the people who were robbed looked like this? No wonder the gold, silver and jewelry in the dark room of Nanshanzhai are dazzling, robbery turned out to be such a simple matter.
However, for the sake of insurance, after the two bowed their heads and said a few words, they still decided to kill Tang Ning.
"We want things, and you will borrow our brothers to use them!"
With that, the soldier drew his big knife and walked towards Tang Ning.
I don't know who told Tang Ning that the more his life hangs by a thread, the more he can't panic. It is necessary to make a victory in order to confuse the enemy and make them dare not act rashly.
Maybe it was Wang Qing who said it, maybe Liu Ling said it, or maybe Qi Xianyu told him, anyway, Tang Ning himself doesn't remember who it is.
But he remembered it very well.
So even though his heart was about to jump out of his throat, he still raised his eyebrows and forced his composure: "Do you think I will really find two random guys who don't know the roots, and then let these two people drive me down the mountain in a carriage in the dark of night with two boxes of treasure?" Can you two use your brains, is this something that normal people can do? ”
Sure enough, the two vanguards were fooled. One of them said with an earthy face, "Do you ...... You knew we were going to rob you? ”
"Vice Admiral Wang told me that one of his subordinates was very dishonest, but he couldn't catch the evidence of their crimes, so he hoped that I would personally take risks and let this person show some of his feet." When Tang Ning said this, he shrugged his shoulders helplessly: "Vice General Wang put the knife on my neck, even if I don't want to, there is nothing I can do, so I said that you can take the money, and the carriage can also be yours, I don't want to throw my life here, God knows when the people sent by Vice General Wang will do it."
Didn't I say that you really had to wait until he put the knife on my neck before you could make a move? I know that although I met Vice General Wang for the first time today, he didn't like me very much, but there was no need to borrow a knife to kill someone, right? ”
The two soldiers were shocked, and Tang Ning's eyes were falling between the two, so when Tang Ning said this sentence with a helpless expression, both of them felt that Tang Ning was looking at each other.
So they both took a step back, staring at each other with uncertain faces, and the box soldier who was ready to make a move on Tang Ning at the beginning said viciously: "No wonder as soon as you come out of Nanshanzhai, you keep agitating your tongue to let Lao Tzu kill this stinky boy, it turns out that you are the person sent by Vice General Wang to kill Lao Tzu!" ”
Another sturdy soldier was amused, and instead of being angry, he laughed and said: "A good villain sues first, grandpa will kill you first, see if your head falls to the ground, can you still spew blood!" ”
The two immediately fought, and Tang Ning took the opportunity to jump out of the car and run into the woods on the side.
He didn't even look at the carriage and the two boxes on it.
If the money is gone, you can make it again, but if the people are gone, there will be nothing. If the land is lost, the people and the land are lost. If you save people and lose land, you will gain all people. It's a simple truth.
After running for a while, Tang Ning hid under a tree and watched from a distance as the two soldiers pecked each other.
After seeing Liu Ling's ability to walk around on the battlefield, he felt that these two soldiers were not even qualified to hand knives to Liu Ling.
The two eyebrow knives stabbed each other, looking like two people looking for two wooden sticks to stab each other, there was no cruelty at all.
The two fought for a while, and one of the thinner soldiers suddenly found that Tang Ning was gone, so he hurriedly shouted, "Stop!" Stop! That stinky boy is gone! ”
After hearing this, another strong box soldier took a few steps back suspiciously, looked at it, and sure enough, he found that Tang Ning was gone, so he scolded angrily: "That little rabbit cub, the two of us have fallen for his trick!" Your mother drops, grandpa will find him out today, so that he can teach him to taste grandpa's awesomeness! ”
As he spoke, he lay down on the ground and looked under the carriage.
There was no carriage underneath, so he stood up and shouted angrily, "Little rabbit! There is still a way to survive now! If you let grandpa catch you, grandpa will have to eat you alive! ”
Tang Ning had a sneer on his face, he was stupid to believe what you said, and just shouted, even if the other soldiers who rushed in didn't clean up the two of you, your good brother would have to kill you first.
Sure enough, the stronger soldier shouted with his waist crossed, and the blood-stained tip of the knife came out of his heart.
The thinner soldier sneered: "Fool, with such a loud voice, you are not afraid to recruit wolves." ”
Then he pulled out the eyebrow knife, turned over and jumped into the carriage, and prepared to drive away.
Tang Ning looked at the soldiers who fell to the ground softly, and breathed a sigh of relief. It was as if it had just rained, and I was completely soaked.
Only he knew how fast his heart was beating and how nervous he was when he was fooling these two people into a big fight just now. It wasn't until now that his arm holding the dagger was still trembling, and when the box soldier stabbed the eyebrow knife into the chest of another box soldier, Tang Ning felt that his three souls and six spirits had returned to their places, and he wanted to move, but he had no strength in his body.
Just as he had stopped here, it was not that he didn't want to run farther, it was that his feet didn't listen to him. To put it mildly, his urine leaked out just now......
As soon as the thin soldier jumped into the carriage, he fell to the ground. Downing blinked, saw that the frame was empty, and realized that it was not his hallucination.
Immediately afterwards, a familiar voice was heard shouting nervously, "Tangning! Downing! Where are you? ”
"I'm here!" Tang Ning opened his mouth several times with a shudder, and finally shouted out this sentence, but his voice was hoarse, which sounded very different from the previous voice, and the voice was not so loud, and I don't know if Liu Ling heard it. So Downing shouted again: "I'm here!" Come and save me! ”
Soon, the sound of rustling footsteps came from not far away. The light of the fire also shone through the gaps between the trees and shone on Downing's body.
Liu Ling looked at Tang Ning, who was supported by the box soldiers, and grinned: "I knew that it would not be your turn to die if those two guys died!" ”