The shepherd boy looked at Yu Li and the two with a smile, as if he had already thought of the tasks to be assigned to them.
"That's right, but I have a lot of things to do here. Let me think about it carefully. What should I arrange for you?"
The little shepherd boy looked deep in thought. Yu Li and Xue Li thought he was really thinking seriously, but what he said next made them confused.
"You seem to be very young and not in good health. I haven't had anyone here to help me for a long time. That's good, I can leave everything to you!"
The shepherd boy took out a paper scroll from nowhere, handed it to Yu Li, and then rode away quickly on his cow.
"I've left the matter to you. Don't let me down. You can't leave until you finish."
Xue Li and Yu Li looked at each other and were a little curious about this scroll.
Yu Li slowly opened the scroll, only to realize that he was so young. There were actually more than a thousand tasks inside, ranging from cleaning up monsters to as small as sesame seeds and mung beans. In short, they were all weird and weird.
"Husband, when do you think we have to do this? It will take three years to do three things a day. This task has almost plowed the entire small world. By the time we finish it all, the whole world will probably be completely different. .”
Yu Li also had a headache. Many of the tasks involved could be completed as long as he stretched out his hand when it first happened, but the shepherd boy just refused to do it. It has become very difficult now.
"Let's do it slowly. Anyway, it's good for the two of us to be together and enjoy the hardships. However, we'd better sort out the tasks according to location, so as not to run around, which is a waste of time."
"Okay, let's sort it out first."
Yu Li and Xue Li thought simply. Many locations in the missions overlapped. Fortunately, there is no need to run around for 70% of the tasks. You can complete several of them in one place.
Yu Li numbered the tasks one by one. After sorting them all out, it would already be twenty days later.
The shepherd boy seemed to know that he was going too far, and he disappeared during this period, obviously avoiding Yu Li and the other two.
Since they accepted the task, the two started from the bottom and worked on it one by one.
"Don't be discouraged. Everything is difficult at the beginning. As long as you get through the boring period at the beginning, it will be much easier later on."
Xue Li felt better after listening to Yu Li's comforting words.
"Let me see what tasks are there first? Task No. 7 is to remove insects from the yellow cypress trees here. The task shows 78 insects. It doesn't seem difficult."
"Task No. 237, help remove the excess new shoots of Astragalus. There are 322 plants in total. It seems that the number is a bit too much."
Xue Li also continued to watch——
"Task No. 644, help divide the asparagus trees, the number is 28."
"Mission 648, help the purple squirrel build a new nest."
"..."
Yu Li had a headache. There were seven tasks to be completed within the fifty-meter radius of his sight.
"Do it slowly. It's just trivial matters. It's basically not difficult. Leave it to me on the tree, and you can do it on the ground. If you feel it's hard, stop and take a rest. When I finish the work at hand, I'll do it. I’ll do it for you again.”
"OK, all right!"
Yu Li first helped remove insects from the big tree. Fortunately, the insects were all born outside the tree. They were just ordinary insects that ate the leaves and did not penetrate into the wood.
"Leaf-eating caterpillars, I remember which mission seemed to involve catching this insect?"
Yu Li opened the mission scroll, searched carefully for a long time, and finally found it in mission No. 933: catch fifty and give them to the yellow-shirted bird to feed its young.
I found a small bottle from the space and put the caught bugs into it one by one.
"Just think of the extra time as compensation for delaying time!"
It took half an hour to finally catch all the bugs. Yu Li looked at the task and it showed that it was not completed.
"What's going on? Is there something wrong with the mission?"
After looking at it carefully for a long time, I finally had no choice but to communicate with the big tree. I didn't know if the mission scroll had the ability to communicate with all things. I attached it to the trunk and the mission was updated directly.
The original number of 78 items has become 323.
"I'll go, isn't this a scam? This number has almost doubled five times compared to when the task was entrusted."
There is no other way but to bite the bullet and continue to catch it. It took another two hours and finally all the bugs were caught.
Yu Li had a bad feeling. Since mission No. 7 has not been updated, is it possible that other missions have the same problem?
Especially those tasks that have a time limit at first glance. Are they completely different? How will they be completed by then?
Although he was very unhappy, thinking about how Xue Li wanted to leave and the fact that he had already made a guarantee, he still calmed down and continued with other tasks.
Xue Li is pruning the buds of Huang Wencao. At this time, it seems that they can no longer be called new buds. They have completely grown into new branches. According to the requirements of the task display, she keeps repeating the pruning work.
At the same time, she also looked at Yu Li from time to time, and saw him busy crawling around in different trees, sometimes frowning, sometimes thinking, with a very focused expression, and she felt relieved.
The two of them just ran back and forth in this area of less than fifty meters, working until nightfall, when they stopped. After counting, only three tasks have been completed, and the other four tasks have only just begun.
"Fortunately, we no longer have to eat every day, otherwise it may be more time-consuming. But it may also be of some benefit to our practice. It would be good to settle down a bit."
Yu Li could only use this reason to comfort himself, otherwise he would really not be able to calm down.
"I see!"
The shepherd boy had been quietly watching the two people's actions and was very satisfied with their performance on the first day.
Time passed day by day, from receiving the mission in midsummer to experiencing autumn and winter.
When spring came, Yu Li and Xue Li returned to the Hermit Village again.
"Hey, why is the kid back again? Didn't you find that person?"
The old man surnamed Shen, who was instructing students at the entrance of the village, asked with some joy.
"Senior, we are speechless. Aren't we doing a mission? We have more than two hundred missions in Hermit Village and we have to run back."
Old Zhao looked over with a smile.
"Haha, I've known for a long time that you won't leave so easily. More than two hundred missions? I'm afraid that all the wishes made by the people in our village were assigned to you, right?"
Yu Li was helpless, and the tasks on the to-do list also made him doubt his life.
The old man of the Zhang family wants to have a companion, the sister of the Li family wants to find a husband, the door of the He family is broken, and the puppy of the Zhu family is lost. What left him speechless the most was that Grandma Chen's toilet needed cleaning, and Old Man Xu's toilet was leaking, but they were solved by making a wish.
"What can I do? It's obviously a trivial matter, but no one in the village is willing to do it, let alone ask for help, but they made a wish for the envoy to come forward. Have you done this before?"
Lao Shen looked at Lao Zhao, then at Lao Chu, and finally laughed.
"Most of the tasks you mentioned were just complaints from the villagers. In fact, we have already solved many things after complaining. But shouldn't the tasks you have been updated in time?"
Yu Li and Xue Li breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this. Of course it would be good if this was the case.
Handing the mission scroll to Lao Shen, Yu Li continued.
"Senior, missions 602 to 844 are from the Hermit Village. Please help me see which ones have not yet been completed. Xue Li and I can just do it along the way."
Upon hearing Yu Li's words, the three of them also understood that Yu Li and the two were captured. When they opened the mission scroll, the three of them all took a breath. With 1,437 tasks, they are really not afraid of exhausting the two of them to death.
"Well, let's take a look at the three of us. There are quite a lot of them. If I were asked to take on these tasks, I would rather not leave."
The corner of Yu Li's mouth twitched, thinking that you have already settled here. Of course, you can choose not to leave, but he and Xue Li can't. He sighed softly, only blaming himself for his bad luck.
It took the three of them nearly an hour to finally determine that more than 90% of the 243 tasks had been completed. After the two confirmed, the status of the tasks was automatically updated.
Twenty-one tasks are still unfinished. Fortunately, there were no tasks to repair or fill the toilet, otherwise Yu Li would really feel a little uncomfortable. It's not that he dislikes it, he still has to do it, it's just that he feels very uncomfortable.
"Although there are twenty-one tasks unfinished here, as a member of the Hermit Village, we can't watch you work. As long as you help us cook a few delicious meals, I will help you with these things."
Lao Zhao generously shared Yu Li and Xue Li's worries, and Lao Chu also nodded in agreement.
Old Shen on the side thought for a while.
"Boy, I just took a look. You still have more than 900 tasks to complete. I see that these tasks are very simple. It's just too much repetitive work. It depends on the two of you to do it. I don't know how busy you will be. What year? How about we make a deal?"
"Senior Chu, I don't know how you plan to trade. Tell me and let me hear it."
"It's natural. I plan to mobilize the villagers to complete the mission with you, and we also intend to use it to train the children in the village. How about you and Xueli staying to help us with logistics?"
Yu Li and Xue Li were overjoyed. They didn't expect that they would get something unexpected when they returned to the Hermit Village. However, Yu Li was still a little embarrassed to bother the villagers.
"Isn't this bad?"
Lao Zhao laughed beside him.
"Boy, there are some things we didn't tell you. In fact, if we want to leave, we will also face the same tasks as you. No one in the village has plans to leave for nearly twenty years, so these tasks will accumulate. Such a quantity. After all, when you finish these tasks and we want to leave, there will basically be no tasks left to do. We have benefited from it, so don’t be polite to us."
