Not long after the genius started to shine, the kiln workers saw Steward Ma standing on the small slope beside him, tiptoeing and looking in a certain direction.
In this hour and a half, Ma Zhongbao's expression went from expectant to anxious to irritated. He was like an ant on a hot pot.
It wasn't until he saw Lu Jing's figure appearing that Manager Ma finally felt relieved and hurriedly ran up.
"Hey, my ancestor, why did you come just now? It's already a quarter of an hour, and it's going to be noon in a blink of an eye." Ma Zhongbao said, holding Lu Jing's hand.
"Oh, I got up a little late today, but it doesn't matter. I can finish it in the morning." Lu Jing replied.
However, seeing that Ma Zhongbao still looked worried, he had to add, "Don't worry, I won't leave until the job is finished."
"That's good, that's good." Ma Zhongbao finally showed his face after hearing this.
Lu Jing stopped talking nonsense, walked directly to the hay shed, said hello to the man surnamed Bai, and then picked up the ax beside him.
But this time, he was not as anxious as before.
Instead, he silently recited the outline of the Crazy One Hundred and Eight Staffs in his mind, letting the internal force circulate in his arms. After a long while, he waved the ax in his hand.
But his posture at this moment is exactly the starting position among the 108 sticks of the crazy devil, which is to use the head stick to drink!
With one strike of the ax, Lu Jing's hand didn't stop, and he immediately placed another piece of wood...
The man surnamed Bai was in good physical condition today and had completed the morning's progress early, so he slowed down his chopping speed to regain his strength, and at the same time, he also paid attention to the situation on Lu Jing's side.
He saw Lu Jing's somewhat weird posture, and also noticed that Lu Jing's chopping speed seemed to be slower than yesterday. He thought it was because the boy was finally tired.
But soon as Lu Jing found his rhythm and gradually got used to the new chopping movements, his wood chopping speed began to steadily increase!
It didn't take long to surpass yesterday, and it wasn't over yet. As Lu Jing became more and more skilled in his movements, his speed continued to increase.
The man surnamed Bai was stunned. He really didn't expect that someone could split wood to this extent. It was as if he was... born specifically for splitting wood.
On the other side, Lu Jing, who is a client, is also in a good mood. This new job he has found can not only make money, but also consume internal energy. By the way, he can improve his proficiency in skills, which can be said to be killing three birds with one stone!
However, Lu Jing was not without worries. Only after he started practicing did he realize how complicated the martial arts moves were. No wonder his master once told him that it would be extremely difficult to practice any martial arts to Dachengdu.
As for ordinary people in the martial arts world, in addition to learning martial arts moves every day, they also have to practice internal skills and mental techniques, especially the latter which is extremely time-consuming. It is no wonder that the obsession in the previous book caused the relationship between husband and wife to become weak and even the family to be destroyed due to martial arts training.
In contrast, Lu Jing does not need to practice internal energy, which has saved a lot of time. In addition, when he learns martial arts moves, he does not need to practice and rest for a while like other people do, or rely more on gestures and thinking to control the consumption of internal energy.
On the contrary, Lu Jing could think while practicing, and he could also use the excessive internal energy in his Dantian to make up for part of the loss of physical strength. But even so, if he wanted to learn all the moves on the Crazy One Hundred and Eight Staff, Lu Jing estimated that it would take at least a month.
He once again felt the seriousness of the situation. Could it be that he really had to resort to the last resort?
While he was thinking about it, he noticed that Manager Ma, the man surnamed Bai, and other people in front of the hay shed had all put down their work at some point and gathered around him.
Lu Jing almost subconsciously swung the ax to split the wood in front of him, and then stopped.
He looked around him and found that in just an hour, the wood at his feet had been piled up even more than yesterday.
Ma Zhongbao's eyes almost glowed when he looked at him, just like an old rich man looking at a hen that lays golden eggs!
Although he had experienced Lu Jing's terrifying speed in chopping wood yesterday, he had not seen it with his own eyes after all. But after watching from the front today, he found that Lu Jing was even more powerful than he thought.
This can’t be blamed on Ma Guanshi’s lack of knowledge. The main reason is that almost no one from the martial arts community comes to work in his charcoal kiln, and it’s impossible to give him the inner strength he regards as a treasure to chop wood!
So this was indeed the first time that Manager Ma had seen someone splitting wood like this. He rushed to Lu Jing's side with almost a single step, then took Lu Jing's hand and said eagerly, "Let's make a long-term contract." Well, from now on you can chop the wood for the charcoal kiln alone! I can give you another 20% of the wages."
And his words also made the faces of the men surnamed Bai and others change.
But then Lu Jing shook his head and said, "I don't like to be restrained. I agreed before that I would only do it for half a day, and I guarantee that I can chop 1,400 kilograms a day." After a pause, he added, "And I will do it for only half a day." Once the wood is chopped, what will happen to the others?”
Ma Zhongbao also came to his senses at this time. Not to mention others, the man surnamed Bai had been working in the charcoal kiln for more than ten years, and the two of them were familiar with each other. On weekdays, he also relied on the man surnamed Bai to help him manage the wood splitters. Workers, even when the charcoal kiln farm was in the most difficult times, the man surnamed Bai never left.
Ma Zhongbao was simply frightened by the previous manpower shortage, so he blurted out those words. When Lu Jing reminded him, he immediately reacted and apologized to the group of men named Bai.
But when he organized people to call Lu Jing the wood he had chopped today, the man surnamed Bai did not leave like the others, but walked up to Lu Jing.
"Brother Bai, do you have any advice?"
"I have nothing to teach you when it comes to splitting wood. Together, we are not as good as you alone, but for other things besides splitting wood... you still have to be careful." The man surnamed Bai said in a low voice. .
"Huh?" Lu Jing raised his eyebrows, sensing what the other party meant.
But the man surnamed Bai didn't say any more. He looked around and went back to work.
At this time, Ma Zhongbao also weighed today's wood for Lu Jing, totaling 1,600 kilograms, or 800 Wen.
Lu Jing took the money and went to the city first to purchase some food and daily necessities, and then went to pay next month's rent. After finishing the work, I hurried back to my residence.
After taking a look from a distance, Lu Jing saw nothing unusual, and he breathed a sigh of relief. However, as soon as he opened the door and entered the house, something flew towards him with a whoosh!
But Amu, who had been standing by the wall before, started to lively again, and the wooden dummy was still spinning back and forth around Lu Jing, pushing Lu Jing with his own stick hand from time to time, pushing him out of the house.
Lu Jing didn't know what the little wooden man was up to, but the way it looked reminded Lu Jing of his friend's husky that never ran away all day.
"Do you want to go out?" Lu Jing thought for a while, and he happened to be planning to practice Kung Fu. After all, there were still some difficulties in the house. In that case, he might as well take Amu with him.
