There was a layer of dark, sticky oil on the slightly skewed wooden table. A few flies that were greedy for food scraps stuck to the dark tabletop and could not fly.
Wei Jing first blew on the flies, and then stretched out his fingers to flick them. When he saw Gongsun Yao holding his chopsticks and tilting his head, he flicked the flies towards Gongsun Yao.
Gongsun Yao was stunned at first, then swung his chopsticks, trying to knock down a black fly that Wei Jing could only miss.
Although he didn't like this kind of dirty game, because of his meek nature, he couldn't get angry with Wei Jing.
When he saw Wei Jing flicking a fly into pieces, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and frowned and said, "Brother Wei, stop flicking flies!"
A man with a crooked mouth and squinting eyes brought three bowls of Yangchun soup noodles to the table. Wei Jing and Gongsun Yao, who were extremely hungry, ignored the man who inserted most of his fingers into the noodle soup when serving the noodles. They hurriedly pulled the bowls in front of them and scooped them up vigorously. Pick up balls of hot noodles, blow on them for a few mouthfuls, stuff them into your mouth, chew and swallow them like a jackal, a tiger or a leopard.
While Wei Jing and Gongsun Yao were eating noodles, Li Yue had already finished the soup, wiped his mouth, and called for three more bowls of noodles with a wave of his hand.
In this way, the three of them ate six bowls of noodles. Gongsun Yao and Wei Jing felt unbearably bloated and burped repeatedly. Li Yue got up and left without even paying for the noodles.
Gongsun Yao hurriedly rummaged through his tattered clothes, and finally found some money, ready to pay the bill. The noodle seller was stunned, but still accepted the money, and just said to him: "If you are like a fool, It’s all together, so you don’t have to pay in the future.”
Gongsun Yao didn't understand what this meant, but when he saw Li Yue and Wei Jing walking away, he quickly chased after them.
They were at a street vendor on the outskirts of Baidiewu Village. They were surrounded by the sound of hawking, and the costumes of the pedestrians coming and going were quite different.
Baidiewu Village is like a self-sufficient small town. In the center is a strange and huge building like a tower. There are many stables and stations on the west side, vendors and markets on the south side, and fields and vegetable gardens on the east side. On the north side, there are warehouses stacked with various types of wood and building materials, which are provided to the residents of the village for the purpose of adding and strengthening the entire village of hundred-fold houses at any time.
The closer Wei Jing and Gongsun Yao got to the housing village, the more they opened their mouths. They raised their heads and looked at the chaotically built large housing estates, with new and old huts closely connected together. The houses on the first floor have many large and small doors for residents to enter and exit. Some entrances and exits are directly connected to the vendors' market. There are also sloping wooden ladders or hanging rope ladders in the more open areas, connecting the second and third floors. Even higher floors.
Wei Jing counted silently. Due to the chaotic appearance of Baidie House Village, the eaves and windows above the second and third floors were high and low. It was not clear which floor many of the windows belonged to, but he could estimate based on height.
This Baidiewu Village is much taller than the tallest building in Laihu City. It is almost three times as high as the Lunar Exploration Building, and its area is much larger.
Wei Jing let out a sigh. He saw several thick ropes hanging diagonally from several holes in the wall on the outer wall of the housing estate on the second and third floors not far away. The end near the ground was tied to a wooden stake. , nailed to the ground.
Just when he was feeling strange, he saw a dark-skinned young man with curly and messy hair standing in the breach in the outer wall. He was holding a curved stick in his hand, hooked on the rope, and slid down to the ground. Behind him were a dozen teenagers, laughing and sliding downstairs in the same way.
"Wow -" Wei Jing was stunned, surprised and envious, and seemed to want to sneak away.
Following them, they passed several crowded small stalls and unknowingly arrived at the housing estate. After entering the housing estate, you couldn't feel the vastness and vastness you saw outside. As far as you could see inside, there were roads descending from one road to the next. The lake also has long, narrow and winding roads, and rooms with compartments.
Li Yue led Wei Jing and Gongsun Yao along the long and winding road, going up floor by floor. Due to the random and messy construction of the housing estate, even on the same floor, there would sometimes be a difference of two or three steps. stairs.
This place is more chaotic and chaotic than the underground lake. Some cubicles cannot be distinguished as public walkways or private residences. Some people are sitting on the floor with some small chairs and pillows beside them, paying no attention to other residents of the estate passing by.
"I never knew there was such a place in Laihu City..." Gongsun Yao murmured.
"This is on the edge of Laihu City. People who come to the center of Laihu probably don't regard the people here as their fellow citizens, and the people here never regard themselves as Laihu citizens. We are not surprised." Li Yueleng said coldly.
The three of them went up. Some residents would greet Li Yue cordially along the way, and Li Yue would nod to them, as if he was quite famous here.
"There is a mix of dragons and snakes here, and because it is located on the border of a county or city, some criminals who have committed crimes in other places will escape here to hide. Over time, they will inevitably cause trouble, and someone must control them." Li Yue explained, he He led Wei Jing and Gongsun Yao to a long and quiet road and arrived at a door. After knocking on the door a few times, an old man's voice came from inside: "Come in."
Li Yue pushed the door open and went in. There was not much space inside, and there were small cabinets stacked up. There was a small table in the middle, and an old woman was sitting in front of the table, sewing a piece of children's clothing.
"Shame, it's you! You're back. Where have you been these days?" When the mother-in-law saw it was Li Yue, she stood up in surprise and annoyance, walked forward and hit Li Yue on the shoulder. After a few moments, like a mother scolding her son, she saw Wei Jing and Gongsun Yao hiding behind her and asked curiously: "Where did these two children come from?"
Li Yue glanced at Wei Jing and Gongsun Yao and said, "Maybe I had a mad attack and got lost in the lake underground. It was these two children who rescued me, and I brought them up all the way."
"Silly, don't even think about lying to me! You obviously went to take revenge, right?" The mother-in-law put her hands on her hips and scolded Li Yue angrily: "Don't think I don't know. You have become much clearer in the past two years. Start remembering the past. It doesn’t matter if you remember the past, you can even remember the grudges, right and wrong clearly. Starting from a year ago, as soon as you drank wine, you started shouting that you wanted to kill someone. This time you Did you really kill someone?"
It turned out that when Li Yue came to Baidiewu Village, he was still foolish and wandered in the vendor area outside Baidiewu Village for a long time. When he was hungry, he robbed the vendors of food, causing quite a disturbance. Several people acted bravely. Strong men tried to stop him, but they beat him until he vomited blood.
After discussion, the residents dug a hole in an open space, piled some grass on the pit, placed a roast chicken, and easily lured the stupid Li Yue into a trap filled with sharp bamboos. prick.
Li Yue was injured and trapped in a trap. He was stupid and had long forgotten martial arts moves and Qinggong movements. He had no brute strength and could not climb out of the trap. He howled every day in the trap, Sometimes some residents would take pity on him and throw some leftovers into the pit, which he would eat with relish.
One day, Grandma Jiang discovered the tragic situation and sent someone to rescue the dying Li Yue and took him into the village to rest for a while.
Granny Jiang is quite famous in the housing estate and is highly respected by the residents. She will mediate many disputes and trivial matters for the residents, just like the village head recognized by everyone.
At the beginning, Li Yue followed Granny Jiang just like he had followed Yao Sanji before, visiting the houses in the housing estates. Everyone knew that he was very powerful, so they let him do some menial work. This way Li Yue worked in the housing estates. Stayed for a long time.
He would sometimes suffer from madness, yelling, destroying beams and walls in housing estates, and even beating residents.
Therefore, Granny Jiang arranged for him to live in a secluded and uninhabited hut on the upper floor of the housing estate. Whenever he had an attack of madness, Granny Jiang would always have to yell in front of him to suppress him.
More than ten years have passed. Li Yue's madness gradually recovered and rarely relapsed. He also gradually remembered the past and his personality became much calmer. He rarely talked to people anymore, but bullies from other places would always come to his door. Stand up when the residents of the housing estate are being oppressed, drive away the bullies, or teach the gangsters in the former housing estate a lesson.
The residents gradually changed their view of him. They no longer called him "mad dog" or "mad cow", but called him "silly" or "silly brother". Everyone said that Granny Jiang taught him well and taught him to be a vicious tiger. The patron saint of housing estates.
"I didn't kill anyone, but the crocodile killed one..." Li Yue replied calmly, and exchanged some words with Granny Jiang before taking Wei Jing and Gongsun Yao out of the room and heading up.
Wei Jing looked at the surrounding landscape with great interest and said that it was even weirder than the underground lake. They arrived at two-thirds of the height of the housing estate. The residents were gradually sparse. There were dozens of shabby rooms on the east side of a certain building. It was empty and uninhabited, and many of the surrounding walls, beams and columns were damaged, mostly from Li Yue's previous bouts of madness.
They entered a room, which was actually very spacious. This was because Li Yue had smashed the partition walls between the room and the surrounding huts.
Li Yue's room was empty. There was only a tattered quilt and a few pieces of clothing in the corner. Apart from a small chair and a small table, there was nothing else.
"There is a big window..." Wei Jing walked towards a big window on the wall, looking at the fields and vegetable gardens below, and beyond were the grasslands and hillsides. He thought to himself that every morning when the sun rises, from The scenery outside this broken window must be very magnificent and beautiful.
Li Yue also looked out the window and said: "It's not high enough here. From the top floor of the housing estate, you can see the sea."
"Uncle Li Yue, are you really determined to avenge Chuang Tianmen after remembering the past, so you went to the underground lake now?" Gongsun Yao had been silent, and then suddenly asked.
Wei Jing interrupted and asked: "Since we are going to Laihu City, why not just take the carriage at the station outside? Why go underground to Laihu City?"
"I was isolated from the rest of the world in the housing estate. I could only occasionally learn about what was happening in the big city from some out-of-town tourists. I had known that Chuangtianmen was going to hold a big event, but I just thought about it and didn't take it to heart. .
"I will go underground, that's another thing. The buildings in the Baidie Uk Estate are getting higher and higher, and the roofs are a little unstable. People in the estate want to develop underground, and plan to raise funds to build several tunnels to connect to the underground lake. , a group of us went to explore the abandoned village, where we came out from the underground.
"Who would have thought that as soon as I entered the underground lake, saw the scene inside, and smelled the smell inside, I couldn't control myself..." Li Yue couldn't help but chuckle when he said this.
"Uncle Li Yue, don't you want to take revenge if you don't go to Laihu anymore?" Gongsun Yao asked.
"It would be troublesome if the old woman knew that I only want to take revenge..." Li Yue sat down, patted his head and said, "Actually, whether I want to take revenge or not is secondary. I really want to see what Chuang Tianmen has become now. Anyway, if you see someone you know well, just say hello to him."
Wei Jing interrupted again: "What if I meet Ma Tianjing?"
"Hehe." Li Yue smiled coldly: "Isn't it just to say hello? I am no longer the Li Yue I used to be. In Baidiewu Village, I am 'Asha'. How can the lame Asha fight against Chuang Tianmen? "
"If you were asked to say hello to Ma Tianjing, would he still be alive?" Wei Jing asked.
"I'm afraid I won't survive." Li Yue chuckled.
"I think so." Wei Jing said gesticulating: "Then let me tell you, if you have the opportunity to come back to the lake, in addition to saying hello to Ma Tianjing, other guys like Man Quanli, Lu Xiong, Qin Mengxian, etc. , you also go and say hello to them, especially Man Quanli..."
