Wei Jing nodded, and after chatting with Xiao Zhu, he learned that the Eighth Elder had established the Underground City Hall to strictly supervise the underground lake.
A while ago, more people poured into the underground lake. In order to facilitate control, the underground city hall evicted most of the residents on the underground floor to the second floor. The number of people suddenly increased, and the smelly grass that could turn the dirty air into clean air was Not enough.
In order to collect more stink grass, some grass collectors went deep into more dangerous areas. Although they were able to collect the stink grass they needed for the time being, the risks also increased a lot. Many grass collectors let underground crocodiles eat them, or they were eaten by underground crocodiles. Let a poisonous snake bite you to death, or let a poisonous insect sting you to death.
"You said you had picked grass before, who were you following?" Xiao Zhu asked casually.
Wei Jing responded without thinking: "I used to follow Brother Wang, but then he had an accident and died. I picked it by myself for a while and was bullied by others. Everyone said that I stepped into their territory, so then I can’t do it anymore.”
"Yes, those people down there used to have separate turfs, and they fought fiercely. Now it's better, it's all taken over by the Underground City Hall. We just have to do our best to collect it." Xiao Zhu said helplessly.
"I remember that it's not easy for the stinky grass to grow. With this method, the grass will disappear quickly." Wei Jing asked. Along the way, he saw some dungeon hall gang members randomly throwing some withered stinky grass around.
He knew that these guys had no experience of living underground for a long time and did not know how to take care of these stinky grasses. The life span of the newly picked stinky grasses was much shortened, and the demand for stinky grasses was also greater.
"It's not like they live underground all their lives. They don't care whether there is grass or not." When Xiao Zhu said this, he sneered.
Wei Jingxu responded a few times, looking at the crowded and weak residents in the corridor, his heart became more and more resentful, thinking that after trying to break into the Tianmen, these underground residents might not be able to hold on in half a year.
He followed Xiao Zhu to the stairway leading to the third underground floor. There were also some people from the underground city hall guarding the place. The two of them walked on the long staircase for a while and saw a dozen men squatting on the stairs to take a rest. Most of them were covered in sweat. Bearing old and new scars from poisonous insect bites.
When Xiao Zhu saw them, he asked: "Okay, you guys are lazy here. Have you got all the smelly grass you want today?"
"It's still half of it. We're already picking it up and waiting to be delivered to it." Several men picking grass murmured and complained: "We spent two whole days picking these without eating or sleeping. Now we have no strength anymore. We The stairs will be exhausted."
"Axi, this is your first time working today, so go ahead and carry these ten bundles of smelly grass." Xiao Zhu called the pseudonym Wei Jing told him.
"Okay, something has been done!" Without saying a word, Wei Jing picked up three bundles of smelly grass in his left hand and three bundles of smelly grass in his right hand, and turned around to go upstairs.
The roots of these smelly grasses were covered with wet soil. It was not easy to carry six bundles at one go. Even Wei Jing felt a little strenuous. When he returned to the second floor underground, he was already out of breath. After a while, he went downstairs again, going up and down again. After several attempts, more than ten bundles of smelly grass were moved to the second underground floor.
"Thank you for your hard work, Ah Xi." Xiao Zhu threw a piece of cake to Wei Jing. Wei Jing opened his mouth to eat, but felt his mouth was dry. He asked for water and saw the grass pickers collapsed on the ground from exhaustion. After falling asleep, he got up to move around and told Xiao Zhu that he wanted to look around to see if he could find any old acquaintances.
Xiao Zhu shook his head and said: "No, no, you think the work is over. It's so easy. We won't be so short of people. We still have to move the smelly grass up there."
"Uh!" Wei Jing was shocked when he heard this. He thought that he had just moved a dozen bundles of smelly grass from the second and a half underground floors to the second underground floor. It was so tiring. If he had to move it to the first underground floor, it would be really difficult. Paralyzed.
"Don't look at me. How about it? It's more torturous now than when you were picking grass." Xiao Zhu smiled bitterly, pulled out a broken truck from the dirty room, and put the bundles of smelly grass into the After getting on the cart, they were afraid that too much would accumulate and crush the stinky grass, so they carried four bundles with Wei Jing on their backs, and the two of them pulled the cart full of stinky grass toward the underground level.
Xiao Zhu rested several times along the way. At first, Wei Jing pretended to be this stupid fool. When he saw Xiao Zhu tired and resting against the wall, he pretended to be extremely tired to avoid exposing his flaws.
But when they carried the smelly grass to the stairs and walked up one step at a time, even Wei Jing was so tired that he gritted his teeth. Xiao Zhu behind him was sweating and panting, muttering how much money he earned, he would definitely go there Have fun finding girls on the ground.
"Axi, have you been to a restaurant?" Xiao Zhu asked.
"Been there..." Wei Jing replied casually: "It's not interesting, the wine is not particularly good, and the food is just ordinary."
"Haha, you fool, you don't go to a restaurant to fill your stomach." Xiao Zhu gasped and said, "Isn't the girl in there pretty?"
"It's not beautiful, it's very fierce. It even uses a broom to drive away guests, even if you ask for more than one bowl of rice." Wei Jing gave a random answer.
"I think you either mistook the restaurant for the canteen, or you mistook the canteen for a restaurant." Xiao Zhu chuckled, and when his feet slipped, he was about to fall backwards. Wei Jing immediately caught him, and the two of them were exhausted, so they had to stop. He rested on the stairs and regained some strength before continuing up.
They arrived at the underground level, and the work was not yet finished. They had to work with others to sort out the stinkweed, pick off the dead leaves, put the stinkweed into pots, and distribute it to various places.
Wei Jing had collected stink grass before and lived underground for a period of time, so he was quite unambiguous about doing this work. Although he was tired, he was secretly happy.
He originally wanted to wander around and investigate privately, but now he thought that as a servant of the herb collector, he would transport the smelly grass. The investigation along the way would be more open and fair, and he would not arouse suspicion.
When Wei Jing thought about this, he felt satisfied. He thought that Bei Xiaolu had kidnapped the Sky Eagle Alliance and worked hard to plot the plan, but he just wanted to sneak into the lake underground, and he managed to get in smoothly by himself.
Wei Jing knew that although Bei Xiaolu was resourceful, he was still arrogant and arrogant. He not only wanted to win, but also always wanted to be beautiful, just like making a fuss in the Eight Immortals Tower or robbing Li Mi with flying ducks.
Bei Xiaolu would not even consider embarrassing actions like his own, such as pretending to be a fool, carrying stinky weeds, stepping on dog poop, stripping naked and letting people search him, etc. In this way, he would appear to be tied up while doing things. As smooth and comfortable as I am right now.
"Ah Xi, you know the way? Send this batch of grass from the 10th Street to the 20th Street. Put two pots at each street corner. Someone will naturally take it and use it." Xiao Zhu gave this order, and he and another person The partner pulled two carts and turned to the other direction, rubbing his sore waist. Although his hands and feet were nimble, he was not as young and well-trained as Wei Jing, who could carry stink grass all day long. , it’s also very frustrating.
"Brother Zhu, you were twisting when you went upstairs. Now take a rest and let me deliver these two loads of grass for you." Wei Jing called loudly. He had already discovered that Xiao Zhu's two loads of grass were being packed away. The smelly grass on each cart is of good quality and has lush branches and leaves.
"You have good intentions." Xiao Zhu turned around and smiled bitterly, waving his hand and saying, "I really want you to deliver it for me. Unfortunately, this batch of grass is high-end goods, so you have to be careful. If something goes wrong, we can't afford it." .”
"Haha, that's right. If something goes wrong, we won't have food to eat." Wei Jing pretended to have a look of understanding and nodded vigorously.
"More than just having no food to eat!" Xiao Zhu made a gesture on his neck, glared at Wei Jing and said, "New friends, remember, you have to be more careful when talking and doing things on the underground floor. It will not be easy if you mess up. remember!"
Wei Jing repeatedly agreed. Seeing Xiao Zhu and his companions struggling to pull this batch of better-quality smelly grass away, he became even more certain that this batch of grass must be sent to Elder Yuan's location.
He stopped thinking about it, pulled up the cart, and sent the poor quality stinky grass to the place Xiao Zhu ordered. He sent it three streets in a row. However, when he was going to the fourth place, he suddenly turned around and turned into a road. Turning around the passage, speeding up the pace, trying to catch up with Xiao Zhu.
The underground lake is winding and winding. In addition to dozens of streets, there are countless paths connecting each other.
Wei Jing had not lived in the underground lake for a long time, but he had a very good memory, and in order to deliver goods for Lao Xu and fight with the Vole Gang, he had really put in the effort to study the underground routes. He roughly guessed the direction of a few streets and took a shortcut to chase him. After a long time, he finally caught up with Xiao Zhu on Eighth Street.
