I became the chief secretary of the empire by raising pigs

This place is surrounded by high-tech junk of all ages, but itself lives the most backward barter life.

Some of them, who were older, might have used money before, but they didn't know how to explain such things to their ignorant companions.Like Ugin, the children have mastered the list of necessities that can be exchanged for all kinds of garbage since they can run and jump, but they don't know that every time they change, they will be exploited.

Even in the outermost urban area of ​​Capital Star, the black intermediaries there would not be so greedy.A grade A charging circuit board for four loaves of hard bread?He'd be rounded up and beaten up by vagrants.

The internal trading market in the dungeon will not be much better, after all, there is still the "price" set by the intermediary in the upper city as the basis.

"How do I change these carrots?" Li Jin pointed to the upper right corner of the booth, where there was a handful of slender thumb carrots, fresh with soil, and the green leaves were juicy.

"You mean yellow tubers?" The stall owner is a woman with a vicissitudes of life, looking down at the pile of radishes. For supplies, I can also take you some green leafy vegetables."

"What about the meat?" Li Jin hesitated and asked, "Uh, what kind of meat is this?"

The stall owner saw that he was a newcomer, but he should be quite rich, so he patiently explained: "This is wind rat meat, not the kind from the garbage dump, it is a hybrid. Don't worry, the old man in the city will also eat this meat. Anything irradiated, high in protein."

Li Song didn't say anything, Wei Zong next to him showed a disgusted expression.

On the way back, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince saw several wind rats in the garbage dump, which were big and ugly.Hybridization... hybridization with what, after all, it is also a mouse!

Just as Wei Zong was about to refuse, he saw the little devil in Curly's arms dripping down his chest, staring at the flesh longingly while licking his fingers.

"..."

First of all, this kid must be an alienated person, and secondly, his mental strength cannot be measured at present, but it is definitely not low.

Under this premise, Wei Zong knew very well how much energy his body would need for development.If you don’t have a full stomach, for ordinary people, apart from being hungry, you may be thinner and shorter.

But for the alienated, this long-term hunger without meat is undoubtedly a kind of torture.As he grows older, his mental strength will continue to grow, and his physical development will not be able to keep up, which may even cause the failure of alienation.

Wei Zong also saw aliens who couldn't recover their human form for seven or eight years after their first transformation.The other party has become accustomed to living in the form of an animal, and over time, his behavior will gradually follow animal instincts.

"...you can buy some to try." He reluctantly said.

Li Song glanced at him unexpectedly, and before he became angry, he quickly turned his head and asked the stall owner to wrap the palm-sized piece of meat and carrot.

He took out half a bar of soap wrapped in oiled paper and a travel-size toothbrush with a tube of cleaning cream.This is a bit like the disposable toothbrush combination bag in his world. He prepared a cardboard box in his space twist, and taking it out is also in line with their identity as travelers.

The female stall owner took it with a surprise smile on her face.She looked through the two items, and found that they were not old goods in the garbage dump, but relatively new packaging.

To be honest, these daily necessities are too few.The boss insisted on exchanging the amount for them, causing many people to prefer to exchange a little more food.But over time, these people began to recede gums early, lost teeth prematurely, and also caused hair loss and skin diseases due to old dirt.

It's not as good as the dogs of those noble lords.

"I still have some delicious mushrooms at my place," she looked at Li Song eagerly. "It's still growing, and it will be sold in two days. If you still have soap and so on, you can come and exchange them with me!"

Li Song nodded with a smile, motioned Wei Zong to pick up his things, and continued to walk around the street with Wu Jin in his arms.

"...my treatment..."

Wei Zong muttered resentfully, followed with one finger holding something in disgust.

Before they came, they also guessed that there might not be a good place to live at Ugin's age. When they actually saw the house, they were still speechless.

Above each intersection in the dungeon, there is a filter vent, which can filter out acid rain and block radiation.The residential area is divided into square-shaped areas by these large and small roads and alleys, and the best houses are naturally on the street near the air vent.

Ugin was the same as most orphans. Although they could be allocated a place to live, they were all inside the roof, so the air would not be too fresh, and they would not receive filtered clean rainwater.The key is to be extremely small.

"You call this a house?" Wei Zong covered his forehead and bent down to get in.This doorway is too short!

The entire cave dwelling is only about the size of two or three escape cabins, probably for children. Basically, they dug a few steps from other people's cave dwellings and dug a loft on the top.

"This is where the poop is." Ugin didn't take it seriously, pointing to a smaller door opening in the room triumphantly, "I dug it myself!"

The corners of Li Jin's mouth twitched, he walked over and bent over to take a look, it's very good, only the child is allowed to squat inside alone to defecate.It's like a small country here.

"Where do you cook?" He asked the child helplessly.

Ugin hurried to a corner of the room, and pried up an earthen brick from the opposite side of a pile of crushed stones.Wei Zong squatted over to look curiously, which aroused the child's disgusted and vigilant eyes. He pretended not to see it, and still poked his head to look.

"What?" He moved the tip of his nose, smelling a foul stench.

The hole under the brick was very small, and there was only a black thing wrapped in oiled paper, and half a loaf of hard bread.

Wu Jin picked up the black thing: "This is stinky dried meat, dried with salt, other people's homes use it to cook bread, I don't know how to do it, so I just tear it into strips and eat it with water."

Wei Zong almost collapsed, he stared at the piece of meat, not only was there coarse grains of salt on it, but it also had green hair?Not to mention spoiled things since he was a child, even when he was besieged on the battlefield, he would rather be hungry than eat nutritional supplements.

This is to embarrass him!

Ugin could see his dislike, and lowered his head in frustration, his little hand holding the meat was twitching uneasily.

"I think the taste of boiling it with water should be good..."

Li Jin couldn't bear to look directly at these two people, and stepped forward to save the embarrassing situation.

"We can try to cook it in a while," he rubbed Ugin's little face vigorously, "We know that you have shared your best things, you are a good boy."

Not to mention, although this little face has no flesh, it is just soft.

Wu Jin's eyes lit up in a flash, and he unconsciously moved towards Li Jin's side like a domesticated animal.In the next second, he was picked up by a big hand.

"Ahhh, put me down—"

"Don't talk nonsense," Wei Zong shook him impatiently, "We have to change houses, I can't even straighten my feet in this place!"

If one were to describe Ugin's mental state, it would probably be like riding a roller coaster. He was enjoying himself just now, but now his mood has fallen to the bottom.His small face was gloomy, and he nodded listlessly in agreement with his limbs hanging down.

"You let me down, I know where to rent a house, and I will take you there now." He knew that these two people were beautiful and powerful, so how could they be willing to stay with him.Especially the big guy, I must hate him, woo!

Wei Zong let him go, and urged: "Hurry up and pack up the things you want to take away, I'm starving to death, hurry up and fix the house to eat!"

Ugin raised his head and opened his mouth wide in a daze.

"I...do you want to take me with you?"

Wei Zong glanced sideways at the smiling curly hair, and could only sigh helplessly: "Yes, brat, so can you clean it up now?"

"I, I... I'll be fine soon!"

Ugin bounced in place like a little black jumping bean, and then began to shuttle happily back and forth in the room.

Li Jin and Wei Zong stood at the door, watching the little thing prying bricks everywhere on the square-inch floor, prying the whole room as if it had been planed by a dog, with holes everywhere.He piled up the messy pile of energy plates, dry food, and inexplicable collections, wrapped them in a bath towel into a small package and carried it on his back.

"... quite smart." Wei Zong muttered softly.

When Wu Jin stood in front of them panting, Li Jin coughed lightly and said, "Take a step and try."

Ugin took a step forward with the package on his back, then fell to the ground with his head thrown back.

"Hahahaha——" Wei Zong leaned against the doorway shaking with laughter.

With a smile in his eyes, Li Song pretended to be surprised and picked up the child: "Why did you suddenly collapse?"

Ugin stared at him bewilderedly.

When the three of them set off, as expected, the small package and vegetables were in Wei Zong's hands.

The person in charge of allocating the house looked at the two of them in surprise, and then at Ugin who had changed into new clothes and had a much cleaner face.He looked at Li Jin and asked, "Are you planning to adopt this child when you apply to live together?"

Li Jin could feel the small body in his arms tense instantly.

He nodded: "Yes, we see that Ugin hits it off very well. If he agrees, he has this plan."

The man shrugged: "We don't have any laws here, so I just asked casually." If these two people can leave, it would be nice to take Ugin away.

"There are a lot of empty houses, you can look at the drawings and choose one. The rent is paid with circuit boards every month, ranging from one to five yuan."

Li Jin looked down at the blueprint and wrote down the route of the dungeon by the way.Wei Zong pretended to inquire casually: "Sorry, we are travelers and we are not very familiar with this place. Is this rent paid to people from the upper city?"

"I now believe that you are from outside," the man laughed. "As long as there is no chaos here, we are self-governing. If there is any city owner, it is probably the soldering iron head. He has the largest number of scavengers under his command. Most of the houses in the west of our city were built by them."

Wei Zong complained in his heart, the people here named their names just like their clothes, they could do whatever they wanted.

"Let's choose this place," Li Jin handed back the blueprint to the man, "It's near the west entrance, so it feels more convenient."

The man glanced at it and nodded approvingly: "You're pretty good at choosing. This house is very new, and two D-class circuit boards a month should not be a big deal to you."

Li Jin chose a house with two rooms and a kitchen, because there is a terrace on the second floor.The house is not only close to the west gate, but also close to the vent, and there is a filter connection directly on the terrace.If it is in the rainy season, opening the interface every day can leave a bucket of filtered water.

Ugin's face flushed with excitement, he was both happy and uneasy.

"Juanjuan," he tugged at Li Jin's neckline, and asked him in a low voice, "Is what you just said true?"

Li Jin was speechless: "Don't learn such bad things from him, call me brother."

"But……"

Ugin looked at him in embarrassment, and said softly, "I want to call you Abba."

"puff--"

Wei Zong almost choked on his saliva, ran up to them, and poked Wu Jin angrily, "Wow, you call him Dad, then what am I?" What's going on, isn't it for renting a house?Don't take this brat seriously!

Wu Jin hid in Li Jin's arms and spat at him: "Big Beard!"

Li Jin pinched his mouth, and under his sobbing and puzzled eyes, he said slowly: "Your father will teach you the first truth, you are not allowed to spit at anyone, you know?"

He raised his hand and grabbed Wei Zong's beard casually, and told Wu Jin, "You can pull his beard, son, let's try not to move our hands if we can."

Wei Zong was dumbfounded.

They are all cave dwellings. The new houses are nothing special except that they are bigger and have a fire in the kitchen.Based on the data displayed by the escape pod, they speculated that the acid rain season will be about a week away. By then, people going out will be concentrated in the early morning and evening, and these two time periods usually stop the rain for a short time.

"Falling asleep." Li Jin glanced at the small room next door. Wu Jin was sleeping in a thick sleeping bag, his small body snoring loudly, probably because he was very tired.

He returned to He Weizong's room, which was actually similar to the living room. The door was here, and one side led to the terrace.They sat against the wall on an air mattress, and from the terrace they could see the vent in the dungeon ceiling, as if a searchlight had shone from outside, and the light had shone into the vent.

"Are we really going to adopt him?"

Wei Zong hugged Li Jin like a baby, resting his chin lazily on his shoulder.

"I have this idea," Li Jin leaned back, and recalled the giant chimpanzee in his vague memory. "Didn't Senior Colonel Chen just save me and want to adopt me? Besides, we can't leave Wu Jin alone." Here the pirates."

As he spoke, he sat up straight, turned around and looked at Wei Zong, "Don't you think this place is a bit strange?"

Wei Zong asked him back: "What is normal here?"

That's true...

Li tightly frowned: "You should have noticed Ugin's body. I observed it, and there are not a few people with abnormal appearance like him. Some people have the characteristics of the second form on their faces, such as snake scales. Hair or something."

One or two is not a big deal, if there are more, there will be problems.

"If it is said that they were all thrown here because of such abnormalities, then forget it. But many people are only physically disabled or have low mental strength. They got married and had children in the dungeon, and they only became abnormal later."

"Ugin also said that he was born here, and many of his friends were normal at first."

Li Song concluded, "There must be some external factors."

Wei Zong also thought it made sense: "Radiation will wear down their bodies, but it won't cause such a consistent mutation."

The two were silent for a while, Li Jin couldn't help but sigh: "We are all like this, it seems that we don't have the right to worry about others..."

"Who said that?" Wei Zong lowered his eyes, "These people speak the common language of Jialaiwansi, so it can be seen that the ancestors were probably border residents who were taken away by pirates. The government is incompetent and failed to protect them. This is my responsibility."

"It's your ancestor's responsibility." Li Jin corrected, "We have to find a way to contact Luo Hua first, no, it should be more useful to find Brigita at this time, Jin Shang and the others don't know where they have gone..."

As soon as a familiar name was mentioned, the emotion that Wei Zong deliberately suppressed suddenly came to the fore.

He covered his eyes, overwhelmed with fear.

"You said... who the hell..."

Li Jin hesitated for a moment, then touched his head lightly, but did not speak in the end.

If he was really asked to analyze it, he could blurt out the matter of rebellion, as long as he saw who made the most profit and jumped the most happily after the fact, that would be who it was.But this time, he couldn't say that directly.

He selfishly thinks that Wei Yao, Wei Fu, the military department, and even the cabinet are all possible.The first two belong to the heirs, but Wei Fu is not recognized. As for the military and the cabinet, they have had a long-standing grudge with the royal family. If Wei Zong had an accident, it would be easier to replace Wei Yao or Wei Fu with either one. manipulation.

However, the reality is not a TV series, and it may even be that pirates or other spies sneaked in on the 2nd and 3rd, taking the opportunity to cause chaos.It's all possible.

"I think... we can find a way to look online," he thought for a while, and suggested in a low voice, "Don't contact anyone first, and see how the Summer Palace handles the accident of the expeditionary army, how about it?"

Wei Zong calmed down: "Your suggestion is good."

He scratched the map on his smart brain casually, "Uptown...Is the brat going to that store tomorrow to hand in the materials? We can start with that famous boss first."

The next day, Li Song casually fried a few slices of meat and roasted carrots with the spices he brought.His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who still hated and refused to eat yesterday, was sitting in a row with Wu Jin, eating without looking up.

"Open your mouth." Wei Zong wrapped the meat with leaves and stuffed it into his mouth.

Li Jin raised his eyebrows and chewed. The wind rat meat tasted very good, even a bit like roasted pork belly.

Probably because the rainy season is approaching, the residents of the dungeon ignore the radiation and go out early and return late to pick up waste.In the evening, everyone walked eastward in twos and threes.

"There is a station over there, and it will take us outside the city at a fixed time." Wu Jin worked all morning and was held by Wei Zong's arm. He pointed to a huge sail in the distance.

"Wind power?" Wei Zong complained, "In what age, there are still such old antiques!"

"I think it's very powerful," Ugin retorted, with a very serious face, "That will save me a lot of walking!"

"Then I can keep you from walking," Wei Zong laughed at him as he walked, "Why don't you praise me?"

Ugin grunted reluctantly, leaning over his shoulder and looking back.

His favorite dad followed them unhurriedly, always with a relaxed smile on his face.As soon as he saw his father's smile, he felt particularly safe.

"Dad!" He yelled very crisply.

Li Song waved his hands lazily: "Hey, good son."

"..."

Wei Zong held back for a long time, walked a few steps away from Li Jin, and then lowered his voice furiously.

"Little devil, call me too."

Ugin stared at him in horror: "What are you calling?"

"Of course I call my dad!" Wei Zong gritted his teeth, "Curly and I... your dad and I are legally married, understand? So if you call him dad, you have to call me dad too!"

But Ugin was very shrewd: "But, my father said that you two are not married yet."

He is not stupid!Get married and have a wedding!

Although they are poor here, when people get married, they have to prepare some candy made from sweet grass roots and distribute it to those who attend the wedding.

"Are you yelling or not?" Wei Zong became furious and stretched out his hand to scratch his belly.After eating a few full meals, the little thing is like a plant that has absorbed enough water, and its vitality quickly becomes vigorous, and even the belly is bulging.

Thinking about his majestic crown prince, if it weren't for special circumstances, how could he adopt a child casually?That's it, when he goes back, he has to break up with the cabinet, otherwise the child will not be able to register!

Stinky bastard!

Ugin curled up under his tickle, quacked like a duckling, and laughed.

He actually doesn't hate Wei Zong.

A child has a clear mind, and he can spot whoever is kind to him and who is full of malice towards him.Even though this big man with good eyes has a fierce attitude, he still likes to fight for his father, but when holding him, his movements are very careful and gentle.

"Then I'll call Dad, do you know who I am?" Ugin thought of another question.

Wei Zong rolled his eyes wearily.

"Call my father."

Anyway, he has to call his dad like that in front of people, so the kid should learn etiquette in advance.

"No!" Ugin refused, thinking for a long time, "I'll call you dad."

Wei Zong showed a silent dislike.

Why is he the "old" dad?What's the matter, it's all fathers, and there is a distinction between high and low?

Ugin stared innocently at his beard.

Li Song followed behind the whole time, but he didn't say a word, but he could hear their conversation clearly.In fact, he has been hesitating repeatedly in his heart for the past two days. After all, as Wei Zong, adopting a child involves the issue of inheritance rights, and the big nobles headed by Zhu Jones will definitely object.

Then he made Wei Zong a big trouble.

But...they just happened to meet this child, Ding Dian has lived alone for a long time since he was a child, and he really can't let him go.It's impossible for him to take the child back and send it to the orphanage, so what's the matter with him worrying about it outside.

Of course, he wouldn't casually talk about breaking up, otherwise he would have to face the wrath of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince before the son's matter was resolved.

He can only comfort himself that the boat will be straight when it reaches the bridge, and he can return to Capital Star safely first.

After walking for more than ten minutes, they saw the sails making the sound of strong wind under the light, and below it was a boat-shaped ferry, which could squeeze more than 100 people at a time.

People boarded the boat one by one, and when everyone stood up, the shuttle bus began to move forward slowly, faster and faster.

Li Jin silently calculated the distance, and found that Shangcheng was on the other side of Garbage Star.It took more than an hour for the shuttle bus to travel in the wind before he saw the towering city walls in the distance, which reminded him of the sky city on the secondary star.