Servant of the Otherworldly Pharmacopoeia

When Xu Jiu woke up, Du Tuxuan was no longer there, and the whole manor seemed to be empty, even the servants in the dark were removed.He felt uncomfortable for a while, and walked out of the tower slowly.

The snow was melting, and the slate floor was wet. Every time I stepped on it, it seemed to bring water droplets, and the air was filled with the smell of cold water.

"Aww~" Not far away, Yun Ban circled around and acted like a baby to a girl.The girl was plump and tall, leaning halfway on the inclined corridor, her snow-skinned red robe was pleasing to the eye.

Qingxing sat on the only way to the front yard of the black tower, teasing Yunban as if deliberately not to see Xu Jiu.

"Miss Qingxing." The two confronted each other for a while, and Xu Jiu greeted her.

Qing Xing squinted at him, his eyes flashed sharply: "My lord is gone, why didn't you come with me?"

Xu Jiu put away her smile and said casually, "It's because of your consent that I don't want to go with you. What does Miss Qingxing want?"

"No problem." Qingxing stood up straight, shook his red robe, and raised his neck high, "It's also my duty to arrange your daily expenses after asking."

Xu Jiu looked at her, really displeased: "No need, I will go home these few days."

"Oh," Qing Xing suddenly realized, his beautiful eyes widened, "I almost forgot, what village are you from?"

Xu Jiu didn't know where the little girl was acting strangely, so she ignored her and walked away.

When Xu Jiu disappeared, the young man behind the house came out and accused the girl: "Qing Xing, he is your personal servant."

"Brother, his purpose is not pure at all, and there are so many suspicious points in him!"

"Qingxing, my lord, they will take care of it."

"Your Excellency is simply bewitched by him! Brother, I suspect that he has used some method to confuse Your Excellency."

Qingkong's face is serious: "Qingxing..."

"Brother, since he came, a lot of strange things have happened in the Black Tower, and your lord's witch doctor has been fired. Did he use some sorcery?"

Qingkong's face became more and more uneasy, and he said to his sister: "You can't act rashly."

"It's like this again! My brother always says that, what if my lord is harmed by him!"

"Qingxing, we can't exceed the rules..."

"Brother is worried about losing his status, you don't really care about adults!" The girl was furious and said nothing.

"Qing Xing!" Qing Kong's face turned blue, every word, his voice was like snow, "Qing Xing, we are just servants."

"..." Qingxing stood up straight, as beautiful as a fully blooming flower, eye-catching.At this moment, she spread her arms and showed her graceful figure to her heart's content. She was confident and proud, "Brother, I like adults."

Qing Kong looked at his younger sister, rolled his eyes, and suddenly remembered the vague rumors he heard when he was young, and turned his eyes to the confident girl in front of him: "Qing Xing, you can do it yourself."

After speaking, he walked straight away, leaving the girl in the red dress with a sullen expression on her face.

And here, Xu Jiu was completely unaware of the entanglement between the two.He turned around, ordered Ali to prepare a carriage for him, and then went back to the room of the Heita to fill in the pharmacopoeia in the space.

He planned to go home today, so the traces on his body would have to disappear, so he carefully brought the boiled medicine into the space.Boiled barley juice with black spar can smooth out scars, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, but the process of boiling is cumbersome, and it takes a long time to boil a bowl.

After being honest with Du Tuxuan about the space, Xu Jiu got the authority to collect materials at will.Du Tuxuan has a storeroom dedicated to storing all kinds of precious and strange stones. Xu Jiu unceremoniously collected a lot. The types in "Lingshi Pu" have also changed by leaps and bounds. Storage space has been upgraded.

Xu Jiu checked the storage compartments one by one.

The storage space has doubled, half of which are all kinds of ores and gems, and the other big category is complete birds and animals.They are quietly placed in the storage space like specimens, they will not rot, and they will always maintain the state when they were originally placed.

The increase in the types of "Lingshipu" and "Strange Beast" not only enriched the pharmacopoeia, but also opened the function of automatic medicine preparation.

[Dididi——The new subdirectory contains more than a thousand kinds of mission objectives, and rewards the automatic medicine function. ]

The sound of the system suddenly sounded, Xu Jiu looked up in a daze, and there was another flower in front of him, and found that there was another room next to the storage space, and it said automatic processing workshop.

He was excited, so he walked in with a steady mind and saw that there were six boxy, log-colored hunks in the middle of the room.There are wing-like wooden frames on both sides of the big guy, and there is Xu Jiu's strange crack on the side facing Xu Jiu. Xu Jiu touched it, and the crack was round and square, like a piece of a jigsaw puzzle that fit perfectly.

On the other side of the room, there are two screens that are exactly the same as the storage space.

Xu Jiu clicked on the right side, and the screen lit up, which was in the same style as the interface of the storage space, with the heading saying: Medicine can be made.Separated by a line of dividing lines, the following is the list of drugs that can be made.

排在第一位的是消肿止痛膏：褐红石（503）x3，干姜（200）x2，莽沙土（300）x5=消肿止痛膏x1(可制作60份）

The lower the screen is, the fewer medicines can be made, and the scarcer the raw materials are.

Xu Jiu clicked on the "Cannot make medicine" screen next to it.

This interface is different from the neat one next to it, and the missing medicines are displayed in cyan fonts.

For example, detoxification soup: White Tiger Eye x1, Young Bull Horn (2) x1, Boy Urine x1, Golden Fall (107) x1, Mang Sandy Soil (300) x3.Among them, the white tiger's eye and the boy's urine are both blue, which is particularly eye-catching.

Xu Jiu turned back to the "Can make medicine" screen, pressed the instruction of anti-swelling and pain-relieving ointment, a dialog box for quantity selection popped up, and Xu Jiu clicked 1.At this time, the big guy in the middle of the room rang, and the small wings on both sides pretended to flap a few times, spewing out a few puffs of white air, and a square hole was exposed on the front jigsaw puzzle, and a small wet lump of medicine came out.

The small lump of medicine smelled strong, and fell into a black ball and rolled twice, the square shape was thrown so that no shape could be seen.

Xu Jiu picked it up, put it under his nose and smelled it.This medicine was the painkiller powder that saved Xiaoshu and Kuailegbao back then. At that time, he didn't have any tools, so he could only use the most primitive stone pestle to crush the material into a fine powder, then add water and medicine mud to spread on the wound.Although he tried his best to be careful, the medicinal paste still had a lot of impurities, and when it was applied on the bruised wound, it was like sand getting into the eyes, making the wound quite uncomfortable.

And the medicine made by this little machine is very fine and perfect, not inferior to the previous life.

Xu Jiu sat on the ground, zoomed out on the screen, and carefully checked the reserve configuration of each formula.

There are more than 1000 kinds of prescriptions in pieces, but only more than [-] kinds can be made, and the rest are all kinds of missing medicinal materials.With the clear dosing requirements, the previous blind collection situation has been greatly improved. Xu Jiu took a small notebook and began to record the collection proportion of medicines item by item, highlighting the ones that can be found so far.

He is particularly fond of Yiblin Buqi Yigu Pills, which are very suitable for Du Tuxuan. Codonopsis pilosula is needed. The plants in the fifth field will mature soon, and there is no shortage of raw materials. Others, such as nephrite and nectar Stones can be found in Du Tuxuan's warehouse.

With the space for automatic preparation of medicines, even the steps of testing and dispensing medicines can be saved, and there is no need to carefully boil the medicines, and dare to serve them to Du Tuxuan after drinking them, for fear of making a mistake.

Even as long as you fill out the pharmacopoeia honestly and collect medicinal materials honestly, it will be fine.

Xu Jiu suddenly felt that there was a bright light in front of him, and his eyes were suddenly open and flat.He made a nutritional supplement pill and ate it. It tasted so sweet that it hit my heart.

He unceremoniously went back to the warehouse and brought in some bottles and jars. These beautifully crafted trinkets were privately stored in Du Tuxuan's double warehouse. Having been generating ashes in the warehouse, Xu Jiu brought them to the processing workshop in one pot, ready to be used as medicine.

Label the small bottles by category, arrange them neatly according to their medicinal properties, then process the usable medicines and put them in small bottles, count and register the missing medicinal materials, and mark them according to their priority. It was already late at night when they came out.

Du Tuxuan was not there, and the room was extremely cold and silent.

He sat quietly on the ground, feeling as if he was in an isolated island. The darkness washed over his body like a tidal wave, bringing the inherent medicinal aroma of the house.After wiping his face, Xu Jiu pulled off a back blanket to wrap it around, and quickly fell asleep on the ground.

This time I fell into a deep sleep, but I woke up very early. I was in a trance, just like taking a nap. The time just slipped away for a few hours, and the gray sky revealed a bright light, and a new day came on stage.

He tidied up a bit, went to the back door like a sleepwalker, pulled out his Shata Beast, rode on it, and wandered out of the city.

It was very cold when the snow melted, and there was a yellow sandy crust under the thin ice sheet.The sky blue sucked the soul, and after riding the Sanda Beast for a while, the strong wind blew his face unconscious, so he simply got down and walked by himself.

The gifts purchased in the market fell heavily on the beasts' backs, and one man and one beast walked slowly on the wasteland until evening before entering the village.

From a distance, the village is very lively. From the entrance of the village to the back mountain, there are several black mud roads, and there are black snowdrifts beside them.Someone was walking up and down the road, still shouting something.

The Shata Beast sneezed, and Xu Jiu walked to the side of the road to greet the passers-by.

"Abbe!"

Seeing it was him, several men grinned, only a pair of white teeth stood out on their chapped faces: "Jiu!"

Xu Jiu walked side by side with them, observed their expressions, and saw that although they were tired but happy, they couldn't help but feel relieved, and asked, "Uncle, is the well digging going well?"

"I just dug out the cave a few days ago, and I am digging down. There is a crack below. We dug half of it. Your elder uncle said it might be a dark river!"

"Shh! Ah Ji, the elder said you can't shout nonsense!" Someone next to him immediately criticized his loud voice.

"Hey, aren't you happy, anyway, that piece of land already belongs to our village."

"Then don't yell!"

Xu Jiu watched them arguing with a smile, and each handed over a piece of jerky, and everyone walked forward together talking and chewing the jerky.

The snow on the side of the road was compacted tightly, forming high and low snow piles, which were scattered and scattered.Although it was dark, there were still children chasing and making noise outside. They recognized Xu Jiu and followed him home, clamoring for candy.

"Little brother didn't come back?" Some people remembered Pangpang, and they kept looking around him to see where the little brother was hidden.

"I didn't come back, my brother is at home."

"Isn't this home?" Another child answered, his expression full of childish perplexity.

"Well, how about bringing your younger brother back next time?" Xu Jiu casually comforted the children, gave each of them a handful of candy, and came to his house noisy.

Unexpectedly, there was someone at home.

Dad, Mom, Ba, Xiao Shu, and a few men I don't know.A few people sat in a circle around the sunflower dung, with a remnant of enthusiasm on their faces.Xu Jiu frowned unobtrusively, stood still quietly, and looked at them incomprehensibly.

Those few people also stopped talking because of the commotion outside, and when they turned around and saw it was Xu Jiu, they were all taken aback for a moment.Grandma greeted her in surprise: "Jiu, why are you back at this time?"

Xu Jiu said in a gentle voice, "Well, I asked your lord for leave."

Grandmother took hold of her son's hand and kept rubbing it: "Tsk, this hand is cold. The nose is as cold as a red stone."

Xu Jiu rubbed his nose and said softly, "It's a bit cold outside."

"Come here, let's bake." Grandma pulled Xu Jiu to the fire, and hurriedly brought him water to drink.

Knowing that the people in the room had been looking at him, Xu Jiu smiled back faintly, then sat quietly aside, letting the green smoke of Kui feces puff on his face.

His attitude made several other people in the room look uncertain, and they said with a smile: "Why are you back so late?"

"The wind is too strong, and the road is slow."

"Where's fat?"

Thinking of Du Tuxuan, Xu Jiu became even more listless: "Pang Pang stayed in the manor."

At this time, Grandma brought Xu Jiu the hot snow water, but Ba Que took it halfway, holding the cup firmly, and stretched out her strong arms in front of Xu Jiu: "Drink water."

Xu Jiu was also thirsty, and drank half a cup absently. Seeing that Ba had been staring at him, he asked uncomfortably, "Where have you been staying in the village?"

"What's the matter? I plan to go back to the village to ask for a living." Ba looked at him with a half-smile.

Xu Jiu's forehead jumped, and he looked at him in disbelief.The question was about to be blurted out, but he barely stopped. He turned his head to look at his father, silently seeking an explanation.

"Last time you told the elder Uncle that you can start a small business. Uncle thinks it's a good idea. We can see it in the well, and we can find someone to try it first."

"Then eight you?"

"Yes, I plan to try. I also have some brothers who died without father or mother. I plan to let them do it with me."

Is this planning to infiltrate his underworld gang into the village?Xu Jiu opened his mouth and looked at Ba in surprise.

"What's the matter?" Grandma asked her son when she saw that her son was so frightened.

"No, no, eight, our village is small, dilapidated, far away, and poor. I don't know if that method will work. You can't cut off your brother's ration!"

The boy next to Xiao Shu immediately raised his hand and said: "It's okay, we will follow the boss!"

Everyone else nodded.

Eight slowly said: "We are outside, digging mines every day, and we don't know when we are buried. Although no one has done the small business that Jiu said, it is a business that does not require death. It is better than holding our heads on our pants. "

The pain and sorrow of what he said made the men in the room sigh.Life is not easy. When men go hunting in distant places, there will be casualties every time they come back. Not to mention the prey, what they do is to make a living by licking blood with knives.There are also some who went to the distant place to search for mines, and gradually lost the news, disappearing like an ant on the vast wasteland, without a trace of splash.Some were lucky enough to be able to return, but most of them were damaged. Ba’s father was robbed on the way home after earning money, and all the people in his group were hacked to death.

The adults are okay, a few younger children are already wiping their tears with red eyes, these children are only followed by the death of their parents, watching the little brothers around them come and die, they wear it all over their bodies at a young age. It is to pick up a life to live until now.

Sitting next to Xu Jiu was Xiao Shu who had been rescued by himself. He looked at the child's arm that was exposed when he wiped his eyes, and a large scar was clearly visible.

Human life is worthless, even though I know it, every time I see it, it still makes people feel a huge sense of powerlessness.

But this is not the reason for Eight calculations against the village.Xu Jiu said in a deep voice: "Eight, life is not easy. But beasts have their own way, cars have their own way, and the life of the villagers may not be suitable for you."

"You don't have to worry about this. The people I have chosen are all very skilled. Ah Bo, we can guard them when they go out. If they make money, there will always be troubles. We can ensure everyone's safety by following along."

As soon as the voice fell, many people showed joy.The villagers are not stupid, it can be seen that Ba is fierce and powerful, and all the soldiers under him are also smart and strong.

Xu Jiu looked at other people's expressions, pursed his lips, and stopped talking.

The sleeves were pulled, Xu Jiu tilted his head, seeing Xiao Shu obediently handing him a piece of roasted jerky: "This is delicious."

Xu Jiu saw his swallowing neck, which looked like a young and thin monkey, his Adam's apple was not yet obvious, and his neck was so thin that the bones could be seen.

Xu Jiu didn't answer, Xiao Shu anxiously stuffed it into his hands, his expression was full of anxiety.The child was terrified of him, and his face was full of flattery, as if he accepted him to admit him.

Xu Jiu put on a gentle expression: "You eat, I'm not hungry."

Xiao Shu grinned, smiling extremely happily: "I'm not hungry either, give me... nine to eat!"

Xu Jiu took the hard, dark meat, took out a few pieces of candy from his pocket, and gave him a gift in return.

The interaction between the two caught everyone's eyes, and the atmosphere suddenly became more relaxed. Ah Chong, who was next to Xiaoshu, said in surprise: "Wow, condensed milk candy with filling, it's so expensive, Xiaoshu give me one~"

Xiao Shu quickly closed his palms and turned towards Xu Jiu: "You are too old to eat candy!"

Ah Chong was only a few months older than him, so he was completely dissatisfied with this statement, hugged him and shouted: "Give me, give me..."

The two half-grown teenagers started fighting, and the others watched cheerfully. The sunflower dung gradually burned to the end, and Grandma went to add another piece. In the midst of the commotion, Xu Jiu and Ba's eyes met, and they found that the other had a look on their faces. calm.

Xu Jiu turned his gaze away.

Winter is a time when everything goes dormant, and so do humans.In the evening of dawn, people can be noisy until very late, and the excitement of the Jiujia also lasts until very late.

After the people left, Xu Jiu wiped his face and feet with the snow stored under the eaves, tidied up a little, and lay down on the bed with a heavy heart.

The grandmother added a curtain to the house to cover her own bed and her son's bed.The main body of the curtain is made of coarse cloth that Xu Jiu ripped for the family, but the fabric is obviously not enough, a lot of rags are sewn here and there on the curtain, and it can barely make up a partition curtain.

Mom and Dad fell asleep on the other side of the curtain, snoring like thunder, and Xu Jiu lay on the cold bed, unable to sleep for a long time.His head was full of messy things, he would think about Du Tuxuanshuang for a while, and then he would think about Ba, who had mastered the secret that he had medical skills to cure diseases, and even used that secret to threaten himself to give medicine to his gang , completely tied himself to his thief ship.I thought that the distance creates distance, and the two of them would not communicate much, but in the end, Ba planned to station his gang in the village.

Xu Jiu was caught off guard.

Anyone with a brain knows that the ending of being connected with the underworld/society will not be too good, not to mention that I and the villagers have no idea what kind of underworld/society is.He hasn't read all the words in this world, and he doesn't understand Du Tuxuanshuang's official documents. He only knows that Du Tuxuanshuang intends to clean up the black forces in the jurisdiction when the tax collection order of Wangcheng comes down.

From Du Tuxuan's words, he knew that the mineral deposits, salt wells, mountains, undercurrents, and rare wild animals in the area under his jurisdiction belonged to the manor's private property, but there were local snakes in every place, secretly digging for mineral deposits, and engaged in this smuggling business.Their forces are intertwined, just like when Du Tuxuan was nearly kidnapped when Tianyong was wiped out, many guards were also lost.After defeating Tianyong's forces, its property was quickly taken over by other forces, and the manor paid a huge price, and it was indeed only for the purpose of purging robbers and maintaining law and order on the surface.

Although a lion can intimidate all directions, it cannot slap the flies around it. Similarly, although the lord is a vassal, few people will confront those dark forces.Those black/forces are not stupid, they just take a little bit of profit, like a guerrilla war, they shoot a shot to change a place, even if they kill some people, the whole remains unchanged.

Dutu Manor is a very barren and impoverished territory, and the tax levy order immediately overwhelmed Dutuxuan.He can't tax the people and get involved in their life-saving money, he can only focus on those black forces and the undercurrents who support them.

Xu Jiu vaguely knew his next move, and knew that he was eyeing a few monopolies, but Xu Jiu didn't know what role Ba and his gang played in this.

Eight to do business with the villagers.Xu Jiu turned over, thinking of Xiao Shu and the other children under him, he was full of doubts, if Ba left the gang and became a good citizen honestly, would he be able to clear his name?Eighth, are you really willing to do small business?

I didn't fall asleep until early in the morning, and as soon as I closed my eyes in a trance, I heard the noise outside.Dad and Mom were talking, and there were people shouting outside, calling the names of Dad and Mom, and they were about to leave.

Xu Jiu turned over and buried her face on the bed, trying to isolate the noise.Later, the sound was too loud, and he reluctantly opened his eyes, and his eyes were gray, as if it was still early in the morning.

"Aunt?" Xu Jiu stared in confusion.

"We are going to dig a well in the back mountain, will you go?"

Xu Jiu turned over again, closed her eyes and said nothing.

"Get up, you are so lazy!" Dad said dissatisfied.

Xu Jiu's feelings for this man were still very strange, upon hearing this, most of the heavy sleepiness immediately fell away, and he felt ashamed that he was a guest at his house but was despised by the master.This sense of shame made him jump off the bed quickly, put on his clothes indiscriminately, and wanted to go out together.

Grandma said in a loud voice: "He just came back, wouldn't it be okay to let him sleep again? Why are you shouting!"

Abba nodded: "Don't you look at any man who looks like him, our family is not raising Miss Jiao!"

"..." Xu Jiu hurriedly interrupted the bickering between the two, "Let's go."

Grandma patted him distressedly: "My son has lost weight again."

"The eyeball of your eye is broken with sand in it? He is obviously fat." Dad also looked at his son, dissatisfied with his wife's doting.

"Yes, I got fat." Apart from the door, the three of them saw the people waiting for them outside the house.

Digging wells is a village-wide action, and everyone goes on the road together, lively and energetic.People got up just before dawn, calling for friends and urging their neighbors loudly. People living deep in the village would go out and wait for the people below. They just walked and gathered together until they arrived at Xu Jiumen. There were already a lot of people before.

"Jiu, are you back?" Xu Jiu just showed his head, and there were greetings one after another in his ears.

Xu Jiu nodded hastily: "I came back last night!"

"How many days are you staying at home this time?"

"Depending on the situation, prepare to stay for five days."

"Hey, this time is not short, so spend time with your parents!"

Xu Jiu responded, "Okay, okay."

Because of Xu Jiu's joining, the crowd became much more lively, and beside Xu Jiu was A Chong Xiaoshu who squeezed over.

"Brother Jiu." Xiao Shu called him affectionately, "Brother is in front, shall I take you to find him?"

Xu Jiu rubbed his forehead: "Why should I look for him?"

"Brother said you would definitely look for him." Ah Chong added cleverly.

Hearing this, Xu Jiu raised his head and met a pair of smiling eyes.But the thing in the eyes made Xu Jiu inexplicably uncomfortable, as if he was being controlled by this person.So, he said angrily, "I won't look for him."

His voice was not low, and Eight suddenly laughed.

Xu Jiu was even angrier.

"Let's talk later?" Ba Dabu came to Xu Jiu's side.

"What are you talking about? You have such a big idea, can't you still threaten if you can't talk about it?"

"Why are you betting, you are becoming more and more like a child."

His gentle tone was creepy, Xu Jiu felt that his whole body was not well, and immediately took a big step to the side, glaring at him: "Talk, just talk, don't think I don't know what hell you're up to."

"Of course I made up my mind." Ba was very sure, looking at him firmly, "Then what are you going to do?"

Xu Jiu looked around, and there were only Xiaoshu Achong and others beside him. They were walking fast, and they had already distanced themselves from the villagers. Xu Jiu whispered, "I will report you."

"you will not."

"I will. So before I make a move, you hurry up and leave!"

"I always thought you were smart. I was really wrong. You reported me, and the village couldn't pick it clean. I haven't done anything yet. How can you be so sure that I will cheat people, huh? Besides, even if you report me, I will The witch doctor family is not a good thing if you get caught, if it is revealed, the manor owner will not be able to protect you."

Xu Jiu glared at him angrily.

"I'm just a small character. There are many people in my business. You can't tell them all. Do you want to have such a sense of justice?" Ba looked at him narrowly, and his tone became more and more out of tune, "I was arrested and beheaded. , can you bear it?"

"You will harm everyone if you go back to the village, do you know that?"

Ba sneered: "It's not easy for everyone to live anyway, why is death not death. There is no need to mind so much."

"...You are simply sick!"

"Don't worry, I will be very careful. Besides, the villages outside the manor have their own forces, otherwise they will be bullied to death by those little housekeepers. The elder uncle is old, and I can still deter you if I stay in the village. Do you think doing business is that simple?"

Xu Jiu was surprised: "Abo knows?"

"Of course he knows, which powerful village or family is not guarded by people like us? Otherwise, if you earn money, you will become a fat sheep to be slaughtered, just like my father and others, working hard for a long time, even dying lost."

Xu Jiu warned solemnly: "But the owner of the manor is preparing to wipe out you."

Ba Tiao raised his eyebrows: "Where did you know the news?"

"Isn't this a matter of course? Could it be that you are allowed to do great harm to society?"

"Hangering the society." Ba chewed on these new words, "You don't sound like a servant, but like a nobleman. Could it be that you have forgotten your origin after working as a servant for a few days? Am I endangering society? A few years ago I Just like you, I worked honestly and searched for mines honestly, but what happened? My family members were all killed, like a stone thrown into water, without even a splash. Is anyone in charge? No one .Does not endanger the society mean letting others kill you, and you have to stick your neck out?"

"Du Tuxuan is different."

"Who?"

Xu Jiu was so angry that she pursed her lips and remained silent.

The small dispute between the two was not heard by others, even Ah Chong's Xiaoshu was behind, and behind them were the noisy villagers.The road to the back mountain was not close, and the group walked for a long time, climbed several hills, and slid down the snow path, finally came to the valley where the well was dug.

An irregular black hole was dug out of the mountain, and the villagers lined up and filed in. After entering the hole, they found that there was a space as large as [-] square meters inside, and there was a half-finished well on the ground, surrounded by piles of earth and rocks.The children have already begun to shovel the soil onto the stone slabs, ready to pull it out.Several people went down the well, and a muffled sound came from the well.

Wu's father lay at the mouth of the well and asked, "How is it? Is there any water?"

"A ditch was dug, and water flooded my feet. Fortunately, I didn't wear shoes!"

The sound from the bottom was amplified layer by layer through the mouth of the well, and when it reached the top, everyone was very excited: "It was only a little wet yesterday, but there is water today? Is it really a river?"

"It must be a river! We actually have a river here!"

The people on the top were instantly fried, and several men took off their shoes, scrambling to go down and feel it.

The childlike behavior of the men infected other people, and the women grabbed the excited husbands who didn't know what to do: "Slow down, you all go down, the well can't hold you anymore!"

A sound of annoyance sounded.

The mouth of the well is narrow, and it is almost enough to fit two people at a time, and any more people will be squeezed out.

Someone threw down a metal bucket, and soon the rope floated, and a small half bucket of water and rocks and mud was brought up. The inside of the bucket was sparkling, and the surface was water!

"Wow! It's really water!"

This was simply explosive. The temperature in the small space rose instantly, and many people couldn't control their tears on the spot.

Grandma was also wiping away her tears, Xu Jiu looked around and found that Ba was not there.

Although I knew that there would be water, seeing it with my own eyes, the shock was different.Xu Jiu's hanging heart also let go. Although there is a detector, he is still worried about what to do if it fails.The villagers spent three months, working from dawn to dusk, digging wells in the mountains with the most primitive tools. This certainly has trust in the elders, but it is more of a hope for a better life.Now that the water has finally come out, and maybe a dark river has been discovered, how can this not make people happy?

Surrounded by the crowd, the elder came in. He lowered his head and stirred the water in the bucket, shaking his smiling beard, and shouted to the mouth of the well, "Dashi, come up, I'll go down and have a look."

"Okay!" The resonant male voice from the well answered.

Everyone pulled a rope to lift a man up, quickly untied the knot, tied it to the elder's waist, and then slowly lowered the elder.After the elder went down, a circle of people lay down on the well mouth, all listening to the movement with their ears pricked up.

"Cut this way."

"One more time..."

From time to time, the voice of the elders and the sound of chiseling the rocks came from the well. The people on the well were also patient, and even the youngest baby did not make a fuss. The parents were busy, and the children spontaneously found Xu Jiu and begged for him. candy to eat.

Looking at the bright black eyes of the children, I suddenly remembered that Pangpang hadn't seen his lovely children for a long time.

Xu Jiu was distributing candy here, playing with the children, when the crowd suddenly erupted in cheers: "Oh! It's a river!"

"Did you hear that, the elder said it was a river!"

"Really!" Someone jumped up immediately and accidentally stepped on the person who was still lying on the stomach. The person who was lying on the stomach turned around and tripped the person who was standing. If you fall into the well, if someone doesn't hold your foot, you will fall down.Lifting up the fallen person, there was a sound of tearing silk from time to time. The strongest person was still holding half a pair of trousers in his hand.

The elder was pulled out, his clothes were mostly wet, and his head was covered with dirt.As soon as he came up, he cursed: "How many stones did you kick into the well? You smashed my head!"

The scolded person didn't mind, and asked the elder loudly: "Abo, what a river!"

"It's a river, it's a river! From now on we will have water to eat!"

"Oh!!!"

"Thanks to Jiu for finding a good place." The old man added.

As soon as the words fell, Xu Jiu was baptized by the eyes of the villagers. People looked at him gratefully, and an uncle nearby quickly carried him to the crowd: "Yes, thanks to Jiu!"

"Nine, nine!" Xu Jiu was carried by someone with both hands and feet, and began to throw it into the sky when he came out of the hole. The people on the wasteland were strong, and the throwing distance was also very high. There was a whirring sound, not even given a chance to breathe.

He felt like a lightly tossed ball, being thrown two stories high, his bones rattling as he was pinched.

Damn..."Stop, stop...!"

The seething man ignored his heartfelt cry.

"No!"

was thrown even higher.

"Grandmother!!!" Tong Yun was a little bit above his head, and Xu Jiu began to call his mother, hoping that the woman could save him.

The grandma below wiped her eyes, feeling overwhelmed with emotion: "Our nine are all happy to call grandma."

"Yes yes yes."

...Xu Jiu gave up struggling.

This day was an epoch-making day for Dasha Village. It took the villagers three months to dig a well through the mountain when all the men, women and children in the village joined forces. Not only did they dig out the well, but they also discovered a dark river underneath .

That's a river.

The chaps, calluses, and blood blisters on people's hands have paid off. This is a more exciting day than the Winter Moon Festival!

Unprecedentedly, at the end of winter, Dasha Village held another grand event. The bonfire burned on the altar all night, and the villagers were sleepless all night.

"Abbot, do you know about Ba?" Xu Jiu sat beside the old man, holding a cup of hot water.

The elder nodded: "That kid smells like blood."

"Abbe agrees that they stay in the village?"

"Do you know those wealthy households in the city?" The old man looked at Xu Jiu kindly, "Those wealthy households are all connected to the dark street forces, and it can be said that they are protected by the dark street forces, so they live in the city safely. It is even more cruel outside the city. Why are we so few, why are we so poor? Most of us were intercepted and killed. Planning to do business. Do you think we can still live here in peace and security?"

Xu Jiu silently took a sip of water.

"Our ancestors were beasts, and we are also uncivilized orcs. Compared with the city, we are already barbarians. The weak survive and the strong survive. We can only protect ourselves with our own hands."

"But Abo, the owner of the manor intends to pay off the gangsters, which is very dangerous."

"Like Tianyong was cleared last time? The owner of the manor is still a brat, he doesn't understand, this is a wild land, the way of civilized people can't do it at all, he can't clean it up."

Xu Jiu was silent.

"We are already poor enough, this is a chance to turn around, Nine." The old man laughed openly, "You pretend that other people don't see what Eight does? We need Eight, as long as he is strong enough. You ask the villagers, who Are you willing to let go of this opportunity at your fingertips, to be robbed of wells and money, and parents and children to be killed like wild animals?"

Xu Jiu suddenly felt that he could not understand the bloodiness of the wilderness people.

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