Chapter 843: Clients More Ruthless Than Zhou Bapi

After being scolded by her idol, Xia Qing walked out of the lab carrying the Does Daigua monkey and asked, "Ji-ge, where's Yan-jie?"

Why didn't she ask her idol just now? Because before Xia Qing could even ask, she was chased out with a scolding.

Ji Li fell silent.

Silence meant it couldn't be said, which meant something had happened. Could it be that Yan-jie and Huo-ge flying the helicopter to provide support wasn't following Huiyi's orders, but her idol's?

Xia Qing asked again, "Where's Huo-ge?"

Ji Li answered quite readily this time, "Ever since he came back, he's been grinning like an idiot. Asked him and he wouldn't say what happened."

Xia Qing asked, "Can I go find Huo-ge?"

Ji Li still chose silence.

Xia Qing didn't speak again.

Back at her territory, she tried calling Huo Zhun and Yan Long, but found both their phones were off. She could only send her idol a message asking about the situation.

Unexpectedly, her idol replied very quickly: Huo Zhun will soon be moving to Territory Eleven. Yan Long, you can't keep her—she wants to cleave the waves and do battle on the sea.

This was the first time Xia Qing had seen or heard Zhang San use such literary language; one could tell how much he appreciated Yan Long.

Xia Qing asked: Is it because you sent them to fly the helicopter over to support me?

Zhang San replied: Get lost, stop bothering me!

Xia Qing curved her lips. That settled it.

Yan Long's defense mission at Territory Seven ends at the end of this year. This violation of the rules let her leave half a year early, heading toward the battlefield she longed for. As for Huo Zhun's retirement, she didn't know if he'd applied for it himself or been forced into it.

Huiyi's officials didn't want Zhang San slipping from their control, so their people following Zhang San's orders was what made them so furious. Moving Yan Long and Huo Zhun away was less a punishment than a way to free up positions and arrange for people they trusted more to enter Territory Seven on missions.

Xia Qing asked: Third Brother, what can I do?

Zhang San retorted: Besides finding medicine, what else can you do?

Once again realizing the importance of the medicine she needed to find this time, Xia Qing hung an IV drip on the Does Daigua monkey in the sheep shed, then sat beside it, eating a steamed bun while telling Wolf Lao Er about the herbs.

Wolf Lao Er stared intently at the drip chamber where water drops kept falling down the IV line, showing zero interest in the herbs.

This was probably the second time Wolf Lao Er had seen an IV drip. The first was when it had just broken its back and was brought to Territory Seven for surgery. Xia Qing had been sitting outside the operating room and heard the sound of liquid dripping.

But back then Wolf Lao Er had been surrounded by five knife-wielding strangers, so it was definitely in an extremely tense state and hadn't noticed this detail.

Xia Qing simply went inside, got her notebook, found a video specifically explaining IV drips, and let Wolf Lao Er understand what was going on. "The Does Daigua monkey's body functions have gone wrong from the anesthetic. We need to deliver the medication through the IV line directly into its bloodstream."

Besides the IV drip, Xia Qing also had to force-feed the Does Daigua monkey spinach juice nutritional liquid, put eye drops in its eyes, and clean up its waste when it couldn't move!!!

Of all the patients and wounded she'd cared for, the Does Daigua monkey was the most troublesome one!

Xia Qing sighed, put two drops of eye-moistening drops in the Does Daigua monkey's eyes, then discussed with Wolf Lao Er, "I need to go cook. Handsome Wolf-brother, you watch the Does Daigua monkey here. When it stops dripping, call me over, okay?"

Wolf Lao Er immediately showed a cute smile—clearly it loved taking on this task.

"Thanks, Handsome Wolf-brother."

Xia Qing took frozen buns out of the fridge and heated them up, then made a tomato and egg soup. Right then Wolf Lao Er came in to call her.

Xia Qing went to the sheep shed and found the medicine bag was indeed empty; the liquid level in the drip chamber was slowly dropping. She and Wolf Lao Er stared at the level together until all the liquid in the tubing had entered the Does Daigua monkey's bloodstream. Only then did Xia Qing start pulling out the needle.

Wolf Lao Er, who had paused the video, stood to the side, studying seriously.

Actually, its big paws couldn't possibly perform such delicate actions, but Xia Qing didn't dampen its enthusiasm—instead she praised it very seriously and sincerely.

After eating, Xia Qing handed the Does Daigua monkey over to Wolf Lao Er, left the territory in the care of the Wolf Boss and Xiao Jiang, and set out from Territory Three with Wolf Lao Er, chattering to it about the herbs the whole way.

But once they reached the python pool beside Mountain Fifty-Five and understood what the two smart wolves wanted her to do, Xia Qing couldn't chatter anymore.

The two leaders of the wolf pack actually wanted her, a single human, to fill in the python pool with stones. The wolf pack had retaken this mountain, so wanting to fill in the python pool—which connected to an underground river and could spit out giant pythons at any time—was perfectly reasonable.

The reason the wolf pack hired her with a piece of Yishi was because this was a huge project. Relying on wolf claws to dig, it would take until the year of the monkey and the horse to finish.

She pointed at the stone wall to the north and seriously discussed with the two smart wolves, "My lord, can I use explosives to blast this stone wall?"

The python pool was surrounded by three tall stone walls, with only an opening on the south side. Blasting the stone wall to fill the pool was very suitable.

The two wolves looked at Xia Qing with solemn faces. No.

Xia Qing pointed at the stone wall to the west and asked, "This side? Can I blast it?"

No.

"This side! This side you can blast, right? You won't let me call humans to help, and you won't let me blast the mountain—what am I supposed to use to fill a water pool this big!"

The two wolves remained solemn. No!

Understanding that she couldn't use explosives to blast the mountain, Xia Qing asked, "Can I call a few humans over to help?"

The python pool was over seventy square meters in area and bottomlessly deep. Relying on her alone, when would she ever finish filling it? Her name was Xia Qing, not Xia Jingwei.

The two wolves still looked at Xia Qing with solemn faces. No.

Not letting her use explosives, and not letting her bring in extra hands, making her fill such a huge water pool by herself—could any decent wolf make a normal request like this?!

Xia Qing got angry. She dug the Yishi out of her pocket and tossed it back to these two clients more ruthless than Zhou Bapi. "I'm not doing it! You just beat the giant bear, didn't you? Go find the giant bear to fill it in for you! It's stronger than me, damn it, and it's got four legs!"

"I'm busy looking for herbs! After I find the herbs, I still have to plant sweet potatoes, deal with cotton, pull weeds—I'm busy!"

Seeing Xia Qing drop the Yishi and leave, one smart wolf leapt onto the stone wall, raised its head, and let out a long, majestic howl. The other smart wolf picked up the Yishi in its mouth and turned and ran off to who-knows-where.

Xia Qing had only walked a short distance, fuming, when the lead wolf blocked her path. Before Xia Qing could lose her temper, a flash of white light—Bai Mao, the albino rhetoric wolf, dropped onto the rock beside the lead wolf with three of the herbs she was looking for in its mouth.

Wolf Lao Er also came back, carrying two walnut-sized pieces of Yishi in its mouth, and placed them in front of Xia Qing.

Xia Qing immediately broke into a radiant smile. "Bai Mao, you found the herbs? You're really something! Truly a weasel standing at the top of the Jin Zita! Truly my lord's good friend! My lord, Handsome Wolf-brother, what you mean is give me two pieces of Yishi and have me haul stones to fill that little water pool?"