Lao Zhou defended himself: "How could I get him drunk? He can drink a lot. Lao Yang and I were both drunk, but he was fine."
Old Chen looked unconvinced: "If you don't get him drunk, he can still say that he can make the box appear by performing a magic trick. It's obvious that he is drunk and talking nonsense."
Old Zhou smiled bitterly: "Ye Feng can really drink, he really wasn't drunk, he was very sober when he was joking with me."
Lu Dayou glanced at Lao Zhou and said, "You are right. Brother Ye can drink a lot. It is impossible for you to get him drunk."
Lao Zhou breathed a sigh of relief: "Captain Lu still understands me. Long live understanding."
Lu Dayou said contemptuously: "Of course Ye Feng couldn't be drunk, it was you who was drunk and heard the words wrongly."
Lao Zhou almost cried: "Captain Lu, this is what Brother Ye told me personally. I know he was joking with me, but we were both sober when he said it."
Lao Chen smiled confidently and said, "Okay, Lao Zhou, stop quibbling. I'm sure you were drunk. I don't know you. You and Lao Yang will water the flowers all over the floor as soon as you drink. It's great that you can find your way back."
Lu Dayou and Lao Sun agreed that it was Lao Zhou who was drunk and misheard what Ye Feng said, so they blamed all the responsibility on Lao Zhou.
Old Zhou was speechless and said with a wry smile: "You have wronged me. If you don't believe me, call and ask Brother Ye."
Lao Chen mocked Lao Zhou and said, "Lao Zhou, I haven't seen you for a few days. You have evolved into a liar. You are so cunning. You know that there is no signal in this valley, but you still let us call..."
Lao Zhou said with a sad face: "Three uncles, when did I become a liar in your eyes? Can you please believe me for once?"
"no."
"You were obviously drunk and heard it wrongly, but you still falsely accused Brother Ye Feng. It really makes me feel disappointed."
"After spending decades with you, I finally realized that you are such a person..."
Old Sun said with a joking smile: "Captain, he is talking nonsense. Not only did he lie to us, but he also slandered Brother Ye's reputation. I suggest that his wages be confiscated."
"Old Sun, you are such an ungrateful bastard, pay me back the money you owe me..."
Just when the four were arguing, Ye Feng appeared at the entrance of the valley with a very happy look on his face. This time when he returned to Yudu, he not only purchased wooden boxes for the raw stones, but also received a small and cute wood spirit.
Lu Dayou thought that Ye Feng brought the transport team back, but when he saw that there was no one behind Ye Feng, he was a little disappointed.
He reminded Ye Feng anxiously, "Brother Ye Feng, you are finally back. The valley is almost full of raw stones. We need to transport the raw stones out in wooden boxes as soon as possible. Where is the transport team you found?"
Ye Feng looked confused: "What transport team?"
Old Chen laughed doubtfully and said, "A transport team carrying wooden boxes? You didn't really tell Old Zhou that you could make all the boxes appear by performing a magic trick, did you?"
Ye Feng admitted with a smile: "That's what I told Lao Zhou. There's no need for a transport team. As long as I do a magic trick, the boxes will come out. Wait a minute, I'll make all the boxes come out."
The three of them looked at each other. It seemed that they had wronged Lao Zhou. Lao Zhou was not talking nonsense. Could it be that Ye Feng was drunk
Old Zhou had an indignant look on his face as he glared at Lu Dayou and the other two, as if he was going to hold them accountable.
Old Chen was smart and patted Old Zhou on the shoulder: "Brother Zhou, when we're done here, how about I take you to the best restaurant in Yudu to eat grilled lamb chops?"
Old Sun saw the opportunity and added: "Prepare another jar of the best Yili Laojiao."
Lu Dayou also chuckled: "We have meat and wine, but how can we not have cigarettes? I still have an unopened pack of Da Zhonghua. I'll take it out and share it with my brothers when the time comes."
Old Zhou's expression softened. "You guys just wronged me. I really want to scold you severely, but I am a cultured man. Seeing that you have a good attitude to admit your mistakes, I will forgive you. Your lamb chops, your wine, and Old Lu's cigarettes are all required."
"I guarantee that everything will be there."
Just as they were chatting, a faint black mist rose up and completely covered the open space. Lu Dayou shouted, "Brother Ye is going to perform magic again."
Lao Zhou waved his hands: "Impossible, I saw those boxes in the wood factory's warehouse with my own eyes, there were not dozens of people delivering them, there is no way..."
Lao Zhou swallowed his words halfway through his sentence because the mist dissipated, revealing a number of large square wooden boxes, which were exactly the same boxes he had seen in the woodworking factory.
Seeing so many wooden boxes suddenly appearing on the open space, several people from Lu Da, who had been anxious just now, were stunned.
"How did you conjure them?"
Ye Feng waved his hands and smiled mysteriously: "I said, I'm a magician. Don't you believe that I can do magic? The mining machine in front was made by me, and so were these boxes."
Lu Dayou and the other three looked at Ye Feng's hands in surprise. Apart from a Medicine King Ring inlaid with wood on his fingers, his hands were no different from those of ordinary people.
Several people glanced at Ye Feng's ring. This ring was really ugly. Others' rings were inlaid with emeralds, rubies and so on. The worst was a diamond ring of several carats. But Ye Feng's ring was actually inlaid with a piece of wood.
Ye Feng patted the wooden box at his feet and said, "How about it, Brother Zhou? I was right, wasn't I? I said to send the wooden box to the valley, and all I have to do is perform a magic trick."
Everyone looked at him with surprise and admiration. Lao Zhou didn't quite believe what he saw, but the facts were before him, so he had to believe it.
He touched the wooden box and asked curiously, "Are you really a magician? Since you can create these boxes, can they also disappear in an instant?"
Ye Feng laughed: "Since it can be transformed, it can also be transformed into nothing. When you put the jade into the box, I will make it disappear."
Lu Dayou told Lao Zhou and the others, "Hurry up and fill these boxes first. It will take more than an hour to get back to Yudu from Death Valley. The mountain is cold in winter, and there may be a blizzard tonight. We have to get back early."
Everybody was working enthusiastically. Cutting the stones is a technical job, and packing the cut Yuanqi stones into boxes is a strenuous job. They worked until dark and finally packed more than a hundred boxes.
At this time, everyone realized that outside the Death Valley, there was a howling cold wind and ice and snow. What was strange was that inside the Death Valley was like a paradise, with calm winds and no snow at all.
Lu Dayou and the others were amazed, not understanding why there was no cold wind and ice and snow in the valley. However, Ye Feng could see it clearly with his divine eyes.
The Weather Four Symbols Formation secretly responded to the twenty-eight constellations in the starry sky. The power of the twenty-eight stars crossed and condensed above the top of the valley, forming a powerful barrier that blocked the bad weather from entering the Death Valley.
(End of this chapter)