As they were talking, Tie Xiaohua and the others had already walked over. She and Chen San and Chen Wu saw Ye Li and the pile of wood next to them from a distance, and their faces showed expressions of shock.
"Ye...Brother Ye, you got all these back, how could it be so fast!?"
Tie Xiaohua quickened her pace and walked over, speaking to Ye Li in astonishment.
Ye Li did not hide anything, and said with a smile: "Sister Tie, my Qiankun bag has a larger space, so I just put all the wood here.
How about this, is it enough for now?"
When Tie Xiaohua heard Ye Li say that he had carried so many trees in a Qiankun bag, she nodded immediately. Like Li Xifeng, she was even more certain of her guess about Ye Li's identity as a member of a wealthy family.
“It’s definitely enough. These are just the pillars. Fifty of them will be enough to cover the entire area.
You got the poles so quickly, so we have to work harder to get the bamboo poles."
Tie Xiaohua looked at the trees on the ground and immediately smiled.
The plan of building a pergola was originally thought of and proposed by her. Now if it can be successfully realized, she will naturally be very happy.
"Xiaohua, I think you guys need to hurry up and get the bamboo poles. We can first be responsible for standing the wood on the ground and getting the base of the shed ready.
Brother Mengsheng is very good at earth-moving spells. I wonder if you would like to stay and help us use the spell to create a deeper swamp so that we can insert the wood into it."
After Li Xifeng finished speaking to Tie Xiaohua, he turned and spoke to a middle-aged man dressed as a scholar among the guards of several talisman masters.
After hearing what Li Xifeng said, the man hesitated for a moment, then stood up and said, "Since Mr. Li can use me, I will stay here."
After Meng Sheng was left behind by Li Xifeng, Tie Xiaohua and the others handed over the bamboo poles to the workers, and then turned back to the bamboo forest to continue cutting bamboo. After all, the demand for bamboo poles was far greater than Ye Li's wood, and the amount they had cut down now was still far from enough.
After Tie Xiaohua and the others left, Li Xifeng hurriedly pulled Ye Li and said, "Brother Ye, come here, let me introduce you, this is Brother Meng Shengmeng.
I have known him for quite some time, and sometimes we transport large quantities of goods thanks to their escort."
"them… ?"
Ye Li was a little confused.
Hearing Ye Li's words, Li Xifeng slapped his forehead and said, "Alas, you see how confused I am. I forgot to tell you that Brother Meng and the others came together. They are a small team of spiritual talisman masters, and Brother Meng is the captain of the team.
You also know that many tasks in the martial arts world are difficult to complete alone, so the talisman masters who often work together will form a small team, so that the scope of commissions they can accept will be much larger, and it will be easier to complete the tasks. "
After hearing Li Xifeng's explanation, Ye Li finally realized that the six people on the other side were actually a small team.
Li Xifeng then introduced Ye Li to Meng Sheng, "Brother Meng, this is Brother Ye Li. He is the seventh guard we have found this time. You two should get to know each other."
Ye Li and Meng Sheng hurriedly clasped their fists and said hello to each other, formally introducing themselves to each other.
Meng Sheng looked at Ye Li's youthful appearance and couldn't help but praise him: "Brother Ye Li looks so young, and his cultivation has reached the middle stage of the Spiritual Mist Stage required for this mission. It's really not easy."
Ye Li does not look childish, and most people would find it hard to imagine that he is only seventeen years old. They would at least add two or three years to his age.
Even so, in Meng Sheng's opinion, a talisman master in the middle stage of the Lingwu period who was around 20 years old was not something that an ordinary casual cultivator or a child of an ordinary aristocratic family of the latter few ranks could achieve.
Hearing Meng Sheng praising him for being extraordinary, Ye Li quickly said modestly: "Brother Meng, you are too kind. I am just lucky to have practiced faster than ordinary people. I don't deserve the word 'extraordinary'."
Meng Sheng disagreed with Ye Li's words, shook his head and said, "Brother Ye Li, don't be too modest. Strength is respected in the martial arts world. You are faster in cultivation and stronger than others, so you should be respected and praised."
Seeing that the other party was speaking sincerely, Ye Li didn't feel comfortable being modest anymore, so he could only clasp his fists and say thank you.
After seeing that the two knew each other, Li Xifeng said, "I'll have to trouble you two for the next task. We need to set up all these pieces of wood in this venue.
Brother Meng is proficient in earth-moving spells. He only needs to control the depth of the swamp. We just need to insert all the wood and straighten it. When the swamp spell dissipates, the ground will slowly harden, so that these wooden pillars can stand firmly in the ground. "
After Li Xifeng finished speaking, he took the two of them to start working in the venue, while Lin Shiyu took his granddaughter to the workers who were processing bamboo.
Relying on the swamp talismans that Meng Sheng continued to draw, Ye Li easily placed the wood into the ground one by one.
Originally, Li Xifeng wanted to help him, but was rejected. After all, these woods were not light for ordinary talisman masters, but for Ye Li, they were not much heavier than a wooden stick.
With the concerted efforts of the two, it only took half an hour to place the fifty-two pieces of wood in their corresponding positions.
During this time, the bamboo-cutting team also came back, and the bamboo poles that the workers had previously processed were also cut into corresponding sizes.
Next, the bamboo-cutting team continued their bamboo-cutting task, while Ye Li, Meng Sheng and Li Xifeng began to tie the processed bamboo poles one by one on top of the wooden base, forming a frame for the tarpaulin.
The felling team was busy until nearly dusk before they gathered all the bamboo poles, and then they also joined in the work of bundling the bamboo poles.
With enough manpower, everyone quickly built the frame of the pergola.
Finally, Li Xifeng and his team got a large amount of tarpaulin. After everyone put them all on the bamboo frame and tied them up, a canopy that could shelter from wind and rain covered the entire trade venue.
Only at this point was the layout of the entire venue completed. The fifty wooden tables in the middle and the numbered wooden signs for each area had been set up.
After finishing their work, except for Chen San and Chen Wu who stayed behind to guard the venue, everyone else followed Li Xifeng and the others back to Yeyu City.
That night, Li Xifeng invited Meng Sheng and six other people as well as Ye Li to have a good dinner at Lotte Inn.
Ye Li and Meng Sheng and others became familiar with each other after a few drinks. This was Ye Li's first time drinking, but no one knew whether it was because he was as strong as a monster or because he was born to drink, he could drink as much as six people by himself.
Later on, even Li Xifeng and Lin Shiyu joined in the toasting. However, after drinking round after round, Ye Li felt not drunk at all except for a slightly bloated stomach. On the contrary, the others were somewhat tipsy.
Originally, everyone was enjoying the drink and wanted to have a few more jars of wine, but they were stopped by Li Xifeng. After all, the three-day trade fair would start tomorrow, and it would not be good to get drunk tonight.
Everyone was sensible people, and although they felt a little regretful, they did not object. They said goodbye to each other and went back to rest.