Senior, are you okay?

Hei Wuchang is very good at dealing with ghosts, but based on Tian Baozhu's past impressions, she believes that he may be at a disadvantage when it comes to farming. First of all, the physical strength required for farming is a big hurdle, so she asked the question, "Senior, are you capable of it?"

She thought that since she had good physical strength and experience in farming, she would be the one to do the physically demanding tasks, while Hei Wuchang would be responsible for directing the auxiliary employees to do the light physically demanding work. However, she did not expect that Hei Wuchang would walk into Wangchuan without saying a word.

Moreover, even in an environment blocked by sticky black mud, his movements were still incredibly steady.

Hei Wuchang took out the Soul-Catching Scythe in the hidden space. The sickle seemed to have sensed the flesh and bones in the Forgotten River and was trembling in his hand.

Hei Wuchang used his Soul-Catching Scythe to slash at the Wangchuan River and immediately penetrated deep into the black mud. Without any effort, he dug out a few pieces of fertilizer at once. Then he threw them like spreading cake crumbs. In a parabola, they flew over and accurately threw the fertilizer into the basket. Not a single piece of it fell out. It was extremely precise.

The Soul-Catching Scythe is worthy of being a magical weapon from the underworld, and it works very well with Black Impermanence. Man and sickle are one, and this efficiency makes Tian Baozhu envious.

Hei Wuchang seemed particularly familiar with this area. He told Tian Baozhu that there were many places with fertilizer that were not marked on Mengpo's map, but he knew them. Moreover, there were several very fertile fertilizer areas piled up together.

With Hei Wuchang joining, work improved significantly. Tian Baozhu realized she had been overly concerned and had initially judged him by appearances. Farming required not only strength but also dexterity and skill. Hei Wuchang had his own methods, and thinking of saving him effort by excluding him from key tasks was overly arrogant.

"Senior, I'm sorry."

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"I was too arrogant when I said you couldn't do it at first."

"Nothing, I didn't worry about it."

Hei Wuchang laughed again. Tian Baozhu felt that she saw him smiling more and more. On the one hand, she felt very happy, but on the other hand, she was thinking, "My colleague, please stop laughing. Your beautiful smile makes me feel confused again. This is not good, no."

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"Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Guards, call a few more Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Guards and Green-Faced and Fanged Guards to come carry the fertilizer."

Hei Wuchang gave orders and soon the employees assigned to be managed by Hei Wuchang were called in. The employees all looked similar, like replicas, with the only difference being the spots on their faces or the color of their fur.

"Hello, Lord Black Impermanence! Hello, Lord White Impermanence! Please tell us what tasks we should do."

Tian Baozhu felt a little uncomfortable being called by all the employees in unison. "Hello, hello." She also bowed to them.

"Master Bai Wuchang, what do you mean by this? We don't quite understand. Could you please explain it to us?"

"Hey, I... I just wanted to say hello to you all. I'll be grateful for your help in planting flowers in the future."

"Most lower-level employees don't like to use their brains. Just tell them what you need them to do, but be clear. Don't use vague actions or instructions."

After Hei Wuchang and Tian Baozhu finished speaking, they instructed two of the employees to shovel the fertilizer into baskets, while the remaining employees each carried two baskets of fertilizer to Huangquan Road. Under Hei Wuchang's clear instructions, the employees moved in an orderly manner.

Well, she also needs to learn to be like a BOSS. As a leader with farming experience, she needs to know how to plan the overall situation and use people.

Tian Baozhu chose a striking employee with a blue scar on his face and said to him, "Tell them not to pour the fertilizer into the fields yet. Pile it aside first, and then come back and carry it in rounds. We will fertilize it after we are there."

"I understand, Master Bai Wuchang. I will tell them to do this. Don't worry."

After explaining all this, Tian Baozhu and Hei Wuchang started digging fertilizer again. They dug farther and farther, and when they looked back, they were now a hundred meters away from Naihe Bridge.

This place is beyond the area marked on the drawing Meng Po gave her.

"Based on the length of the Yellow Springs Road, we probably need to walk three times as far to dig up enough fertilizer. I'm afraid we won't be able to finish this work today."

Tian Baozhu looked at the sky. The sun hadn't set yet, but she could already feel the shadow gradually closing in. In the underworld, workers had to be on time, and even first-level employees couldn't break the rules. Tian Baozhu wanted to work overtime, but it was pitch black at night, and she had no night vision, so there was nothing she could do.

Hei Wuchang said: "Just work as long as you can now."

"You're right. Let's work until the end of the day and then think about other problems."

I don’t know if it’s because they stepped into an area that has not been opened up by others, but the environment here is much more “barbaric”. From time to time, Tian Baozhu encountered an evil spirit floating out, or an unknown underwater creature pulling her legs and trying to pull her to the bottom.

She was now able to calmly use a rake to hit them one by one to scare them away. It seemed that she had gradually adapted to the job of the underworld ghost catcher.

The area has not been reclaimed, which is equivalent to the fertilizer in this area not being excavated and consumed. Sure enough, as soon as Tian Baozhu dug, he found continuous fertilizers, and the quantity and density were much greater than before.

Because Tian Baozhu and Meng Po said that they would plant some red spider lily seeds experimentally first. The area occupied by the trial planting is one-third of the length of the Yellow Springs Road. According to the fertilizer they have dug out so far, it is enough for this purpose.

As the sun set, the employees on the shore called out to them, "Master Black Impermanence, Master White Impermanence, it's time to get off work. After we put these baskets on Huangquan Road, we'll go back to the dormitory."

"Let's go up too." Hei Wuchang and Tian Baozhu said.

Tian Baozhu walked ashore with mud on her feet. She didn't want to dirty her shoes and socks, so she held them in her hands and walked barefoot.

"Won't it hurt if you go barefoot?" asked Hei Wuchang.

"It's okay. After death, you won't feel any pain anymore. And I don't want to dirty my shoes and socks."

"Aren't you afraid of being laughed at?"

"How could I be laughed at? I used to work barefoot in the fields and no one laughed at me. This isn't ancient times—"

Tian Baozhu's casual joke reminded her that, yes, Hei Wuchang still had some ancient ideas. He didn't know that in today's world, the dogmas and rules that bound people have been released.

"It doesn't matter. Times are different now. No one will laugh at me."

But she saw that Hei Wuchang was also holding shoes in his hands and walking barefoot like her.

"Let's go."

If she were like the Black and White Impermanence, no one would dare to laugh at her.

Tian Baozhu understood the meaning of his actions and felt a warm feeling in her heart.

The two of them walked barefoot, which reminded Tian Baozhu of her time in the human world. There was a group of classmates and seniors who walked barefoot with her on the ridges of the fields and returned home at sunset, full of high spirits.

For the first time in the underworld, there was someone who gave her the same sense of belonging as her companions.