Du Lao took the three of them into the firewood house on the west side of the courtyard: "The first thing you have to accomplish is to chop all this firewood before the sun goes down." ”

Then he picked up a piece of chopped firewood: "It's too big, it's not too small." Take this one in my hand as the standard. ”

Lin Chu glanced at the wood in the firewood room, although there were a lot of them, but if the three of them worked together, they should be able to complete it within an hour, before dark.

So he said, "Master Du, no problem, please give me an axe." ”

Du Lao pointed to the back.

Lin Chu looked over, and an axe that didn't look very sharp was slashed on the wooden pier.

"Master Du, why is it a handful?"

"Do you need several axes for one person to chop wood?"

"But we're three of us!"

Du Lao smiled slyly: "You young people chop this bit of firewood, do you still need three people?" One person is enough! ”

Xu Minghao couldn't help but say: "Alone? How can you chop so much wood before the sun goes down? ”

Du Lao said lightly: "If you can't even finish this, then go back as soon as possible, don't waste time here, because even if I tell you the way to find the wax man, you can't do it." ”

Lin Chu and Hu Lai both heard that Du Lao was not simply making things difficult for the three of them.

Only Xu Minghao reacted slowly, and he hadn't thought so far yet.

So Lin Chu and Hu Lai immediately agreed to accept the challenge.

Du Lao smiled and asked, "Who will split the wood of the three of you?" ”

Hu Lai took the initiative to raise his hand: "I'll come!" ”

He has the best physical fitness and the strongest physical endurance among the three, so he naturally deserves this kind of physical challenge.

Lin Chu patted him on the shoulder: "Old Hu, thank you for your hard work!" ”

Xu Minghao also gave a rare encouragement: "Hu Er, come on, it's up to you." ”

Hu Zixin patted his chest fullly: "Little meaning, isn't it just chopping wood?" ”

Du Lao smiled lightly: "Young man, don't just talk big, it's not too early, the sun is about to set." ”

Hu Lai immediately took off his shirt, spat and rubbed his palms, then picked up the axe and began to chop wood.

"It's kind of like that!" Old Du commented, then stretched out the fish in his hand and asked Lin Chu to follow, and then said, "Don't be idle, you two should go and cook dinner for the old man and me now." ”

Xu Minghao asked excitedly: "Is this the second thing we want to do?" ”

Du Lao squinted his eyes and looked at him: "You want to be beautiful!" ”

Xu Minghao suddenly looked completely uninterested.

Lin Chu pulled him and went to the back room.

Xu Minghao sat on the threshold and washed rice, while complaining: "You said that this old man has lived alone for a long time, and he is a little perverted in his heart, and he wants to fix us like this." ”

Lin Chu said while killing fish: "He is testing us. ”

"We're just here to inquire about how to get the wax man back, and we're not here to learn from a teacher, he still has to do three tests, I think this old man has watched a lot of martial arts TV series."

Xu Minghao opened the small lid under the honeycomb coal stove, took down the boiling water stove, and put the rice cooker on it.

"Don't complain, you don't even say anything when you see that people are so wasteful outside...... By the way, what is this fish going to do? ”

Lin Chu had no way to deal with these two grass carp who had obviously broken their stomachs, but they were still dead and still flicking their tails.

"Let me do it."

Xu Minghao skillfully grabbed the fish in the past, deboned and changed the knife on the cutting board, and slurred the paste and put it in the oil pan in one go.

With the fire on the stove, it didn't take long for a plate of fragrant boiled fish to come out of the pot.

He then scrambled two plates of home-cooked side dishes with potatoes and eggs ready in the kitchen.

Stir-fried shredded potatoes and scrambled eggs.

When it was finally brought to the courtyard, Du Lao's eyes couldn't close for a long time, and after tasting a bite of fish, he was even more praised: "Fresh and smooth, not inferior to the restaurant chef!" ”

In fact, he originally had no hope for the two young men to cook, but he didn't expect the result to be much more unexpected.

Even Hu Lai, who was sweating profusely, didn't know that Xu Minghao still had such excellent skills.

Only Lin Chu is no exception.

His uncle and aunt, that is, Xu Minghao's parents, are in the wholesale business in their hometown, and they get up early all day and are greedy all day long, so busy that they have no time to cook.

So Xu Minghao has been cooking for his family since he was in junior high school.

And when he first came to Shencheng, he was studying in a chef school, but after less than two months of study, he was expelled from school because of fighting.

Since then, I have been working in the deep city in a muddle, fishing for three days and drying nets for two days, and constantly changing jobs.

Bang dang!

Hu Lai chopped off the last piece of firewood.

Looking up at the direction of the west, thankfully, there was still the last faint red cloud in the sky.

"Excellent! Very good! The first thing, even if you're done! ”

Hearing Du Lao's words, the three of them finally breathed a sigh of relief and clapped their hands happily in celebration.

Hu Lai gasped and wiped the sweat from his body with his clothes.

He alone has completed a job that can only be completed by at least three strong men, and the physical fitness of this athlete has to be admired.

Du Lao lifted the lid of the pot and asked suspiciously, "Why do you cook so much rice?" ”

Xu Minghao smiled and said, "Master, this meal is not much, the three of us can eat it." Then he pointed to Hu Lai: "Especially this rice bucket, he can eat more after exercising." ”

Du Lao frowned slightly: "When did I say that I was going to invite you to dinner?" ”

All three were dumbfounded.

Xu Minghao said: "Master, you won't be able to, right?" Don't give us a bite of food? ”

Du Lao said resolutely: "Don't give a mouthful." ”

Lin Chu begged: "Master Du, it's okay if you don't let me eat with Minghao, but please let Hu eat." He's just done so much work......"

"No way!" Du Lao said sternly: "Now let's start the second thing immediately, do you see the small pond in front of you?" My pond is drying up after a dry and rainy day, so the three of you are now carrying buckets and going to the river to carry water, and fill the pond before I finish this meal. ”

Lin Chu and Hu Lai immediately didn't say a word, went into the house to pick up the bucket, and ran outside the yard.

Xu Minghao originally wanted to reason with Du Lao, but when he saw that the two of them were so positive, he didn't say anything, and quickly picked up a bucket to catch up.

"Cousin, Hu Er, don't you think this old man is deliberately manipulating us? It's too much to not give us food and make us do so much! ”

Xu Minghao complained all the way behind, but neither of them paid attention to him.

The three of them came to the river, fetched two buckets full of water, and hurried back.

Lin Chu said: "Lao Hu, you can rest when you go back this time, just let me and Ming Hao pick it up." ”

Hu Lai shook his head: "It's okay, I still have the physical strength, the two of you, there must be no way to pick it out before Du Lao finishes eating, his second request is clearly to ask the three of us together." ”

The three of them went one trip after another, tired and hungry, and the most hateful thing was that they came back every time, and they saw Du Lao eating very well there.

Finally, after two hours and dozens of round-trips, the pond was finally filled.

At this time, even the iron man Hu Lai was just as tired and half dead, and the three of them sat on the bucket and gasped for breath for a long time.

Lin Chu knew that Du Lao was showing mercy to his subordinates, otherwise no matter how slow a person ate, he would not eat for two hours.

Xu Minghao, who was so hungry that his eyes lit up, walked over like a zombie, staring at the leftovers on the table, and swallowed hard: "Master, now you can let us eat......

Du Lao quickly poured all the food under the roots of the tree, and used it to raise the tree and didn't give them food.

Xu Minghao was a thunderbolt on a sunny day.

Du Lao wiped his hands and said, "You have completed the first two things, and now it's the turn of the third thing." ”

Lin Chu and Hu Lai, who were sitting on the bucket, immediately cheered up.

Only Xu Minghao said angrily: "Master, if you let us work again, we will hang up......"

Du Lao smiled and said: "This time I won't let you do manual work, I'll give you a question, as long as you can answer it, even if you pass the test." ”

"I'm not good at it." Xu Minghao immediately turned his head to look at Lin Chu.

Hu Lai also whispered: "Lao Lin, it's up to you this time, you are the one with the highest education and the best brain among the three of us." ”

Lin Chu said: "Master, please ask the question." ”

Du Lao said slowly: "The topic is a thousand words, I want you to mention a word in my house, so that my house is worth a lot." ”

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