Wife is an enemy general

001.

It was mid-afternoon when they arrived home. After putting the duck eggs away, Li Mu went to the duck cage to look around, then went home and wrote a letter.

I had inquired about the approximate direction that the restaurant surnamed Qi was fleeing to. After Li Mu returned home, he immediately wrote a letter to Master Qin, hoping that he could help inquire and see if there was anyone who matched him.

But this matter is a matter that needs to wait for a long time, and there is no rush for a while, so Li Mu wrote the letter and asked someone to go down the mountain to deliver the letter, and then returned to the mountain.

There were [-] duck eggs bought from the young man before, which seemed quite a lot, but in the end, I don't know how many duck eggs could really hatch.

Moreover, all his ducklings were bought outside, and he had never hatched ducklings before. Now he was suddenly asked to hatch duck eggs, and it was not easy to take care of them. Li Mu was really not sure.

On the way back, Li Mu thought about those duck eggs all the way.

When they got home, Zhong Xiuyuan was nowhere to be seen. Li Mu looked around the yard and saw no one, so he decided to go to the room to see the duck eggs he had brought back.

When these duck eggs were bought from the young man before, they were all unhatched. Now that they are brought back, it has been several days in between. If they don't hatch again, the duck eggs may not be kept for a long time.

Li Mu entered the room and closed the door, and was walking towards the bed, but saw two feet protruding from the bed.

He restrained himself and walked towards that side. When he got to the bed, he found that Zhong Xiuyuan had already been lying on the bed at some point.

He didn't know what he was thinking. At this moment, half of his body was stuffed into the quilt, only one buttocks were exposed and two feet were writhing outside.

Rolling to the left for a while, and rolling again for a while, holding the quilt seems to be quite happy.

"Why are you here?" Li Mu hugged his shoulders and looked coldly at the person on the bed.

Zhong Xiuyuan, who was having fun in the quilt, stopped suddenly when he heard the words. In an instant, he in the quilt felt a sense of frustration of being caught for doing bad things.

He has been away from the mountain for more than two years, and he has not returned to this house for two years. This was supposed to be his and Li Mu's room, but it has changed a lot in these two years.

After he came back, he couldn't help lying down on the bed. He covered himself with the quilt that Li Mu had used, and sucked in the breath that belonged to Li Mu in the quilt, as if this could fill in the gap of the past two years.

Who knew that while he was rolling happily while hugging the quilt, Li Mu had already entered the room unknowingly, seeing everything he did just now.

Zhong Xiuyuan took a deep breath, tried his best to put on a serious look, and then opened the quilt covering his head first, exposing his two eyes, looking at Li Mu who entered the room at some time.

Li Mu took a step forward and reached out to lift the quilt. Zhong Xiuyuan was startled when he saw this, and quickly pressed the quilt tightly to prevent Li Mu from lifting it.

"Show me." Li Mu didn't let go of the quilt.

Zhong Xiuyuan listened to Li Mu's words, doubts flashed in his eyes, and then he pressed the quilt tighter, "What are you looking at?"

Li Mu was standing by the bed at the moment, holding the quilt on Zhong Xiuyuan's lap with his hands, Zhong Xiuyuan's feet were on the ground, and he was lying on the bed, holding the quilt tightly with both hands.

"What do you think?" Li Mu's hand tightened a bit.

Zhong Xiuyuan panicked, what exactly does Li Mu want to do?

"Look at what?" What's so good in this quilt?Zhong Xiu was far from understanding.

"Damn!" Li Mu's face was serious.

Hearing Li Mu's words and seeing his serious face, Zhong Xiuyuan's face flushed with a 'bang'.

Where did the egg come from in this quilt?

Zhong Xiuyuan raised his eyes to look at Li Mu, and after meeting Li Mu's eyes, he immediately turned his head to the side again, this shameless person is going to tease him again!

It's just that he was so angry in his heart, but Zhong Xiuyuan's hands and feet became uncontrollably weak.

A hot current rushed from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, and then flowed around with his chaotic thoughts, finally making his back sore and his feet slightly close together.

Zhong Xiuyuan pulled down the quilt to cover up his embarrassment at the moment, "There are no eggs here..."

Hearing this, Li Mu's eyes slid down Zhong Xiuyuan's feet.

"Raise your feet." Li Mu's grip on the quilt didn't loosen at all, on the contrary, it became a little bit harder.

Zhong Xiuyuan was already feeling uncomfortable at the moment, but when Li Mu said this, his cheeks became even hotter.

"Open it yourself." Li Mu patted Zhong Xiuyuan's knee with the other hand.

This touch made Zhong Xiuyuan tremble slightly. His back was slightly hot and sore, but at this moment it was numb to the end.

"Hurry up." Li Mu urged, he was busy right now.

Zhong Xiuyuan stared at Li Mu with two distinct black and white eyes, and after a long while, he closed his eyes tremblingly, obediently listened to Li Mu's words, and lifted his feet up. stand up.

Zhong Xiuyuan was lying on the bed sideways at first, but at this moment he shamelessly raised his feet and opened his legs. He shivered and pulled the quilt over his face, as if he wanted to suffocate himself. As if dying in the quilt, he resolutely prevented Li Mu, a bastard, from seeing the shame on his face.

Seeing Zhong Xiuyuan's obedient appearance, Li Mu bent over, leaned down, and stretched his hand between Zhong Xiuyuan's legs.

After a while, he took out a basket of duck eggs from under the bed.

He put the duck egg under the bed after he brought it back. Originally, he planned to put it on the bed to keep warm, but the basket was not clean, so he put it under the bed sheltered from the wind.

It's freezing cold now, and there's ice everywhere. He doesn't dare to let the duck eggs freeze.

After picking up the duck eggs, Li Mu put a corner of the basket beside the bed, then raised his hand to remove the cotton wool on the basket, and looked inside.

Zhong Xiuyuan, who had been lying on the bed tremblingly with his legs outstretched, noticed the movement, and sneaked his head out to look at Li Mu.

After seeing this, he was a little dazed for a moment, "You, you..."

Zhong Xiuyuan looked at the basket that Li Mu was looking at, and his whole body seemed to be cooked, it was red and smoking.

"Huh?" Li Mu carefully covered the cotton wool on the basket, then looked back at Zhong Xiuyuan who was still maintaining the same movement just now, lying on the bed and raising his legs high.

Just when a belated understanding flashed in Li Mu's eyes, Zhong Xiuyuan suddenly shrank to the side, his whole body shrunk into the quilt, and he wrapped himself up.

He has been so ashamed, what the hell is he doing? !

Could it be that his mind is full of these filthy things!

Zhong Xiuyuan held on to the quilt tightly, really wishing to suffocate himself to death.

Li Mu, who came to his senses belatedly, put the duck egg in his hand back to its original place, and then sat down beside the bed.

He didn't think about it at first, he was only thinking about the duck egg, but now thinking about what happened just now, he couldn't help but smirk.

He didn't expect Zhong Xiuyuan to be so obedient, think about the shy look he just pulled the quilt nervously, hid under the quilt, but obediently listened to his words, lifted his feet up, and slowly opened it to him ...

Li Mu suddenly became a little wolfish, Zhong Xiuyuan usually doesn't talk about being conservative, but he is still a well-behaved man in the end, he never expected that he would be a relaxed person in the room.

Li Mu leaned towards Zhong Xiuyuan who was wrapped up in a ball on the bed, put his hands on his side, lowered his head, and moved closer to Zhong Xiuyuan's head.

"Otherwise, what do you think I want to see?" Li Mu asked softly.

Because Zhong Xiuyuan had seduced his heart, Li Mu's voice was no longer serious and serious, but a little more frivolous, hoarse and ambiguous.

Zhong Xiuyuan was already extremely ashamed at this moment, so ashamed that he wished to suffocate himself to death, but now he heard Li Mu's obviously deliberate words, and his body instantly tensed up like a piece of iron.

Especially the pair of legs that made that embarrassing posture before, are sore and hot at the moment, and I can't help but clamp them tightly!

He only wished that he had a special ability that could make Li Mu forget everything that happened just now, and not allow him to think about it.

"Huh?" Li Mu seemed as if it wasn't enough, and gently stroked the quilt with his hands, neither light nor heavy. He didn't pull the quilt off Zhong Xiuyuan's body, but let Zhong Xiuyuan know his action.

Following Li Mu's movements, the people under the quilt instantly trembled even more violently, like sifting chaff.

Seeing this person's appearance, Li Mu couldn't put it down.

At that moment, he didn't want to pay attention to those duck eggs, so he simply tore off the quilt to see what the person under the quilt looked like at the moment, it must be an extremely interesting thing.

"I heard that you have been practicing martial arts since you were a child?" Li Mu suddenly said something wrong.

Zhong Xiu, who was under the quilt, didn't know what Li Mu wanted to do, but he didn't want to spend any more time with Li Mu on the matter just now, so seeing Li Mu changed the subject, he nodded quickly.

Li Mu outside the quilt couldn't see his nodding movement, he could only see the person under the quilt who looked like a silkworm baby, arching slightly.

"That's good." Li Mu nodded quite seriously, but his voice became more seductive, and his words became less formal, "Then your flexibility should be quite good."

After the ambiguous words came out, Li Mu's hand, which had been sliding lightly on the quilt, suddenly grasped the curled ankle of the person under the quilt with force, "That should be able to get a good angle."

Zhong Xiuyuan, who had already been brought out by Li Mu's words from the incident just now, instinctively shrank his feet after hearing Li Mu's words, trying to retract his ankle that was grabbed by Li Mu, but it was useless.

Li Mu's strength is very strong, he has no way to escape his imprisonment.

Li Mu fell forward and leaned against the quilt again. Just when the person under the quilt was almost out of breath, he said softly, "Let's try it tonight and see how far we can go."

After finishing speaking, Li Mu let go of Zhong Xiuyuan without waiting for him to react, picked up the basket at his feet, and walked out the door with a smile.

002.

After Li Mu said this, he left. Zhong Xiuyuan, who was hiding under the quilt, didn't have the courage to poke his head out of the quilt for a long time.

Li Mu had said such embarrassing words to him more than once, but every time he couldn't take it lightly.

Moreover, what did Li Mu's last words mean?

Try it tonight?try what……

Thinking about what Li Mu said before that he had good flexibility in martial arts, Zhong Xiuyuan couldn't help but feel numbness in his tailbone and clamped his legs tightly.

Zhong Xiuyuan, who huddled into a ball and hid himself in the quilt, felt that he was getting hotter and hotter, and his whole body was about to explode.

Li Mu, who carried the duck eggs and left, was proud of the spring breeze. Although the cold wind blowing on his face was a bit chilly, it didn't make him mind.

All the way down the mountain in a good mood, when Li Mu stood in the duck cage like his own, looking at those ducks quacking at him, his mood was not affected in the slightest, and his mood was particularly good.

"What's so good about smiling so happily?" Xu Tian, ​​who was helping to feed the ducks, looked at Li Mu who was happy, and couldn't help laughing.

"It's nothing." After thinking for a while, Li Mu added meaningfully, "The duckling has grown up."

Xu Tian thought that Li Mu was referring to the batch of ducks with white spots on their backs they raised before, so she turned her head to look at the duck cages. After nearly a month, those ducks had become very different. They are all fat and fat, very gratifying.

"It's grown up, you can eat it," Xu Tian said.

Now Li Mu has invited a dozen people to help him, so these ducks eat several meals a day, and naturally grow faster than other people's ducks.

Li Mu smiled meaningfully, without pointing out Xu Tian's misunderstanding.

"It's about time for this duck to be sold. I've already discussed with someone at the pier, and let Zhongman Road pass by later." Li Mu said.

He has already bought another batch of ducklings and brought them back. After these ducklings are sent away, he will start raising ducklings again.

"I'll talk to my guys later today and ask them to help catch the duck." Xu Tian said while wiping his hands after feeding the duck.

When Li Mu came, he brought a basket with some duck eggs in it, which Xu Tian had seen before.

"What is this duck egg?" Xu Tian lifted the cotton wool curiously and looked at it.

This duck egg was no different from their own duck eggs, so Xu Tian was a little curious about what Li Mu was doing.

"New ducks." Li Mu carried the basket into the fence and walked towards one of the newly built duck cages.

Because he now raises more ducks and different breeds, the duck cage has more than doubled in size after rebuilding.

The first batch of ducks he had raised were kept alone in the newly built duck cage.

It's been snowing all over the sky recently and it's been very cold.These ducks are not as fond of the cold as those with white spots on their backs, so Li Mu didn't let them go out, and only let them move around within the range of the duck cage.

When Li Mu got to the side of the duck cage, the hundreds of ducks in the duck cage had already eaten, and they were squatting on the clean straw and taking a nap.

Sensing Li Mu's approach, those ducks opened their eyes and took a look at Li Mu, then retracted their heads under their wings and continued to sleep.

Li Mu had been with these ducks for nearly three years. At the beginning, these ducks always had trouble with Li Mu, and whenever they saw Li Mu, they would run after Li Mu.

Now that they have been around for a long time, these ducks have changed.

They will no longer chase after Li Mu whenever they see Li Mu, but will only run after Li Mu depending on their mood, when they are full and idle.

Commonly known as full, idle, full.

Seeing Li Mu now, only a few ducks opened their mouths and yelled at Li Mu twice, as if they were asking Li Mu where he went for a while.

These ducks ignored him, Li Mu was not angry, but a little happy.

Li Mu opened the duck cage carefully, and then walked in by himself. First, he stood beside the straw where the ducks were sleeping for a while, then he squatted down cautiously, and slowly approached the ducks.

After dealing with these ducks for a long time, although Li Mu is still a little afraid of these ducks, he no longer wants to turn around and run away when he sees these ducks like before.

Li Mu imitated those ducks, squatting beside the straw pile for a while, trying to pretend to be a duck with his buttocks pouted.

Lurking in the enemy camp, after waiting for a while, and making sure that all the enemies around him ignored him, Li Mu slowly moved.

Slowly and carefully, he took out a white duck egg from the basket he had brought, and then, seeing the opportunity, he stuffed it behind a duck's ass with lightning speed.

After stuffing the duck eggs, Li Mu looked at the position again, and he was relieved to make sure that the duck eggs covered his body.

After stuffing the first duck egg, Li Mu took out the second duck egg and prepared to cook it in the same way.

However, just as he was aiming at the second duck, the duck that he had just stuffed a duck egg under its body seemed to sense something in the grass under it, and stood up slowly.

It stood up slowly, then turned around and looked at the thing on the ground that was blocking it.

Seeing that the thing was a white duck egg, it jumped in fright and backed away a few steps in fright, finally standing still.

Standing still, it stretched out its paw and touched the duck egg.

After pushing and pushing, it suddenly stretched its neck and let out a 'crack'.

Immediately afterwards, it spread its wings and patted the heads of the ducks next to it for a while, screaming as it patted, as if saying to the duck brothers next to it: Hey, brother, look, my brother laid an egg.

The duck next to him who was disturbed by it and couldn't sleep stood up, glanced at it, and left blank eyes containing the word 'idiot', then walked to the distance silently, continued to squat down to sleep, ignoring the idiot .

It was still quite excited, and woke up all the ducks around it by 'quacking', and after squatting in the distance, it fiddled with the duck egg again, and squatted beside it.

One didn't work, so Li Mu tried another one, but the results were almost the same.

After the duck found that there was an egg under its buttocks, it was either startled like the idiot before, and then quacked to make all the ducks around it noisy.

Or just calmly raise your feet to look at the white eggs, and then kick the duck eggs out of the nest with a kick.Immediately afterwards, I pushed my head into the wings, and continued to sleep.

Li Mu, who had been squatting in the enemy camp, pretending to be a duck, saw that his plan to become a father failed, and his sharp-edged face suddenly crumpled into a ball.

In fact, he didn't have much hope for this plan, but this is the best way he can think of so far.

If he wanted to hatch duck eggs, if it was his previous world, he could easily do it with some equipment, but in this place he couldn't even find light bulbs and warmers for hatching eggs, so he could only use his ideas Hit these ducks.

He can also consider taking these duck eggs down the mountain and let the shopkeepers at the bottom of the mountain help them incubate, but it is extremely difficult for him to get these duck eggs, and he would never dare to let others do it easily.

Moreover, duck eggs are not easy to hatch. Compared with him, those shops at the foot of the mountain don't have much advantage in this matter.

Li Mu originally thought of using ducks to hatch duck eggs. Although the species are different, it shouldn't be a problem that they are of the same species.

But now it seems that these ducks who have never hatched eggs are obviously extremely unsuitable for this difficult and noble job.

As for the rest of the ducks with white spots on their backs, Li Mu doesn't think about it at all, because those ducks are very active, if they are not handled properly and these duck eggs are trampled, then he The loss outweighs the gain even more.

Li Mu squatted in the duck nest for a long time, and after confirming that his plan of becoming a father was impossible to proceed, he carried the basket and walked up the mountain in desperation.

Although he didn't have much hope at first, but now that he failed, he was still somewhat disappointed.

And what made him even more troublesome was that these ducks couldn't help hatch the eggs, so he had to come by himself.

If the matter of hatching duck eggs was changed in another era, it would be an extremely simple matter. A thermometer, a light bulb, and a cloth basket can do it.

Now the cloth basket is easy to handle, but it is extremely difficult to find substitutes for the temperature-controlling bulb and the thermometer for constant temperature testing.

He could consider replacing the temperature-controlled light bulb with a stove or something similar to high temperature, but it is extremely difficult to control the temperature without a thermometer.

In case the temperature is low in the middle, it is possible for the hatched ducklings to freeze to death in the shell at any time before breaking the shell.If the temperature is high, yes, then you can add some soup and directly serve multiple dishes.

Li Mu was walking up the mountain with a basket in his hand, while secretly thinking about what to do.

In particular, the method of keeping duck eggs at a fixed temperature must be carefully considered.

The duck egg has been stored for some time, so naturally he can't continue to release it any longer, so he must come up with a solution as soon as possible.

After arriving on the mountain, Li Mu found some useless cotton wool, then took out a stove in the kitchen, and started tossing it in the main room.

Of course, duck eggs cannot be baked directly on the stove. If so, I believe there will be many dishes on their dinner table soon.

Therefore, the position of placing the basket must be some distance away from the stove, and the distance should not be too far, so as to ensure that the duck eggs can be kept at a constant temperature.

In addition to the position of the stove, the cotton wool in this basket must also be particular.

Li Mu made them all into the shape of a duck nest, then put the eggs inside, and covered it with a layer of cotton wool to keep it warm.

This simple duck egg incubation device is completed, but the most troublesome thing is the temperature control.

Li Mu squatted beside the pile of duck eggs and stared at it for a long time.

After thinking about it, he finally took out all the duck eggs inside, went to the cellar again, picked out a few duck eggs from the common ducks before, put them in the basket, and prepared to try them all night.

Li Mu was busy tossing these duck eggs, but Zhong Xiuyuan had already calmed down.

He stood at the door and looked at the busy Li Mu, "Is this okay?"

Zhong Xiuyuan has never paid attention to how ducks hatch before, but he can also see that this method seems a little unsafe.

"I can only give it a try." Li Mu was also quite helpless.

Li Mu had asked the duck sellers at the foot of the mountain how they hatched their duck eggs, but most of them hatched with ducks.

Because this method is the most appropriate and effective, although some trampling incidents will inevitably occur, the success rate is still extremely high.

Li Mu put the stove with a dark fire on the ground, and then set up a horizontal pole like a clothes rack above the stove, wrapped duck eggs in cotton wool, and hung them in baskets above the stove.

Li Mu probably tried the temperature, and it was almost slightly higher than his body temperature.Li Mu can't be precise about the exact degree, he can only feel a rough idea.

After completing the simple equipment for hatching duck eggs, Li Mu picked up the duck eggs before and put them in the house, and went down the mountain to find the people who had worked for him before.

003.

He was delayed because of some things before, and he just came back now.

The batch of ducks with white spots on their backs that he is raising now have grown up one by one, and it is time to sell the ducks.

The little ducks have already been bought, so naturally he doesn't plan to keep the big ducks, so he plans to catch these ducks and sell them in a day or two.

This is not the first time that everyone has experienced such a thing, so under Li Mu's help, everyone quickly helped to count.

Li Mu is now cooperating with the pier and several restaurants in Anfu. This batch of ducks is sent over, and each household has a fixed number of how much to send.

They have to arrange these in advance. After arriving at the place, they can unload and settle the goods quickly.

And before the ducks are caught, caged and sold, Li Mu must also have an estimate, and he must know how much money this batch can earn back.

If you don't clean up these things first, and wait until you really want to sell them, then you will be in a hurry and go wrong.

Li Mu has always been doing these things of counting the number of ducks, and Zhong Manlu stands aside to help.

After planning to ask Zhong Manlu to help with some things before, this time Li Mu directly called Zhong Manlu over and asked him to take stock, while he watched from the sidelines.

Zhong Manlu has already practiced well, but in the past it was Li Mu who took the lead, and he acted according to Li Mu's words.

Now that he was suddenly asked to come, he was stunned for a while at first, but he still finished the matter and did it well.

Li Mu has been standing by the side to check, and Zhong Xiuyuan has been learning secretly by the side. He has not been exposed to these things for a long time, and now there are many things to learn again.

After Zhong Manlu finished counting the number of ducks, divided them into several large boxes according to the plan, and brought the account book over, Li Mu nodded and said affirmatively: "Good job, basically all Take care, and be more careful in the future."

Zhong Manlu immediately scratched his head with a smile when he heard the words, feeling a little embarrassed by Li Mu's praise.

After looking at the numbers on the ledger, Li Mu put away the ledger and put it in his arms, then pointed at Zhong Xiuyuan next to him and said, "Your brother is back, and he will help with the family affairs in the future. Some, you have time to teach him more."

After hearing Li Mu's words, Zhong Xiuyuan nodded seriously, but Zhong Manlu became a little excited.

Although he didn't see his brother Zhong Xiuyuan's majestic appearance when he was in the barracks, in his heart, Zhong Xiuyuan has always been stronger than him, and he didn't expect that now he has something to teach Zhong Xiuyuan , which made him inevitably a little happy.

Seeing his appearance, Zhong Xiu stretched out his hand and patted his shoulder, and couldn't help but feel a little more relieved in his eyes.

At this moment, Li Mu said again: "You will learn from me about selling ducks from today. If you can do it well in the future, I will take care of selling ducks for you."

"Really!" Zhong Manlu, who was a little embarrassed because Zhong Xiuyuan patted himself on the shoulder, immediately got excited.

Now Li Mu's family business is slowly starting to grow, raising ducks, selling ducks, and selling duck eggs. There are many things going on in this series of things.Among them, selling ducks is particularly important, after all, it is related to profits.

In the past, these things were done by Li Mu himself, which is normal, after all, carelessness is not allowed.

Now, according to what Li Mu said, if this matter is left to him in the future, then the task on his shoulders will be heavy.

More importantly, if Li Mu can entrust such an important matter to him, does that also show Li Mu's trust in him?

Thinking of this level, Zhong Manlu's face was flushed a little, his eyes sparkled even more, and he was very excited.

Li Mu nodded, and under Zhong Manlu's more and more excited gaze, he said: "In the future, your brother and I will raise ducks on this mountain, and there will inevitably be more and more things, you have to learn this thing quickly. "

Zhong Manlu nodded quickly. He had always wanted to learn, but he hadn't been able to open his mouth. Now that Li Mu opened his mouth, he was naturally full of energy.

"This year's spring has turned into summer, and it is estimated that the fruit trees in our mountains will also bear a batch of fruits. You have to learn all these things before then." Li Mu said.

He also caught up with a good day, now that the Great Ning War has stopped, this year, the market for the duck in his hands is open, and the fruit trees in the mountains are also going to bear fruit.

If this year can go through smoothly, it is estimated that at the end of the year, he will have a lot of income in his hands.

After telling Zhong Manlu about this, Li Mu asked him to learn more from Xia Jingming, and then took Zhong Xiuyuan up the mountain.

Although the matter of selling ducks is urgent, it is not something that can be done in a day or two.

After all the ducks are crated, enough feed must be prepared to take with them on the road, and the person escorting the ducks to sell must also be selected.

In the past, every time ducks were sold, Li Mu personally brought Xia Jingming and two capable and hard-working people to do it by himself.

This time, he definitely couldn't leave because of the duck egg hatching at home, so he planned to hand over this matter to Xia Jingming and Zhong Manlu.

After going up the mountain, Li Mu found Xia Jingming, told him about the matter, and asked him to choose two people in the mountain that he thought could help, and handed over the matter to him and Zhong Manlu.

Xia Jingming has been by his side for a long time, he is also a quick-witted person, and he is not the kind of narrow-minded person, so Li Mu is quite at ease with him.

After being busy for half an afternoon, it was not until nightfall that Li Mu dismissed the crowd and took Zhong Xiuyuan back to the mountain.

After going up the mountain, Li Mu immediately ran to look at his duck egg, while Zhong Xiuyuan and Zhong Manlu went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

In the mountains, there are only three big men in their family. It is meaningless for Junziyuan to cook in their family. After all, it is impossible for them not to eat.

When the two Zhong Xiuyuan brothers brought the simple meals to the table, Li Mu, who was squatting on the threshold for some reason, turned around and threw something in vain.

After the two took the things, they looked at the warm egg in their palms and looked at each other in blank dismay.

Li Mu knocked the other duck egg in his arms on the threshold twice, and then slowly peeled it off.

The duck egg he put on the stove before going down the mountain was fully cooked.

Looking at the white and fat duck egg in his hand, Li Mu didn't know for a moment whether he should be thankful that he didn't put the duck egg he bought just now, or whether he should be thankful that he had the foresight to try it once.

"Let's eat first, and think about it after eating." Zhong Xiuyuan looked at the stove next to him that had been dismantled by Li Mu.

He didn't know what Li Mu wanted to make, but he had roughly seen the reason for Li Mu's failure.

The temperature of the stove may not be high at the beginning, but if it is baked at one place for a long time, the temperature of that place will become higher and higher.

Li Mu put the basket directly above the stove, although it was separated by a long distance, but after a long time, the bamboo strips and cotton wool under the basket were burnt, and the duck eggs were of course cooked.

Although Li Mu was a little discouraged, he was not so frustrated that he couldn't eat anymore, so he finished eating the duck eggs in his hand, clapped his hands, and went to the table to eat.

After the meal, I cleaned up the things on the table.

When Li Mu went to Xia Jingming and the others to pay his wages for the month he was away, when he returned home, he saw that the stove he had dismantled earlier had been erected again.

Zhong Xiuyuan was squatting in front of the stove with his back to the door, tossing about something.

Li Mu walked over and saw Zhong Xiuyuan put the stove back to its original position, but this time there were some more stone slabs above the stove.

The stone slab should have been moved in with the help of Zhong Manlu, and there was still some mud on it.

The stone slab was put on top of the stove by Zhong Xiuyuan, and with his help, it turned into something like an arch bridge.

Seeing Li Mu coming in, Zhong Xiuyuan turned around and looked carefully for a while.

After a while, he stood up, "Do you think this will work?"

Needless to say, Zhong Xiuyuan, Li Mu's eyes lit up after seeing what he made.

Zhong Xiuyuan made the thin stone flakes that Zhongman Road brought in into a shape similar to a big box. Although the stones were a bit ugly because of the irregularities, the general shape was already out.

The furnace is heated under the stone. Through the heat conduction and heat resistance of the stone, the heat can be evenly distributed and not gathered in one place, which prevents the possibility of overheating in one place and makes the temperature more balanced.

To put it bluntly, this thing is actually a bit like an oven made of stone.

Watching Zhong Xiuyuan make this thing before, Li Mu immediately thought of it.

Li Mu had been struggling with the temperature before, but he forgot that there was this thing. He was confused.

Zhong Xiuyuan had never seen an oven before, but Li Mu couldn't help admiring him for being able to come up with such a thing now.

He was able to think of and understand the function of this thing based on the premise that he had seen and used this thing before, but Zhong Xiuyuan thought it up with his own wisdom.

Seeing Li Mu's admiring expression, Zhong Xiu went to the side to get new cotton wool, built a nest among the stones, and then took some ordinary duck eggs to put in it.

Whether it will work or not is still uncertain, and I will not know until I see the results tomorrow morning.

After tossing about these things, the sky has already darkened.

This matter can't be rushed for a moment, so everyone went back to the room to sleep after washing.

"If it doesn't work tomorrow, add some wooden boards inside, and it should be able to insulate the heat." Zhong Xiuyuan said while taking off his coat.

He actually didn't know much about these things, but he probably understood what Li Mu wanted, so he pondered how to achieve what Li Mu wanted.

"Ah."

"However, even if this thing is really made, I guess it needs to be watched by someone often, lest the temperature sometimes get high." Zhong Xiuyuan said again.

"Ah."

Zhong Xiuyuan was about to speak again, but saw the person next to him lying on the bed looking at him, he was a little puzzled, "What?"

Li Mu, who had already taken off his clothes, waved at him, and after tricking the person to his side, he grabbed the person's hand and pulled it directly, causing the person to stagger and fall on top of him.

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