Chapter 72: Horseshoe
The next day, Li Mu continued to make wine, this time by himself, without the hands of others. Since his skill proficiency was already very high, the speed of each step had also accelerated a lot, and by noon, he had already entered the distillation and condensation process, just waiting, and he didn't need to take care of it.
He didn't waste any time, he asked Li Bi to get a set of iron-striking things, and while waiting for the wine to condense, he began to prepare for forging thicker and longer iron pipes for future use in the winery. In this step, Li Mu also didn't find anyone to help, mainly to improve his skill proficiency, forging skills occupy a very important position in his planning, and he wants to be promoted to the intermediate level as soon as possible.
In this way, another day passed, and in the evening, the ten jars of wine that were to be sent to the palace had been brewed, and the time was limited, Li Mu did not learn the new recipe, and planned to wait for the completion of the construction of the winery to make plans. On the other side, he also melted out twenty iron ingots, and tomorrow he will forge the condenser tube used in the large distillation equipment of the distillery, and the remaining carpentry part, Li Mu plans to hand over the large pieces to skilled craftsmen, and the precise small parts will be done by himself, so that he can catch up with the progress, and his carpenter skills have no plans to upgrade in the near future.
Li Ji is very attentive to what Li Mu does, and he will send people to ask questions every day. But he was very measured, and the people sent never entered the martial arts arena, but only waited at the door, this was to dispel the doubts in Li Mu's heart, lest he worry about whether someone was stealing a secret method or something.
In addition to Li Ji, there is another person who is also very concerned about what Li Mu does, and this person is Cheng Yanjin. After the unhappy end of the day, Cheng Yanjin's mind always flashed Li Mu's appearance from a smile to a solemn refusal, but this is not the point, Cheng Biting Jin is a dignified prince, and he will not worry about this little thing in his heart. What really moved Cheng Biting Jin was the confident look that Li Mu exuded when he spoke, Cheng Biting Jin lived to such an age, although he gave people the impression of a reckless man, but in fact he was the most shrewd, especially the ability of this person, which was also one of the best in the court. Others have their own methods for using their faces, or looking at faces, or listening to conversations. And Cheng bites the golden man, all based on the intuition of a beast, he himself can't tell, but so far, he hasn't looked away once.
So he believes that this time he will not lose his eyes. Li Mu, a descendant, definitely has something unusual.
After holding back at home for a day, Cheng Yanjin finally couldn't hold it back. When he was practicing his son in the afternoon, Cheng Yanjin heard the clanging sound of iron outside the wall, and he couldn't help but be curious. But he is the respect of the country, and he can't move a ladder to climb the wall every day, which is too self-respecting. Cheng Biting Jin pursed his lips and thought about it, he stretched out his hand and pointed at Cheng Chuliang, the second son who was lifting the stone lock in the martial arts field, and said, "You go and move the ladder and see what Li Mu is doing!" ”
"Dad, he's striking iron!" Cheng Chuliang replied, his eyes revealing wondering, how could Dad not hear such a loud sound of iron?
"Idiot! I don't know about striking iron? Your dad is not deaf, I want you to see what he is fighting! Grinding, hurry! ”
After being scolded, Cheng Chuliang didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly moved the ladder and climbed the wall. Cheng Yanjin stood next to the ladder, looked up at Cheng Zhiliang and put up a pergola to look next door, and asked, "Did you see it clearly, what is that kid doing?" ”
"Dad, it's a bit dazzling, I can't see clearly...... Yes! See, a palm-sized crescent iron, and a horse, knocking on the horse's shoe...... Dad, I don't understand! ”
"Idiot! You give Lao Tzu down! Cheng Yanjin brought Cheng Chu Liang down, climbed the ladder by himself, don't look at his age, his eyes are very thief, his eyes are squinted, and everything is in full view.
If you want to say what Li Mu is doing, it starts from yesterday. Yesterday evening, Li Mu smelted ten iron ingots, but in fact, he only needed four to forge condenser tubes, and the remaining six, he was for the 'level', Li Mu calculated the experience points, after forging the condenser tubes, the primary skill proficiency was close to the full point, but it was definitely not full, and in the end there were still three to five points, people who have played online games know that the most difficult life skills to practice is the proficiency of the first few points before the upgrade, because the skill proficiency at this time is already very high, and the chance of further improvement will be very small. When proficiency is low, you may be able to upgrade your proficiency by making one thing, but at this point, ten things may not be able to improve a little.
What to do? There is only one way, take the pile of materials! How to stack, it is natural to choose the most material-saving drawings of the same level of drawings to punch. In the primary drawings of the forging class, the most material-saving is the 'horseshoe', which is two crescent-shaped pieces of iron, which requires half of the material than thistle terrestris, and consumes less physical strength, which is definitely the best drawing for the level. Of course, Li Mu didn't have a reason not to choose it, so after forging the condenser tube this morning, he began to forge the horseshoe.
When Cheng Chuliang climbed the wall, Li Mu had just used up the remaining six iron ingots, and a total of sixty sets of horseshoes were made, and the skill proficiency of the general was full, and the forging technique finally reached the intermediate level. After seeing the demand for intermediate proficiency, it was ten times more than that of the beginner, and suddenly I was not even in the mood to level up. It happened that Li Mu was very curious about what the 'speed +1' on the horseshoe meant, so he asked Li Bi to find a horse and study how to nail the horseshoe together with a few subordinates.
Cheng Yanjin happened to see such a scene, he saw a few people circling around a horse, he really couldn't understand what it meant, he couldn't help but be curious, and asked, "Hey! What are you doing? ”
Li Bi looked up and saw that it was Cheng Biting Jin, so he hurriedly saluted and said, "Go back to Su Guogong, I don't know what it means, this kid hit some iron pieces and said that he wanted to nail them to the horseshoe." ”
Cheng Yanjin jumped down from the wall, walked closer, looked at the horseshoe in Li Mu's hand, looked at the horse's hooves again, frowned, and said, "Boy, are you full, what are you doing to harm the horse?" ”
Seeing the reaction of these two people, Li Mu was surprised: "You don't know what you're doing?" ”
Cheng Yanjin and Li Bi glanced at each other, both of them at a loss. Cheng Yanjin said impatiently: "If you have a fart, let it go, what kind of dumb riddle to play." What is this crescent iron piece for? ”
Could it be that there were no horseshoes in the Tang Dynasty? Li Mu secretly said in his heart, no wonder the online games of later generations, whether it is historical novels, they will inevitably be sprayed by some 'examination parties' who have drilled into the pile of old paper, and the homework is really not in place. Broken games still dare to call the Legend of the Tang Dynasty, is the word Datang an ornament? It's winemaking again, and it's horseshoes, don't you know that there were no horseshoes in the Tang Dynasty? Net blind setting.