At lunchtime, Li Mu ate in a small stove at Lao Tietou's residence. As the superintendent of the Ordnance Supervisor, Lao Tietou lived in his own courtyard.
Lao Tietou took a few steamed buns on the stove, brought a pot of wild vegetable soup, and cut the dried bacon that Li Siwen brought to make a meat dish. Although it was not rich, in Dingxiang City at this time, this was already considered a meat dish.
It was an excellent meal. Old Tietou was so happy after eating that he couldn't stop crying and vomiting. Li Siwen didn't eat much, but just nibbled a bun out of curiosity. Li Mu had exhausted all his physical strength and was already hungry.
I had to press my chest against my back, but after all, I was at Lao Tietou's place, and Lao Tietou was still his immediate boss. He didn't want to go too far. He just ate steamed buns and vegetable soup, and didn't even touch the bacon with a chopstick.
As he ate one steamed bun after another, his physical strength slowly recovered. After eating six, his physical strength had returned to 90 points, and Li Mu stopped. He didn't want people to think he was a loser.
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Li Siwen finally swallowed the bun he was chewing, and his face became grim with choking. He picked up a bowl of wild vegetable soup and tried to swallow it, but he choked again and coughed so much that tears came out of his nose. Li Mu patted him on the back, and it took him a while to recover.
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When Lao Tietou saw this, he bared his big yellow teeth and said with a smile: "Master Li, I told you that you won't be used to it, but you still don't believe it. Is this steamed bun for someone as delicate as Xen? Now you can see it.
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Li Siwen was so tortured that he said with lingering fear: "If you don't eat anymore, this steamed bun is too hard!" He looked at Li Mu and said, "You can eat six such hard steamed buns, that's awesome!"
Li Mu smiled bitterly in his heart. After all, he was still being used as a meal. When Lao Tietou heard this, he said something fair for Li Mu: "Master Li, for the work he did in the morning, he only had to eat six. He doesn't know how much he can eat."
If he works hard, he will be hungry, and when he is hungry, he must eat. If he can live, he will not eat for free, but he is afraid that he will not be able to live after eating!"
"I don't understand what you're saying." Li Siwen waved his hand, ignored the old iron head, and asked Li Mu: "Li Mu, I'm just curious. Didn't you say you didn't learn blacksmithing yesterday? Why are you doing so well today?"
Such a good job. Although I don’t know how to blacksmith, I have been to the weapons department a few times and I have never seen anyone make the iron ingots so square."
Of course, Li Mu couldn't tell anything about the system, so he had to pretend to be stupid, scratched the back of his head, and said: "I don't know what's going on, I just want to do my job well. I have never worked in the iron industry before, and today I am still an iron supervisor.
I can do it only if you teach me."
"Impossible!" Old Tietou swallowed the steamed bun in his mouth and said, "Hey, this boy, his face doesn't change even when he lies. How dishonest! Old Tietou, I don't understand anything else. You can't hide the matter of blacksmithing.
I, if you can pack up the iron ingots so neatly, you must have been forging iron." As he said that, he rolled his eyes and said: "I'm afraid there is some secret method, and I'm afraid others will learn it, so I deliberately don't tell it."
Li Mugang was about to explain, but Li Siwen was not happy at first and said: "Old Tietou, why are you so arrogant? My brother has already said that he just wants to do his job well. Is this wrong? Don't you see how tired he is?
Are they all lying on the ground? Besides, even if you have a secret method, why don't you be on guard? I've long heard that you have a secret method for sharpening Mo Dao. Otherwise, you trade your secret method for my brother's, and I
I’ve made the decision and I’ll switch with you, will you switch?”
Lao Tietou quickly waved his hand. His secret method for firing Mo Dao was passed down from his family. It has been passed down to him for the fourth generation. He also relied on this secret method to get into the position of Jianzheng. The Army of the Tang Dynasty
Among them, in addition to the cavalry, the infantrymen used the Mo Dao team as their trump card. The sharpness of the Mo Dao could sometimes even determine the victory of a war. In comparison, Li Mu's secret method of smelting ore was far inferior. After all, iron
The demand for ingots is not that big. As long as it can be used, it doesn't matter if it goes faster or slower.
Although Li Siwen said this, he obviously didn't believe that Li Mu was a novice. Li Mu also saw it. He didn't want to make Li Siwen feel bad about this matter, so he said: "I really don't have any secret skills. Otherwise, this afternoon
While I was working, the railway supervisor was watching?"
Lao Tietou immediately became energetic and said: "Seriously?"
Li Siwen hurriedly said: "Li Mu, this is not a child's play. If you really have a secret skill, you should be on guard. The old man has been working hard for forty years, and his eyes are very vicious. If he learns it, you will be in trouble."
It’s a loss because he’s not willing to change it.”
When Lao Tietou heard this, he just laughed, obviously Li Siwen had hit his mark.
Li Mu said: "Where did the secret method come from? It is the one taught by the Iron Supervisor in the morning. If the secret method can be seen, it was me who learned it unintentionally. It is not my secret method, so it doesn't matter."
Li Mu had already said this, and Li Siwen stopped trying to persuade him. He was also curious about how Li Mu made the iron ingot so square. The old iron head believed that Li Mu had a secret method, and immediately stopped eating and called a little boy.
The apprentice packed up the dishes and took the two of them straight to the room where Li Mu worked.
Li Mu was not worried about what Lao Tietou could see at all. First of all, he knew that there was no secret method, and even if there was, his skills came from the system. How could Lao Tietou see clearly without a system? The three of them came to the furnace
Next to him, Li Mu followed what the old iron head taught him in the morning. He started the fire first, waited until the temperature was about the same, filled in the ore, and waited for the ore to begin to melt. He silently thought about using the skill, and then under the influence of the skill, he took the iron tongs, clamped the crucible, and watered the pot.
Tempering, separation of impurities... after a set of processes, it is exactly the same as what Lao Tietou taught me.
Lao Tietou stared at the side and stared unblinking, trying to find out Li Mu's secret method, but he was disappointed, because Li Mu taught him all the procedures from beginning to end, and there was nothing special about it. If he had to say that there was
The problem is that Li Mu did too well and was too standard!
Li Siwen couldn't see anything at all, but he didn't care. He just found it amusing to see the old Tietou puzzled. Li Siwen deliberately teased him and said, "Old Tietou, you also made a mistake.
when?"
Lao Tietou had nothing to say, so he could only laugh. The atmosphere was awkward for a while. After staying for a while, Lao Tietou left with an excuse to supervise the work, leaving only Li Siwen. When Li Siwen saw Lao Tietou leaving, he said:
"Li Mu, take a rest for a while. Why are you so sincere? You are not too tired to panic."
Li Mu had just finished the second iron ingot. Hearing this, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Of course you have to be honest when you work, otherwise wouldn't it be cheating?"
Li Siwen pulled Li Mu to sit down and said, "Of course it is right to be sincere, but have you ever thought that the more you work, the more work you will have in the future? Everyone gets the same salary. Aren't you stupid?
? Just like this iron ingot, I have explained it for you just now. Even if the old iron man strikes it by himself, he can't make ten yuan a day. You only made ten yuan this morning, and you still do it in the afternoon. I think
In less than three days, you will have to finish all this pile of iron ore. Will Old Tietou let you be idle by then? I will definitely find work for you again. Sit down and rest for a while, and let us chat. "
Li Muba wanted to find more work, so that his skill proficiency could rise faster. But he couldn't bear to refuse Li Siwen's kindness. He asked to take a break, so he took a break. It happened that he still had a lot of doubts.