Li Mu had enough food and had a great appetite for food. He heard that Li Siwen said that Ma Zhou was sealing the grain, so he stopped saying anything. He stood up and said, "I wanted to take a few days of maternity leave to accompany my wife and children, but I didn't expect that even this requirement became a luxury. When will you, the bunch of waste, grow up?"

"Oh, brother, isn't this an urgent matter? You want to rest. After this period of time, you have time anyway."

"Who told you that I have time?" Li Mu put on his robe and said, "I will go out in a few days. It will take a month and a half to come back after leaving. Your ability to do business is so poor, how can I feel at ease?"

Li Siwen was shocked: "Brother, are you going? Where are you going?" Before Li Mu answered, he thought to himself that "understand". He came to Li Mu and whispered: "Brother, are you going to run away? Resist the order to refuse marriage. Your Majesty has dealt with you? Where are you going? Take me with you? Let's go-" Halfway through, he suddenly remembered that he also had a wife, and hurriedly said: "Brother, you and your sister-in-law will take the lead. I have to go back to Dingxiang first..."

"What's in your mind!" Li Mu knocked on Li Siwen and said, "Why are you running? I'm going to find Sister Ou,"

"Oh," Li Siwen didn't have a deep impression of Wang Ou and reacted coldly. He knew that Wang Ou was also pregnant with Li Mu's child, so he subconsciously looked at Bai Qiaoqiao. Seeing that Bai Qiaoqiao was not surprised, he knew in his heart that the couple must have discussed it.

But in Li Siwen's heart, Bai Qiaoqiao is the real sister-in-law, so he was very dissatisfied with Li Mu's behavior of leaving home before Bai Qiaoqiao was confinement. However, as a younger brother, he was not easy to talk about his brother's faults, so he had to stop talking.

Li Mu guessed that Li Siwen's idea, and he didn't want to interfere with what Li Siwen thought. Although the two were brothers, Li Siwen was also an independent person. It was his own business that he wanted to respect whom he didn't want to respect. As long as he could live a good life, the elder brother had to pretend to be confused.

Li Mu put on his clothes and kissed the two children, which made the two kids cry. After Bai Qiaoqiao's pink fist, he took Li Siwen away with satisfaction. While walking, the two brothers chatted: "I will leave in three days. Before leaving, I will leave a charter for all matters. Please help me watch, perform their own duties, and act according to the charter. If you write to Chang'an, you don't have to cover up and just say that I'll go out to do things. There is no need to explain anything, Your Majesty has a clear idea."

Li Siwen didn't say anything, Li Mu looked at him and said, "What do you mean? My wife is going to have a baby, so I can't even go and see it. Qiaoqiao didn't even say anything, where did you come and feel wronged?"

"Brother, you shouldn't say this as a brother."

Li Mu said angrily: "Then don't say it."

"But I still have to say it!" Li Siwen stammered his neck and said, "Brother, do you know why I respect Sister Qiao Qiao Qiao? The reason is that Sister Qiao Qiao Qiao is sincere to you. What about others?"

Li Mu frowned: "It's true to me. Why do you see that you are not sincere?"

"Ha!" Li Siwen looked too lazy to argue, turned his head aside. The two brothers took a few steps, and Li Mu grabbed him, a little anxious, and said, "You have made it clear, why do you think that others are not treating me sincerely?"

"I won't mention the one around me. I will just talk about that Wang Ou." Although Li Siwen was "afraid of" Li Mu, he was more of a younger brother and respected his elder brother. In fact, he was not afraid of anything. If he really talked about it, he would have been kind to Li Mu. If he hadn't pulled Li Mu in Dingxiang and later came to Chang'an to settle down with Li Ji's relationship, maybe he was still in Mayi now.

When you are anxious, you must be Li Siwen, who dares to speak in front of Li Mu. No one else has the qualifications.

"Brother, I'll ask you. Is that Wang Ou a married woman?"

Li Mu was silent.

"She said that her husband was dead, and people in the world thought he was dead, but did he really die? I heard of some things!"

Li Mu frowned. Few people should know about Cui Yuzheng's not dead. How did Li Siwen know about it? Could it be that Dugu Jiu told him? It's not right. Dugu Jiu's mouth was not so loose. He couldn't reveal it to the second person when it comes to his own affairs.

"It's not what Xiaojiu said." Li Siwen had no need to hide it in front of Li Mu: "The people in Luoyang know a lot about this. Wang Ou, who has a close relationship with Mrs. Lu, lives in Luoyang for a month or two every year. Someone saw that she always traveled back and forth in two carriages, so rumors spread, saying that there were people outside the Miss Wang family and the Widow of the Cui family."

Li Siwen didn't care how nasty Li Mu looked and continued: "I think these rumors about the people in the knowledge market are not like this. After all, the Wang family in Taiyuan and the Cui family in Qinghe are both well-known families, so she should not dare to do such things. Then there is only one possibility, and her husband is still alive."

"What happened later confirmed my guess." Li Siwen approached Li Mu and asked, "Brother, have you ever thought about why she disappeared just after she got pregnant? Brother, don't be stupid, they are just asking you to borrow-"

"Enough!" Li Mu interrupted Li Siwen's words sternly. He had thought about this possibility, but he didn't want to admit it. He didn't think that Wang Ou's feelings for him were fake.

"Brother!"

"I will investigate whether you are using me or not." Li Mu stared at Li Siwen's eyes and said, "But as long as she is my woman for one day, she will be your sister-in-law. You can say anything you want to block my face, but in front of her, if you still have this attitude, you will not treat me as your elder brother."

This was quite heavy. Seeing that Li Mu was really angry, Li Siwen was anxious: "Brother, when did I have such thoughts? You can't misunderstand me like this!"

Li Mu sighed, patted Li Siwen on the shoulder, and said, "You are my best brother, what can I misunderstand you? Your elder brother, I have been unruly and free in my life, only love for love, and care about my heart. No matter whether she treats me sincerely or falsely, I treat her sincerely, and that's enough. No matter what the result is, I have to see her with my own eyes and ask her with my own words--"

"Brother," Li Siwen didn't know what to say, and sighed. The two brothers stopped talking, and walked to the front yard in silence.

...

Li Siwen hurriedly looked for what Li Mu wanted to do, which was the talent show that he had held a few days ago. The selected craftsmen have been arranged to the places they should go one after another. However, the apprentice has not been selected yet.

Many people have solved the problem of water flowing upwards that Li Mu asked for. For example, Ikkyu thought about it almost the same, and most people could think of it on the water wheel, and also made models of the water wheel, and gave a demonstration. Ikkyu held it in for three days and almost held it all over the hair that had just grown. Finally, he thought of a unique way for him.

He made three bowls and stacked them from low to high. Then he found three reed tubes, bent them to a certain degree, connected them to three bowls, poured the water into the lowest bowl, and the water magically walked upwards.

When he was demonstrating, his skills were amazing. Ikkyu himself was quite proud, but in Li Mu's eyes, there was nothing strange about it. Just a simple siphon phenomenon, any junior high school student who had studied physics could make exactly the same experiment. However, limited to the vision of people in this era, it was not easy for Ikkyu to think of this method in three days.

Li Mu set up the question, and he didn't want to make things difficult, but he just didn't want to collect the useless people in. Being able to make a water truck can at least prove that these people have good hands-on skills. As an apprentice, this is enough.

Eliminated people who can't do anything, and there are not many people left. Today Li Mu will take out some real things. He divided all prospective apprentices into groups of varying numbers. Each group was divided into a drawing. He asked these groups to complete the content on the drawings within a month, under limited material conditions.

If they can complete it, they can become one of Li Mu's apprentices. If they fail and go home with the papers, they will pretend that nothing has happened in more than a month, which is about a "open-book exam".

Since it is open book, everyone can see the title. Gongsun Kang is an expert. When he sees the drawings distributed by Li Mu, he can roughly guess what these drawings are. Although each drawing is not completed, looking at the approximate shape of the parts, these should be parts used on the ship.

Thinking of Li Mu's bold statement that he wanted to build a ten thousand stone ship. Gongsun Kang thought of a scary possibility. Could it be that the Marquis wanted these people, those who were not even craftsmen, to build a ten thousand stone ship, right?

"Can this work?" Gongsun Kang's head was puzzled and wanted to talk to Li Mu about this. But then he thought about it, what does this matter have to do with him. He is now responsible for cultivating Chidao, and only the issue of Chidao is related to him. What the Marquis dislike most is that he is too lenient and talking about it himself will only make the Marquis unhappy.

Besides, compared with the Marquis, isn’t this awesome in front of Lu Ban? What I thought of, can the Marquis not think of?

It's a little redundant.

...

After dealing with the apprenticeship, Li Mu asked someone to bring his horse over and planned to call Li Siwen out together. He went to Xicheng to find Dugu Jiu. The three of them found a place to have a drink. But Li Siwen had not stopped coming yet and said he was going to the construction site to supervise the worker. Without giving Li Mu the face, Li Mu had to come out for a walk by himself.

I have been here in Luoyang for a while, but Li Mu has never seriously appreciated the exquisiteness of Luoyang City. Today, I had time to ride a horse slowly and wander around, and Li Mu discovered that Luoyang City was indeed unique.

As a city, its design ideas are much better than Chang'an City. This kind of goodness is not reflected in the construction process, but the ideas and ideas. Whether it is solid or not, it should generally be that the walls of Chang'an City are stronger.

The patrol of the Jinyiwei has become normal. At the same time, there will be at least one team of Jinyiwei in every yard, such as the two cities in the north and south, and at least two teams of Jinyiwei in the north and south, just in case of an emergency. Seeing Li Mu coming, the Jinyiwei will be greeted as soon as possible. Li Mu also raised his hand and gestured, even if he returned the gift.

There are ten people in each team of Jinyiwei, two of whom hold crossbows, and the other eight are equipped with crossbow arrows with the same appearance as the crossbow, and can only be shot alone. This is because Li Mu, who can do crossbows alone, has extremely limited production capacity. If you can't do one of Jinyiwei, you have to take this bad strategy. In addition, every five people have a crossbow, which is actually enough. After all, as long as the distance is enough, a crossbow can withstand dozens of people. Regardless of whether you have any skills or not, this is definitely not a blow.

As for why the other four people carry a single crossbow arrow, the reason is simple - you can't just leave empty-handed, right? The crossbow arrow is powerful, even if you can't have ten arrows in one breath like a continuous crossbow, it is faster than a bow and arrow. If you hit it, the killing will be produced. Crossbow arrows with many backs can also be used as a supplementary magazine for a continuous crossbow. This setting is very reasonable.

It is difficult to make crossbows, but crossbows are not difficult. As long as you have money, you can do it. The blacksmiths who came out of Li Mu's "study" have a special group of people who are responsible for creating crossbows. The current output and inventory are still more than enough to be used in Luoyang City.

"Marty?"

Li Mu was so immersed in his mind that suddenly a sound came from behind him, which scared him. Li Mu looked at him in a daze, squinted his eyes and looked carefully before recognizing it, and smiled and said, "It turns out that it is the Prime Minister of Tubo. What wind has blown you to Luoyang?"

"It was because His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty had an order that the trade between foreign countries and the Tang Dynasty would be under the jurisdiction of the Foreign Affairs Office in the future." Lu Dongzan said with a confused face, "I came to Luoyang when I asked about the Foreign Affairs Office in Luoyang City, but after asking around in Luoyang City, there was no such place as the Foreign Affairs Office. I was about to visit the Marquis, and by the way, I asked where the Foreign Affairs Office was. It happened that I met the Marquis here."

Li Mu thought to himself, don’t say you don’t know where the Foreign Affairs Office is, I don’t know where it is. The Foreign Affairs Office is still preparing and the team has not been built, so there is no yamen to do business.

Thinking of this, there are quite a lot of things on hand. Fortunately, they are not very important, and I won’t be very anxious when I wait for two months.

Li Mu got off the horse and pulled Lu Dongzan to a roadside stall, and ordered two bowls of mutton soup. Lu Dongzan looked at the mutton soup and looked embarrassed, but in the end he didn't say anything and started drinking with Li Mu.

"You came to the Foreign Affairs Office to negotiate a deal? Why, what business does Tubo have to take care of?"
Chapter completed!