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Chapter 29 The first trial of brewing

That night, Bai Qiaoqiao didn't leave. When Li Mu finished eating, she removed the table. The couple was tired, snuggled up together, and lay down in their clothes. On weekdays, Li Mu had to touch and grab it a few times, but today he was too tired and fell asleep in Bai Qiaoqiao's arms without saying a few words. Bai Qiaoqiao hugged him gently, and soon his eyelids sank. When he opened his eyes again, it was already bright. She quickly put Li Mu down gently, took the pillow for him, washed it briefly in the yard, and went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast.

When Li Mu woke up, Sun had already gone to the construction site to talk to the women who cooked. Bai Qiaoqiao was worried about Li Mu, so she asked Sun to help tell her that she would go there later and cook at noon according to the old rules. Vegetables and rice were enough. In fact, even if she was not present, Sun would not make any mistakes. After all, she was less than forty years old and could not be considered old. She used to look old because of worry and overwork. She had already been well raised over the past period of time and was already a lot of radiance. Otherwise, she would not have been unable to stay at home, so she would go to the construction site to chat with someone after dinner.

"Madam, today I want to do something big!" Li Mu drank the porridge that Bai Qiaoqiao left for him, and turned back to the front yard, looking mysterious. Bai Qiaoqiao didn't know what he was doing, but he could also think of the parts he got in the middle of the night yesterday, and followed in and asked, "Do you need my help?"

"No, no, no, you can't move." Li Mu said while cleaning up: "In this way, go to the construction site to call a few people, just say I will give you double the salary and find young and strong people. It doesn't take too many, just four or five!"

"Well, I'll go now." Bai Qiaoqiao heard that she needed four or five people to help, and knew that her strength would not work, and she was afraid that it would delay Li Mu's major affairs and hurried out.

After a while, Bai Qiaoqiao brought four people back, all of whom were about the same age as Li Mu. But they seemed timid in front of Li Mu. Li Mu had arranged their work these days, and everyone knew that he was the county magistrate of the county. Although everyone was of the same age, their status was very different, so they naturally did not dare to be arrogant. Li Mu had already divided all kinds of parts into piles, and each of them was responsible for one pile. Li Mu stood at the door and pointed to the shop at the west side of the street, asking them to move all the parts. The four young men delivered two trips each, and all the parts were transported. Li Mu asked them to carry the grain again, and carried the steam cooling pipe himself. The group pulled open the seal at the door of the shop and entered one after another.

The four of them were all craftsmen on the city wall construction site, so brick laying was no problem. According to Li Mu's instructions, the four of them built a large stove, which was used to steam rice. They put an iron pot and then built bricks to seal it. Then Li Mu asked them to rest next to them, and used their carpentry skills to start assembling distillation equipment.

He was busy and sweating, and finally installed the distillation equipment. Li Mu rubbed his hands and ordered people to wash rice into the pot and steam the rice! When the rice was steamed, he invested the "three cups of pour" wine koji that he had spent one or two silvers from the system. After stirring, he sealed the steamer.

"Okay, it's time tonight!" Li Mu took out the money from his arms and gave it to him according to the one-day wage. The four of them were happy and worked half a day of work. After two days of wages, they could still earn normal wages in the afternoon, and they earned more than twice as much as they could.

After sending the worker away, Li Mu was hungry and was about to go home to find something to eat, when he saw Bai Qiaoqiao coming in with a bamboo basket. Li Mu couldn't help laughing. No wonder he couldn't find her just now. It turned out that he was going home to cook. This feeling was really comfortable. There was someone around him who could match her. When needed, she naturally appeared in the right place. This feeling might be called happiness.

"Langjun, what does this strange thing do?" Bai Qiaoqiao handed the bamboo basket to Li Mu, circled around the distillation equipment, and asked in confusion.

Li Mu bit the steamed bun in his mouth, and when he heard Bai Qiaoqiao's words, he swallowed the things in his mouth, saying, "This is what I invented to make wine. If it can be successful, the wine made with it will taste better and stronger than the wine made by your father!"

"Really?" Bai Qiaoqiao looked at the strange machine in front of her and felt a little unbelievable. She didn't believe Li Mu, but she felt that Li Mu had never brewed wine, so how could he invent a brewing machine? Her family runs a wine shop. She has been watching people brew wine since she was a child, but she has never bought similar things, so Bai Qiaoqiao was skeptical about whether Li Mu could brew wine.

Li Mu nodded. He was full of confidence now and was not very worried about whether he could brew wine, because the system had never disappointed him. He had just used brewing techniques. The system showed that the conditions for using skills were met. The skill was successfully used. Now, when the fermentation time was over, he could heat and distillate again. The system showed that "three cups poured" would take eight hours of fermentation time. Li Muxin calculated it and probably the time was about to be almost done when the sun was dusk. So now he just needed to wait and see the results.

Bai Qiaoqiao watched Li Mu eat, pursed her lips, as if she wanted to speak but stopped. Li Mu noticed and smiled and said, "Can you really make wine. Don't you believe your husband's ability?"

Bai Qiaoqiao shook her head and said, "Mr. Lang, I'm not thinking about this. I'm...ah, that's all, I'll just say it."

"Say it!"

Bai Qiaoqiao said seriously: "Mr. Lang, I originally thought that you wanted to work with my father to make wine, so I paid him double the salary. But now it seems that he can't use him to make wine, so why do you still have to work together? Our family can do this business by ourselves. I know you love me, but I feel sorry for such a big loss, and my mother can't explain it."

Li Mu laughed and said, "I still think it's such a big deal, and my face is so serious. Didn't I say that he is your father, so he can afford to take care of me. Besides, I'm not giving him money in vain. Even if we can do this business by ourselves, I can't spend all my thoughts on doing business. You forgot, I'm still the county magistrate of this county, and I have some official duties. When I'm too tired of clones, my father will come in handy? He has opened a wine shop for more than 20 years and still has experience in business. When it's not convenient for me to come forward in the future, he can do a lot of things for me, so the money is not in vain. As for my mother, it's not that I have already agreed that I'll mention these things less. If you don't talk about it, I won't remember it!"

"But I feel uneasy!"
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