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Chapter 72 Horseshoes

The next day, Li Mu continued to brew wine, and this time he did it himself, without fake hands. Because his skill proficiency was already very high, the speed of each step was also accelerated a lot. By noon, he had already entered the distillation and condensation process. Just wait, and he didn't need to take care of it.

He didn't waste time, so he asked Li Bi to get a set of iron-thrusting guys. While waiting for the wine to condense, he began to prepare for forging thicker and longer iron pipes to prepare for future wineries. Li Mu did not ask anyone to help with this step, mainly to improve his skill proficiency. Forging skills occupies a very important position in his plan, and he must upgrade 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 about to be sent to the palace had been brewed. Time was limited, and Li Mu did not learn the new recipe and planned to wait until the winery was built. On the other hand, he also melted twenty iron ingots. Tomorrow he would forge the condenser used in the large distillation equipment of the winery. For the remaining carpentry part, Li Mu planned to hand over the drawings of the large carpenter to the skilled craftsmen, and make the precise small parts by himself, so that he could make the progress. His carpenter skills have not been planned to be upgraded recently.

Li Ji was very concerned about what Li Mu did and sent people to ask about it every day. But he was very sensible. The people sent never entered the martial arts field and only waited at the door. This was to dispel Li Mu's doubts, so as not to worry about whether someone had secretly learned secret techniques or something.

In addition to Li Ji, there is another person who is also very concerned about what Li Mu does. This person is Cheng Yaojin. After the day was over, Cheng Yaojin's mind always roamed Li Mu from smiling face to refusing solemnly, but this is not the point. Cheng Yaojin's dignified Duke would not be worried about this little thing. What really touched Cheng Yaojin was the confident expression that Li Mu was talking. Although Cheng Yaojin lived to such an age, he gave people the impression of a reckless man, but in fact he was the smartest, especially the ability of this person to be a good person in the court. Others had their own methods to look at people's faces or listen to words. Cheng Yaojin relied on the intuition of a beast, and he could not explain it clearly himself, but he had not seen it once so far.

So he believed that he would not miss this time. Li Mu, a young man, definitely has something extraordinary.

After holding it in the house for a day, Cheng Yaojin finally couldn't hold it in. When he was practicing his son in the afternoon, Cheng Yaojin couldn't help but be curious when he heard the jingling iron outside the wall. But the nobles of other kings could not move ladders to climb walls every day, which was too unrestrained. Cheng Yaojin thought for a while, and pointed his second son Cheng Chuliang, who was holding a stone lock in the martial arts field, and said, "Go and move the ladders to see what Li Mu is doing!"

"Dad, he is wiping a blacksmith!" Cheng Chuliang replied, with a puzzlement in his eyes. Why can't my dad hear such a loud iron sound?

"Idiot! I don't know how to make a blacksmith? Your father's ears are not deaf. I want you to see what he is hitting! He's so hard, hurry up!"

After being scolded, Cheng Chuliang did not dare to be negligent, so he hurriedly moved the ladder and climbed up the wall. Cheng Yaojin stood beside the ladder, looked up at Cheng Chuliang's hand holding a shed and looked at the next door, and asked, "Did you see clearly? What's that kid doing?"

"Dad, it's a bit dazzling and can't see clearly... Ah! I saw a crescent iron the size of a palm, and a horse, knocking on the horseshoe... Dad, I can't see clearly!"

"Idiot! Come down with me!" Cheng Yaojin pulled Cheng Chuliang down and climbed up the ladder by himself. Although he was not young, his eyes were very terrible. When he narrowed his eyes, he could see everything.

What Li Mu is doing, it starts from yesterday. In the evening of yesterday, Li Mu melted ten iron ingots, but in fact he only needed four forged condensers. The remaining six were forged. Li Mu calculated the experience value. After forging the condenser, the proficiency of the primary skill was close to full point, but it was definitely not enough. In the end, it was still three to five points away. Anyone who has played online games knew that the most difficult thing to practice in life skills was the proficiency before upgrading, because the skill proficiency at this time was already very high, and the chance of further improvement would be very small. When the proficiency was low, maybe you could upgrade your proficiency by doing something, but at this moment, ten things might not be able to improve a little.

What to do? There is only one way to pile materials! How to pile them up naturally, choose the most material-saving drawings among the same grade drawings. Among the primary drawings of forging, the most material-saving one is the "horsehoe". This thing is two crescent-shaped iron sheets. The material required is half the material and consumes less physical strength. It is definitely the best drawing for grade-facing. Of course, Li Mu has no reason not to choose it, so after forging the condenser this morning, he began to forge horseshoe.

When Cheng Chuliang was climbing the wall, Li Mu had just used up the remaining six iron ingots and made a total of 60 sets of horseshoes. He would raise his skill proficiency and finally reach the intermediate level. After seeing the need for intermediate proficiency, he was ten times more than that of primary level, and he suddenly lost his mood to level up. Li Mu was curious about what the "speed +1" on the horseshoe meant, so he asked Li Bi to find a horse and worked with a few servants to study how to nail the horseshoe.

Cheng Yaojin happened to see this scene. When he saw several people circling around a horse, he couldn't figure out 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 Yaojin, so he quickly bowed and said, "I don't know what it means when I return to Su Guo Duke. The child made some iron pieces and said he wanted to nail them to the horseshoe."

Cheng Yaojin jumped off the wall, walked closer, looked at the horseshoe in Li Mu's hand, then looked at the horseshoe, frowned and said, "Boy, are you full and overcrowded? What are you doing to harm the horse?"

Seeing the reactions of the two, Li Mu said in surprise: "Don't you know what you are doing?"

Cheng Yaojin and Li Bi looked at each other, and both of them were confused. Cheng Yaojin said impatiently: "If you have farts, let's play the puzzle. What is this crescent iron piece for?"
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