To put it bluntly, Fu Xianyue is just a twenty-two-year-old girl. She is in college, in love, free and in love, and in her prime.
However, in the Tang Dynasty, they were out-and-out leftover women.
In this era, girls can get married after their menarche. However, while working seriously in the Taishi Bureau, they spent four or five years wasting their youth on a hobby.
It is really difficult to endure eight or nine years of being alone in the cold quilt every night.
Tonight, Fu Xianyue realized for the first time that she was a girl, with fantasies, shyness, and liking a certain man's back.
It seems that everything came too late, and the gap is too big.
Age, identity, and status are all gaps, but they don't block girls' fantasies.
However, Fu Xianyue hid his delusion for the time being, and just thought about making a dinner and being a maid for the whole night.
So, more than an hour later, Li Mu had the most delicious dinner in the Tang Dynasty.
There are only three dishes, one is stewed chicken with fresh mushrooms, one is stir-fried bacon with pickles, and one is stir-fried small green vegetables.
Smooth, comfortable, and a real taste of home.
Li Mu ate very happily with the rice. Fu Xianyue stood beside Li Mu, picking up vegetables and soup for him and watching him devour it.
Li Mu tried to persuade him several times, but Fu Xianyue didn't eat with him. She suddenly liked watching Li Mu eat and serving him with her own hands.
"If there is wine, it would be perfect." Li Mu pressed ahead.
Fu Xianyue said in embarrassment: "I do want to drink, but will it be bad if I drink?"
Li Mu said: "What's wrong? You don't eat food because you're afraid of gaining weight, right? It's okay to drink. How many drinks can we have together?"
Fu Xianyue said: "It's not that I'm afraid of gaining weight. I won't gain weight no matter what I eat. Drinking will make me messy."
Fu Xianyue couldn't say anything about promiscuity even to death. Li Mu smiled and said, "How do you know if you don't drink? Some things are only interesting if you experience them. Get some wine quickly. There is a first time for everything."
Li Mu begged in every possible way, but finally Fu Xianyue compromised and brought a pot of old wine.
Li Mu drank three cups happily, while Fu Xianyue didn't even finish one cup. He only tasted a little, turned pink in the face, coughed several times, ran out, and didn't come in again.
Li Mu didn't want to be too presumptuous. Although the Tang Dynasty was very open, girls' reserve was the most beautiful. To tease an older leftover girl like this was too bad, too gangster, and it was simply a crime.
Li Mu poured himself a cup of old wine and drank it all. He was full of wine and food, and then he heard the sound of the midnight watch drum in the distance.
Li Mu came out and found three bedrooms. The middle one was dark, and the two at both ends had lights on.
Li Mu chuckled lightly. Fu Xianyue had created a little distance between him. In fact, it was easy to break this distance. Li Mu shook his head and gave up.
Don't harm people.
Li Mu walked to his room, pushed the door in, and closed the door without bolting it. He wanted to know if there would be any unexpected gains afterward.
Li Mu found that the quilt had been rolled into a tube shape. When he got in, Li Mu reached out and touched it. The quilt was actually warm. Li Mu lowered his head and smelled a familiar fragrance.
Emotional Fu Xianyue really regarded herself as a maid, and even warmed his bed while he was drinking!
My darling, you are so considerate, why don't you be more direct and hug each other for warmth, wouldn't it be better?
Li Mu got into bed, thought wildly for a while, aroused the urge to drink, and quickly fell asleep.
One night, Li Mu felt like someone was tucking him in, someone was beside the bed, looking at him blankly, and he felt like someone was feeding him tea...
When I woke up in the morning, it was already past midnight. There was a cup of tea on the bedside cabinet, which was still warm.
Did she come in? Maybe she stayed by the bed all night and didn't leave?
Li Mu smiled and thought it was very interesting. He reached out to pick up the tea and drank it all.
Then he hurriedly got dressed, went out and looked around to make sure that Fu Xianyue had left.
Li Mu was sore and sleepy, but he didn't slack off. He found a wooden stick and practiced the moves of the fairy sword seriously in the yard. Once he made a move, he couldn't stop. After practicing for more than an hour, Li Mu gave up.
Li Mu simply washed up and just came out when two officials from the Taishi Bureau, Zhou Qiang and Xu Renjie, came in carrying breakfast.
Both of them were in their twenties, and their attitudes were very sincere. Li Mu had met yesterday, but they didn't talk. They introduced themselves and politely invited Li Mu to dinner.
Li Mu was not polite and asked while eating breakfast: "Don't you, Mr. Fu, come over today?"
Zhou Qiang said: "There are still some official matters in the bureau that must be handled by Mr. Fu personally. She told us to fully cooperate with His Highness the Prince."
Li Mu knew that Fu Xianyue was shy and deliberately avoided him, so he didn't hesitate. After eating breakfast, Li Mu asked the two of them to take him to the processing site first.
Soon, the three of them arrived at Hengjie Sixth Road in a carriage and entered an alley called Limin Lane. The processing plant was not far from the entrance of the alley.
The Supervision Department sent a special official named He Biao to lead a dozen craftsmen to wait for Li Mu.
When they saw Li Mu, they immediately knelt down and greeted Li Mu in unison. Li Mu comforted and praised him a few times. Everyone saw that Li Mu was easy-going and they soon became amicable.
Li Mu asked: "Master He, please show me all the raw materials and processing equipment first. Is there anything missing?"
He Biao was in his mid-thirties and was a stocky man. He said hurriedly: "Your Highness, the word "Sir" cannot be used by He Biao. Please call me by your nickname. This way."
He Biao led the way, and Li Mu, Zhou Qiang, and Xu Renjie arrived at the warehouse together. Li Mu took a look and was shocked. Various metal materials and processing equipment were divided into three rooms.
Li Mu checked the names of various materials in turn, including pig iron, wrought iron, fine iron, bronze, copper, brass, tin, lead, vitriol, mercury, cinnabar, including a silver ingot.
All the metal materials in the Tang Dynasty will be available. It seems that Li Longji's words are really useful.
Li Mu looked at it and nodded in praise. Datang's processing industry seemed to be very advanced.
After reading it, Li Mu was thoughtful and felt something was wrong. Suddenly, Li Mu reacted and shouted loudly: "Where is the zinc? Why is there no zinc? What I want is zinc. Give me zinc."
Li Mu stared at the three people as if he were eating people, waving his hands.
He Biao, Zhou Qiang, and Xu Renjie were so frightened by Li Mu that they kept retreating.
He Biao asked: "Your Highness, what's wrong with you? Do you want a heart? A pig's heart or a sheep's heart? Oh, you don't want to kill someone, do you?"
Zhou Qiang and Xu Renjie looked at each other, even more confused. They didn't understand this at all.
Li Mu was so angry that he cursed: "Pig's heart and sheep's heart, do you have any? What I want is metal zinc, I really want to kill someone."
He Biao kept waving his hands and said: "His Royal Highness, as long as it is not really about killing people and taking their hearts, everything is easy to talk about. Please explain it slowly and clearly, and I will answer the truth, okay?"
Li Mu sat down on an iron ingot depressedly. The three of them hurriedly gathered around.
He Biao asked: "Your Highness, the zinc you are talking about is not made of meat, but metal. What is it like? I haven't heard of it?"
Zhou Qiang said: "Yes, your highness, please make it clear that as long as Datang has it, we will do everything possible to get it for you."
Li Mu asked anxiously: "He Biao, are you sure our Datang Dynasty has not smelted zinc?"
Li Mu said, and wrote a big word "zinc" on the ground with his fingers.
He Biao shook his head, Zhou Qiang and Xu Renjie also shook their heads.
He Biao said: "To be honest with you, Your Highness, I have worked in the Manufacturing Supervision Department for almost twenty years. All our metal materials are here, except for gold."
Li Mu was extremely sad and asked: "So, the galvanizing process is even more nonsense?"
He Biao said: "There is no problem with gold plating, silver plating, including tin plating and copper plating, but there is absolutely no zinc plating that His Highness mentioned, because we have never seen what zinc is."
"You're done, screw me." Li Mu stood up and swore. He had made many lightning rods by himself, but the main material was galvanized pipe.
There is no zinc, and I have never even heard of smelting zinc. How can I be a bird feather?
Li Mu got irritated and kicked the iron spindle. He screamed and almost broke his body.
"Your Highness, Your Highness?" The three of them were frightened and were at a loss.
Li Mu waved his hand and said, "I'm fine. You guys go out first. I want to be quiet?"