Wife is an enemy general

001.

Li Mu, who was walking in front, stopped suddenly, and Zhong Xiuyuan also stopped in surprise when he saw this, "What's wrong?"

Li Mu looked the person in front of him up and down, and now only one of his five ducks was left, and he was very hungry.From the beginning, this person always had a smiling expression, which made him a little uncomfortable.

"Did something happen?" Zhong Xiuyuan shuddered inexplicably, shuddering.

Li Mu, who was in front of him, was looking at him seriously, that seriousness made him a little creepy, and also made him have a bad feeling.

In the past, Li Mu rarely looked at him like this, and when he looked at him like this, it was usually when he was going to be in bad luck...

Zhong Xiuyuan stared blankly at the person in front of him, thinking about what he did today, but after thinking about it, he didn't understand what he did to make this person look at him like this again.

After Li Mu looked Zhong Xiuyuan up, down, left, and right in front of him carefully, he felt a little better, and he turned and walked towards the inn.

He was still a little sleepy at first, but now he has no sleepiness at all.

Zhong Xiuyuan also followed Li Mu's pace, but the feeling still didn't dissipate, so he didn't dare to speak easily.

It wasn't until the two returned to the inn one after the other and entered the door that Zhong Xiuyuan closed the door when Li Mu grabbed his hand.

Li Mu directly pulled Zhong Xiuyuan away, causing him to fall into his arms.

Looking at Li Mu who was slightly squinting in front of him, showing a bit of hunger, Zhong Xiuyuan finally came to his senses.

"What to do?" Zhong Xiuyuan tried to struggle, but when Li Mu looked at him with such eyes, he was already a little weak, and his hands and feet were even hotter.

"What do you think?" Li Mu asked instead of answering, his words were low and hoarse, extremely pleasant, and made Zhong Xiuyuan's heart tremble.

Since his duck was cut off and robbed because he couldn't eat it, let this person feed it for him.Li Mu hugged the person in his arms, and pressed him down, savoring the taste of the person in his arms carefully.

With his other hand, he had already played with the little duck hidden on this person's body, until the person's face was flushed red, and his movements became gentle.

Zhong Xiuyuan, who was already flushed with tide, and his whole body sank into the depths of the tidal sea, noticed that Li Mu stopped his movements, opened his eyes, and looked at the man in front of him with those eyes that were somewhat moist and somewhat dissatisfied. Li Mu.

Li Mu's hand suddenly exerted force, and Zhong Xiuyuan's whole body tensed up, his upper body arched slightly upwards, at that moment he was like a fish whose water had been drained, his brain went blank under Li Mu's violent and crazy ravages, Confessed everything.

"Huh... Li Mu..." Zhong Xiuyuan's panting was as if he was throwing a boulder calmly into his face, and there were waves that were higher and faster and rippling around. Although he tried his best to suppress it, he could still hear Li Mu's crazier movements.

After eating and drinking enough, Li Mu wandered to Master Qin's side in a good mood in the evening, and explained to him his plan to leave the next day.

After rejecting several people who came to the door, Li Mu hugged Zhong Xiuyuan, who had been unconscious all afternoon, and had a good night's rest. In the early morning of the second day, Li Mu rented a carriage and waited downstairs in the inn.

In August and September, the morning light recedes early, and the sun has not yet come out, but there is already a bit of heat in the air.

Zhong Xiuyuan packed all his luggage, and when he came downstairs with the package on his back, he saw the carriage in front of him, and he couldn't help showing a bit of surprise, "How do you rent a carriage?"

When the two of them went back empty-handed, riding a horse was of course the fastest. If they took a carriage, their speed was much slower than riding a horse.

Li Mu pulled the horse towards him to calm it down.

After hearing Zhong Xiuyuan's question, Li Mu glanced at Zhong Xiuyuan's waist, "I don't care, but are you sure you want to ride back?"

Just now when Zhong Xiuyuan came down from upstairs to check out with the waiter, his body was a little stiff. Although outsiders couldn't see it, Li Mu's sharp eyes could see it clearly.

When Zhong Xiuyuan heard Li Mu's words, his face instantly flushed red, like the first sun rising from the distant horizon, extremely gorgeous.

Zhong Xiuyuan took the package to the side of the carriage and threw it in, then looked back at Li Mu who was next to him, then got into the carriage in a bit of a panic, and ignored him.

The small carriage pattered forward on the empty bluestone road, and when the rising sun filled the sky, Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan left the city.

The journey from Anfu to Qingmu is very far away, farther than from Anfu to where they live.

It was too late, Li Mu didn't drive the carriage fast, but let it walk forward slowly.

The rattling of horseshoes and the sound of wheels turning spread in the silent forest with their own unique rhythm.

Zhong Xiuyuan, who was sitting in the carriage, pricked up his ears and listened quietly for a while, but after not hearing anything from Li Mu who was driving the carriage outside, he thought about it, found a topic to break the silence, "We just Let's go, did you go to say hello to Ma Yi before?"

Ma Yi came to invite him suddenly before, and the two of them let him go. Although they both guessed that Ma Yi may not be looking for them for a simple meal, it seems a bit inappropriate to leave like this.

"Why, you want to say goodbye in person?" Li Mu said quietly.

Both Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan didn't know how to drive a carriage before, and they learned it after they started selling ducks. Now that Li Mu is a veteran, he is very agile when driving a carriage.

Zhong Xiu had never been to Li Muhui to say this, he poked his head out of the carriage and sat next to Li Mu.

The matter between him and Ma Yi has always been a joke, never seriously, whether it is him or Li Mu, why is Li Mu thinking of this again now?

"Your waist isn't sore anymore?" Li Mu lowered his head slightly and looked at Zhong Xiuyuan's waist.

Zhong Xiuyuan, who was sitting next to him, paused. He turned to look at Li Mu next to him. At some point, the corners of Li Mu's mouth curled up, revealing a smile that made him a little scared.

Zhong Xiuyuan stared slightly, why did Li Mu smile like that.

After thinking about it, Zhong Xiuyuan looked at the person next to him, and then hid in the carriage like a turtle. What kind of crooked idea did this person think of?

"There is no rush for this trip, we can go straight down the river." Li Mu's voice sounded from outside the carriage.

The fastest way for them to go to Qingmu is to take the official road. If they go down the river, it will take a lot of time to go all the way.

Zhong Xiuyuan didn't talk to him, but his heart started to beat up, and it was very powerful.

"It's just right, we can take a walk along the way." Li Mu said.

He and Zhong Xiuyuan, the two of them are considered to be an old husband and wife, counting the years of marriage, it has been several years.

But in the past few years, they get together less and leave more.Even when they get together, most of the time they are busy with family affairs.

Counting it, they have never left these things behind and played together alone.

Listening to Li Mu's voice outside the carriage, Zhong Xiuyuan's heartbeat sounded more clearly, and for a moment, only Li Mu's voice and the beating heart sound remained in his ears.

No wonder when he came out this time, Li Mu would suddenly ask him if he wanted to come with him, no wonder when he left this time, Li Mu would refuse Xia Jingming's and the others' help and only bring him along.

Zhong Xiuyuan sat silently in the carriage, quietly watching the empty carriage, listening to his beating heart, his eyes were burning for a moment.

He raised his hand and gently stroked the package next to him with his fingertips. It contained some simple clothes of him and Li Mu, and there was still some faint breath of Li Mu and him.

"There is no place to go along the way, so just walk around." Li Mu's voice came again, "I heard that there is an art exhibition on the river ahead, if you want to go, we can stop by and have a look."

Hearing the words Li Mu said by the way, Zhong Xiuyuan fell down and lay on the seat.

With his head resting on the package, he greedily sniffed the breath that belonged to Li Mu.

This man, there is always a way to make him remember that he likes him all the time...

Zhong Xiuyuan smiled silently, listening to Li Mu's occasional words from outside the carriage, sometimes he listened quietly, sometimes he would respond once or twice.

The weather in July and August is already relatively hot. They walked along the river all the way down, and they were in the forest all the time, so it was cool.

It took almost twenty days for this business to be abolished before they finally saw Aoki.

Aoki was originally a big city that did not lose to Anfu, but it was bleak because its location was closer to the battlefield. Now that the war has stopped, Aoki is recovering day by day.

I came here again after a few months, and the place has changed a lot.

The merchants who came and went, the newly renovated new shops with red lanterns hung, only walked to this main street again after a few months, and both of them had a feeling that they didn't know this Aoki anymore.

After arriving in Qingmu, the two found a place to stay in an inn, and after resting for a day, the two went up the mountain the next day to find the Qingmuguan family who lived on the mountain.

This mountain has also changed a lot. When they came last time, many trees in the mountain only sprouted. Although they can already see that the branches and buds are flourishing now, but now they really see something different.

This mountain is different from the place where they live. The mountain where they live is older and more obsolete, and the nearby villages and forests are basically planted and built by the people behind, with more of a human atmosphere.

Although it is not as quiet and mysterious as their mountain, but for newcomers, it does not have a sense of human habitation.

The Qingmuguan family lived in a rather high location, even though the two had long been used to walking up and down the mountain, when they walked all the way down to the huts, both of them were already sweating profusely.

Probably because of the hot weather, there was nothing to do at noon, so when the two of them arrived this time, there were people in those houses, which was different from the deserted one last time.

Under the suspicious and defensive gaze of these people, Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan knocked on the fence of the house that sold duck eggs to them.

The young man whom he met last time was sitting in his house eating something, when he saw the two people knocking on the fence of his house, surprise flashed across his eyes.

"Come in by yourself." The man didn't get up from the table.

Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan didn't mind, they opened the fenced courtyard and entered the gate of his house.

"Long time no see." After entering the door, Li Mu cupped his fists at the person in front of him.

In the small main room, there is a plate of peanuts and a plate of side dishes on an old wooden table, a wine jar, a bowl and a pair of chopsticks next to it.

002.

"What are you doing here again?" The young man looked at the two people in front of him.

Li Mu looked at the person in front of him, he didn't notice it from a distance, but when he got closer, he realized that the person in front of him seemed to be drunk.

Li Mu looked at the person in front of him, but Zhong Xiuyuan gently pulled his clothes from behind, and then silently looked out the door.

Li Mu followed his line of sight, and soon found something strange.

Originally, when they came last time, the ducks raised by the young man were locked in a corner of the small fenced yard of his house.

This time they came, the ducks were gone, and the place where the ducks were kept had been placed for a long time, and it seemed that they hadn't been used for at least a month or two.

Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan looked at each other, and they both saw a bit of surprise in each other's eyes. Are all his ducks dead?

"Don't look, they're all dead." The young man said, "Fart quickly, talk quickly, and get out if you have nothing to do."

The drunk young man spoke more and more impolitely, and Li Mu vaguely sensed a bit of anger and ridicule from his words.

"You're drunk, we'll come back tomorrow." After Li Mu said this to him, he turned around and was about to leave. Before he had taken two steps, the sound of the young man slapping the table came from behind him.

"Don't come! I told you that all the ducks are dead, why are you here?" The young man almost growled and said, "Are you bothered? I have already said that this duck is not for sale or not. How come it never ends."

Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan stood outside the door and watched, those who were sitting in the room playing with drunken madness and drunk people had no reason to say at all.

"If you want to buy ducks, go to the guy surnamed Li. I told you all the ducks here are dead." The young man slapped the table again. He shrunk down beside the table and fell to the ground.

Li Mu was surprised, surnamed Li?

Didn't this person mean him?

Zhong Xiuyuan shook his head helplessly, this man was obviously drunk.

He didn't recognize the two of them at all, and he probably regarded them as other people who came to buy ducks after looking for news in the previous greeting.

Zhong Xiuyuan looked at Li Mu and asked him what he was going to do. Now that this person is drinking like this, should he come back tomorrow or...

When they came before, he was the only one in this man's house, and it was not known whether he was living alone or the rest of the family hadn't come back.At this time, if they enter someone's house to take care of someone at will, if his family comes back, they will inevitably be a little nosy.

Just when the two were hesitating, people in the next few rooms heard the sound and came out to watch the excitement.

"What's the matter with you?" A woman who looked about the same age as them came out.

Zhong Xiuyuan pointed to the young man in the room who was still on the ground trying to get up, "We have something to do with him." After a short pause, Zhong Xiuyuan asked tentatively, "When will his family come back? Drunk."

"His family?" The woman smiled, with a bit of bitterness in her smile, "There are no family members anymore, his family is basically dead, and now he is the only one left."

At this time, people from the next houses also came out.

Hearing the conversation between the two, a young man came towards this side. When he reached the door and saw the young man fell to the ground again, he cursed, went in and helped him up, and put him on the bed.

"Drink, drink, drink all day long, I'll drink you to death sooner or later!" The man scolded while doing things, although his mouth was a bit vicious, but judging from his actions, he still cared about this man.

After the young man got on the bed, he still struggled to get up. After being scolded by the man, he lay motionless on the bed, not sure if he was sulking.

Seeing this scene, both Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan felt a little helpless.

A few months ago, they came here to try their luck and bought duck eggs from this person.

I thought their ducks would definitely not be able to survive, but I didn't expect their ducks to survive a few months later, and this was the person who kept the ducks, and all the ducks in the house died.

If it was just an ordinary thing, such a thing would make people dumbfounded at best.

But this thing is a tribute duck, the value of the tribute duck is clear to the two of them now, and naturally they can better understand the mentality of this young man.

"Tell me directly if you two have anything to do!" The man went outside the house after making arrangements for the young man.

Li Mu originally found out that the young man had something to do, but now he didn't know whether he should speak up or not.

Under such circumstances, it is actually best for him not to show up in front of this person to provoke suspicion.

"I'm his cousin." The man seemed to have misunderstood the reason why the two of them didn't speak.

"That's right, if you have anything to do, just tell him directly. He is his cousin, and I am his cousin." The young woman also walked into the fenced yard, and people from several nearby families came out one after another.

After what the woman said, when the two looked at the people around them, they realized that the faces of the families living here seemed somewhat similar.

"We all fled here together before." The young woman said again.

"He..." Zhong Xiuyuan looked into the room in embarrassment.

"Originally we all followed his family to raise ducks, but you know what happened later. Now that it's gone, everyone is taking care of their own lives. Only he still insists on raising ducks again, but..."

The man at the side snorted coldly, and was not polite to the two of them, "Ducks are not sold here now, and all the ducks are dead. If you still want to buy ducks, go to the man named Li. I heard that he raised them there. "

After hearing what this person said, Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan didn't know what to say for a while, after thinking about it, they decided to come back the next day.

At about the same time the next day, when the two came to the small courtyard again, the people in the courtyard were still sitting at the table, but this time he did not drink.

He seemed to have been waiting for the two of them. After seeing them approaching from a distance, he stood up and said, "Come in."

Standing in this familiar hut again, Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan hadn't had time to speak when the young man had already poured tea for them and told them to sit down.

I don't know if it was because of a hangover or other reasons, but the young man's face was very ugly, with a faint paleness.

"What else do you need to come to me now?" After the two sat down, he asked, "Tell me, if it's something I can help, I will definitely try my best."

Seeing that the young man didn't seem excited, Li Mu was slightly puzzled.

He originally thought that he would have to fight a tough battle today, but now this young man felt like he had let go of a heavy burden that he had carried for a long time. Although he was very tired, he was much more relaxed.

"Those ducks..." Li Mu picked up which pot he didn't want to open, but now he couldn't avoid it, because what he wanted to say had something to do with these ducks.

"Dead." The young man wasn't excited, but looked bleakly at the place where the ducks were kept outside the door.

After a pause, he said again: "Are you saying it's ridiculous or not? Our family has been raising this thing for generations since my grandfather's generation. Since I was born, the most important thing in my impression is these things Ducks, when I was a child, I even felt that I was not as important as these ducks in the hearts of my grandfather and my father."

The young man seemed to have opened up the conversation, and a person began to speak.

"After the war broke out, our family fled. In those years, even if we were starving to death on the road, my grandfather and father would not allow me to touch the duck. What happened? In the end, neither the duck nor my grandfather or my father , failed to survive that disaster.”

"Before, I thought that everything would be over when the war was over. As long as I persisted, as long as I take care of these ducks as carefully as my grandfather and my father, everything will slowly get better. In the end, a plague has nothing. "

The young man stared blankly at the place where the ducks were kept. Since he was born, his whole life revolved around these ducks.

Now that these ducks are dead, the burden on him has been relieved, but without these ducks, now he doesn't know what else he can do.

That's all he can do and nothing else, and he's been doing it all his life.

After a long silence, Li Mu broke the silence, "Then, are you still going to raise this duck?"

The young man looked at Li Mu, "About a month ago, I heard in Cyanwood City that you were supported?"

After all his ducks died, he heard the news when he went down the mountain to buy wine to get drunk.

If it was said that the death of all the ducks hit him hard, then the news of Li Mu was even worse, causing him to collapse instantly.

The things that their family has passed down from generation to generation have nothing in his generation, but others can easily support them for the first time.

Listening to Li Mu's question now, the young man has not recovered for a long time.

This duck has not completely disappeared from this world. If he wants to keep it again, he can also buy some duck eggs like Li Mu did before and hatch it himself.

"No more..." After a long time, he let out a long breath, "Maybe I'm not made for this line of work, it's God's will, that's all, that's all."

Hearing the lonely and desperate words of this person, Li Mu didn't know how to say what he said next.

He originally wanted to come here to find this person and invite him to come out of the mountain.

He already has a lot of ducks in his hand now, and he had already thought about it carefully before knowing the value of this tribute duck.

He can't go on like this, just like Master Qin said, he can't always nest on this mountain and guard these ducks.

But if he doesn't find someone who can raise ducks to help watch, he can't get rid of it at all.After thinking about it a few times, he thought of this person.

But he never expected to come here again and see such a scene.

"Just tell me what you have to say." Seeing Li Mu's expression on his face, the young man felt embarrassed.

"Actually, we came here this time to invite you out of the mountain." Zhong Xiuyuan said.

Zhong Xiuyuan looked at the young man sincerely, he knew that Li Mu must be somewhat unable to open his mouth at this moment, if Li Mu could not open his mouth, he would speak for him.

The young man was taken aback when he heard the words, and then, as if he had heard some big joke, he burst out laughing.

Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan didn't speak, they just watched him laughing quietly, tears came out.

He laughed for a long time, until he had no energy left, and then he calmed down.

It was a long time before he said, "Go back first, I will think about this matter."

All his life, until now, and all the time before, he has devoted himself to raising ducks, and he can only do this one thing.

He really didn't know what to do without it.

But under the current situation, let him help others raise ducks...

003.

On the third day, when Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan came to the mountain again, what was waiting for them in the house was not the young man, but a big package.

The two stood outside the door and looked at each other in surprise, until they heard footsteps in the distance, they turned their heads one after another.

I saw the young man walking towards this side with a bunch of things in his arms. After getting closer, the two realized that he was also holding a package in his hand.

However, the packaging of this package was very simple, and some dirt and leaves were faintly revealed inside, which looked like some kind of grass.

"Let's go." He put the things in the house, and after carrying the two packages on his back, he looked at Li Mu with a pale face.

Li Mu opened his mouth silently, and without saying anything, he led the people down the mountain.

After retreating to the inn room at the foot of the mountain, he drove the carriage and took the man back to the mountain where they lived.

It can be seen that this person still has something in his heart, and he has not completely let go.

"This entire mountain belongs to your family?" As they walked towards the mountain, the man spoke a little more, and the eyes that were originally exhausted also became a little brighter.

"Yeah." Li Mu pointed to the nearby mountains, "The ducks are kept here most of the time, and there are some fruit trees inside."

The place where he puts ducks is very wide now, and he doesn't plan to enclose all these mountains for stocking, because the place is too wide and it will be very troublesome to manage.

The young man's surname is Guan Yu, and he is two years younger than them.

His stature was slightly thinner than theirs, probably because he had escaped as a teenager, so he looked a little thinner.

After going up the mountain, everyone put down their things, Guan Yu stared blankly at the duck cage at the foot of the mountain, "Can I go down and have a look?"

Li Mu also looked in the direction of his own duck cage. He originally planned to let this person stay with them first, and then take him down to have a look when he has free time, and then talk about the situation in the mountains with this person in detail.

"I'll take you there!" Zhong Xiuyuan said.

Their house on the mountain has not been completely repaired, but the general appearance has been revealed. What is needed now is some additions to the doors, windows and roof, which will take another month or so.

As soon as the two returned to the mountain, everyone in the mountain immediately knew about it.

Zhongman Road has come back from the duck cage and is walking towards this side.

He walked in a hurry, it seemed that there was something urgent.

Zhong Xiuyuan took the initiative to take Guan Yu down the mountain for a stroll, leaving Li Mu free to deal with it.

"What's the matter?" Li Mu looked at Zhong Manlu who hurried back.

"Brother, a group of people came down from the mountain and said they were looking for you." Zhong Man said.

This is also a coincidence.

Zhong Manlu was originally picking up duck eggs in the duck cage at the foot of the mountain, but suddenly he heard the long-term worker outside calling him, saying that someone was looking for him, only after he came out did he realize that the group of people was looking for Li Mu.

After hearing that he was not the person in charge, he asked several times, and these people did not explain their purpose, but only said that they came to see Li Mu and that they had business.

Hearing that there was business, Zhong Manlu had no choice but to tell this group of people that Li Mu was not in the mountains.

When those people heard that Li Mu was not in the mountains, they seemed a little anxious, and they chased him for a long time.

Zhong Manlu managed to convince these people and told them that Li Mu was really not in the mountain. If Li Mu came back, he would definitely go to the inn at the foot of the mountain to inform these people. Someone told him that he seemed to have seen Li Mu go up the mountain just now.

Hearing that Li Mu went up the mountain, Zhong Manlu immediately dropped his work and asked those people to go up the mountain with him, but those people refused. They wanted to see the ducks in the duck cage and told him to call Li Mu down the mountain Come.

After Zhongmanlu asked someone to come over to help watch, he went up the mountain to find Li Mu.

"What kind of people are here?" Li Mu guessed that these people were probably here for the tribute duck as soon as he heard that they had business.

But he didn't expect these people to be so fast, they found his home so quickly.

"About a dozen men came, and there should be only two leaders. One is older and looks about 50 or [-] years old, and the other is only in his twenties." Zhong Manlu said the general situation over again.

"This group of people seems to be quite rich. Except for these two people, the others seem to be servants of the guards." Zhong Manlu thought for a while, and added.

In their township, Galali, plus the town at the foot of the mountain, the number of people who can take so many servants out will not exceed five in total, so such people are quite rare in their place.

When he got to the duck cage at the foot of the mountain, Li Mu saw the people in their duck cage looking at the ducks from a distance.

Just like Zhong Manlu told him before, there were a dozen of them in total.

The older one should be a person, the younger one in his 20s should be working by his side, and the others are more like servants who came with them. Although they are dressed casually, they have been standing by the side and watching, Very obvious.

Li Mu and the others entered the duck cage, and when they got closer, they realized that the two were talking about the tribute ducks eating next to them, as if they were trying to calm down what was going on with the ducks.

"You are Li Mu?" After seeing a group of people brought by Zhongman Road, one of them looked at Li Mu, "We are here to buy ducks."

It was the young man who spoke to them.

"Oh, what kind of duck do you want to buy?" Li Mu asked knowingly.

This person was very rude when he spoke, as if he really regarded himself as someone, and regarded those who raised ducks in the mountains as servants, as something completely unworthy of attention.

"Of course it's the white-feathered duck you raised, otherwise what else do you think we would buy?" the young man said.

While talking, the young man bent down to catch the white-haired ducks eating nearby, but he just bent down, and the ducks quickly ran away into the distance.

Most of the ducks raised by Li Mu are free-range, and they are rarely raised together. The ducks raised in this way are wild, and they are not like many ducks raised in confinement. When they see people passing by, they have to catch them. , just squat down obediently to be caught.

The young man missed the duck all at once, and his face was a bit ugly.

He stood up and looked at Li Mu again, "Catch me ten first."

The man obviously knew that the price of the white-feathered duck was unusual, but he didn't ask the price, obviously he didn't care much about money.

Li Mu didn't move, he just stood there.

The old man on the side followed the ducks who had gone away, and seemed to want to take another look.

"Why are you still here in a daze? Don't hurry up and do it." The young man said again.

"This duck is not for sale." Li Mu said.

He now has a total of a dozen breeding ducks left, of course it is impossible to sell, let alone ten ducks at once.

"What?" The young man froze for a moment, as if he didn't understand what Li Mu was saying.

The old man who had already followed the duck to the side stopped and looked at Li Mu.

Just when Li Mu was about to say something more, Guan Yu who was on the side suddenly woke up when he saw the old man's face. He had seen this old man before!

He had seen it when he was a child. Earlier, when their family's ducks were regularly sent to the palace, the old man had visited their house.

He was not sensible at that time, so his grandfather hid him in the house and told him not to go out to make trouble. Later, he learned from his mother that this man was from the palace.

He is a member of the Imperial Dining Room, and he is also the manager who selects some ingredients for tribute to the palace every year.

Guan Yu opened his mouth, wanting to tell Li Mu the identity of this person, but the old man had already walked over.

"You said this duck is not for sale?" The old man looked at Li Mu in a little surprise.

He was a lot more polite than that young man, obviously he was out on business all the year round, although he also had a bit of a force that could not be ignored, but his temper was much more easy-going.

"Not for sale, it's gone." Li Mu said.

There is only one left that can be sold, but he will definitely not hand over this one!

They saw those ducks just now, but at this moment Li Mu told them they were gone, and the faces of the old and the young were a bit ugly.

Seeing Li Mu like this, Guan Yu hurriedly stepped forward and whispered next to Li Mu: "Do you know who this is? He is the imperial cook in the palace."

The reason why these people are here now, without asking him, he knows, it must be to screen the tributes.

"Imperial chef?" Li Mu stared at the two people in front of him.

The two of them had obviously heard Guan Yu's words, and the younger one stood up straight now, as if he wanted Li Mu to take a good look.

Li Mu didn't look at him at all. He only glanced at the old man next to him and then said, "The imperial chef doesn't sell them either. Those are breeding ones. There are no more to sell."

"You!" Hearing the words, the young man was immediately furious.

The old one was more reasonable, and looked back at the duck next to him.

He has been watching in this duck cage since the very beginning, although he didn't look at all the ducks, but if it is really what Li Mu said, then naturally this duck cannot be sold.

He is an imperial chef, a cook, so of course he knows a little about the ingredients.

Of course, what is bred must be kept for breeding, only in this way will it be inexhaustible.

"Then when will it be better?" the old man asked again.

Li Mu pointed at the ducks, "See when they are in a good mood."

Hearing Li Mu's words, and seeing Li Mu's expressionless face, the young man, who already had some dislike for Li Mu, said angrily, "You are so brave! Do you know who you are talking to?"

Li Mu didn't speak, just looked at the old man quietly.

He is also very helpless about this matter, the duck is not long, what can he do?

As for the tribute, Li Mu wanted to do this business, but he had to have something!

The old man obviously thought of something. After thinking about it, he shook his head, as if he was a little disappointed, "Then do you have any more you can sell?"

This kind of duck is notoriously difficult to raise, and notoriously short. He has often dealt with these ducks before, and of course he understands this situation. Li Mu did not lie about this matter.

"No." Li Mu lied without changing his expression.

Zhong Xiuyuan on the side couldn't help but laugh