At that moment, Lin Luo was molding the stove. When she heard the footsteps, she thought that Lin Herong had returned.
She said bluntly, "Help me bring in the cement. I want to use it."
After the person went out again, he brought back a small bucket and asked, "Is this it?"
Hearing this, Lin Luo looked up.
Only then did she realize that it was Yan Su instead of Lin Herong.
"Yes, this is it."
She replied first before saying,
"Stand further away. Don't dirty your clothes."
After Yan Su sized up the newly built stove, he lowered his eyes and asked, "You spent the entire afternoon working on this with Lin Herong?"
"Not bad." Lin Luo smeared a little cement on the new stove. "I didn't expect Herong to know so much at such a young age. He was the one who guided me on how to build this stove."
There were specializations in various fields.
For example, Lin Luo specialized in having fun and medical research.
However, she knew nothing about civil engineering. If not for Lin Herong's guidance, the construction of the new stove wouldn't have gone so smoothly.
"Herong?" Yan Su's tone was emotionless as he asked, "You're already so familiar with him?"
"He's very interesting." As soon as Lin Luo finished speaking, she felt a shadow fall in front of her.
Lin Luo saw that it was because Yan Su had approached. He looked down at the stove from above and the corners of his mouth curled up in mockery. "You don't really think that Lin Herong is reliable, do you?"
Lin Luo looked up at him.
"When building a stove, not only do we have to take into account the height and width, but also the angle at which the house is tilted."
"Your house is slightly tilted."
After Yan Su took out an incense bead from his brocade bag and placed it on the ground, the incense bead rolled to the right corner.
"Therefore, the height of the stove has to be the same as the tilt of the house. Otherwise… even a stove built with molten iron will collapse easily."
With that, Yan Su pushed a corner of the stove gently. The stove, which had already slightly solidified, actually cracked from the middle and broke into two.
Lin Luo was enlightened.
"Turns out there's such profound knowledge regarding this." Lin Luo was deep in thought. "Seems like building stoves isn't suitable for me."
"It's not difficult to build a stove." Yan Su lifted the hem and squatted down beside Lin Luo with a confident expression. "Most importantly, you have to have reliable guidance."
Lin Luo looked at him.
"Where can I find reliable guidance?"
Yan Su cleared his throat.
"I'm free today, so I can guide you."
Lin Luo smiled. "Thank you."
Lin Luo went to clean up the stove, while Yan Su stood behind her as he stared at her with a complicated gaze.
Sowing discord was also one of the compulsory skills of an emperor.
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Country Z, Capital University.
In the biological science research room.
After the conference room that hadn't been opened for 14 months was reopened, the six members of the research lab attended the meeting together.
An old man with a walking stick and graying temples was sitting at the head of the conference table, but his face looked as young as that of a 50-year-old man. He stomped the walking stick as he said in a dignified voice, "Everyone, I believe you've already heard that Mr. Lin Chongluo has been in a coma for two days. If he doesn't wake up…"
"The Capital's First Hospital requests the help of bioscience experts."
Everyone looked troubled.
"The diagnosis of the First Hospital shows that the poison in his body is cold poison. It's difficult to remove it with modern medicine."
"They have no solution, so they want to push the blame on us?"
"Indeed, in this situation, there's nothing we can do."
The old man knocked on his walking stick again, and everyone instantly fell silent.
"Isn't there another way?"
Everyone's expressions changed drastically.
"Could it be that you want to use the method described in the ancient books to let the silverfish purify Mr. Lin Chongluo's blood?"
"No! Although the silverfish we obtained is no different from the specimens left behind, if anything bad happens, we can't bear the responsibility!"
"The foreign countries are keeping a close watch on us. If we lose Mr. Lin Chongluo at this time, there won't be a second person who can replace him for the 'Perfect Gene' plan. The situation isn't optimistic."
The old man lamented, "At this moment, we can only try our best."
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Little Bay Village, the Qiao family's house.
As Mrs. Qiao stood at the door, she looked around. It had been two days since Qiao Sheng left, but he still hadn't returned yet!
Qiao Dahua dug her ears as she asked, "Mom, doesn't my brother stay out at night quite often? He might have gone to look for his scoundrel friends again. Don't worry."
"I hope he went out to fool around, but before he left, your brother said that he was going to settle scores with that fool!"
Mrs. Qiao looked worried. "That fool… is not easy to deal with now!"
"Mother, you're talking nonsense again."
"Who doesn't know that the fool from the Lin family is the easiest person to bully in our village? If I ask her to lick my feet, she'll lick them obediently."
Qiao Dahua didn't take her mother's words to heart.
Compared to Qiao Sheng, she was more concerned about something else.
"How long has it been since that fool came to our house to do work for us? Mother, don't you have any objections? What's the use of my brother marrying such a lazy wife?"
It would have been fine if she hadn't said it, but once she did, Madam Qiao recalled how she did chores in the Lin family. Her expression darkened as she said, "I don't dare to call her over. If you have the ability, go teach that fool a lesson and let her kowtow to apologize."
"How difficult is that? Just wait at home." Qiao Dahua scratched her dirt-covered neck as she said, "But if I drag her over, you have to add eggs for me."
"Alright." Mrs. Qiao gritted her teeth and agreed.
Sometimes, the more Mrs. Qiao thought about it, the angrier she became. If Qiao Dahua could get Lin Luo to kowtow and apologize to her, giving up an egg would be worth it.
Qiao Da left the house smugly.
"Just wait for the fool to kowtow as she apologizes to you and serve you tea."
Qiao Dahua walked all the way to Lin Luo's house. Seeing that the door to the courtyard was open and there were a few sieves of fish and prawns drying on the rack in the courtyard, she grabbed a handful of dried prawns to stuff into her mouth.
At this moment, a stone suddenly flew in from outside and hit Qiao Dahua's hand. Qiao Dahua cried out in pain.
Then, Qiao Dahua saw Lin Luo walk in with a basket on his back.
Qiao Dahua said angrily, "Idiot, did you hit me?"
"That's right. I hit you." Lin Luo crossed her arms in front of her chest as she said, "What are you gonna do about it?"
"You! I'll beat you to death!" Qiao Dahua raised her palm, but before she could do anything, Lin Luo grabbed her wrist and pressed her to the ground. As Lin Luo sat on her, Lin Luo smelled a stench.
After she got up in disdain, Qiao Dahua got up and pounced on her.
"My mother is right. You're crazy. How dare you hit me?!"
Lin Luo didn't dodge. After se reached out and tapped Qiao Dahua a few times, Qiao Dahua rolled on the ground. "What did you do? It's itchy! It's so itchy!"
"I didn't do anything. This has nothing to do with me." Lin Luo smiled and pretended to be innocent.
Qiao Dahua cursed, "Idiot, you'll die a horrible death!"
"Hurry up and die!"