Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 65 Baobab Tavern
On the top floor of the City Lord's Mansion, Li Mu and the other two were discussing matters related to population transfer with Tang Anguo and others.

"I have already prepared the seeds of the fruit trees and the seedlings of the Everbright Tree. I wonder when the shelter plans to relocate the population?"

Li Mu asked while looking at everyone in the shelter.

"We have already arranged a list of more than a thousand people. As long as City Lord Li makes a decision, we will arrange the remaining personnel within two days."

"But population relocation is a huge project after all. Our suggestion is to transfer them in batches, 500 people at a time, in four batches."

"What do you think, Mr. Li Cheng?"

Tang Anguo was still the representative who spoke, and the others in the shelter just watched. It was obvious that this was the opinion they had discussed long ago.

After hearing the shelter's suggestion, Li Mu and the other two looked at each other but did not give an immediate response.

After a few breaths, Yao Chengcheng said,
"The method of transferring people in batches is a good idea. Otherwise, a team of 2,000 people traveling at once would be too long and inadequately cared for."

"But 500 people at a time is still too many. How about 200 people, once in the morning and once in the evening, and all of them will be transferred within five days."

Li Mu nodded in agreement when he heard this.

"Okay, let's follow City Lord Yao's method and only transfer 200 people at a time.

But both you and I have to send some people to take care of it, in case of any unexpected situation."

"Well, let's set the time for three days later, how about that?"

Tang Anguo first expressed his agreement, and then asked about the time of the transfer.

"Okay, the time is set for three days. Wanling City will send a group of people to the shelter to pick up people. After the first group of people arrives in Wanling City, your people will return with the resources we promised them."

As Yao Chengcheng finished speaking, the deal was tentatively finalized.

After reaching a consensus, Tang Anguo and others had no intention of staying long and immediately said goodbye and left.

Li Mu stood at the window, watching Tang Anguo and others gradually going away, then turned to Yao Chengcheng and said,
"I'll leave the matter of population transfer to you and Ah Sao. I'll hurry up and build houses in the next few days, and try to prepare a place for them to live before these two thousand people arrive."

"You should arrange the daily necessities these people need, mainly food and fresh water, clothes, blankets, etc. They should be able to bring them with them."

Yao Chengcheng nodded, "We have people under our command now, so we can handle this. Just leave these small matters to me and Ah Sao, and you can do your own thing."

Li Mu smiled and said, "I'm relieved to leave it to you. Let's not talk about this today. We have other things to do."

Yu Shuaikang and Yao Chengcheng were confused. Was there anything important that they hadn't done today?

Li Mu saw the two people's confusion and said directly without keeping them in suspense.

"I said something half a month ago. On the last day of this year, let's drink together and not leave until we are drunk."

"You two won't forget it, right?"

"oops!"

The two patted their foreheads and couldn't help but smile bitterly, "I've been too busy recently. If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have really forgotten about it."

"It's not too late to remember now. You two should take out all the wine you have collected. Leave some for us to drink, and distribute the rest to the residents of the city."

"It is better to share happiness with others than to enjoy it alone. Let's get everyone in Wanling City drunk today!"

After Li Mu finished speaking, he turned and left, leaving the two of them to deal with things while he went downstairs and walked towards the sky garden alone. …

There are three requirements for drinking: a place, an opponent, and a reason.

The place where you drink is crucial. Whether you are in the hustle and bustle of a bar, the warmth of a pub, or enjoying the tranquility of drinking alone at home, it can bring completely different experiences.

Since the goal is to get the whole city drunk together, it is obviously impossible to meet this need at home, and we need to find a special place.

What Li Mu is going to do now is to build a place suitable for everyone to drink together - a tavern.

The location of the tavern had to be special, so he chose it in the Hanging Gardens. It also had to be large enough to accommodate hundreds of people, so he chose a unique tree - the baobab tree, with seeds from the botanical garden.

The baobab tree originates from Africa and is called the "tree of life" by the locals.

The baobab tree, the "tree of life" originating from Africa, has many more mysteries waiting to be explored besides its water storage and survival properties. Its internal space is huge, enough to accommodate many people. What's even more amazing is that even if the core of the tree is hollowed out, it can still survive, which is rare.

In order to welcome this special tree, Li Mu moved the young tree in the center of the garden to the side, freeing up an open space fifteen meters wide.

He then buried baobab seeds in the soil and infused it with source energy.

Soon after, the seed took root, sprouted, and grew into a towering tree.

This baobab tree is twelve meters tall and has three levels.

Li Mu walked in through the specially left door. There were dozens of exquisite rattan chairs on each floor, as well as shelves for wine and a bar counter for selling wine.

When he left, he left two lines of poetry on the gate:

"It's going to snow in the evening, can I have a drink?"

Unless they are troubled by sad things and want to drown their sorrows in alcohol, most people will not drink on purpose, let alone choose to drink alone.

When drinking, you need an opponent, it can be one person or a group of people, and there is never a shortage of opponents in the pub!
More reasons to drink.

To celebrate the last day of 2024 and welcome the new year; to welcome the arrival of parents and reunite the family; and to fulfill the agreement made by Li Mu and the other two, they got drunk.

Li Mu stood in the open space, looked at the Baobab Tavern, which had already grown to a considerable size, and nodded with satisfaction.

He knew that building a pub was only the first step. The next step was to let more people know about this place and make everyone willing to come here to drink. So he began to prepare for the publicity work.

Today, Li Mu also feels that it is time to create a plant that can record and amplify sound.

We can't always go door to door and inform everyone one by one every time we need to notify someone of something. It's okay now that there are few people, but if there were too many people, we wouldn't be able to handle it all.

Thinking of this, the first thing that came to his mind was the loudspeaker.

There are three large loudspeakers on the electric poles at the doorstep of my rural home, which play news or songs every morning and evening.

There was even a broadcaster position in the town's career system. Li Mu tried to take the exam but failed.
What impressed Li Mu was an incident during the epidemic. Perhaps the announcer had a broken heart, and for a while he played the same song every day: "The Paper is Short, but the Love is Long."

This song was played for three months in a row, once every morning and evening. Li Mu listened to it so much that he could even recite the lyrics of the song by heart!

Until now, when he hears the prelude of this song again, Li Mu still recalls the fear that it once dominated him.——
ps: The fact that songs are played on the radio is real!!!

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