Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 64: Live separately!
"Yeah, I'm home."

"Uncle and aunt are right behind us, and there is an unexpected surprise waiting for you."

He paused, trying to make Yao Chengcheng more excited.

Li Mu knew that Cheng Cheng was most concerned about the news of his parents, so he told him first. Thinking of his uncle's family, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and teased.

"What surprise? Why don't you just tell me directly?"

Yao Chengcheng rolled his eyes at Li Mu and said unhappily.

"You'll find out soon."

Li Mu kept the secret and controlled the vines to open another door while he was talking. When the people inside saw the door open, they slowly walked out one by one.

"Dad, Mom, hey, uncle is here too!"

When Yao Chengcheng saw that his parents were safe and sound, he was immediately relieved. Then he saw his uncle's family, and his surprise was beyond words.

Li Mu did not continue teasing Cheng Cheng, but led everyone to the first floor of the City Lord's Mansion.

As soon as he walked into the first floor, Li Mu saw the dining table filled with various stir-fried dishes and staple foods, and then he heard Cheng Cheng's voice.

"I guessed that you would arrive today, so I asked Aunt Wang and the others to prepare enough food in advance."

"You guys haven't eaten yet, right?"

Li Mu couldn't help but smile when he heard that, and felt in his heart that Cheng Cheng was doing things more and more properly.

"I just ate some fruit. I'm starving."

Before Li Mu could answer, Yu Shuaikang spoke first.

"Then hurry up and take your seats so that everyone can have a reunion dinner."

After Yao Chengcheng finished speaking, he immediately arranged for everyone to sit down, and then the three of them each went to their families.

After a pleasant dinner, the three of them sent their families back to their rooms to rest.

After that, the three of them came to the top floor of the City Lord's Mansion at the same time.

"Were there any setbacks during this trip?"

Yao Chengcheng rarely lit a cigarette, leaned against the window, and asked Li Mu.

"No setbacks, everything is fine, I even left a little gift for my hometown."

"It's just that the flying speed of the clover is still too slow, that's why it took so long."

Li Mu took the Jin Wan handed to him by Yu Shuaikang, lit it, and slowly exhaled the first puff of smoke.

"On our way back, we passed a big river and caught a mutant mandarin fish that was over three meters long. It tasted like a needle in a needle!"

"When I'm done with the things in Wanling City, I'll take you out to play."

Yu Shuaikang didn’t think there was anything interesting about this trip home. The only thing that he found interesting was that he caught a mutant fish on the way back.

"How about you, how's the deal with the West Lake Shelter going? I see that none of them are here, so they must have gone back."

Li Mu guessed.

"After you left, I discussed with the people in the shelter. According to the conditions you set before, they can transfer 2,000 people to Wanling City."

"There are men, women, young and old, basically all ordinary people. And the number is not out of negotiation, but we need to provide more resources..."

Yao Chengcheng recounted the content of the negotiations.

After listening to his narration, Li Mu also understood that it was indeed difficult for the West Lake Shelter to support so many people now, otherwise it would not have directly transferred one-fifth of it to Wanling City.

"We can no longer give them basic resources, but we can give them some special plants, such as sunflowers, clovers, etc."

"If these two thousand people can be successfully transferred to Wanling City, the pressure we will face will double." "A Sao, go to the West Lake Shelter tomorrow and ask them to come and talk again."

Yu Shuaikang nodded slightly when he heard this. It wouldn't take much effort for him to make this trip.

"Do you think we should arrange a new place for my parents to live? To be honest, I'm not used to living with my family."

Li Mu took a puff of his cigarette and asked with some melancholy.

"Live separately! We must live separately!"

"I also think it's better to live separately."

The result was not beyond Li Mu's expectations. The two were not used to living with their family.

The reason I don’t want to live with my parents is not because I hate them, but because the two generations have different ideas and living habits.

In the past, when Li Mu went home on vacation, his mother would come over before ten o'clock to urge him to play less with his phone and go to bed early.

And the next morning, he had to be woken up to eat breakfast, so he couldn't even sleep in.

Every time he goes home for vacation, he cannot stay for more than three days. If he does, Li Mu will inevitably quarrel with his parents about finding a partner or getting married.

Li Mu tried to reason with his parents calmly, but he couldn't make himself understood because the two generations had completely different ideas and concepts.

In the eyes of his parents, starting a family is the top priority, and everything else has to give way to it. Of course, it may also be that Li Mu had achieved nothing before, so his parents let him start a family first and then start a career...

"Then let's live separately. Tomorrow I will rebuild three adjacent tree houses next to the City Lord's Mansion. From now on, the three of us will be neighbors."

"Letting parents and their generation stay together will give them company and they won't be too lonely."

Li Mu spoke to the two of them, and they had no objection to this.

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Today is the last day of 2024, and a brand new year is about to begin.

After finishing his breakfast, Yu Shuaikang set off for the West Lake Shelter, while Li Mu leisurely strolled to a place about two hundred meters south of the City Lord's Mansion.

"Wood Release, Three Rooms and One Hall Technique!"

Li Mu waved his hand and threw three seeds on the ground, and green light suddenly emerged from his hands.

In an instant, three towering banyan trees broke out of the ground and gradually transformed into a two-story tree house.

The appearance of these tree houses is not much different from those in which ordinary people live, but they are much larger in size, with a diameter of fifteen meters.

Most tree houses only have two floors and a simple wooden bed, but Li Mu carefully designed these three tree houses.

He planned the first floor as a living room, which, in addition to comfortable sofas and coffee tables, also has a separate kitchen and storage room.

Going up the stairs, the second floor is cleverly divided into two bedrooms of different sizes and a bathroom. The bedrooms are equipped with wooden beds, wooden cabinets, wooden tables and other furniture.

With such careful decoration, you can almost move in right away.

After completing the construction of the three tree houses, Li Mu did not tell his parents immediately. He needed to find a suitable time to tell his parents.

Within three days after Li Mu left, the construction of the sky garden was completed, the top of the tree canopy was completely covered with thick soil, and more than 2,000 seeds of the Everlasting Tree had been planted and received sufficient water.

At this moment, Li Mu stood on the tree canopy. He could clearly feel that many lives were thriving under the soil. It was as if he could hear the seeds stirring in the soil, waiting for the moment to break out of the ground.

Walking in this field full of vitality, following Li Mu's footsteps, seeds seemed to have received the call of life, breaking through the soil one after another, and the tender green shoots shone under the green light.

After two hours of source energy injection, all the seeds completed their transformation and grew into saplings more than 20 centimeters high. These saplings swayed in the air, as if showing the miracle of life to the world.

Are you used to living with your parents?
Collect opinions.

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(End of this chapter)