Chapter XXVI: Paper and Pen

Li Fan sat under the big tree in the center of the village and watched the villagers busy with their work, although he didn't do anything himself, none of the villagers who came and went in a hurry questioned it, because whenever the little village chief woke up in this state, he would issue strange orders one after another. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Although they did not understand the meaning of these orders, they proved afterwards that the little village chief was far-sighted.

Especially after the sudden outbreak of epidemic in the village, the small village chief forced the sick people to stay together with an almost cold-blooded attitude, and no one else was allowed to approach. Even their parents.

The reason why this kind of impersonal and indifferent order to disregard for life can be carried out is in addition to the full support of the old village chief Yao Ziqiang.

There is also Li Fan, regardless of the danger, he went to the quarantine area alone to deliver food and see a doctor for them.

In the end, it created the miracle of the first epidemic in the history of Yang Village, but no one died.

can kill the dragon devil, can make the people in the village have enough to eat, and can save people, where can such a village chief be found?

As a result, the villagers who were already convinced now simply regarded Li Fan as their ancestor, and many people also offered a small tablet of Li Fan next to their ancestors' ranking, offering it every day.

The strange thing is that the old village chief Yao Ziqiang not only did not stop this kind of rebellious behavior, but also looked very happy in private.

According to the most well-informed dog cub in the village, he once saw the old village chief Yao Ziqiang secretly incense the little village chief!

The villagers scoffed at each other, who didn't know that the old village chief was the most devout towards his ancestors?

Who is not in awe of the ancestors, the old village chief can break his head with a cane!

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Li Fan sat under the tree, his mind full of thoughts, and countless thoughts burst out and dissipated quickly among the lightning and flint.

There have been great changes in the village, and after Li Fan came, in addition to changing the original way of life in Yangcun, he also carried out a series of personnel reforms.

The hunting party, which used to make up nearly a quarter of the village, has been divided into several parts.

A shaving who concentrates on growing potatoes.

went out to find a hunting team suitable for domesticating domestic animals for Li Fan.

There are also scouts who are familiar with the forest as if they were their own home, and they are sent out in search of all kinds of mineral resources.

There are more than 200 children and women who are too old to hunt.

Women have to work overtime to make ula straw sandals in addition to drying meat and fruit cellaring.

In the past, it was called one of the "Three Treasures of Tohoku", and the Ula sandals were excellent for keeping warm and easy to use. If you want to spend the winter here, you can't keep up with the warmth.

However, there was a lack of thread, and the first step of the project was to sew the boots.

Li Fan is stepping up the recovery of relevant technologies.

Now he longs to divide one person into three people, and he didn't feel it in the membrane world because of the stagnation of time before, and only now does he understand the importance of time.

That sense of urgency almost pressed him forward.

So he has been working hard, even an old man in his sixties like Yao Ziqiang is like clockwork.

But now he was distressed.

Very distressed, he was running out of the packs of facial tissues he had brought from the membrane world, and in order to keep his butt from being scratched by the wood chips, he decided to put papermaking on his agenda immediately.

The reason why paper was not made immediately was due to a lack of writing tools.

But now that papermaking is about to start, writing tools are also on the agenda.

The brush is certainly a very good writing tool, but the brush is not easy to get started, and it takes a lot of time to practice, but Li Fan has never learned the brush words, and where can he find the calligraphy?

In the trade-off, I could only give up the essence of China and choose to make quills.

Thinking of this, Li Fan stood up and walked towards Yao Ziqiang's house.

The villagers who didn't seem to squint and hurriedly walked in their hearts suddenly trembled, secretly thinking about what strange things the little village chief had come up with, and they still had a little expectation in their hearts.

Yao Ziqiang was urging Wang Xiaohu to write "homework" in the room, that is, writing his name, three-character scripture, multiplication formula table, etc. on the sand table with branches on the sand table.

As one of the few literate people in the village, Yao Ziqiang is the only parent who can check whether Wang Xiaohu's "homework" is correct.

"What? Ancestor, you want to make paper? It's the things that have been preserved in the village, and we can make them now?"

Li Fan nodded, took out a tissue paper, put it in Yao Ziqiang's hand and began to give him popular science

"There are many kinds of paper, including money printing paper, carbon paper, kraft paper, writing paper, and toilet paper, such as the paper in your hand, which is toilet paper. ā€

"Oh" Yao Ziqiang looked suddenly realised, and then asked

"Ancestor, what is toilet paper?"

Li Fan"...... Toilet paper is the paper you use when you have a runny nose, wash your face and hands, wipe your mouth after eating, and go to the toilet, because it is softer and more absorbent. ā€

Yao Ziqiang was shocked that Li Fan had built several so-called toilets in the village, so he knew what it was like to go to the toilet.

Holding the white and soft tissue in his hand, he looked at it for a long time before saying

"Ancestor, you actually wiped your ass with such a precious thing.........!

Li Fan smiled

"These papers are not precious, like this kind of paper used to consume a day I am afraid that the amount of consumption can fill the entire sheep village, and its production is also very simple, forget it, you come with me, and the paper will be handed over to you in the future." ā€

The two came to a clearing in the village.

According to Li Fan's instructions, he threw some bamboo, tree bark, and other things that he had brought from the south into the pool that he had dug out.

Then Li Fan clapped his hands

"Alright, let's soak in it, because something is missing, so we can only use this most primitive method. ā€

Yao Ziqiang looked at it for a long time before he asked with some doubts

"Ancestor, is this paper made of these things?"

"No, but this is the original paper, because there are no additives and flattening machinery, and the result is not so smooth and beautiful. ā€

Yao Ziqiang looked at the bark and bamboo poles soaked in the pool, and looked at the soft and white tissue in his hand, how could he not connect these two things that seemed to be different.

One can only marvel at the power of the ancestors.

Then Li Fan took a large handful of feathers from the birds caught by the hunting team.

Although it is called a quill, many bird feathers can be used to make it.

Such as crows, eagles, etc.

These feathers are the outermost five feathers of the wing, and most of them are the feathers of the left wing, because the angle of their growth is more in line with the pencil holding habits of right-handed users.

Li Fan buried these feathers in a pot of sand, then lit them and heated them, so that the sand remained about 100 degrees.

This step is called degreasing, hardening.

Then he took out the feathers and cut them with a knife at an angle of 30 degrees, cutting out a sharp corner.

Then remove the very pointed part so that the anterior part of the quillills becomes an isosceles trapezoidal upper section.

At this point, it can only be said that the quills complete a large part.

Because the quill pen maintains the ink through capillary action, it is necessary to clean the tube as much as possible, and use a knife to trim the nib slightly, and the nib of the final bird quills is very similar to the fountain pen of the previous life.

Li Fan tried to write a few words with furnace ash mixed with water as ink, and although the handwriting was very faint and quickly spread, he was still very satisfied.

After all, there is a tool that can write.

Just as he was about to leave with his quill in hand.

Xia Hua, who was sent out to look for coal, dragged her body full of scars and finally returned to the village, facing the villagers who rushed over to support him, Xia Hua trembled and felt a black stone from her arms, proudly raised it to the top of her head, and then fell to the ground.