"There's nothing wrong here."

Jiang Hua got down from the taxi, glanced at the street sign that said "Tongshi Street", and knew that he had found a place.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the small streets of the old town were quiet, although the street lights were on, the light was dim, and even the potholes on the ground were a little difficult to see.

Jiang Hua walked slowly inside, until he came to a small shop that was still lit but had no signboard and stopped.

"Excuse me...... Is it Hachiye's shop? ”

Jiang Hua walked in and found that the store was not big, only about ten square meters, the shelves were next to each other, from the ground to the ceiling, and the top was full of paper, and the walkway between the bookshelves and bookshelves was very narrow, and people had to turn sideways to be able to walk.

"I'm the eighth master."

Jiang Hua followed the sound and looked over, and saw a small table in the corner of the wall that I don't know how many years old, one of the legs was gone, it was directly the book supported by a base, the paint had almost fallen off, and there were many things piled up on the table in a mess.

"Eighth Master, my name is Jiang Hua, did Zhao Tie call you before?"

Jiang Hua looked at the eighth master, he was a thin old man, wearing very ordinary clothes, his hair had turned gray and even fallen out a lot, his eyes were cloudy and he had no energy, and the wrinkles on his face were even more pressing, looking very old.

"Well, Zhao Tiena's baby called me, you can find it on the shelf yourself if you want."

After pointing to the shelf, the eighth master lowered his head and continued to look at a yellowed thread-bound book in his hand.

Jiang Hua touched the back of his head and walked towards the shelves, and if he wanted to say what he wanted to buy, he had to swallow it back.

During the Tang Dynasty in China, the national strength was strong, and the emperor at that time was very good at civil affairs in addition to martial arts. In particular, Taizu Li Yuan and Taizong Li Shimin, they are very fond of calligraphy and painting, and strive to promote culture and education as one of the basic strategies of governing the country, at that time, the inner government had to search for and sort out the classics of calligraphy and painting, according to the "New Tang Dynasty Book Art and Literature Chronicle" record, "Zhenguanzhong, Wei Zheng, Yu Shinan, Yan Shi Gu Ji secretary and supervisor, please buy the world's books, choose the five or more descendants of the Gongshu as the book, write and hide in the inner library, to the palace people", simply put, even if you are looking for someone to copy the book, it must be from the family of officials above the fifth grade.

Li Shimin has been collecting calligraphy and paintings since he was still the king of Qin, and after becoming the emperor, he has "intensified" and sent special people to visit famous sites in various places many times. In the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, it is recorded that Li Shimin obtained a total of "1,510 volumes of books such as Erwang, Zhang Zhi, and Zhang Chang". Before the invention of the camera and the photocopier, the only way to make one or more copies of the original works of calligraphy and painting could be passed on to future generations or to be widely disseminated was by copying them. After Taizong Li Shimin obtained the original copy of the "Orchid Pavilion Preface", he immediately asked people to make rubbings, which were used to reward the crown prince, kings and close ministers.

Legend has it that when Tang Puche, a person who was in charge of rubbing, was ordered to copy the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" by Fang Xuanling and others, he secretly passed the extra copy out of the palace, and the "first book in the world" has been passed down to future generations.

The popularity of "rubbing" directly gave birth to the emergence of a special kind of paper, which uses the wax method, "a good thing should be a hundred pieces of rice paper, and the wax is used to prepare for copying". There is also "the founding of the country to memorize calligraphy and painting, into less wax, to be dense, this method is appropriate", simply put, in the paper evenly coated with a layer of wax, so that the water absorption of the paper will be reduced, become "dense", improve transparency, such paper is conducive to the use of "double hook method" to rub the book sticker, this paper is hard yellow paper - simply put, it is the famous paper made by wax method.

What Jiang Hua was looking for was hard yellow paper, and it was hard yellow paper from the Tang Dynasty, this thing was really hard to find, and finally asked Zhao Tie to know the place of the eighth master, so he looked for it immediately.

Originally, I wanted to ask directly if there was hard yellow paper here, but the eighth master looked like he was ignoring it, so he could only find it himself.

At the beginning, Jiang Hua didn't care too much, but he was shocked when he looked at it.

Paper is one of the four great inventions of China, especially after the invention of papermaking by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the cost of writing has been reduced to greatly promote the spread of culture and the development of calligraphy and painting art.

In the long history, Huaxia invented and produced a large number of various kinds of famous paper used for calligraphy and painting.

Jiang Hua now sees rice paper, Xue Tao paper, water pattern paper, Chengxintang paper, Xie Gong paper, Korean paper, Jinsu paper, Bailu paper, and jade plate paper on the shelf...... He wondered if he had walked into a museum of famous papers from all over the ages.

"How is this possible?"

Jiang Hua's eyes widened, in his previous life, he had visited a national museum specializing in collecting paper, and it seemed that it could not be compared with the shop of the eighth master, and every kind of paper here has a considerable age, such as the Xue Tao note, looking at the texture and color, it may be left in the Tang Dynasty.

The eighth master's shop is not obvious, but it is a room of treasures, Jiang Hua is not an uninformed person, but he was frightened at this time.

Jiang Hua finally came to his senses, and settled down to find the hard yellow paper he wanted, but after half an hour, a thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead, and he still found nothing-the paper here in the eighth master was stacked and pressed one after another, it was too much, and he couldn't find it at all for a while.

"Eighth Master, do you have any hard yellow paper here?"

Jiang Hua was a little reluctant to put down the late Qing Dynasty "Lu Huang Xuan", the king of rice paper in his hand, and simply walked up to the eighth master and asked-he is short of time now, and he can't waste it.

"Oh? Do you know hard yellow paper? ”

The eighth master put down the thread-bound book in his hand and raised his head, "Young people nowadays, there are not many people who know this paper. ”

"Hehehe."

Jiang Hua smiled and said, "I happen to have a little bit of research on paper, and I also know a little bit about hard yellow paper." ”

"Well, at the bottom of the east shelf, there's an oiled paper bag, and it's what you want."

After the eighth master finished speaking, he lowered his head and continued to read the book in his hand, which made Jiang Hua stunned for a moment, he thought that the eighth master would talk to him about hard yellow paper.

Jiang Hua shook his head, walked to the shelf at the east end, and found that there was really an oily paper bag, and it took the boss's strength to carefully pull it out~ and open it.

"This thing, now it's really one less than one."

Jiang Hua picked up one and shook it lightly a few times, listening to the crisp voice, he immediately smiled.

Hard yellow paper is a kind of wax paper in the Tang Dynasty, also called 'yellow hard', and later generations also called yellow wax paper, yellow or light yellow, hard and smooth, when gently shaken, it can make a crisp sound, which is actually a way to identify hard yellow paper.

At the same time, the hard yellow paper is thin and evenly light, and it is clear and transparent under the light, as if it is a very thin topaz, and at the same time it is firm and flat, and at the same time, because it is dyed with yellow tillers, you can find a faint bitterness like Chinese medicine under the careful smell.

In his previous life, Jiang Hua had ~ played with the unearthed hard yellow paper, and he was very clear about the characteristics of this paper, and there was nothing wrong with the hard yellow paper in the Tang Dynasty.

There was still a lot of hard yellow paper in the oil paper bag, but he didn't buy all of them, but he just picked five, which was enough for his own use.

"This kind of thing is one less than one, so let's do it, since it was introduced by Zhao Tie's kid, I'll charge you 300,000."

Jiang Hua nodded, did not make a counteroffer, and happily swiped the card to pay and took the paper and left.

The street was so dark that it was inaudible, and it was a little frighteningly quiet.

"I heard that this kid spent 20 million yuan to buy the remnants of Zhao Mengfu's "Lanting Ti Thirteen Babes", he was short of money, and he wanted to sell the Qianlong enamel Fu Lushou bottle and was severely depressed, shouldn't he have a headache? How can you have the heart to come to me to buy ancient paper? I didn't blink my eyes when I spent 300,000 yuan, this thing is weird......"

Putting down the book in his hand, the eighth master slowly stood up and walked to the door of the store, bending down to look at the end of the side of the street, which was the direction Jiang Hua left.