Chapter 6: The Work of the Assistant

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In the lab, Shiba and Yukishin stand at a table with two stacks of paper in front of them.

These two stacks of paper, one is white paper, and the other is earthy yellow hard paper.

White paper is ordinary, just like the writing paper used to write letters. Whereas, yellow paper is thicker and harder in texture.

Shiba took a piece of white paper, placed it there, took a rectangular iron frame, pressed it against a corner, and took a cutting knife in his right hand and cut it along the inside of the iron frame.

After a while, the rectangular white paper was set aside.

"Cutting flat and keeping the gap between the two sheets smaller saves material. In Soul Street, the price of paper is not cheap. ”

Shiba Kuzuru demonstrated as he spoke, cutting the rectangular pieces of white paper one by one.

Then Shiba Kuzuru gave up his position and said to Yukishin, "You can try it." ”

Xue Xin took the iron frame, put it on the white paper in front of him, held the iron frame with his left hand, picked up the cutter with his right hand, and cut the white paper little by little.

It doesn't look difficult, but the corners of the cut rectangular piece of paper are not neat.

"This is the inner core of the fireworks, these two sides must be neat, you can't use it like you. ”

Shiba Kuzuru directly clumped the paper into a ball, threw it aside, and said, "Do it again." ”

Xue Xin nodded, was a little more careful the second time, slowed down the speed, and cut it more neatly.

Cutting is not difficult, but it must be smooth, and if you are not skilled, it will be slow.

"Very good, and the yellow paper, which needs to be cut with a second iron frame. ”

Shiba Kutsuru took another iron frame, pointed to the yellow paper, and said, "The yellow one is made with this iron frame, and the method is the same." ”

"Good. ”

Xue Xin took the iron frame, put it aside, and asked, "Sister Konghe, how much do I need to do?"

Shiba Kuzuru thought for a moment and said, "Two hundred white, two hundred yellow will do." ”

I'm not proficient now, about twenty seconds for one, at least one hundred and eighty sheets an hour, and it's not a problem to reach two hundred.

The two sheets add up, but two hours.

This kind of work is extremely simple, so it seems that it is not difficult to be an assistant.

"I'll get it done. ”

Yukishin immediately started today's work, and Shiba Kuzuru was not idle, and walked to the workbench in the distance to configure gunpowder.

Xue Xin stood in front of the table, cutting the cardboard into squares one by one.

As time passed, Xuexin became more and more proficient, and the knife in his hand became more and more stable, and he could cut one piece in more than ten seconds.

But after ten minutes, Xuexin's arm was a little tired, he moved his arm, rested for a minute, and started to do it.

And just like that, in less than an hour, all the white paper was cut.

Next is the yellow hard paper, because the texture is harder, it needs to be cut a little bit, the speed is greatly slowed down, and the time is extended.

But even so, in two and a half hours, Xuexin completed all the cropping.

"Sister Konghe, I'm done. ”

Yukishin walked up to Shiba Kuzuru and whispered.

"I'll check it out. ”

Shiba Kuzuru walked over to Yukishin's cut paper, looked at them one by one, and finally said, "Very good, meet the requirements." So do the rest of the work. ”

Shiba Kutsuru walked to a corner of the laboratory and brought up a drawer-like shelf, and then brought an iron bucket, which when opened, was filled with cloudy liquid.

In the middle of the wooden frame, it is hollowed out, and there are several iron pipes of different thicknesses on the brackets, the left side is suspended in the air, but the right side extends to directly connect several handles.

"Look at it. ”

Standing in front of the wooden frame, Shiba Konghe put a white paper on the iron pipe and wound it, and when he was about to wrap it around, he dipped a wooden brush in the iron bucket with his right hand, and brushed the wooden brush on the inside of the unwound white paper.

Then Shiba took the yellow cardboard, brushed the liquid on the white paper, pasted the yellow paper, turned it around, brushed the liquid on the inside of the remaining yellow paper, and continued to wrap it.

The white paper is wound twice, and the yellow paper is wound twice, and it becomes a paper tube.

Shiba Konghe took the paper tube, drew it along the iron pipe from the left end, put it in front of Yukishin, and said, "This is the small cannon barrel that fireworks need, you have to do this next, let's try it." ”

"Good. ”

Xue Xin tried to do it according to what he had just remembered, but when he wound it, the paper was a little oblique and stuck to the iron pipe.

Xue Xin tried to tear it off, but only part of it was torn off, and the rest was still glued to it.

"This. ”

When Yukishin saw this scene, he didn't know what to do, and looked at Shiba Kuzuru.

"You're so stupid. ”

The latter stretched out his fingers, lit a cluster of spiritual fire, and burned it close to the paper, directly burning the remaining white paper.

It's okay like this, Xue Xin suddenly realized.

"Go on. ”

Shiba said with a straight face.

"Yes. ”

Xue Xin hurriedly went to do it, this time he paid attention to the position, slowly coincided, and after gluing the white paper, he planned to get the yellow paper.

"Wait. ”

Shiba Kutsuru immediately stopped him and said to him, "You put the paper tube and see if you can fight." ”

When Xue Xin heard this, he wanted to take off the paper tube, but found that the paper tube was attached to the iron pipe and could not be pulled out.

"You have to leave some space, the white paper is relatively thin, and it is difficult to take it off. ”

Shiba Kutsuru preached on the side.

"Yes. ”

Xue Xin stretched out his finger and directly lit the spiritual fire, burned the paper, and then made it again.

After repeated failures, continuous attempts, and almost a dozen failures, Yukishin succeeded once, took off the paper tube, put it in the palm of his hand, and looked at Shiba Konghe with a smile on his face.

"What's so complacent about that? It took so many failures to succeed. ”

Shiba snorted and said, "I think at the beginning, I succeeded a few times. ”

"Really?"

Xue Xin looked at the iron pipes on the wooden frame and said, "But these iron pipes are all burned black, and you should have failed a lot of times, right?"

"Shut up for me. ”

When Shiba Konghe heard Xue Xin's words, he raised his fist and hit Xue Xin's head, and said angrily: "Hurry up, today's task is one hundred and fifty finished products." ”

"One hundred and fifty?"

When Xue Xin heard this, she said with a sad face: "Sister Konghe, it takes me nearly two minutes to make one, thirty of them in an hour, one hundred and fifty, and I will do it for at least five hours." ”

Shiba Kuzuru shrugged his shoulders and said, "Then you need to speed up." ”

Leaving these words, Shiba Kuzuru left, leaving Yukishin alone, looking at the wooden frame and worried.

But Yukishin is not one to sit still, he quickly accepts reality and starts producing.

And just like that, time passed, and soon three hours passed, and he had done a hundred.

There are fifty left, and it's almost finished.

Xue Xin wiped the sweat from his forehead and rested.

"I'll go back first, and then go to dinner when you're done." ”

Shiba Kutsuru had already finished her work at hand, and with a word of advice, she left directly, leaving Yukishin alone in the laboratory.

"Whew. ”

Xue Xin looked at the paper scroll in front of him and felt that his arm was a little sore, but he didn't complain or give up.

After resting for a while, Yukishin began to make it again.

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While he was making the barrel, Shiba in the hall lit a pipe and took a puff, revealing a pleasant look.

"Lord Kuhe, do you want us to help Xue Xin?"

Jin Yan came to Shiba Kuzuru and asked tentatively.

Shiba waved his hand and said, "No, it's just some simple work." ”

Yinyan interjected, "But it's been five hours since he entered the lab, right? ”

Since he chose to be an assistant instead of a young master of a noble family, he should have this awareness. ”

Shiba Konghe took a puff of his cigarette pipe, exhaled white smoke, and then said: "After all, in Soul Street, a person with spiritual power quality needs to eat to make up for spiritual power. If you don't become a god of death, you will have to pay more than that if you want to survive. ”