Back at home, Chu Ying first asked the people who transported the goods to move all the things to the shed, and after settling the money, he asked Hei Tan to take it to Uncle Qi to make an appointment to build a house later. When she got home, Chu Ying looked at the things piled up in three sheds and was a little overwhelmed.

Chu Ying first drew the shape of the rocket furnace on the paper, calculating how many bricks were needed for a furnace.

"What's the matter, you bought so many things, where did you get the money?" Ye Qiu put away all the garlic on the ground and spread it on the ground to dry.

"Make paper, the silver money given by Lu Ming." Ye Qiu looked at Chu Ying and lowered his head, thinking about something, so he didn't ask again.

The papermaking technology of this era is the ancient method of papermaking, there are steps such as cutting bamboo, soaking bamboo, steaming, swinging curtain papermaking, pressing paper, and baking paper, which takes more time in the early stage and requires more manpower in the later stage, so the paper is so expensive, and it has not been popularized.

Chu Ying didn't want to use the same method as others, because she just wanted to make soft paper instead of good quality paper. Chu Ying still used the old method before, but dug a large rectangular hole in the west side of the yard, and when Uncle Qi came the day after tomorrow, he could use wooden planks to build the hole around and at the bottom, so that it could prevent mud and sand from being mixed when making paper pulp, which would make the paper cleaner.

Chu Ying and Ye Qiu dug 3 together, and now they don't know the time required for each link, so they dig these three first, and when they are familiar with the time required to make pulp, they can put the pond in the best quantity.

After digging up, Chu Ying continued to think about how to build the stove, originally wanting to make the stove for steaming and the stove for baking paper into a whole, so that the firewood could be effectively used, and the paper could be made when steaming.

But Chu Ying was afraid that the time of the two would not be completely consistent, so he could only build the two separately, and Chu Ying calculated the number of bricks in length and width. So he took up his sickle and prepared to cut the wheat in the field, and when he was busy, he would not have time to harvest it.

"Cut it now? Don't wait two days? Ye Qiu spread linen cloth on the back basket and followed behind Chu Ying with a small stool.

"I'm afraid I won't have time at that time, so let's cut it off first. And the stems and leaves of this wheat can also be used to make paper. When the time comes, it will take time to threak wheat. Chu Ying sat on a small stool, cutting piece by piece forward, and Ye Qiu collected the wheat in a basket behind Chu Ying and carried it to the yard to dry.

"When you enter a city and come back, you are in a hurry, are you going to do something?"

"Make paper." Ye Qiu could only work harder when he saw Chu Ying cutting the wheat with all his heart, he was already very tired when he was digging the small pond just now, but Chu Ying cut extremely quickly and accurately with one knife, and he couldn't say anything.

By the time she was about to eat dinner, Chu Ying had already cut almost half of the wheat, her hands were already sore, and her waist was almost straight. "Ye Qiu, my waist ......"

"Come on, I'll hammer the hammer, you can cut it all afternoon without pain, don't move." After Ye Qiu hammered for a while, Chu Ying could stand up slightly, she didn't feel it when she was working just now, but now she felt a little uncomfortable when she stood up.

"Go and lie down for a while, don't bend this small waist, what should I do when I look like an old woman." Ye Qiu killed a rabbit and collected lettuce and bamboo shoots, the amount of labor today is too great, I want to make up for Chu Ying, I don't have anything, I am used to doing work, but Chu Ying is different.

"Hey, my waist......" Chu Ying lay straight on the floor with her back to the sky, drawing the general architectural overview of the paper mill with her fingers in the air.

At the beginning, you don't need to be too large, two cooking stoves and a baking paper stove can be, then it is advisable to build two houses, after all, there are still a lot of raw materials and pulp to be placed, the stove is built in one room but it is crowded and unsafe, after all, fire is used, if the place is small and then cause a fire is not easy to rescue.

Papermaking still requires a lot of water, Chu Ying thought about introducing pond water into the small pond diagonally along the terrain, after all, the pond is still quite large, and the amount of water required for papermaking at the beginning must be enough, and it will not affect the plants and animals in the water.

Chu Ying thought it was a relatively simple thing at first, but when it really came to it, she had to think about it everywhere and plan it well. Chu Ying wrote all the small ideas she came up with with charcoal on paper, and when Ye Qiu came in, Chu Ying's hands had already turned into black charcoal, and the paper on the ground was also all over the ground.

"What are you doing, you hand." As soon as Ye Qiu put away a piece of paper, Chu Ying shouted to her not to move.

"I'll take it." Ye Qiu looked at the random paper on the ground and was folded by Chu Ying one by one in her order, and when it came to the kitchen to eat, Chu Ying was still drawing something.

"Let's eat first, what's the hurry, you play around when you're fine, and now when you have something, you hurriedly make the food can't eat well, eat more meat." Chu Ying looked at the bowl full of meat, put the paper aside, washed her hands a little and ate it in a big gulp, she was really tired after a day's work.

Ye Qiu put away the dishes and chopsticks and thought about asking Chu Ying to wash up, and as soon as he entered the bedroom, he saw Chu Ying, who was already sleeping soundly on all fours, packed up the newly painted paper, pressed it with a stone, and covered Chu Ying with a quilt, but in her sleep, Chu Ying's hand kept moving, as if she was cutting wheat, Ye Qiu put her hand in the quilt.

When Ye Qiu came back, Chu Ying's hand had already escaped from the quilt and was slowly moving, it was always good to have something to do, so that Chu Ying would not go hunting in the mountains, so that she would be less injured, and she would not have to worry about it.

And Ye Qiu didn't see Chu Ying when he woke up, and when he went out, he saw Chu Ying who was already cutting wheat, "Why is it so early." Ye Qiu finished breakfast and put away all the wheat piled up behind Chu Ying.

Waiting for Uncle Qi to come in the afternoon, Chu Ying finally finished cutting all the wheat, "Uncle Qi, this time according to this, the two rooms do not use walls as before, I will do it later, you still do the structure." ”

Chu Ying looked at the bricks in the shed that were obviously not enough, these bricks could only be used for one room at most, and Chu Ying would have to ask the villagers to buy the adobe bricks of the other house when the time came.

"Okay, is there something big? You don't need that much to live in. ”

"It's nothing, it's just used to pile up grain, and there is no place to store grain at home, and it is always right to save more food in this famine year. And this place has been dug up, and it has been built with wooden joints, so that the water can be released when the time comes. Chu Ying moved the money out of the room.

"You're very thoughtful at a young age." Uncle Qi put down the tool and drank the water first.

"Uncle Qi, you take this money, you can buy the wood you need yourself, and other miscellaneous expenses will also be deducted from it, if it is not enough, you can inform me again." Chu Ying moved the money box of 2 taels of silver to Uncle Qi.

Qi looked at the big money box and was a little at a loss, "This, how can this work, you should buy it, aren't there many trees behind your house." ”

"Those don't cut them, they're all quite big, it's a pity to cut them, I don't have to worry about you doing things, you can just take them and buy them, and I will have a number in my heart when the time comes." Uncle Qi took out two pieces of silver, "These are enough, if they are not enough, I will tell you again, then I will go to the city with my apprentice to buy them first." Chu Ying watched Uncle Qi's carriage slowly drive away, rubbed his palms and turned over the wheat in the yard, although there would be some moisture for Uncle Qi to buy it, but Uncle Qi would not take more if he was honest, and let Uncle Qi do Chu Ying could also save worry about doing other things, and the extra money was worth it.