Because the grass has long been rotted in the tank, it does not need to be boiled for a long time, but it must be boiled for a small day. Huzi and the others didn't have the patience to play first, but when they left, they left a message, saying that they had something to call him.

Several girls took turns to stir and add fire, and they were tired enough at the end of the day.

"Sister, put out the fire, I think it's almost over." Looking at it, Ling'er said.

"So what's going on next?" Yang Lan'er wanted to make sure that she didn't need to call Huzi that free labor.

"I'll have to take a couple of sacks and put the material in, and then go to the river and wash it off with running water." Ling'er knew Yang Lan'er's intentions, and then said:

"Let's go on our own, there aren't many anyway." Yang Lan'er thought about it, this washing and washing work, the boy is not as good as herself.

"It's okay, they don't understand it." Several people quickly packed the material into sacks, which were four and a half bags. Then I took it to the river behind, and saw Ling'er take a small half-bag first, and after walking a few steps west on the single-plank bridge, he sat on the bridge and put the bag into the river, swinging a few times from time to time. Everyone knew what to do by watching her movements, so the other three also took their own bags and washed in the river.

"Ling'er, you see that the water is clear now, is it clean?" Min'er watched the river go from dirty at the beginning to clean now.

"Well, it's almost, let's go back." Ling'er gave an order, and several people walked back to the yard with wet bags. Ling'er asked Min'er to wash the pot and put it in, add the grass and wood ashes, stir it well, and pour all the paper into it.

"That's it for today, and we'll move on to the next step tomorrow at noon." This day was tired enough, and after sending Yang Lan'er away, the three sisters washed up and dealt with the hot food at noon as dinner. The climate here is cold, and most people eat three meals a day, otherwise the body does not have enough calories and is not cold-tolerant. It's easy to get sick, and of course, those who are really poor don't pay so much attention to it.

"Well, how many more processes are there?" Min'er was really tired enough, but she was still looking forward to the results.

"Originally, it was going to be dried for two or three months, but it didn't matter if we made straw paper that wasn't yellow. Tomorrow is the most tiring, and I have to hammer the paper into mud. Later, you have to fish the paper, squeeze it dry, and finally bake the paper, anyway, this paper is very troublesome. Ling'er really regretted that she was quick to talk for a while, otherwise it wouldn't be useless to be so troublesome, and I don't know if the effect is. She really can't afford to hurt herself, this requires equipment without equipment, and it is really difficult for this half-baked technician to have no tools.

"Huh? How many processes are there? Min'er suddenly collapsed on the kang, but she immediately sat up again and said firmly:

"What's that, people can move mountains, and the iron pestle can be sharpened into needles, I don't believe we can't make straw." Looking at her confident appearance, Ling'er really felt that her sister had grown up, and she was relieved and a little sour at the same time.

"Yes, we will." Ling'er cooperated with her, and also made a very stubborn appearance. I saw her arch her front leg and back leg stretched, one arm across her chest, and the other arm behind her back, which was completely a classic action. Seeing Min'er and the others laughing, they didn't forget to laugh at her:

"Can you stop that weird look? I really laughed at it. Even Wang Xiang'er rarely echoed Min'er and said:

"But, laughing hurts my stomach." Ling'er was very helpless to see those two people who didn't know how to appreciate, are they considered a generation gap? It's definitely not a small ditch, looking at the stupid way the two of them laughed, thinking of this, Ling'er also laughed with her......

"Sister Min, Xiang'er, and Ling'er, I'm here." As soon as she had breakfast early in the morning, Yang Lan'er came over, followed by Huzi and five or six little boys, a large group of people who were hulala.

"You're so early, you can't stay in the house, let's go to the backyard." Min'er hugged the firewood and planned to heat up the cauldron.

A group of people quickly moved to the backyard, Huzi was very talented as a leader, and none of the boys were running around or anything. Just looking at it curiously, Yang Lan'er glanced at Huzi and was just about to speak, when she heard Huzi say:

"Sister Min, what are we doing today?" After speaking, he glanced at Yang Lan'er, saw her glaring at him, and smiled happily.

"You can beat all this into mud today, can you?" Min'er didn't mean anything else at all, she just felt that these children were not big, so don't tire people out by then.

"At first glance, we're strong, aren't we?" This tiger was afraid that others would doubt his ability, so he immediately said that he could do it, and did not forget to boost morale.

"We don't have a stone mortar at home." Ling'er then remembered something important, how can you pound the material without a stone mortar?

"Use that vat, our strength won't break the pestle anyway." Min'er thought for a moment and said. So everyone got busy, some burned the fire, some poured dirty water out, some fished the leftovers in the bucket, etc., everyone was in full swing.

"If the big guy is thirsty, come here and drink water, this water is very thirsty with honey and white boiling." Min'er and Xiang'er brought over a large bucket of water, and a wooden lid was placed on top of the bucket, and two bowls and a water spoon were placed on top of the lid.

"We're not thirsty now, we'll drink when we're thirsty." Huzi said without raising his head, he had to give up his idea and continue to work after planning to drink some honey water.

Soon all that was left was pounding, and the boys split into groups of three to take turns pounding. The girls stretched the coarse-eyed clean linen cloth on the square wooden frame of the tiger nails, instead of the bamboo curtains for papermaking. There is no way that it is too cold here, there is no trace of bamboo at all, so you can only use local materials. After it is done, Min'er and Xiang'er go to cook Chinese food for everyone, and they can't let everyone go home to eat. The boys were very happy to hear that they would have meat to eat, and they were more energetic in their work. Because of the cold climate, no one raises livestock and poultry, mainly because these animals will freeze to death in winter. Even if they don't die, people don't have anything to eat in winter, so how can they have spare food to feed them? In the summer, there are few families who are willing to eat their own prey, and most of them take it to the town to exchange some money, or go to the market to exchange some daily necessities or something.

Finally, with everyone's efforts, the paper turned into mud, and Ling'er was very satisfied after checking it. Next, Min'er went to the room and took out her own panel, the big deal is to wait for the workshop to be completed and let Uncle Zhang make another one, now it is important to make paper. The boys took the vat out of the hut and placed it on the floor in the backyard, and when they filled it with water, they could see many tiny fibers suspended in the water.

After Ling'er saw it, she put the burlap frame she had just made into the water and then lifted it up, only to see that a thin layer of wet paper had formed on the linen. Seeing this scene, everyone was boiling, cheers resounded in the sky, and even Ling'er's mood was very excited. Carefully transfer the wet paper to the panel next to it, and then put the burlap frame into the water again and again, Min'er looked at it for a while, and then picked up another burlap frame and scooped up the paper. Everyone else watched quietly from the side, and Xiang'er and Lan'er helped them move the paper. The four girls quickly found the trick, and they cooperated very tacitly, and after almost half an hour, all the papers were copied. Looking at the thick stacks on the panel, which adds up to about one meter and a half, it makes them feel a sense of accomplishment.

"Now we'll have to find some big rocks to press on it." Ling'er placed the lids of the two wooden barrels on top of the two stacks of paper and said to the boys.

"No problem, you wait" Huzi ordered, and a few of them ran away in a flash, one because of the meat at noon, and the other because they could also feel a sense of accomplishment.

With the efforts of several boys, several large stones were firmly pressed against the wet paper. I heard that I was going to spend the night, so everyone agreed to come back tomorrow and all go home.

"Sister, can you do it tomorrow?" Ling'er was very worried, thinking that she would have to soak for a day and prepare things slowly, but she turned out to be in such a hurry.

"Isn't it almost baking paper tomorrow? Isn't it okay to bake it dry when the time comes? Min'er doesn't think it's difficult.

"It's not okay to use fire directly, it's easy to roast and catch fire, so you have to put it in a place like a fire wall or kang that doesn't directly touch the fire and is still hot." Ling'er thought about it for a long time and didn't come up with a way.

"In that case, you can't use the fire wall of this house, and we will sleep at night after all the paper is dried." Min'a also fell into deep thought.

"Why don't you go to our house, burn the kang and the fire wall, and let Uncle Zhang come to our house and sleep with my father tomorrow night, and the three of us will go to Aunt Zhang's house to sleep, and leave the doors and windows open at night, and the heat and moisture will be almost released overnight." Min'er said the plan, and Ling'er and Xiang'er had no other way but to agree. While they were talking, Er Ya came, because they were in the front yard just like other people's houses, but the door was closed and not bolted, and if they went to the backyard, they would tie the door from the inside.

"I heard that you are tinkering with paper at home? I'll come over and take a look. As soon as Erya entered the house, she said that she had helped her mother in the workshop and had no time to come to Min'er's house in the past two days, so she missed the opportunity.

"Well, I'm saying I'm going to spend the night at your house tomorrow." Min'er said, poured a bowl of honey water for Erya, and continued:

"Tomorrow we will have to use the fire wall and the kang in this house to dry the wet paper, and I guess after all the paper is finished, the house will be hot and damp and uninhabitable. No, we are thinking about letting your father come and accompany my father, and the three of us will go to your house and squeeze with you. ”

"That's it, I'll just talk to my father and mother when I go back tonight, and this paper will be finished tomorrow? Then I'll have to take a look. Erya said and went out with Min'er to see the wet paper.

Ling'er really doesn't understand what is there to see on the wet paper? didn't go with me to continue teaching Xiang'er to read, these days Xiang'er has been learning words and arithmetic with her sisters, although Xiang'er is not as fast as Min'er to learn, but it is within the normal range. Who is so rebellious like Min'er, if she hadn't seen Min'er's diligence and hard work, she would definitely suspect that Min'er had the same foundation as her.

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