Chapter 59: The Golden Mean
After being supported by the sister-in-law of Ma for a while, Zhen Niang went out of the shed, took off the cloth strip, blinked for a while to get used to the light, and then explained to Wu Pengtou some problems with fire control when lighting cigarettes, and Zhen Niang left.
After Zhen Niang left, all the men in the workshop also turned their heads and ears: "This Zhen Niang is really amazing......
"It's over, it's over, a virgin girl is such an expert, it will be even more difficult to mix up in the future." Needless to say, it must be the two dogs who said this.
"Okay, concentrate on doing things, the fire is well controlled, medium heat is appropriate, and the oil is full for me, I don't want the bituminous coal handed over by our shed to be of inferior grade, and it will be the face of the big guy at that time." Wu Mingquan said to everyone.
With the excitement of Zhen Niang before, coupled with Wu Mingquan's words, the cigarette lighters in the shed were holding back their strength, and they started to work one by one, staring at the fire with both eyes, and immediately adjusted when they shook slightly, during which they woke up the spirit of twelve, smelled the smell of bituminous coal carefully with their noses, and grasped the timing of taking bituminous coal in time.
In this way, by noon, the quality of the bituminous coal coming out of the shed was really higher than usual, and Wu Mingquan was happy to laugh.
At this time, a cook brought food.
"Miss Zhen ordered, the big guy worked hard, add an extra spoonful of meat to the bowl every day today." The chubby cook grinned.
As soon as the cigarette lighters heard that they could eat meat today, they didn't even have time to clean their faces and hands, and their black faces and black hands took the dishes and chopsticks to serve the dishes directly, and they were laughed and scolded by the cook.
The men are rough-skinned and thick-skinned, how can they care about this kind of laughter and scolding, there is that slippery. even replied with a few words that were not meat or vegetarian, and the angry fat kitchen threatened not to give meat to eat. One by one, they said all the good things.
"Uncle Quan, I'll go and see the ugly woman." The second dog squeezed to Wu Mingquan's side with a bowl in his hand.
Wu Mingquan squinted at him. Looking at the meat in his bowl that had not been touched, he knew that this kid must be going to take this meat to the ugly woman to eat, although this kid is annoying and annoying, but filial piety is still a little, so he nodded: "Go, go early and return early, if you miss the hour, I will deduct your salary this month." ”
"I promise you won't be mistaken." Ergou raised his hand and swore that that month's salary was his life. Can he let Uncle Quan deduct it?
With that, the second dog ran to the back door of Li's house with a rice bowl in his hand.
There is a back door in the backyard of the Li Mansion that communicates with the ink shop, which is convenient for the old lady to enter and exit, and it is the ugly woman who guards the back door.
This ugly woman has a burn scar on her face, and she looks terrible, she was taken in by Old Man Li at home back then, and she guards the back door on weekdays, has a strange temperament, and can't get along with anyone. It's just that the two dogs who have no face and no skin can come forward and say a few words, and they are like a ghost on weekdays.
"Grandma, eat meat, this is the meal that the virgin girl added to us." The second dog pulled the meat from the bowl into the ugly woman's bowl.
"Virgin? I heard you want to give her a dismount today. Instead, she gave you a dismount. The ugly woman put a piece of fat meat in her mouth, and put the lean meat back into the bowl of the second dog, and her teeth were not good. The lean meat can't be eaten.
"Ouch, this is all in your old ears. Oops, we've lost face. The second dog sighed.
"So haode very. Let you bastards see that there are people outside the world, and you can save a little smoke jishu from learning a little bit of smoke, and you will be coaxed. The ugly woman said coldly.
"Yes, yes, you've always been taught." Ergou grinned, but he didn't care, and then quickly pulled the rice in the bowl into his mouth, and said vaguely to the ugly woman: "You eat slowly, I'm leaving, Uncle Quan is getting harder and harder to speak now." ”
Saying that, he put down the dishes and chopsticks and ran back, he had to go back quickly, it was too late to go back, Uncle Quan would really deduct his salary.
"Ergou, I heard that your smoke shed wanted to give the virgin girl a dismount today, but instead asked the virgin girl to give you a dismount, you are really getting more and more promising?"
Ergou was running, and when he heard this sentence again, he looked up and saw that the person who was talking was Zheng Fuli, and he couldn't help but snort.
Zheng Fuli is the grandson of Steward Shao and the son of Steward Zheng, and he is nineteen years old this year.
This Zheng Fuli relied on the background of Steward Shao and Steward Zheng in the ink workshop, which was quite mixed in the ink workshop, especially the year before last, he worshiped Master Qin as a master, and now he has taken over the affairs of the ink workshop.
And the natural cigarette lighting side of the people don't look down on him, come and go, the two sides often quarrel, both sides look at each other unpleasantly.
At this time, this incident happened to the cigarette shed, and naturally it fell into the mouths of Zheng Fuli and others to make fun of it.
"Of course we have a chance, today we got the mention of the virgin girl, the grade of bituminous coal in our oil hood has reached another level, and the next thing is to depend on the matter between you and the ink shop, if you still can't make haode oil smoke ink as before, then you can go and explain to the virgin girl yourself, don't use our bituminous coal as an excuse." Ergou whistled and said to Zheng Fuli with disdain.
The Li family is famous for pine smoke, and the ink is heavy in the light glue, and the oil smoke ink is heavy in the heavy glue, the glue is different, and the formula of the ink is naturally very different, but the Li family is still short in the development of the oil smoke ink, so the quality of the oil smoke ink is often not ideal, in the past, they often blame each other, Zheng Fuli They blame the oil smoke coal is not good, and the oil smoke shed here naturally refers to the ink jishu is not good, every time for this, the two parties privately do not know how many bad debts.
Now, Ergou's words this time are naturally ridiculous and Mofang's jishu is not good.
"Who used you as an excuse, I think you are all mud and can't support the wall, and I'm afraid that the virgin girl's mention will be in vain." Zheng Fuli and the others sneered back.
"Don't talk nonsense, we'll see it when the bituminous coal is ordered this time." Ergou said with a look of waiting and seeing, this morning's bituminous coal came out, Uncle Quan has already said that it is definitely a good product. This time it's time for them to watch the jokes of Zheng Fuli and others.
After speaking, he waved his hand, ignored Zheng Fuli and the others, and hurried back to the shed.
"Hmph." Zheng Fuli looked at the back of Ergou and snorted coldly.
"Master Zheng, in the morning, Steward Shao sent someone to let us prepare the matter of ink and glue. said that the virgin girl wants to make and ink, this won't be the one who will also come to our workshop to go to the smoke shed, right? "At this time. A guy leaned into Zheng Fuli's ear and said.
"Just be ready, let's wait and see." Zheng Fuli's face was not very good. He has been a key technician in the ink shop since he was a child, and he has a conceit. He wanted to see what kind of reconciling ink the virgin girl could make this time.
Thinking about it, I took a few back to Hemo Fang, and I still have to be ready to prepare.
At noon, Zhenniang had lunch in Li's Mansion, chatted with Chen and others about the ink workshop, and went to see the seventh grandmother, the seventh grandmother is still the same, and the people who look at it like that are a little sad.
Thinking about what I'm going to do in the afternoon. Zhen Niang didn't stay long, said goodbye to Chen and others, and entered the ink shop from the backyard, and when she passed by the well in the backyard, she saw an old woman hunched over, struggling to carry a bucket of water.
"Grandma, I'll come." Zhen Niang hurriedly stepped forward.
The old woman raised her face, Zhen Niang gasped violently, and the reddish-brown scar on that face was occupied. The mouth was even more crooked because of the scar, like a ghost movie.
"Ah, it's an ugly woman." Zhen Niang took a deep breath before saying hello, knowing that this grandma was the ugly woman guarding the back door.
On weekdays, she occasionally enters and exits through this back door. It's just that the ugly woman has a strange temperament, and she usually hides in the house and doesn't see anyone, but this is the first time Zhenniang has seen her.
"What? I'm scared. The ugly monster laughed. The voice is very hoarse, very ugly.
"Hmm. I was shocked at first sight. Zhen Niang snorted, and did not deny it. Such a face, if you say that you are not frightened when you see it for the first time, it is a lie.
As she spoke, Zhen Niang took the first step to lift the bucket and followed the ugly woman all the way.
"Put it down, you don't have to pretend to pity me." The ugly woman said in a hoarse voice, unable to hear any emotion.
Zhen Niang turned her face sideways and smiled at her: "Grandma, this is not pitiful, it's just a gesture, does Grandma think she needs to be pitiful?" Apparently not, right? I help you carry water, just to do a little bit of the younger generation's mind, not to mention that the water is too heavy, grandma you can't lift it, Zhenniang help, why not? ”
"Hmph." The ugly woman snorted.
Zhen Niang didn't care, just looked at the ugly woman, and couldn't help but wonder why this person made this like this for some reason?
"There was no conspiracy, no deliberate harm, just an accident." The ugly woman seemed to know when Zhen Niang wanted, and snorted coldly.
"Hmm." Zhen Niang nodded calmly, maybe she had read too many novels before, and when she saw such a situation, she would always guess all kinds of bloody plots behind it. However, think about it, how can there be so much dog blood in the world, most of it is just an accident.
Knowing that the ugly woman doesn't like to talk and doesn't care about people, Zhen Niang didn't say much, she didn't say anything all the way, and helped the ugly woman carry the water back, Zhen Niang went back to the ink workshop, and the sister-in-law was already waiting for her, so the two went to the ink shop together.
Master Qin is not only the master of the ink workshop, but also the master of the ink workshop, and the ink workshop is the most important part of the entire ink workshop, including the ink and glue.
The waste ink has been disposed of, and the first step is naturally to evaporate and soak to remove the glue, and then the old glue and the new glue can be made into re-ink. Of course, the most important thing in this is to glue with ink. As for the method of glue, each master has a unique method, and it cannot be said that anyone is better than whom, but only that they have their own characteristics.
"Who's going to do this for glue?" Steward Shao asked.
Master Qin touched his beard and was about to take over, when Zheng Fuli suddenly said: "I think this is different from ink and new ink, then this is different from the glue method of new ink, we are all confused, it is better to let Miss Zhen try it first." ”
"How's it going?" Master Qin knew what Zheng Fuli meant, and he himself wanted to see what this virgin girl was clever with Mo Zhuji.
"Okay, then I'll do it." Zhen Niang replied, originally she proposed the system and ink, and she was reasonable with the glue, the reason why she didn't say it before was just to listen to Master Qin's arrangement, after all, Master Qin is the master of the ink workshop, and he has an authoritative letter in this regard.
So Zhenniang took over the tools and began to do it step by step.
At first, Master Qin, Zheng Fuli and the others didn't care, but the more they looked at it, the more solemn their faces became.
Some people have a one-step approach to glue, and some people have glue step by step.
Zhen Niang's method is also to glue step by step, which Master Qin is the same as her, but he found that the steps of the materials used by Zhen Niang when gluing are different from his.
"Zhen girl, weishenme's first step is to glue first to green alum, green daisy and musk?" The one who asked was Zheng Fuli on the side, he learned from Master Qin, so he naturally had the same questions as Master Qin.
"Green alum indigo is easy to spoil, musk is easy to attract moisture, first put them on the glue, in order to stabilize their properties first, so that they can stabilize the properties of the medicine, so that they are not easy to decay, not easy to attract moisture, so that the ink made of zuihou is not easy to produce bad smell and damp softening." Zhen Niang explained in her mouth, and the movements of her hands did not stop.
The stability of the glue needs to be oxidized to complete, and the first glue is to make the glue oxidized more fully.
The second time for glue, Zhen Niang put Coptis chinensis and soaphorn. The third time to glue, Zhen Niang put the mast kernel.
zuihou and ink on glue success.
"Coptis chinensis increases the ink color, and the glue is in the middle, so that the ink color enters the ink bone, and the mast kernel goes to the glue color to avoid insects, so zuihou to glue, these can make sense, then weishenme soap horn is also in the middle of the glue?" This time it's Master Qin who asked, and he usually has soap horns in zuihou.
"The soaphorn is wet, but if it is placed in a step of zuihou, its sexual exposure will cause the ink to dry, and the ink will cause drying, so it is advisable to put it in the middle of the glue, which can not only keep its sex, but also make its sex not exposed, the most golden mean." Zhen Niang said.
These things were all researched by his grandfather in his previous life, of course, some of them may not be all right, but there are also unique things.
As soon as I heard this, everyone present couldn't help but glance at each other, the Li family's oil smoke ink has such a disadvantage that it is easy to dry and crack, the ink is fine in the south, and once it arrives in the north, it will dry and crack soon after, is the problem actually here?
……………… (To be continued......)
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