Li Xiaolu is a courtesan, because she goes to high-end places, so her knowledge is still very good, she has seen many strange things, such as many strange things sold overseas from the Tang Empire, she has almost had the opportunity to see them, and naturally includes a very clear mirror that can reflect people's faces.

However, because of the difficulties of transportation and the lack of production capacity of large mirrors, large full-length mirrors have no chance to be sold overseas, so Li Xiaolu, who has never been to Datang, naturally has no chance to see a full-length mirror, and even if she goes to Datang, she may not be able to see a full-length mirror, after all, there are so many powerful people in Chang'an City, and they are not enough for them to rob, how can it be her turn, the mirror of the Qinglou is generally only half-bodyed, and only if she is fortunate enough to enter the home of the nobles, can she have the opportunity to see the figure of the full-length mirror.

The essential difference between a bust mirror and a full-length mirror is that you can only sit and look in the mirror and see your upper body, while a full-length mirror can stand and look in the mirror and can reflect the whole body in the mirror, which is an essential difference.

After all, a half-length mirror can only see what your face looks like, while a full-length mirror can allow you to see your body and see what your body shape is.

Since Li Xiaolu entered the cabin, she has been twisting her body in front of the full-length mirror, constantly observing her body shape, and at the same time, she also rotates her body to see what her usual movements look like.

In short, Li Xiaolu is very happy, she likes this full-length mirror very much, and even can't put it down, this is also the nature of women, all women like mirrors, they all like stinky beauty, this will never change, it will not change for 10,000 years.

Li An doesn't have the habit of looking in the mirror, he is more concerned about whether this room is clean enough and whether it is comfortable to live in, which is what he is most concerned about.

The materials for the decoration are all personally selected by Ang Lee, and there will definitely be no problem with the quality, and the cleanliness will definitely be the same, and there will be no problems.

Li An just checked it once, and praised his subordinates with great satisfaction, saying that he did a good job, the room was very beautiful and clean, the lighting was also very good, and the privacy and sound insulation were also very good.

Next to the living room is the bathroom, and there is only a narrow aisle in the middle, and in the middle of the aisle is a flush toilet, which is also a place to solve the problem of urinating and defecating.

This design not only facilitates daily life, but also does not allow the air in the bathroom and toilet to pollute the living place, meeting the needs of Ang Lee's healthy life.

When Li An entered the bathroom, Li Xiaolu also followed, as a frequent bather, she was most familiar with the bathroom, but it was the first time he had seen such a luxurious bathroom, and he was running around excitedly.

"Li Shilang, this bathroom has just been renovated, there are still a lot of finishing work to be done, and the air is not very good."

The subordinate said.

Seeing the construction waste in one place, Li An already knew that the work here was not completely done, and the transformation of many places was not very in place, but even so, in Li Xiaolu's eyes, this is already a top-level bathroom configuration, such a huge bath, wouldn't it be too comfortable to take a bath.

There were more than a dozen craftsmen working on the location of the kitchen, and there was too much construction waste piled up in it, and no one could enter it for the time being, so Li Ang just glanced outside and left.

Because it was under construction, the smell in all the cabins was not very good, and staying in the cabins with bad smells for a long time was a great damage to people's bodies, so soon, Li An pulled Li Xiaolu onto the deck, the place here is big enough, and the air is fresh enough.

Although it is inevitable that there will be a fishy smell on the beach, standing on the tall deck, you can't smell such a smell at all, because the sea breeze blows from the depths of the sea, so you can't smell the seaside at all, only the fresh smell of the depths of the ocean.

Shelves are being built on the deck, the main load-bearing is steel, and the secondary part is the wooden frame, which is to prepare to put flower pots, the sea voyage is very boring, and the feeling of not seeing the land is very bad, and if you can see green plants on the ship, it will give people a very happy feeling, so that people can keep a happy feeling, which is conducive to people's physical and mental health.

Not only is Ang Lee's ship equipped with a lot of flower pots, but all the rest of the ships must have flower pots on the deck, and all kinds of land plants must be planted in them, of course, the scale and quantity of the configuration must be different, it is impossible to engage in such a large scale, so the consumption is too great.

Li An gave his boat a large number of flower pots and green plants, and for the rest of the ships, there were only a small number of flower pots and plants for each boat, and the smaller ships only had a dozen pots, and at least ten soldiers were responsible for one flower pot, so that ten soldiers could take care of a pot of plants, and they would definitely be able to take good care of it, and the plants would not die, and at the same time, the fresh water consumed would not be very large.

The pots of the rest of the ships are relatively small, and the plants planted in them are all small and drought-tolerant plants, and on Ang Lee's boat, not only are there many kinds of plants, but also there are many large plants, all kinds of plants, and even two coconut trees are planted in the low place on the back deck, and the coconuts on these two coconut trees are still there, ready to be picked to quench their thirst.

"Coconut tree, Li Shilang actually moved the coconut tree to the ship, haha."

Li Xiaolu seemed very excited, she was afraid that it was the first time she saw coconut trees planted on the boat, so she was naturally very surprised.

Li An was also very humorous, and said with a smile: "It will take a long time to reach the land along the way, and when you want to drink coconut water, you can just pick one, there are dozens of two trees, and it should be enough along the way." ”

Li Xiaolu looked at Li An suspiciously, and said: "If Li Shilang likes to drink coconut water, just pick more coconut fruit, coconut fruit can be stored for a long time without the coconut tree, and it will not spoil quickly, why not just bring coconut fruit?" ”

"Wouldn't that be fresher, for freshly picked fruit is better than fruit that has been stored for a while?"

Ang Lee continued.

"What's the matter, it's not much worse, I can't feel it at all."

Li Xiaolu is very familiar with the taste of coconut fruit, whether it is freshly picked or stored for a period of time, she has drunk it, so she knows that the taste is not much different.

Li An smiled and said, "What is the difference between touching a young beauty's hand and touching a young ugly woman's hand." ”

"I understand, Li Shilang mentally thinks that the newly picked coconut fruit is delicious, so he planted coconut trees on the boat, right!"

Li Xiaolu said with a smile.

Li An patted Li Xiaolu's head, nodded and said: "You are very smart, this is indeed what you mean, besides, don't you think that after planting two coconut trees on the ship, the whole ship looks beautiful, and you can't see a single tree in the sea along the way, how uncomfortable it should be!" With the company of coconut trees, the mood will be much better. ”

After speaking, he walked up to a tall tuft of aquatic weeds and asked, "Do you know what kind of grass this is?" ”

"There are a lot of these aquatic plants on the banks of the Nile, and I really don't know what they are called."

Li Xiaolu replied truthfully.

Li An opened his mouth and introduced: "This grass is famous, this is Egyptian papyrus, it is a very important plant in Egypt, very important, do you know what important uses of papyrus are?" ”

"I don't know, can I eat it?"

Li Xiaolu's stay in Egypt was not long, so naturally she didn't know what papyrus was used for.

The so-called papyrus was originally a herbaceous plant in the lower reaches of the Nile River in Egypt, and the size of this plant is relatively large, hard, erect, and tall is its main feature, just like the reeds of the Tang Dynasty, living in diving.

The shorter papyrus can grow to a height of one meter, while the tallest papyrus can grow to a height of four or five meters, which is simply a giant among grasses.

This grass is different from ordinary annual herbaceous plants, it belongs to perennial evergreen herbs, the stems are erect and clustered, trirhid, unbranched, the flowers are small, lilac, and it is a fairly beautiful aquatic plant.

Papyrus is distributed throughout swamps, diving lakes and streams and other humid parts of Africa, in the deeper water, papyrus is the main plant that constitutes vegetation, and now wild papyrus is distributed in parts of Africa, and even many diving sites in Datang have traces of sand grass.

The vitality of this grass is very tenacious, whether it is a humid forest, or a dry desert, as long as the average temperature is more than 20 degrees throughout the year, the soil is not acid or alkaline can grow well, the flowers of papyrus bloom in late summer, and tend to bloom in a semi-shady environment with full sunshine, like many typical tropical plants, papyrus is very sensitive to frost, and must not encounter frost, otherwise, it is easy to cause death.

In later generations, many wealthy people would choose to decorate their private gardens with papyrus, which was planted with tall papyrus, which was still very beautiful, and the most important thing was that this grass had strong vitality and was not easy to get sick, and could even be used to prevent and control water pollution.

Li An smiled and said, "Can you eat it?" How is it possible, you are really a snack goods, the first word of papyrus is paper, that is to say, this grass can be used to make paper, and the paper used for writing in Egypt is made of this grass, however, after the advanced paper of the Tang Dynasty entered Egypt, the papyrus was eliminated, and now only the poor people in Egypt are still using this backward paper. ”

"Oh, I see! I didn't expect this kind of grass to be able to make paper, so how did it turn into paper? ”

Li Xiaolu asked curiously.

Li An naturally knew the process of making papyrus into papyrus, so he explained it very patiently until Li Xiaolu fully understood.

This so-called papyrus, in fact, can not really be called paper in the modern sense, it belongs to the stem of the plant directly beaten out, the performance is very bad, can be regarded as a bamboo slip, but the manufacturing process is much more complicated than the bamboo brief.

The process of making papyrus is very interesting, the material chosen is the stem of the papyrus, first the hard green outer skin of the papyrus is peeled off, the light-colored inner stem is cut into strips of about 40 centimeters, and then cut into thin slices.

After cutting the flakes, which need to be soaked in water for at least six days to remove the sugar they contain, after that, the strips are placed side by side in one layer and then covered with another layer, with the two flakes perpendicular to each other.

These flakes are spread evenly between two layers of linen and beaten with a mallet while they are wet, the two layers of flakes are pressed into one piece and squeezed out of the water, then pressed with a heavy object such as a stone, and after drying, it is polished with a pumice stone to obtain the finished papyrus.

Since only one side of the paper is used, the writing side is sized, so that the ink does not seep out when writing.

The ancient Egyptians first used paper to be rolled into scrolls, and later, for convenience, cut them into sheets to make them into manuscripts, so that books appeared, and even in later generations, papyrus was occasionally used in paintings, but the pigments of the water distorted the paper.

Papyrus can be well preserved in the dry climate of Egypt, but it is easily destroyed by mold in a humid environment, so many papyri introduced in the humid regions of Europe have been destroyed, and in dry Egypt, thousands of years of papyrus are still preserved, which is a miracle.

Ancient Egypt invented papyrus very early, in the third millennium BC has been invented, three thousand years earlier than the Chinese papermaking, of course, the Chinese papermaking is real paper, and the Egyptian papyrus is not paper, this is an essential difference.

After the invention of papyrus, papyrus became the main writing medium, not only used by Egyptians, at the same time, this papyrus was also widely exported to Europe, and has been exported for more than 3,000 years, until China's advanced paper entered the overseas market, Egyptian papyrus began to fade its brilliant brilliance.

In other words, the backward papyrus of Egypt was brilliant for three thousand years, which shows the status of this paper in ancient Egypt.

Even now, Ang Lee can still see a lot of papyrus in Egypt, after all, Datang is too far away from Egypt, and the cost of transporting paper from Datang to Egypt will increase a lot, so the advantage is not obvious.

Of course, this is mainly because Datang's economy is booming, all kinds of newspapers and media have appeared, and the demand for paper has risen sharply, which has led to the high cost of Chang'an paper, and the expensive Datang paper has traveled across the ocean to reach Egypt, and the cost will be further raised, so the backward papyrus in Egypt can not make a fatal threat, but this is only temporary, as long as Datang's paper production breaks through, the price will be reduced step by step, so that when the cheap Datang paper fully enters the Egyptian market, It is estimated that there will be no market for papyrus in Egypt anymore, and it will not be long before this situation appears.