In the face of a large number of human and material evidence and facts, Lu Puguang had to bow his arrogant head.

The rebellion of the Lu family, which shocked the entire Tang Dynasty, finally came to an end.

As a result, it also found the murderer and basis for many headless cases such as the Yang Mansion Massacre.

Tao Ran also devoted himself to the affairs of the college.

The newly produced paper is much better than the original paper of the Tang Dynasty.

When the crown prince Li Chengqian and Princess Changle presented the paper in front of His Majesty Li Er, His Majesty Li Er was very happy.

"Father, the teacher said that you can use this kind of paper in the future, as much as you want."

Princess Changle said with her big beautiful eyes.

"Haha...... Haha, okay. After that, I was able to practice calligraphy boldly. ”

His Majesty Li Er happily stroked Princess Changle's hair and replied.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, a hundred wastes were waiting to be rebuilt.

Now for His Majesty Li Er, everything is a scarce resource.

If you want money, you don't have money, you want food and you don't have enough food.

If it weren't for the income of a few shops in Chang'anhou to support him, His Majesty Li Er's treasury would have been in deficit a long time ago.

Now that the problem of paper in the academy has been solved, there is one biggest problem that has been bothering Tao Ran.

That's the problem of pens, and of course it is not possible to make pens such as fountain pens or proto-cylinder pens of later generations.

However, the brush consumes too much writing time, and it is an extreme waste of paper, and it also needs to be polished, and the cost of the brush is also very expensive.

Therefore, many children of ordinary people use tree branches to write on the ground.

Tao Ran led Rhubarb and wandered leisurely around the farm again and again, actually thinking about his heart.

Until Tao Ran walked to the side of the chicken coop and startled the chicken feathers on the ground.

Tao Ran suddenly remembered a quill making process.

To make a quill pen, goose feathers are the main necessity.

Nowadays, there is no special trade in goose feathers. The only way is to buy live geese to get goose feathers.

Tao Ran is the kind of person who has to do things that he thinks of immediately, and he has a bit of an obsessive-compulsive character.

"Ren Rail, you take Pei Xingjian to the West Market to buy all the live geese for the teacher, and the dead geese are also purchased with complete feathers, remember the teacher's words, the most important thing is to see if the feathers are complete."

Tao Ran solemnly explained.

"Teacher, the student remembers, my junior brother and I will go right away."

Liu Renliang readily agreed. For this teacher's words, Liu Renliang has no doubt to carry them out, although he is also curious about what the teacher is doing when he buys so many geese? And also specifically explained the focus on goose feathers.

However, as a teacher's student, it is absolutely impossible to do what the teacher asks without hesitation.

The west market of Chang'an City is really bustling with people coming and going.

Liu Renliang and Pei Xingjian came to the West Market for the first time to shop, naturally like Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden, and they were dazzled for a while, but the two of them almost searched the West Market, and they didn't even see a stall selling geese.

"Senior brother, there is a stall selling geese in front."

Pei Xingjian pointed to a stall not far in front of him and said happily.

"Let's go, go over and have a look."

Liu Renliang led the carriage and stopped in front of the stall selling geese.

"Uncle, how much is your goose worth?"

Liu Renliang asked.

"Brother Gongzi, these ten geese are all big geese that have been raised for more than two years, ten cents a piece, and if the son wants them all, it can be cheaper."

The old man squinted his eyes slightly and said.

Hearing this, Liu Renliang took off the money bag directly. "Uncle, this is a hundred texts, you can order it. If there is such a goose with smooth and neat goose feathers, I want it. Ten is ten. Dead geese will do. But goose feathers are good. ”

Liu Renliang said truthfully.

"Brother Childe, you don't lie? Is the dead goose really given to Shiwen? ”

The old man, his face turned red with excitement, and he took the copper plate handed over by Liu Renliang tremblingly, and asked.

"I am a reader, and I will never deceive people. My teacher asked my brother and sister to come to buy it, but unfortunately there are only these ten geese in the entire market, and I am afraid that I will not be able to explain to the teacher when I go back. ”

Liu Renliang replied.

"Brother Gongzi, I don't know what's going on recently, the creatures in this neighborhood have all suffered from the plague, and the living creatures in several nearby villages are almost dead, and the old man is afraid that these ten geese will not survive, so I only came here today to set up a stall, I never thought that I would meet a good person like Brother Gongzi. If you are a dead goose, there are many in my village and several nearby villages, the old man does not hide it from his son, don't say ten articles, it is one article, and the villagers will be grateful to Dade for selling it to you. ”

The old man saw that Liu Renliang was a sincere person, and said without concealment.

"Uncle, is your village far from here? If you are not far away, you will also trouble the old man to go to the village to buy the next goose, dead or alive, as long as the feathers are complete, I am waiting for you here. No matter how much money you receive, I will pay you according to the previous price, and the money will not be less than yours, so that my husband can also earn some hard-earned money. ”

Liu Renliang shook the money bag in his hand and said to the old man.

"Okay, okay, the old man is not far from here, the two sons wait for a while, and I will be able to return in half an hour at most."

After speaking, the old man walked away, and his light steps did not look like an old man in his sixties at all.

"Senior brother, why don't we go to the village with my uncle to buy it?" Pei Xingjian asked puzzled after waiting for his old man to go away.

"Senior brother, didn't you listen to what my uncle said? There was a plague in several villages near them, and almost all living beings died. Senior brother is worried that if the two of us get infected in the past, what should we do? Don't forget that the teacher taught us medicine. ”

"Thanks to the senior brother mentioning it, the senior brother almost forgot. By the way, since there is a plague, we can't let these live geese come into contact with the chicken coop at the foot of the mountain of our college, otherwise according to the teacher, they may be infected. ”

"What the junior brother said is very true, and we will tell the teacher to make a decision after we go back."

Liu Renliang patted Pei Xingjian's shoulder and said.

Sure enough, after about half an hour, the old man arrived as promised.

Behind him were two young juniors carrying bamboo baskets.

"Brother Gongzi, these are the two boys of the old man. A total of forty geese were collected, and you can see if you like this feather, and if you don't like it, the old man will bring it back. ”

As soon as the old man's words fell, the two young students opened the back basket.

Liu Renliang looked at the dead goose in the bamboo basket with satisfaction, although it was dead, but the feathers were intact and tidy.

"Okay, I'll take it all. This is 400 texts, please be kind. ”

Liu Renliang handed over the several copper plates, and the happy old man and the two descendants nodded their heads in thanks.

Liu Renliang and Pei Xingjian parked the carriage about a mile away from the academy.

"Senior brother, go back and tell the teacher about the plague, and ask the teacher if we can go over directly?"

Liu Renliang turned around and explained to Pei Xingjian.

"Okay, senior brother, I'll come after I ask the teacher."

After speaking, Pei Xingjian ran towards the academy like a smoke.

"Teacher, my brother and I have bought back the geese you ordered, but they are all infected with the plague, and most of them are dead, but the feathers are indeed purchased according to the teacher's requirements. Senior brother, let me come over and ask you, can the carriage come over? ”

Pei Xingjian wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and asked.

"Carriage, where is it now?"

Tao Ran immediately became nervous when he heard that there was a plague.

"Teacher, it's a mile away. The senior brother stopped. ”

Pei Xingjian replied truthfully.

"You two are doing a very good job, we are far from the village, and the chance of the creatures being infected with the plague is relatively small, unless the birds on the mountain are also infected. If you two had just driven the carriage into the farm, it was possible that the thousands of chickens in our farm's chicken coop would all die of the plague. ”

Tao Ran looked at Pei Xingjian happily and praised him.

Tao Ran and Pei Xingjian walked outside the house and saw a carriage parked on the side of the road in the distance.

"Go to Zhang Ming and bring more laborers over, pluck off the goose feathers, and bury the geese on the spot."

Tao Ran pondered for a moment before speaking.

"Knowing the teacher, the student will go immediately."

After speaking, Pei Xingjian ran to Zhang Ming, who was working in the farm.

For Zhang Ming, who gave him a bowl of rice and a bowl of vegetables, Pei Xingjian has always been deeply grateful in his heart.

"Brother Zhang, the teacher asked you to take a few laborers to the carriage to help."

Pei Xingjian pointed to the carriage on the road and said.

"Okay, little boy. Hou Ye's instructions, I Zhang Ming did not dare to disobey. ”

Zhang Ming immediately beckoned a few laborers to go over with Pei Xingjian.

After everyone plucked all the goose feathers, according to Tao Ran's instructions, they buried fifty geese on the spot, even the ten live geese.

Tao Ran had already asked people to prepare the boiling water for the cauldron.

Put the steamer on the cauldron, put the goose feathers brought by Liu Renliang and Pei Xingjian, and after some careful selection, put the suitable goose feathers in the steamer and cook.

Otherwise, the goose feather tube has no hardness, and even if it is made into a quill pen, it cannot resist pressing, and it will soon be damaged.

Another is that after the goose feather tube is steamed at high temperature, it will gradually turn into a transparent color, and the ink in the tube can be seen after absorbing the ink.

This is the most important processing link and the core technology of making quills.

When it was almost cooked, Tao Ran took out a goose feather and began to sell the nib.

Fortunately, there is a Swiss military industry brought by himself, which is not much more than a pen.

Machining the nib is really a really laborious final step.

Liu Renliang and Pei Xingjian looked at Tao Ran sweating profusely, but he was engrossed.

Neither of them dared to disturb the teacher, so they watched quietly.

After more than half an hour of polishing and selling, the world's first quills were finally launched.

Tao Ran happily asked Liu Renliang to take the paper and ink, and after gently dipping it in some ink, Tao Ran began to write hard.

Liu Renliang and Pei Xingjian, who only watched, were dumbfounded, the speed of writing like this is much faster than writing with a brush, no wonder the teacher would take such trouble to make this kind of quill pen, it turned out that everything was for them, for the students of the academy to learn better.

A trace of emotion spread in the hearts of Liu Renliang and Pei Xingjian.

"Teacher. Thank you. Thank you for everything you did for us. ”

Liu Renliang and Pei Xingjian said movingly.

"It's all what the teacher should do, otherwise how can you be worthy of the word teacher in your mouth."

Tao Ran touched Pei Xingjian's head and smiled and continued.

"How much did you learn from what the teacher did just now? If you can, start helping the teacher make quills now, otherwise expect the teacher to make it alone, I'm afraid the teacher will be tired to death. ”

"Teacher, let's try it."

So Liu Renliang and Pei Xingjian, under the guidance of Tao Ran, also joined the ranks of making quills, and several people were busy for a while.

"Teacher, teacher."

A lark-like voice rang in the ears of the three of them.

Princess Changle jumped in like an elf.

followed by the crown prince Li Chengqian and their full-time driver Cheng Chumo.

"Why did the princess come over today, didn't the teacher say that she would recuperate for a few more days?"

"Teacher, Changle didn't need to recuperate if he wasn't injured, but the teacher's rhubarb was injured a lot in order to save Changle, and Changle came to see it today."

Princess Changle flashed her big beautiful eyes, a pair of shallow dimples appeared on her cheeks, and she said with a smile.

"Rhubarb was fine yesterday, it's in good health, that little injury is really nothing to him, and it makes Her Royal Highness the princess worry, it's really a blessing."

"The teacher's words are wrong, rhubarb is now the world's first god horse sealed by his father, I don't know how many people are worried about it."

Princess Changle said with a smile.

"Teacher, what are you doing? What a strange feather that turned out to be a transparent tube? ”

The crown prince Li Chengqian, who had not spoken for a long time, finally discovered that the goose feathers in the hands of the three of them were different.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, this is the quill pen prepared by the teacher for the students of our college."

Pei Xingjian was the first to answer.

"What?"

Prince Li Chengqian, Princess Changle and Cheng Chumo opened their mouths wide and exclaimed almost at the same time!

"It's really a quill, you see. The teacher saw that the written words were still on the table. ”

Pei Xingjian pointed to the paper on the table that Tao Ran had just written.

Hearing this, Princess Changle turned around and took the paper on the table in her hand.

"Brother Huang, it's true. You see, it's written by the teacher, and it's just amazing. ”

Princess Changle happily handed the paper to the hands of the crown prince Li Chengqian.

"The teacher's move is really shocking, and when my father knows about it, he will be very happy and praise it. I wonder if the teacher can ask the student to bring back a quill pen and give it to his father to see? ”

Prince Li Chengqian asked solemnly.

"Why not, although the prince takes it, it's just that it's more cumbersome to make now, time-consuming and labor-intensive, tomorrow the teacher will teach a few more people who learn this craft, and it will be good for them to become more and more proficient."

Tao Ran opened his mouth to respond.

"Teacher, this white goose feather, Changle doesn't like it. Can the teacher make a quills that are always colored for Changle? ”

Princess Changle flashed her big beautiful eyes, stared at Tao Ran and asked.

How could Tao Ran bear to refuse the request of such a beautiful and cute little princess.

So he spoke without hesitation.

"Teacher, let's try it, but the colored feather pen is definitely not easy to make, because it is not as thick as the goose feather tube, so it is more difficult to make, but the teacher will try his best to meet the princess's requirements."

Tao Ran replied.

"Changle knows that the teacher is the best."

Princess Changle showed two sweet dimples and smiled very happily.

Early the next morning, Tao Ran, who was thinking about Princess Changle's colorful quills, rode into the mountain on the back of Rhubarb's horse.

There is a kind smell in the morning air of the mountains.

Tao Ran took the simple slingshot he made overnight last night in his hand, took out a mud pill, and was ready at any time.

This is the season when pheasant feathers are at their most beautiful, and of course they are rooster feathers.

The hen's pheasants are all gray in color, and there is nothing beautiful about them.

Tao Ran chose an open space and sprinkled the rice in his hand on the ground.

Looking forward to attracting pheasants.

I have to say that Tao Ran's luck is still good.

However, when a pillar of incense was held, there was a fluttering sound.

Tao Ran, who was hiding behind the big tree, saw five or six pheasants fluttering with beautiful feathers, walking towards the rice on the ground unscrupulously.

Tao Ran pulled the rubber band hard, aimed at a pheasant at the back, and shot the mud pill out vigorously.

only heard a "poof", and the pheasant behind him didn't have time to struggle, and fell to the ground.

Before the other pheasants could react, Tao Ran's second mud pellet also ejected.

The two partners fell to the ground, and finally woke up the pheasants who were feasting happily.

They fluttered their wings and flew up to the treetops, and in the blink of an eye they disappeared without a trace.

Tao Ran happily held the two pheasants in his hand, if these beautiful tail feathers are lucky, they should be able to make a colored quill, and if they can be made into two, they will be given to the eldest girl.

Tao Ran kept thinking in his heart.

Tao Ran, who returned to the Hou Mansion, carefully plucked the tail feathers of the pheasant, and the pheasant, who woke up from the coma, fluttered vigorously in pain.

Tao Ran plucked the colorful feathers on the tails of the two pheasants, and handed the two pheasants to the cuckoo.

"Cuckoo, send it to the restaurant, let the winter plum stew, and give it to grandma to taste at noon."

Tao Ran opened his mouth and commanded. It's a pity that good game is wasted.

"Okay, Master Hou. Du Juan went to the restaurant to send it to Sister Dongmei. ”

The cuckoo has become more and more moving, and under the training of her grandmother, she has also learned to dress up.

Recently, even the rouge has been applied, which makes Tao Ran cry and laugh every time he sees it.

Tao Ran repeated yesterday's steps with the plucked feathers and put them in the steamer to steam.

The only difference is that today it is steamed feathers in the Hou Mansion.

Everything went very smoothly, and the feathers were heated and formed, and still maintained their beautiful and bright colors.

Tao Ran couldn't help but like it, no wonder Princess Changle insisted on this colorful quill pen, it turned out to be very good-looking.

Because the feather tube is much thinner than the goose feather tube, Tao Ran's first pin nib failed.

But he didn't lose heart, because he had found some experience in failure.

Unfortunately, the second and third are also very different.

Tao Ran became more and more impatient, and the failure rate became faster and faster.

In desperation, Tao Ran could only go out of the room to recover his unstable mood.

Tao Ran, who walked into the room again, didn't know if it was luck or skill, he succeeded in two in a row, but he also paid the price of bleeding his finger pin.

Tao Ran simply dealt with the subtle wound, it stands to reason that this wound does not need to be treated at all and it is not a big problem, but Tao Ran, who graduated from the medical university, is careful in everything, and the guiding ideology of prevention is at work.

Looking at the two beautiful messy colored quills, a happy and satisfied smile appeared on Tao Ran's face.

The princess who was kidnapped by Lu Yunfei and had a cloak, but she was brave.

The princess who fell into Tao Ran's arms after being rescued by Rhubarb and cried loudly.

The little princess who is always unrestrained and cheerful every time she comes to Tao Ran.

The little princess with elf-like steps, sweet dimples, and peerless faces.

The princess who did not hesitate to mobilize His Majesty Li Er Shenwuwei for his comfort!

The princess who is not even willing to be left behind even fishing.

The little princess who secretly sent someone to protect the Hou family......

Scene after scene, a series of past events surfaced in Tao Ran's heart, and his heart was full of sweet touches.

Now she should be looking forward to the arrival of colored quills.

Thinking of this, Tao Ran put one down and carefully packed it in his sleeve.

Stepping on the back of Rhubarb's horse, he quickly headed towards Nanshan Academy.

His Majesty Li Er was in a state of shock and excitement last night.

"Father, mother. What do you see it is? ”

When Princess Changle happily held a quill pen in front of His Majesty Li Er, His Majesty Li Er was stunned on the spot.

He took the quill pen in Changle's hand, and began to dip it in ink and write under the signal of the crown prince Li Chengqian and Princess Changle.

As a result, His Majesty Li Er was more and more shocked the more he wrote, and the more he wrote, the more he was happy.

"Cheng Qian, Changle. Where does this come from? It's amazing. ”

His Majesty Li Er asked happily.

"Of course it's made by the teacher, otherwise who else does my father think?"

Princess Changle naughtily stuck out her tongue and replied.

"Guanyin, come and try this quill, only Chang'an Hou can come up with such a magical idea."

After speaking, His Majesty Li Er handed over the quill pen in his hand.

Empress Eldest Sun was also shocked after trying it.

"Erlang, this is a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people, and the papermaking technology improved by Chang'an Hou a few days ago is similar, it is a good thing to reduce the burden of students and improve learning efficiency."

"What the queen mother said is the same as what the teacher said, and the teacher said the same thing yesterday. Therefore, the teacher sent a large number of people to buy geese yesterday, and has obtained goose feathers to make quills, in order to let the students of Nanshan College have a quill pen after the start of school. ”

Princess Changle walked up to Empress Changsun and snuggled in her mother's arms and responded.

"Blessed are the students of Nanshan Academy! It is really a blessing for them to meet a teacher like Chang'an Hou, and I am looking forward to how much joy his so-called teaching method of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor can bring to me. ”

His Majesty Li Er said with feeling.

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