Zhao Qi felt that it was a wrong decision for him to agree to study with Lü Buwei, Lü Buwei asked him to engrave on the bamboo slips every day, he began to learn the small seal at the age of two, and he recognized all the words after learning for six years, unlike the first time he came into contact with the words on the bamboo slips, his eyes were black, but fortunately he was a child, and no one thought it was strange.

Of course, others say that Zhao Qi is smart, not only in terms of language and physical maturity, but also in his ability to learn. The writing of later generations is very different from that of the Warring States, but the overall style is still about the same, and the seal script already has the shape of words, and the gentleman who taught him when he was in the Zhu family compound is famous.

Zhao Qi learned to speak not long after he walked on the ground, he knew that words were the foundation of his foothold, so when he was two years old, he shouted to learn words, Zhao Ji was pleasantly surprised, so he found a gentleman to teach him, that gentleman was not the best in Handan, fortunately he taught Zhao Qi such a demon.

When he saw the words on the bamboo slips for the first time, Zhao Qi almost stared out his eyes, this is too different from the words of later generations! Mr. Teaching is very satisfied, do you think the text will be picked up? But Zhao Qi was not discouraged, and studied for a long time before he found that these characters had a great connection with traditional Chinese characters, so he lay on the bamboo slips every day to study.

It took him three days to study a scroll of bamboo slips thoroughly, and when he memorized the book to the old gentleman word for word, the gentleman almost pulled off his own. The old gentleman stood up and sighed, and said, "This son is naturally smart, but the old man is clumsy, and he will teach him in the future."

So the reputation of the gentleman spread, and in three days he taught the two-year-old child the words of a book, and although the child was very intelligent, the gentleman contributed a lot.

At first, his enthusiasm was very high, he just wanted to learn words, but never thought of learning Confucian classics, when the old gentleman felt that his writing skills were almost the same, carrying a basket of "Shangshu" to him to read when he ran away, the angry gentleman angrily scolded: "The son can not be taught!"

Smart people have what smart people should do, such as Zhao Qi, Zhang Han and Lu Lizard when they were playing in the yard, he carved words on bamboo slips, and Zhang Han He also carved words on bamboo slips when they were wandering on the street.

It was really the biggest mistake to not be familiar with the "Book of Shang" before, but now Lü Buwei knew that he had to memorize it, and he meant that copying was the most efficient, so he found him a basket of bamboo slips for him to copy, and he had to copy it within ten days. This damn Warring States doesn't even have a pen and paper, so he can only carve it with a knife, otherwise it will take ten days, and he will copy it in three days.

Later generations of seal carving is a craft, there are not many people, in this period there are seal carving masters everywhere, those who have read books and can write will be sealed, and even Zhao Qi feels that his current technique is much more clever than the people who set up a stall for fifty yuan to engrave calligraphy chapters in later generations.

Just as Zhao Qi was getting energetic, Lu Hui rushed in, grabbed his arm and ran out, saying as he ran: "Brother Zhao Qi, come and see, this stone will bleed, or black!"

Zhao Qi ran with her for some reason, why are there still bleeding stones in this world? This is going to have to be seen, and it will be a long time to see.

When Zhao Qi saw the stones on the edge of the pool that were constantly flowing out of black liquid under the washing of the water, his mouth was about to crack behind the door of his head, this is graphite! With this thing, Lao Tzu is still afraid that he will not be able to finish a book? God help me!

"You're really my lucky star!" Zhao Qi was too excited, picked up the dazed Lu Hui and "snapped" on his face, then left her and ran to the backyard, found a short sword and cut off a finger-thick purple bamboo, and then ran to the front yard, plucked two pinches of hair on it with the big yellow dog, and hurriedly ran to the backyard.

Mrs. Mu heard the chickens and dogs jumping in the yard and thought that there was a thief, so she hurriedly ran out to look, but she saw that the front yard was in a mess, and then she saw Zhao Qi, who was in a hurry to run to the backyard, she knew that it was a good thing that this guy did, so she could only sigh and tell the servant to clean up.

Zhang Han sat on the roof and looked at Zhao Qi scratching his head in confusion, and then shouted at him: "Hey, what are you doing?" You toss again, be careful that Master Lu picks your skin when he comes back. ”

"You don't talk nonsense, it's too late to praise me when Lord Lu comes back!" Zhao Qi didn't reply at all, and then he tightened his head in the study.

Hearing Zhao Qi say this, Zhang Han was even more confused.

Zhao Qi poured a basin of water, washed the dog hair in the water and soaked it in warm water in another basin, then took a short sword and carefully opened the way at one end of the short purple bamboo, and then fished out the dog hair and took it, and after getting it together, he tied it with a thin rope, cut off the excess part, and stuffed it into the bamboo.

This is not the end, Zhao Qi ran out again to find two pieces of resin on the pine tree, and found two pieces of resin on the banyan tree, melted and stirred together, and after cooling, took a little and smeared it at the interface between the bamboo and the dog hair.

He picked up the brush and carefully tied it with a rope and hung it behind the desk, and went to find the piece of graphite.

As long as the brush is dry, it can be used, but this graphite is more difficult to do, at this time there is no hacksaw or the like, it is really difficult to grind a round stone out of the pit, there is no way, you can only find a bronze jar to grind.

Zhao Qi wasted a lot of effort to chisel a corner, put it in a copper jar and grind it for a long time before breaking it, and added some water, yes, it already has the appearance of ink in later generations.

Running into the study with a copper jar, he was full of joy and dipped a little ink with a brush, and was dumbfounded when he wrote the first word on the bamboo slips.

This can't be done, Zhao Qi frowned, making this pen is already an invention of robbing Meng Tian, and he can't snatch the high hat of papermaking from Cai Lun's head and cover it on his head. I just don't know if Meng Tian knew that the brush would become his invention in the future, I don't know if he would kill Zhao Qi?

I can't care so much, I can only be sorry for Cai Lun. Zhao Qi knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and then said: "Lord Cai is really sorry, it's not easy for me to live in this Warring States period, I can't live without two crafts, I will borrow your paper first, and I will have the opportunity to return it to you later."

The papermaking project is relatively large, and he has no way to perform it himself, so he can only go to Zhao Ji and a few ladies.

As soon as he went out, he put it in Lu Buwei's arms, raised his head and saw Lu Buwei looking at him with a tense face, and immediately took a step back and saluted in a proper manner: "Zhao Qi has seen an adult."

"Boy, why are you in a hurry? I heard Madame say that you are about to tear down the front yard? Lu Buwei stared at Zhao Qi condescendingly, every explanation for this matter can't be done, when my Lu Buwei's house is a pigsty? Do whatever you want?

"My lord, you are wrong to blame the boy, when you look at my thing, you will know that my mistakes are nothing." Zhao Qi stood on the top of the spot and said to Lü Buwei with a smile that Lü Buwei was a smart man, if he could support his invention, it would not be difficult to promote the pen and paper to the entire Great Qin, maybe he could make a lot of money with this.

Hearing Zhao Qi's statement, Lu Buwei was puzzled, how could he still dismantle the truth? Just slapped Zhao Qi on the back of the head and said to him: "I want to see what kind of fart you kid is holding back, if you don't give me a reasonable explanation today, tomorrow you will go to the corner and stand for a day."

"You're satisfied." Zhao Qi smiled mysteriously, made a gesture of please, and Lu Buwei stepped into the study.

Zhao Qi followed up with a fart, picked up the brush he made from the desk and presented it to Lu Buwei.

Lu Buwei took it and looked left and right, but he really couldn't see anything famous, so he frowned and asked Zhao Qi: "This thing made you toss all afternoon?" I think you won't be able to run away from this penalty tomorrow, what kind of reputation can this thing have? Isn't it just a handful of dog hair stuck in the bamboo? ”

"My lord's words are wrong, this thing seems simple, but it has great use." Zhao Qi said and asked for the brush from Lu Buwei's hand, then dipped some ink and wrote a word on the ground, the ground was paved with green bricks, and the water absorption was very fast, and the word was clearly printed on the floor.

Lü Buwei seemed to understand something, his eyes were shining, and he said to Zhao Qi: "If this thing is used on bamboo slips, there will be an additional simple writing tool in the world, and the material is also extremely common, much easier than carving with a knife."

"Adult Mingjian, that's what the kid thinks, but the kid found that because the bamboo slips are not absorbent well, the graphite has too much moisture, and it is difficult to print it." Zhao Qi arched his hand and said his difficulties.

"What's so hard about that?" Lu Buwei waved his hand and said, "Bamboo boards don't absorb water, but dry wood always absorbs water, right?" The reason why bamboo slips are made of bamboo is only because bamboo is the easiest to make and can be preserved for a long time. ”

"No, no, no." Zhao Qi shook his head and vetoed Lu Buwei's statement, "The kid made this brush just to make it more convenient, but the adult's statement just deviated from the kid's original intention, so the kid felt that it was not advisable." ”

After listening to Zhao Qi's words, Lu Buwei calmed down, sat on the soft couch, and said, "So you must have already gotten along, come and listen."

Zhao Qi smiled, leaned over to Lu Buwei and said: "When the boy was playing as a child, he accidentally found that after boiling the waste silkworm pupae in the water, there will be a film on the water surface, and after the film is salvaged and pounded, and then the water seeps and places it for a period of time, it will form a thin pulp, and then the pulp is salvaged and dried with a mat to become a very useful tool for leaving words, and it is easy to preserve, and the kid calls this thing paper." When he said this, Zhao Qi deliberately said that the incomprehensible fiber was a film, so that Lu Buwei could understand it more easily, otherwise he would have to explain what fiber is for a long time.

Lu Buwei squinted his eyes and carefully pondered Zhao Qi's words and found that there was indeed some truth, so he said calmly: "I really don't know what you kid has in his head, your two things are enough to shock the world, and the common dog hair and bamboo together will become this easy to write brush, and the discarded silkworm chrysalis will be processed into paper, okay, you just let it go, if it can be done, the old man will help you promote it."

"Master Xie." Zhao Qi bowed and saluted, if he had the help of Lu Buwei, he could sell this thing all over Xianyang, the cost was low, and if he sold it at a slightly higher price, he would immediately be able to establish the world's first paper and pen supplier.