Chapter 5 Papermaking (1)
As soon as the busy farming season passed, the number of pilgrims who came to Qingyunguan to worship incense also increased, and everyone prayed for continued wind and rain this year, and everything went well.
The wound on Yun Yi's mouth has also completely healed and has begun to lose scars.
Because of the lack of two front teeth, she no longer likes to chat with pilgrims as much as she used to.
The pilgrims also heard about her broken front teeth from the little Taoist boy who guarded the door, and fortunately comforted her.
When the eldest lady of the Wang family came to offer incense, she heard that she broke two front teeth, and asked someone to send her a few scarves.
Yun Yi was very happy to receive the gift, and immediately put it on his face after receiving it.
In this way, even if she speaks, she is not afraid to show her two missing front teeth.
Qinghe originally planned to go to the street to buy her a silk scarf, but after asking, she learned that a silk scarf costs fifteen copper plates, which immediately made her feel distressed, and then grinded the master home.
She's still a child, and she's not very face-loving (she's not).
Yun Yi likes these scarves sent by Mrs. Wang very much, not to mention several colors, and they are especially suitable for children. On weekdays, she is also very careful not to snag it when she wears it.
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Yun Yi is 3 years old this year, so after the farm is busy, Qinghe asked Ah Yun to start enlightening her.
Although learning the words of this world is like learning a new foreign language for her, the good thing is that she is still young and has time.
Ah Yun felt that Yun Yi was here to torture him, and he learned much faster than other children, not to mention, there were many problems in the learning process.
Ah Yun struggled to teach, and soon the burden of teaching fell back to Qinghe.
Qinghe asked Yun Yi to learn to read and write 5 big characters every day, which couldn't be easier for her.
For Yunyi, the difficulty is not learning to recognize words but to write.
This space-time paper has not yet been invented, and everyone engraves words on bamboo or wood chips.
If it's just a daily practice, just take some firewood and burn it into a charcoal stick.
Or grind the burned black charcoal into ash, and then rub it into small charcoal strips with a little yellow mud to make it easier to carry and preserve.
If you want to make a talisman book, you need to use a drill knife to engrave the words one by one.
This is simply impossible for three-year-old Yun Yi.
And looking at the senior brothers and sisters, the thick calluses and slightly deformed phalanges left on their hands because of the perennial carved peach wood talisman.
Yun Yi felt that he couldn't go on like this, paper had to be made.
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Ah Yun made a lot of small charcoal strips for Yun Yi. Although the cloud one is very careful to use. At night, clothes, faces, and bodies are accidentally smeared with black charcoal ash.
Looking at the brothers and sisters who worked hard every day to wash her clothes, Yun Yi felt guilty.
So after thinking about it for a while, she asked Senior Brother Ayun to go to the back mountain and cut some thin bamboo branches to come back to make a pen cover.
When using it this way, you only need to insert the carbon refill into the bamboo.
Yun Yi didn't think about making paper to make money, in modern times, she especially likes to watch some short videos, and pays attention to a lot of handmade and creative bloggers.
One of them, a blogger she likes, made a video explaining in detail how to make paper.
Most of the trees in the world can be used to make paper, and Yunyi doesn't know how other trees are used to make paper, but she knows the manufacturing process of hemp paper.
Every household in this world requires hemp to be planted, and common people will grow hemp every year to rub hemp rope and weave linen cloth to make linen.
Therefore, there is no shortage of raw materials for papermaking.
What is lacking is manpower!
No matter how much the master, brothers, and sisters doted on her, she was only a three-year-old child.
It's no problem to make some small toys and do some small actions on weekdays. With such a large workload of papermaking, everyone will not cooperate with her.
It can be seen that many of the time-traveling novels I have read before, it is impossible for the male and female protagonists to grasp power and wealth at a young age.
But small also has small benefits, she now only needs to complete her homework every day, and the rest of the time can be arranged freely.
Recently, pilgrims who came to worship incense noticed that the smallest trail leader on Qingyun Temple wore a veil every day and stood on the mountain path up the mountain.
Sometimes he holds a few wild fruits picked from the mountains and wild flowers pinched in the field, and exchanges hemp with the pilgrims who come and go.
The pilgrims were curious, so they asked the Taoist chief what he was doing with hemp?
The Taoist smiled mysteriously, and said proudly that she would make some very light paper, and then use the very light paper to make paper kites.
Write everyone's wishes on the paper kite, and let go of the high hope that the Taoist ancestors in the sky can see it, and bless everyone to realize their wishes.
Everyone didn't know what a paper kite was, but when they heard that the priest was trying to fulfill their wish, they were very supportive.
Occasionally, when she came to incense, she would bring a handful of hemp to her. This thing is not worth much, it is very simple to grow, but it is more troublesome to deal with.
Fortunately, what everyone brought up the mountain was peeled hemp and soaked hemp.
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Qinghe heard about the little disciple's idea, and after observing it for a while, he let her go.
Over the years, he has also brought many children, and most of the disciples in the meditation were admitted when they were 7 or 8 years old.
Some of them can't support their families, and some of them want to be sent to their homes to learn some words and medical science.
Children always have strange ideas, one dream one day, another tomorrow.
Looking at the little disciple's confident appearance, he also wanted to see, what is that very light paper? And what is a very tall paper kite that can fly?
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So under everyone's indulgence, Yun Yi also slowly collected a lot of hemp.
Looking at the two bundles of hemp in front of him, Ah Yun felt a little distressed.
How can you waste firewood to cook it, this hemp is boiled and can't be eaten, and a lot of plant ash is sprinkled into the pot.
Isn't that a waste? It also wastes firewood.
Ah Yun couldn't hold back, so he went to Qinghe to complain.
After Qinghe heard this, after thinking about it, he said to Ah Yun: "You told the dust that if you want to boil hemp, you need to collect firewood by yourself." The firewood that the brothers have worked so hard to chop back is not allowed to be used for play. ”
Ah Yun happily conveyed Qinghe's words to Yun Yi, thinking that after hearing this, she would give up and continue to spoil these two large bundles of hemp, so that they could use these two large bundles of hemp and go down the mountain to the market to change some new linen clothes for Yun Yi.
The clothes Yun Yi is wearing now are all old clothes that the senior sisters have worn for many years.
Although the newly made linen clothes will be a little prickly, who wouldn't want to have new clothes?
After Yun Yi listened to what Ah Yun conveyed, he nodded and said that there was no problem, and then pestered the senior brothers and took her up the mountain to collect firewood.
When Qinghe heard this, he nodded and didn't say anything more, but asked the disciples to be careful when taking her up the mountain, and then left it alone.
The brothers had no choice but to take her with them when they chopped firewood.
Yun Yi is young, it is impossible to give her a machete, besides, there is only one woodcutter in the view, and they usually take turns to go up the mountain to chop wood.
Because they wanted to take Yun Yi with them, the two senior brothers went up the mountain together, one was responsible for chopping wood, and the other was responsible for bundling wood, and picking them back to Guanli.
Yun Yi followed all the way to pick up some dry materials, collected them into a pile, and asked Senior Brother Ah Ku to help tie them up and pick them back to Guanli.
She also wants to do all the work herself, but she really can't do it enough.
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Half a month has passed, and Yun Yi looked at the firewood pile that had been piled up in front of him like a hill, and was very happy.
Yun Yi felt that he was well prepared.
So she chose a sunny afternoon, and when everyone had finished lunch, she couldn't wait to borrow the big urn used in the kitchen for cooking.
I filled half an urn with water, poured some plant ashes, took a large handful of flax and stuffed it in, and began to boil.