"Yes, we are going to carve a notice out of this novel leaf found on the barren mountain." Yao Runzhi stared at the confused Yao Tiantian and slowly said such a sentence.

Yao Runzhi and Yao Tiantian's uncle and nephew's questions and answers finally attracted everyone's attention to the wide palm shell leaves.

Da Zhuang looked curiously at the new things he saw for the first time, and said pitifully, "What is this for?" Sir, there are no outsiders here, please, don't play dumb riddles anymore, okay, my brain hurts. ”

The dog baby, who has been silent since entering the door, carefully looked at the palm leaves, his brows twisted into a pimple, and tentatively opened his mouth, "This, is this a bit like the bay leaf that the Yi people say?" ”

Yao Runzhi put away the smile on his face, nodded solemnly, and said seriously, "I just checked some ancient records, and they are all plausible. Since Tian Tian thought of using it to engrave letters, can you tell us what you think? As he spoke, Yao Runzhi shifted his gaze from the palm leaves to Yao Tiantian's face.

"Me?" Yao Tiantian's heart sank, and her face was confused, about Bayeux lettering, she only heard some beautiful legends about Bayeux Scripture, as for how people did it, she didn't know at all. Now, facing a room full of hopeful eyes, Yao Tiantian secretly hated that he was guarding such a powerful and omniscient Internet, why didn't he check the specific practices of others? It's really a book to use when you hate less, if only your curiosity was a little heavier, just move your fingers to search for the production process of the Bayeux Sutra, and now you don't have to be embarrassed.

Yao Tiantian was secretly annoyed in her heart, and suddenly there was a flash in front of her, as if an LCD screen appeared out of thin air, and a scene that Yao Tiantian could never have dreamed of slowly appeared on it - it was like the display screen of a tablet computer, and it opened the Google search page that Yao Tiantian was used to, and the words 'how to make Bayeux lettering' appeared in the search box.

Yao Tiantian didn't care about how a tablet computer appeared out of thin air in front of her, her eyes followed the search results listed on the screen line by line, when she saw the 'artistic presentation and significance of Dai Bayeux culture', her mind moved, and the content on the screen in front of her immediately changed, and a juanxiu page appeared:

Engraving words in Bayeux can be said to be an art, which is gradually accumulated by the Dai people from history.

Xishuangbanna is mostly prolific in bay leaf palm, also known as the Bedoro tree. This tree is more than ten to twenty meters tall, grows tall and majestic, has a straight trunk without branches, and the leaves are similar to ordinary palm leaves, but larger and thicker, like a giant umbrella. The leaves of this tree are called bay leaves. The use of bay leaves to engrave words can be said to be the invention of the intelligent and brave Dai people. However, for bay leaves to be used to engrave words, they need to go through many procedures.

First of all, the cut bay leaves should be roughly trimmed one by one, tied into a bundle of three or five pieces, and put them in a pot to cook. This process is a bit like the dumpling leaves before wrapping the zongzi, and boiling it is to increase the toughness of the leaves. After cooking, take it out, scrub the soft film on the surface of the leaves with fine sand, and then dry it - after boiling the washed bay leaves, it is better not to use the sun, because then the leaves are easy to deform. After the leaves are dried, they are sandwiched into a special wooden rack and flattened. At this time, the bay leaves could already be used for engraving, but they were large and small, and they were very untidy, like paper of different sizes. Therefore, the next process is to dry and flatten the bay leaves, five or six hundred pieces as a group, sandwich into the middle of two pieces of wooden ruler, and use a quick knife to cut them into a uniform size according to the size of the wooden ruler. The wooden ruler is generally about 1 centimeter long and about 1 box meter wide; At a distance of about 16 cm from each end, a small hole is drilled, so that all the processed bay leaves are of this size, and there are two small circular holes on them. Such bay leaves are neat and uniform, light and soft bleaching, and it is the material that really engraves the Bayeux Sutra. In order to carve neatly, before carving, people would use the ink line like a carpenter, and play a horizontal line on the bay leaf to determine the format of the engraving; The existing Bayeux Sutra in Xishuangbanna has four formats: four lines, five lines, six lines, and eight lines. After the scripture is engraved, the black color of vegetable oil and pot smoke is mixed with a cloth, and the handwriting is clearly visible when you wipe it up. Each sutra is made up of many bay leaves, and after carving, the sides are painted with gold dust or red or black lacquer, decorated and protected, and then threaded with cotton thread into two small round holes, and tied together, and all the processes are completed. The leaves of the Bedoro tree can be used as raw materials for carving Buddhist scriptures, and the scriptures carved are the Bayeux Sutras.

After reading these, Yao Tiantian had a score in her heart, there are a lot of processes that need to be passed through to make a long-term preserved bay leaf scripture, and it is casually recorded as she did in the afternoon, and it depends on what her uncle needs this palm bay leaf to do now.

Yao Tiantian's heart blink of an eye, the LCD screen in front of her disappeared, replaced by the scrutinizing eyes of her uncle Yao Runzhi, she quickly calmed down, and said tentatively, "I didn't think about it so much, just looking at this leaf is thick and big enough to draw symbols, which is much lighter than holding a bamboo slip, so I picked it up and wanted to use it to practice lettering." Uncle, what do you think? Can this kind of leaf replace bamboo slips? ”

Yao Runzhi squinted his eyes and thought for a while, and said with some regret, "This kind of leaf is lightweight, and another advantage is that it is large enough to hang and post. I just don't know how effective it will be. ”

"Uncle mean, we're going to make a notice?" Yao Tiantian pondered what Yao Runzhi meant, and asked tentatively.

"Notice?" Fusheng and the dog baby shouted in surprise at the same time, "What is the notice?" ”

"Notices are a fitting word." Yao Runzhi's face flashed with an incomprehensible brilliance, and he said with a chuckle, "Today we stimulated Yang Haifu, he was a little anxious, and he estimated that there would be some actions in the past few days, I am afraid that it will affect the enthusiasm of the villagers to go up the mountain to open up the wasteland." We should deal with it and leave something for the folks to see. It's just a pity that this leaf is still not big enough. ”

"This is easy to do, a leaf is not big enough, pick a few more pieces, and sew one piece is fine!" Da Zhuang answered loudly disapprovingly.

"How can you sew leaves? What a reckless man who can't talk but have a brain! The dog baby pursed her lips and said disdainfully to Da Zhuang.

"It's not impossible to sew it up." Yao Tiantian already knows that the first step in making the bay leaf scripture is to cook the palm shell leaves in hot water to increase their toughness.

"How so? Can you make it clear? When the dog baby heard Yao Tiantian say the same, she couldn't help but lean over and asked seriously.

"Everyone usually likes to eat zongzi, right?" After Yao Tiantian finished speaking, she quietly swept everyone's expressions, because she couldn't be sure if the food such as zongzi existed in this time and space, or if it was still called zongzi.

Quietly seeing Fusheng's thoughtful expression, Yao Tiantian relieved her heart, since everyone knows the food of zongzi, the following things are easy to explain, she talked smoothly, "Everyone see how flexible the zongzi leaves are, that's the reason why they have been cooked over high heat" Speaking of this, Yao Tiantian shook the palm shell leaf in his hand, "If we also cook this leaf, maybe it will be different and flexible." ”

"Hmph, nerd, stay by yourself, and talk about others, it's hopeless!" Da Zhuang listened to Yao Tiantian's explanation and became magical again, he crossed his waist and retorted to the somewhat lost dog.

The dog baby was drooped by the big strong head, but he quickly raised his head, ignored the big strong sarcasm, leaned in front of Yao Tiantian's eyes, and said with a little eagerness, "Since Sister Tianniu is sure, let's hurry up and pick some leaves, and get ready early." ”

"I'm going to pick leaves, but I'm going to climb a very high tree." Yao Tiantian thought of the big tree that was more than 20 meters high, her legs trembled, and she couldn't help but lower her voice.

"Climbing trees? Haha" Da Zhuang laughed proudly, patted his chest and said, "This matter is on me, don't worry about Tianniu, you just need to command on the side." ”

The dog baby has always been happy to read, and he is disdainful of things like kicking the wall and climbing trees, but now it is different from the past, this time climbing trees is a serious matter, and it was Yao Tiantian who proposed it, and he Yang Pengfei also wants to show it anyway.

Thinking clearly, the dog baby also puffed up her chest and promised, "Yes, leave things like climbing trees to me, Tiantian, you can rest assured!" ”

"Now that it's decided, let's hurry up, don't rub it off!" Fusheng was also rarely anxious, and pushed the dog's arm to go out.

At this time, the fifth grandmother pushed the door in with a big basket of wild vegetable dumplings, and complained in a loud voice, "Why is the dog baby messing around with Da Zhuang, when is this coming, and you have to climb the tree and stop eating?" ”

"Grandma, don't complain indiscriminately if you don't know, we are going to do business this time, and it was Mr. Yao's orders." Da Zhuang said, reached out and grabbed a few wild vegetable dumplings from the dustpan, and greeted him anxiously, "Let's go, let's eat something while walking, and eat again when we come back." ”

Da Zhuang took the lead and walked out, Fusheng and the dog baby refused to show weakness, and walked out together, Yao Tiantian looked at the fifth grandmother with an inexplicable face, and then looked at his uncle Yao Runzhi, who smiled and approved, handed his uncle a look of aftercare, and ran out with Da Zhuang's footsteps.