As soon as Ou Qingjin went home, he sighed: "It's really amazing, I borrowed money and found it in the yamen." ”

Xia Ruixi hurriedly got up from the table, untied his clothes for him, and changed his official robe: "Who borrowed money to find the yamen?" ”

Ou Qing said solemnly: "Who else?" The uncle's family is less! He ran to the yamen to look for me, and when he opened his mouth, he wanted to borrow five thousand taels of silver to do business and turn over. If you say that you don't borrow it, you won't save it, our house is going well, and we can't watch them go hungry in a big house, and the situation is getting worse, right? Listen, borrowing money is still so reasonable and domineering! "Can't live in a big house? Why haven't you heard of it? Don't all of their families want to be officials and make a name for themselves, and they especially despise doing business? How could the eldest lord agree to him to do business? Xia Ruixi handed him a wet handkerchief to clean his face, five thousand taels of silver, not a small amount, but he really dared to speak.

Ou Qing said solemnly: "What can't you get by?" It is true that their lives are not as good as before, but they also have no worries about food and clothing. This is not what my uncle meant, this is all less red-eyed and specially came to fight the autumn wind. ”

"You promised him?" Xia Ruixi remembered that this Jun Shao, before the Ou family had an accident, he heard that he was a master who would only spend money and not make money, and it was recently rumored that he was gambling money.

"Why don't you say yes? His excuse is so good, it's the right thing, if I don't borrow it, won't it make people think that I am unkind? Regardless of family and friends? ”

Xia Ruixi saw that he was smiling thief, so he said: "He deliberately went to the yamen to find you, but I am afraid that he will not refute him because he knows that you have a good face." ”

It's not impossible to borrow money, but the score is a situation. Today is a small number, and tomorrow I don't know who it is. If you don't borrow one or the other, I don't know how many people you will offend, so I will borrow them all, and it is not enough to sell all of this family.

Ou Qingjin hugged Da'er from the couch, smacked him on the face, and replied: "Face is important, but it can't be eaten as food, so why die to save face and suffer the crime." I cried poor in front of the people in the yamen, my annual income was only 205 taels, there were many people who ate at home, and there were more places to spend money. Seeing that his face was ugly, I said, but he is so close to me, he is doing business, how can I see death and not save it? When I get home, I will take your jewelry as a pawn, and give him five hundred taels of silver, and I will not want him for the money, let him prepare the IOU, and come to you tomorrow to get the money."

"Isn't he angry?" Xia Ruixi wanted to laugh a little, Ou Qing said that it was shameless, but it was actually fake. The reason why he had to IOU was that he hated Jun Shao and ran to the yamen to threaten him and lose face.

"Why aren't you angry? I was so angry that he scolded me for being stingy, and his brother had to write an IOU when he borrowed money, but he was unwilling to write an IOU. I asked him, if 500 taels is too much, can he borrow 200 taels? Anyway, it's my year's worth of money. He won't be angry, and if he comes tomorrow, don't give money if you don't see an IOU. If you give him this money, you won't expect him to pay it back in the future, so it will play a role that makes him embarrassed to ask me to borrow it again. I guess there will be people who will come to borrow money, and if someone else comes to borrow money while I am not there, and you are not sure, you will say that you can't be the master, and let them go to me. ”

Xia Ruixi smiled: "With you worrying about these things, I will be relaxed." Today, the third sister-in-law also came to me and asked me to bring her to make a fortune together. He told Ou Qingjin what the Bai family had said before.

He also said: "I guess she and the third brother had a conflict again, so I persuaded a few words, but I don't know if she can listen to it." And you can't be separated, it's really not a thing to go on like this. You take some time to talk to your father and mother, and let them persuade the third brother and the third sister-in-law to reconcile. It's not okay to always press the third sister-in-law, and the third brother has to give in where he should give in. Ou Qingjin looked at her with sparkling eyes: "Don't you hate the third sister-in-law anymore?" She made it so difficult for you in the past. And the third brother, he misunderstood you like that. Although he knew that Ou Qingying had a pimple in his heart and couldn't wipe his face, he was so indifferent to Xia Ruixi and him, but in the end, Ou Qingying didn't do it properly.

Xia Ruixi pouted: "But aren't they your brother and sister-in-law?" Break bones and tendons, they have a hard time, what good is it for me? Besides, they are not good, you must be worried, you are not good, I am not good, right? "One yard is one yard, she doesn't like the three rooms, just don't come and go. If you really watch them make trouble and ignore it, it is not a large family that is unlucky in the end.

Ou Qingjin smiled and slapped her buttocks: "I know, I'll go over to see my father and mother after dinner, and I must complete the task you assigned with honor." ”

Xia Ruixi gritted his teeth and pinched his face: "Dare to hit me? You're flying, aren't you? Taste my Nine Yin White Bone Claws. ”

Ou Qingjin smiled and was about to pinch her back, but Da'er in his arms actually grabbed his lips unceremoniously, his face was expressionless, and a pair of dark eyes only stared at him.

The two were stunned, and then laughed wildly, Xia Ruixi laughed so much that her stomach hurt: "Good Da'er, I will actually help my mother." Mother didn't hurt you in vain. ”

Ou Qingjin broke Da'er's little hand and said unconvinced: "You just stink, you are beautiful." Does him do you a favor? What does he know? He saw you bullying me, and he wanted to learn from this bully bandit. I tell you, don't do this kind of thing in front of him in the future, otherwise he won't be afraid of me in the future. Loving Mother and Strict Father, where do you put my position as a strict father? ”

Xia Ruixi said: "It's obvious that you made the first move, you teased me in front of the child, what do you say about this kind of behavior?" ”

While talking, Liang'er came to ask where the food was placed?

Xia Ruixi said: "It's in the house." Saying that, he got up and went to clean up the table, Ou Qing said solemnly: "Let them clean up, you come and sit with me." ”

Xia Ruixi shook his head with a smile, and shook the things in his hand at him: "This thing is still good for me to clean up at home." ”

As soon as Ou Qingjin looked at the two pieces of rice paper, he became serious, waved away the people waiting around him, and asked Xia Ruixi: "Why did this thing come out?" This is the secret recipe for making rice paper left by his grandfather for Xia Ruixi, the root of the Ou family's fortune.

Xia Ruixi said softly: "I want to make use of this thing." As soon as she knew the origin of this thing, she instinctively wanted to throw away this hot potato, because she was lazy and didn't want to bother to work hard. Now, her mind has changed.

"Making rice paper?" Ou Qingjin frowned: "What do you think?" Didn't you not want this thing before, afraid that it would get you in trouble? ”

"People's minds change." Xia Ruixi said eloquently: "I'm thinking, you want to take advantage of the power of the upstart to do business and make a lot of money, but there are so many businessmen in the world, they must also want to get it, so it depends on whose means are more clever." In order to attract the attention of the powerful, we must have a very unique craft that can be used to earn money that others can't earn. ”

"If you open a pharmacy, although I have an advantage with my mother's experience, it is the Xia family's business after all, maybe my father and mother also want to pick it up again, so it's not good for us to intervene. I thought about it and thought that we could consider making rice paper, and if we did it well, we wouldn't have to worry about the errand of not getting tribute paper. And making rice paper is an elegant thing. In ancient times, there were many celebrities who made their own paper. ”

Ou Qingjin's eyes lit up: "Yes, that day in the yamen, I heard that they complained that there was no good paper." When the world is peaceful and Enke is opened, the demand for this paper will inevitably soar, as long as the paper is good, there is no worry about sales. But how to explain this paper-making recipe? There must be people who gossip and are half-hearted. Don't get the mutton when you don't eat, and you get into a commotion. It's obviously us who work hard, but we jumped out of a group of people to get a piece of the pie. ”

Xia Ruixi rolled his eyes: "This is what you have to think about." If we make paper well, with money, everyone in the clan will benefit, repair the ancestral hall, run a clan school, and solve the livelihood of those children who are poor and can't read, what can't we do? "The most important thing is to solve the livelihood problem of Ou Er's house, and meet Ou Qing's desire not to be an official and to make a lot of money as an elegant businessman.

Ou Qingjin frowned: "I'll sum it up first, and then find a safe way." "It's something that has been passed down from the family, and everyone has the right to benefit from it. But the crux of the matter is who will carry forward this secret recipe, and then how to benefit the clansmen, the ways and means must be appropriate, otherwise people will be discordant, but it will be bad.

For dinner, Ou Qingjin took Da'er to the old mansion, and Xia Ruixi continued her idea.

Xuan paper has the reputation of "paper longevity for thousands of years", plays an extremely important role in ancient Chinese cultural history, and can be called the "first of the four treasures of the study". Xia Ruixi remembers that in June 2006, at the Four Seasons Auction of China Guardian Company, ten pieces of Qing Dynasty zhang and two pieces of rice paper were sold for a high price of 36,300 yuan.

The ancestors of the Ou family, made the best in the rice paper, its raw materials are made of sandalwood bark and sand field straw as raw materials, it is said that "light as cicada wings white as snow, shaking like fine silk without sound, 100 folds without damage, after thousands of years and as new." ”

The complexity and time-consuming production of this paper also surprised Xia Ruixi.

There are more than 100 processes, and there is a saying that "two years of paper is obtained", which can be called the most complicated and strict production of all paper.

At this moment, the two pieces of rice paper in her hand, which have been passed down by the Ou family for several generations, are the testimony of the Ou family's glorious papermaking skills.

She believes that Ou Qingjin will definitely have a way to properly solve the origin of this recipe, and skilled craftsmen can also dig it at a high price, but what she is worried about is, where to find qualified raw materials? As far as she knows, the reason why Chinese rice paper is famous and unique is not because the formula is kept secret, but because of the unique raw material environment.

There have been British people who have stolen secret imitations, and some Japanese have collected sandalwood trees in the origin of rice paper and returned to China to carefully plant them, however, the rice paper carefully imitated by the relocation is far from being comparable with the real Chinese products.

This recipe also says, "The manufacture of paper is the first material", Qingtan wants to grow in the warm and moist black sandy soil, but the straw grows in the sandy soil and needs to be irrigated by the water of the mountain spring stream with low water temperature. Where do these two geographical conditions come together?

Xia Ruixi wanted to go to the birthplace of the Ou family, maybe it was such a place. She thought that the ancestor of the Ou family at that time longed to be an official and a superior person, so he abandoned this skill. How would they feel if they knew that their children and grandchildren would pick up the craft again years later?

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