Chapter 19 Papermaking

Reiki is a very powerful drop.

The aura in the qi training period, the foundation building period will be transformed into spiritual power, until the spirit yuan in the infancy stage, the qualitative energy is increased layer by layer, and just thinking about it can make her drool. How nice it would be if it weren't in the wizarding world.

Everything in the magical world is nourished by magical elements in the process of growth and formation. In fact, a little bit of aura is a wood attribute, and it stands to reason that it will not make the wooden stick fall apart. The reason is that the wooden stick is not only a mortal material, it is a thing of the magic world from the inside out, as soon as Liu Ci's aura is infused, the two are repelled, and the wooden stick cannot withstand the conflict between the two forces, and it will naturally break.

If she wants to find a "weapon" in the wizarding world, she probably has to grow it herself.

However, the aura can still exist tenaciously under the laws of the magic world under the layers of blockade, although the form is a little sneaky, does it show that the energy state of the aura molecule is above the magic element?

Liu Ci's speculation is not groundless, the species she planted, whether it is seeds or branches and seedlings, are also the "aborigines" of this world, but after being watered by her with a spiritual spring, the weak elements contained in her body will unconsciously dissipate and become a spiritual energy plant. After that, they were allowed to grow, but they were no longer eroded by the magic elements, so it felt like the aura molecules had repelled the magic elements.

No matter how powerful the Chaos Lotus is, if the aura molecule itself is vulnerable, no matter how long this "transformation" persists, I am afraid it will be useless.

If there is a basis for this inference, when she needs the hair of the demon beast to be used as a brush to draw high-level spirit runes, will she be able to take the hair of the demon beast and soak it in the lotus pond water, and she can also complete this conversion? Otherwise, Liu Ci couldn't figure out where the great god was going to let her catch demon beasts in the magical world.

Liu Ci lay on the river beach to sort out his thoughts, the materials for making rune paper are available, and the brush is easy to obtain, only cinnabar is left without a clue.

After resting enough, Liu Ci got up to check his loot. The flat pole becomes a weapon to stab the maned porcupine to death, and she needs a new stick. The gray stone and the remaining yams were reassembled, and a new stick was barely found, and it was getting dark, but unfortunately the maned pig was a good piece of meat, and she couldn't bring it back today.

Liu Ci thought about it, it was still a pity, leaving a dead pig on the river beach overnight would only leave a bunch of skeletons tomorrow, and what she cared about was not pork, but pigskin.

No matter how tightly the lambskin boots on her feet were tightened with rattan, they couldn't hide the fact that they were in tatters, and besides, the weather was getting hotter, she couldn't always wear thick boots, and Liu Ci needed a new pair of shoes.

The pig skin is absolutely wearable, Liu Ci thought about it, started from the wound of the maned pig, and peeled off the animal skin and took it away. By the way, I also picked up a "steel needle", which is as hard as metal, and it is still very promising to use it as a sewing needle.

After delaying for too long, the fish she forked were faintly smelly, and she tore off a piece of pork leg meat and stuffed it in the bamboo basket, and Liu Ci picked up two bamboo baskets to return.

The stone yam with pigskin and meat made Liu Ci feel quite difficult, but fortunately, the starlight at the beginning of summer was bright enough for her not to wrestle with two bamboo baskets. It was difficult to walk at night, and by the time Liu Ci picked up all the loot back to his lair in a stinky sweat, the sky had a faint light.

Yes, you don't have to sleep, you can just eat breakfast and start work.

Cooking things is still incidental, mainly because the workload of burning lime is very large, and the time for a meal is far from enough, Liu Ci found an open space not far from the bamboo sink to pile the limestone together, and set up a bonfire directly on it. Without a lime kiln, a pile of firewood could take up to a day to burn the limestone.

The pork brought back will stink if you don't eat it, Liu Ci cut the pork chop with a stone pot, and after eating, the sky was bright and the firewood burned vigorously enough. In the morning, Liu Ci could still observe from the side, but at noon she couldn't stand the roasting, and she didn't want to go near the fire except for adding firewood.

After picking up enough firewood, Liu Ci opened up a depression of land and planted the yams. The small taro are left to make rations, and the taro mother with a big bowl mouth is all cut into buds and planted in pieces, anyway, they will be watered with lotus pond water, and the maximum yield will be lower if they are not planted according to the solar terms, and it will not affect the final harvest. Planting yams, and throwing all the weeds in the vegetable field to the rabbits who were enclosed with stones and thorns to eat, Liu Ci has become accustomed to doing daily chores.

The only dissatisfaction is that the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the training clothes on my body are not suitable for summer. After the nutrition kept up, she grew taller very quickly, could it be that she really started to weave and make clothes by herself?

Liu Ci frowned, the Weaver Girl is more skilled than the Little Peasant Girl, this thing is not easy to do.

The day was spent in Liu Ci's busyness, and there was only some energy left in the fire. Scooping out the gray stones with a stick, she tried to use a bamboo tube to scoop a tube of accumulated rainwater from the puddle and pour it on it, the gray stones emitted choking smoke, white and bursting in the sizzling sound, Liu Ci pinched his neck and poked it gently, and sure enough, it spread out into white powder.

It worked!

Picking up a big bamboo tube and scooping water from the cistern and pouring stones over and over again, until all the stones turned into lime powder, Liu Ci wiped the sweat from his forehead and smiled.

The new bamboo in the sink has already been cut into bamboo strips, sprinkled with lime powder, and covered the sink with banana leaves and thatch, which is considered the first step of papermaking. To make the fiber melt, it takes about ten days. The bamboo strips that are fished out need to be washed before proceeding to the next step.

Liu Ci was troubled by the water source, and the few reservoirs she had dug before were obviously insufficient, could it be that what she lacked was a pond? The water in the air of the lotus pond is inexhaustible, but the total amount of spiritual energy is fixed, so Liu Ci will never waste a drop except for dripping water, watering vegetables and drinking water.

The technology of papermaking is not difficult, but it is not easy for Liu Ci, who lacks tools.

While waiting for the bamboo strips to be made in lime water, Liu Ci spent three days digging a pond. The clearing near the tree hole was her reserved farmland, and the pond had to be dug behind it around the boulders. When the tip of the sword touched the rock at a depth of about one meter, Liu Ci was happy. The rock is good, and the infiltration is slow after impoundment! With a diameter of about ten meters, Liu Ci was as tired as a dead dog, and comforted himself that it was also a good prospect to use to raise fish after making paper.

The rain in early summer was not so dense, and when the pond was filled with rain, Liu Ci began to wander the mountains and fields to find the traces of the stream.

Since there is a river at the foot of the mountain, where is the water source if there is no stream?

As a result, the creek was not found, and a seepage spring two kilometers away was discovered by Liu Ci.

Rely on a bamboo tube to carry water back? Liu Ci is not a big fool, Yinshanquan is elegant, she has seen it in those clubs since she was a child. A piece of bamboo, the bamboo joints are connected, and they are connected to the water pipes. The bamboo forest where bamboo shoots were found in the past has once again won disaster. It is really troublesome to get through the bamboo, two kilometers is two kilometers away, or only a straight line, a bamboo can be used part of the part does not exceed ten meters, nearly 100 bamboos are buried in the ground and connected together, and there is no seepage...... The project was completed by Liu Ci independently and took 12 days.

When he uncorked the wood and let the mountain spring flow into the pond, Liu Aci, who had been much calmer, climbed up to the five or six meters high boulder and roared, startling the birds in the forest fluttering among the branches and leaves.

It's not so much about being happy, it's better to vent her frustration, it's too hard, who is a savage like her, and she is forced to move towards the all-round elite from a woman?

With water, the bamboo forest can be washed, and the hard skin of the bamboo must be stripped before it can be put in the stone trough and beaten vigorously.

The bamboo strips soaked in lime water are still relatively easy to crush after peeling off the hard skin, Liu Ci is dissatisfied with the fingers being separated by more than a dozen openings when he peels the skin by hand, and the hands that are rough enough are even uglier to see, and he doesn't know what level of elixir to make up for it in the future.

The arms are sore, and the nobles of the new era are clamoring to use handmade paper to have an identity, and it is always the paper-making workers who are forced to suffer!

This night, Liu Ci rarely didn't breathe in and practiced qi, and slept in the dark on the soft grass bed in the tree hole.

After the pulping is completed, put the bamboo fiber in a clean water tank, stir it with a bamboo stick first, wait for the bamboo pulp to be stirred and scattered, and remove the coarse paper tendons. What else do you want to use a three-claw stick to fish, and then a five-claw fishing, Liu Ci was confused by professional tools, so he simply took the barbed thorns to fish for bamboo tendons, and finally only the pulp as fine as fluff was left.

According to the steps, at this time, the turmeric powder dye should be put to correct the color of the yellow surface paper. Liu Ci believes that the use of yellow paper for painting symbols is probably not to take its color, but to take its material, and she has planted bamboo with her own hands, and she understands that bamboo itself is a species that is very easy to gather spirits. Of course, the "paper medicine" still needs to be lowered, otherwise the bamboo fiber will have poor gelatinity, which will affect the softness and toughness of the paper.

Before the new era, the ancient Chinese and Tang people used starch as a sizing agent, which had the functions of filler and reducing the bottom of the fiber sinking tank. After the ancient Song Dynasty, plant mucus was used to make the pulp uniform, and the commonly used paper medicine was star fruit vine, yellow hollyhock and other leaching liquids. In the ancient paper-making method, the paper medicine used in the ancient Song Dynasty was of course more advanced than that of the ancient Tang Dynasty, but Liu Ci had never seen the two things, so he could only choose a slightly backward starch sizing agent.

As for the starch in her hand, she still got it from the grated yam sediment, and a large part of the reason why she was in a hurry to go to the hot spring cave to transport the yam back.

If the previous steps are only physically demanding, then "scooping paper" is a very important delicate work. Scooping paper is to use a rectangular bamboo curtain with fine and smooth weaving, holding the handle of the curtain frame in both hands, and scooping the pulp water into the trough. Scoop horizontally, vertically, whether the slurry can evenly spread the entire curtain surface determines whether the paper is thin and uniform.

Scoop the paper, press the boulders, squeeze the water on the paper pile, and then bake and dry them one by one on the surface of the warm rocks......

On the haystack in the tree hole, Liu Ci stroked a large stack of neat yellow paper and smirked. Pure handmade ancient papermaking, a little aura in the bamboo material is almost completely retained, the tender yellow bamboo paper, the hand touches the slippery moderate, the smell exudes a faint bamboo fragrance, a slight color difference is only a small section, just look at the locked aura, the quality is definitely the upper layer.

Even the most complicated and cumbersome yellow sheet paper has been created by itself, so why is it difficult to write a brush?

Don't worry, there will be drops of cinnabar, and there will be drops of talismans!