Chapter Ninety-Eight: Papermaking

Qin Yue hugged the child to breastfeed, smiling gently, the little guy's eyes were still closed, the little fist was clenched tightly, and the small ball touched her heart.

The wooden door creaked, Liang Jian pushed the door in, lifted the animal skin and walked into the room, saw the little guy with red and wrinkled skin, frowned and said:

"How ugly is it?"

Qin Yue gathered his clothes and glanced at him dissatisfiedly, "Think he's ugly?"

"How can I dislike my son?" he smiled and stepped forward, holding out his hand, "Let me hug him!"

Qin Yue handed the little guy to him and left a warm embrace, the little guy's mouth was deflated, and he was about to cry, she was busy patting his back to comfort him.

Liang Jian hurriedly dragged him, looked at his eyebrows carefully, and smiled contentedly: "He looks like me!"

Qin Yue tilted his head to look at him, and said with a smile: "So small, where can you see who he looks like, wait until his little face is no longer wrinkled after a while, and then I will know." ”

While the two were talking, Ah Liang opened the curtain and came in, "Sister, the children in the tribe are all in the school, how do you teach them?"

She hung her head and twisted a little, "I only know a few words, I'm afraid I can't teach them." ”

Qin Yue set up a school and handed it over to Ah Liang, she was sitting in confinement, and she couldn't go out in the house every day, so she only gave some opinions behind her back.

"You talk for a while, I'll go out first. Liang Jian put the little guy into her arms and went out with a smile.

Qin Yue shook the child and pondered for a while, now that she has ramie, it is better to put papermaking on the agenda, she wanted to use ramie to make paper at the beginning, but then there were many things, and she left it behind when she couldn't find ramie.

She said a few words to Ah Liang, and asked her to take her notebook and pen and write down the general steps, she had seen this kind of papermaking video before, but she could only remember a rough idea, and it may take many attempts to succeed.

A month passed, and she was finally able to walk out of the room.

Smelling the smell on her body, she couldn't stand it, and sincerely admired Liang Jian for sleeping with her in her arms every day.

After washing her hair and bathing happily, she took the little one out to bask in the sun, and walked all the way to the school, watching the tribe change greatly along the way, and there were patrols on the road from time to time, and soldiers were stationed on the city walls.

The people of the tribe have their own duties, some are responsible for raising animals in captivity, some are responsible for smelting iron, some are responsible for firing pottery, and even have special personnel to take care of the farmland, and hunting squads also go out hunting on horseback from time to time.

However, if there are too many people, it is easy to make trouble, especially the small number of people in the Black Wolf Tribe think very highly of themselves and occasionally provoke incidents, Liang Jian took the opportunity to organize a patrol team to manage the patrol of the tribe and deal with tribal disputes.

There was even a Council of Elders, in which Yanu, Kakuyan, Ah Yan, Ah Meng, Yan Mu, Black Wolf, etc., were among them, and they could vote on major decisions of the tribe, and this enlightened management method made everyone in the tribe very satisfied.

Walking into the school, a large group of children were following Ah Liang to learn Chinese characters, but there was no blackboard, so they could only spread sand on the ground to write, and the children learned with relish.

Seeing Qin Yue walk in, Ah Liang's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly got up to greet her, and came up to look at the little guy with wide-eyed eyes and bubbles.

There is a large amount of ramie piled up in the courtyard of the school, which Qin Yue asked someone to collect and prepare to make paper, I don't know if it can be successful, so there are a lot of ramie prepared.

There was also a pond dug in the yard, which was soaked in a few bundles of ramie, as well as bark and other plants, Ah Liang told the children to go home first, and soon Ah Meng, Shu and others came in.

A large iron pot was also brought and placed on a ready-made earthen stove, and all the materials soaked in the pond were put into the iron pot and boiled until it was boiled into thin pulp.

She covered the bottom of a rectangular wooden frame with a layer of fine linen, and in a cooled pot, she scooped up a layer of pulp, and the fine linen filtered out the water, and set it up in the yard to dry.

However, the thickness is often uneven during salvage, so the quality of the paper is very rough, but Qin Yue looked at the yellowish paper that was taken off, and was quite excited, this was her first time making paper, although the finished product was not very good, it was a success.

But after many experiments, she finally made a paper with a uniform thickness, which she carefully folded and showed to Liang Jian.

Liang Jian was a little surprised that she could really make it, and put forward her opinion: "Adding quicklime to the pulp can play a role in bleaching, I remember that there is calcium carbonate in the cave where we dig salt, and quicklime can be obtained after heating at high temperature." ”

Hearing this, Qin Yue took someone to dig it back, and poured quicklime into the pulp, and sure enough, the paper made was a lot whiter.

Qin Yue specially dispatched five people to be responsible for making paper in the future, and the paper she made used charcoal to write Chinese characters and pinyin, and fixed them into books with fine hemp rope for the children in the school to browse.

During the autumn harvest, the grass seeds, that is, millet, from the large fields outside the tribe were harvested by the tribesmen with iron sickles, and together with other crops planted, they filled the granary.

The cheers of the people of the tribe spread far and wide.

Thanks to Yanu's diplomatic contributions, many of the surviving small tribes around the tribe joined the Yanhuang tribe, and the gates of the tribe were always open to welcome them.

And Wu Yaguo has never heard from it, if it was in the past, it was naturally a sword hanging on his head, but today, Liang Jian has no fear, the crossbow has been transformed into iron, the bow and arrow are sharp with barbs, and various weapons such as swords and spears.

The Yanhuang tribe will not fight against the outside world, but other tribes will not dare to offend the Yanhuang tribe.

Having iron tools also meant that Qin Yue could invent many convenient tools, and all kinds of novel tools were overwhelming for the tribesmen, and she subtly taught them to use them.

At the same time, the tribe made the first small boat, which had no cabin and only a few horizontal logs for people to sit on, and Qin Yue led people to row to the center of the lake by boat.

The shadow of the big black fish under the boat made her frightened, and she soon asked someone to row to the shore.

She has always known that there are many big fish in the lake, but she didn't expect it to be so big, several times larger than a small boat, it seems that before a big boat is built, it is easy not to enter the lake.

Now that the beasts near the tribe are infesting less and less, and the brown bear that has repeatedly opposed Qin Yue is gone, presumably the frequent activities of humans have affected the habitat of the beasts.

However, the tribe kept hundreds of horses in captivity, enough to hunt far away and bring back a large number of living animals.

On this day, Qin Yue and Liang Jian took a small wooden boat, followed by more than a dozen wooden boats, all the way down the river, to the valley full of green fruits.

She was surprised to find large patches of golden rice, mixed with weeds, in patches of endless goldenness.

She looked closer excitedly, and was sure that it was rice, and said to Liang Jian: "Sure enough, it is rice, and there will be rice to eat in the future." ”