Chapter 590: Papermaking

The sun is rising, outside the maple forest, the bamboo forest mountain.

Xiao Loli was standing on the eastern slope of Zhulin Mountain, facing east, concentrating on practicing spells.

The morning sun sprinkled a soft and clear light, hitting her little face, a calm and heroic demeanor, in the middle of the flow.

That kind of calmness, that kind of peace, in fact, has nothing to do with age, but the unique temperament brought about by practice and concentration.

The method of using the bamboo flute to manipulate the four elements taught to her by Fang Tian was made up of a new way to play, which is actually practice makes perfect.

I saw a bamboo flute leaping and changing in a radius of three to four or five meters around her, like a dragon and a phoenix, with the speed and the uneven angle, all kinds of different sounds and colors escaped from it.

The sound, high and low, twists and turns, such as water crossing a clear stream, such as the wind blowing bamboo leaves, although it is not called "exciting", but it can even be heard.

Occasionally, the bamboo flute flew out, like a sharp sword piercing, like a horizontal roll, more than ten meters away from her side. The sound suddenly changed, stretched and raised, like the water level of the slow water stream suddenly dropped, and a waterfall was formed due to the drop, and it was like a fresh breeze blowing in the bamboo forest, and suddenly, the wind became violent, and one after another strong bamboos were lifted off the ground and thrown up.

In other words, this place has now become a special place for Xiao Loli's cultivation. Practicing spells outside the bamboo forest, sitting and meditating in the bamboo forest, playing swings or skating in the bamboo forest, this is almost her "three points and one line" for many times during the day.

When he first came to Fenglin, Fang Tian had sighed at Xiao Loli's diligence in practicing spells.

After such a long time, Fang Tian has seen it in person, this little girl's meditation and spell training is really rain or shine, day after day.

But then again. If there is really wind and rain, it is not an obstacle to the training of magic apprentices, but a good adjustment. In this way, the word "rain or shine" cannot be used to describe the diligent practice of magicians.

Soon after Fang Tian became a mage, the guests from the Nine Cities who had previously settled in the Fenglin Compound, including the Thirteen Immortals of the South China Sea, were all summoned back by their families, and they didn't know what rules of this world they were based on.

Little Loli then got up alone.

Although I knew that she might not have had any company when she was in Boulder City earlier. But many times, I watched her practice spells alone, play on the swing alone, and dance alone on the ice in the stream, "singing and dancing by herself". He couldn't see any loneliness, but Fang Tian still felt pity.

It's just a little girl.

This is also one of the reasons why Fang Tian has decided to make paper now.

Find her a few companions. That's not enough. But let her cultivate more hobbies and fun, but it is very easy for the other party.

Fang Tian walked in the bamboo forest.

He didn't want to skate, he didn't want to swing, and he certainly didn't want to dig bamboo shoots. It's close to digging bamboo shoots...... No, it's actually digging bamboo shoots!

Bamboo slips are the predecessor of paper, but in fact. Break up the fibrous content of the bamboo slips and reassemble them, that is, paper.

Bamboo has always been one of the main raw materials for papermaking.

Fang Tian's first step was just to do the experiment, and he was probably familiar with several processes of papermaking, and the materials of the test were aimed at bamboo, tender bamboo, and bamboo shoots.

That's right, it's bamboo shoots.

The fibers in bamboo shoots are between formed and unshaped, or rather, they are growing, some are young and some are old, and it is best to experiment with papermaking.

Although Fang Tian had a wide range of knowledge in his previous life, he also knew a little about several processes of papermaking, but he had never made paper in the end.

Not to mention making paper, even the papermaking workshop, Fang Tian has never visited. Unlike ceramics, Fang Tian can barely be called a "ceramic apprentice" in his previous life, although the level of making utensils is also nine streams.

Yes, you don't have to think about it to know, if you want to make the ideal paper in your mind all at once, there is absolutely no way.

It's okay, just experiment slowly.

The general papermaking process is just a few steps. Moreover, the principle of process is also obvious. -- This is very important.

If there is a principle, you can follow the diagram. Carrying out practical research with purpose and direction, Fang Tian is still relatively confident. These are two completely different things from the kind of headless flies that run around and fumble around.

The latter is looking for a needle in a haystack.

The former is just a bowl of water to find a needle.

Didn't dig with anything, nor did he use the spell of "mind movement", while strolling, on a bamboo root very close to the ground, a few bamboo shoots were so big and exposed, Fang Tian just bent down, stretched out his hand, and gently broke it, and the two pot-bellied bamboo shoots fell into his hands one after another.

This is the first step in papermaking, choosing materials, hehe, it's as simple as that. Fang Tian threw the two bamboo shoots up and down in his hand, and he was there!

The next step is to process the material.

How to deal with it?

In short, in a word, it is to decompose the material, to completely decompose it, and let the fibrous material that is condensed together in it be scattered, scattered, scattered.

Fang Tian remembered the "dissociation technique" that he had read in some novels in his previous life, which was also used by mages, a spell was thrown over, and the item or something was decomposed, just like executing the "dissociation" command on a certain text in the computer on the computer of the universe, clean, fast, thorough, ctrl+X, one click to get it.

That's so cool!

Thinking about the real spells in this world, it's really weak.

With Fang Tian's knowledge and insights at this time, as well as his magical comprehension, he couldn't think of how to develop a combination spell called "Dissociation Technique" among the four elements of wind, fire, water and earth.

Then, the only way to "dissociate" these two bamboo shoots is to take the soil method of the previous life.

What is the local method?

It is said that when making paper, the raw materials, that is, bamboo chips, tree bark, wheat poles, etc., are put into water. Some people may not have seen this "dip", in fact, it is very simple, just throw these things into the water like garbage, let it soak all the time, and that's it.

How long to soak it?

Of course, it won't be like making instant noodles, three minutes, five minutes, eight minutes. That's OK.

Rather, depending on the material, you can soak it for 80 days, 100 days, 180 days, or 365 days.

Normally, it's between three months and six months.

It was just an experiment, of course Fang Tian didn't have such a long time to let it soak.

If he really does this, it is estimated that the materials have not yet rotted, and his patience is about to rot. Moreover, "dipping" is only the first process in the process of material decomposition. After soaking, it has to be beaten, and then soaked, and beaten again......

Infinite Loop ING......

Is it easy for you to soak in water and gnaw by microorganisms to break down these things in pristine conditions?

It's okay if you don't beat it. Then you have to soak for a long, long time, and there is. The following processing is more troublesome.

All in all. I really can't do that.

Fortunately, Fang Tian has a spell.

Although there is no "Great Dissociation" in one step, there are still some basic spells that can be used.

Water spells.

A ball of water comes, and then two bamboo shoots, not only are they cleaned. And it was washed into pieces.

Another ball of water came, and these bamboo shoots were soaked in the water. So in mid-air, it was as if a crystal ball the size of a football was hanging.

Fire spells.

The crystal ball seemed to be knocked open. It was like a natural split, and the spherical shape had not changed, but it was divided into hundreds of pieces. And the scorching flames wrapped around the shattered crystal ball, burning quietly.

Hundreds of tiny flames, stretching and contracting.

Then, hundreds of small aqueous tablets, tumbling, boiling, to the point of transpiration, vaporization.

But not a drop of water escaped, an invisible bondage, binding this small space.

After the water spell fire spell, the next spell is the wind spell.

Countless small winds swept back and forth in this small space, between the water and the fire and the pieces of bamboo shoots.

Water, fire, wind.

A combination of three spells.

If you have to say it, it can also be said that this is the most primitive and coarse and then very inferior "dissociation technique". But in any case, compared to the primitive soil method in the previous life, this efficiency is much higher.

It's too much higher!

In the flooding, in the fire, in the back-and-forth of countless thin winds, the bamboo shoots disintegrated little by little at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then decomposed.

After about half a magic hour, there were no more bamboo shoots in the shattered crystal ball.

There was only a cloudy pulp.

The second step of papermaking, "raw material decomposition", is completed.

Next, the third step is to carry out the necessary treatment of the slurry.

To remove something.

Just like making gluten, you have to wash the noodles in water, wash them over and over again, wash off the powder, and then you can get something more gluten, and make a gluten that is full of elasticity and refreshing.

If the powder is not removed, the gluten will not be strong.

The same is true for papermaking, if you don't remove the "powder" in the original pulp, the paper will have no tendons, and it will be scattered if you pull it gently. Or put a little water on the paper, and the paper that is stained with water will turn into a paste.

In addition to "depowdering", the slurry is also bleached.

Otherwise, the paper made is, generally speaking, either yellow or brown, or somewhere between yellow-brown, of course, the yellow and brown are by no means neat tones, but miscellaneous.

That kind of paper, it's okay to wipe pp, is it a paper for writing, it's still free.

In other words, Fang Tian felt that the straw paper used to wipe pp in this world should be obtained in a similar way, and the material they used was probably leaves, and there were worthless leaves everywhere.

This can be guessed from the fact that those straw papers are so cheap that they can even afford to use in the former maple compound.

In fact, it is precisely because there is straw paper in this world to wipe PP that Fang Tiancai did not think of papermaking until now. - Although the papyrus is very inferior and of inferior quality.

If he came to this world and found that he could only use leaves or something to solve a certain heavy problem, Fang Tian would definitely not have time to talk about "Journey to the West", the first thing would definitely be to get the paper out!

And it won't wait until now. (To be continued......)