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Ye Guyun got up early in the morning and came to the laboratory, although he was really shown off by Ferreira in front of him yesterday, the big open palm and the "five" it indicated, he was so choked that he had to use the ultimate move of the keyboard warrior to transfer to Dafa - forced by Ferreira's ramming goods!- it was really bad enough, but it still did not affect today's good mood.

Well, that's how big and wide my heart is.

So early in the morning he began to tinker with his new gadgets with great interest.

He is in ink, oil smoke ink.

Of course, there is ink in this world, but it is not the same as the traditional ink of our Great Celestial Empire, it is divided into several categories, there are mineral inks made of metal or graphite, there are dye inks made of dyes extracted from certain plant seeds, and there are bioinks represented by cuttlefish juice that are simply processed from animal inks, all of which are natural or semi-natural inks - of course, from the hands of mages, based on alchemy theory, made of all kinds of strange materials through all kinds of incomprehensible magical means, Thousands of magic inks that may never be found in duplicate are definitely not on this list.

Anyway, it's not what Ye Guyun wants.

So I simply made my own ink.

The ink of our great heavenly dynasty is divided into two kinds of pine smoke ink and oil smoke ink, pine smoke ink "thick black and lightless, easy to enter the water", oil smoke ink "hard and bright, dark and moist, licking the pen is not glued, into the paper is not dizzy", each has its own style, each has its own suitability, but its bottom is fine, all are carbon ink, its basic principle is the same.

"Ink, smoke, condensation. (Excerpt from "Heavenly Creation")

The main components are smoke and glue, which is the presence of carbon in an amorphous form, and when used, ink can be produced by grinding with inkstone and water, and it is a colloidal solution in water. And the preparation method is also similar, in the end it is nothing more than to burn the ink smoke, mix the ingredients, repeatedly pound, and finally make it into an ingot, the difference between the two is mainly in the burning of the ink smoke, that is also because of the different raw materials.

Pine smoke ink, as the name suggests, is ink made from pine smoke, which is the soot left over after the pine wood is burned.

Correspondingly, oil smoke ink is the ink made of oil smoke as raw material, and oil smoke is tung oil, hemp seed oil, soap green oil, rapeseed oil, soybean oil and even pork, paint oil after the remaining soot after combustion.

It doesn't sound particularly difficult: isn't burning soot just a fire?

It is indeed not difficult, but it is exquisite, especially the burning and collection of pine smoke.

First of all, the pine wood used must not leave a little rosin residue (which will affect the quality), so the pine must be cleaned before the pine wood is harvested. The method of flowing rosin is not difficult, dig a small hole in the root of the pine tree, put a small lamp, heat it slowly, and the rosin will pour out.

Moreover, you have to find a suitable place to cover a special smoke kiln, which is a long (more than a dozen zhang) bamboo shed, surrounded by paper or straw mat seals, the ground connection is sealed with soil, and the bamboo shed opens a smoke hole every other section (the smoke is taken in sections, the quality is different, the more by the kiln, the more fine the smoke), and the bamboo shed is paved with bricks through the flue - just ask you if this is enough to pay attention to ~!

Then, let's start burning. The pine wood is cut into the kiln, and the fire will be burned for several days, and the pine smoke can be scraped into the kiln after cooling.

The whole set took a lot of effort.

Relatively speaking, the burning and collection of oil smoke is much simpler, theoretically as long as there is a bowl to burn, because it is not much different from lighting an oil lamp, fill the lamp with oil, light it with lamp grass, and then cover the bowl or iron plate to collect the oil smoke......

Above, after all considerations, Ye Guyun naturally chose to make oil smoke ink without hesitation.

The first step was to burn the cigarettes, but immediately encountered a tricky problem.

Yield and efficiency.

A fact, one pound of tung oil can get about one or two oily smoke - so how many pounds of tung oil do you have to burn to make up the required oily smoke?

And, how long does it take for the oil to burn out?---When have you ever seen the oil in an oil lamp counted in kilograms?

The ink-making workshop solves this problem by quantity. Yes, one lamp is really slow, isn't it fast enough for us to light hundreds of oil lamps at the same time? Don't be surprised, this is not an exaggeration, you must know that one skilled worker can be in charge of 200 oil lamps......

However, Ye Guyun obviously couldn't do this, but he quickly found his own solution: Catherine's magic ability.

It has been verified, Catherine's superb spell ability can bring incomparable great help to the manufacture of utensils, only unexpected, nothing impossible, since he tasted the sweetness of the musical instrument when he made it before, Ye Guyun has been deeply concerned, this time of course, he thought of her for the first time.

Ye Guyun has no doubt that the production problem of "mediocre" oil smoke will definitely be solved in Catherine's hands, and even the more complex pine smoke is no exception. However, when he approached Catherine last night with determination and anticipation, the result was so unexpected.

Catherine looked so tired and tired, shy, wilted, and exhausted.

Ye Guyun knew that it was definitely related to her going out today, but she didn't want to say it, and he didn't want to ask.

What is certain is that there is no way to get Catherine's help, and Ye Guyun even feels that she can't even release a spell at that time.

But in the end, it was Catherine who solved the problem. After seeing what he was trying to do and asking for clarification, the girl pulled herself together and wrote a plan and threw it to him - "Go to Gianna!"

That's right, Gianna is not an ordinary person, whether she is strong or not, she also has the ability to spell, but because of her personality, habits and inherent impressions, everyone only thinks she is a playful little girl on weekdays, and always ignores the fact that "she is also an extraordinary existence" is actually very shocking in a sense.

Well, let's not talk about anything else, anyway, with the plan and the implementer of the plan, everything went smoothly next, and after a night of fighting, finally enough oil smoke was produced.

And this is just the first step in completing the ink production, so now Ye Guyun and Gianna are busy in the laboratory.

After refining the tobacco, it is mixed with glue, which mixes the tobacco with the gelatin-based ingredients.

Glue is the adhesive of ink, relying on molding and color, generally commonly used protein, fish skin glue, kraft glue, high-end useful deer horn glue. In addition to the gum, there are dozens of different flavors of various precious and invaluable Chinese medicinal materials in the ingredients, each of which is different, listed as a secret recipe, and the secret recipe of the ingredients that vary from one to another is also the characteristic of various famous inks.

For Ye Guyun, he didn't pay so much attention to it, he only needed ink that could be used for writing, not ink that could be used as a work of art appreciation, so he just casually took out a recipe that was easy to find and would not go wrong, and made up a sufficient amount of ingredients.

At this moment, he and Gianna were carefully shaking the sieve, sifting the smoke and ingredients to pick out the fine and uniform particles.

"Master, do you really give me the naming rights of this brand new ink?" Tilting her head and blinking at her dreamy silver-gray eyes, Gianna looked at her master softly.

Ahem, this isn't the first time I've asked this question.

Ye Guyun was not impatient, since this girl is willing to listen, why not answer again?

"Yes, thanks to the help of the clever and capable Gianna, this ink can be made......! No, in this case, all the ink I design and make in the future will be handed over to you to name, okay?"

Those eyes immediately bent into two silver-gray crescents, which were extremely beautiful: "Master, you are so good~~!"