After the grain harvest, the eldest son's work of teaching everyone to write went smoothly, and at this time, everyone was able to use some symbols and letters to express the basic meaning, regardless of whether these were right or not, anyway, as long as they could know it themselves.

After learning to read and write, my father was so happy that he smiled all day long, everyone has never been so happy when they came here, even if they gave birth to a child, they were not as happy as this.

For this big family, the child is of course the most important, all the hope is in the child, and it is precisely because of the child that the life of the family and all these efforts of everyone are meaningful.

But with words, life is completely different, and their current life is more convenient and safer.

Once he had the words, the eldest son thought about making paper, so that it could really come in handy when needed.

As soon as he told everyone about this idea, everyone thought that it was possible, and the raw materials were easy to find and not complicated to make.

As soon as he said it, his father took a group of men and divided them into two groups.

A group of people are responsible for finding limestone, it is an old place, it is easy to find, it is in the ravine upstream of the small river, and the limestone is burned into quicklime, and then soaked into alkaline water can be used.

The other group was responsible for collecting the old clothes that everyone had woon, and the hemp heads that were left over from the mother's weaving clothes, and they soaked them in alkaline water, and when five or six days later, the hemp heads and the rotten clothes had been soaked into coarse hemp wool, and they fished the pile out of the alkaline water and hammered them vigorously with a wooden hammer until they were like tofu dregs.

After the hammer was broken, my father put the slag in a large pool and stirred it evenly.

By this time, my mother had already made two or three square wire nets out of twine. My father put the wire mesh in a large pool and filtered it, and a layer of cotton wool as thick as a fingernail precipitated on the wire mesh.

My father lifted the wire mesh and put it to dry in the sun, slowly peeling off a thin layer that had been formed on the screen. And just like that, a piece of paper was made.

The eldest son used black charcoal to crush and make ink, and used bird feathers to dip the ink in the paper to write on the paper.

Later, by changing the amount of quicklime in the alkaline water, the soaking time, and the amount of water in which the slurry is soaked, we finally made a basically usable paper.

In the past, in the school, the eldest son was born not to like to learn, he felt disgusted when he saw books and words, he basically didn't listen to the teacher's lectures, even in the classroom he often secretly played, and now he is learning words for himself, teaching words for this big family, only to suddenly feel that the words are so useful, and the mood is completely different, the more he teaches, the more energetic he is, and then he encounters rain and snow when it is inconvenient to lecture, and he is not comfortable with not telling everyone for a while every day.

During this period, six more children were born, and the family became even more lively.

It's just that my father and mother feel that the burden on their shoulders is heavier, and it is not easy to support such a large family.

So far, the family's life has returned to the good old days.

The family is happy, everyone is rushing to work, and when they see who is busy, they take the initiative to help do it, which is to work for their own family and work for their closest people, and no one is lazy or coquettish.

After a while, it was the end of summer, and I hadn't gone out hunting for a long time, and my father's hands were a little itchy.

One day, after dinner and lectures, the father quietly smiled and asked the eldest son if he wanted to go hunting, and the eldest son jumped up with joy and said yes.

The sound was so loud that the second and younger sons also heard it, and they also shouted that they would follow their father to hunt. My father said, "Let's talk to everyone about it, and see who is going to see who is at home, who is at home, how the people in the family are arranged, in which direction to go, and what things to prepare."

It took seven days for my father to arrange all these things in the house, and finally decided to hunt in two groups, this time the first group went out to hunt, and the other group stayed at home. The father and mother went out hunting with three sons and a daughter, six people, while the rest were at home, divided into two groups to guard the safety of the house and cope with the household chores.

The first group consisted of seven men, including the eldest uncle, the second uncle, the elder uncle, the uncle, the uncle, the two cousins and the cousin, who were in charge of the outside work, such as chopping wood, harvesting the remaining crops, inspecting the vegetables and grain seeds reserved in the fields, and standing guard at night.

The second group is: the mother, the second mother, the aunt, the aunt and a few girls, a total of nine people, responsible for taking care of all the children, collecting pigweed, taking care of livestock, and cooking.

The burden of each group is not light. The target of the hunting group was the ravine where they first hunted wild boars, and that ravine had not been entered so far, even the second uncle and their search for limestone and the last hunting trip only went to the vicinity of the small waterhole, and they never went inside.

In addition to six men in my father's group, there were three little wolves and ten hounds, and they prepared four steel drills, two hoes, a pot, a sickle, two killing knives, and two bows and arrows—the eldest son could now shoot arrows, and his archery skills were as good as his father's, and there were two quilts, two leather coats, and a fire fold, a salt packet, a flint, a candle made of beeswax, and a bag of potatoes and a bag of grain.

The things you bring with you are simple and practical, but they are much better than when you first went into the mountains to hunt and when you first came here, when you were not so generous.

When he was about to go out, the eldest son put a few pieces of rough-edged paper and a few pieces of black charcoal in his arms, which were good things for them to report to each other.

On the morning of the eighth day, the father repeatedly explained to everyone the things that should be paid attention to at home when they were away, especially at night when standing guard must not have any relaxation and laziness, and at the same time those who went out to work must not go out alone, it is best to go out together in a group, and do not go too far, and also take the dogs, and the two little wolves are placed at home to watch the door, and when they go out, the people at home must remember to close the city gate, and arrange for a dog to guard the top of the castle, and if there is any problem, immediately notify the other personnel, and if danger is found, all the people will hide in the castle, and wait for the group of people who are hunting to return。

The eldest uncle and the second uncle repeatedly said that they remembered it and reassured them, but told them to pay extra attention to safety when they went out and not to go too far.

They sent the hunting group out of the castle and watched until they disappeared around the far corner.

At this time, the top of the mountain in the distance was only slightly white, and the sky was not very bright.

There was a lot of dew on the grass and bushes on both sides of the road, which soon wet their trouser legs and shoes, and the ten dogs and the three little wolves seemed very excited, and ran to the front to see, and then to pee in the back, and sometimes ran to their owners to sniff their trouser legs.

The children are also very happy, they haven't gone out hunting for a long time, and they have been in a hurry, but the full sister is not very reluctant to go out, she always thinks about the two little babies in the family, in fact, she only gave birth to the second child not long after this time, but the father took into account that the family went out better.