Chapter 003 - The Lower Gram of the Love Book
What is it like for an extreme reader to cross into a world where you can't touch books, Mei Yin, who loved reading books in her previous life to be stoned to death by a pile of books, and who has crossed into a medieval level of a five-year-old child with her eyes closed and opened, can be regarded as deeply aware of the pain.
If it's not easy to understand, just swap the book for your phone.
Five-year-old, commoner in the family, with parents and an older sister, ancestral semi-literate, the father with the highest level of education, also only stayed at the level of being able to write names, and could not find a book (mobile phone) at home.
"I was so eager to read (my phone), but I didn't have a book (my phone).
I don't know how I'm going to survive anymore. β
Bookworm Main confessed.
I couldn't find a book (mobile phone) at home, so I went outside to look for it, went to the market, and finally saw a book (mobile phone) locked in the cabinet in the store, and asked:
"Uncle, do you know where to find a store that sells books (mobile phones)?"
The manager's answer was:
"Shops? There is no such shop. Books (mobile phones) are too expensive to be a commodity. Moreover, this is the collateral of the nobles who borrowed money and could not repay it, and it is not a commodity yet. Well, it's about to become a commodity, but the only people who want to buy this kind of thing are the nobles. β
Mains did not hesitate to kneel down and beg:
"I know I can't buy it, but at least, please let me touch the book (phone). I want to rub it! At the very least, I want to smell it, even if it's just the ink! β
After being refused, he finally saw the pen and paper from his father's colleague Otto, who was the guard of the city gate, and couldn't help but feel agitated, and excitedly asked his father for parchment (low-profile mobile phone).
"No, it's not a child's toy. A piece of parchment (mobile phone) will fly for a month's salary, can you buy it for children! β
Seeing that there was no hope of buying a book (mobile phone), the poor Mainne finally made up her mind to make her own paper and books (mobile phone)!
This is the otherworldly journey of a bookworm who wants to read by any means.
It's a pity that unlike the general travelers with extremely rich knowledge reserves, although they did read more than 10,000 books in their previous life, they had nothing to do who would memorize the steps of papermaking step by step, and the weak body that was five years old and had a high fever from time to time couldn't do any high-intensity work.
To this end, Main has made various attempts to learn from the ancient civilizations in the history of the earth.
Egyptian Civilization β Papyrus β stripped of grass fibers and then woven into "paper" like a straw mat
Lack of physical strength, the work of peeling fibers asked my sister Dolly, and then knitted it myself, knitted the size of a business card in five days, lost to patience, and gave up.
Mesopotamian Civilization β Clay Tablets.
Because of lack of physical strength, I didn't have the strength to dig the soil, so I asked the neighbor's children of the same age, Luz, a childhood sweetheart.
The first batch of clay boards had just been made of mud tires and written on branches, and they were trampled by the children who came out to collect firewood together as a game, and Main almost ran away, but fortunately, Luz comforted her in time and made the second batch in time with Main.
The second batch of clay slabs caught up with the heavy rain and returned to the dirt in the process of drying.
Lutz went to great lengths to help make a third batch, and this time it was well dried, and Mains excitedly took it home and burned it in the stove, and then exploded.
Ancient Chinese Civilization - Bamboo Slips.
Because there was no bamboo, Mai Yin began to make wooden tablets.
It was too slow to be alone, so Luz came over to help cut the small pieces of firewood they had picked up into flat strips.
I took it home to store it, and when I wanted to try writing after trying to make ink, I was told by my mother that she thought that Mei Yin had finally learned to help the family and went back by picking up firewood, so she gave priority to burning the "firewood" that Mei Yin picked up.
Main's agitation induces a magic stir and she faints with a high fever.
In order to make Mayne recover as soon as possible, Luz made a batch of wooden tablets and sent them to Mayne.
As a result, before Main's fever subsided, the wooden tablet was burned as firewood again.
There was no way, there was no communication, and the parents didn't know what Mu Jian did.
Main almost died in the heat under the blow, and the bookworm suffered an unprecedented blow, but in the darkness she remembered that she had promised to introduce Luz to the Chamber of Commerce, so she regained her consciousness and recovered from the heat.
Relying on the various hairpins she "invented", she got the first pot of gold in her life from Banno, the manager of the chamber of commerce "Chilbota", and after signing the agreement, she had the start-up capital and the support of tools, and finally was able to try to challenge the most advanced, but also the most complex, real "papermaking".
Because of the lack of physical strength, the work is mainly done by Lutz.
Lutz said that tool people have long been used to it.
But even though Luz was the same age as Main, almost six years old, he realized the fact that Main's was no ordinary child.
Again and again, Mains revealed things that she could not have known at her age and experience.
Doubt had taken root in Lutz's mind and grew.
As she got closer and closer to the success of papermaking, Main became more and more excited and less guarded, and even said "Leave it to me!" in the process of papermaking. Because I have made the words".
"When? Where is it? Lutz's questioning rhetoric left Main stumbling.
Doubts were accumulating until the paper was about to finish, and Luz finally asked the question that had been held back for days.
"Who the hell are you?"
After a while, Main's confession was not Main, but someone who had taken possession of Main's body after Main's feverish death.
And even so, this body also suffers from inexplicable high fever from time to time, and it is not surprising that she, as Main, will die at any time, and if she dies, the original Mainne will not come back, just a corpse left.
ββ¦ Didn't the family find out? β
"I don't know. Although I have found strange things, have you ever thought that I am not Ma Yinna? And Dad also said that he would be happy as long as he could become energetic. β
ββ¦ yes."
Luzhar sighed, "I don't think it's up to me, it's up to Mayin's family to decide. β
Isn't it the meaning that Main's "Main" continues to live like this, and Luz doesn't mind?
"Luz, I'm not going to disappear, okay? I'm not really Mainβ" Lutz's arm moved. Main's felt the grabbed Lutz's arm tremble slightly, but it was Main's hand that was actually trembling.
ββ¦ Yes"
"Why?"
After asking again, Luz finally looked at Main. With a look of distress and surprise, he flicked her forehead with his fingertips.
"You disappeared and Mayin can't come back, right? And, since a year ago, I've been your word, and the Mains I know is pretty much you. As she said that, Luz rustled at her blonde hair. Then, look firmly into Main's eyes.
Watching Main's bright green eyes become calm, the first angry waves have vanished, and Luz has regained his appearance.
ββ¦ So, my Main, you can do it..."Inlutz's words, a hole in the bottom of Main's heart filled.
The boulder hanging in my heart fell with a thud.
In the evening, after all the trial paper was removed from the drying template, the first batch of paper was finally obtained after screening out a large number of substandard products.
The paper made from the bark of the magical tree and the dragon tree has finally succeeded.
It's a pity that mass production is still a problem, because when the tornado wood grows, it will absorb the power of all the soil nearby, and the place where the tornado wood grows will become a barren land for a while, and there is no way to obtain a large number of them.
In order to produce a finished product from the trees that are normally produced in the neighborhood, two six-year-olds were collecting different plant fibers, experimenting with different proportions and trying to make the fibers worse.
On this day, the two were breaking branches on the edge of the grove and chatting casually.
"In this pile of trees, the Buddha forest tree is the most suitable."
"Well, if it's something mixed with folin wood and a little more tearworm slime, it can be commercialized. Collect more bark today and ...... when you get back That...... Is that a book? β
Mai Yin didn't even realize that a bunch of twigs had fallen to the ground, and looked in amaze at a boy of about ten years old who walked by on the dirt path next to her.
More precisely, staring at a book with a beautiful and childlike cover that the boy is tied to a belt like a shoulder bag and straddled diagonally at his side.