Yang Xinxin and Yang Tongtong ran out curiously, and then saw Cai Lun scraping the bark of a tree.

Yang Xinxin opened his mouth and asked, "Sir, if you scrape the bark like this, won't the bark hurt?" ”

Cai Lun replied: "How can the tree hurt, and it can't speak?" ”

Yang Xinxin said disapprovingly: "Sir, the tree really can't speak, but it is alive!" It is precisely because the tree has life that it can grow so big! ”

Yang Tongtong glanced at his sister with emotion, worthy of you, Yang Xinxin, was able to say such philosophical words.

You're a little philosopher of our time, aren't you?

In fact, Xiao Luomo also agrees with Yang Xinxin's words, but now it can only pretend to be a pet and cannot express its own opinions.

Flowers and trees are all alive, and we can't destroy their growth just because we want them.

Of course, Yang Tongtong and Yang Xinxin also understood that this kind of thing was difficult to explain clearly, but Cai Lun fell into deep thought.

He thought for a long time before saying, "Actually, what you said is right, all things have spirits, but our current craft may not be able to make paper without the help of the bark you mentioned." So what I can do is keep planting new trees when I ask for them, so that they don't have no trees in this place because of me. ”

The tree has been scraped off, whether it hurts or not, I know that there are trees that know.

After the bark is scraped off, it will be bare for a long time, and even if it heals, there will be obvious wounds.

Mr. Cai Lun is right, even Yang Xinxin and their time can't find something to completely replace the role of paper.

Even if there are computers, mobile phones, and other things, paper must be there.

At least, you always need paper when you wipe your butt!

Yang Xinxin and Yang Tongtong saluted Cai Lun, and Cai Lun returned the salute.

The reason why Yang Xinxin and Yang Tongtong saluted was that they felt that Mr. Cai Lun had taught them something, and Mr. Cai Lun saluted Yang Xinxin and Yang Tongtong because he had also learned something from the two children.

People can learn from each other, and you can't think that you can't learn anything from him just because of his age.

Confucius said that if you are a threesome, you must have my teacher.

Now that they knew what to do, Yang Tongtong and Yang Xinxin also began to help.

They didn't have the strength to scrape the bark, so they put the scraped bark in the basket and asked Mr. Cai Lun to take it back.

Mr. Cai Lun scraped half of the basket before returning home with Yang Xinxin and Yang Tongtong.

Cai Lun then boiled the bark he brought home, mashed it, and turned it into pulp.

Adding the materials that had already been prepared, when these materials were mixed with the bark, Mr. Cai Lun began to make beautiful paper with fine craftsmanship.

The paper takes shape slowly, but it will take some time to dry before it is ready to use.

Cai Lun looked at the formed paper with some excitement, and there was one last step, that is, whether the paper could be written.

If you can write, then you will benefit a lot of poor people who could not afford to use paper.

But Yang Xinxin said to Yang Tongtong: "Brother, it turns out that paper really wasn't invented by Mr. Cai Lun!" ”

Before Yang Tongtong could answer, Cai Lun had already heard what Yang Xinxin said, and said with a smile: "Little friend, paper is definitely not invented by me!" The appearance of paper was in the Western Han Dynasty, I just wanted to improve paper, how can I have the ability to invent paper! ”

Yang Tongtong and Yang Xinxin looked at Mr. Cai Lun, still full of respect.

He didn't do it for his own selfishness, he just wanted more people to use paper.

In this era, paper can only be used by rich and noble families, and Mr. Cai Lun wants to change this pattern to do this.

Although there were many twists and turns in the process of completing this matter, because of the arrival of Yang Tongtong and Yang Xinxin, Mr. Cai Lun completely found the raw materials for cheap paper.

With the passage of time, Mr. Cai Lun, Yang Tongtong and Yang Xinxin's brothers and sisters, including Xiao Luomo, are all looking forward to it.

Although the raw material of paper is correct, there is no way to say that it can be molded the first time.

When Mr. Cai Lun took out the finished paper and put it on the desk, looking at the appearance of the paper, except for a slight smell that was not very good, the quality was extremely high.

I can't say that it is better than the original paper, but the price is not high, and it can be mass-produced!

Cai Lun spread out the white paper, grinded the ink, and used the brush to write on the paper, when he suddenly stopped.

Yang Tongtong asked curiously, "Mr. Cai Lun, why did you stop?" ”

Cai Lun replied: "The reason why I stopped was because I felt that it was the two of you who gave me valuable advice, so I was able to make this kind of paper. So I hope that you will be the first to leave words on such a piece of paper. ”

Yang Xinxin grinned: "That's great! ”

She took the brush and wanted to write on it very suitable, but sighed and handed the brush to Yang Tongtong.

Yang Xinxin said, "Brother, it's better for you to come!" ”

Yang Tongtong sighed, a little strange.

Cai Lun also asked curiously, "Why did you give the brush to your brother?" I can see you'd love to write on paper. ”

Yang Xinxin replied very seriously: "Sir, my brother's handwriting is very good-looking!" I can only say that I can write, and if my brother writes with a brush, it will make this first improved piece of paper very meaningful. ”

Cai Lun said to Yang Xinxin: "You are right, I should also think of this." ”

Yang Xinxin grinned twice, although he is often praised by others, it is still a very happy thing to be praised by different people.

Cai Lun said: "Then Yang Tongtong, come on!" ”

Yang Tongtong nodded, he held the brush, he actually always felt that his writing was average, not to say modest, he felt that he was very good at painting, and his writing was very ordinary.

Yang Tongtong began to think, what should I write?

He suddenly knew what to write, but fortunately, although Yang Tongtong was not an extremely smart child, as a third-grade student, he still knew how to write these words.

The three words he wrote were "Cai Hou Paper"!

When these three words were written on a blank piece of paper, although Cai Lun was surprised why these words were different from those written by many people, he also knew what these three words were written.

Cai Lun asked curiously: "Yang Tongtong, why do you write these three words?" ”

Yang Tongtong replied with a smile: "Because this is Mr. Cai Lun's improved paper, it has great merit, so I want to call this paper Cai Hou paper!" ”

After hearing this, Cai Lun showed a surprised expression.

But I still hurriedly said several times that I didn't dare to be, I didn't dare to be!

Only Yang Tongtong and Yang Xinxin, oh, and a cat named Xiao Luomo understood how important it was for Mr. Cai Lun to improve the paper.

This new paper can naturally be named after him.