Chapter 214: Papermaking
The bird was scared away by someone's evil spirit, and the forest suddenly calmed down, and Weak Xuan couldn't help but say, "Brother Xuanyuan, why are you scaring them away?" I also want you to catch a few pigeons in a while, I want to eat roast pigeons. ”
Xuanyuan Que said lightly: "It's too noisy, I'll bake it for you later." ”
The birds squeaked, making her voice three points weaker.
Weak Xuan smiled, just drive away!
It's also nice to listen to the rustling of the wind through the bamboo forest.
Weak Xuan jumped around the bamboo forest, looking for suitable bamboo.
Half an hour later, Xuanyuan Que cut a bunch of tender bamboos.
After Xuanyuan Que finished cutting the bamboo, he pinched an immortal duel by the way, and then fresh bamboo shoots under the ground were popping up everywhere, and they grew until they were half a person tall before stopping.
He saw a wild strawberry that had just grown a few leaves, squatted down, pinched its small leaves with his little hands, and the wild strawberry grew rapidly, flowered, fruited, and ripened at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Xuanyuan Que picked the red strawberries, conjured a small basket, put it in the basket, walked to the weak Xuan who was sitting on the side, put it in front of her, and then walked away.
"Where did the strawberries come from?" Weak Xuan smiled and picked up the largest and reddest one from the basket, ran over and handed it to Xuanyuan Que: "Brother Xuanyuan eat!" ”
"Not necessarily." Xuanyuan Que picked up the firewood knife and began to cut the young bamboo cut in two, and then broke it open.
"Eat! It smells good. Weak Xuan handed it to his mouth, and the strawberry was already touching his lips.
Xuanyuan Que had no choice but to open his mouth to take a bite, put down the bamboo in his hand, and was about to reach out to take the remaining half, but weak Xuan had already stuffed the remaining half of the strawberry into his mouth.
Xuanyuan Que: "."
The sweet strawberry smell filled the tongue between the teeth, and the eyes of the sweet weak Xuan were bright, "It's delicious!" It's so much better than my ripening! ”
Weak Xuan picked up the other one and fed it to Xuanyuan Que, "Brother Xuanyuan, you can eat it too." ”
Xuanyuan Que reached out to pick it up, and weak Xuan avoided his outstretched hand: "You take a bite, I'll eat the rest, the strawberry tip is the most delicious." ”
Xuanyuan Que's heart seemed to be touched by something, and he glanced at her sincere eyes, which were even more dazzling than the vast stars.
He shook his head and pushed away her outstretched hand, "I don't like to eat, you eat." ”
He had never had a sweet tooth, but she did.
She has a sweet tooth, but she gives him the sweetest strawberry tip to eat.
He lowered his head and began to divide the young bamboo he had cut in half.
Seeing that he didn't eat it, she ran back to the stone, sat down on the stone, and while eating someone's ripening wild fruit, she watched someone cut the bamboo in the middle and then break it again.
The sound of breaking bamboo is so beautiful.
After eating the strawberries, Weak Xuan was ready to move: "Brother Xuanyuan, if you don't rest, I'll come!" ”
"Not necessarily." Xuanyuan Que directly refused.
At first, the flower was in high spirits about chopping bamboo, but the first knife almost cut off her own baby elephant's leg.
If he hadn't stared at her and protected it with his spiritual power, he would have had to heal her again.
Now he still has to keep some spiritual power and wait for a while to urge the time Dafa, so that these bamboos can be soaked as soon as possible, but he can't take care of her.
After another half an hour, Xuanyuan Que moved the broken bamboo, an immortal technique, to a water source, and diverted the water to soak.
The reason why Lianshi paper is expensive is that it is known as the silk in the paper, in addition to being cumbersome and time-consuming to make, it is also because of the relatively high requirements for bamboo.
Even the history paper is made of moso bamboo, and it is the tender bamboo of the year, and it is best to cut it down when the moso bamboo sprouts three buds, and then it is necessary to soak it with river pond water for three months, until the layer of bamboo silk on the inside of the bamboo is separated from the outer layer of bamboo green, and then peel off the green and take the silk, which is only the first step.
If these broken bamboos are normal, they need to be soaked for more than three months to separate the bamboo silk from the bamboo green, but after Xuanyuan Que used an immortal, this step was completed in an instant.
The original pile of bamboo, which was green on the surface and white on the inside, turned an earthy brown, covered with mud and moss, full of traces of time, and at first glance it felt like it had been soaked in water for a long time.
The next step is to peel off the bamboo shreds and rinse them in the river until they are washed off-white and then dried in the sun.
Then soak the sun-dried bamboo shreds in lime, let them be fully coated with lime slurry, and marinate for half a month.
Half a month later, the lime slurry on the bamboo silk is cleaned again, dried again, and then pickled the lime slurry for the second time, this time it should be pickled for about ten days, and then taken out to clean, then steamed again, steamed for two days in a row, and then cleaned, the residual lime must be thoroughly cleaned to prevent the paper from being hard.
After the first steaming, wash it and dry it, then continue to boil it for about an hour with the alkaline water filtered out of the plant ash, and then take it out and steam it for more than 12 hours.
So repeated cooking, drying for more than 20 days, alkali, and then cooking, drying for more than 20 days, until the bamboo silk becomes the first material of pulp, and then these initial materials are selected, mashed, cleaned., stepped on, pulped, under the paper medicine, and finally can be used to make paper with bamboo curtains, and then press the paper, uncover the paper, dry the paper, and the paper should be specially dried on the paper wall, and the worst should be dried on the flat wooden board.
One of these steps is slightly underdone, and the resulting paper is either prone to cracking, or has poor flatness, or is not white enough, or is not durable enough.
As long as every step is done, the history paper that comes out is as white as snow, silky as silk, durable, and does not fade and turn yellow for decades.
It took more than half a year to make such a piece of paper.
Therefore, Xuanyuan Que had already helped weak Xuan buy paper on the list for the Gu shopkeeper.
The next steps are to wait for the ancient shopkeeper to bring someone to do it.
He didn't want to teach too many times.
The next day, before anyone on the street, the shopkeeper sent a few wagons of paper to Wen Yuan's study, without alarming anyone.
Then Xuanyuan Que and weak Xuan asked the ancient shopkeeper to take people to the mountain to take out the soaked bamboo, peel off the bamboo silk, and start papermaking step by step, and at the same time the papermaking workshop began to build.
Half a month later, people from the three academies came to Wenyuan Study to pick up the books as scheduled.
Shopkeeper Liu smiled and took them to the backyard of the capital to move books: "Master Zhang, this pile of books belongs to your academy!" Master Wen, this pile belongs to your academy! Master Fang, this pile belongs to your academy, you all check if there is a problem, if there is no problem, you can settle the balance, and then you can pull the book away! ”
The masters sent by the three academies were silent.
They expected that this small study would not be able to hand over 20,000 books, so they came to collect liquidated damages today, and they didn't bring much silver with them at all.
Happy New Year, Treasures, I wish you all good health, all the best, the wealth is rolling, getting better and better, double the happiness, and double the luck!