The next day, just after dawn, Ruoshui returned to the village.
He left the city as soon as the city gate opened and ran all the way back.
Mrs. Lei had just finished feeding the family's livestock in the backyard.
There are quite a lot of livestock at home now, and different animals are fed in different ways, and their excrement needs to be cleaned. Even if Mrs. Lei gets up to work before dawn every day, she still has to work until dawn.
Mrs. Lei is a good mother-in-law, and she feels sorry for her daughter-in-law who has done all the dirty work. Of course, she also likes to do these jobs. She likes to see the domestic livestock prospering and to take good care of the domestic poultry and livestock.
Sometimes Liu and Jiang would get up early and want to help when they had time, but Mrs. Lei wouldn't let her do it, especially after the family opened a study room and their two daughters-in-law were busy printing books.
Mrs. Lei took care of all the tasks of taking care of the family's vegetable garden and livestock.
There are too many crops in the fields. Weeding, fertilizing, and watering are all done by long-term workers. Mrs. Lei only needs to go and see if the long-term workers have done their job well.
Mrs. Lei's heart skipped a beat when she saw her son rushing into the yard, sweating profusely: "Fourth brother, why are you back? What happened?"
"It's okay, I'm looking for Xuan Bao." He said and walked into his house.
Mrs. Lei hurriedly stopped him: "Xuan Bao slept with me last night. Don't worry, you're scaring the child, and Xuan Bao hasn't even gotten up yet."
Mrs. Lei grabbed her son and said, "What's the matter? I can find a way to solve anything, so why are you so anxious!"
Mrs. Lei has never experienced any storms. It is not easy to guard several sons by herself and raise several sons who are filial, sensible and even promising.
As soon as she said this, Ruoshui calmed down: "The study has been targeted, and we can't buy paper to print books. If we don't print enough 20,000 books in half a month and deliver them to the three academies, we will have to pay 1,500 taels." "
Mrs. Lei understood it as soon as she heard it: "If we can't buy it, we will find others to buy it. If you don't sell it to us, why don't you sell it to others? Then can their business still be done? I'll go and talk to Mr. Xuanyuan People said, let her find someone to help buy it, she knows a lot of people. Don't disturb Xuan Bao's sleep. Children will grow fat and tall if they sleep more. How old are you, and you come back to find a child when something happens? "
Weak water: "."
He was a little embarrassed, but he felt that Xuan Bao could make paper, and he had this intuition deep in his heart.
Ruoxuan hadn't woken up from her sleep training state yet, but she had good ears and could already hear the voices of her father and grandmother talking, so she opened her eyes.
She climbed out of bed and walked out: "Dad, can't you buy paper to print the book?"
Mrs. Lei glared at Ruoshui and woke Xuan Bao!
Weak Shui stepped forward and picked up Xuan Bao: "Did daddy wake you up?"
"No, I'm already awake."
Ruoxuan asked again what was going on, what kind of paper was needed, and how to sign the documents. After asking clearly, she said, "Don't worry, Dad, leave the paper to me."
She is no longer a flower who has no experience in life. Now she can be said to be a flower who is erudite, knowledgeable, and understands the world!
The worldly wisdom told her that if she had trouble, she should find a way to solve it by herself. If she couldn't solve it by herself, she could ask Xuanyuan Shenjun for help.
Anyway, God Xuanyuan is omnipotent!
After Xiuxuan finished speaking, she ran up the mountain without even washing her face.
Of course, Ruoshui couldn't really only count on his daughter, so he also went to find other people to help buy paper.
Xuanyuan Que had also just finished his evening practice and was washing up. He was wiping his face seriously with a cloth.
Ruoxuan ran in like a gust of wind, "Brother Xuanyuan, are you free today?"
Xuanyuan Que took a look at her little bun, and there were still signs of sleeping. It was obvious that she had just gotten up and ran up to her without washing up, "What's the matter?"
He cleaned the cloth slowly and slowly, put it on the basin shelf, and then walked out of the room.
Ruoxuan followed out: "I want to ask you to help me make paper."
Afraid that Xuanyuan Shenjun would not agree, Ruoxuan said again: "We have to be urgent. If you hadn't allowed me to use magic, I could have used any magic to conjure up the piece of paper."
The corners of Xuanyuan Que's mouth twitched, very good, it was his fault again!
Seeing that his expression was a little dark, Ruoxuan received a large order for 20,000 books for the study, but now she couldn't buy the paper.
"It takes half a month to copy 20,000 books, otherwise we will have to pay a lot of money, 1,500 taels! My father said that for the books ordered by the three academies this time, there are still requirements for the paper used for some books. Even Lianshi paper and Chiting paper, known as "silk in paper", are both famous and valuable papers. Except for those two famous papermaking workshops, other small workshops cannot make these two kinds of paper at all. , if they don’t sell it, we won’t be able to buy it. …This is obviously a study opened for me, brother Xuanyuan, can you help me?”
Xuanyuan Que: "I can't make Lianshi paper and Chiting paper in half a month. You don't have to make them. I can ask shopkeeper Gu to buy them for you."
Ruoxuan: "If you can't create it, can't you use magic to speed it up? No one knows about this, and I can't change it directly, so it doesn't matter, right?"
Ruoxuan originally thought that the paper was very expensive to buy, but now she couldn't buy it, so she simply made the paper herself, so that she wouldn't be afraid of not being able to buy it in the future.
Moreover, the study can make its own paper and sell it, making more money.
As far as she knows, there are paper-making workshops behind the other two study rooms in Shaxi County.
Even if the owner of the study and the owner of the papermaking workshop are not the same person, they are still the same family.
In addition to paper-making workshops, some study rooms even have ink sticks and brushes made by their own family workshops, so that they can earn more money.
Ruoxuan kept chattering for a long time while tugging at his sleeves, "Brother Xuanyuan, can you try with me to make paper?"
Ruoxuan had read in the book that making paper was quite troublesome. She could use fairy magic to turn bamboo into paper in one go, but if she was asked to use bamboo to teach others how to make Lianshi paper step by step, she would have to try a few more times. Second-rate.
After all, she had only read about papermaking methods in books and had never seen man-made paper. But Xuanyuan Shenjun had lived for tens of thousands of years, so he must have seen it and would definitely know how to do it.
Mrs. Xuanyuan knew that Ruoxuan had run up the mountain early in the morning, so she came over to have breakfast with Xuan Bao and her grandson. Unexpectedly, she heard Xuan Bao talking about papermaking.
She asked in surprise: "Xuan Bao can make paper?"
Most of the paper used in Xuanyuan Kingdom is produced by the two major paper-making workshops. The price of paper is too expensive, which makes the price of books also expensive. As a result, many students from poor families cannot afford paper or books.
Mrs. Xuanyuan has always believed that reading is very useful. If more children and common people from poor families can afford to read, the imperial court will have more talents.
She even hoped that all the people in Xuanyuan Kingdom could afford to read if they wanted to.
It's a pity that the two famous families said that making paper was difficult and they were unwilling to make the price of paper cheaper.
Not long after the founding of the Xuanyuan Kingdom, for the sake of the stability of the court, it was necessary to stabilize the major families that had been operating since the previous dynasty and had intricate relationships, so she could not force them to lower the price of paper.
This would rob the pockets of two great families, and no one wanted to do so.
But if someone knows how to make paper, the two aristocratic families' monopoly on papermaking will be ended!
(End of chapter)
