The birds were scared away by someone's evil spirit, and the forest suddenly became quiet. Xiuxuan couldn't help but said: "Brother Xuanyuan, why are you scaring them away? I also want you to catch a few squabs later, and I want to eat roasted pigeons." squab."
Xuanyuan Que said calmly: "It's too noisy. I'll bake it for you later."
The chirping of those birds made her voice weaker by three points.
Ruoxuan laughed and drove her away!
It’s also nice to listen to the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the bamboo forest.
Ruoxuan jumped around in the bamboo forest, looking for suitable bamboo.
Half an hour later, Xuanyuan Que chopped down a pile of young bamboo.
After Xuanyuan Que finished chopping the bamboo, he made a magic trick, and then fresh bamboo shoots sprouted everywhere under the ground, and they stopped until they reached half a person's height.
He saw a wild strawberry that had just grown a few leaves. He squatted down and pinched its small leaves with his little hands. The wild strawberry grew rapidly, bloomed, produced fruits, and matured at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Xuanyuan Que picked the red strawberries, made a small basket, put it in the basket, walked to Xiuxuan who was sitting next to him, put it in front of her, and then walked away.
"Where did you get the strawberry?" Xiu Xuan picked up the biggest and reddest one from the basket with a smile, ran over and handed it to Xuanyuan Que: "Brother Xuanyuan, eat it!"
"No need." Xuanyuan Que picked up the hatchet and began to chop the chopped young bamboo into two pieces, and then broke them open.
"Eat it! It smells delicious." Xiuxuan handed it to his mouth, and the strawberry had already touched his lips.
Xuanyuan Que had no choice but to open his mouth and take a bite, put down the bamboo in his hand, and was about to reach out to take the remaining half, but Ruoxuan had already stuffed the remaining half of the strawberry into his mouth.
Xuanyuan Que: "."
The sweet scent of strawberry filled her teeth and tongue, and the sweet Xiuxuan's eyes were bright, "It's delicious! It's much more delicious than the one I ripened!"
Ruoxuan picked up another one and fed it to Xuanyuan Que, "Brother Xuanyuan, you can eat it too."
Xuanyuan Que reached out to take it, but Ruoxuan avoided his outstretched hand: "You take a bite, and I'll eat the rest. The strawberry tips are the most delicious."
Xuanyuan Que seemed to be touched by something in his heart. He glanced at her sincere eyes, which were more dazzling than the vast stars.
He shook his head and pushed away her extended hand, "I don't like to eat, you eat."
He never liked sweets, but she loved them.
She loves sweets, but she gave him the sweetest strawberry tips.
He lowered his head and began to cut the young bamboo into two halves.
Seeing that he refused to eat, Ruoxuan ran back to the stone, sat on the stone, and ate the wild fruits that someone had ripened, while watching someone cut the bamboo in the middle and then break it open again.
The sound of breaking bamboo is so pleasant to the ears.
After Ruoxuan finished eating the strawberry, she looked ready to move: "Brother Xuanyuan, why don't you take a rest and I'll do it!"
"No need." Xuanyuan Que refused directly.
The flower started to cut the bamboo with great interest, but the first cut almost cut off her own little elephant's leg.
If he hadn't been watching and protecting her with his spiritual power, he would have had to heal her again.
Now he still wants to save some spiritual power to activate the time method later, so that the 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 to a water source with an immortal technique, and diverted the water to wash it.
The reason why Lianshi paper is expensive and is called the silk of paper is not only cumbersome and time-consuming to make, but also because the requirements for bamboo materials are relatively high.
The Lianshi paper uses moso bamboo, and it must be young bamboo of the same year. It is best to cut the moso bamboo when it has three buds. Then it needs to be soaked in river and pond water for three months until the layer of bamboo silk inside the bamboo and Separating the outer layer of green bamboo, then peeling off the green and taking out the silk, is only the first step.
Normally, these broken bamboos would need to be soaked for more than three months to separate the bamboo silk and bamboo green. However, after Xuanyuan Que used an immortal technique, this step was completed in an instant.
The pile of bamboos that were originally green on the surface and white on the inside have turned into earthy brown. They are covered with mud and moss. They are full of traces of time. At first glance, it feels like they have been soaked in water for a long time.
Next, the bamboo silk is peeled off, rinsed in the river until the bamboo silk becomes off-white, and then dried in the sun.
Then soak the dried bamboo shreds with lime, let them be fully covered with lime slurry, and marinate for half a month.
Half a month later, clean the lime slurry on the bamboo shreds, dry it again, and then marinate it with lime slurry for the second time. This time it will take about ten days, then take it out and clean it, then steam it again, and continue to steam it. Clean it after two days. The remaining lime must be thoroughly cleaned to prevent the paper from becoming hard.
After the first steaming, wash it and dry it in the sun, then continue to boil it with alkaline water filtered from plant ash for about an hour, then take it out and steam it for more than twelve hours.
Repeat this process of cooking, drying for more than 20 days, over-alkali, cooking again, and drying for more than 20 days until the bamboo shreds become the primary material for pulp. Then these primary materials need to be selected, crushed, washed, and stepped on. After scattering, beating, and applying paper medicine, you can finally use bamboo curtains to make paper. Then you have to press the paper, remove the paper, and dry the paper. Moreover, the paper needs to be dried on a special paper wall, or at the worst, it must be dried on a flat wooden board. .
If one of the steps is not done enough, the resulting paper will either crack easily, have poor flatness, be not white enough, or be not durable enough.
As long as each step is done properly, the resulting paper will be as white as snow, as smooth as silk, durable, and will not fade or turn yellow for decades.
Such a piece of paper would take more than half a year to make.
Therefore, Xuanyuan Que had already bought paper for Ruoxuan on the list given to Shopkeeper Gu.
Just wait for shopkeeper Gu to bring someone to do the next steps.
He also didn’t want to teach too many times.
It was dawn the next day, and there was no one on the street. Gu shopkeeper sent several carriages of paper to Wenyuan Study without disturbing anyone.
Then Xuanyuanque and Ruoxuan asked shopkeeper Gu to take people up the mountain to take out the soaked bamboos, peel off the bamboo silk, and start making paper step by step. At the same time, the papermaking workshop began to be built.
Half a month later, people from the three academies came to Wenyuan Study to pick up books as scheduled.
Shopkeeper Liu smiled and took them to the backyard of the capital to move books: "Master Zhang, this pile of books is from your academy! Master Wen, this pile of books is from your academy! Master Fang, this pile is from your academy, you all check it out If there are any problems, you can settle the balance and then take the book away!"
The masters sent by the three academies were silent.
They expected that this small study house would not be able to hand over 20,000 volumes of books, so they came here to collect liquidated damages today, and they didn't bring much money with them at all.
My dear friends, Happy New Year. In the new year, I wish you all good health, everything goes well, money rolls in, it gets better and better, happiness doubles, and luck doubles!
