Shen Luzhu has been studying the one- and two-denomination banknote these days. She remembered that she had seen a kind of ghost coin in her previous life that was very similar to cash banknotes, so she wanted to see if she could make one similar to the banknote. Large denomination Hades coins.
Daqian's banknotes are all issued by the government. They are the size of an adult male's palm. The surrounding frame is painted with dragon patterns. The words "Daqian official banknote" are written on the upper part of the inner frame. The year and serial number of the banknote are on the left side. The exchange bank is on the right side. The serial number, written in the middle is the denomination of the banknote. For example, the one in Shen Luzhu's hand says, "Withdraw money with the banknote, one or two cents of silver." There are a few lines of small print below, and the most important thing is the last sentence: Forger Punish crimes according to the law and do not neglect it!
So we have to make the money look like it, but we also have to let people see at a glance that it’s not a banknote, but actually a technical job!
After dinner that day, Chu Yi said he was going out for a trip. Shen Luzhu stayed in the room and was bored, so she drew a sample of the new Ming coins. She cut out the white paper she bought. The paper is one circle larger than the banknote, and the rectangle is changed into a square. The banknote is enlarged to the same proportion, and the original dragon pattern around it is changed. The upper part is painted into an auspicious cloud pattern, and the lower part is painted into a lotus pattern.
The four characters of "Da Qian Official Ticket" were changed to "Heaven and Earth Bank", the years number on both sides was removed, and sixteen characters were written, "Common to heaven and earth, burn into gold; good gods protect, evil gods stay away".
Finally, there are the few lines of small characters below. Shen Luzhu thought for a long time and really didn’t know what to change to. He simply gave up writing and directly made a picture of sacred deer and cranes in that area. It suited the scene well when painted on the underworld coin. , and finally write ten million taels of silver in the middle, and you’re done!
As soon as Chu Yi opened the door, Shen Luzhu ran out to greet him: "I have something to show you!" ("I have something to show you!")
As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Luzhu saw the two wooden boards in Chu Yi's hands, which seemed to be inlaid with something. Chu Yi put the wooden boards on the corner cabinet beside him, and led his wife to sit down by the kang: " What does Ah Zhu want to show me?"
Shen Luzhu brought the sample drawing that was hanging aside and showed it to Chu Yi: "Look! This is what I just drew. It's a new version of paper money. How do you like it?"
"Why does it look like the banknotes from that day? I didn't know that Ah Zhu had such skills." Chu Yi didn't expect that within a few days, Shen Luzhu would come up with another completely different style, and he actually painted it. So good!
"I modified it according to that one, and enlarged it a little, so that it looks similar, but in fact it is completely different. It is not considered a counterfeit banknote. With such a large denomination, maybe it can be sold without making a knife. These few I'll draw more, and then take it out to try. By the way, what did you just get back?"
"Ah Zhu is so awesome!" Chu Yi showed Shen Luzhu the two wooden boards on the corner cabinet: "I can just hold them, don't hurt my hands."
Chu Yi brought back two wooden boards. One had many grooves carved on it, and the other was inlaid with many iron sheets as sharp as carving knives. Those iron sheets formed a pattern. These two wooden boards were Shenlu Bamboo. The one I made looks like hollow paper money, but now the material has been changed and it has become three-dimensional!
"You made the mold! How did you come up with the idea of making this?" Shen Luzhu was really shocked by Chu Yi. She even gave up. Chu Yi actually made the mold without saying a word!
"I don't know if it works yet, would you like to give it a try?"
Ignoring the sky that had completely darkened, the two of them went to get a knife of yellow burning paper and started trying it in the room. The use of the mold was very simple, just put the grooved piece of wood underneath and put the burning paper neatly on top. On the wooden board, align another wooden board and press it down hard. The iron piece will penetrate the paper along the groove of the lower wooden board. Remove the upper wooden board and remove the paper money. The cut-off part will be left on the lower board. In the groove, the paper money is carved into the shape of a hollow copper coin. More than twenty pieces can be made at one time, which is much faster than Shen Luzhu's hand-making. Not to mention, it is more beautiful and neat without the ink marks!
Shen Luzhu took the pieces of cut paper money and looked at them again and again, and suddenly he hugged Chu Yi's neck and hung his whole body on Chu Yi: "Oh my god, Chu Yi, you are so amazing! brilliant!"
Chu Yi hugged his wife and chuckled. His A Zhu always seemed to like to say something he had never heard before: "What's the point of being awesome?"
"It's just that Chu Yi is the most powerful, the smartest, and the best! Chu Yi, why are you so good!"
"No way." He just copied the paper money made by Shen Luzhu on the wooden board, carved a groove on one side, asked the blacksmith in the village to strike an iron piece on the other, and then placed the iron piece on top.
"Originally, I was thinking that if this newly made one could be accepted by everyone, I would go look for it in the town and see if there was any place that could help me make printing plates. Now there's no need to worry, we can sell this first!" Shen Luzhu was afraid that having too many new things at once would be difficult to accept, so he thought it would be best to do them one by one and take his time!
"Printing plate?"
"Well, just engrave what is on this piece of paper on a copper plate or stone plate, then apply ink on it, and then transfer it to the paper, one at a time, to ensure that every piece is the same, and it's fast!"
Chu Yi nodded and expressed his understanding: "Is the wooden board okay?"
"Board of wood?" Shen Luzhu's eyes widened and he looked at Chu Yi with surprise: "You mean..."
Chu Yi found that he liked Shen Luzhu's various reactions to him so much, they were lively and interesting: "You can give it a try."
In the next few days, Chu Yi continued to make coffins and used his free time to build a pergola. Shen Luzhu took advantage of this time to make a part of the burnt paper into hollow copper coin burning paper, and was ready to start working on it when the pergola was set up. One game!
On this day, my aunt Wang, whom I had not seen for a long time, came to the old house again. She saw that the pergola was only half-erected beside the courtyard gate. She was puzzled. When chatting with Grandma Chu, she mentioned: "Auntie, our family Why is there a shed set up outside the courtyard? But what are you doing?"
"It's not like Mr. Shen, who encourages men to do some business, but the family doesn't agree, and insists on doing it alone! After buying so much paper money, he doesn't sell it, and he hides in the house all day long and doesn't know what he is doing. What?" Grandma Chu felt a little angry when she mentioned this. She wanted to see what they could do and how much money they could earn!
Mrs. Wang was not afraid that they would do some private work and earn some money by selling some paper money. She was worried that Chu Yi would only care about the small family and delay the coffin business of the old house: "Selling paper money? After all, we are getting married. Is it time?" He only cares about his own small family, but selling things is a time-consuming job. If Shen doesn't work, won't he have to point to Chu Yi? Don't be too busy and delay the family's work. live……"
Grandma Chu was a little angry after hearing what her eldest daughter-in-law said: "How dare he! The old man said it at the dinner table, nothing can delay the work at home!"
"Don't be angry, mother-in-law. I want my daughter-in-law to take a look. Maybe it's just because of the heat of the moment that the idea comes out. Or maybe I bought all the things and nothing happened. It's not even May yet, so the sun is shining brightly. It's not poisonous, so there's no need for a pergola. Maybe I'm just over-energetic and looking for an excuse to waste time!" Last time, her son told her that as elders, don't argue with a junior like Shen, otherwise it won't sound good. , let her see that Mrs. Shen is a good pretender, no, she will reveal her secrets without her having to do anything!
Grandma Chu calmed down: "I just said she is not a virtuous person, forget it, if she likes to mess around, just mess around. Anyway, it is her own private money that is ruined!"
"Who says it's not the case? If she likes to mess around, just let her go. Why should I be the same as her?"
By the time Chu Yi set up the pergola and set up the stall with a cart next to the courtyard gate with Shen Luzhu, it was already late April. Shen Luzhu placed the copper coins and burned paper among the three kinds of paper money. Every time someone passed by, she would tell them with a smile that she was the daughter-in-law of Chu Yi, the second grandson of the Chu family. They had now started selling paper money. Anyone who needed it could do it. come over.
If someone notices the copper coins burning paper in the middle, Shen Luzhu will explain to them: "This is a new style. It was introduced from far away. Now only our family sells it. The copper coins engraved on it are !”
Usually at this time, while talking, he would pick up one and show it to the villagers in the sunshine. This way, it is more obvious than stacking them together. It really looks like there are copper plates on it!
"Ordinary burning paper is just a yellow piece with nothing on it. Our copper coin burning paper has so many copper coins engraved on it. If you burn it to your deceased relatives, what they receive will definitely be different from ordinary ones. of!"
The ancients believed that after death, the soul would enter another world, the so-called underworld. They burned paper money to express their grief for their deceased relatives, and the other was that they really believed that these burned paper money could be used by the deceased. Relatives received it for their use in the underworld.
"If you want to buy this, free money costs sixteen copper coins per knife, and ordinary yellow burning paper costs twenty copper coins per knife. Although the price is the same as in the town, if you go to the town to buy it by yourself, it will cost you ten copper coins to take a bullock cart back and forth. Isn’t it a copper coin? Our family is equivalent to bringing it back from the town for you for free. Isn’t this a big discount?”
"You ask, do you want to burn paper with copper coins? This paper with copper coins is naturally more expensive. It costs 30 copper coins per dollar. This is something you can't buy in other homes. The price is a bit expensive, but you get what you pay for. Buy It’s expensive, and what the deceased relatives receive is more valuable, isn’t it? There is a discount when buying it now, if you can buy it for five dollars at a time, I will give you one as a gift!”
Soon everyone in the village knew that the Chu family who bought coffins began to sell paper money again. They got a new copper coin to burn paper, saying that no other family had it. There was also a buy-five-get-one-free discount. The Chu family’s paper money actually became the talk of the village after dinner!
Some good people have heard about it, and some people actually went around the town. Not to mention, there is really no shop that sells this kind of copper money burning paper. If you ask, people will ask you, what is the copper money burning paper? Never heard of it!
This man went back to the village to learn things, and the Chu family's burning of copper coins and paper became popular again! This time, not only the people in the backing village are talking about it, but even the Shen family in Hexi Village has heard about it!
