What to do? Han Shuxian had no idea at the moment and didn't know what to do. Even if there was no paper on the table and he put it directly on the table, the wax liquid would stick to the table. Or he could just put it on his hand and wait for the wax to solidify.
"Aunt, is there another tray at home?" Mo Ziwan pulled Han Qiulu back to the table while Han Shuxian and Yu Silian were talking.
He stood on tiptoes, raised his head, and looked hard at the tray with wax and paper on the table.
I am very helpless about my short legs and really want to grow up quickly.
Although Yu Silian didn't know what the tray was for when she asked, she must have had her intention when she asked, and replied: "Yes, there is another one." The tray, teapot, and cups are all made of porcelain and are easily broken. I have an extra set at home.
Sometimes Mo Ziwan knows better than Han Chunlin, her own son, what the Han family has. After Yu Silian answered, she said: "Auntie brought another tray, filled it with some cold water, and put the wax-soaked paper on it. In the tray filled with water, the wax will solidify when it gets cold." Thinking about taking out the wax paper later, he continued: "Bring another pair of chopsticks so that I can pick up the wax paper later."
This time, it was not just Han Shuxian who felt powerless and inferior to himself. After Mo Ziwan finished speaking, Yu Silian also frowned and sighed, "Why are you so smart?" However, it was a sigh at the beginning, but the conversation changed at the end. , Han Shuxian came to joke, "You are so smart, how can your uncle teach you in the future?"
Han Shuxian was already full of powerlessness, but after being teased by his wife, he was really dumb and unable to express his sufferings. At the same time, he strengthened his previous thoughts. He must let Wanwan go to the academy. He could not just be beaten, but his colleagues and other self-righteous students in the academy must also see what true intelligence is.
But then I thought about it, how could they see all Wan Wan’s cleverness! Forget it, just hit him. At least he has gained experience. They will never know how smart a four-year-old kid can be!
After comforting himself, Han Shuxian was forced to look away, and mentally responded to his wife's teasing. He smiled back and said, "You don't understand, we learn from each other through teaching!" He took the chopsticks and soaked them. I clamped the wax paper, but only one corner. Then I pinched one corner of the wax paper with my hands, and then the other corner. After lifting it up, I waited for the excess wax to drip down before removing the wax paper. Place into a tray filled with cold water.
The wax paper solidifies when it comes in contact with water, but in just one breath, the wax paper hardens and floats on the water. Take out the wax paper and put it on the paper on the table to absorb the water on the wax paper, and wait for one side of the paper to dry.
Although it has already entered autumn, the early autumn days still carry some residual heat from summer, and it will be mostly dry in a short time.
Mo Ziyuan looked at the wax paper. Traditional wax paper engraving requires laying it on a steel plate to write on, but now there is no steel plate, and she didn't say anything about the steel plate at the beginning. The experiment was slowly summarized, and it was still failing. Summed up.
The engraving cannot be done in one go. Mo Ziyuan was waiting for Han Shuxian to write on the table for a while, but the wax paper was not easy to write on, or the wax paper was unevenly stressed when writing because the desktop was not smooth and flat, etc. Then, Then I thought about it and figured out that it would be easier to write on a flatter or harder surface.
Because you need to pierce the wax paper when writing, you need to use a different pen. This is quite simple. After Han Shuxian told Yu Silian last night that he wanted to try making wax paper and carving characters on wax paper today, Yu Silian tied an embroidery needle to a chopstick early today and made it into a special pen.
After the wax paper was completely dry, Han Shuxian carefully moved the wax paper to the other side of the table, which was padded with white paper, and then picked up a special pen and prepared to start writing.
Holding the pen, Han Shuxian couldn't conceal his excitement. He didn't know how to put down the pen for a moment, and said to Mo Ziwan, "Wan Shuxian, you endorse it and I'll write it."
Mo Ziyuan is also excited about wax paper printing, and wax paper is now available! It has taken a big step towards success. If she had not seen this before, she would be no less excited than Han Shuxian and Yu Silian. Mo Ziyuan, who was relatively calm, could not hide her smile and said with a smile: "Okay." Then she shook her head and memorized "The Analects of Confucius" 》Come, "The Master said: 'Isn't it true to say that when you learn and practice it over time? Isn't it a joy to have friends from afar? If a person doesn't know and is not stunned, isn't he a gentleman?...'"
Mo Ziwan's memorization was fluent, but Han Shuxian's writing was very slow. Even though he wrote carefully, something went wrong. The table was scratched by the needle tip of his hand, and even the wax paper had cracks. Once the cracks The appearance will inevitably affect the writing of the next word. Mo Ziyuan, who climbed up on the bench next to her, naturally saw the cracks, "Uncle, is the wax paper too brittle?"
Han Shuxian smiled and said: "You have to use too much strength!"
Mo Ziyuan said "Oh" and said, "Uncle, please be more careful." After speaking, she looked at Han Shuxian who was writing.
Han Shuxian turned his head and glanced at Mo Ziwan, his eyes filled with doting, "Okay, uncle, please write more carefully."
When Han Shuxian was writing, he thought that the words written by this needle were much smaller than the writing brush, and the writing was much faster. If it is successful, a lot of paper can be saved when writing a book, and the engraving will be very fast. Even if there are mistakes when writing, it will not take long even if you write it again.
After writing half a page, Han Shuxian stopped writing. Thinking that it would take a while and there was still half a page to use, he said: "I won't write for now, let's give it a try first!"
"Okay, I'll use the last half next time." Mo Ziwan answered.
Han Shuxian used the needle tip in his hand to draw a neat line on the wax paper. Then he divided the wax paper into two and picked up the engraved wax paper. "Then let's try printing." He moved to the side. Point, took the paper from the table, put two more pages on the table, put the wax paper on it, and said excitedly: "Start printing."
After saying that, I picked up the brush on the table, sucked up the ink in the inkstone, and squeezed out the excess ink. After all, I was inexperienced. After I brushed the brush, I discovered a problem. There was still too much ink. Black ink beads instantly remained on the wax paper. Due to the hollow carving, the ink also penetrated into the paper underneath the wax paper, and you watched the ink smudge under the wax paper.
"Too much ink." Han Shuxian said.
Mo Ziwan said: "Well, uncle, squeeze out more ink." Then he added, "Otherwise, we put a layer of paper on the wax paper so that the ink will not get everywhere on the wax paper when brushing. , when it penetrates underneath, it won’t see too much ink at once.” I planned to change the paper covering the wax paper to fine yarn after it was printed and my ink brushing skills improved.
Han Shuxian felt that he was just a worker today, "Okay, put a piece of paper on top."
Replace the paper under the wax paper, clean the ink on the wax paper, replace the paper pad, and lay a layer of paper on the wax paper. In addition, Han Shuxian pressed out more ink on the brush, this time it was smooth. It can be seen from the paper laid on the surface that there is no more ink smearing on the paper due to excessive ink.
Han Shuxian painted a piece of paper as big as his palm completely black and then peeled off the wax paper from one corner. He peeled off the paper on top and then the wax paper. He also carefully peeled off the wax paper and set it aside.
After the wax paper was peeled off, the paper below was printed, but the effect was not good. Some words were blurred and unclear due to too much ink during the brushing, and there was even a black mass in some places. Of course, there were also reasons for the lack of printing. The wax paper was carved through but not printed. However, there were a few words that could be seen clearly, and there were also words that were not very clear on the paper that was supposed to be printed. Instead, the paper placed on the table led to clear words.
Mo Ziyuan pointed to the clear words and said: "Uncle, look at the difference between these clear words on the wax paper and the other words!"
Han Sixian nodded, dipped the remaining ink on the wax paper with white paper, then picked up the wax paper and looked at the candlelight. Through the candlelight, he looked specifically at the better printed words and saw that the wax paper was covered with paper. There was very little light beam coming out of the place where the needle tip scratched. After reading other words, relatively speaking, more light beam came through. The lack of light beams, or very few light beams, only means that the paper has not been penetrated by the needle or the force is not strong. The needle tip only made small scratches on the wax paper, and the ink brushed down is just right.
I recall that when I was just engraving, I was afraid that the wax paper would not be able to be carved through, so I used a little more force on my hand at the beginning. After I wrote a few words, I got a little more control over the force, and gradually became lighter in the middle, but then I worried about it becoming lighter. It couldn't be carved through, so it was aggravated.
As for how heavy it was, let alone scratching the paper on the table, even the table was scratched. The lighter words in the middle were just as he feared, the wax paper was not carved. If it is broken, no words will be printed.
Fortunately, there are still a few words that are neither light nor heavy, and the ink is just right when it comes to brushing.
Mo Ziyuan looked at the printed words and it turned out that the strength of the carving was a big factor. Too much ink leaked out after the paper was cut, causing the printed words to be black. Of course, the ink brushes Too much is also a cause. In her opinion, the words "good" were because they were carved with the right strength. Although the wax paper was cut, it was like the wound was not big, and the paper fibers in the middle could still touch each other, so the ink was penetrating downwards. When printing, the excess ink was absorbed by the paper, so that the amount of ink printed was not too much or too little. Although she knew this principle early on, Mo Ziyuan still pretended to have discovered it, and shouted in surprise: "I know!"
Han Shuxian looked at Mo Ziwan heartbrokenly. He finally figured out the reason and heard Mo Ziwan continue to say: "Because the wax paper was not scratched, just like the paper covering it, it blocked some excess ink. , allowing the ink to penetrate just enough, so clear words are printed.”
Han Shuxian was heartbroken, but he nodded with a smile and said, "That's what happened, so the paper can't be carved yet."
But the problem came again. The paper was not carved, and the wax on the bottom was not broken. Just like the words were not drawn out, the hand was too light, so the wax on the bottom was not carved through, and the ink was not penetrated. .
Not only must the wax on the upper and lower sides be carved through, but also the paper wrapped in wax in the middle must not be scratched!
Han Shuxian could figure out the crux of the problem, but he couldn't figure out the solution!
