My husband Zhuge Kongming

Chapter 23 22. Layman Planting Flowers

Huang Yueying was embarrassed to accept the praise of these woodworkers.

But there is no way. In this era, it takes only a month for new paper for writing to be produced. Who would think of matching printing?

That can only be her.

The two printing methods, engraving and movable type, each have their own advantages, and movable type seems to be more convenient, but in fact, in the original Chinese history, engraving and printing were dominant.

The reason is that the illiteracy rate of Chinese people is too high, and the printing shops don't have so many people to proofread movable type.

There are 1000 Chinese characters, but only a few thousand are commonly used. According to the statistics of later generations, 92 commonly used characters can basically cover 2000% of written materials, and 98 characters can cover more than [-]%. It's big.

She wanted to print movable type in one step, but she had to consider the actual situation in the end. She should study engraving first, get a good grasp of the technology, and then consider movable type.

Besides, she only has a dozen or so carpenters now... only one can carve seals, and the others can only sketch and carve flowers.

At the moment, with Sun Sui as the main and Li Mu as the assistant, let this group of people study as soon as possible.

As for the content, it was naturally the fragmented version of the "Three Character Classic" that she copied for use in the ethnology class, and the signature was the layman planting flowers.

She was too embarrassed to really sign her own name, shame on her.

After arranging these things, Song Bo admired his little lady so much that he was still talking all the way out of the workshop.

"Okay, Uncle Song, please take care of the affairs here. Next month, you will go to Jingzhou to supervise the construction of new workshops, and train someone who can succeed you as soon as possible." Huang Yueying explained.

For Song Bo and his group, she wants them to go outside to supervise the construction of new workshops. The workshop in Mianyang needs someone to take over their work.

Now that money and food are in place, of course flowers can bloom everywhere.

However, before that, she had to go to Xiangyang to clear away any resistance that might be encountered in the process. In simple terms, she went to Liu Biao to get documents and Cai Mao and Kuai Liang to get support.

It's time for other families to come.

On the fifth day of the lunar new year, Mr. Pang De took the lead to take his family to Mianyang, just to see Chu Zhi, and by the way, to visit old friends.

"Brother Shang! Long time no see!" Huang Chengyan's face was wrinkled when he saw Pang Degong, "Please!"

"Brother Chengyan, I have changed so much just because I haven't been here for a year?" Mr. Pang De pointed to the workshop in the distance and the working hydraulic mortar.

"Haha, it's all about Ah Chu's nonsense." Huang Chengyan talked about Huang Yueying's nonsense, but his tone was full of pride.

Although papermaking is a matter of craftsmen, it is an elegant matter.

"Ah Chu met Uncle Pang." Seeing Pang Degong, Huang Yueying naturally greeted him, "I met Brother Shanmin, sister-in-law."

After that, Pang Shanmin and his wife, Zhuge Shi, also greeted Huang Chengyan and greeted Huang Yueying.

Not long after, Mrs. Cai came out, and invited the guests into the room, where they took their seats.

As soon as he was seated, Pang Degong unceremoniously asked Huang Chengyan to bring the high-quality paper. He had lived in seclusion in the mountains before, and he only returned to Xiangyang near the beginning of the year, but he didn't expect to have Chu paper.

The stock at home was used up by him in a short time, and even if Pang Shanmin wanted to save money, he couldn't.

So just after the beginning of the new year, Mr. Pang De directly brought his son and daughter-in-law to Mianyang. How can there be no Chu Zhi here?
Huang Chengyan laughed out loud after hearing this explanation, and asked Zhou Yang to fetch the paper.

Only then was Pang Degong satisfied, and then he looked at the little girl sitting next to Huang Chengyan, and said, "Achu has grown a lot taller, and his body looks better than before."

"Yeah, last year Ah Chu had a cold, but luckily he's better now." Huang Chengyan patted his daughter's head.

He had only been home for more than a month, and many nights Cai cried with him, talking about what happened at that time, for fear that his daughter would not be able to make it through.

But when he got home, he found that his daughter had not only recovered from her illness, but also became more lively, more eccentric, and her appetite for eating was much better than before. Of course he was happy.

As a father, he would of course support what the daughter wanted to do.

"That's good." Pang Degong nodded, if the little girl didn't make it through then, his old friend would be sad, then he took off a jade pendant from his waist, and waved to Huang Yueying, "Ah Chu, come. "

Of course Huang Yueying couldn't refuse, she stood up, and when she got to Duke Pang De's place, she knelt and sat aside, "Uncle Pang."

"This Yujue has also been with me for many years. Today, I will give it to Ah Chu. I hope that Ah Chu can grow up safely."

"Gift from the elders, I dare not say it." Huang Yueying had no choice but to accept it, "Thank you, Uncle Pang."

"He, he just wanted to get some more paper later." Huang Chengyan revealed it mercilessly.

Pang Degong then pointed at Huang Chengyan and laughed, "You!"

Huang Chengyan also laughed naturally, the two have known each other for so many years, who doesn't know who?
The main hall is naturally lively.

Of course, it wasn't the first time Huang Yueying saw such a scene. In his memory, the relationship between the old father and Mr. Pang De was really good, and they visited each other a lot.

"Second lady! Second lady! It's printed, it's printed!" Song Bo's delighted voice came in suddenly.

Huang Yueying stood up immediately, and ran outside, and saw Song Bo carefully holding a piece of paper full of words in the courtyard, running towards the main room, "Uncle Song, slow down."

……

"What's printed?" In the room, Mr. Pang De asked Huang Chengyan when he saw Huang Yueying ran out.

Huang Chengyan proudly stroked his beard, "Brother Shang, he just went to see it."

That's what he said, but he also stood up and walked out.

"You!" Pang Degong glared at Huang Chengyan again, he had no choice but to be curious!

Listening to that person's voice, he was very excited, maybe it was a big deal.

So, they also stood up, and the sons of Pang Shanmin and Zhuge family behind him naturally had to accompany them.

……

On the wooden porch under the eaves, Huang Yueying took over a part of the printed Three Character Classic and looked at it carefully.

The handwriting is clear, neat, and all block letters are used, which makes people feel comfortable when looking at it.

"At the beginning of human beings, nature is good."

"Sex is close, but habits are far away."

Behind Huang Yueying, the voice of her old father came, "I never thought that the research on printing is so fast?"

Huang Yueying smiled, "Father, this is not difficult at all. There was no such convenient paper in the past, no one thought of it."

"Yes, yes, it's our Achu who is smart!" Huang Chengyan took the paper from Huang Yueying, and praised his little girl with a smile.

"What are you reading!" Duke Pang stood still immediately, looked at the paper in his hand, his eyes widened, and wanted to take it over to read, but he was afraid of breaking the paper.

"Take it, take it!" Huang Chengyan handed it over, and Mr. Pang De took it carefully, and then, several heads gathered around to watch.

Huang Yueying didn't care about these, but asked about Song Bo's situation, "Uncle Song, is this whole board carved by Sun Lao?"

"Yes, since the day before yesterday, Mr. Sun has engraved about a hundred characters. Yesterday, he carved more characters. When he came to Wuchang, he did not hesitate. There are a total of 280 characters. Because the wood for trial was full, he took a paper test. It was printed, and it was finished, so I brought it to the little lady."

"This... Elder Sun is getting old, let him rest for a day." Huang Yueying was helpless, why are these people more anxious than she is.

"He saved it. During the day, he carved the characters, and at night, it was Li Mu who held the lamp to carve the characters evenly."

Huang Yueying: They are all good guys. In order to catch up with work, the night shift has been done.

"The other carpenters who can carve can be regarded as carvers, and they can carve well." Song Bo also talked about the progress of the other people.

Huang Yueying waved her hand, "Let's get off work today, tell Elder Sun and Li Mu to go back early, and ask Aunt Li to leave five catties of meat for each of them, and let them take it back. Then go to the warehouse and give each of the thirteen carpenters extra meat." Twenty catties of corn."

"No, I'll go find Manager Zhou later." Song Bo replied with a smile, and then went back to the workshop.

Only then did Huang Yueying take a look at the appearances of the first few "adults", all right, you can read it if you like, anyway... it's all printed.

"What's the meaning of this tadpole and this small circle?" Duke Pound asked suddenly.

Huang Chengyan still stroked his beard, smiled without saying a word, pointed to Huang Yueying, and motioned for his daughter to answer.

Huang Yueying felt that this kind of Huang Chengyan was very much like the parent of a child with excellent grades in later generations: This year my child won the three-good student, and the first place in the exam...

It's kind of funny, to be honest.

So he opened his mouth to explain, "Uncle Pang, this is the Three Character Classic. It will be used in my Huang Family School this year, so it is easy for children to remember."

"As for the tadpole and the small circle, it represents a sentence break."

"Children learn articles, and often they don't understand the meaning, and it has a lot to do with sentence punctuation. The tadpole shape means pause, and the words have not been finished yet, and the small circles indicate that the words have been finished."

"Oh! Who came up with this?" Pang Shanmin was the first to get excited after Duke Pang De died. He was in charge of the ethnology of the Pang family, and occasionally gave lectures. With this method, it would be much easier for children to learn.

"Um, it's an expert named Huahua Layman!" Huang Yueying thought for a while, but still insisted on this title.

Even her name is useless in front of her old father.

But as long as the old father doesn't reveal it, Mr. Pound and the others will think that there is such a person.

"Flower planting layman? Then where is this layman?" Mr. Pang De asked, "He also wrote this article?"

"Exactly. As for where the layman is, Ah Chu doesn't know."

"I only know that what he practices is to read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles, and study abroad. Ah Chu also met by chance." Huang Yueying made up a story.

"Why have I never heard of it?" Pang Degong then looked at Huang Chengyan.

Huang Chengyan: ... Don't look at me, what my daughter said is true!No wonder!
"I don't know either."

"It's a pity, if there is a destiny, I really want to have a chat with this layman!" Pang Degong sighed, "This paper is only half of the article, what about the rest?"

Huang Chengyan sighed, "Ah Chu will get it."

"it is good."

　It's New Year's Eve, my friends!

　　happy New Year!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)