No one can disturb my retirement life in the Red Mansion

"Mother..." Sun Lang didn't want to go to Jingzhou, he was busy. Seeing that his second brother and his friends had gone out, he also hurriedly took his things and prepared to go back. He didn't live here, so after saying goodbye.

"You've been so busy lately, have you settled your family?" Ou Mengmeng thought.

Sun Lang was married. The marriage was arranged by Mrs. Wu and they got married before Mrs. Wu passed away. However, Mrs. Wu passed away a few days after the marriage. Strictly speaking, Mrs. Wu's mourning period had not yet ended. So Sun Lang said that he had been married for two years and had no children.

Wu Guotai had no special feelings for her daughter-in-law. After all, she lived with Sun Quan, while Sun Lang and his family were married and lived independently. She couldn't just ask her daughter-in-law to come and set rules for no reason, right?
Sun Lang was stunned for a moment, and couldn't think of what to settle down at home. What was there to settle down at home?
Ou Mengmeng was speechless. That’s right. Twenty years old is still a child in the 21st century. If children get married, isn’t it like playing house?
Normal families with old ladies naturally value the family lineage, and the old lady lives with her daughters-in-law. With everyone trying to help each other, I'm afraid the relationship between the young couple can be better.

But Madam Wu was a heroine. When she was alive, she divided her sons one by one. She said it was easy to divide them when she was alive, but when she was gone, it would be difficult for Sun Ce. In the end, Sun Ce died first, so she only called Sun Quan back and threw the others out after they got married. Now that Sun Lang is like this, Ou Mengmeng really doesn't know what to say.

"What does your wife do at home every day?" Ou Mengmeng asked more clearly.

Sun Lang looked up at the sky. He really didn't know. He had been busy in the clan before and was in mourning, so he and his wife were not very familiar with each other.

Ou Mengmeng took a deep breath. Well, these children, whether they get married or not, are a cause for worry.

"Bring your wife to school tomorrow and we can play together." Ou Mengmeng decided to help her son and his wife, but she couldn't ask for a divorce. Like Jia She and Jia Zheng, putting someone in the study? She felt that she couldn't tolerate this either.

Sun Lang nodded, said goodbye silently and left.

"Maybe the Fifth Sister-in-law doesn't like to study?" Sun Shangxiang and the Fifth Sister-in-law had a mediocre relationship. Both of them were a bit introverted, so who knew what she liked. Maybe she just liked to study and do needlework at home?

"I can't let her come to my house, and I can't live in Lao Wu's house. It's the easiest to go to school." Ou Mengmeng said the truth. While I'm still here, I have to help Sun Lang settle down and educate his wife. Let them live a good life here. Basically, this is a good start. As long as they don't make trouble, Sun Quan can protect them for at least another fifty years.

Sun Shangxiang could only sigh. Madam Wu was actually right before, because this was not just the Sun Mansion, it was also an important military and national stronghold for Marquis Wu to control Jiangdong. Apart from Sun Quan's family, any other male heirs here would trigger bad associations.

Sun Lang's wife, Jiang, was not a noble lady from a famous family because Sun Lang was born out of wedlock. She was just the daughter of a local squire in Wu County. She had originally had good relations with both the Sun and Wu families.

Jiang's temperament was also gentle and amiable. After all, the Sun family was powerful, and even though the Jiang family's daughter was well-known in the village and had a good reputation, the Jiang family readily agreed when Madam Wu sent someone to propose marriage.

Ou Mengmeng saw that from Wu Guotai's memory, she had no dissatisfaction with this daughter-in-law. She always paid attention to not showing any difference to her biological and non-biological children. So when the daughter-in-law came into the family, she also rewarded her according to the rules. She also summoned her on weekdays like everyone else.

Maybe in Wu Guotai's opinion, it's better to be the same. But in history books, there is very little ink on these brothers. She couldn't even remember whether Sun Lang was mentioned in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Now that she has taken Wu Guotai's position, she has to do Wu Guotai's work. Take care of her children. She can't control what Wu Guotai does, but she is not that kind of character. She has double standards towards her children and others. The next morning, Jiang took a car to the school. She also changed into a coarse silk dress, which was the worst one she could find. As a result, when she arrived at the school, she saw her mother-in-law and sister-in-law wearing coarse linen clothes, with their hair wrapped, and making paper with a group of sturdy women.

She had a similar temperament to Sun Lang, otherwise Sun Lang wouldn't have thought they were not familiar with each other. She also felt that she was not familiar with her mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and husband, but she was familiar with them and would not make a mistake.

"Grandma..." Jiang was about to bow to Ou Mengmeng, but was pulled up by Sun Shangxiang. No one here knew their identities. How would people see her calling her grandma?

"This is Granny Wu, who are you?" Sun Shangxiang quickly winked at Jiang.

"My...my maiden name is Jiang, so you can just call me Mrs. Jiang." Jiang blushed and said hesitantly.

"Okay, come over and help." Ou Mengmeng was also feeling miserable and really didn't feel like wasting time talking to her daughter-in-law.

She had been trying to develop printing technology for the past six months. Can you imagine that students have no textbooks or notebooks? Here they are. They have Caihou paper, but it is too brittle and can only be used for practicing calligraphy. It cannot be preserved! So at this time, the most advanced method is to carve stone scriptures and then use silk to make rubbings. Can these orphans use silk?
So now she wants to make a printed book. At the same time, there are two other workshops, one is researching ink and the other is researching wax paper.

Yes, it was wax paper printing, not the movable type printing mentioned in time-travel novels. When she was in school, the school did not have printers or presses to make exam papers. At that time, teachers had a unique skill, they carved wax paper with a steel needle pen and then rolled it with an ink roller.

Ou Mengmeng doesn't want to change the course of history, but ink printing is actually almost technically easy. The requirements for paper are not too high, so it can be used in daily life.

But even if she lowered the difficulty, the problem still lay with the materials.

There are three main materials for printing books: paper, ink, and wax paper. The technology of wax paper is relatively simple, after all, we are the ancestors of using wax. This is similar to the lost wax bronze ware, but wax paper is even simpler.

As for ink, it is actually very easy to understand. You can't use ordinary ink, which will dissolve when it comes into contact with water. It won't work even when it's really wet. The ink here is to make the ink waterproof. This is not difficult. The ink workshop has already sent good news that a prototype has been created.

The most troublesome thing is paper. In order to withstand printing and binding, the paper has high requirements for flexibility.

Ou Mengmeng wanted to improve the papermaking technique, and was also fooled by those modern DIY videos. She thought that some UP hosts could make it at home, and since she was from Wudi, there was no reason why she couldn't do it. The result was that her eyes learned it, but her hands didn't. (End of this chapter)