Sweet Garden Sands

Chapter 244 Mulberry Bark Papermaking
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"Qiu Xin—" Ke Hanxue suddenly yelled.

With a bang, Xiang Qiuxin and Chunxiang rushed open the door in panic.

"Xue'er, what happened?" Xiang Qiuxin asked nervously. She was drawing on the stone table in the inner courtyard of the study just now, and when she heard Ke Hanxue's hysterical shouting in the room, she frightened the pen As soon as he lost it, he ran in with Chunxiang.

Ke Hanxue was also taken aback by these two people. Seeing the worry in their eyes, she realized that her cry just now seemed a little scary.

She touched her nose in embarrassment, and said with a smile: "I just want you to go shopping with me."

When Chunxiang heard this, she patted her chest in shock and complained, "Miss Xue'er, if you want to go shopping, you just have to say goodbye to us. When you call me like that, my legs go limp."

Ke Hanxue chuckled: "I won't do it next time."

Xiang Qiuxin looked at Ke Hanxue, who had been devastated for several days, suddenly became interested in shopping, and was also very happy, saying: "Okay, our study has started to make money, and I just want to buy a piece of jewelry to reward you."

"Then what are you waiting for!" Ke Hanxue pulled Xiang Qiuxin and Chunxiang away.

A few people came to the jewelry store, Xiang Qiuxin took a fancy to two identical jade hairpins, and was about to buy them, but Ke Hanxue didn't like the jade hairpins, and instead took a fancy to an unremarkable little jade pendant.

"Xue'er, let's get another one." Xiang Qiuxin said, this jade pendant looks cheap at first glance.

"Qiu Xin, I just like this." Ke Hanxue couldn't put it down for that jade pendant, she was like this, as long as she saw it right, she wouldn't care about its value.

Seeing that she really liked it, Xiang Qiuxin had no choice but to buy the jade pendant and a silver hairpin for Chunxiang, and they left the jewelry store.

As soon as they walked out of the jewelry store, several people saw a man in gorgeous clothes pulling a woman with disheveled hair from the other side of the street to this side. The man walked and kicked the woman a few times. feet, and two servants followed behind them.

Take a closer look, the man's face is different from ordinary people, the smile on his face is a little excited and a little demented, and the corners of his mouth are still drooling, while the two servants behind him, while walking, praised him maliciously. well done
"Hey, miss, isn't that idiot Zhang Xiaowan's brother?" Chunxiang called out with glowing eyes. She had accompanied Xiang Qiuxin to Zhang's house a few times, so she recognized this idiot.

Xiang Qiu looked at it calmly: "Really! The woman who was beaten seems to be her sister-in-law."

Hearing what the two said, Ke Hanxue's jaw almost dropped. Is that embarrassed woman really Ke Hanhe?

The few people got closer and closer, and Ke Hanxue carefully looked at the woman with disheveled hair. Ke Hanhe's face was bruised and swollen, and it took Ke Hanxue a long time to recognize her.

When it was clear that the woman was really Ke Hanhe, Ke Hanxue couldn't help but sneered, thinking that their mother and daughter teamed up with Zhang Fuyu's **** to frame her, and now they are reaping the fruit, this is their retribution!
Just when he walked in front of Ke Hanxue and the others, that fool kicked Ke Hanhe again. Ke Hanhe let out a muffled snort and fell to Ke Hanxue's feet. He subconsciously grabbed Ke Hanhe Snow feet.

Ke Hanxue pulled out her feet in disgust and snorted coldly.

Ke Hanhe raised his head in embarrassment, and when he saw Ke Hanxue, he froze for a moment, then got up in embarrassment and ran away.

Ke Hanhe didn't run a few steps, but was pulled by the rope again by the fool, staggered, and fell to the ground again, the audience on both sides of the street burst into laughter.

Ke Hanxue gave Ke Hanhe a cold look, and said to Xiang Qiuxin and the two: "Qiu Xin, Chun Xiang, let's go, don't be fooled by this dirty person."

"That's right, the Zhang family doesn't have a good person!" Chunxiang also spat, supported Xiang Qiuxin who couldn't bear Ke Hanhe, and left with Ke Hanxue.

In the following days, Ke Hanxue didn't dare to let herself be idle, because when she was idle, she would think wildly.

The study's business has stabilized, so she doesn't go to town every day.

This morning, Ke Hanxue woke up early and went to the mulberry garden to help Ke Jiang's pick mulberry leaves. When she saw the two big mulberry trees at home, she pondered.

After thinking about it, I picked up a basket of mulberry bark and some old mulberry leaves and went home.

When Ke Zhong saw the things in his daughter's basket, he was angry and anxious: "Xue'er, didn't you go to pick mulberry leaves for your third aunt? Why did you get a basket of mulberry bark back? You child, you put If the bark is peeled off, can the mulberry tree still live?"

"Mother, I only peeled off a little bit, the mulberry tree will not die, these mulberry bark are very useful." Ke Hanxue said with a smile.

Hearing that the mulberry tree would not die, Ke Zhong felt relieved, guessing that her daughter must be messing with something again, so she let her go.

Ke Hanxue first put the mulberry bark and mulberry leaves in the yard to dry, and found a few boards on the other side, and made several fine gauze nets with gauze. Because there are no thin wires here, the gauze of this gauze net is only Can be extracted from the cotton top cloth.

After making the gauze, Ke Hanxue burned the dried mulberry bark and mulberry leaves into ashes, put the ashes in a pot and boiled them until soft, then put the boiled pulp on a borrowed stone mill, and used A big hammer started to smash the pulp.

It is very hard to beat the pulp, you have to beat the pulp many times to make it into a soft and sticky ball.

When Ke Hanxue was smashing pulp, Hong'er squatted beside him curiously.

In the evening, when Ke Shuisheng and Kong Dafu came back from the town, they saw Ke Hanxue smashing and wiping sweat with a big hammer.

"Xue'er, what are you doing?" Kong Dafu asked while tying the cow.

"Things that make money." Ke Hanxue put down the hammer with a smile, and shook her sore shoulders.

Kong Dafu tied his cow and walked over: "How does this thing make money?"

"Brother-in-law, I'll tell you when I'm done." Ke Hanxue hooked her lips in a mysterious way.

Kong Dafu smiled indifferently, picked up the hammer, and said, "Let me try."

At this time, Ke Hanchun, who was sitting in the living room making children's clothes, also smiled and said: "Xue'er, I think you are exhausted, so let your brother-in-law smash it."

"Alright."

The pulp was smashed, it was already dark.

After eating a few mouthfuls of rice indiscriminately, Ke Hanxue quickly put the smashed pulp into the bucket and mixed it with water, poured the adjusted pulp into the gauze and stirred it evenly, and then put it in the yard to dry. The layer of pulp attached to the gauze becomes paper.

This kind of paper has excellent toughness, and the only drawback is that it is a little yellowish, but in this dynasty without paper, this lack is almost negligible.

"Xue'er, what is this?" Ke Shuisheng asked curiously as Ke Hanxue carefully peeled off the paper from the gauze.

(End of this chapter)