The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 128 Paper Printing
Chu Ying looked at Bai Yuhe, who was tightly wrapped up and sobbing while holding her nose, from a distance. Wang Naiyuan's digging hands were a little weak, and Aunt Wang saw that the dug hole was almost done, so she put a wrapped cloth bag went in.

"Yuhe, don't cry. Don't go to the ground just after giving birth. This little baby will not be kept. Now bury it well and don't forget about it. There is another child." Aunt Wang gave Bai Yuhe the favor. Back, crying too much during this confinement period will hurt your eyes.

Bai Yuhe knelt on the ground and looked at her second child. This child was not lucky. Although she was born later, it was stillborn, so she had to be buried. If she could eat better, her body would be stronger. Some, maybe this child will not die, so there will be a pair of twins, how cute, but it is not bad to be able to leave a child in this famine year.

Wang Naiyuan helped Bai Yuhe up and quickly covered it with soil, otherwise Yuhe would be even more sad when he saw it.Ye Qiu covered Chu Ying's eyes, "Don't look at it, go back, we can't help you much."

Although Chu Ying didn't like to see Bai Yuhe before, she felt a little sympathetic to her heartache of losing her child. Life is hard for anyone in this world. After Chu Ying went back, she slowly began to spread fertilizer on the snow-melted ground. on the ground.

Raise the seeds of safflower and bluegrass. The seeds of comfrey are less harvested, and it is more troublesome to plant and harvest. The collection must be sealed, or the grass will turn black and cannot be used again, so there is no purple grass. Grass.

When it was mid-February, Chu Ying and Ye Qiu would transplant these well-raised seedlings every evening, and it was only an acre of land after planting, so she had to transplant all the fruit tree seedlings that had grown taller than herself to the new one. open ground.

After digging a big hole, put thicker horse manure in it, then spread some soil and put the fruit tree seedlings in, so as to increase some fertility, wait for the watering, and see that there are still three acres of land planted with wheat , this wheat can be harvested before winter.

Waiting for the safflower and bluegrass to harvest the seeds, then the wheat field can be replaced next year. "The retting straw is almost ready, let's start."

Chu Ying looked at the land to the west again, washed her hands and continued to work hard. There were some straws left before, so Ye Qiu retting them. After finishing all these, Chu Ying went to look for raw materials. , maybe you can charge some more as before.

"Sister Chu, I really thanked you before, and Ye Qiu, thank you all so much, I really don't know if I would have survived without your help, the chestnuts and rice you brought over, Chu Ying, are really a solution. Naiyuan and I don't know how to repay this urgent need." Bai Yuhe looked a little thinner after confinement than before having a child.

"I've also finished confinement this month. I thought that you guys had done some work before, so I came here to help out when I had nothing to do at home. It's a thank you for your kindness. If you don't mind any work, then leave it to me." Chu Ying Seeing Bai Yuhe's sincere attitude with a smile on his face, he asked Ye Qiu to arrange some things for her.

"Chu Ying, this straw will be gone in a few days. How about I go to the villagers to collect it. If I release the news, I'm afraid it will be the same as before. Too many people will come." Chu Ying watched Bai Yuhe roll up her sleeves She was stepping on one end of the tsubaki, working really hard, Ye Qiu waved her hand in front of her eyes, Chu Ying came to her senses, she was really afraid of this problem.

"You can set which day of the month to harvest, let them send you to collect on that day, and see how much you can collect at that time, enough for a few days, then the villagers can also have some income, and you will not I'm too busy all of a sudden, I'm exhausted." Listening to Bai Yuhe's suggestion, Chu Ying felt that it was quite feasible.

"Then you go around and tell the villagers, and then you organize it." Chu Ying couldn't do the job of dealing with the villagers. When there were too many people and there was a lot of noise, Chu Ying felt uncomfortable.

"That's... okay." Bai Yuhe thought that Chu Ying would only ask her to do some chores, but she never expected that she would entrust her with such an important task. She had done that to her before, but she didn't mind, and it was fine. Helping the Wang family for the first time, I can no longer hold grudges. Now that I and Wang Naiyuan have children, I no longer care about what happens to Wang Naiyuan and Chu Ying.

After finishing the busy work here, Bai Yuhe went to a few acquaintances' houses to tell the news. When she got home, she made a meal and fed the baby, then she went to bed early and would be busy tomorrow.

Because the villagers had already cut the straw and returned home, they all carried it early the next day, and all the pulls were brought over. In addition, Chu Ying's house had been here several times, so it was easier to find it. It’s still a food exchange, which is still 40 bundles of rice per liter, but rice is so precious now, it’s okay to exchange some, anyway, straw is used to burn firewood, so it’s okay to go to the mountains to chop firewood if there is no firewood.

Chu Ying Peizhi looked at the orderly crowd outside, Ye Qiu, Bai Yuhe and Wang Naiyuan could do a good job of harvesting the straw, and she could save some effort and concentrate on paper cultivation.

From now on, it will be collected once every 8 days, so that the raw materials can be supplied, and the whole process will be activated. In addition, Bai Yuhe comes to help every day, and Wang Naiyuan also helps Chun to make pulp when he sends firewood. This is a paper-making project. It is much faster, and can stably produce half a carriage of paper every day.

After waiting for half a room of the paper to be piled up, Chu Ying asked Heitan to pull it away. The output was stable, and Heitan also pulled the paper every three days.The paper business has finally stabilized, and Chu Ying continued to carve letters in her free time.

Waiting for mid-May, I finally carved out all the commonly used characters and put them in a large wooden tray specially made by Uncle Qi. This wooden tray can be rotated so that it is easy to find characters.

There is another reason why paper is not popular here. Chu Ying thinks that books are copied by writing, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, so books are more expensive, and the cost is about the same as a bamboo slip. There is no advantage at all, except for the convenience of reading point.

If you can solve the printing problem by yourself, it will naturally reduce the time for book production, and maybe increase the sales of paper, but this is all Chu Ying's idea, and I am not sure, but idle is idle, waiting After engraving all the characters that are not commonly used, Chu Ying can start to try to print something.

Although the characters are separated according to the radicals, it still takes some time to fill a page, and some commonly used characters are not enough to carve one, so more are needed to make up the entire layout. Chu Ying only did it the first time. 20 copies were printed, and it took 3 days to wait for the whole book to be printed. Thinking about what can be done by computers and printers in a few minutes, it takes me so long. I really admire the advancement of technology.

However, every time it is printed, it needs to be re-typeset, and some commonly used books have to be repeated many times. Chu Ying tried to engrave a whole piece of wood, and then put the wood of a book in a wooden box, so that When printing, there is no need for page-by-page typesetting, but this is limited to commonly used books.

Because printing requires a lot of ink, the second-grade ink ash left over from making ink sticks has been almost used up, and more pine smoke is burned. The high-quality ink sticks can be used to make ink sticks, and the low-grade ink can be used for printing. Nor will it go to waste.

However, the paper used for printing is best made of bamboo, brushed with ink, covered with paper, and beaten with a pounce, the effect is the best. Other hemp paper and straw paper will be incomplete The paper is better, and the one made of straw is the worst.

If you want to make a lot of books, this bamboo forest is indispensable. Although the bamboo at home has grown a bit taller, it can't be used to make paper. I have to talk to Lu Ming about it when I go to the city.

(End of this chapter)