The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 136 Wanli Study
Chu Ying put the newly printed Four Books and Five Classics into a wooden box with openings. As long as it is placed on the bookshelf, it can be taken directly from the wooden box, and the wooden box can also protect the books.

When the straw was retting, Ye Qiu was asked to make paper, and Bai Yuhe tore off the paper and put it on the bluestone board to dry.Sometimes the two of them would help Chu Ying print after finishing their work. Since the printing had just started, there was not much to do. Chu Ying printed a hundred of the commonly used books, and the outer hall was already full of books. .

Chu Ying put a set of books in the back basket, took two pancakes and went out early. When she was waiting for Grandpa Li to bring the ox cart, she didn't see anyone else in the cart.

"As long as you have the money and strength to go to the city, other people have gone to the city to find work and sell other things before, but now the world is bad, and you can't find work, and even many shops in the city have been driven away. A lot of people have been killed." Grandpa Li looked a little thinner.

"I also want to make some money, some money. The paper business is not good now, but it's better than doing nothing."

"Yeah, so I also go to the city every now and then to find some work, or I go digging wild vegetables with my mother-in-law. I used to dig a lot, but now it's getting less and less."

Chu Ying saw that along the road, many people were picking wild vegetables, and some had dug out the roots of the grass. In a few days, it will start to enter the summer, and some of the surplus food at home will soon be eaten up. The most important thing is that there is no village in the front and no shop in the back.

Waiting for the summer to harvest their own wheat, and then they will be more generous.When they arrived at the Lu Mansion, Chu Ying saw a porridge stand in front of the door, and went closer to look at the porridge in the big wooden barrel. It was relatively rare but better than nothing.

"Hey, don't jump in line." Chu Ying looked at the folks who were lining up with bowls and staring at her, then turned her head and walked towards the gate of Lu Mansion.

After entering the gate, although there were not many servants, a few more robust guards were added, waiting for Heitan to pick her up before Chu Ying entered the Lu residence.

Lu Ming looked at the cloth bag that Chu Ying took out from the backpack, opened the linen outside, and inside was a wooden box with a mouth, Lu Ming took out one of the books, the outer shell of this book was soft leather, carved with book title.

After turning over a few pages, the words on it are very neat and there is no wrong word, and the same characters are all the same. However, such a small book, only two bamboo slips weigh a whole book of Analects. Lu Ming read it from beginning to end. After a while, indeed all the content is above.

I didn't know what printing Chu Ying was talking about before, but now it seems that it is similar to the method of rubbing words on stone tablets. With these bookcases, I can lose weight. "Have you checked these? Is there anything wrong?"

"I've checked it, and every page must be verbatim, or I have to re-engraving." Lu Ming looked at Chu Ying's hands, which were not white and tender before, but now there are many calluses on the fingers.

"You make another set and I'll send it to old Mr. Qingyan. Are the previous military books printed? Those military books are always flipped through, and the bamboo slips will have to be strung up again in a few days, and the handwriting has to be remade if it is worn out. This kind of book should last longer." Lu Ming put the book away, and saw the words "Wanli Study Room" engraved on the back corner of the book.

"Old Mr. Qingyan's I have already finished. You know a lot. I have made 50 sets. You can give it away for me. It can be regarded as a small thank you for helping me to ask someone to copy the book." Chu Ying looked at the comparison. Lu Ming, who is a little shorter himself, seems to have grown a lot taller recently.

"You remember this. By the way, this is the land deed for the bamboo forest and the side yard. You take it away." Chu Ying took the land deed and left in a hurry, asking Grandpa Li to go to the yard to take a good look.

Standing on the top floor of the dilapidated main building, Chu Ying overlooked the entire courtyard, most of which were covered by overgrown weeds, and several small courtyards were scattered all around without any connection with each other. Chu Ying drew the approximate location of each small courtyard on According to the drawings, the work of the paper workshop has begun slowly, and it is time for me to start tidying up the yard.

On the second day, Chu Ying went to some ruined temples and recruited a few beggars who looked a little more honest and reliable, cut all the weeds in the yard, turned over the ground, and went to the weedy yard to see that it was tidy Quite a lot.

Then, the vegetation in each small courtyard was greened and repaired, the lotus pond was dug again, the other streams were connected together, the inlet and outlet channels were dredged, and the flowing water in the river was introduced, and then transplanted and wrapped in lake mud. lotus root.

On the ground without vegetation, Chu Ying was not yet ready to sow grass seeds. Waiting for Uncle Qi to call a few old masters to discuss how to repair and strengthen the small yards, Chu Ying took the order and went to purchase.

The printing at home is handled by Wang Naiyuan. Wang Naiyuan has attended a private school and has dabbled in some miscellaneous books. It is more reassuring to leave this matter to him.On the other side of the bamboo forest, Lu Meng and Qian Yong took care of the work. After all, they were just making paper pulp. As long as the process was correct, it would not be difficult to do things with more care and effort.

Chu Ying originally thought that those houses could only be repaired and strengthened a little, but the carved beams and painted buildings, each door and each door are not like the furnishings of ordinary people, and everything has to be taken to the master to spend a lot of money to repair.

Chu Ying, who spent some money, directly asked someone to redo it, which would save some time.At first Chu Ying thought it would take at most 3 months to complete the decoration, but it took 4 months to complete the exterior and interior decoration.

The main reason is that there is not enough funds, so we can only prolong the renovation time. Only when we have money to buy doors, windows and vegetation can we start the next step, so that it took 8 months to complete the project.

The budget of 10 taels at the beginning has also increased to 20 taels. I don't need to get my salary from Lu Ming this year, and I will almost borrow money from him until next year.

However, when Lu Ming was asked to visit after the completion of the project, he was picky and nodded frequently. Chu Ying felt that the money spent was quite worthwhile.

Because I mainly work as a library, it took more than 2 months to wait for the books that have been classified into categories to be printed and placed on the bookshelf. Moreover, these are very common books on the market. Mr. Qingyan Chu Ying, who copied over there, hasn't started printing yet.

Because whenever Chu Ying felt that they should copy all of them, Heitan would bring another box of books. Although the typesetting was rather boring, Chu Ying and Wang Naiyuan also read a lot of books together, especially military books and history books. , have a good understanding of this dynasty.

It is only now that Chu Ying knows that this dynasty is somewhat similar to the Western Han Dynasty, but it is also somewhat different. At least she is not very familiar with the names of the people in these history books. Seeing that Mr. Qingyan’s strategy for the frontier battle is also very unique, she originally thought that This is a peaceful and prosperous world, but now it seems that I can't slack off in my daily practice. If the battle situation becomes difficult to control, I can protect Ye Qiu, and if I can, I will do my part.

Chu Ying wrapped the book cover and put it on the bookshelf. Looking at the bookshelves covering two rooms, Chu Ying felt that this was a time-consuming and labor-intensive task, but if she could really make the library, she would definitely be able to give Yu There are many conveniences for scholars in the countryside, and they can make a little money themselves.

Chu Ying rubbed her temples, touched the dusty bow and arrow, and waited for Wanli's study to be done, so she wanted to take a good vacation.

(End of this chapter)