The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 98

Back home, Chu Ying asked the person who delivered the goods to move all the things into the shed, and after paying the money, she asked Heitan to take her to Uncle Qi to make an appointment to build a house later.When she got home, Chu Ying looked at the things piled up in three sheds and was still a little at a loss.

Chu Ying first drew the shape of the rocket stove on the paper, and calculated how many bricks a stove would need.

"What's the matter, you bought so many things, where did you get the money?" Ye Qiu collected all the garlic on the ground, and spread the plans on the ground to dry.

"To make paper, money from Lu Ming." Ye Qiu looked at Chu Ying with her head down thinking about something and didn't ask any more questions.

The papermaking technology of this era is the ancient method of papermaking. There are steps such as cutting bamboo, retting bamboo, cooking, swinging the curtain to make paper, pressing paper, and baking paper. , and it is not yet widespread.

Chu Ying didn't want to use the same method as others, because she just wanted to make soft paper instead of high-quality paper.Chu Ying still used the old method before, but dug a larger rectangular hole on the west side of the yard. When Uncle Qi came the day after tomorrow, she could build the hole around and at the bottom with wooden boards, so that when the pulp was retting, It can prevent the mud from mixing, which can make the paper cleaner.

Chu Ying and Ye Qiu dug three such retting ponds together, and now they don’t know the time required for each link, so they dig these three first, and after they get familiar with the time required to make pulp, they can count the number of retting ponds. Keep it in the optimal amount.

After Chu Ying finished digging, he continued to think about how to build the stove. Originally, he wanted to make the stove for cooking and the stove for baking paper into one connected body, so that the firewood could be used effectively, and the firewood could be used during cooking. Get the paper out.

But Chu Ying was afraid that the time of the two would not be completely consistent, so she could only build the two separately. Chu Ying calculated the length and width of the bricks.So he picked up the sickle and prepared to cut the wheat in the field. When he was busy, he would definitely not have time to harvest the wheat.

"Cut it now? Wait two days?" Ye Qiu spread the sackcloth on the basket and followed Chu Ying with a small stool.

"I'm afraid I won't have time at that time, so let's cut it off first. And the stems and leaves of this wheat can also be used to make paper. It will take time to thresh the wheat." Chu Ying sat on a small stool, cutting forward one by one, and the leaves Behind Chu Ying, Qiu gathered the wheat in a basket and carried it to the yard to dry.

"After entering a city, you will be in a hurry when you come back. What are you going to do?"

"Make paper." Seeing that Chu Ying was focused on cutting the wheat, Ye Qiu could only work harder. She was already very tired when digging the small pond just now, but Chu Ying cut each knife very quickly and accurately, so she couldn't say anything.

While waiting for dinner, Chu Ying had already cut almost half of the wheat, her hands were already sore, and her waist could hardly straighten up. "Ye Qiu, my waist..."

"Come on, I'll give you a hammer. You've been mowing all afternoon. Don't move." After Ye Qiu hammered for a while, Chu Ying could stand up. uncomfortable.

"Go and lie down for a while and straighten your waist. Don't bend your waist. What will you do if you look like an old woman?" Ye Qiu killed a rabbit and collected water shield and bamboo shoots. Chu Ying made up for it, she was fine, she was used to work, but Chu Ying was different.

"Hey, my waist..." Chu Ying lay on the floor with her back to the sky, drawing the general outline of the paper workshop with her fingers in the air.

In the beginning, it doesn’t need a large scale. Two cooking stoves and one paper baking stove are enough. It is better to build two houses. After all, there are still a lot of raw materials and pulp to be placed. Crowded and unsafe, after all, fire is used, and if the place is small, it will cause a fire and it will not be easy to rescue.

Papermaking still requires a lot of water. Chu Ying thought about introducing water into the small pond obliquely along the terrain. After all, the pond is quite big. The amount of water needed for papermaking at the beginning must be enough, and it will not affect the water quality. plants and animals in it.

Chu Ying thought it was a relatively simple thing at first, but when she actually did it, she had to think about everything and plan well. "Chu Ying wrote all the little ideas she came up with with charcoal on paper, and when Ye Qiu came in, Chu Ying's hands had already turned into black charcoal, and the papers on the ground were all over the floor.

"What are you doing, your hand." As soon as Ye Qiu put away a piece of paper, Chu Ying called her to stop moving.

"I'll collect it." Ye Qiu watched as Chu Ying stacked up the random papers that were randomly placed on the floor in her order, and Chu Ying was still drawing something after eating in the kitchen.

"Let's eat first. What's the rush? You play around when you have nothing to do. Now that you have something to do, you are in such a hurry that you can't eat well. Eat more meat." Chu Ying looked at the bowl full of meat. Meat, put all the paper aside, wash your hands a little bit and eat it, it is really tired after a day of work.

Ye Qiu tidied up the dishes and thought about telling Chu Ying to wash up. As soon as he entered the bedroom, he saw Chu Ying who was already sleeping soundly on all fours. He packed up the newly drawn paper and pressed it with a stone, and covered Chu Ying with a quilt. Chu Ying's hands kept moving in her sleep, as if she was cutting wheat, Ye Qiu put her hands under the quilt.

When Ye Qiu packed up and came back, Chu Ying's hands had escaped from the quilt and were slowly moving. It's always good to have something to do, so that Chu Ying wouldn't go hunting in the mountains, so she would be less injured, and she didn't have to worry about it. .

But Ye Qiu didn't see Chu Ying when he woke up, and when he went out, he saw Chu Ying who was already cutting the wheat, "Why is it so early?" After finishing breakfast, Ye Qiu gathered up the wheat piled behind Chu Ying.

When Uncle Qi arrived in the afternoon, Chu Ying finally finished cutting all the wheat, "Uncle Qi, do this this time, the two rooms don't need walls as before, I'll do it later, you still do the structure."

Chu Ying looked at the bricks in the shed which were obviously not enough. These bricks could only be used for one house at most, and Chu Ying would ask the villagers to buy the adobe bricks for the other house.

"Okay, what's the big deal? You don't need so much to live in."

"It's nothing, it's just for piling up grain, and there's no place to store grain at home. It's always right to store more grain in this famine year. Also, it's been dug here, and it's all stitched together with wood." Build it well, and then we can release the water." Chu Ying moved the money out of the room.

"You are very thoughtful at such a young age." Uncle Qi put down his tools and took a sip of water.

"Uncle Qi, you keep this money. You can buy the wood you need yourself, and other miscellaneous expenses will be deducted from it. If it is not enough, please let me know." Chu Ying moved the money box with 2 taels of silver. In front of Uncle Qi.

Looking at the big money box, Qi felt a little at a loss, "Well, how can this work? You should go and buy it. Aren't there many trees behind your house?"

"I won't cut those, they are quite big. It's a pity to cut them off. I don't worry about you doing things. You can just buy them. I will know the amount when the time comes." Uncle Qi took out two coins, " That's enough, if it's not enough, I'll tell you, then I'll go to the city to buy it with my apprentice." Chu Ying watched Uncle Qi's carriage drive away slowly, rubbed her palms to turn over the wheat in the yard, Although asking Uncle Qi to buy it would be a bit cumbersome, but Uncle Qi would not take too much. Letting Uncle Qi handle Chu Ying can also save worry and do other things, and the extra money is worth it.

(End of this chapter)