Farming game: raise cubs with equipment

Chapter 202 Doubt
Yun Yiyi said: "Since I'm here, let's start now."

The shopkeeper was taken aback for a moment, but then remembered Boss Ji's order, so he nodded in agreement. It's okay to get acquainted now.

There are very few literate people among these people, only one or two, and the rest are actually coolies, and there are also former sculptors.He wanted to introduce Yun Yiyi, but he saw Yun Yiyi go directly to one of the rooms, and then said: "You all cooperate with me to burn the movable type."

With so many people, she picked two and asked them to use mud to make blanks with the same specifications.

The shopkeeper felt a little curious and didn't bother her, so he just watched from the sidelines.

"Have you picked out the commonly used words?" Seeing that the two men were pinching the soil, she raised her head and asked.

The rest of the people have nothing to do in the past few days. They are all making preparations according to the instructions, but there are still some deficiencies in various aspects. After hearing Yun Yiyi's words, one of them glanced at the shopkeeper reflexively. After the other party acquiesced, he dug out a booklet and took it over: "The words are all here."

He didn't know Yun Yiyi, but he knew the shopkeeper. Naturally, the other party let her order them around, and his tone became a little more careful.

Yun Yiyi flipped through it casually, and felt that there were too many characters on it, and she didn't know how they chose them, but it didn't matter if they made more characters, after all, if they encountered various rare characters later, they still needed to printed.

She picked some simple fonts and pointed them to them: "Can you engrave these fonts on them?"

Many characters can be engraved on a blank, but Yun Yiyi only asked them to engrave a few words first, firstly to try their skills, and secondly to teach them how to do it.

Anyway, Ji's family hired so many people, so they wouldn't worry about not having enough staff.

There are many people who can engrave characters in Ji's family, which is what they spent money to find at the beginning, but those people are all on the side of engraving and printing, and they haven't come here.

It is not that easy to print thousands of books. The books of Ji’s family are in operation every day. The work here has not yet started, and the workers are naturally idle, but they don’t care, and they can support them anyway. rise.

Yun Yiyi came this time by coincidence, and no one had made an appointment in advance, but it resulted in a situation where she was the only one.

Fortunately, she didn't care, and she couldn't help being a little surprised after watching them engrave the reverse font on one end of the clay.

"You can engrave so fast?" And the engraved characters are actually pretty good, anyway, Yun Yiyi thinks it's better than hers.

The man smiled, as if he had been used to this kind of praise for a long time, and there was no trace of pride on his face: "Is this okay?"

He had engraved fonts on wooden boards before, so he was naturally trained by Ji's family. After all, these books are sold, and hand-copied books also need regular fonts. Naturally, the printed books also have requirements. .

Besides, once they engrave a board, they have to print countless books, so every word must be engraved neatly, and there must be no mistakes.He had engraved these words before, so practice makes perfect.It is obviously very difficult to engrave on a wooden board, but it is much easier to write on this clay.

"Yes, yes." Yun Yiyi said quickly, and then said: "Now use fire to harden it."

She said this principle before, so Ji's family also hired workers to make ceramics.

This ancient bowl was fired with fire, so it was easy to understand. After they took the clay and fired it, Yun Yiyi crossed out the words on the front of the booklet.

She didn't know where the man found so many characters, so she beckoned and asked him to come over, and crossed out some characters: "Actually, there are only a few dozen commonly used characters, and it's easier to choose the most commonly used ones." Yes, you don’t need anything like these.”

While speaking, she crossed out a few more words.

After all, the scholar is proud and arrogant. Although the man only helped to choose some words, seeing Yun Yiyi crossing out most of the words for him, he was inevitably unhappy.It's fine if Boss Ji orders it, but what is this person?And it's a woman.

A trace of displeasure flashed between his brows, but he didn't respond to Yun Yiyi's words, and a trace of impatience appeared on his face.

Yun Yiyi was in a hurry, in fact, she could have explained clearly to them all at once. There are so many people here, and the principle is not very complicated, but she dared not take risks. She didn't know these people well, and she didn't know if they would do what they did. , more importantly, she did not dare to overestimate their IQ.

The reason is also very simple. Although there are many people here, they have fully met her requirements, but she can't believe that everyone will do what she wants.Even if it is work, there are a lot of people who are lazy.

Get rid of those who are lazy, get rid of those who are not serious, get rid of those who waste time, and the last ones are those who are serious about doing things.

Yun Yiyi didn't know how many people were doing practical things here, but she led them to do it, step by step, and supervised in real time, so naturally there would be no mistakes.

It took a long time to burn the clay, and she definitely wouldn't wait here, so she planned to assign tasks to them. It would be best if they could engrave the rest of the characters today, and she would speed up the progress tomorrow so that they could print the book.

"I have been looking for these fonts for several days. Why do you say they are not suitable?" A questioning voice came from the front.

Yun Yiyi was taken aback for a moment, then raised her head.

She didn't memorize people much before, aiming to teach them the steps.This movable type is not difficult, but it also needs to pay attention to some details. For example, when engraving the characters, the protruding height of the characters should be the same as the thickness of the edge of the copper coin.

She didn't expect anyone to question her.

The young man in front is not very old, at least in Yun Yiyi's eyes, he is about the same as Yan Qinghe. He has studied for several years, and was recruited by Ji's family as a book boy. This time, he helped screen the characters.

The shopkeeper was actually very dazed looking at it from the sidelines. He heard Boss Ji mentioned a few words about movable type printing, which meant that this method of printing books would be more convenient than woodblock printing, but...

But he looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see a famous pattern. Instead, he found it extremely complicated. Engraving and printing were very complicated in Yun Yiyi's view, but in their view, it was simply too convenient. They were fed up with manpower copying, and suddenly a simple Naturally, this method has been widely welcomed.Even if there are still some imperfections, they all accept it.

And this movable type printing requires not only lettering, but also firing.He is firing ceramics, the shortest is one night, and the fire needs to be controlled.This is too complicated in terms of cost and production. It seems that they made a mistake this time.

He thought so much in his heart, and disapproval appeared in his eyes, but he didn't say a word. Boss Ji's meaning was very clear, even if he failed, it's okay.Properly pay for playing with Yun Yiyi.

Thinking of this, he said: "Songwu, don't talk nonsense, everyone here listens to Mrs. Yun."

The boy pursed his lower lip, a little unconvinced, but he didn't say a word.

Yun Yiyi raised her eyebrows, but she was not angry, but rather amused.

Originally, those people didn't know the identity of the person in front of them, but after seeing what the shopkeeper said, they also called Mrs. Yun one by one.

The two cubs seemed to have telepathy, and frowned. Yun Yiyi was afraid that they would get lost, so she never untied the rope, so the two cubs acted as mascots behind them, without saying a word.

Although they felt bored, there were so many people here, they just stood upright and looked at their mother.

Naturally, they didn't understand what the mother said, but what Song Wu said, coupled with his expression, made the two cubs feel uneasy, and they found out that the other party's attitude towards the mother was not good.

Xiao Zai Zai suddenly changed his previous quietness and became active, especially Yan Dashuang raised his fist quietly and was about to rush forward.

They were small, just such a small group, when they came in, even if someone saw them, they would be attracted by Yun Yiyi for a long time, and they didn't notice the two cubs for a long time.

Yun Yiyi was focused on two things, and soon realized that a cub had come to the front, she smiled, didn't look at them, just patted their heads, pulled them back, and said: " You have found the above words well. For example, the word love, which means love, love, favor, and concealment, is a commonly used word. An, which means security, comfort, and where to place, is a commonly used word. Being, has the meaning of suffering, quilt , which means to cover, is a commonly used word. As for the following words, how did you divide them?"

She spoke softly, "It's not bad to be able to find these. Anyway, sooner or later, we have to print them. We can print them out in a later batch. As for today, I hope to finish all the most commonly used fonts."

As for the commonly used words, Songwu can naturally be divided, but Boss Ji didn’t make it clear at the beginning, so he directly asked him to choose some words. He loves reading, and no one supervises him. At first, he had his own way of understanding. He believes that a word that often appears in books and has multiple interpretations is what he wants to choose.

It’s just that he was a little slack at the end. It’s not that easy to choose words. He needs to read books on the education of the Great Zhou Kingdom at the same time, check out the meaningful words in them, and then compare them. This is a very complicated task. matter.In the end, he did write a lot of unconsidered words in the booklet.

Songwu didn't think it was a big deal, since they were all to be engraved, so what if all the characters were engraved, anyway, all kinds of characters would appear in the book, which they couldn't predict, every word was precious Yes, he didn't think there was anything wrong with what he did.Besides, no one stipulates how he chooses words, since there is no requirement, he can do whatever he wants.

Of course, he wasn't the only one to do this, but he just happened to be here today, so he was asked about what happened.

Yan Dashuang hugged Yun Yiyi's leg from behind, he was a little curious, why his mother's tone was so gentle when he obviously had a bad attitude.

Song Wu was stunned and said, "Are you going to finish it today?"

An indistinct embarrassment floated between his brows. Seeing that Yun Yiyi's tone was gentle, he didn't get angry, but he didn't know what to say. He didn't expect that the other party was literate. He can easily say so many interpretations of the words, which shows that his knowledge is still higher than him.

(End of this chapter)