Summer rain comes and goes quickly. After the heavy rain, the sky clears up and a rainbow hangs in the sky.
It was already noon after the three of them evaded the heavy rain and rushed home.
Wu and Wang were anxious at home, and Wen Ran's eyes were red.
When Mrs. Wu saw Wen Jiarui coming back, she immediately said: "The child's father, Sister Xin and Chanyi went to the mountain to pick mushrooms this morning and haven't come back yet! It's raining heavily, will something happen? I've asked He Ping to take people up the mountain to look for them. Yes, but I haven’t come back yet.”
After hearing this, Wen Jiarui immediately said: "I'll go up the mountain to look for him right now."
Nuan Nuan: "I'll go too."
Nalan Jinnian frowned: "Sister Nuan, don't go. There has just been a heavy rain, and the trees on the mountain are full of rain. If your clothes get wet, you will easily catch the wind and cold. I am familiar with the mountain, so I can just go with Uncle Wen." !”
After speaking, he comforted Wu: "Aunt Wu, don't worry, take Da Hui and Xiao Hei with you, we will find the person soon."
Dahui nodded and wagged his tail: I'll go find it!
Xiao Hei also nodded: I'm the best at finding people on the mountain!
Xiaobai ran to Dahui and said that he would also follow him to find someone.
Big Hui licked its head: Be good, there is a lot of rain on the mountain, stay at home!
"Okay, Sister Nuan, don't go. Without further ado, Shi Qi, let's go up the mountain quickly!"
If something happens on the mountain, it can be big or small.
Wen Jiarui felt a little anxious.
Warm but not afraid: "It's okay, I know some medical skills, let's go and have a look."
Dahui ran to Nuan Nuan at this time and asked her to sit on him.
Nalan Jinnian pinched his eyebrows, knowing that he couldn't stop her, so he said nothing more.
When he went out, he grabbed a pole and a coir raincoat from the corner, and put the coir raincoat on to keep him warm.
With that pole, he planned to knock water drops off the leaves of the plants on the mountain.
A few people hurriedly walked towards the back mountain. Unexpectedly, at the foot of the mountain, they met Lin Tingxuan carrying Wen Xin down the mountain.
Behind them were Chan Yi, He Ping, Feng An, Feng Xiaojian and others.
Wen Jiarui breathed a sigh of relief, but when he saw Wen Xin covered in mud, he worried: "Sister Xin, what happened to you? Did you fall down the mountain?"
Nuan Nuan found that her exposed ankle was a little red and swollen: "Did you twist your ankle?"
Wen Xin nodded: "When I saw it was raining, I wanted to go down the mountain quickly, but I ran a little too fast. I accidentally slipped and twisted my foot. Fortunately, Mr. Lin found me and saved me."
Wen Xin lay on Lin Tingxuan's back and blushed a little.
Wen Jiarui quickly said: "Thank you, Mr. Lin, I will carry it!"
"That's right. You don't have to be polite, Mr. Wen, I..." Lin Tingxuan wanted to say no, since their bodies were already wet, so as not to wet his clothes again, but thinking about the difference between men and women, he carried the person back to the village, which might affect Wen Tingxuan. The girl's reputation changed her words: "Good."
After saying that, he knelt down and went to the ground conveniently and warmly.
"Second sister, you can sit on Da Hui's back and go home!" Wen Nuan got off the wolf's back.
"Okay." Wen Xin was embarrassed to continue to let Lin Tingxuan carry her.
Wen Nuan and Wen Jiarui helped Wen Nuan sit on Da Hui's back.
The group of people hurried home.
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After Nuan Nuan treated Wen Xin's foot injury, Zi Wan came in with a bowl of ginger soup.
"Second girl, drink some ginger soup to ward off the cold." Although it was summer and she didn't feel cold even if she got wet, Wu still went to make ginger soup.
Wen Xin took it and was about to drink it when she thought of something and said, "Mr. Lin, do Chanyi and the others have ginger soup?"
"Don't worry, second girl! We have everything!"
Wen Xin felt relieved after hearing this. He lowered his head and was about to drink. Then he thought of something and raised his head and asked, "Master Lin went up the mountain to look for me in the rain. His clothes are all wet. Do you have any clothes to change?"
"It has been changed. The master gave him a new set of clothes. But he is taller than the master and the clothes are a little shorter. His clothes have been washed and dried."
Wen Xin imagined that and smiled: "That's good! It's better than wearing wet clothes."
Seeing that Wen Xin had no questions to ask, Zi Wan withdrew.
Wen Wen drank half of the ginger soup, and then she thought of something and said to Wen Wen, "Sister Nuan, I want to practice martial arts with you tomorrow."
He looked at her with a half-smile but said, "Second sister, didn't you say you won't practice?"
Wenxin avoided Wenwen's gaze, her face was a little red, and she stammered: "That's right, I just think it's good to practice!"
Nuan Nuan laughed: "It's pretty good! But I'm afraid it won't work tomorrow."
Wen Xin looked stunned: "Why not?"
Nuan Nuan: "Will your feet feel better tomorrow? Second sister, why are you so impatient?"
Warmth: “…”
She couldn't wait any longer! ! !
No way!
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The next day, Wen Jiarui invited several villagers to cut down mulberry trees and bamboos. After the Pu tree is cut down and buried with soil, new bark will grow the next year.
Wen Jiarui was worried that there would not be enough, so he asked people to plant more mulberry trees on the mountain.
Wen Nuan doesn’t have to worry about that. There are many materials for making paper. It is recorded in the book: “People from Shu use hemp, people from Fujian use tender bamboo, people from the north use mulberry bark, people from Yanxi use rattan, people from Hainan use moss, and people from Zhejiang use wheat. For rice stalks, Wu people use cocoons, and Chu people use poop." So don't worry about running out of materials.
But planting trees is a good thing, and she supports it.
There is no technical content in chopping bamboo and branches. Wen Nuan once demonstrated how to peel off the bark of a Pu tree and remove the black skin on the surface.
Then tie them into a bundle and throw them into the river or pond for soaking.
After Nuan Nuan finished explaining, he and Wen Jiamei went to Wujiacun to make ceramics.
In the past few days, the two of them have made a lot of porcelain bodies and completed the most critical step. After coloring, they can be fired.
Nearly twenty days passed by. Nuan Nuan ran in two directions every day. He went to Wujiacun during the day and came back in the evening to teach Lei Wanjun, Lin Tingxuan and others about their martial arts. During this period, the bark of the tree was soaked in the river until it softened, and then steaming began. Before steaming, he had to The bark is passed through a lime pond and then steamed continuously for six or seven days!
The better and whiter the paper, the longer it needs to be steamed and the more times it needs to be rinsed.
It takes nearly a month to make a piece of paper, so it’s not unreasonably expensive.
After going through the six key steps of soaking in the same pond - boiling over a full fire - mortar - making pulp - throwing materials into the curtain - drying and roasting, Wen's Paper's first snowflake paper finally came out Got it!
Because it is three-thirds whiter than the paper on the market, it is named snowflake paper.
Nalan Jinnian stood next to Nuan Nuan, and together with her peeled off the paper on the fire wall one by one.
He gently twisted the paper with the tips of his beautiful fingers that made people and gods angry: tough, white, soft, and smooth.
"good."
Wen Jiarui gently touched the surface of the paper: "The paper quality is really good, better than the Tang family's white tissue paper and the Song family's white Chinese paper!"
White cotton paper and white Chinese paper were medium- to high-grade papers produced in the Tang and Song dynasties. They were moderately priced at two cents each and were often bought by students to practice calligraphy.
There are also some worse ones with three notes per penny and five notes per penny.
Of course, there are also more expensive calligraphy and painting papers, such as the royal White Deer paper. Those are very expensive, and depending on the paper quality, there are dozens or hundreds of coins per paper!
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I watched the CCTV documentary about this ancient papermaking method and Baidu it many times~~
Very interested~