Gu Rin's farming life

After the two children's full moon feast was over, Gu Lin planned to start preparing for papermaking.

It was only when Gu Lin started to prepare that he realized that his thinking was too simple. Making paper is not a simple matter.

There is no modern papermaking machinery here, and there are no various auxiliary materials and additives. Everything is made of artificial and natural materials.

Moreover, Gu Lin is not a professional papermaker. The papermaking techniques he knows are all information found on the Internet, and he has never tried it himself.

I'm afraid it is not a simple matter to make paper.

Gu Lin grabs the ground with his head, the future is bleak.

Gu Xian is sorting out the usage of punctuation marks recently, and the more he sorts out, the more experience he gets. In addition, since he took the medicine last time, his health has improved, and Gu Lin has been staring at him for a while every day, saying that life lies in exercise, He also feels that his body has become a little looser after exercising a lot, so now he feels that the future is full of hope and he is in a good mood.

When I was going back to my room after a walk today to continue sorting out his articles, I saw Gu Lin resting his head on the table with a look of lovelessness on his face. He couldn't help but rubbed his head and asked,

"Xiao Lin, what are you doing?"

"I'm thinking about life." Gu Lin straightened up and said solemnly.

"Then have you figured it out?" Gu Xian asked with a smile, he found that this Gu Lin sometimes did some things that made people laugh.

"Life is a big subject, and it needs to be prudent." Gu Lin looked serious, with a profound expression on his face, and those who didn't know really thought he was doing some high-level research.

After all, Gu Xian couldn't hold back his laughter, the corners of his eyes were covered with lines of laughter, "Then you continue to think, I'm going back to my room."

Smile like a flower.

Looking at the man with a beautiful smile in front of him, this word flashed in Gu Lin's mind.

Why are they all so good-looking? Needless to say, Gu Xian, it’s a foul when he smiles, and Wen Yan, that brat, didn’t think much of it before, but after eating and drinking, his complexion became better. It looks better.

Thinking of Wen Yan, Gu Lin suddenly realized that since the full moon banquet, it seems that Wen Yan's little bastard has not followed him.

After the child's full moon, Mrs. Gu and Old Man Gu pushed the stroller out to show off, and successfully received a lot of compliments.

People with children at home found it convenient after learning about it, and basically ordered one, so Mr. Gu has a lot of orders recently and has been busy making baby strollers.

Wen Yan seemed to be very interested in carpentry, and kept squatting behind Old Man Gu, learning while watching.

It is said that interest is the best teacher. Wen Yan is interested in carpentry, so he learns it very seriously. In addition, he probably has a bit of talent in this area. After watching it for a few days, he can already do some small parts. Done.

Gu Lin is not a professional draftsman, and the baby carriage he drew is just what he imagined. Old man Gu adjusted a lot of details when he was making the first one. Unexpectedly, Wen Yan could suggest adjustments just by watching. It's fine.

Regarding Wen Yan's talent in carpentry, old man Gu expressed his surprise. According to his talent, if he teaches well, he might become a master in time.

So old man Gu took him to make a stroller together, which was like taking an apprentice.

In the past, even if he discovered Wen Yan's talent, considering Wen Yougen's existence, he might still hesitate to take him with him, but now Wen Yougen has been exiled, and he doesn't know if he will have a chance to come back in this life. Old man Gu, who no longer had to worry about the future, devoted himself to teaching Wen Yan.

And because Wen Yan was already able to make some small parts or something, old man Gu decided to give Wen Yan a share of the money after selling them in the future, as Wen Yan's wages.

And Wen Yan can also save some money so that he can start a family and start a business in the future.

Wen Yan didn't think too much about it. He has a pure love for woodworking. He never had the opportunity to learn it before. Now that such a good opportunity is in front of him, he certainly won't let it go.

Woodworking turned out to be as fun as he imagined.While planing wood, Wen Yan thought, in the future he must become the greatest carpenter.

Uh, let's take this as a small goal.

Wen Yan thought so in his heart, lowered his head and continued to plan wood.

Gu Lin didn't know that Wen Yan had already set a small goal. He just felt that everyone had something to be busy with recently. Even His Majesty the cat had been out for several days, saying that he was going to find some wine.

Now he is the most idle person in the house besides the two baby dolls.

Gu Lin felt that life was a bit difficult, and papermaking had to be done slowly.

Before the full moon feast, Gu Lin often went to the mountains to look at the wood, and peeled off a lot of suitable bark, and then tied them into small bundles and soaked them in Qushui.

There are also some straws soaked.

Gu Lin didn't have much experience, so he decided to make paper with straw and bark as raw materials.

Take out the soaked bark and straw, and the next step is cooking.

Naturally, the cooking pot cannot be used for cooking. Fortunately, when the Gu family raised pigs in the past, there was a big pot specially used for cooking pig food. Gu Lin decided to use that big pot for cooking.

"Little Rin, what are you doing?" Mrs. Gu couldn't help asking when she saw that Gu Rin threw the bark and straw into the pot and poured lime on it.

"I'm doing an experiment." Gu Lin thought for a while, the method of treating the bark seemed to be different from that of the straw, so he fished out the bark again and soaked it in lime water.

Mrs. Gu really didn't see the use of a pile of soaked straw, and instinctively wanted to refute a few words, but thinking of Gu Lin's origin, if he really knew some prescription that others didn't know, it would not be good to stop him.

So she changed what she wanted to say, "Then be careful, don't burn the house down."

"It's so easy to burn." Gu Lin muttered disapprovingly.

"Don't take it to heart." Mrs. Gu looked at him with a serious expression of indifference, "This kind of thatched cottage, if it catches fire, you must be careful."

"Okay, okay, I must be careful." Although Gu Lin still felt that there would be no problem, he still responded.

"Young people are just not reliable." Mrs. Gu muttered, thinking that Gu Lin can do whatever she wants, as long as it doesn't catch fire.

But after thinking about it, she still felt unreliable, so after watching Gu Lin put water into the pot, she helped Gu Lin to heat up the fire first, "When the fire is low, add some firewood, don't add too much."

"Okay." Gu Lin stood aside, feeling that he was useless.

Seeing that there was nothing to do, Mrs. Gu walked away.

The straw does not need to be boiled for too long, so the straw will be cooked quickly. Gu Lin pours the boiled straw and water into the cloth bag prepared before, and waits for the water to drain a little bit. Go to the edge of Qushui, put the bag into Qushui.

The water in Qushui flows continuously, slowly dissolving and washing away the mixed lime slag and boiling material in the slurry.

Gu Lin has no experience, and is actually in the process of groping, so he divided the straw pulp into several parts, with different rinsing times, and then pasted a small note recording the rinsing time.

After rinsing all the straw pulp, it's time for the whitening step.

Whitening is to turn the natural color of pulp (for example, the straw pulp made by Gu Lin is yellow and almost brown) into white pulp.

Tanning is time consuming.

Because the traditional whitening method is to directly put the washed pulp in a sunny place and irradiate it with sunlight for two to three months until the pulp turns white.

Thinking of two to three months in the sun, Gu Lin felt that it was cheating. He was in the experimental stage. It would take too long to really expose it to the sun to make it white. directly ruled out.

In modern society, if straw pulp wants to be bleached, there are many methods. Unfortunately, this is ancient times, there are no chemicals, and bleaching is not a simple matter.

Gu Lin remembered an alkaline bleaching method he had seen before, and thought he could try it.

But this is really hard to do. Gu Lin tried it for several days without success, and his eyes were red from the boil.

In the past few days, Old Man Gu and Wen Yan have cooperated to complete all the baby carriages needed for the current order. When they noticed Gu Lin, they found that he was tired and had no energy at all.

"What's wrong with you?" Wen Yan couldn't believe it, he had made himself like this after not seeing him for a few days.

"I'm fine," Gu Lin drank a bowl of porridge in a hurry, dropped the bowl, and continued running to the back of the house to study his papermaking skills.

Wen Yan watched him disappear in a blink of an eye, and then asked after a while, "What's wrong with him?" Busy, I don't know what I'm busy with, and I'm so embarrassed, she persuaded her several times, but Gu Lin didn't listen.

"I'll go and have a look." Wen Yan finished the porridge in the bowl, and chased after Gu Lin in the direction he was running.

In fact, Gu Lin didn't go very far. He was in the small room behind the house. The room was originally used for cooking pigs. Apart from the stove and the cauldron, there was only a large vat inside. The water in the house is imported mountain spring water, which is very convenient.

He has been studying the pulp bleaching method in this room for the past few days.

At the beginning, he only studied the bleaching of straw pulp, but after looking at the bark next to him, after thinking about it, he boiled the bark for research.

It's been days and still no progress.

When Wen Yan arrived, he saw Gu Lin squatting on the ground. There were several bowls of different sizes in front of him. There was some pulpy thing in each bowl, and he didn't know what it was. Gu Lin was putting something in it.

"What is this?" Wen Yan pointed to one of the bowls.

"Bark pulp." Gu Lin didn't lift his head.

"What are you doing with the bark pulp?" Wen Yan was very puzzled, these couldn't be seen as bark pulp at all, the color was much lighter than the bark, Wen Yan couldn't help but want to reach in and try the feel.

"Don't want your hand anymore?" Although Gu Lin didn't look up, she was still watching him from the corner of her eye, seeing that he reached out to touch the bark pulp and grabbed his hand.

Hold, hold hands?

Wen Yan was a little confused, what is going on with Gu Lin, the progress is a bit fast.

In fact, Gu Lin didn't think that much, just saw that he wanted to put his hand into the uncle's milk with strong alkali, for fear that his hand would be burned. Who knew that Wen Yan's brain was too big and he thought too much.

He let go of Wen Yan's hand, "Don't touch it randomly, it's very dangerous."

"What's in the bark pulp?" Wen Yan looked at the messy bottles and jars on the ground, thinking, the bark pulp must be harmless, it must be something that Gu Rin added, and Gu Rin also Really, dangerous things are left like this, what should I do if I accidentally touch them?

"It's just something added to make it white." Gu Lin didn't know how to explain the concept of acid-base to an ancient man, so he had to be vague.

Wen Yan didn't go into the details of what would make the bark pulp white, he was just curious, why did Gu Lin want the bark pulp to turn white, and asked, "Why do you want the bark pulp to turn white?"

"I'm working on a great invention." Gu Lin waved his hand, "You little one, don't be so curious, don't you know that curiosity killed the cat?"

Wen Yan only thought that Gu Lin was deliberately joking about the so-called great invention. When it came to curiosity killing the cat, he was a little curious. Why did curiosity kill the cat? Why didn't it kill people or dogs?

"Why did you kill the cat?" Wen Yan asked directly, "Could it be because cats are more annoying?"

"Stinky boy!!" His majesty the cat just came back, and when he came back, he heard the little boy say that cats are more annoying, and instantly exploded, "You hate it, your whole family hates it!!"

Naturally, Wen Yan couldn't understand the meaning of His Majesty the cat's meowing, but he could only hear it meowing and pinching the back of its neck, "Cats are really annoying!"