[Rebirth] Second-hand small landlords

No one cared about the old butler's broken glass heart. After entering the Yamen, everyone's attention turned to the captured thief.This thief is very daring, and he probably meant to break the can and smash it, even when he was kneeling on the ground, he looked like a fool.

"It's you?" Yang Xici had a good memory and recognized the thief at a glance.

Although Tong Qingran didn't recognize his face, he could tell by his face: "Hey, this thief has the same fate as one of the people who went to our house to apply for a weaver before. I didn't keep anyone in jail... Hey, by the way, it can't be the same person, right?"

"My lord, it's the same person, the rascal who wanted to make trouble at home after you shook your head that day!" The old housekeeper also recognized this person and reminded Tong Qingran.

After the scoundrel was recognized, not only was he not afraid, but he cursed: "A bunch of poor bastards, how busy and boring your family is, you actually leave a note on the money!"

It turned out that after the rogue stole money from Tong's house, he happily ran to the casino to gamble the next day.As soon as it was on the table and took out a silver ingot, everyone saw the five words "I stole it" on it.Gamblers who knew the rascal joked that his money must have been stolen.The rascal was illiterate, and didn't know which words were left on the ingot, so he thought that the man said it on purpose, so he fought with the man on the spot, and was turned away by the casino staff to the yamen.Everyone knows what happened next.

There were only two people in Tong's family before, and the old butler couldn't be bored doing this, so they all looked at Tong Qingran with embarrassment.

Tong Qingran looked up at the sky with an innocent look on her face: "I did a fortune-telling two days ago and knew that there was a danger of losing money at home, so I left a word on it, who knew that it was really lost! You really have lost it! How stupid, take out the words on it without erasing them, this IQ is really worrying..."

Everyone was speechless, even the catchers in the yamen didn't know what to say.

If you calculate that you may lose money at home, shouldn't you be more careful?Or simply change the bad luck, who would write on the silver at home without doing anything.Sure enough, the fortune-teller's thoughts were completely beyond the comprehension of ordinary people like them!

However, in this way, everyone has a new understanding of Tong Qingran's level of fortune-telling, and the name of divine fortune-telling is worthy of its name.

Regarding the theft, the witnesses and material evidences are complete, even if the scoundrel wants to quibble, there is nothing he can do. What awaits him is a few years in prison.The Tong family didn't stay in the yamen too long. After the old housekeeper took care of everything, they bid farewell to the policemen and left.

The few arrests have also changed a lot, and they are really much more kind to the Tong family than they were at the beginning.In their eyes, a fortune teller is a world-class expert, not to mention Tong Qingran, who is super accurate in fortune-telling, so he must flatter him first!

After leaving the yamen, Tong Qingran took the initiative to chat with Yang Xici: "Well, Yang Xici, the summer is coming to an end, and the work of the mats will also be suspended. Didn't you ask me last time what I plan to do next? I thought about it For a few days, I initially planned to set up a paper-making workshop...Anyway, there are a lot of reeds in my house, and reeds are the main raw materials for papermaking, and we happened to use local materials!"

"Papermaking? Can you make paper?" Yang Xici looked surprised, "This is a craft that people will never pass on!"

"That's right! Young Master, how do you know the art of making paper? Can reeds also make paper?" The old housekeeper was also surprised.

"Hey, is it difficult to make paper? That's right, how did I know?" I'm afraid, is the papermaking here still a secret that can't be said, Tong Qingran looked up at the sky, and quickly found an excuse, "Ahhhhh Ah... I remembered, I just saw it in a book! Really!"

"What book? Can you lend me a read?" Yang Xici asked to get to the bottom of it.It's not that he's curious about the technology of papermaking, but mainly because he wants to see what kind of books Tong Qingran read... It's the same with the myths of foreign races in the past, and it's the same with the papermaking technology now. What kind of books would be so exaggerated, just record them directly.

Tong Qingran immediately shook her head: "No, no!" There is no such book at all, so what can he show others.

As for the matter of papermaking, when his parents were alive, there was a well-known traditional papermaking family near his home.He and his friends often sneaked to that family's house to play, so they had seen the whole process of papermaking.Later, some of their children also learned what others did and tried secretly, that is, they chopped reeds, bark and other messy things into pieces and boiled them into paste, and added a little limestone to make the pulp look whiter. A little bit, after diluting with water, pour it directly on the coarse cloth and dry it in the sun, press it into a thin piece, and peel it off after drying to become a piece of paper.

Although the paper they made was a bit rough at that time, it was a child's play after all, and if it was done seriously, it must be much finer.And when they did it, they didn't have all the tools that other people had. If they had those things, he believed that making that kind of paper would definitely not be a problem.

Tong Qingran originally hoped that he could find someone who can make paper to give him some advice, so that his paper-making workshop could be properly set up.But now that Yang Xici and the old housekeeper said that the craft of papermaking is so mysterious, it seems that it is unlikely to find someone to give advice, so I can only explore it myself first.

"Qingran, if you want to make paper, why don't you go with me to a shop that sells stationery and calligraphy supplies first?" Yang Xici suggested.

Tong Qingran suddenly realized: "Yes, this is really possible!" After looking at the quality of the paper here, wouldn't you know if you can do it?I didn't expect this, and I was going to build a car behind closed doors, so stupid!

After checking in the shop, Tong Qingran realized that although there was already paper here, it was obvious that the papermaking technology here was not very advanced, regardless of the color and quality of the paper.Moreover, the raw materials for papermaking should be the most traditional ones made of hemp and bark.Bamboo, straw, reed, etc. have not been used to make paper.

Seeing that the paper here is so expensive, Tong Qingran immediately decided that papermaking is basically feasible!If you open a paper workshop, it should be much more profitable than weaving reed mats.Not only reeds and bark can be used, but also other rattan bark, wheat straw, and rice straw can be used.It would be even better if you can find bamboo, and the more raw materials you can make paper.

"How is it? Do you still plan to make paper? Are you sure you can make it?" Yang Xici asked curiously.The old housekeeper didn't speak, but he was definitely as curious as Yang Xici, and even Jin'er looked at him expectantly!

Tong Qingran nodded affirmatively: "Hmph... It's just a trivial matter, you just wait to worship me... Hahaha... Hey, let me say, Yang Xici, do you have any plans to cooperate with me? We don't ask too much, Isn’t every household in Yangjia Village doing carpentry? You send all those useless tree barks to my house, which are also one of the raw materials for papermaking!”

The old housekeeper was taken aback: "My lord, are you really planning to make paper?"

"Of course it's true..." Tong Qingran confirmed again, "Do I seem to be joking?"

It's because you are not joking that everyone can't believe it!papermaking?For ordinary people, this is not a matter of high standards, at least it is not a category they can understand.

Before the old butler left the shop, he carefully touched the paper that the boss put on the shelf, and couldn't help but tremble in his heart. This is really made of reeds, why does it feel so unreal?

On the contrary, Yang Xici looked at Tong Qingran and smiled slightly: "Okay, if you think it is feasible, I will definitely support you!"

"Good brother, show loyalty!" Tong Qingran patted him on the shoulder happily.

After returning home, Tong Qingran immediately pulled out two people who prepared the materials and began to assist him in preparing for the papermaking experiment.

Sure enough, Yang Xici did not break his promise, and sent a carload of bark to Tong's house that afternoon, as well as a carload of limestone, and he stayed to experiment with Tong Qingran as a matter of course.Of course, he didn't want to let go of this kind of opportunity to get in touch with his sweetheart up close and aboveboard.

According to Tong Qingran's instructions, two workers crushed the reed into flakes, and the other cleaned the bark, soaked it in clean water, and then put it in lime water to continue soaking.Afterwards, the rolled reeds and the bark soaked in lime water are steamed together in a large pot and then beaten into the most primitive pulp.In order to ensure that the paper will be softer and more delicate after it comes out, Tong Qingran also asked someone to pound it carefully with tools to remove impurities, and finally it became a uniform pulp.

After the pulp is finished, the next step is the process of forming the paper.After the pulp is mixed with water, it becomes a slurry, and then the pulp is drawn with a paper curtain to form a wet paper, and then the wet paper is dried or dried, and then becomes a piece of white paper.

Tong Qingran asked Yang Xici to help prepare the paper curtains used for fishing, and he also specially took care that they were made of bamboo.Now that papermaking technology has appeared here, paper curtains should be able to be found, and he also reminded Yang Xici that it must be thin paper curtains.Of course, if he didn't find a paper curtain, he should get some bamboo first, and he might be able to make it after a few experiments.However, it was obvious that his thinking was too complicated, and Yang Xici found the paper curtain in time.

Although the paper produced for the first time looks very good to Yang Xici and the old housekeeper, at least it looks much whiter and thinner than those sold in those shops, but in Tong Qingran's opinion, it is still too It's rough, a piece of paper is so thick, it's completely incomparable with modern A4 white paper.

"It's really done?" Apparently Yang Xici didn't have much hope for Tong Qingran's idea at first.

The old housekeeper also nodded: "Is this really paper made of reeds and bark? Why can't I see it at all? Young master, you are really amazing!"

"Of course!" Tong Qingran is now full of pride. He has played with this since he was a child. How can it be so complicated?That is why these ancient people who have never seen it will be so surprised.

"However, son, I've always wanted to tell you that the paper curtain you asked Master Xici to find for you, and the bamboo that is the raw material for the paper curtain, are abundant on the hills of our house!"

"What?" Tong Qingran shouted in surprise, "Our family has bamboo, how could I not know?"

"You never asked, did you?" The old housekeeper was very innocent.

Tong Qingran complained wildly in his heart: Damn it, if he had known about bamboo, why would he still spend all his time doing it.Bamboo is definitely a good thing, not to mention the dazzling array of bamboo art products, even selling bamboo shoots or rice in bamboo tubes can make him rich!

Bamboo suddenly appeared when he had worked so hard to make paper and was planning to set up a paper workshop. Wasn’t it really to hit him?