Farming and teaching across different worlds

, Auntie likes to make it for you to eat, I don't charge money. "

"Auntie, you don't charge. How can I have the nerve to come to eat next time? I still like your mouthful. You are embarrassing me. Auntie, you must accept it, otherwise Shi Jingchen and I will not come next time. "Shi Jingchen also nodded on the side.Aunt Wu had no choice but to accept it.

"Auntie, your hand-rolled noodles taste good, but if you eat too much, you will feel dull. If it goes on for a long time, the business will become cold." Ji Xiuran couldn't help chatting with Aunt Wu.Aunt Wu was very kind to their family. When he was born, the family’s conditions were the worst, and he was not in good health. At that time, Aunt Wu gave the original owner a few mouthfuls of milk before he survived. So when he saw Aunt Wu was in trouble, he Just wanted to help her.

"That's not it. I've only opened it for a few days and I can feel it. Besides, no one in the village has a skill. Even if the skill of rolling noodles is not as good as mine, it's almost there. After a long time, I don't want to spend money on eating."

"Auntie, have you thought about improving the recipe, especially changing the soup, you can use bone broth, chicken broth, etc., and you can also put a few pieces of meat in the noodles, and put some green leafy vegetables, so that the meat and vegetables can be combined. It looks good and tastes delicious."

"What you said is feasible, I will try some, and when it is done, Madam will treat you to eat."

"Okay, I'm waiting to eat aunt's pork rib noodles and chicken soup noodles."

After finishing speaking, Ji Xiuran and Shi Jingchen left from the noodle stall, Ji Xiuran went to Mrs. Li's steamed stuffed bun stall, bought a few steamed buns, held them in his hand, ate them as they walked, and gave Shi Jingchen a bite anyway.The two ate while walking, and when they got home, they had finished eating the buns in their hands.Ji Xiuran sorted out the textbooks and prepared for class.Shi Jingchen now spends some time in the study with Ji Xiuran every day when he has free time, reading his favorite military books. He has already finished the courses for adults. Ji Xiuran didn't ask him to do it considering that he was busy with the field work these days. teaching assistant.Shi Jingchen benefited from Ji Xiuran's concern and consideration for him, and he did not insist on working as a teaching assistant in class.

After the two came back, they separated. Ji Xiuran went to class, and Shi Jingchen was going to go up the mountain to have a look. He hadn't gone hunting for more than 20 days.

When Ji Xiuran arrived at the class, everyone in the class had already arrived. These adult class students were more eager to learn than Ji Xiuran imagined, and they also took what Ji Xiuran taught to heart. They all remembered the things they had chatted with each other, and among them, Zhao Shan remembered Ji Xiuran's mention of papermaking once, and asked him in detail.

At that time, Ji Xiuran didn't think much about it, so he told him the steps of the ancient method of papermaking recorded in his own memory book, and later copied a complete step for him, and besides the ancient method, the modern method He also wrote an outline.It is definitely not that easy to make rice paper that lasts for thousands of years in his era, but it can still be made according to this procedure if you find suitable materials, but the quality of the paper is worrying and the color is not so white.

He forgot about it after he gave it to him, and he didn't want to pay attention to it, and he thought Zhao Shan's question was just a momentary curiosity.Unexpectedly, a month later, Zhao Shan really took out a piece of blue-gray rough sheet. Although the color was not white, the texture was rough, and the thickness was uneven, he could not deny that it was indeed paper, and he could write on it. .The previous shortcomings can be corrected through continuous improvement steps. If they really research the method of making paper, there will be another profitable project in their village.

He told the raw materials used for bleaching that he knew, hoping to make white paper. If it is rough, it can be finer when beating, and spread as evenly as possible when laying the pulp.After Zhao Shan listened to his opinion, he experimented a few more times, and the paper he produced was obviously improved, but it was still not as good as the paper bought by others.But Ji Xiuran is not in a hurry, he can take his time.Zhao Shan has been improving the steps.

Zhao Shan found a few interested students to study together. They finally analyzed each production step. On the steps that Ji Xiuran gave him before, they modified them. The steps that could not be realized found a replacement method, and finally The finished product is much better, but they can use it themselves, but if they buy it, it will not meet the standard.Ji Xiuran didn't have any suitable suggestions at this time. He only had a few words in the book of memories for this piece. He didn't know how to explain some technical terms. The help provided to them was very limited, except that he gave them some useful suggestions at the beginning, the later things were all based on a few people, research, and experiments.

Although the Book of Memory contains a lot of useful things, it cannot be completely relied on in many cases.Ji Xiuran has paid attention to this aspect from the beginning. He will definitely copy down any useful content in the book of memory that he reads. Apart from reading it from time to time to let himself absorb the knowledge, he does not rely on this golden finger. He was afraid that one day the memory book in his mind would disappear.

However, Ji Xiuran was already very satisfied with such a result. Although the paper they made could not be sold, the students in the school could still use it.

In this way, the burden on these students’ families can be lightened. Even though they have a high level of education, they only need to pay it once a year. However, the pens, inks, papers and inkstones that are used in daily study are often spent on these consumables. , is also the largest expenditure, especially paper, which is the largest consumption of these four items.

When they first started to learn, he always let his students practice on the sand table, and only after they learned it did they really fall on the paper.But such a method cannot produce good fonts. If you want to take part in the imperial examination, you must use pen and ink to practice calligraphy on paper.Now Zhao Shan and the others have created this kind of rough paper through the method given by Ji Xiuran, which has solved the problem of many students using paper.

Ji Xiuran didn't take advantage of them either. After asking them to make paper, he bought it together and distributed it to each student.This part of the cost is considered to be paid by Ji Xiuran.In the future, the students in his school will use paper in this way.And he finally found a useful new formula in the book of memory, hoping that these people can improve the paper formula and make more paper.

Zhao Shan and his colleagues just thought it was interesting at first, but when they got together to do something meaningful, they never expected such results.When they got the first payment from Ji Xiuran, several people were a little confused. They felt that it was not real. At first, they went to Ji Xiuran's school to try their luck with a heart of making money. After learning knowledge, they can already make money before graduation. After realizing it, several people are very excited again.

Zhao Shan couldn't help showing some joy on his usually expressionless face. He is the worst family among these people, and he is also the hardest working among these people. When he exchanged a basket of river prawns for the opportunity to study, he knew that The time came for him to change himself, but he didn't expect that this opportunity would come so early, nor did he expect that it would be realized in this way.Ji Xiuran gave the method to make paper, but after making it, they also sold it to him.

Although this result is very gratifying, it always makes people feel that it is not very authentic. After a few people were excited, they found the problem after calming down. "I don't think we can ask for this money." Among them, Wu San said to several other people.Wu San's family is not rich, but he is the youngest in the family, and he has two older brothers. When he said he wanted to enter the adult class, his family members supported him, especially his two older brothers. The hardest working people in the class.

During the papermaking experiment, he also thought it was very good, so he participated in it.These achievements were all made by the formula and steps given by Ji Xiuran. They let it go and sold the paper to others. They always felt that it was wrong to do this.

"I agree with you. Let's return the money." Seeing everyone's hesitation, Zhao Shan finally made a decision.

After a few people approached Ji Xiuran to explain their intentions, Ji Xiuran thought about it and said, "Since you are my students, I have a few words to ask you here. What are your plans after graduation?" A few people, look at me, I looked at you and didn't know how to answer for a while.

"Let me put it another way, are you going to be the boss in the future or keep working for others?" Ji Xiuran saw that several people didn't have a specific answer to his question, so he changed the way of asking.

After Zhao Shan heard Ji Xiuran's words, he showed a thoughtful expression, and after thinking for a while, he asked, "Being your own boss, is it considered a merchant?"

"That's not the case. You process and make paper yourself and then sell it to others. Strictly speaking, you are not a merchant." Ji Xiuran explained to him that the flour mill in the village operates like this.It is not under the name of the merchant.At that time, let the village chief come forward to go to the Yamen to back up.

"Actually, I haven't thought about it that much, but I really hope to open a papermaking workshop. I'm very interested in researching this." Zhao Shan continued, and several other people also expressed their desire to continue researching papermaking and increase output. paper quality.

Ji Xiuran nodded secretly, "Are you only interested in making paper, or are you interested in researching new things, have you figured it out?"

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