No dream for a night.

It was still Liu Lanzhi who got up early the next morning.

Liu Lanzhi first cooked breakfast neatly, and then went to the riverside to wash the clothes with a basin of changed clothes.

Ji Yanzhi wanted Liu Lanzhi not to be so diligent, but Liu Lanzhi has always been like this, and in the village where she is currently, the women in the village have always been doing laundry by the river. It is convenient, and also for the purpose of contacting feelings. Some gossip.

Ji Yanzhi knew this, so he didn't discourage Liu Lanzhi from letting her do a little less. After drinking the steaming rice porridge, Ji Yanzhi went out and found a strong farmer in the village with an axe and followed him up the mountain to chop down trees.

Ji Yanzhi's plan is to take advantage of the good weather to'invent' the papermaking technique that can be made as white as snow.

Huaxia's papermaking first appeared in the Western Han Dynasty and was created by an **** named Cai Lun. The raw materials are hemp, rags, etc. The production method is to soak hemp, rags, etc. in water, chop, wash, cook, rinse, pound, add water to form a suspended slurry, take the pulp, and dry it. Become paper.

The paper produced in this way has a rough texture and is expensive due to cost reasons. Therefore, many scholars, in addition to using a carving knife to engrave and copy books on bamboo slips, they use white silk woven to practice calligraphy.

For this reason, many families regard being able to proficiently weave cloth as the standard for choosing a daughter-in-law. At the beginning, they always advertised the family, the family members who have quite a wealth of assets but did not live in the town and live in the country. Zhongji was so skillful that his neighbors praised him, and he re-employed Jiao Zhongqing to marry Liu Lanzhi.

Liu Lanzhi is also really capable, very proficient in weaving on the machine and very fast. However, most of the woven fabrics such as white silk, linen, and Ge cloth were sold for money, because Jiao Zhongqing went to Luzhou Prefecture to be a small official who not only looked at the face of the person, but also copied official documents at all times. .

Ji Yanzhi’s current village has about two to three hundred households in total. Compared with the surrounding villages, it is considered a relatively large and affluent village. Almost every household has a few small farms and depends on farming for their livelihoods.

The scenery of the small mountain villa is also very good. There are rivers and mountains, and a large piece of bamboo is planted on the small hills to the south. When bamboo shoots emerge from the ground madly, villagers will come in groups of five to dig bamboo shoots, or eat them fresh or boil them and dry them. In short, the bamboo forest on Nanshan benefits the whole village.

But this time Ji Yanzhi led Ding Li up the mountain, not for the bamboo shoots, but for cutting trees and making paper. Of course, bamboo can also be used. Anyway, what papermaking needs most is plant fiber. Whether it is bark, tree, bamboo, or even grass roots, they are rich in plant fiber.

Just thinking that the bamboo forest area is not large, but the forest is endless along the mountain range, so I set the target on the trees.

Slowly up the mountain, Ji Yanzhi held an axe to him, looking like Kong Wu's powerful Ding Lidao. "sorry to bother you."

"Mr. Jiao is polite. Mr. X only has a lot of strength. Mr. Meng can afford to pay a good price for him to help cut trees." Ding Lihan smiled and started to chop down trees with his axe. I don't know if it is luck or luck. Five of the ten trees that Ding Li felled were sandalwood trees.

Ji Yanzhi's mouth twitched, and he had to let Ding Li cut down the common trees that are more common and grow faster than sandalwood trees.

Ding Li scratched his head and sincerely made suggestions to Ji Yanzhi: "Mr. Jiao, if you want to make furniture, a tree that was cut earlier is still strong."

Ji Yanzhi: "...I'm not making furniture."

"Then what?" After Ding Li asked this subconsciously, he slapped his forehead and said with a silly smile. "Look at what someone asked, Mr. Jiao is a scholar. It is naturally useful to ask for these things. Mr. Jiao might as well go back first. After dark, someone must cut down a lot of trees and send them to Mr. Jiao."

Ji Yanzhi nodded, then shook his feather fan and went down the mountain leisurely.

Just as he went down the mountain, Liu Lanzhi had already washed his clothes and was about to go home. Liu Lanzhi looked up and saw her husband, dressed in a blue shirt, shook his feather fan and walked through the only way up the mountain and came back down the mountain.

"My husband, is this going up the mountain?"

"Yeah." Ji Yanzhi smiled: "There are things that I want to do in the future, and wood is needed, so I found the Ding kid and asked him to go up the mountain to cut some wood for me."

Just in case, so that the limbs are strong, but the mind is empty, Ding Li does more work, Ji Yanzhi even confessed that he wants complete wood. In other words, the branches and bark are reserved for him, don't take it for granted that he is making furniture, and keep the wood neat and tidy for him.

Liu Lanzhi heard this, but didn't ask much, and said in agreement: "The Ding family guy must have a lot of strength. In the past, the husband was not at home, and the family’s 100 acres of fertile land was always hired by the Ding family boy. Let him help hire someone to cultivate."

The main reason why Liu Lanzhi and Ji Yanzhi call Ding Li the Ding family boy is that Jiao Zhongqing's seniority in the village is very high. The village is called Shangxi Villa. There are only a dozen households in Shangxi Villa. It is not a big family in the village, but it is an existence respected by the entire villa. In addition to Jiao's family who are basically scholars, most of them are usually held by Jiao's parents in the village.

Walking back to Jiao's house together, Liu Lanzhi went to dry the clothes.

Jiao's mother was not at home, probably because she agreed to spin and weave with Liu Lanzhi last night to subsidize the family, so she also went out early in the morning to find a carpenter in the village to build a new spinning loom. Ji Yanzhi simply talked to Liu Lanzhi and went back to the courtyard to make bamboo slips on the grounds of burning books.

You must know that bamboo slips books are very valuable for collection. Especially in the Qin and Han Three Kingdoms period, when papermaking technology was not developed, a book that was said to be burned by a famous master can be sold at a sky-high price in later generations. So if necessary, Ji Yanzhi doesn't mind including more bamboo slips books in his space.

Anyway, he recorded it at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it does not exist, well, the cultural relics are faked.

Ji Yanzhi took the carving knife, and really achieved the speed of burning the small seal like flying with the knife. After the one-page bamboo slips were burned, Ji Yanzhi blew away the crumbs, and then used a small brush to paint the ink carefully. The bamboo slips books made in this way can be kept for a longer time than writing directly on the bamboo slips.

Ji Yanzhi earnestly used a brush to draw ink and color, and time passed by unconsciously.

Soon, the sun that originally hung in the middle quickly fell to the west. At dusk, Ding Li led several of his elders and younger brothers, dragged back the wood that Ji Yanzhi wanted, and piled them at the back door of the courtyard.

"Thanks."

Ji Yanzhi looked at the pile of wood with satisfaction, and gave him more on the basis of his original wages.

Ding Li and his elder brother happily thanked them, and happily took over the wages and returned home.

The Jiao mother who returned from buying the loom looked around curiously, and couldn't tell from the pile of ordinary wood that there was anything worthy of being so happy, so she couldn't help but muttered: "Just pay according to the usual wages. How can I be in a good mood? Give me more?"

Ji Yanzhi did not lift his head when he heard the words, and continued to spread the burned and colored bamboo slips in a cool and ventilated place. At this time, in order to avoid the embarrassment of Jiao's mother, Liu Lanzhi kindly opened his mouth to explain. "Mothers are all folks in the village, and the husband gives more, also for the good reputation of the Jiao family."

Jiao mother squirmed her mouth, but didn't say any more discouraging words.

She looked at Liu Lanzhi, her tone was not yin and yang, but calmly said: "What to eat tonight."

"What does mother want to eat?" Liu Lanzhi asked kindly.

"Whatever." Mother Jiao threw off the words, and then added: "As long as the food is rotten and soft." Her teeth are not very good, and eating hard things will kill her.

Jiao's mother paused, and then said, "I bought a new loom. Tomorrow you will also move the loom you are used to to the main yard. On weekdays, you and my mother-in-law will spin in the front yard. Weaving, so as not to disturb Da Lang's reading and doing big things."

Liu Lanzhi responded with a good voice and went to the kitchen to be busy. At noon, Liu Lanzhi poured a large bowl of soy beans and went to the tofu maker in Murao, and exchanged a few pieces of tofu. Just mix some brine and green onions to eat. Boil a pot of pork and add a few pieces of tofu. Served with ginger, garlic, pepper and mustard, it tastes unique. Well, at least Ji Yanzhi misses hot peppers.

However, in this life, Ji Yanzhi has no intention to take out the various crops and vegetable seeds stored in the space.

No other meaning, in this life, he is not like the emperor in the previous life who controlled the country, the whole world belongs to him. Ji Yanzhi in this life is just a child of a small family, commonly known as the squire and local tyrant.

What he should pay attention to is to go with the situation, not to try his best to achieve his fame. Therefore, the improvement of papermaking is enough for him to establish a school with a reputation and protect the people of Shangxi Mountain Villa. What is he doing to donate various crops and vegetable seeds to let The chaotic times that will come in twenty or thirty years will become even more cruel, giving many families more bargaining chips to stock up on food?

To know that offering something as a courtier, you also have to pay attention to the time.

When the times are prosperous, not given in chaotic times.

Ji Yanzhi raised his head and looked at the sky. When Jiao's mother was rare and deliberately helping Liu Lanzhi pick up the dishes, something suddenly occurred to him. There seems to be a kind of pepper, um, it seems to be called pepper leaf, which can be used as a seasonal vegetable or used as a seasoning.

"Well, I seem to have seen it when I went up the mountain today, or tomorrow I will not be busy cutting the bark to make paper, but go up the mountain to "treasure hunt"?"

Although the wasabi is pretty good, it is too nasty. It doesn't matter if you eat less, but if you eat it more often, you always feel that you will turn into wasabi essence, so let's try to improve your life!

Ji Yanzhi immediately nodded and made a decision right away.