Chapter 23 22. The layman who grows flowers (please give me a monthly pass to collect and recommend reading~Happy New Year~)

Author: nonsense and gossip

Chapter 23 22. The layman who grows flowers (please give me a monthly pass to collect and recommend reading~Happy New Year~)

Huang Yueying was embarrassed to accept the compliments from these carpenters.

But there is no other way. In this era, it only takes more than a month to create new paper that is easy to write on. Who would have thought of the matching printing technology?

That can only be her.

The two types of printing, engraving and movable type, each have their own advantages. Movable type seems to be more convenient, but in fact, in the original Chinese history, engraving printing was the dominant one.

This is simply because the illiteracy rate among Chinese people is so high that printing shops do not have that many workers to proofread movable type.

There are one hundred thousand Chinese characters, but only a few thousand are commonly used. According to later statistics, 1,000 commonly used characters can basically cover 92% of written materials, and 2,000 characters can cover more than 98%, and the statistical results of simplified and traditional Chinese are almost the same.

Pretty big.

She wanted to start printing with movable type in one step, but in the end she had to consider the actual situation. She should study engraving first and get a thorough understanding of the technology, and then think about movable type.

Besides, she only has a dozen or so carpenters now... only one can carve seals, and the others can only trace and carve flowers.

At the moment, with Sun Sui as the leader and Li Mu as the assistant, they asked this group of people to study as quickly as possible.

As for the content, it was naturally a fragmented version of the "Three Character Classic" that she had copied for use in the ethnic studies class, and it was signed by the layman who planted flowers.

She was too embarrassed to actually sign her name because she wanted to lose face.

After arranging these, Song Bo admired his little lady so much that he left the workshop and kept talking all the way out.

"Okay, Uncle Song, please take care of things here. Next month you will go to various places in Jingzhou to supervise the construction of new workshops and train someone who can take over your job as soon as possible." Huang Yueying explained.

She wants people like Song Bo to go out to supervise the construction of new workshops. The workshops here in Mianyang need someone to take over their work.

Now that the money and food are in place, of course things can bloom everywhere.

However, before that, she had to go to Xiangyang to clear away any obstacles she might encounter in the process. To put it simply, she needed to go to Liu Biao to get documents and Cai Mao and Kuai Liang to get support.

It’s time for other aristocratic families to come.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Pang Degong took the lead in taking his family to Mianyang, just to see Chuzhi and visit old friends on the way.

"Brother Shang! Long time no see!" When Huang Chengyan saw Pang Degong, his face burst into laughter, "Please!"

"Brother Chengyan, I just haven't been here for a year, how have I changed so much?" Pang Degong pointed to the workshop in the distance and the working hydraulic mortar.

"Haha, it's all Ah Chu's nonsense." Huang Chengyan said Huang Yueying's nonsense, but his tone was full of pride.

Although papermaking is a craftsman's job, it is also an elegant affair.

"Achu has met Uncle Pang." Seeing Mr. Pang Degong, Huang Yueying naturally said hello, "I have met the mountain folk brother and sister-in-law."

Afterwards, Pang Shanmin and his wife Zhuge also greeted Huang Chengyan and said hello to Huang Yueying.

Not long after, Mr. Cai came out and invited the guests to come in and take their seats.

As soon as he sat down, Pang Degong asked Huang Chengyan to bring him some high-quality paper. He had previously lived in seclusion in the mountains and returned to Xiangyang near the end of the year. Unexpectedly, he had such a thing as Chu paper.

It didn't take long for him to use up all the stock at home. Pang Shanmin couldn't save money even if he wanted to.

So just after the new year, Mr. Pang Degong took his son and daughter-in-law to Mianyang. How could there be no Chuzhi here?

After hearing this explanation, Huang Chengyan laughed and asked Zhou Yang to get the paper.

Only then was Pang Degong satisfied, and then he looked at the little girl sitting next to Huang Chengyan and said, "Achu has grown a lot taller, and his body looks better than before."

"Yes, A Chu had a bad cold last year, but luckily he's fine now." Huang Chengyan touched his daughter's head.

He had only been home for more than a month, and Ms. Cai cried with him many nights, talking about what happened at that time, for fear that her daughter would not survive.

But when he returned home, he found that his daughter not only recovered from her illness, but also became more lively and quirky, and her appetite for food was much better than before. Of course he was happy.

As a father, he will of course support whatever his daughter wants to do.

"That's good." Pang Degong nodded. If the little girl hadn't come through at that time, his old friend would probably be sad. Then he took off a jade pendant from his waist and waved to Huang Yueying, "Achu, come here.

"

Of course Huang Yueying couldn't refuse. She stood up and when she got to Pang Degong's position, she knelt down and said, "Uncle Pang."

"This Yujue has been with me for many years. Today, I will give it to Achu. I hope Achu can grow up safely."

"The elder gave it to me and I dare not refuse it." Huang Yueying had no choice but to accept it, "Thank you, Uncle Pang."

"He just wants to get more paper later." Huang Chengyan exposed it mercilessly.

Pang Degong then pointed at Huang Chengyan and laughed, "You!"

Huang Chengyan naturally laughed too. They have known each other for so many years, who still doesn’t know the other?

The main hall was quite lively.

Of course, this is not the first time that Huang Yueying has seen such a scene. In her memory, the relationship between her old father and Pang Degong is really very good, and they visit each other many times.

"Second Lady! Second Lady! It's printed, it's printed!" Song Bo's delighted voice suddenly came in.

Huang Yueying immediately stood up and ran out. In the courtyard, she saw Song Bo carefully holding up a piece of paper full of words and running towards the main room, "Uncle Song, wait a little slower."

…

"What's printed?" Inside the house, Pang Degong saw Huang Yueying running out, so he asked about Huang Chengyan.

Huang Chengyan stroked his beard proudly, "Brother Shang, just go and see."

Having said that, he also stood up and walked out.

"You!" Mr. Pang Degong glared at Huang Chengyan again. He had no choice but to be curious!

Listening to the man's voice, he was very excited, and it could not be said that it was a big event.

So he also stood up, followed by Pang Shanmin and Zhuge, who naturally had to accompany him.

…

On the wooden corridor under the eaves, Huang Yueying took the Three-Character Sutra with part of the content printed on it and looked at it carefully.

The handwriting is clear, neat, and all in block letters, making people feel comfortable reading it.

"At the beginning of man's life, his nature is good."

"Sex is similar, habits are far apart."

Behind Huang Yueying, the voice of her old father came, "I never thought that the research on printing could be so fast?"

Huang Yueying smiled and said, "Father, this is not difficult at all. There was no such convenient paper in the past. No one thought of it."

"Yes, yes, it's all our Ah Chu who is smart!" Huang Chengyan took the piece of paper from Huang Yueying's hand and also praised his little girl with a smile.

"What are you reciting!" Pang Degong immediately stood still and looked at the paper in his hand. His eyes widened and he wanted to take it over to read, but he was afraid of damaging the paper.

"Take it!" Huang Chengyan handed it over, and Pang Degong took it carefully. Then, several heads gathered around to look at it.

Huang Yueying didn't care about this, but asked about Song Bo's situation, "Uncle Song, was this entire board carved by Mr. Sun?"

"Yes, since the day before yesterday, Mr. Sun has carved about a hundred words. Yesterday, he carved more. When it comes to Wuchang, there is no need to mess up. A total of 288 words. Because the trial wood has been fully engraved, he will

I took the paper and tried to print it, and after it was done, I brought it to the lady."

"This... Mr. Sun is old, let him rest for a day." Huang Yueying was helpless, how could these people be more anxious than her.

"What he saved was that during the day, he carved the characters, and at night, Li Mu held the lamp and continued to carve the characters smoothly."

Huang Yueying: They are all good guys. In order to catch up with the work, they have to work night shifts.

"Several other carpenters who are good at carving can be regarded as carvers, and they can also carve in a decent way." Song Bo also talked about the progress of several other people.

Huang Yueying waved her hand, "After work today, ask Mr. Sun and Li Mu to go back early, and ask Aunt Li to leave five kilograms of meat for each of them to take back. Then go to the warehouse and give more to each of the thirteen carpenters.

Twenty pounds of corn."

"No, I'll go see Manager Zhou later." Song Bo agreed with a smile, and then went back to the workshop.

Huang Yueying then looked at the faces of the "adults" behind her and said, "Okay, you can take a look if you like, anyway... they have all been printed."

"What do these tadpoles and this small circle mean?" Pang Degong suddenly asked.

Huang Chengyan still stroked his beard, smiled and said nothing, pointed at Huang Yueying, and signaled for his daughter to answer.

Huang Yueying feels that Huang Chengyan like this is very much like the parents of children in later generations who show off their grades: This year my child won the title of "Three Excellent Students" and ranked first in the exam...

To be honest, it's quite funny.

So he explained, "Uncle Pang, this is the Three Character Classic. It will be used in my Huang family study this year to facilitate the children's memory."

"As for the tadpole and the small circle, they represent broken sentences."

"When children learn articles, they often don't understand their meaning, which has a lot to do with sentence fragmentation. The tadpole shape represents a pause, and the words have not been finished yet, while the small circle indicates that the words have been finished."

"Oh! Who came up with this?" After Pang Degong died, Pang Shanmin was the first to get excited. He was in charge of the Pang family's ethnic studies and occasionally taught classes. With this method, it would be much easier for the children to learn.

"Well, he's an expert called Flower Planter!" Huang Yueying thought for a while and still insisted on this name.

Even her name is of no use in front of her old father.
To be continued...