The north wind was thick, and the water flowed down like ice. A pair of cotton covers withstood the cold, and the warm soup on the stove dispelled a thousand worries. Tying ropes, hanging baskets, shaking briquettes, and talking about stopping.
The north wind was howling today, and it seemed to be endless.
The person in Zhuangzi had a scarf wrapped around his neck and a mask over his mouth, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.
His exhaled breath rose, and frost formed on his eyelashes and eyebrows.
The children put on one piece of clothing after another, and they could no longer find the cute appearance of the students from before.
However, the child in front of them was even cuter. He wore many clothes and looked like a ball.
He opened his small hands and walked like a penguin. He accidentally fell and rolled for a while before he could get up again.
Because he was wearing thick clothes, the child would not be injured when he fell.
When the adults saw this, they would laugh. Some smiled and turned their heads to wipe their tears.
Especially those who had just entered Zhuangzi this spring. In the past, how could their children dress like this? Every piece of clothing was money.
In order to make cotton-padded clothes and gloves for the children, Dongzhu could not even bear to part with the quilts.
It was because of the strong request of the people that ten quilts and mattresses were made.
One was for Dongzhu, and the other was for the nobles to have bedding.
The children in Zhuangzi were like this. The children of the families who came to find a way to make a living did not have cotton-padded clothes, but they would add a few more silk clothes.
Moreover, the children did not work, and the students in Zhuangzi came to teach them.
After practicing with a wooden stick for a few days, they also had brushes, ink, and paper.
The place where they worked was like Zhuangzi. Every 16 households had a large clay pot on the stove, and there was no iron.
In the morning, new meat bones would be put in the pot, and some dried vegetables would be added to it.
When they were thirsty from work, they would come over to drink a bowl of soup. There was oil on the bones, and it could quench their cravings and thirst.
Instead of making coal blocks, they changed to shaking briquettes. They set up a rack and hung a shallow bamboo basket on it. They shook it with water and coal slurry, and the coal slurry turned into briquettes.
Briquettes were not bad, but they were not as good as coal blocks, because coal blocks could be placed in half on the fire to suppress the fire.
This way, the fire would be smaller, and the temperature could be maintained for a long time.
If the equal pressure of the coal blocks was slowly burned down, he could use the hook of the furnace to penetrate them, and the flame would jump up again.
The surface of the Baishui River was already frozen, but the ice was not thick. They took the small boat to open the ice, and told the waterwheel to continue moving.
The water from the waterwheel flowed into the paper mill.
In the papermaking workshop, large stoves were used to cook all sorts of things. They also had to add wood ash and lime.
Then, they would be fished out and transported to the riverside, where they would be crushed by a mill driven by a water wheel.
There were also some who used foot crushers to smash the cooked things into pieces.
There was no need to put it in a wooden bucket and pound it with a stick.
Afterwards, he would scoop up the pulp with a layer of cloth and place it on a wooden rack in the house to dry. There was a fire in the house to raise the temperature.
When they were dry, they would peel them off one by one to reveal paper.
The paper made from different materials was different. The toilet paper was made from grass.
The paper used for writing was made of bamboo, hemp, and tree bark. It was good to add some other things, such as alum and lime.
Papermaking was a technical job, but the workers found that in Zhuangzi, it was a physical job.
There were no technical obstacles. Dongzhu had arranged everything.
It even included the disposal and reuse of the residual liquid. They just had to follow the process and did not need to consider anything else.
Other than going to the toilet, the paper he made was for everyone to write on.
In addition, they made their own ink. Burning the kiln would produce all kinds of charcoal ash. These were used as raw materials to make ordinary ink and ink.
The brush used was bamboo with hair. It was difficult to find wolf hair. Rabbit hair also needed rabbit hair. There were other kinds of hair. Choose. It was not writing calligraphy. It was fine as long as you could write.
The ink slab needed to find a suitable stone, fine.
It did not need to reach the level where the ink was not easy to dry and the speed of the rock ink was fast.
When making ink, the liquid state could be directly filled into a bowl, dipped in it, and written. Did they have to make it into an ink stick and then grind it again?
Therefore, Zhuangzi had all the four treasures of the study. They did not need to buy them. Zhuangzi was poor, and Dongzhu did not have money. They could only make it themselves.
With the addition of the textile workers and kiln workers, they did not have enough manpower.
"Otherwise, we can't build a workshop. Ming Residence, please take care of this matter." Li Yi invited Pei Yaoqing for a meal in Zhuangzi.
He went to Chang 'an City to invite Pei Yaoqing. When Pei Yaoqing received the invitation, he rushed over without saying anything.
It was obviously unrealistic for a person who only owned 1,000 mu of land to invite the head of Chang 'an to a banquet.
However, when Li Yi invited Pei Yaoqing, he came without hesitation.
He invited Pei Yaoqing before lunch and said it would be tomorrow. However, Pei Yaoqing rushed over without eating.
Li Yi also did not eat. They could eat together. They talked while eating.
Before eating, Pei Yaoqing endured his hunger and walked around the workshop first.
He thought it would be like other workshops. A group of dark and thin people, wearing thin clothes and shivering in the cold, were working hard in the cold wind.
What he saw was a group of people wearing several layers of clothes, hats, masks, gloves, and furry boots. They were talking and laughing as they worked.
At this moment, he looked at Li Yi and sized him up again. It was as if he did not hear what Li Yi said.
"Ming Residence, eat first. I specially made the mandarin duck hotpot. One side is spicy and the other side is chicken bone soup."
Li Yi advised. To thank the county magistrate, he made spicy and spicy hotpot.
It was different from the previous hotpot with charcoal in the middle. This hotpot used firedamp at the bottom.
"You have taken over Zhang Family's village's land. You don't have enough land? If Zhang Family goes to the county to sue me, I will definitely award the workshop to Zhang Family. "
Pei Yaoqing was talking about another matter. He was also using his authority to threaten Li Yi.
He always lost in front of Li Yi. Now that the opportunity to get back at him had appeared, he had to use it quickly.
"Don't worry, Ming Residence. I promised Zhang Family that you can come to me if you are sick." Li Yi retorted.
Pei Yaoqing lowered his head, picked up the vegetables, and boiled them. He was sad.
He forgot that Li Yi was not only a money-making Dongzhu, but also a Miracle Doctor.
With the Miracle Doctor beside the village, so what if he used the village's land?
If he dared to cheat the Miracle Doctor of his workshop today, he would die in front of the Miracle Doctor tomorrow.
Moreover, he did not dare to judge Li Yi. So many people were alive because of him.
If the county magistrate directly awarded the workshop to the village, those people would rush into Chang 'an and go all the way to the county office.
Didn't they see the invitation? It was said that they would come tomorrow.
"How many people do you need? Do you need someone in your family who is sick? "
Pei Yaoqing took a bite of the spicy tofu skin and asked with sweat on his nose.
Li Yi's chopsticks paused. He thought for a while and nodded. "Come on. I don't have much to do recently. I can treat people too."
He decided to use living people to practice. Anyway, the actual situation of the patients was like that. If he could not treat them, the Imperial Physician Department could not treat them either.
He had the examination equipment, medicine, and surgical instruments. At the same time, he also learned Chinese medicine.
If he could treat them with the equipment, he would use Chinese medicine.
If Chinese medicine and acupuncture did not work, he would think of other ways.
It was just that his acupuncture skills were not good enough. But it did not matter. There were videos.
Thinking about it, Li Yi scooped up the chili oil soup and drank it. He sweated and felt comfortable.
"Don't you think it's spicy?" Pei Yaoqing shivered.
"It's spicy. And this spiciness is not the taste. It's a kind of pain feedback from the injury. But it's different from other pain. Some patients can be revived after drinking this soup. The subject of medicine is very magical. "
As Li Yi spoke, he put the tofu into the pot to freeze. At the same time, he lowered the heat. The soup boiled and splashed out.
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