Traveling through time and space to achieve a well-off life with your family

"Dad! Dad! I want to tell you! The little bird I saw today..." With the afterglow of the setting sun, they walked back slowly. Cheng Mo held Cheng Lingqu's little hand, and Ban Mu followed behind them carrying something. The shadows of the three were stretched and intertwined.

When they got home, Cheng Mo took Cheng Lingqu to take a bath. While taking a bath, Cheng Mo sighed: "I must install a bathroom in my new house in the future!"

While Cheng Mo and the others were washing up, Ban Mu had already moved the furniture he had made to the new house. He always remembered what Cheng Mo had said about the furniture he would install in the house. He would decorate the house himself and their family would live in this house for a very long time.

*

Cheng Mo took the cleaned Cheng Lingqu back home. Ban Mu had just finished cooking, so Cheng Mo took Cheng Lingqu to sit down and eat.

"Ban Mu, how is your trial going recently?" Cheng Mo asked casually.

"Not bad. The divine beast said that I'm making rapid progress." Ban Mu replied after swallowing the food in his mouth. Although he didn't tell Cheng Mo that because of his rapid progress, the divine beast had recently dragged him to deal with some things called alien objects. His injuries were getting worse every day, but the divine beast was now becoming more and more adept at using its healing ability. At least his wounds were healed when he returned home every day.

Cheng Mo nodded, and Cheng Lingqu wiped his mouth after finishing his meal and went to read a book. He had a lot of fun today, and he would try hard to remember it.

*

The next morning, Cheng Mo strolled to the cave. Things were not so busy recently, so he took some time off to check on the cubs' studies.

Cheng Mo had just heard the cubs reading when he saw a small white dot rushing towards him quickly. Before Cheng Mo could dodge, he heard a chirp. Cheng Mo reacted quickly and raised his hand to block the attack of the unknown object with the bamboo basket in his hand.

"Chijijiji..." (little female...) Gua Yan saw Cheng Mo's excitement instantly dropped, and was actually stopped by Cheng Mo with a bamboo basket, damn it!

Cheng Mo grabbed Gua Yan from the bottom of the basket and smiled helplessly: "I didn't know it was you. You rushed over so suddenly."

Gua Yan shook his dizzy head: "Chichichichichichichi! Chichichichichichichichi?" (I'm so happy, little female. Did you come to see me today?)

Cheng Mo smiled apologetically: "I don't understand."

Gua Yan lowered his head in disappointment. The beast forms of their Winged Clan couldn't speak, but he had no way of changing into a human form now! Damn it!

Cheng Mo put Gua Yan into the bamboo basket, and carried the basket to where the cubs were studying. When the cubs heard Cheng Mo's voice, they all turned their heads to look at Cheng Mo. Cheng Lingqu jumped off the stool excitedly and ran towards Cheng Mo. Cheng Mo wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked, "Why are you in such a hurry?"

Cheng Lingqu happily hugged Cheng Mo's neck, shook it and said, "Dad! I was telling them about our outing yesterday!"

The little cubs gathered around. They were very envious when they heard Cheng Lingqu’s description in the morning. You know, now they have grown up, and every morning they have to learn to read with Cheng Lingqu, and then go out hunting with the adult orcs in the tribe. They have no time to go out and play at all!

Cheng Mo touched the heads of the little cubs one by one, and the little cubs squinted their eyes in enjoyment. Cheng Mo felt the furry touch under his hands, and couldn't help but picked up a little wolf cub and took a sip. The little wolf cub's face turned red instantly, and he stayed stiffly in Cheng Mo's arms, not daring to move. The other little cubs looked at the little wolf cub in Cheng Mo's arms with envy: We want it too!

Cheng Mo understood the longing in the little cub's eyes. He smiled and put down the little wolf cub in his hand, picked up the little cubs one by one and stroked them. Cheng Lingqu also followed Cheng Mo's example and picked up a little cub and rubbed it.

Gua Yan looked at the little cubs being hugged and rubbed by Cheng Mo with envy: It’s a pity that I’m not a little cub…

Cheng Lingqu picked up Gua Yan and rubbed him. Gua Yan couldn't struggle and had to give up. If he didn't get picked up by the little female, he could get picked up by his child...

Cheng Mo sighed inwardly: This is a paradise for furry lovers!

After all the cubs had been touched, Cheng Mo took the cubs to sit under a tree to check on their practice progress.

"Dad, look what I wrote!" Cheng Lingqu handed over a piece of animal skin like he was presenting a treasure. Cheng Mo took the skin curiously and saw that written on it was Cheng Lingqu's impressions of the trip he went out yesterday.

The handwriting on it was a little immature and blurry, probably written with charcoal, and some places were worn out. Looking at Cheng Lingqu's eyes, Cheng Mo couldn't help but reach out and touch it, and an idea flashed in his mind.

"The baby is so great!" Cheng Mo picked up Cheng Lingqu and lifted him up high. Although Cheng Lingqu didn't know why his father was so happy, he was happy when his father was happy, and Cheng Lingqu smiled so much that his little teeth were exposed.

Cheng Mo took the animal skin and hurriedly ran into the cave, but there was no sign of Xiong Bai inside. Cheng Mo was wondering when Kong Fu came out with a pottery jar in his hand.

"Lord Cheng Mo?" Kong Fu looked at Cheng Mo in confusion.

"Kong Fu, where is the high priest?"

"The high priest should be at the brick kiln factory. He went there very early in the morning."

Hearing this, Cheng Mo quickly turned around to find the high priest, leaving Kong Fu standing there in confusion.

Cheng Mo walked out of the cave and trotted to find Xiong Bai. When he found Xiong Bai, Xiong Bai was circling around the bricks that had just been baked, muttering, "Not enough! Not enough!"

"High Priest!" Cheng Mo raised the animal skin in his hand and waved it. Xiong Bai heard the voice and turned around, just in time to see Cheng Mo running down the mountain with a piece of animal skin. His anxious look frightened Xiong Bai.

"Ouch, ouch! Why are you running so fast!" Xiong Bo ran over with his legs twirling.

Cheng Mo ran to Xiong Bo and handed the animal skin to Xiong Bo without even catching his breath. Xiong Bo took the animal skin and looked at it puzzledly: "This was written by Xiao Lingqu, right? He showed it to me this morning, and his handwriting is really good! Look at this handwriting, it's better than mine!"

Cheng Mo panted and shook his hands: "Huh...Huh...No...Huh!"

Xiong Bo felt sorry for Cheng Mo and calmed him down: "Hey, why did you come here in such a hurry? Sit down and have a rest!" Then he helped Cheng Mo walk to the shed and let him sit down and have a rest.

After a short rest, Cheng Mo excitedly raised the animal skin in his hand and said, "High Priest! Look! This animal skin!"

"I saw it! I saw it! What's wrong with this piece of hide? Is it worth your rushing to come to me?"

"High Priest, in my hometown, there is a tool for recording text, which is paper. Paper is made of trees. You said that when we have paper, we can write down what we want to record on trees on paper. Then we can write down as much as we want!" Cheng Mo said happily, pointing to the animal skin in his hand, but Xiong Bai did not understand what Cheng Mo said. He only understood that Cheng Mo wanted to make something called paper.

So Xiong Bo nodded: "Okay, okay! Then you tell me how to do this, and I will arrange it then."

*

Papermaking is known as one of the four great inventions of ancient times and is an important invention that promotes the spread of human culture. Cheng Mo only knows that paper is made of trees, but he doesn't know much about the specific process. There is a description of papermaking in "The Exploitation of the Works of Nature", but what is described there is not available to Cheng Mo at present. Just when he was still troubled by the papermaking process, 079 appeared again.

"Ding Dong! Main Mission Eight: The Birth of Paper!" 079's words were full of joy, but no one knew what it was happy about.

"It's no use giving me this task. I don't know how to make paper." Cheng Mo sighed in distress as he sat under a tree.

"Ding Dong! I know!" 079's voice was very happy: "And this time we will give you a reward in advance."

Cheng Mo dodged reflexively upon hearing this, only to see a book falling from the sky. Cheng Mo patted his chest in fear: "I knew something was going to sneak up on me!"

"Ding Dong! This time the reward is how to make paper! So host, please read it carefully!" After saying that, 079 disappeared.

Cheng Mo touched his head in confusion: "This guy, did he take the wrong medicine today?" Cheng Mo walked forward and picked up the book. He saw that the cover of the book was made of cowhide, with only three words written on it - "Papermaking", and nothing else. Even the author's name was missing. It looked like a three-no product.

Cheng Mo opened the catalog and saw the following written on it: 1. Peeling the wood, 2. Cutting, 3. Steaming the wood chips, 4. Washing and screening, 5. Filtering the water, 6. Flattening.

Just four simple steps, Cheng Mo turned the pages again, and every page was blank.

"So the table of contents is actually the main text, right?! Then why write a table of contents?" Cheng Mo complained as he put away the book.

On the other side, Xiongbai had already arranged people to help. Cheng Mo called several orcs who came to help to go to the new house. A lot of trees had been cut down there before. Those trees were piled on the side and were useless. Now they were just right to use them.

Several orcs removed the bark according to Cheng Mo's instructions. Cheng Mo then went to the iron smelter and got a newly made axe. The new axe was very sharp. Cheng Mo personally demonstrated how to chop wood. After watching, the orcs said they did not need the axe.

Cheng Mo stared in amazement as an orc from the Rhino Horn Tribe broke a tree with his bare hands. Cheng Mo couldn't even lift the tree, but the orc from the Rhino Horn Tribe actually broke it with his bare hands!

Next, the orcs broke the trees with their bare hands, and Cheng Mo chopped them with an axe. After dealing with the peeled wood, Cheng Mo put the broken wood into a big pot to steam. Cheng Mo watched the wood become softened in the water, and then the water became turbid.

It was not until dark that all the wood was absorbed into the water. Cheng Mo put the sieve into the turbid water and shook it. He saw some yellow wood pulp left on the sieve. Cheng Mo picked up the sieve and put it aside to dry. However, there was no sun now, so he could only wait until tomorrow morning to check it.

Cheng Mo left an orc to guard the sieve, and the other orcs went home. Ban Mu came out to find Cheng Mo, and Cheng Mo happily pulled Ban Mu to tell him what happened today. Ban Mu listened carefully and said a few words from time to time.

The next morning, Cheng Mo got up early and went to check out the sieve without even eating. When he got there, he saw the orc who had stayed yesterday looking at the sieve.

"Lord Cheng Mo, this sieve is dry!" said the orc, holding up the sieve in his hand.

Cheng Mo walked over and took a look. The surface of the paper was rough and there were some small stones left on it. Although it was not perfect, this was their first attempt and it was already amazing!

Cheng Mo touched the rough paper surface and nodded, "It seems that our attempt yesterday was in the right direction. This pulp is a bit rough. We need to sift it several times to remove the impurities in the water. I'll ask Xiongtai to make a tool to flatten the paper surface."

The orc nodded excitedly. Cheng Mo took the paper and went to find Xiong Bai. Xiong Bai was checking the vegetable garden. When he saw Cheng Mo, he waved and said, "Cheng Mo! Come here and take a look."

Cheng Mo came over and saw the young sprouts in the ground. The tender sprouts swayed in the wind. Cheng Mo looked at Xiong Bai in confusion: "High Priest, what's wrong?"

Fierce Cypress pointed at the small sprout and said, "We didn't plant this. What is this?"

Cheng Mo shook his head. What could be seen from the small buds on two leaves?

Xiong Bai wanted to pull out the small sprout, but he was afraid that it was some kind of vegetable. After thinking about it, he had to give up. He turned around and saw what Cheng Mo was holding. He asked curiously, "Is this the paper you mentioned?"

Cheng Mo happily handed over the paper in his hand: "That's right! High Priest, look, this is the paper I was talking about!"

Xiongbai took the paper and touched it: "It's different from animal skin. It feels sandy."

Cheng Mo said: "This is still a rough product. It will be better after we filter it later! By the way, High Priest, I remember you have a shark skin in your hand. Can you lend it to me?"

Xiong Bo did not ask Cheng Mo what he wanted the shark skin for. He just waved his hand and said, "Go get it if you want it. Kong Fu knows where it is. Go ask him."

Cheng Mo thanked him and left. He found Kong Fu, got the shark skin and went to find the murder platform.

"Xiongtai! Are you free? Can you help me make something?" Cheng Mo said, holding the shark skin in his hand.

Xiongtai took the shark skin from Cheng Mo's hand and asked, "Okay, what do you want to do?"

Cheng Mo gestured with his hands and feet what he was going to make. Xiongtai nodded and said, "Okay, wait for me." Then he turned and went to his workbench.

Cheng Mo looked at the wood around him. These were the furniture that other orcs had asked Xiong Tai to make. Xiong Tai was so busy these days that he had no time to go out hunting. There were too many pieces of furniture to make. Fortunately, someone was responsible for his food.

Cheng Mo looked at the bed that had taken shape on the ground and sighed: "This bed is really big! Is it so big that the beast can sleep on it?"

It didn't take long for Xiongtai to hand the finished tool to Cheng Mo. Cheng Mo looked at the tool and said, "Thank you! It's very well done!"

Xiongtai touched his nose shyly: "It's okay."

Cheng Mo said goodbye to the Xiongtai and went to watch the papermaking. When he arrived, the orcs were already filtering the wood pulp. Cheng Mo watched the orcs filtering the wood pulp over and over again. He didn't expect these big guys to be so careful and not even bothered to filter over and over again.

The orcs filtered it several times until no stones or branches could be seen in the wood pulp in the water, and then dried it like they did yesterday, except that this time Cheng Mo used the tool he had just asked Xiong Tai to make to press on the wood pulp, so that the paper surface would be smoother.

The rest was up to time. When Cheng Mo went to take a look the next day, he found that the paper was indeed smoother than yesterday's. Although it was not as white and smooth as modern ones, it was still pretty good.

Yan Hai touched the finished paper and praised it constantly. Xiangshan also looked at the paper curiously. Just at this time, Xifa came over and said happily, "Master Cheng Mo, the iron smelter has made something amazing. Do you want to go and see it?"