After traveling through time, she went to practice her way of making money

In fact, after the diagnosis just now, Qin Caichun had already roughly understood Gao Shuyue's situation. Those cinnabar, rouge, and powder did cause a certain degree of damage to her body, but he did not say it directly. After all, it was related to a woman's appearance and physical health, so it was better to be cautious.

Gao Shuyue seemed very calm. After all, she had already made sufficient mental preparations: "Okay! Then I'll trouble Mr. Qin to help arrange it. Qiu Shuang, give the deposit to Mr. Qin." As soon as she finished speaking, Qiu Shuang quickly took out a bulging purse from her arms, and carefully handed it to Qin Caichun.

Upon seeing this, several children immediately swarmed over, vying with each other to stare at the purse, chattering among themselves, guessing that the purse should contain more than ten taels of silver!

"This is really unnecessary..."

"Mr. Qin, you should take it!" Deng Xian knew that this time things might not go smoothly, so she agreed, "Only if you take the money can Shuyue feel at ease."

Qin Caichun naturally understood what Deng Xian meant, so he stopped refusing, took the money bag and nodded, saying that he would do his best. Then he turned around and said goodbye to everyone.

At this moment, among all the people present, except for those who were only thinking about the children (of course, Su Shian was not among them), Deng Qiyue was the only one who had not figured out what had happened.

In the following days, Su Shi Ning would carefully study the various prescriptions given to her by Su Shi An every day with the people in the shop. One day, Su Shi Rong, who was returning home from get out of class, saw Su Shi An busy with Wu Jin in the backyard. She couldn't help but get curious and walked up to him and asked, "An An, why don't you go and help?"

Su Shian smiled and shook his head, and replied: "No need, with my sister and sister Hongdou here, they will definitely be able to handle it properly."

Su Shirong followed her gaze and looked behind her, only to see the mulberry trees lying in all directions all over the ground. She asked in confusion, "What are you doing with so many mulberry trees?"

At this time, Wu Jin took the initiative to explain: "Third Master, we want..." However, she did not call Su Shirong as the Su family expected, but regarded herself as Su Shian's maid. She continued, "Third Brother, we want to make paper... make paper..."

In fact, Su Shian prepared all of this in advance based on her memory. Although she knew that the best fiber for making sanitary products should be banana trees, she couldn't find this material in Yuzhou. Therefore, she had to settle for the second best and choose the more easily available paper mulberry bark as a substitute.

Hearing Su Shian's words, Su Shirong was obviously a little unbelievable: "Really?"

"Yes!" Su Shian thought: Third brother, please don't ask any more questions! Otherwise, when you hear the truth later, don't blame me for making you lose face!

Fortunately, Su Shirong was not the kind of person who would ask questions until he got to the bottom of the matter. After hearing what his sister said, he stopped asking questions. Then, he asked again, "Do you need my help? I remember that papermaking seems to be made from tree bark!"

Upon hearing this, Su Shian nodded and said, "Yes, yes, yes, Third Brother, do you want to help peel the bark?"

"Okay!" Su Shirong agreed happily.

At this time, Su Shikuan came over and offered to help. In this way, the four half-grown children started to get busy in an orderly manner.

The production process of paper mulberry is quite complicated and is an ancient traditional handicraft. The whole process covers multiple steps, namely collection (peeling), drying, soaking, steaming, rinsing, pulping, scooping paper, pressing and finally drying. At present, they are in the collection stage and have completed most of the work.

Since Gao Shuyue may not be in a good mood recently and classes have not started yet, Su Shian and Wu Jin have time to do other things. They bought mulberry trees from villagers in nearby villages who have forests. These villagers usually collect mulberry seeds and sell them to herb gardens. Although this tree is suitable for building houses, its actual use is quite limited. Only when the government plans to build a large-scale construction project will it need a large amount of wood provided by the villagers.

They purchased the trees according to the hilltops. The paper mulberry trees on just one hill cost Su Shi'an's savings, which was a full fifteen taels of silver that she had saved for a long time! Seeing that the two young girls were so generous, the villagers were very happy to lend a hand after making sure that their families had no objections. They helped cut down half of the trees, about forty or fifty of them. Then, Su Shi'an found a carriage to transport all the paper mulberry trees back home. As for the rest, she had already discussed with the villagers to cut them down and transport them away after some time. In order to prevent the villagers from repenting and denying, the clever Su Shi'an prepared receipts in advance, and under the witness of the village chief, asked the villagers to press their fingerprints as proof.

After the paper mulberry trees are cut down, they need to peel the bark immediately because this kind of tree has little water and is easy to dry. If they wait until the water is lost before peeling the bark, it will be very troublesome to handle, and they often have to soak it in water to get it done.

Then put the peeled bark in the sun and let it dry naturally. The whole process takes about a day. Of course, you can also hang the bark on the beams of the house to dry slowly in the shade. However, the dried bark can only be stored for one to two years at most. If it is stored for too long, the color of the bark will change, thus affecting the quality of the paper. Fortunately, the weather has been good these two days, so it only needs to be exposed to sunlight.

After drying for a day, it is time to soak. Therefore, after peeling the book cover, Su Shian must prepare several large vats. Otherwise, she will have nowhere to soak the bark. Not only that, the soaking time for papermaking with mulberry bark will vary depending on the season and geographical location. Generally speaking, it takes about twenty days to soak in clean water in winter, thirteen or fourteen days in summer, and about eight or nine days in autumn. Then, soak it in lime water for another day and then cook it. However, these data are only in Su Shian's memory. In actual operation, they may need to be adjusted according to specific circumstances. In short, the ultimate goal is to completely soak the bark until it softens.

However, before that, Su Shian had a more important thing to do - that is to find someone to provide her with financial support. The reason was simple, she no longer had enough money to buy a large vat. At night, the family was busy in the study. At this time, Su Shian finally plucked up the courage to speak: "Dad, Mom, my daughter needs some funds."