I was fucked by Zheng Ge as soon as I crossed over

The fourth princess returned and devoured most of her lunch, crying as she ate. The food was so spicy that she even used ten handkerchiefs.

That night, she regretted it.

The fourth princess, who had gone to the restroom seven or eight times, lay exhausted on the bed, gritting her teeth and shouting, "Su! Jin! Yue!!!"

The sun is rising brightly,

Thousands of mountains and hills are like ablaze.

The sun is shining brightly and a new day begins in the court meeting.

When Su Jinyue was cheating, she received a signal from the Shaofu Ling and nodded in response.

As soon as the court meeting ended, the two of them got together and walked back to Yuehua Palace together.

Cai Yan smiled widely, walked with a breeze, and seemed quite proud.

"Third Princess, the brushes, ink, and inkstone are ready."

"Oh? That's great! Thank you for your hard work, Minister of the Imperial Household."

"It's not hard, it's not hard. Let's go and take a look. I've already asked the craftsmen to deliver it to Yuehua Palace!"

As the two talked, their pace gradually quickened.

In Yuehua Palace, Cao Chang and several engineers had been waiting for a long time.

"The humble official pays his respects to the Third Princess." Everyone bowed and stepped forward one by one.

The government office in the Qin Dynasty that managed the official handicraft industry was collectively called the Gongguan, also known as the Shaofu. Cai Yan was the Shaofu Ling who was in charge of the Shaofu and could report directly to Ying Zheng.

Under it, there are the Left Mansion and the Right Mansion. This time, those who came with him were the engineers and craftsmen who were directly involved in the production of inkstones, brushes and ink, as well as the foreman Cao Chang Xu Ying.

Su Jinyue was a little impatient. She asked everyone to sit down and ordered directly: "Quick, show it to me."

Xu Ying and others placed the items one by one on the table in the center of the hall.

Su Jinyue picked up each one and stroked them carefully. The exquisitely crafted inkstones were shocking to watch.

Different from the elaborate carvings of later generations, these inkstones were improved on the basis of stone inkstones. Their appearance is very similar to the one in the Confucius Temple, but they are also very different.

The materials are mainly beautiful stones, ceramic inkstones, lacquer inkstones, and copper inkstones, which can be rectangular, oval, gourd-shaped, dustpan-shaped, or even in the shape of a strange animal.

Each inkstone is engraved with lines of varying depths. It feels heavy to the touch and warm to the touch.

It is worth noting that the craftsmen thoughtfully equipped each inkstone with a set of grinding pestles for easy use.

The writing brush is the most exquisitely crafted among them. When I first mentioned it to Cai Yan, he told me that this thing had already appeared. It was called "Bu Lu" in the former Wu State and "Cha (Zhu)" in the former Chu State. They were all made of simple bamboo tubes, which made the craftsmen's transformation particularly smooth.

Based on the original bamboo pen, the craftsmen made innovations by engraving words on the pen shaft, inlaying it with beautiful stones and jewels, and even tried to make the pen shaft out of jade. They also made the Juyan pen, which is simple and easy to replace the nib.

The reason why it took so long to make the brush was that the material of the brush hair had not been determined. The craftsmen tried the hair of animals such as sheep, horses, cows, weasels, wolves, chickens, mice, and rabbits in turn. The experiments were complicated and long, which led to the current situation where it was delivered together with the other two.

However, the result was good. The craftsmen finally decided to use rabbit, sheep and mouse hair as the main raw materials for making brushes because of the three easy-to-obtain and easy-to-use hairs.

The last things he bought were various ink blocks. Su Jinyue held the pine soot ink block in his hand for a long time and was reluctant to put it down.

The Shaofu Ling was particularly careful to send over the modules collected by the Shaozuofu from all over the country. They were raw ink blocks with no fixed shape, either blocks, columns or particles. At first glance, they were embryonic products with rough workmanship and uneven ink collection.

Su Jinyue continued to admire the pine soot module in her hand with a little complacency. When she smelled it carefully, she could smell a faint pine scent.

This ink is the most time-consuming and labor-intensive of the three.

Just selecting the materials for the initial smoke refining took the craftsmen over ten days. Using tung oil and sesame oil for incomplete combustion produces oil smoke, while using pine branches for fumigation collects pine smoke. The bituminous coal cannot be too coarse; the finer the particles, the better the quality.

After refining the smoke, the mixing of materials and making of ink went smoothly, except for the fact that it took more time to choose the glue.

The most difficult part is drying the ink. One or two ounces of ink need to be dried for six months. The ink drying room needs to maintain a constant temperature and humidity, and must also prevent cracking and mildew according to weather changes. At the same time, the ink needs to be constantly turned over so that the naturally arched ink body that dries and shrinks can be restored to its flatness.

No wonder the ink stick in her hand was so small. It turned out that it was a small ink that she had taken out in advance. The other large inks were still in the ink drying room waiting to dry completely.

In this comparison, it is not difficult to fix the ink, wax and fill in the color after the ink stick has dried.

"Good, great good!"

"Beautiful! So beautiful!"

Su Jinyue kept praising these treasures, and her eyes were full of admiration when she looked at Cai Yan and the others.

She quietly called over the maids and whispered, "Dan, Gui, take out two, no, one, gold cakes from under my bed and give them as a reward."

"Yes." The two of them understood and moved the gold cake lightly under the princess's bed.

The people who received the rewards expressed their gratitude repeatedly and kept saying that they would work harder and more attentively in the future and obey the instructions of the third princess.

"No problem, no problem, I have both."

Su Jinyue had someone else bring some clean water and was trying to grind the ink.

A quarter of an hour later, "Come on, it's still you guys who come."

Lady Dan has already spread out silk on the table. This item is expensive and should not be used unless it is an important matter.

Su Jinyue picked up the pen, dipped it in ink, and placed it on the silk. Everyone gathered around her, waiting eagerly for her to put pen to paper.

She stroked the delicate silk with her left hand, but finally gave up and didn't want to try.

Of course, this doesn't mean that she is uneducated or can't write calligraphy. She is just more frugal.

Su Jinyue put the pen down, thinking that she would need to get some pen holders and pen racks. She turned to look at Cai Yan and said softly, "Shaofu Ling, do you think it's inappropriate to place this pen like this? How about we make a batch of pen holders and pen racks?"

Cai Yan's eyes lit up when he heard this. "Excuse me, Third Princess, what are the meanings of pen hanging and pen rest?"

"A pen hanger is a pen hanger that has a small hole in the top of the brush to insert a drawstring into. The drawstring is then hung on the pen hanger. It's both beautiful and convenient."

Su Jinyue stretched out her hand to gesture the shape of the pen holder, and continued, "A pen holder is based on the original inkstone, with a few raised corners added to facilitate the placement of brushes. It can also be made separately, in the shape of a mountain or a stream, so that the brush can be placed in the middle of writing to prevent it from staining the surface."

The Minister of the Imperial Household praised her highly: "The Third Princess is truly a genius. She is always able to come up with all kinds of ingenious things."

"Please explain in detail, Third Princess. The clerks will record it carefully."

The other engineers also eagerly asked Su Jinyue for details, and Cao Chang Xu Ying even took out the pen, knife, and bamboo slips he carried with him and began to record them carefully.

"There are so many styles like this. Let me tell you, there are many different forms of brush holders. They can be arranged in different shapes according to the size of the brushes. They can be arranged in single or double rows, with different heights, and they are exquisite and beautiful."

"There are many different kinds of pen holders, and you can choose any material you want, including landscapes, flowers, clouds, and animals."

"Good, write it down!"

"Also...be careful..."

The conversation ended only when the sun was setting.

Under Su Jinyue's instructions, Cai Yan took Xu Ying and the others and left Yuehua Palace.

"Make some more, I'll use them later, and also make some particularly domineering and beautiful ones, I'll give them to my father when the time comes!"

The strategy mission cannot stop, dear daddy, we must complete it!