Chapter 159 Ah, it turns out this is a thug
Soon Baiguo understood the role of the white tiger. Don’t be fooled by its cute appearance. Whenever a village encounters a monster and needs to summon the Mother Goddess, She will send it out.
He would accompany him at the beginning, but later on he would gradually let go and let Baihu go by himself.
ginkgo:"……"
Oh, it turns out this is a thug!
For a moment, she didn't know whether to sympathize with Baihu or with herself. After all, she was indeed very busy.
After the village heads brought their selected people to the grocery store, Baiguo took them to Grandma Tang and showed them the "immortal version" of papermaking.
Of course, she knew that they were just mortals and certainly couldn't do what she did. What she had to do was to teach them this process.
Once they understand the process, do it again with them.
From the selection, processing, steaming, pounding, making paper, pressing to drying of raw materials, no step is omitted and everything is taught.
However, she used the accelerated version with the help of divine power.
Village chief Wumu, village chief Tongna and others were stunned.
"Oh my goodness! This material for making paper is so convenient? I thought paper was very expensive."
"Paper must be expensive. If the White Fruit Tree God hadn't taught us how to make paper, would you know that hemp and tree bark are the key to making paper? Even if you knew, would you know which kind and which steps they were?"
“That’s true.”
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Some people also wondered, if they learned this and made paper in the future, could they sell the paper?
Although the voice was very small, the village chief Wu Mu still heard it. As soon as he heard the voice, he knew who said it.
He turned around and looked at Zhou Chusheng, the village chief of Yun Village, and said, "The White Fruit Tree God taught us to make paper so that we, the believers, can study, not for us to sell. If you want to sell it, you should ask the Mountain God for his opinion first!"
Zhou Chusheng stopped talking immediately.
He knew that Village Chief Wu Mu didn't like Yun Village, otherwise he wouldn't have been so eager to choose him and leave Yun Village to him.
Alas... Zhou Chusheng sighed softly in his heart, feeling a little bitter.
Does Chief Ebony think he wants to?
There was nothing he could do about it.
He was a young man, and it was very difficult for him to suppress those people in Yun Village. Especially when seeing that the lives of villages like Yilan Village, Nanxi Village and Qinghe Village were getting better and better, and even the later Longyang Village had two "extraors" that came from behind, the villagers had more ideas.
To put it bluntly, his idea of making paper was to find a way to make money for the village, to gain some merit for himself, and to have an easier time speaking to the villagers in the future.
Bai Guo said, "After the paper is made, whether to sell it or use it yourself is up to you to decide. The Mountain God and I will not interfere. We only have one condition, so decide it among yourselves."
Zhou Chusheng breathed a sigh of relief and bowed to the white fruit tree: "Thank you, White Fruit Tree God!"
While explaining, Bai Guo used his magic to create a "papermaking tutorial" on the spot. He left the group of villagers who were selected to learn papermaking behind, and asked Grandma Tang and Tang Xiaolian, her grandmother and granddaughter, to look after them, and then took the village heads to a meeting next door.
After all, where the paper mill will be built and who will be responsible for its construction have not yet been decided.
Countless vines emerged from the ground and soon formed a large round table with more than twenty chairs around it.
Baiguo sat in the first seat, with village chief Wumu and village chief Tongna on his left and right, and the others followed in order.
Bai Guo said: "I forgive you for this, now you can start the discussion!"
Every village chief wants to gain the most benefits for his village. This village chief said: "Our village was the last to join. We are too poor. When the paper mill is built, we should use more people from our village."
The village chief said, "Why? Just because your village is poor, ours is not. Do you know that many places outside are running out of food? If we hadn't met the mountain god, our food would have run out."
"I think Yilan Village can take a smaller share, after all, they already have a brick kiln and a bone-eating ant farm in the village."
Village Chief Wumu: "Why? Our village has a brick kiln and a bone-eating ant farm, but that's what our village deserves. Who told us that only our village believed in the mountain god at that time? This paper mill, either we share it equally, or no one can take advantage of anyone else."
Village Chief Tong Na agreed: "That's right. Just because Yilan Village took the lead and won the favor of the Mountain God, you can't steal Yilan Village's things. The reason why the White Fruit Tree God invited all of us here is that he definitely wants us to live in peace. How can you bully people like this? Either divide it equally, or no one should try to take advantage of the other."
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After much discussion, we finally decided to split it equally.
Since the Ginkgo Tree God clearly stated that after the paper mill is built, in addition to its own use, the paper produced can also be sold, then the future profits must be "equally shared" by everyone.
As for the part for personal use, it is easy to calculate. There is a unified internal price. Whoever uses more will pay more, and whoever uses less will pay less.
For paper mill workers, the initial plan is to have two people from each village, and the positions will be decided by drawing lots.
If we are short of people in the future, we will draw lots and choose the village that the people are from. Villages that have been drawn will not participate in the next round of drawing.
The paper mill needs water, and they need to choose a location that is close to the water source but downstream that will not affect the water use of all the villages.
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A paper mill held a meeting for a week before finally concluding the discussion.
ginkgo:"……"
Humans are indeed troublesome creatures. Setting up a paper mill is so troublesome!
If the paper mill had not been the responsibility of humans themselves, she would have wanted to help them build it directly.
Yang Xiangwei said calmly, "You helped them build it this time, but what about next time? I can't ask you to do it every time, right?"
Bai Guo: "It only takes a moment, it's not impossible."
Yang Xiangwei: "... You have listened to human gossip for so many years on Mount Huangshan, and you still haven't learned the saying 'It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish'? And there is also the saying 'A pinch of kindness breeds a pinch of hatred'. Even a god cannot guarantee that people's hearts will not change."
ginkgo:"……"
She knew that people's minds were fickle, but she didn't expect the Mother Goddess to be so defensive.
So what?
No matter what, Baiguo obeyed the orders and handed over the paper mill to the villagers at the foot of the mountain, letting them operate it themselves.
Just be a witness and guide quietly in the background.
Yang Xiangwei said as a matter of course: "That's how it should be! Otherwise, what do you think we gods are? A nanny who takes care of everything?"
Isn’t it? Baiguo wanted to ask, the Mother Goddess did not have this attitude towards the goblins in the mountains.
You know, after Niba Eighteen Villages was incorporated into the territory of the Mother Goddess, the passage between Huangshan and Niba Eighteen Villages was also opened, and the fairies could go up and down the mountain at will.
But just as the connection was made, the Mother Goddess immediately set up a barrier on Mount Huangshan again to prohibit communication between humans and fairies.
She asked at that time: "Didn't it just open, Mother Goddess, why did you seal it again?!"
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