Chapter 168. The toilet paper is for wiping your bottom!
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In the end, Li Shiyue did not accept the money that her mother had saved specifically for Shitou. Instead, she pulled her mother into her arms and held her close. Her heart was not cold.
She understands Li's mother.
If the roles were reversed, and she were Li's mother, and her own child was "possessed" by some unknown entity, becoming something that occupied her child's body, what mother could bear that?
Besides, she really isn't the original Li Shiyue.
She knew perfectly well that she was a transmigrator, a transmigrator with a system, and a transmigrator who had integrated the memories of the original Li Shiyue.
So how could she criticize Li's mother for all these actions?
"Mother, don't worry, I know what I'm doing. Why would I lie to you or be polite?"
"Keep this money safe, brother. I've already calculated the share for you, your brother, your aunt, and your sister in this paper mill. When the time comes, no one in our family will lack money!"
Looking at her mother, whose eyes were already wet with tears, Li Shiyue promised her word by word, "My brother is my brother, and he will be my brother for life. As long as I live, I will take good care of him!"
We are siblings, the closest of brothers and sisters. Just as Mother said, my brother and I are the closest of brothers and sisters, born of the same mother. If I don't take care of my brother, what am I, Li Shiyue?
Mother, don't worry, I'll take care of everything!
Relieved that Li's mother was finally able to smile, Li Shiyue breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's really hard to be a good leader. You have to manage the food and drink of your followers, and you also have to think about the big and small things in your family."
These days are really exhausting for me.
No matter how much Li Shiyue complains, life still goes on.
Liujiatun is truly changing every day. Spending money like water is very effective. Not to mention the huge paper mill, the school on the very edge of the paper mill is now only a matter of time before it is completed.
When the Zhao family, who were building the house, and the Sun family, who were delivering bricks, heard that this was a school built by Li Shiyue at his own expense for the children of workers in the paper mill, they were all incredibly envious.
"Really?"
"You don't want a single copper coin from me, yet I'm at your beck and call?"
Sun Xiaofu was twelve or thirteen years old, but he still couldn't read a single character, not even his own name.
He knew that if a family could send their child to school, not to mention taking the imperial examinations, even just learning to read and write, they were no ordinary family.
The university was only in the county town; in Qingsong Town, it was just two scholars who had never even passed the preliminary examinations and ran two small schools at home to teach children to read.
Therefore, when Sun Xiaofu heard Li Wangshui and the others who were helping him unload the bricks say this, he genuinely didn't believe it from the bottom of his heart.
Looking at Dazhuang, Xiaozhuang, and Erdan playing together, Li Wangshui smiled and said to Sun Xiaofu, "Haha, if you don't believe me, come and see for yourself when we invite the master here in October."
The construction of the houses at the entrance of Liujiatun Village was slower, mainly because the bricks from Sunjia Kiln were not fired in time, which delayed Li Shiyue and his team's construction schedule.
However, Sun Daqiang also told Li Shiyue, "Shiyue, don't worry, we'll go back and burn them right away, and we'll make sure to get all the bricks over before the date you specify!"
Although the construction of the house was delayed for a while, the paper mill got on the road that had been planned long ago.
Three days before the Dragon Boat Festival, Li Shiyue specially chose a sunny day. She personally went to the field with Li Qiutian and Li Xiatian, along with Gou Laosan. The four of them stood in pairs facing each other outside the huge material-scooping pool, holding the edge of the screen. They pulled down the screen so that the surface of the screen was evenly covered with a layer of fiber.
Using skillful force, the four people lifted the sieve at the same time, and a wet sheet of paper was evenly covered on the sieve.
In about half an hour, the four of them worked together to produce a stack of wet paper sheets.
The stacked wet sheets of paper were placed on a flat table, and then Li Wangshui and Shi Tou, who were waiting nearby, lifted a heavy piece of hardwood to press it down, so as to squeeze out the excess water.
After that, the paper is peeled off one by one and pasted onto a specially made, movable, upright wooden board to dry completely.
Li Shiyue specifically divided these papers into two categories: one was to carry the wooden boards out to the yard to dry directly in the sun;
Some of them were left indoors, hoping to dry naturally in the wind.
The main goal is to see how to control the time and degree of drying using sunlight, so that when the paper mill starts producing paper in large quantities, it can produce the most paper in the shortest time to increase output and make money.
Everyone gathered in the courtyard, watching as the paper on the wooden board gradually dried out, its moisture absorbed by the sunlight and wind.
Feeling that it was about time, Li Shiyue was the first to go up and slowly peel the paper off the wooden board from the edge, bit by bit.
This process produced about ten sheets of paper. On the table in the cutting area, a guillotine was used to remove the rough edges of the stack of paper, resulting in a stack of paper that could be used for writing.
This paper is the official, commonly used size, measuring two feet wide and three feet long (60cm x 90cm).
Li Shiyue picked out a better one and placed it on the table. There were already prepared writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone on the side. She picked up the brush, dipped it in thick ink, and wrote the five big characters "Li Ji Paper Mill" on the paper!
Li Shiyue's calligraphy was naturally quite ordinary, but the surrounding crowd was very supportive, cheering enthusiastically.
"Is this the paper we made?"
"Isn't this the paper we made!"
"This is the paper we make!"
"This is the paper we made!"
Li Wangshui, who rarely showed his emotions in front of outsiders, couldn't help but feel like shedding tears when he saw the words written by Li Shiyue.
He suppressed a lump in his throat, hastily wiping his face with his large hand to clean up the tears welling up in his eyes.
Looking at Li Shiyue, he smiled and said to everyone, "Never mind whether my writing is good or not, haha, we'll find a craftsman to carve it into a plaque and hang it up for us later!"
"I think it's very well written! Haha! October, you wrote well!"
Erdan's mother was the first to respond to Li Shiyue's words, and then Zhou Lanhua echoed that Li Shiyue wrote well, and everyone praised Li Shiyue.
Finally, it took another half an hour to cut out the entire stack of papers.
The bottom few sheets of paper were rather rough, so Li Shiyue simply cut them a few more times, making them into long strips about the width of a palm. She distributed some to everyone, and took the rest home.
You asked her what she was going to do with it?
It was very simple; she put it in a box nailed to the wall of the outhouse, specifically for wiping her bottom!
She's really had enough of toilet paper!
That "inhumane" way of wiping your bottom!
She needs to wipe her bottom with paper!
We absolutely must develop a high-quality, low-priced "toilet paper" in the future!
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