Chapter 218 Making Paper



After dinner, they played by the river for a while before riding back to the village.

After Yi Qingqing returned to the educated youth point, she went to find Master Bai in the skill teaching mode.

Master Bai was still sitting under the locust tree with her eyes closed, resting. On the incense table was a half-burned incense stick, and a paper maid was making tea for her.

"Master Bai! I have something to ask you!" Yi Qingqing sat down in front of her with familiarity.

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Master Bai didn't even raise his eyelids, and Yi Qingqing didn't take it seriously. She directly told him the purpose of her visit: "Master Bai, the Ghost Festival is more than half a month away. I want to use the paper products and incense sticks I made to pay tribute to the teachers on that day, but I don't know where the teachers are buried. How can I pay tribute so that they can receive it?"

After saying that, she also observed Master Bai carefully, wanting to see if she had any special reaction to her idea of ​​worshipping her teacher. After all, Master Bai was also one of the people she worshipped.

The way she was dressed made it look like she should have lived in the Republic of China era. The place where she taught was completely different from where she signed in, and she should have passed away.

Master Bai didn't seem to think that the teacher Yi Qingqing was worshipping had any relationship with her, and only said: "If you worship in a different place, you must state the identity and name of the person being worshipped when you worship, or just write a petition on yellow paper."

Master Bai waved her hand, and a piece of yellow paper and a set of ink appeared on the incense table. She picked up the pen and wrote on it, saying, "The text on the yellow paper should include the name and address of the person burning the paper, as well as the name of the deceased and the relationship between the person burning the paper. The signature should also include the words 'transfer of the land of Fengdu City in the underworld'."

Yi Qingqing understood it at a glance.

"Speaking of which, your paper-making skills have been improving slowly recently. What you lack is energy. You can't just work in isolation." Master Bai suddenly remembered something and reminded.

This stunned Yi Qingqing: "What's the lack of energy? What does it mean to work behind closed doors?"

"You have excellent talents in both paper-making and incense-making, especially paper-making. The most important 'spirit' is no longer something that limits you. What limits you is your energy. If you don't have enough energy, your paper-making can't carry more spirits. That's all you can do.

This paper-made product is made to be burned for use in the underworld. It has great recognition and fame. With this aura, your paper-made product can carry more gods and reach a higher level.

Generally speaking, people who learn paper-making have to burn and sell paper-making objects to make some money. How come you don't have any energy at all? You must have been doing it all by yourself. Why don't you learn from me, your master, and open a funeral shop? It will save you a lot of trouble."

Master Bai said.

"..." Yi Qingqing held her forehead with her hand: "Why didn't you tell me such an important thing earlier?"

When she was reviewing her skill progress yesterday, she comforted herself that this skill had reached level 3. It was just that difficult, and it was normal for the progress to be so slow. She needed to work harder and hone her skills slowly.

Now that I think about it, isn't she a little stupid?

"Who would have thought that you would learn paper-cutting and never use it at all?" Master Bai expressed his incomprehension.

“…”

Yi Qingqing sighed. She had told Master Bai about the current situation before, but she had no memory of anything other than the skills she had learned.

"What about my incense-making skills? Is there a similar need?"

She was a little worried. After all, making incense was a semi-sacrificial skill, and the first kind of incense she learned was for worship.

"No, the reason why your incense-making skills are progressing slowly is that you don't have enough incense recipes memorized, and you don't make enough incense! The number of finished incense you make now is even less than that of paper-made products, but the variety of incense is much greater than that of paper-made products!"

Master Bai didn't consider her face at all, as if he was saying that his disciple was dreaming and was not making incense honestly.

"Master Bai, I spend the same amount of time learning to make incense and paper-cutting every day. It's just that making one kind of incense takes too long." Yi Qingqing argued and prepared to run away: "I won't talk to you anymore. I'm going to think about what to prepare for the Ghost Festival!"

After all, the skill teaching model is still centered on Yi Qingqing as the learner.

If she wanted to run away, no teacher could stop her.

As soon as she came out, she slipped into the thatched hut space.

He went into the storage room and took out all the paper-making materials that had been accumulated.

There was gold paper obtained from signing in, cellophane and paint she bought herself, but the most abundant thing was the pile of paper-making materials that came in the New Year gift package.

While she was sorting things out, she wrote down some things she needed to do on paper.

In addition to gold ingots, we also have to prepare some paper-made items for each teacher according to their situation so that they will not be lonely in the underworld.

Currently, six of her skill teachers are no longer alive, including Mr. Li, a hunting skill teacher who was originally an ancient person, and Master Bai, who should have been born in the Republic of China.

The rest have died in the past ten years.

In addition to these people with names, there are also skill and knowledge clusters such as language skill teachers. The knowledge here also comes from people on the farm, but they don't have names. However, when the time comes, the name field will be left blank and we can just limit it to those who have been burdened and wronged by this era.

She planned to burn some gold ingots and paper clothes for these people, and also prepare some similar things for the wandering ghosts.

Finally, all her paper-making materials were arranged.

After making a list of things to do, Yi Qingqing assigned herself a certain amount of paper-making tasks per day based on her own paper-making speed and available time each day.

Use some of your study time to make paper-cut objects. Fold them for half a month until the Ghost Festival, and you will probably have them all done.

Although it would delay some study time, it would give her peace of mind.

It can also gather some energy for making paper-made items. It is absolutely impossible for her to open a funeral shop and make money from this, so she can only burn some in private.

In addition to these, there are also bamboo incense sticks that she has been preparing since June, but the quantity is not large.

There are still more than two days left in this holiday, and the paper-making work has been arranged. She will start to get busy now, starting with the big items, starting with each teacher's house.

Teacher Zheng and Teacher Lin are a couple, so they just made a house. Yi Qingqing made the courtyard house in the teaching model of musical instruments and painting skills.

Calligraphy teacher Mr. Wang’s is his small Western-style building, Chinese medicine teacher Mr. Yi’s is his Chinese medicine shop, Master Bai’s is her funeral shop with a small courtyard, and Mr. Li’s Yi Qingqing built a mountain and a luxurious hunter’s house for him.

I spent all these days on these things during the holiday and still haven't finished them.

Next are some small daily necessities, which are much easier to make, like clothes and gold ingots. They are even easier. For the gold ingots, you just need to cut the paper and fold them; for the clothes, you just need to cut and draw some patterns on them.


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