Chapter 160 Cardboard Box
Lao Mu is a carpenter who can tell the purpose of the board in his hand just by touching it, but now he is dumbfounded: What is cardboard? What can it be used for?
Han Ming also wanted to see what could be made with cardboard, so he urged Carpenter Mu to get started quickly.
Due to venue and technical issues, Song Liyun could only make corrugated cardboard that was 50 cm long and 30 cm wide.
The pulp is made of bark fiber and reed stalks, acorn starch, and millet flour as a binder, and clay is added to the slurry to increase hardness and viscosity.
To be honest, the quality of the paper produced is really good.
If there are no conditions, create them.
There is no machine-made reel core. Each cardboard has a small paper roll rolled out by hand as the core, and the two sides are pasted with hard paper to glue them together.
In this way, each board is not only strong, but also the paper surfaces on both sides are smooth and delicate.
If necessary, you can also splice them into large sheets of cardboard.
Carpenter Mu had no experience in carpentry with paper. Following Song Liyun's instructions, he used overlapping and mortise and tenon joints to make cartons out of cardboard without using wooden nails.
But this cardboard box is a bit strange. It has no lid, only four movable pieces of cardboard.
It is light when you pick it up and won't break even if you drop it on the ground.
And just by removing the bottom plate and folding it in two or three folds, the sturdy cardboard box turns into a stack of cardboard like magic.
When it is expanded again, it becomes a sturdy cardboard box that can be used repeatedly.
Han Ming was amazed.
Even though he personally participated in the entire production process, he still couldn't understand how those tattered pieces of dead grass and tree bark could be turned into boxes.
And as long as the box is filled with things, it can withstand being stepped on by a man like him.
This... is truly amazing!
In April, Suijin Town was already filled with the bustling atmosphere at dusk. Farmers who had finished work in the fields outside the town walked together and talked to each other about the soil drought this year.
It's already April, and there hasn't been a thorough spring rain yet.
The Suijin Guards dropped a water-blocking stone into the bridge hole under the wall, and now water is stored in the Huangsha River.
There is no problem in irrigating the land outside Suijin Town. All you need to do is dig a ditch to bring water into the land, and every piece of land will be fertile land that can produce a harvest regardless of drought or flood.
Since returning from Pingyang Prefecture, Song Zhenping did not grow coarse grains as he had previously thought. Instead, he used the rice seeds he bought in Pingyang Prefecture to grow rice seedlings, preparing to grow fine grains on this large piece of land.
The spring rapeseed seedlings that were planted have also grown.
The germination rate of seeds that returned to nature was much better than that in the greenhouse in the backyard. There were more than a hundred plants, plus the two rapeseed plants that were about to bloom in the backyard. He could have some harvest, so he was not worried that the magic seeds would become extinct.
Farmers love to come and see the Song family's land.
Because Song Zhenping's planting method is quite different from theirs.
What about row spacing, nest spacing, soil temperature seedling cultivation, fire temperature seedling cultivation, many words sound like hieroglyphics.
Song Zhenping was not one to hide anything and told everything he knew, but... not many people were willing to listen to him.
Everyone is used to growing corn, millet, sorghum and potatoes as the staple food, and then growing peanuts and sesame to make oil, which is enough for the family's food.
Fine grains like wheat and rice require high technical skills and will result in a total loss if you are not careful, so they try to plant as little as possible.
In addition to rice, Song Zhenping also grows a large amount of sesame, peanuts and broad beans. Yun'er said that these can be used to extract oil, mainly because the family is used to using more oil when cooking.
In the evening, Song Zhenping just entered the courtyard with Juqingma and was frightened by two square-headed monsters rushing towards him.
Xiao An and Hei Jin were running around the yard, each carrying a yellow cardboard box on their heads, just like the big-headed gods who used to visit the village during the New Year.
"Xiao An, you can't see the ground like this, be careful not to fall!"
When Xiao An heard his brother's voice, he rushed over sideways and almost bumped into Ju Qingma.
Song Zhenping was so scared that he quickly grabbed him.
Xiao An took off the cardboard box on his head and said to Song Zhenping with a smile: "Brother, are you tired?"
Although Dai Langzhong's medicine is expensive, the ointment is very effective. Xiao An has been taking it for nearly a month since returning from Pingyang Prefecture, and his speech has become noticeably more fluent and clear.
Song Zhenping touched his head: "Not tired!"
It is spring plowing season now. Although he works in the fields every day, he is not hungry and has plenty of energy. It is very easy for him to cultivate 15 acres of land in Xiaoshi Village in the past.
And when there is a lot of work, soldiers from the garrison will come to help.
The seeds have been planted, and all he has to do now is to see how the seeds germinate when the horses are released.
When Song Zhenping thought of the soldiers in the garrison, his brows furrowed: Today another soldier wanted to propose marriage to Yun'er, and asked General Xiao to act as a matchmaker.
Although General Xiao only mentioned it briefly, he still refused!
In the past half month, I have rejected five.
Some wanted to marry into the family, some wanted to marry a wife, and some even offered a betrothal gift of ten taels of silver...
Among these people was Wang Qi, who also refused.
well!
I'm afraid I'll offend everyone in the garrison in the future.
Song Liyun brought out a few big meat buns from the kitchen and saw Song Zhenping standing in the front yard leading a horse, wondering what he was thinking.
Juqingma stood behind him, stamping its hooves impatiently and gnawing at Song Zhenping's headband, pulling the hairband into pieces.
Song Liyun was both angry and amused, and couldn't help but shout, "Brother, what are you daydreaming about again?"
Song Zhenping came back to his senses and quickly tried to find something to say.
"Hey! What is this? Yun'er, is this the cardboard box you mentioned? Oh my! It's actually made!"
Song Zhenping led the horse back to the backyard and took the small cardboard box and looked through it lovingly.
It's smooth and beautiful, and can be folded up to take up no space.
"Hahahaha! Yun'er, you are so amazing! It turns out that you can make everything in the heavenly book!" Song Zhenping's eyes were full of surprise and envy.
Xiao An nodded vigorously beside him: "Yes, we can do it!"
He made spicy rabbit head yesterday, and today he made braised rabbit cubes according to the recipe, which will be on the table soon.
He and Heijin had already tried it, and it tasted the same as the one made by his second sister, and it was delicious.
Song Zhenping put down the cardboard box and said to Song Liyun: "Yun'er, from today on, read me the "Common Vegetable Planting Techniques" again."
"Okay!...Ah! I have to read so much again?" Song Liyun was about to agree when she was stunned.
Planting technology is a thick book. I have already read the crops that were mentioned in the Wu Dynasty. Now I have to read it again... It's too boring!
"Just once!" Song Zhenping begged.
Xiao An was biting his lips, blinking his eyes, and looking thoughtful.
After dinner, it was study time again. Xiao An began to look at the menu with relish, while Song Liyun slowly read "Soybean Planting" to Song Zhenping.
Song Zhenping listened carefully, and from time to time asked Song Liyun to point out the words on the picture to him.
After finishing an article, Song Liyun's eyelids were already drooping, so she slipped back to her room to sleep.
After Xiao An fell asleep, Song Zhenping poured some water from the teapot on the kang table, dipped his hand in it, and began to trace the few words he had written down today on the table: "Soybean... 3cm apart..."
After finishing writing, he took out a piece of paper used by Song Liyun, pointed at the Wu Dynasty font on it and read silently.
If Song Liyun saw this, she would definitely be surprised.
Song Zhenping is learning two languages at the same time.
(End of this chapter)
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