Succubus' Manor

This year's winter lasted longer. Last year at this time the snow had already melted, but this year not only did it not melt, but there were also several hailstorms, each of which was the size of a human fist. Many people walking outside the house were injured and injured. There were bruises left on the wounded places.

Fortunately, Chi Yan didn't go out for a walk at that time. It wasn't because he was belittling himself, but based on his current body, he was hit a few times, and he probably had to lie in bed for a whole day.

"Is there anything special about my pattern?" Chi Yan looked down at the pattern on his chest when changing clothes.

Since climbing to the chest, the pattern has never moved its seat. Chi Yan touched his skin, and the touch was no different from skin without patterns.

Kleist watched from the side: "It's just a sign of adulthood."

Chi Yan said "Oh", and then said very happily: "Fortunately, it's black, it would be too flirty to change the color."

Kleist: "..."

Chi Yan scratched the back of his head: "I'll get the drawings I drew last night."

The cotton has arrived, and what we have to do now is to remove the cotton seeds, commonly known as - flicking cotton.

Chi Yan, who played cotton, didn't know exactly how to play it, but Chi Yan, who stirred the car, knew it.

The four-legged mixer truck invented in the Ming Dynasty can be operated by one person with both hands and feet. It is much more efficient than manual seed peeling, iron stick rubbing, and hanging bow slinging. Because one person can operate it, there will be no waste redundant manpower.

The mixer uses cranks and levers and other structures. According to the dwarves' prior craftsmanship, it may take a long time to build the mixer, but Chi Yan doesn't have time to wait for them to hone it slowly, so he can only explore while doing it.

As for growing cotton, Chi Yan thought it was good luck if he planted it, and he was unlucky if he couldn't grow it.

After all, planting cotton is a very technical job in farming, and it has high requirements on the fertility of the land and water. At the same time, it is prone to pests. In order to prevent the pests from spreading to other lands, it has to be specially given A field of cotton circles.

Chiyan doesn't know when to sow these cottons. He plans to plant them in the fall this year, first in the sun. Before planting, he has to plow the land deeply, expose it to the sun for a few days, and then irrigate.

Because the current land fertilizer is farm manure, the fertility is actually not as good as imagined, so if you can successfully produce cotton, you must stop farming for at least one season after picking, and wait for the land to recover its fertility before applying farm manure before farming again.

It has to be said that growing cotton is time-consuming, labor-intensive and labor-intensive, and it may not be successful.

But if you can succeed and accumulate experience, the benefits are endless.

At least Chi Yan thinks that next winter, he should have a quilt, and put a blanket on top of the quilt. He thinks that he won't feel cold when he sleeps alone, and it's still a little awkward to sleep with Kleist.

Both are men.

Chi Yan felt embarrassed every morning when he woke up.

After all, that time period was the most lively. Kleist was in his prime and full of anger, and Chi Yan was in the puberty period. If there was a problem with his posture when Chi Yan woke up, the two of them would look like they were going to fight with bayonets in the next second.

"I'll ask Dot to take the drawings first." Chi Yan rubbed his hands, and after opening the door, Dot was guarding the door.

Cardi has been busy lobbying the common people in recent days, so Dot, an inconspicuous manservant, walked up to Chi Yan, and Chi Yan was willing to let Dot do it if he had anything to do.

Dot speaks very little and is taciturn, but once he is given a task, he will faithfully complete it.

Belongs to the kind of person who does things quietly without being noticed.

If it wasn't because Kadi was too busy this time, maybe Chi Yan still wouldn't notice him.

"Take it to the dwarves." Chi Yan said to Dort, "Let them send someone to ask me if they don't understand, and just ask me if they need anything, understand?"

Dort took the parchment and nodded: "Understood, my lord."

After Dort left, Chi Yan still felt sorry for his piece of parchment, which was one of the only three pieces of parchment he had left.

Nope...why use parchment when he has ramie?He can make his own paper!

There is a reason why papermaking can be one of the four great inventions!

The cost is low, and it is easy to obtain materials. As long as it is made once, there will be countless times.

And it is precisely because of the low cost that people can afford it.

Knowledge can be spread.

Don't let it be like the parchment here, only a few people can afford it and use it.

Although studying in ancient China was also very expensive, and the poor family and bastards were not talking about the real poor, it was much better than Europe before the introduction of papermaking.

The earliest papermaking technology, Cai Lun used fishing net linen. When it was introduced to Europe, it was also linen paper. The paper made from linen is yellow-white, which is slightly different from wooden paper. The advantage of linen paper is that it is better than wooden paper. More convenient and simple.

Later, with the advancement of technology, wooden paper replaced linen paper.

There are still a few areas that make linen paper for rolling cigarettes. The price of this kind of cigarettes is not low, and I don’t know how it tastes, and how it differs from ordinary cigarettes.

Chi Yan said to Kleist ambitiously: "Maybe it won't be long before I have an entire notebook to keep a diary and draw pictures!"

Kleist looked puzzled.

Chi Yan put on the sheepskin boots and found the butler, completely ignoring that Kleist was left behind by him.

Chi Yan quickly told the housekeeper about his plan to make paper.

The butler raised his head, every wrinkle on his face was full of confusion.

Chi Yan: "Did I not speak clearly enough?"

The housekeeper seemed to pretend that he understood, but unfortunately he didn’t understand at all, he didn’t understand a single word. He thought for a while before asking: “My lord, what do you mean, you can use ramie to make something similar to parchment paper?”

Chi Yan shook his head: "It's not similar."

The butler was even more confused.

Chi Yan clenched his fists and said excitedly, "It's a substitute! Hemp paper will definitely replace parchment paper! You can also write in the future, and there is a lot of paper for you to use."

He has seen the butler practicing calligraphy. As a lord, he doesn't even have a few pieces of parchment, and the butler is even more useless. He can only use a quill to write and draw on the wooden board. After writing, wash it with clean water. practice.

Although this method of practicing calligraphy is also very cheap, paper is definitely better than wood.

Otherwise, there would be no such expensive parchment.

The housekeeper listened to Chi Yan's careful description of the benefits of hemp paper.

Very light and thin, the housekeeper asked: "Isn't that easy to break?"

The steward added: "It cannot be touched by water, it cannot be touched by flames, and it can be easily torn apart. It is not as good as parchment paper."

Chi Yan: "..."

He was actually questioned!

And he still doesn't know how to refute!

Fortunately, Chi Yan has other skills. He rolled his mouth and flattened his eyes, and said unreasonably, "I just want hemp paper! I don't care!"

Playing tricks is an essential skill for every teenager.

Chi Yan only had to say this, and the housekeeper surrendered.

"I'll do what you say." Although the housekeeper didn't know why Chi Yan was so persistent, he would give in if Chi Yan spoke up and acted as if he would not give up until he reached his goal. Part of it doesn't seem to be a big deal either.

Chi Yan was satisfied: "Okay, then it's settled, I'm going to pick some people and let them make paper."

The ramie skin has to be processed, and after being turned into pulp, it has to be interwoven and paved, and it can be used after drying in the sun.

If the processing is not good, the paper produced will have no toughness and will break when touched. This kind of paper cannot be used.

Modern white paper looks easy to get, and it condenses the wisdom of thousands of years.

It was brought about by the valuable experience accumulated by the ancestors.

In fact, the more he learned, Chi Yan felt that the wisdom and creativity of ancient Chinese working people were beyond the times. Many people who made inventions and transformations were actually the most common laborers, such as Huang Daopo, who was born in poverty and lived in poverty. Yazhou, Hainan Island, where she learned cotton textile technology from the Li people.

Then during the Yuanzhen period of the Yuan Dynasty, she returned to her hometown, taught the technology to the women in her hometown, and reformed the cotton textile machinery and textile technology.

She has no systematic education and may not even be able to read, but her talent in this area has not been negated by this.

It's a pity that closing the door to the outside world has almost killed the wisdom of the predecessors.

For a long time, there have been no new people to improve the inventions of the predecessors.

If an invention is not improved, it cannot keep up with the times, and if it cannot improve productivity, it is doomed to fall behind.

Don't underestimate any invention that seems to have nothing to do with weapons. The industrial revolution in Europe also started with the Jenny machine.

Paper can spread wisdom and lower the cost of acquiring knowledge.

There are great Confucians in talking and laughing, and there are no white people in communication, which is based on the fact that knowledge can be obtained cheaply.

Otherwise, reading and literacy is only the patent of a small number of people.

Chi Yan said to the housekeeper: "Don't underestimate paper, a thin piece of paper can't stand fire, can't stand water, and even breaks if you tear it, but it can change the world!"

housekeeper:"……"

It was the first time he saw Chi Yan like this, but he didn't refute.

An adult is still a child, and he likes to play, so let him play, and it's not that he can't afford it.

So the dwarves began to make churns, and some newcomers were selected to make paper. These people were selected by the housekeeper himself, and only young people were selected, who were careful and dexterous.

Emma successfully squeezed into the paper mill, she recommended herself, and finally won this opportunity.

As she said, she is a hardworking person, as long as she is given a good competitive environment, she can keep climbing.

Although when she was selected, she still didn't know what papermaking was for, but this didn't dampen her enthusiasm.

But it is a paper mill, and now there is no house that can be requisitioned, and there is no way to build a new house in winter, and the barn has also arranged for dwarves to make mixers, so the paper mill can only build a shed and block it with hay on all sides. People inside have to wear thick clothes because of air leakage. Besides, once it snows, things have to be moved indoors immediately.

Therefore, the workers in the paper mill can be said to be the hardest of all types of work, and the working environment is the worst.

Of course, there are many compensations. As long as the weather changes, everyone can get a piece of white bread with sugar on that day.

At the beginning, the processing was not good enough, and the paper produced was uneven and shattered when touched.

However, this did not dampen Chi Yan's enthusiasm.

He knows that paper can be made, so the early failures can accumulate experience. Next time, try a different method and try again and again, and you will definitely find the right method.

It is easy for people to give up when doing something with an unknown outcome.

But Chi Yan knew the result.

So he is very firm.

Every time people from the paper mill came to report, crying in pain and saying they still failed, Chi Yan would comfort them: "It won't work this time, maybe it will work next time, only failure can let you find a new direction, Don’t be afraid to make mistakes, mistakes are normal.”

"As long as you can be right, even if you are wrong a thousand times, it is worth it."

The person in charge of the paper mill is selected by the housekeeper from the staff with the most delicate thoughts and the best temper. People with bad tempers are not suitable to manage the paper mill.

The person in charge got a piece of comfort from Chi Yan, and when he went back, he also comforted those who were depressed because of another failure.

"My lord said, even if we are wrong a thousand times! As long as we are right once, the previous mistakes are all valuable!" The manager shouted loudly.

workers--

"A thousand times?"

"That's too much! What a shame!"

"My lord will definitely be disappointed with us!"

Emma also said dejectedly: "If you make a mistake a thousand times, even if the adults don't scold us, we will be ashamed to see others! The dwarves are much stronger than us."

The paper she spread out is the most even, but it is still very brittle, and it cannot be bent and folded in half, and it will become brittle with a little force.

Therefore, no matter how evenly she laid out the paper, it did not give her any sense of accomplishment.

The paper mill suffered setbacks, and the process of the churn was not smooth. Fortunately, the dwarves were really dexterous and talented in this aspect. After making a few mistakes, they found a way, so the churn was published early. .

After testing, it can indeed remove the cotton seeds.

The next work is much simpler. Collect the high-quality cotton seeds, send the cotton to the spinning room for spinning, and send the spun thread to the weaving room. The process is clear.

Chi Yan didn't know how to make the quilt, so he could only tell the weaving room what the finished product looked like, and let them try how to make it by themselves. Anyway, if they fail, they don't waste cotton, just take it apart and start over.

This is difficult for the people in the weaving room. They have looms, and as long as they learn how to weave, they can get started, but the quilt is a new thing, and it is difficult to turn cotton into a quilt.

So their initial method was to weave cotton thread into cloth, then sew it up, and then stuff the cotton with the seeds removed.

This method was rejected by Chi Yan - if it is not kept warm, the cotton inside will run away and pile up, uneven.

However, Chi Yan remembered that the quilt seemed to be cotton that was compacted and then fixed layer by layer with cotton threads. After he told this to the manager, people began to use their brains, and failed several times during the period, but one in the weaving room The goblin figured out a way.

She first tied the wooden sticks on the long table firmly in a rectangular shape, and then used two slender wooden sticks to pick up the cotton threads, intertwined them back and forth, and weaved them into a large fine net. Wash and dry the cotton, press it up and down with a roller, spread it, and weave another net after covering a full layer.

Weaving it layer by layer in this way, close the four sides, and then walk a line at each finger-long place.

The quilt produced in this way is very similar to modern ones, and the cotton will not run away. After stuffing it into the quilt cover made of cotton thread that has been prepared earlier, it is a perfect quilt.

Chi Yan slept with Kleist overnight under the quilt, and both of them woke up from the heat.

"Very good! If we can grow cotton, everyone will be able to use it next year!" Chi Yan was not unhappy when he woke up, but was so excited that he couldn't sleep. Sitting up in Te's arms, he happily patted his quilt, "I will be able to sleep by myself in the future!"

Kleist's face was a little dark.

Chi Yan turned to look at him, and said with a smile: "Anyway, before me, we can't do anything. Sleeping separately is good for you and me."

He didn't want to get up every morning to fight the bayonet with Kleist.

They can't really meet swords, why bother.

Kleist didn't understand why Chi Yan was so persistent, but he didn't ask, anyway, Chi Yan had reasons for everything he did, even if some reasons were incomprehensible.

Chi Yan yawned: "I won't move tonight, I'm too lazy to bother, so I'll continue to sleep."

After finishing speaking, Chi Yan moved to the side of the bed, instead of sleeping in Kleist's arms as before, only Kleist was left sleeping on the other side, looking at his empty arms.

The next morning, Chi Yan summoned the female goblin who had figured out how to make a quilt. This female goblin was different from the female dwarf in that she had a name, but her name, like Dahe, was not a normal person's name, but a flower. It is called "Katiya", which is a kind of wild flower, but its vitality is very tenacious. As long as this kind of wild flower is not uprooted, but only cut off from the middle, it will bloom in the coming year.

Katia is considered petite among goblins.

She didn't speak, just knelt on the ground and trembled, and didn't raise her head to look at Chi Yan the whole time.

Chi Yan didn't say much, but just ordered the servant to give Katiya a bolt of linen and half a bolt of cotton. As for making clothes or something else, it just depends on what Katiya wants.

When leaving, Katiya kowtowed to Chi Yan a few times.

The knocking was extremely sincere, his forehead was broken, and blood came out of the knocking.

Chi Yan hurriedly ordered her to be taken down to treat the wound.

How dirty the floor is!What if the wound becomes infected!

Fortunately, Katiya was not infected, and she would be alive and well within a day, and since then she has a higher status in the weaving room.

She specially brings people to make quilts, and I don't know how many people want to be her apprentices.

When the quilt was made, winter was coming to an end, and the snow on the ground began to melt. The days when the snow melted were relatively cold, but after the thawing, the temperature was significantly higher. The quilt was made very thick. In the early spring, Chi Yan A single quilt is enough for one person, and there is no need to spread animal skin blankets on it.

So Chi Yan gave Kleist one of his two animal skin blankets - Kleist didn't want it.

As a result, both animal skin blankets were given to the housekeeper.

As a result, as soon as the animal skin blanket was delivered, Chi Yan's quilt disappeared inexplicably!

"Where's my quilt!" Chi Yan asked Dort.

Dort's always mature and stable face also showed a flustered look.

A group of servants searched Chi Yan's room and all the hiding places in the castle, but they couldn't find the quilt.

Among all the people, only Chi Yan found out the truth.

"You don't need to look for it." Chi Yan said to the servants, "Go and rest, I know where it is."

The servants looked confused, but Chi Yan gave orders, so they had no choice but to back down.

But Chi Yan was not angry, he was just a little helpless.

Why!Kleist just likes him too much, but sleeping separately is really good for both of them, there is no need to like him so much!

And Kleist is not affected by his succubus physique, he can only blame his soul for being full of charm.

Chi Yan went to Kleist's room and knocked on Kleist's door.

No one opened the door.

Chi Yan cleared his throat and yelled out Aunt Xue's famous saying: "Kleist, open the door! Don't hide inside and keep quiet! I know you're home!"

After saying this, the door of the room opened.

Kleist appeared in front of Chi Yan.

At this time, Kleist had black hair and was only wearing a pair of trousers. The trouser legs were a bit wide, but he didn't look bloated. He was wearing nothing on his upper body, showing his strong chest and abdominal muscles. The lines are so smooth.

Chi Yan took a step back subconsciously, he could feel the heat on Kleist's body, and then swallowed.

He stayed for a few seconds before he remembered what he was doing here, so he asked very seriously, "Did you hide my quilt?!"

Kleist glanced at Chi Yan.

There was indescribable grievance in those eyes.

Chi Yan's heart was crushed in an instant, and his heart made of iron and stone was shattered into pieces. He immediately began to review whether he had done something wrong, and he said hesitantly: "You, if you have an idea, just say it Well, hiding the quilt... that's not good."

Kleist gave Chi Yan a sideways look.

That's just...

Chi Yan felt that his nosebleed was about to flow out.

"I told you, did you listen?" Kleist's voice was very soft, and he could not hear any dissatisfaction or grievance.

It's just... just acquiesced that he was the one who hid Chi Yan's quilt.

Chi Yan: "...Maybe... right?"

Kleist looked at Chi Yan with his arms folded.

Chi Yan sighed: "Okay, then let's sleep together, you return the quilt to me, it's hard to make it! I can let the housekeeper sleep if I don't sleep!"

"Let's make the weaving room a little thinner for the two of us to build, okay?"

Kleist nodded reluctantly.

Chi Yan spread his hands: "Where is my quilt?"

So Chi Yan saw Kleist open the box, take away the clothes on top, and take out the folded quilt from underneath.

Chi Yan: "..."

Hidden quite deep.

This scheming man.

"I'll get it to the housekeeper." Chi Yan picked up the quilt and said seriously, "You can't do this next time."

Kleist's dark eyes stared at Chi Yan.

Chi Yan couldn't bear to look away, instead of looking into Kleist's eyes, he could only say: "You, me, hey!"

He ran away with the quilt in his arms, leaving Kleist standing at the door watching Chi Yan's back as he left.

Chi Yan ran to the butler's door in one breath, knocked on the butler's door, stuffed the quilt to the bewildered butler who just opened the door, and said very seriously: "You cover this quilt, I feel hot when I cover it. Get me some thinner ones from the weaving room."

He ran away after speaking, he didn't want to explain the cause and effect to the housekeeper.

As soon as he explained it, he became a fool who doted on the demon concubine.

It's so hard to be a man who loves his wife!