Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 639 Rabbit Hair Pen

Choose the right wool or rabbit hair. Put the selected hair into lime water for degreasing to remove the grease and impurities on the hair surface.

After degreasing, use a comb to comb the rabbit hair and wool to remove the dirty and messy hair, prevent it from curling and being messy, and make it soft and smooth.

After combing, separate the two types of hair. Group them according to the length, thickness, and other characteristics of the hair. Use the comb to align the hair tips, and then cut the bottom to make them flat and thin. Make sure they are even and smooth.

Wrap the wool with rabbit hair and cover it, allowing the green wool to be slightly retracted under the tip of the rabbit hair.

Then roll it together, making sure it is very round. Once it is rolled, tie it tightly with a string to form the shape of a pen tip.

Then the upper part of the wool is cut off and wrapped around the outside of the pen core. This pen core is called "pen column" or "ink pool".

Then wrap the rabbit hair around the green wool, just like making a pen holder, making the center neat and even. Then pierce it firmly, and the pen tip is ready.

It is better to make the pen tip smaller than too large. Hang the finished pen tip in a ventilated place to dry to remove moisture from the pen tip.

Select new bamboo, cut it into appropriate lengths, use a knife to scrape off the outer skin of the bamboo pole, and polish the bamboo pole until it is smooth.

Put the dehydrated brush head tightly into the pen tube, and put it into the appropriate depth according to the length of the hair. Trim the installed brush to make the brush head more perfect and the pen shaft smoother. A brush is ready.

Hua Lei tried it herself and found that the brush made from wool and rabbit hair is as soft as a rabbit hair brush and can slide easily on the paper to form more natural lines.

With the addition of wool, the pen tip is more rounded and easier to control, which is very good. I asked Rong Jin to try it and he also said it was very good.

Therefore, the first batch of rabbit hair brushes for practice were sent to the elementary school in Mobei in the name of Xiaoyuan. Of course, some of Hualei's original goose feather pens and charcoal pencils were also sent over.

Students studying mathematics use charcoal pencils and quill pens, which are more economical and convenient.

After receiving feedback from the teacher in the school, Hualei made some improvements and started to produce rabbit hair brushes in large quantities. After he had enough inventory, he sent another batch back to Shangjing City and started selling them in his own bookstore.

Writing brushes are precious items, especially in the prosperous times, when writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstones were considered high-end items. Therefore, even though the materials used to make writing brushes are few and the cost is very low, the price is quite high, so the profit is huge.

However, the brush shop and the flower buds were not placed in the village below. In fact, making brushes is also a skill. Now, whether it is rabbit hair or wool, Mobei is very sufficient.

If the brush-making technology is put into the hands of the villagers, it will be easily leaked. Hualei doesn't want to attract competitors.

Therefore, she temporarily moved the brush workshop to Leyang Prefecture, and the shop there now sells various products from her own farm.

Because it was originally a restaurant, the place was quite large. Hua Lei asked Tian Xiaofu to make some changes to it, fence off an independent small courtyard, hire some staff, and set up a brush workshop, where they worked quietly.

Rong Jin was very supportive of Hua Lei's decision. Perhaps in the eyes of some outsiders, Hua Lei might be considered worldly-wise and too calculating.

But in Rong Jin's eyes, he felt that Hua Lei's shrewdness was just right. Hua Lei was kind, but not cowardly. She had love, but also had a bottom line.

She strives hard to fight for her own interests and actively protects them. She is not shy about giving away what she can. She can make progress and retreat in everything with ease. Such a Hualei makes Rong Jin happy.

After the Brush Shop got back on track, Hualei had some free time again. On this day, Rong Jue and Xiao Yuan were on vacation and came to play at the house, and Yun Hai and Zhou Ziren also came with them.

So, Hualei prepared to make some delicious food for the boys. In the morning, the kitchen received milk from cows and sheep sent from the farm below.

She decided to make cheese with milk to entertain Xiaoyuan and his friends. The method of making cheese is also very simple, just boil the milk in a pot, then pour it into a basin and let it cool.

The floating oil on the surface is boiled again, and the residue is filtered out to make cheese. Of course, in the Great Sheng Dynasty, it was called "ghee".

Boil more milk and you can make all kinds of delicious food with cheese. Hualei made cheese baked rice for Xiaoyuan and others with cheese.

Add diced chicken, corn kernels, and vegetable diced to the cooked rice, mix, add seasoning, then sprinkle a layer of cheese on top and bake in the oven until the cheese is golden brown.

An oven was built in the corner outside the kitchen against the wall last year, and Hualei occasionally used it to make egg yolk shortbread cookies. She found that as long as there was money, life could be refined even in ancient times.

The cheese baked rice was rich, fresh and delicious. Rong Jue praised it highly, and even the somewhat reserved Yun Hai finished two full bowls.

When they left, Hualei brought each of them a can of delicious and nutritious cheese sticks. While they were still eating lunch, Hualei was preparing cheese sticks for them.

Mix yogurt, cheese, beet sugar and other ingredients, pour them into a mold, put it in the cellar, refrigerate for an hour, then remove it from the mold, and the delicious cheese sticks are ready.

The children happily took the cheese sticks home. Jinnian and Zhenzhu's son also got a small one and ate it with his mouth watering.

In fact, cheese can also be made into cream and cream cake. However, the method is more troublesome and very tedious. There is not enough time, so the flower buds are not made for the time being.

The remaining cheese and buds were placed in the cellar. Sometimes when I wanted to change my taste in the morning, I would ask Sister Lotus to make cheese omelets for me and Rong Jin to eat as breakfast.

Beat the eggs, add salt, pour into the pan and spread into a thin round pancake, then sprinkle with cheese and other ingredients you like, put some cucumber strips, roll up and eat.

It is convenient, delicious and nutritious. Hualei and Rongjin like it very much.

Because there have been more cattle and sheep recently, the cow and goat milk delivered are more, so Hualei made a lot of cheese.

The cheese is then boiled, filtered, and stored in large clay pots. In winter, the unfrozen cheese in the center of the pot is taken out, which is "ti hu".

Daigo is the essence of cheese, with an orange color, fine oil and sweet taste, making it the best among dairy products. Sometimes it can also be used as medicine.

It has the effects of nourishing yin, clearing away heat, benefiting the lungs and stopping bleeding. It has a little effect on asthenia, irritability, and palpitations. When eating, scoop a spoonful and drink it with warm water. It tastes very good. The "醍醐" in the idiom "醍醐灌顶" refers to this. Of course, the meaning of this word is a little different.