Lin Ke was walking in front, and Granny Xisai was slightly two steps behind Lin Ke, acting like an ordinary old servant who was more than a hundred years old.
Grandma Xisai doesn't seem to be so "naive" or ignorant of the world. At least she knows to be a little behind Lin Ke.
"Master Lin Ke, Granny Xisai has done a lot of magic, please don't drive me away..."
Grandma Xisai was trying her best to sell her products behind Lin Ke, bending down so much that when Lin Ke turned around he could only see her hunchback.
"What kind of 'magic' are there?" Lin Ke was still a little curious.
There are several ways to discover gunpowder formulas. It depends on whether Granny Xisai discovered it accidentally or through extensive research.
If it is an accidental discovery, it may not prove anything, but if it is a research and purposeful discovery, it will be rare!
This kind of exploration and research ability is very consistent with scientific logic.
"Magic? Mine is much more powerful than magic!" Grandma Xisai immediately retorted with her hands on her hips as soon as she heard Lin Ke's tone.
I don’t know who it is that has been saying that gunpowder is magic, and now it is said to be stronger than magic... Lin Ke rolled his eyes inwardly.
"I can restore a rusty iron sword to its original appearance, or I can make a normal iron sword rust so quickly that it can be smashed with one fist!"
Grandma Xisai replied proudly, her steps even a little swaying.
The leader of the guard team behind him burst out laughing and couldn't help but joked: "You are even better than a professional."
However, Lin Ke suddenly stopped and looked back at Granny Xisai with a surprised look on his face: "Did you discover acid and alkali? And oxidation?"
Grandma Xisai was stunned: "What sword and flower?" She didn't understand what Lin Ke meant.
The pronunciation of "Lin Ke" sounds very similar to the "sour sword" and "planting flowers" in the common language of Naseng. Of course, Granny Xisai didn't understand it.
"That's right, how did you make it?"
Lin Ke rubbed his eyebrows. Many words were not found here. With the development of chemistry in the future, he might have to consider using alternative words or creating his own words.
"Hehe, that's awesome."
Grandma Xisai did not answer Lin Ke's words, but said: "Master Lin Ke, do you believe me? Can you work in the factory for me?"
Going to work as a cow or horse in a factory? It's a beautiful idea.
Lin Ke knew immediately that Granny Xisai might be the kind of person who had a certain interest in chemistry and had already researched something.
This kind of talent is suitable for exploitation in research laboratories...not for work.
"Grandma Xisai, there is no way you can go to the paper mill."
Lin Ke shook his head first, and when Grandma Xisai looked sad, he then said: "But I have a job with a higher salary, do you want to do it?"
"Higher salary?"
Grandma Xisai's eyes lit up when she heard this.
She knew that salary actually meant silver coins and copper plates, or that salary was compensation.
"Can you give me more copper coins?! Then you can give me three silver coins and five coins a month... no, two copper coins?"
Grandma Xisai made a very "excessive" request and looked at Lin Ke cautiously, fearing that Lin Ke would reject her because of this excessive request.
What kind of life have you experienced to be so cautious, my dear chemist... Lin Ke was helpless, he just nodded lightly and continued to move forward.
Grandma Xisai's background was checked before the interview. She didn't have any children in the family, but she did have some children helping her farm the fields.
Moreover, Grandma Xisai often comes up with gadgets that she calls "magic", which are very popular among the villagers.
Overall, this person is trustworthy.
In this case, Lin Ke can tell her more "super-class" content.
After all, many chemical reactions, unlike other things, can be explained by "precocious wisdom".
There are many chemical reactions that you have never seen in reality. How can you be so "precocious"?
After all, many substances in the two worlds exist in different places, and the periodic tables of elements may also be different, especially for animals and plants.
To verify something, a large number of chemical experiments must be done.
And chemical experiments...must use test tubes.
Lin Ke decided and walked a little faster.
Although Grandma Xisai is over a hundred years old, she has the body and bones of a young person in her sixties, and can keep up with Lin Ke.
After a while, Lin Ke went to the paper mill to arrange work, and the paper mill began to operate.
Grandma Xisai and the leader of the guard team were watching behind Lin Ke.
The papermaking workshop is said to be a factory, but it is actually a small workshop. When you open the door, you will find five compartments, each of which is responsible for a step of papermaking.
Water from outside is brought in from ditches on the ground, and then drained away from the ditches.
However, the paper mill does not use a lot of bleach and other chemicals like in previous generations, so the pollution caused is minimal.
"They...what are they doing?"
Grandma Xisai's eyes widened in curiosity, thinking why their young master Azanen was... a bit unreliable?
Use a cauldron to cook inedible grass?
It can't be the "playing house" that some noble children like to play like the bard said.
Grandma Xisai was very upset.
"Why do you talk so much!"
The leader of the guard team next to him couldn't help scolding him.
Why does this old woman talk so much nonsense? That is because Master Lin Ke said it was useful, otherwise he would have kicked her out long ago.
Questioning their young master and instructor?
This is simply outrageous. His mother opened the door for outrageousness. Isn’t it outrageous?
The group leader was angry.
"Just wait and see."
Lin Ke signaled the two of them to calm down and smiled.
After a while, the first batch of dried paper was taken out and brought to Lin Ke for inspection.
Lin Ke rubbed the rough, yellowish paper in his hand, nodded slightly, then raised his head and said loudly: "Everyone, continue! A servant will bring food at noon."
There was no emotion or anger in his voice.
This paper is pretty good, reaching the level used by Lin Ke and Aof during their experiments, and can be used as paper for writing.
But there are no surprises, so Lin Ke naturally won't be too happy, it's just a normal trial production.
All I can say is that it met expectations.
"Is this paper?"
Grandma Xisai saw the paper in Lin Ke's hand and immediately knew the meaning of this "papermaking workshop".
Make paper!
It's just that... this is different from the manufacturing process that Grandma Xisai knew.
The paper she knew was made by tanners who fired animal skins through multiple processes.
It's not like this, with more than fifty people working on it, and a dozen of them can be produced in half an hour.
"There are still many things you don't know!"
Lin Ke felt relieved after seeing that the quality of the paper was okay, and waved to Grandma Xisai and a team leader: "Let's go! Let's go to the next factory!"
Next, the glass factory!
Lin Ke did not expect that the trial production of the paper mill would go so smoothly. Perhaps he underestimated the importance the villagers attached to this work.
When he taught the villagers how to make paper, everyone stared hard and listened hard.
These students were not like the students in his previous life, who chewed them up and tasted them in their mouths, and felt that knowledge was not as good as games.
The village "students" here can learn knowledge and wish Lin Ke could teach them more.
However, since the papermaking workshop is so smooth, we can just start production quickly... Lin Ke thought in his mind.
To be continued...