Uncle Yao's heart tightened: "Mom, you are right, we should be more careful about this matter."
"Well, then, I'll leave this matter to you."
"Ah, leave it to...me?!" Uncle Yao's eyes widened.
Wait, didn't he come to his mother for advice? Why did it become his problem again?
Gu Qingling looked calm and said: "What's wrong? There is a problem? You are my son and the head of the Yao family. If even you can't solve this problem, what should I do?"
Uncle Yao opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.
When he left Gu Qingling's place, he was still in a daze. He always felt that he had missed something, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
In the room, a smile appeared on Gu Qingling's face. She was determined not to tell Uncle Yao. In fact, she had arranged this matter long ago.
Since she let Uncle Yao bear the bad reputation of digging his own ancestral graves, she has to find a way to compensate him, right? There is an old saying that goes well, where you fell, you have to get up from there - since his reputation is among the scholars
The circle is broken. If we don’t get up from here, where can we get up?
Of course, it is not easy for Uncle Yao to eat such a big piece of cake in one sitting. What if we don't give him some tests and let him learn to become a qualified parent?
Gu Qingling didn't want to do everything by herself and be the mother-in-law of a big family.
Gu Qingling was not very worried about the bookstore. Although movable type printing was a bit scary, who asked her to develop movable type printing because they wanted to subvert the foundation of scholars in the world?
She just wanted to print a few "children's reading" books for her children and grandchildren, and then accidentally printed more...
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On the other side, the bookshop was still busy with work. Several engraving masters took the newly sent ink books for children's reading research, and turned them into graphic rubbings, which were used together with the rubbings for movable type printing.
, it took several days to prepare the children's book with both pictures and text, and start printing it.
The bookstore, or Zhuangzi, also has a very large study room. All printed books will be sent here for inspection by dedicated personnel. If there are no problems, they will be confirmed for printing.
After the book is printed, it will be randomly checked. If there are no problems, it will be transferred to the library in Zhuangzi for storage, waiting to be seen again one day.
After Uncle Yao left, Mr. Yao had nothing to do, so he was brought to this study by Mo Shu.
I didn’t know it before I came here, but after I came, Mr. Yao discovered that the bookshop had actually printed so many books?!
There used to be at least a hundred kinds of that book.
"Isn't it said that movable type printing can print things very quickly? Why are there only so few books here? I thought there would be many..." At this time, Mr. Yao didn't know about the library. He looked at the books on the bookshelf.
I picked up a copy.
It was the reading he was familiar with when he was a child, such as "The Thousand Character Essay", "Song of Soup" and the like, but they were slightly different from the versions he saw when he was a child.
The version he saw when he was a child was pure text, but this version was accompanied by pictures, just like the little book he saw from his daughter Yao Anxin, which was very interesting.
The text is black, but the little people in the book are blue.
Mo Shu stood beside him and said respectfully: "Back to the Second Master, here are only sample books. The other books are all in the library."
"Oh, let me tell you, why are there so few books here..." Mr. Yao flipped through several books and found that many of them had pictures. Although they were simple, they were much more interesting than books with pure text.
"Why are there so many books with pictures? Isn't it said that movable type printing is troublesome to illustrate pictures? It seems that this picture still needs to be rubbed out, right? One picture requires a rubbing, and you printed it
There are so many books with pictures, how many rubbings need to be carved?"
Suddenly, Mr. Yao didn't think that the movable type printing technology was so amazing. After all, the paintings were no better than others. Every book was different. You couldn't print the same one in every book, right?
"The master said that this is for children, and only with some pictures will the children like it." What Mo Shu didn't say is that these pictures look different, but in fact the elements on the pictures all have templates.
For example, there are several standing figures in a series, and the method of movable type printing is also used. The size of the picture is determined in advance, and the position of the figures and other objects is determined, just like
It's like a puzzle, just put these things on top.
So the pictures in each book look different, but if you look closely, you will find that the villains in a book almost look the same. The trees, flowers, grass, cabinets, many of them are the same template.
, but the location, color and other details changed, and no one noticed it for a while.
They also have rubbing boards, which are used to print letter paper, workbooks and other things in a unified format. For flexible and changeable pictures like this, they use another set.
"It would look better with some pictures, but I remember that the one I saw at Sister Ling's seemed to be in color, right?" Mr. Yao turned his head, a little confused, "Could it be that that one is alone?"
drawn?"
That's not right. If they were painted separately, the paintings above would be the same, just in different colors.
"It was not painted separately. It should have been painted by the master." Those calligraphy and ink books were all handled, so it was very clear that when he sent them over, the old lady also asked him to mix some paints.
Because the paper in their bookstore is specially made and cannot be soaked by ink, the old lady also gave some secret recipes to mix pastes of various colors, put them in boxes with small grids, and match them with special brushes.
Use for coloring.
"There is such a thing?!" Yao Erye was surprised and quickly asked Mo Shu to bring it over. He also wanted to try it.
As an adult, Erye Yao naturally has a certain level of painting skills, but he never thought that there are still paintings in this world where someone else has drawn them for you and left you in charge of coloring them.
The kind of pictures Yao Anling filled in were just simple pictures, without any complicated composition, but they were novel.
Even when Mr. Yao grew up, he never played.
After a while, Mo Shu had someone send him several sets of coloring books and matching colors. He also flattened the instruction manual and placed it on the desk for easy reading by Mr. Yao.
Mr. Yao glanced at it, then eagerly picked up a coloring book and started coloring. Because it was a version for children, the graphics on it were very simple. At the beginning, there were some squares, circles and the like.
The graphics are marked with colors in the middle, telling you what color should be used for each graphic.
Before painting, Mr. Yao had no idea what the graphics on it were. After he finished painting, he discovered that it was actually a strange house?!
It has a round egg-like roof, a long pillar-like house, with round windows and arched doors inside, and there are several triangular trees next to it.
"Hahahahaha... Who painted this painting? Isn't it too ugly? The color is quite interesting. It's much more convenient than grinding the color by myself. If you don't have high requirements, you can definitely use this painting."
Mr. Yao is not a master of calligraphy and painting. He just paints for fun. If there is an easy way, of course he would be happy.
Ask Mo Yu to pack some, he will take them away later.
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I feel that Mr. Yao is just a "second-rate person", hahahahaha...
