Abandoned woman from a poor family, she is addicted to wealth

Chapter 107 Making a Quill Pen
Lu Jiu passed a roast goose restaurant and saw a lot of feathers missing at the door. She thought of the quill and planned to go home and do an experiment. What if it worked!

Thinking of this, Lu Jiu asked, "Boss, how do you sell the roast goose?"

"150 bucks for one, girl want one?"

"Come one." Lu Jiu paid the money and asked casually, "Boss, do you still want these feathers?"

"No, do you like it, girl?"

"It looks pretty to me, I want a few."

"Girl take whatever you want, and the guy will come to collect the dirty stuff later."

"thank you boss."

In fact, making a quill is quite simple. Lu Jiu used to be idle at home and liked to watch various small videos. He had seen the production steps of a quill before, so Lu Jiu planned to go home and try it out.

The feathers of many big birds are very suitable for making pens, as long as they are long enough and hard, the longest ones on the wings are generally used.

The most common are goose feathers, which is perhaps why quills are often called quills.

Swan feathers are precious because of their rarity, and crow feathers are better for writing fine characters. In addition, there are duck feathers, eagle feathers, turkey feathers, and pheasant feathers.

Lu Jiu picked up a lot of goose feathers, about dozens of them. After thanking the boss, she went home excitedly to make quills.

But Lu Jiu remembered that he hadn't been to the construction site all day, so he went to the construction site again and found that the progress was good. Lu Sidong was also very serious and responsible, so Lu Jiu was relieved and went back to making quill pens.

"Auntie, are you going to make us shuttlecocks again?"

As soon as the children saw the goose feather in Lu Jiu's hand, they subconsciously thought that Lu Jiu was making them shuttlecocks for them to play with.

"No." Lu Jiu shook his head: "This is for quill pens."

"What's a quill?"

"Is it the same as a brush?"

"Grandma..."

"I'll do it for you later."

Lu Jiu looked at this group of little radish heads and gave orders directly.

"Erlang, help me rub the sand in the dustpan."

"Sanlang, help me light the fire, use that small stove."

"Hua'er, put the roast goose in my room, and I'll give you another meal for dinner!" Her room is safer, and she won't be eaten by someone.

If it was normal, when Lu Jiu brought food home, they would have been surrounded long ago, but because the food is so good recently, they are not very interested in food now, and instead are interested in the "quill pen" that Lu Jiu called more interested.

There are two stoves in the house, one big and one small, the big one is used to make a big pot of rice, and the small one is used to cook a small stove for Lu Jiu.

Saburo quickly started a fire. Children in the countryside can start a fire at the age of two, but they need to be watched by adults, otherwise it is easy to cause a fire.

Lu Jiu put the goose feathers into the steamer for degreasing treatment. After steaming for about 5 minutes, Lu Jiu lifted the lid of the pot and took out the goose feathers.

Lu Jiu took out a small knife, cleaned off the scales and skin tissue that were often attached to the roots of the feathers, scraped off the feathers that hindered writing, and then cleaned the inside of the quills with an embroidery needle to ensure smooth flow.

Just after finishing a few goose feathers, Erlang came back with a dustpan full of sand.

Lu Jiu replaced it with an iron pot. This iron pot was a bit worn out and a little leaky. It was a pot used to fry peanuts for the original owner during the Chinese New Year, and it was not used very often.

Heat the sand to about 180°C, if the temperature is too high, the quills will be scorched.

Lu Jiu didn't know exactly what 180°C was, so he could only guess.

When it felt almost the same, Lu Jiu immediately extinguished the fire and took the pot of sand to the yard.

(End of this chapter)