时间走到了清朝末年,皖南宣纸制作世家曹恩祝接替了祖辈的遗业,对宣纸进行大力改造和创新,使得宣纸秘药的配方更加精确,制作的宣纸供不应求。宣纸技术的关键就是宣纸秘药,曹氏家族世世代代断头流血的保护,才使得宣纸秘药密不外传,宣纸制作的核心技术因此一直被曹氏掌控。但曹恩祝的小妾叶河子是个野心勃勃的人,她为了盗取宣纸秘药不惜杀死大夫人,戕害继女木槿,为此展开了一系列的斗争和迫害,导致木槿由大家小姐沦落为纸花子,在炮制宣纸原料——檀皮和草料的过程中,认识到了人的本质,人就像那青葱的檀皮,必须被挫骨扬灰后,才能沉淀成纸浆,最终成为千年不腐的宣纸,承载历史文化,人的价值才能体现。基于这个认识,木槿抛弃了仇恨,放弃了纸药的秘密,垒建了宣纸小镇,使纸花子住上了像样的房子,南来北往的客商蜂拥而至,而达成愿望的木槿安心辞世。
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