Chapter 44: Washing Pants Early in the Morning
After staying in the space for more than an hour, I went back. When I opened my eyes, I found that my mother had come back without me noticing.
Maybe he came back and saw me sleeping, so he didn't disturb me and went to sleep.
The silkworm eggs will be taken out tomorrow, as well as the mulberry seeds. If you want to do this for a long time, you need to plant mulberry trees yourself.
One silkworm egg can produce one hundred kilograms of silkworms.
That is to say, if a family raises a flock of silkworms, they can earn four taels of silver in a month.
In the countryside, earning four taels of silver a month is enormous wealth!
I slept well at night because I saw my parents.
Get up in the morning
I didn’t see mom. She must have gone to do the laundry!
In the yard, there were only Xiaotian and Xiaowu, and Song Ming was not there either. Song Jiang was weaving bamboo lattices in the yard, and there were already several on the ground.
Shen Xia looked at Song Jiang but didn't notice anything. After all, Song Jiang only saw his back.
He didn't even notice Song Jiang's red ears.
Song Jiang looked at Shen Xia with mixed feelings. He got up early in the morning with his second brother to wash pants. Yesterday's dream was so embarrassing.
The most important thing was the embarrassing scene with my second brother in the morning, which was simply beyond words.
Song Jiang looked at Shen Xia and said with an embarrassed look on his face: "The kitchen has left some porridge and pancakes for you."
"Okay, thank you, brother."
I haven't washed up yet! I'll go wash up first and then have breakfast.
When I was eating breakfast, I looked at this small table and thought, I should go out and talk to my eldest brother later.
If there is no carpenter in the village, he can make a bigger round table, because square tables are still used at that time.
After finishing breakfast and washing the dishes, he went to the yard and said to Xiaowu and Xiaotian, "Xiaowu, go and call over the aunts who are going to raise silkworms with us that day."
"Okay, sister."
As he walked, he jumped and said happily: "Hey, I can finally raise silkworms."
Xiaotian asked curiously, "What is silkworm breeding?"
"I don't really understand it either, I just know that it can make money."
"Then can I raise it?" Xiaotian looked at Xiaowu with hope on his face.
"Go back and ask your sister later, it should be possible."
"Okay, thank you, Brother Xiaowu."
Then he looked at Song Jiang who was sitting in the yard and said, "Brother, is there a carpenter in our village who can make tables? I feel like our table is not big enough for us."
"Uncle Yang will do it. He has already handed it over."
"Okay!" Since the handover has been completed, I'll just forget about it. I'm thinking of making a bigger table when I build a new house.
I went back to the room, poured the mulberry seeds into the backpack, and then threw the packaging bag back into the space. This is 50 kilograms of packaging, and I'm afraid one backpack is enough.
Dad bought a lot too, as if he was afraid that he didn’t have enough.
Then take out the silkworm eggs and put them into the same silkworm egg dustpan, and then deal with the previous ones.
The one who arrived the fastest was Aunt Liu from next door, who brought her two older sons with her.
He was holding a lot of vegetables in his hands.
Aunt Liu entered the yard and said politely, "Xia Xia, I am sorry to bother you again. These are vegetables from the field. There are too many to eat, so I brought some to you."
There are so many dishes to eat at this time. I guess they are all brought by themselves.
Then Aunt Liu said to her two sons, "You can call this sister-in-law. The things she brought yesterday were sent by your sister-in-law."
"Hello, sister-in-law." The two were also polite to Shen Xia.
"Well, hello, you guys, please sit for a while, they haven't arrived yet."
"it is good,"
Suddenly thinking of Uncle Yang's family, he said to Song Jiang, "Brother, Uncle Yang is also very kind to our family and often troubles him. Why don't you go and ask Uncle Yang if they want to raise him?"
"Yeah." After hearing this, Song Jiang got up and went out.
Aunt Liu looked at the grid on the ground and asked, "Is this the grid where the silkworm you mentioned made its cocoons?"
"Yes, you have to weave this too. When the silkworms start spinning silk, they will crawl to this grid to spin silk."
The two chatted about various things like this, and after more than half a quarter of an hour, all the people arrived. The main reason was that Aunt Zhou lived next to Shen Xia's house, so it was a little far away.
It seemed like everyone had made an appointment. Actually, two to three people came from each family, and no one came, even Uncle Yang's family.
"Shen Xia, aren't you in the food business? Why are you doing this now?" Uncle Yang asked curiously.
Shen Xia explained: "The food business is a secret recipe. Although it can make money, we all live together and we still have to make ends meet." Otherwise, the Song family will not be able to eat. You will see that within two months, there will be a lot of trouble.
Only when your interests are tied together will others be wary of you.
"I said that Mrs. Song is beautiful, kind-hearted and righteous." Aunt Zhou also praised.
"We are all from the same village, so it is only natural for us to help each other. I also want to thank everyone for trusting me and daring to raise silkworms with me."
Everyone nodded.
Then, because I have told you about the process of this thing before, and since so many people came today, I told you about it again.
It took another half an hour.
Just now when Song Jiang came back, he asked someone to carry out the mulberry seeds from his room.
Then he pointed to the seeds in the basket and said, "These are improved seeds. They grow fast and have large and numerous leaves. If you plan to raise silkworms for a long time, you must plant mulberry trees."
Aunt Jiang said, "Then how many mulberry leaves should be eaten according to the amount of silkworm eggs."
"30,000 silkworm eggs, one batch consumes one mu of mulberry leaves, and the finished silk cocoons weigh 100 jin. At the current price, the purchase price is 40 wen per jin, which is equivalent to 4 taels of silver."
When everyone heard this, they realized that one acre of land could earn four taels of silver per month, which means forty taels per year, which is more than what those doing business in the town could earn.
Everyone was so excited that they looked at each other.
But I was also a little worried about whether I could get the money. Later I thought, since I didn’t have the capital for the first batch, I might as well give it a try.
Several companies said they wanted to raise 30,000.
Shen Xia looked at the silkworm eggs in her winnowing basket and said, "There aren't that many eggs in this first batch, so everyone should raise a few first."
But later on, no one wanted to have less than anyone else.
Dad bought himself four boards of silkworms, which means thirty thousand times four equals one hundred and twenty thousand silkworm eggs.
The five families, the Liu family, the Zhou family, the Jiang family, and the Yang family, simply gave each family 20,000 yuan, and he kept 20,000 yuan for himself. Originally, he didn't want to raise a child, but Xiaotian and Xiaowu wanted to raise one, so he had to wait for them.
I also told them that if they get sick and encounter any strange questions that they don’t understand, they can just ask themselves.
Then everyone asked, "Uncle Yang, do you have a dustpan at home? If not, I can lend you one."
"Yes, every household in this rural area doesn't have that thing! Anyway, we won't need more in a few days, so it's too urgent to make it now."
"That's good. Also, this is the cocoon grid. Take a look at it. This will be used at the last stage. There is no rush now. You just need to weave the winnowing basket first and then weave this last."
Shen Xia also told everyone what to pay attention to when raising silkworms.
Seeing that we had almost talked about everything, we let everyone leave. Since there are only a few families raising silkworms now, we didn't sign an agreement with everyone. If there are more families raising silkworms in the future, we will definitely have to sign an agreement.