Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 133 Silkworm Baby

At the beginning of April, the rapeseed flowers in the field had come to their curtain call. From golden flowers, they turned into green pods. Rapeseeds were bred in the pods. When the camellia seeds matured, they could be harvested, exposed to the sun, collected Camellia oleifera seeds, and then take them to the oil mill to extract oil and eat them.

The smell of rapeseed oil is very strong, and it is delicious to fry fried tofu.

But Gao Mingcheng didn't grow rapeseed this year, so he was a little greedy looking at the rapeseed in other people's fields.

Looking at the mung beans, sesame seeds and peanuts grown in other people's fields, uh, I'm even more greedy!
The greedy Gao Mingcheng continued to go home to carry a hoe and open up wasteland!
Next year he will grow everything he loves to eat!Be self-sufficient soon!
While Gao Mingcheng was sweating to open up wasteland, Manymei came back on her bicycle. She rode directly to Gao Mingcheng's vicinity, and then rang the bell.

Gao Mingcheng followed the prestige and saw many beautiful and smiling people riding on bicycles with one foot on the ground to stabilize their bodies.

"Mingcheng, let's go dig the mulberry tree back from the mountain! We'll plant it there!" Duomei pointed to the east corner of her courtyard wall, where there happened to be an open space. Great place to plant trees.

Gao Mingcheng was taken aback, why did he suddenly remember to dig mulberry trees and come back to plant them?

Many beauties took out a cardboard box as if offering a treasure, and after opening it, they said to Gao Mingcheng, "What do you think this is?"

Gao Mingcheng walked over to take a look, and saw a few mulberry leaves in the cardboard box. On the mulberry leaves, there were countless tiny silkworm babies. It seemed that they had just hatched for a few days.

No wonder Duomei suddenly wanted to dig the mulberry tree. It turned out that she had returned with the baby silkworm.

Duomei said: "The baby silkworm was given to me by my third sister. She told me to raise it. After raising it, the silkworm cocoons formed can be sold to her, and someone will collect it. She said it was used to make silk quilts!"

Many beauty said with longing: "I asked, baby silkworms are easy to raise, as long as there are mulberry leaves for them to eat! When the silkworm cocoons grow, they can be sold for a lot of money! I thought there are mulberry trees in our mountains, but For the convenience of raising silkworms in the future, I might as well go to the mountains to dig some mulberry trees, anyway, mulberry leaves are also a kind of medicine, and they are useful things.”

"Okay!" Gao Mingcheng didn't pour cold water on Duomei, she just raised her if she liked, it's not a big deal anyway.

The wasteland is temporarily closed. He carried a hoe and went to the mountains to dig mulberry trees.

On a slope to the southeast of Niuwei Ridge, there is a large area of ​​mulberry trees, big and small, and they grow very densely. Every year in May, some mulberries can be picked from there to eat.

But not all mulberry trees can grow mulberries. Some trees grow tall, but they just don’t bear fruit. The old people in the village say that this is a male tree, and only the female tree can bear fruit.

Duomei pushed the bicycle home, put the cardboard box on the table, and hurriedly followed Gao Mingcheng.

Not long after, the two came to the place full of mulberry trees.

Since you want to transplant it to your own home, you have to choose one. You have to choose a tree with a good shape and luxuriant leaves.

"Just this one!" Gao Mingcheng pointed to a mulberry tree, Duomei naturally agreed without any opinion, and then saw Gao Mingcheng brandishing a hoe and started digging.

When transplanting a tree, it is best to bring the roots and soil, so that it is easy to survive.

Gao Mingcheng dug a large bag of soil at the root of the mulberry tree, and he cut off the rest of the root system with a hoe. After transplanting, new roots will naturally grow.

The vitality of the mulberry tree is very strong, even if there is only one big tree root left, it can re-issue branches and leaves.

After Gao Mingcheng dug one tree, he went to dig the second one. Seeing this, Duo Mei immediately went to pick up the mulberry tree he had dug before, and she planned to take it home first.

However, she underestimated the weight of the mulberry tree. This tree is not particularly tall, only a little taller than an adult, but with roots and soil, it is quite heavy.

Gao Mingcheng saw that Duomei staggered and almost fell, and immediately said: "Leave it alone, I will do it."

Many beauties look embarrassing, I'm sorry.

She walked down the mountain and said, "Then I'll go back and dig the hole first!"

She went all the way down the mountain, took the hoe out from the utility room, and began to choose a place to dig a hole. When Gao Mingcheng brought the tree back, she could plant it.

Although digging a hole is also physical work, Duomi did a good job. When Gao Mingcheng came back with two trees, she had already dug a big hole.

"How beautiful, bring some fertilizer!" Gao Mingcheng glanced at the bottom of the pit. The soil here is loess, which doesn't look very fertile.

"Oh." Many Mei responded, went to the composting place to get some fertilizer, and sprinkled it on the bottom of the pit. This is decomposed and fermented fertilizer, which will not burn the trees.

So many beauty supported the tree trunk, and Gao Mingcheng was responsible for covering the soil. After the work was done, he stepped on it with his feet a few times to make the soil more compact.

The second hole was dug by Gao Mingcheng himself. He waved a hoe and dug out a hole of a suitable size in three or two strokes. Then, with the concerted efforts of the two, he successfully planted two trees. Tree.

The distance between the two mulberry trees is not far, only about two meters. After planting, it can be regarded as embellishing the scenery outside the courtyard wall.

"How beautiful, you broke off some branches. You can't leave so many leaves on them. I'll get water." Gao Mingcheng said, and went to fetch water in the yard.

He didn't go to the reservoir to fetch water, he poured the well water directly. The well in his house is really well drilled, the water is full every day, and the water quality is also clear and sweet.

Sure enough, if people from several nearby villages wanted to dig a well, the first person who would think of digging a well would be someone from Dalong Village!
This craftsmanship is nothing to say!
After watering the mulberry tree, the matter of transplanting the tree is over, and the next thing is to wait for the mulberry tree to grow roots and shoot new shoots again.

Many beauty took the freshly broken branches and walked into the house.

These mulberry leaves are just for the silkworms to eat.

"Duomei, what are you going to use to raise silkworm babies? This cardboard box is too small, and it won't be enough in two days." Gao Mingcheng said.

The silkworm baby grows very fast, it looks small now, but after a few days, it will grow up.

When it comes to the growth period, it really changes every day and grows very fast.

Duomei thought about it, but she couldn't find a suitable thing to raise. She looked at Gao Mingcheng dumbfounded, with "What should I do?" written all over her face.
What else can I do?
Of course it is to give silkworm babies a new home!
"Duomei, you go to cook, I'll go to the mountain to chop some bamboo and come back." Gao Mingcheng held a machete and planned to enter the mountain again.

When he walked to the gate of the yard, he remembered something again and said, "I caught some bullfrogs and brought them back and put them in the kitchen. If you don't know how to do them, just put them there until I come back to do them."

Many beauty said quickly: "You don't need to do it, I will do it myself!"

Killing bullfrogs is complicated to say, but it is not a difficult task for many beauty who grew up in the village. She has also caught frogs to eat before.

Frogs, like bullfrogs, are tender and delicious!

(End of this chapter)