Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1368
Li was the first batch of orphans who were taken in as apprentices by Zhao Yingong.She has received cultural education for quite a long time in Zhao Yingong's "private school", and this time she was selected to stand on her own as the technical and administrative director of the Jixian Village Promotion Station.

Li Yao'er gave her a quick training in sericulture technology in the villa. Although Wang Siniang is skillful and has rich experience in sericulture, after all, she is illiterate and her ability to accept is not good.In comparison, Li Zheng, who already has a second-level diploma, is much better.After all, things like lending and building cooperatives involve financial and digital management. Wang Siniang is illiterate and unable to personally manage and supervise.Therefore, she can only exist as a nail and scene figure inserted into Jixian Village.

Duoduo Niang didn't know the secrets inside, but she had good eyesight, and she could see that although he was young, he was also "in charge", so she didn't dare to take a peek.

In Wang Siniang's house, there were gradually more people.Every time a ship brings new things, there will always be one or two more people unknowingly.There are men and women, and the common feature is that they are well-founded and taciturn. It is rare to see that kind of chatting together.Basically, everyone has work to do, and there is no time to stop.

The hatching of silkworm ants usually starts at 04:30 in the morning, and they are fully hatched by [-]:[-] in the morning.After all the silkworm ants are out, the silkworm ants will be transferred to the silkworm foil for feeding.Here in Jixian Village, feathers are used to harvest ants and silkworms—this is also the most commonly used method, and every household has prepared feathers for sweeping ants and silkworms.However, a different approach is used here.

Duoduo Niang and other working women followed Li Zheng's instructions, after the silkworms came out, spread a kind of thin and tough tissue paper on the silkworm foil, and then sprinkled chopped and withered mulberry leaves on the tissue paper-this It is called Yinsang, which is specially used to attract silkworm ants to paper.

After the silkworm ants smell the fragrance of the mulberry, they will climb on the cotton paper, and then gently sweep away the mulberry, then move the cotton paper to the silkworm foil for silkworm rearing, and turn the tissue paper over for the mulberry, so that the mulberry is completely It became the job of harvesting silkworm ants.Not to mention saving labor, it will cause little damage to silkworm ants and silkworm eggs that have not yet hatched.

Duoduo Niang saw that the number of silkworm ants harvested by this method was much higher than that of the usual sweeping method, and she kept it in her heart: in the future, she should do the same when raising silkworms herself.

Newborn silkworm ants are wriggling in the "silkworm grate", and they look very strong and black, which is also very normal.This kind of silkworm ants is rarely seen in previous years.The Cantonese species from Wang Siniang's family is indeed a good one!Duoduo Niang regretted why she didn't raise a piece of cloth on credit - obviously the conditions were very generous.

The silkworm ants of other families in the village came out a few days later, but the situation is not bad.It seems that this year's silkworm flowers are much better than last year's, at least eight or nine points.Silkworm ants have good physique.The silkworm ants in Shen Kaibao's family were even rarer, which made him forget all his troubles for a while, and he had great hope in his heart.

However, when I slept twice, it was cloudy and rainy, and the temperature dropped all the way.The silkworms in the village began to suffer from silkworm disease. Seeing people pouring "silkworm sacks" into the stream beside the village, Shen Kaibao felt another big stone in his heart: Look at this, it is impossible for the wife to sleep peacefully. .

According to the experience of previous years, about one-fifth of the silkworm ants will be lost in the usual silkworm season, and in bad years, only one-third of the silkworm ants can survive to the time of cocooning.Of course, there is something worse, that is, there is a large area of ​​crop failure in the village.But such things are rare.

For Shen Kaibao and most of the villagers, this year's silkworm flower must be at least eight points to make up for their losses this year, and sustain it for a whole year.If the silkworm flowers are only six or seven points, many people will have a very difficult year.

Tension permeated the whole village, although it is customary not to burn incense during sericulture, so as not to affect the silkworms.But every family prayed in front of the statues of the Kitchen God and the Silkworm God, praying that the next three sleeps would pass peacefully.

The silkworm room of Wang Siniang’s family has good thermal insulation, and there are means to heat up and monitor the temperature and humidity. It has been able to keep the temperature and humidity in the silkworm room at the best state. In addition, the prior disinfection work is done in place, and the sericulture workers are clean and hygienic. The work is also very tight, so the silkworms are very strong.Duoduoniang's work is even busier now - she has to wear cotton clothes like a child's coat every day, covering her head to toe tightly, even wrapping her head with a scarf, and going in and out of the silkworm room. handwashing.A stone sink was placed in front of the silkworm room, and it was full of clean water with a pungent smell that had been added to it.Those who go in and out have to soak their hands and arms in it for a while and then take them out.A person was specially sent to supervise. If anyone forgot to wash his hands after being reminded, he would be demerited.

There are more and more jobs, and the rules are becoming more and more strict. Here is a whole set of "operating procedures", and Li Zheng is responsible for teaching them step by step. It doesn't matter whether the silkworm raising ladies understand it or not, as long as they follow it. , no less, no more, not to mention casual changes.Every move must be done according to the rules.If any link is wrong, it will also be recorded as a demerit.

If there are three demerits, the wages will be deducted-this is too light, and Duoduo Niang has also been deducted several times.If Wang Siniang was a servant under the name of "Master Zhao", if he committed a crime, it would be much more miserable. Not only would he have to deduct money, but he would have to suffer physically and fleshly: Duoduo Niang heard bamboo boards beating meat and crying for mercy several times in the side room From time to time, you can see a few sericulture ladies who are not very quick-witted kneeling in the yard and memorizing the "operating rules" after work.

"Master Zhao's food is really not good." Every time Duoduo Niang sees such a thing, she will feel a chill on the back of her neck, so she remembers all kinds of rules in a special prison-although she won't suffer Kneeling is fined by the board, too much money is deducted, and you must not be laughed at when you go home.

As the three sleeps passed, the sericulture work entered a climax. Duoduo Niang and the sericulture ladies lost a lot of weight, and their insomnia eyes were covered with red silk.Although it is better to stay up day and night than raising silkworms at home, the workload is much greater.

In addition to constantly cutting and loading leaves, the sericulture ladies also have to make regular inspections in the class.If you find dead silkworms or diseased silkworms, use silkworm chopsticks to pick them out immediately, and put them into a special collection bucket.

The work of cleaning silkworm excrement is also very heavy - but it is much more convenient to clean silkworm excrement here than to raise silkworms at home. The bottom of the silkworm foil in Wang Siniang's house is covered with a very fine wire mesh. When cleaning, you only need to lift the silk mesh , the silkworm sand will naturally leak down, just pour it into a special silkworm sand basket.

The silkworm excrement and dead silkworms are stored in a special room, and then dumped into the biogas digester behind the toilet at night to kill viruses and bacteria through fermentation.Selling silkworm excrement as fertilizer is also an income for silkworm farmers. However, traditional silkworm farming has not strictly isolated control and harmless treatment of silkworm excrement, which has become an important transmitter of silkworm diseases.

Although the sericulture ladies suffered day and night and were often blamed, Wang Siniang's treatment was also improved. They ate three meals a day with rice open, and they saw meat every day.There is also a special "motivation" meeting before going to work every day. If the work is excellent and the indicators are completed well, the top three will be given additional bonuses in proportion.

Wang Siniang and Lizheng took turns to inspect the work, their voices became hoarse, and their eyes were red. Everyone worked desperately in this intense emotional atmosphere—the promotion station raised a lot of silkworms, but the labor was much less. All rely on work efficiency to improve.

In the village, there is also a busy and tense atmosphere.Shen Kaibao's family, including their ten-year-old grandson, did not close their eyes for several days and nights.Although there was a shadow of silkworm disease, a few "silkworms" had to be poured out, but the remaining silkworms were still doing well. The "babies" after the "four sleeps" ate seven dan leaves on the first day, and all of them were green and strong, and there was a "rustling" sound when eating the leaves.Seeing that my own mulberry leaves are not enough, the mulberry leaves I bought with all my savings are almost used up.Shen Kaibao reckoned that to get to the upper cluster, he would need thirty dan leaves, which was not enough to rely on his own ability.

Shen Kaibao and his son Daqing Sanqing discussed where to borrow money to buy leaves.

"We have bet all the land to him, and if we want to speak again, what bet will we take? Master Cao will not agree." Daqing said.

"If Mr. Cao can't borrow it, why don't you ask the shopkeeper Wang in the town?" Sanqing said.
Shen Kaibao said with a sad face: "In previous years, it was fine, but this year the shopkeeper Wang said that he has crossed the river like a mud bodhisattva."

"It seems that I still want to ask Master Cao..." Sanqing said in a daze, he really couldn't hold it anymore, his eyelids seemed to weigh hundreds of catties, and he just wanted to close them.

Shen Kaibao didn't speak, he thought and thought, except for a master Cao, he really couldn't think of anyone who was capable or likely to lend him money right now.But Mr. Cao is shrewd, and he never borrows money without a real mortgage.These thirty dan leaves, according to the current market conditions, cost at least four qian per dan.

Daqing said: "Or ask Ye Xing to use it on credit first..."

This is a way, but Ye Xing Ye on credit, not only the price is high, but the interest is ridiculously high.Thinking that his silkworm cocoons have not been confiscated, and that there are many gone, Shen Kaibao's heart burns.

At this time, there was a sudden commotion in the rice field outside. It turned out that Duodoniag's men passed by with ten loads of leaves in a boat.So the conversation between father and son was interrupted, and they all went out to watch the excitement.

Shen Kaibao was a little surprised, he knew Duoduo's natal family had much less mulberry land than his own, and even though they only raised two "cloths" this year, there was definitely not enough leaves.A few days ago, he saw Duoduoniang's father-in-law frowning because he had no money to buy mulberry leaves.How did you raise money all at once today?

He hurriedly stopped Duoduo Niang's man and asked where did Ye come from?what market?
"Duo Duo Niang got it on credit from the Shen family." He said loudly, "Ye Duo De from his family!"

(End of this chapter)