Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1369
The news that everyone in Shen could buy leaves on credit immediately spread throughout the village.It is said that this time it was the intention of Master Zhao, the master of Shenyang University.No matter how much the credit leaf is, it will be one penny and one load, and the monthly interest will be one cent.Just like borrowing rice, it is good to use the cocoon as a price to repay after the cocoon is formed.

"This is simply a good deed!" Duoduo Niang's man was beaming, as if he had taken advantage of the sky, "Now the price of leaves is soaring! This morning, the town's leaf shop opened for four yuan a load of silver! According to the shopkeeper , it will rise to five yuan in a few days!"

Shen Kaibao felt anxious when he heard it.Five coins a load!This is going to kill him, even a few days ago he couldn't afford three cents a load.

Everyone Shen's conditions can indeed be regarded as doing good deeds.Even if Mr. Cao is willing to borrow it now, he will still get two and a half cents or three cents of interest, and then he will buy leaves according to this market price-he has calculated and calculated, and his family has raised silkworms for others this season.

Everyone in Shen only needs a penny and a load, and the monthly interest is only one penny, which is indeed a good deed.

At this moment, he finally let go of the grievances in his heart, and urged Daqing and Sanqing to get a good ship and go to Master Shen on credit.

There was already a long queue in front of the Shen family's door - it was said that it was credit leaves, but actually Ye Zi was not at the Shen family's door.Mulberry leaves are a commodity with a very short timeliness. It is difficult to store mulberry leaves picked in the morning and sell them the next day, so the leaf trade is all done on the same day.There is absolutely no pre-stocking.

Those who buy the top leaves are all traded in the leaf bank, and then the buyer will go to the mulberry garden to pick up the goods.Zhao Yingong also handled the credit leaves in the same way this time. Everyone in Shen just set up a written receipt, and after the written receipt was issued, they will be issued to the opponent's side, and they will go to the mulberry garden to pick up the leaves with the opponent's tile.

The road conditions in ancient society were poor, and the range of people's activities was limited. Therefore, Zhao Yingong had to estimate the approximate output of the mulberry garden and the scope of the various villages that could be radiated quite accurately for this operation.The former is not a big problem. The owner of the mulberry garden probably knows how much business can be picked in his mulberry garden during the whole spring silkworm period, while the latter needs a fairly accurate estimate.In the water towns of the south of the Yangtze River, farmers rely on boats to transport agricultural products to towns and cities.Spring is the busy time for farming, and it is impossible for the strong labor force to spend too much time on the boat.Therefore, the distance from the supply point to the end user must be limited to one day's round trip by boat.

This year he doesn't plan to operate too big a situation, it's just a test of the water.On the one hand, he knew little about the specific conditions of the tip leaves, and on the other hand, he didn't know how much resistance he would encounter during the specific operation.Therefore, no matter whether it was asking Shen Dawang Siniang to return to the village to start a cooperative or Shaoye, it only operated in a small area.

Including Jixian Village where Shen Da is located, he has only started the work of the United Press in three "central villages".These three villages can roughly cover the surrounding 600 or [-] sericulture-based villages.A total of more than [-] households.The number is not large, and the number of silkworm cocoons obtained through micro-lending will be very limited, but this is just a "model".He has full confidence that as long as the implementation of the plan goes well this year and the surrounding sericulture households see it, they will actively participate in the "cooperation" in the next year, and then it will come naturally.

The sericulture households don’t know Master Zhao’s thoughts, and their only thought at the moment is to get the mulberry leaves as soon as possible—the silkworm baby, which has been out of four sleep, is at the critical moment of spinning silk and cocooning, if the mulberry leaves cannot be supplied at this time, it will take more than a month The hard work and expense that came was all in vain.

After Shen Kaibao signed the papers, he took the right cards and immediately set off with Daqing to fetch the mulberry leaves.That night they came back in a boat with forty loads of leaves piled on board.

Before the boat entered the village entrance, Daqing's son was already looking around at the entrance of the village. Seeing his grandfather and father coming back, he ran home, shouting "I'm back!"

It turned out that the silkworms in Shen Kaibao's family had broken their leaves for more than half an hour. This was a matter of life and death. Shen Kaibao who was on the boat saw his grandson run away and knew the urgency of the situation. Helping Daqing to rock the boat desperately, the boat shook so much that it almost wiped the water.

The boat shot across the river like an arrow, almost collided with several moored boats, and rushed all the way to his family's Hebutou. Seeing his family members standing in Hebutou, Shen Kaibao became more impatient and kept urging: " Shake!"

The father and son went out in the morning, rowed the boat for a whole day, and ate only one meal. Their legs were sore and their hands were weak, and their bodies were flustered, but they knew that this would definitely break the baby silkworm. If the leaves are spread, all previous efforts will be wasted, and everything will be over.

When the boat arrived at Hebuto, Sanqing jumped on board before the boat stopped, picked up a basket of mulberry leaves and sent it to the shore. Send it home.Seeing that his son was inside, Daqing rushed to help, but the basket was heavy, so he stumbled and got out of the way.I couldn't help feeling distressed.Quickly picked up a basket of mulberry leaves and went ashore.

Shen Kaibao hurriedly urged: "Hurry up! Hurry up!" Regardless of his old age, he also helped to move the mulberry leaves.

Those white and fat "silkworm babies" have been hungry for a long time.All pointed out their small mouths and swayed left and right.Shen Kaibao looked sad.As soon as the leaves were put on the bed, the silkworm room was filled with rustling noises, and people could hardly hear their voices clearly.After a while, those "Tuanbian" were all white again.Then spread a thick layer of leaves.

People just "shangye" are too busy to breathe.But this is the last hurdle.With enough mulberry leaves, spring silkworms can go up the mountain as long as they survive for two more days.People squeeze out the rest of their energy and work desperately.

Duoduo Niang doesn't know how busy her family is now, but a few days ago when her man came to credit leaves, he said that silkworm flowers are very good, and they always look like seven or eight, so she was a little relieved. If you come out for a "busy month", you can also get more than one tael of silver. The silkworm flowers are good, and the family will have hope this year.

Between four sleeps and five sleeps, it was the hardest time to raise silkworms, and everyone in Shen's work of raising silkworms was also extremely tense.Shen’s family has a lot of silkworm foil, and the leaves are picked every day. The workload of clearing silkworm sand is very heavy. The ladies who raise silkworms work day and night, and can only sleep for one or two hours a day. They always take a nap against the wall in the nearby servant room After a while, I will get up again and go to Shangye to inspect.

Wang Siniang and Lizheng patrolled day and night, especially Wang Siniang, who was even more energetic.Because I know that this time the master asked her to go to the village to raise silkworms. It is an "important matter". If my family manages it well, needless to say, I will be the "manager" of the villa in the future. If it fails, I can only be the "leader". that's it.

Seeing that the silkworms have entered the fifth age and the amount of mulberry they eat has begun to decrease, both Wang Siniang and Li Zheng know that it is about to start cocooning.The traditional method of clustering often uses the method of increasing the temperature to make the silkworms cocoon on the clusters. However, due to the different timings of silkworm maturation, urging clusters together will often cause some silkworms to be overripe and some silkworms to be immature.If the clusters are placed too early, there will be many non-cocooning silkworms, less silk, and the color of the cocoons will be unclean; if the clusters are placed too late, they will crawl around on the sacks, losing silk, and eager to form cocoons after clustering, resulting in too many bad cocoons.

Therefore, the method of clustering in batches with a larger workload but a higher cocoon collection rate is adopted here.Lizheng first taught the sericulture ladies how to distinguish between ripening silkworms and suitable ripening silkworms.Regular inspections are carried out every day, and the suitable mature silkworms are transferred from the large silkworm foils to the small silkworm foils, and then moved into a special clustering room, where the density of [-] silkworms per square meter is clustered.

It was the first time for Duoduo Niang to see this method of clustering. It does not use a shed or straw clusters. It uses thick paper to make square grids, and hangs them one by one directly on the cooked silkworms. Utilize the habit of allowing cooked silkworms to crawl upwards to allow them to automatically climb up to the clusters to form cocoons.

In the upper cluster room, there are still earth dragon fires and water basins, as well as strange glass pipes and bubbles.Bamboo shutters are hung on the windows here, making the light that comes in soft and dark--strong light is the most avoidable when cocooning.

In the early stage of clustering, mature silkworms need to excrete feces and urine before spinning and cocooning, so the humidity in the cluster room is very high, monitor the humidity, and once it is higher than 75%, open the doors and windows to ventilate and dehumidify.The room temperature is preferably 25°C, if it is lower than 22°C, it must be heated.Too high or too low temperature, too high or too low humidity will affect the cocooning rate and cocoon quality, so very precise control is required.

According to the method taught by Li Zheng, Duoduo Niang picked out cooked silkworms with other silkworm raising ladies and sent them to the cluster every day.The silkworm foils clustered each day are marked.At the same time, they also need to remove the dead silkworms in the cluster, and catch the uncocooned swimming silkworms to add another cluster.

Five or six days after the clusters were formed, Li Zhengcai started picking cocoons.If it is picked too early, it will easily damage and pollute the silkworm cocoon without pupation; if it is picked too late, the pupa will turn into a moth, which will also affect the quality of the cocoon.When picking cocoons, they are collected in batches according to the date of the last cluster.The plucked cocoons are spread thinly on the silkworm plaques without squeezing each other.The upper cocoon and the lower cocoon should be placed separately.The upper cocoons are those whose cocoon shell is solid, white and evenly shaped, and those with dead cages, yellow spots, chaiyin, piercing heads, thin skin, deformities, and fly maggots are lower cocoons.The cocoon of the double palace is released separately.

This practice of clustering and harvesting every day made it difficult for Duoduo Niang to estimate whether the silkworm flowers of Master Shen were good or bad.But every time I go to harvest silkworm cocoons, most of the white cocoons in the square clusters are high-quality silkworm cocoons, and it is rare to see dead silkworms that do not cocoon.This Guangdong species not only has larger cocoons than local species, but also has a thicker silk layer and a firmer cocoon body.The threads are also very clear.Wang Siniang has raised silkworms for decades, and she has never seen such a beautiful cocoon!Even the best Huzhou silk cocoons she had ever seen couldn't compare.

Duoduo Niang always felt an inexplicable sense of joy when she took out the white and firm silkworm cocoons from the square clusters—although the silkworm cocoons were not hers, the fruits of careful care over the past month were still It made her feel the joy of harvest and made her feel happy from the bottom of her heart.

(End of this chapter)