The ugly daughter-in-law of the farm gate: the sweet wife of the husband in the mountains

Chapter 24 Do you dare to bet with me?

Yao Dong led Ye Xi to the house, and as soon as he reached the door, someone walked out with baskets of dead silkworms.

Looking at those silkworms, Ye Xi also frowned slightly.It was not easy to raise them to such an adult, and so many died all at once, no wonder Master Tan and Yao Dong were full of sadness.

This is really a pity.

According to what Yao Dong said, this time the disease was severe, and many silkworms died one after another in the past few days.

Although the dead silkworms were quickly dealt with, and the house was being disinfected as much as possible, the spread of the disease still could not be controlled.

"It would be great if it could cocoon as soon as possible." Yao Dong sighed.

Ye Xi looked at him fixedly, "You're right, if you can cocoon in advance, at least part of the loss can be recovered."

As long as the silkworms that have not yet got sick spin silk and cocoon in advance, even if the production will suffer a decline, it is the best way at the moment.

If there is no cocooning for a day, most of the silkworms will die every day, and the loss is difficult to estimate.

"I just said it casually, how can there be such a way?" Yao Dong smiled wryly.

"I have a solution." Ye Xi said suddenly.She thought of the pearl dew grass that she saw in the back mountain. In modern times, some people have researched that there is a substance in the pearl dew grass, which is extracted and called molting hormone.

Generally, silkworm farmers will feed molting hormones when a small number of silkworms are mature, so that the silkworms will mature and cluster together.

In this way, the upper clusters are neat, and part of the mulberry leaves and labor can be saved. Some people have calculated that the output will increase slightly.

She once saw that people in the village did not buy ecdysone, but directly dug dew grass and boiled it, and mixed the concoction with mulberry leaves to feed silkworms, which was also effective.

Now Master Tan's silkworms are not yet mature, feeding molting hormone will certainly affect the yield, but it is the best way at the moment.

"You have a solution?" Yao Dong looked at Ye Xi in surprise.

He had never heard of silkworms spinning silk earlier.After all, silkworms also have a time to grow, and everything has its own rules, which is so easy to change.

"Can I have a try?"

"Are you sure?"

"I have certainty, but the ugly words must be said first, and the silkworms that are urged to mature will naturally spin less silk. This point must be well known."

"It's come to this point, less is better than nothing." Yao Dong took Ye Xi to talk to Master Tan.

Hearing that Ye Xi could make silkworms weave their silk ahead of time, Mr. Tan's eyes suddenly shone brightly, and soon he was a little skeptical.

"This matter is unheard of, is the girl really sure?"

"Then, would Master Tan dare to take a gamble with me?" Ye Xi looked at Master Tan firmly.

Ye Xi naturally understood Master Tan's hesitation.I thought that before the appearance of ecdysone, such a thing seemed impossible for anyone.

It's a big gamble right now, it depends on whether Master Tan dares or not.

If Master Tan didn't dare, she wouldn't persuade him much.After all, you can know what the result will be. If you talk too much, you will cause trouble for yourself.

The silkworm disease spread quickly, maybe just after feeding the dew grass, some silkworms still died of the disease, which inevitably made people feel that it was her fault.

"Ah Dong, what do you think?" Master Tan looked at Yao Dong.

"Xiaoxi grew up with me, she is a kind girl."

"Since you can trust her, then I have nothing to disbelieve." Master Tan looked at Ye Xi again, "Since that's the case, Miss Ye can do whatever she wants, no matter what the result is, I can't rely on her."

(End of this chapter)