Smallholder Farming Daily

Chapter 16

Qian Feng has been worrying about earning a lot of money recently. At first, he wanted to go all over the place to do business, for example, sell the things that are abundant in this place to the north. He should be able to earn a lot of money, but Mr. Qian and Mrs. Yang disagreed. .Since I am now their son, it is better not to piss off the old couple, this method has to be given up.

When he went out to catch fish and shrimp in the morning, he saw a lot of mulberry trees on the road, and now he saw that pine cones could find silkworm seeds, so he wondered whether raising silkworms could make money.Isn't silk a very precious thing?Haven't silkworms been raised since ancient times?Why are there only children here to play with raising silkworms, but no one thinks of raising silkworms to make money?

Seeing what Qian Feng was thinking about, Songqiu hurriedly said: "You can't steal my silkworm seeds with a wrong idea, whoever steals is a bastard!"

Qian Feng handed the big lobster he was eating to Songqiu, "Nephew, I cooked shrimp for you to eat. From tomorrow onwards, can you take me to various villages to look for silkworms?"

It's not that he's afraid that he won't be able to find his way to each village, but that he knows that his reputation is not very good. Everyone will think that he brought silkworms back to raise silkworms and eat silkworm chrysalis. If that's the case, who would dare to give him the silkworms?

He thought that he would be able to raise autumn silkworms in a few days. He remembered that when he was in biology class, the teacher said that silkworms were only forty or fifty days old, and the cycle was short, so they were easy to raise.If silkworm cocoons could be sold for money, wouldn't he be rich?
The silkworms haven't been raised yet, and he's already imagining the days of counting money.

But Songqiu stared at the big monster shrimp in his hand and dared not eat it, let alone agree to take his second uncle to find Canzi. He said, "I'm afraid you will be beaten, so I will follow along."

Qian Feng took out a bunch of copper plates from his sleeve pocket, "I have money, can I buy it?"

Songqiu opened his mouth wide in surprise, "Second Uncle, you are a big foodie, you have to spend so much money to buy such terrible things as silkworm chrysalis!"

Qian Feng proudly weighed the money in his hand, "Hey, what do you know, you little brat? This is called money begets money!"

Songqiu tilted his neck, and really didn't understand.

Qian Feng went back to the kitchen, ate a few shrimps, then fried a few dishes, and cooked the crucian carp.

After the family came back from the field, seeing that Qian Feng was still diligent today, and even cooked all the family's meals, Mrs. Yang and Mr. Qian finally had some smiles on their faces.But when Ge Taohua saw Songqiu and Sui'er sitting there eating the leg meat of the big lobster, she was so frightened that she ran over and stretched out her hand to take out the child's mouth.

Song Qiu took the shrimp and ran away, saying: "Mother, I didn't dare to eat it at first, but I saw that my second uncle was eating it, so I gave it a try. It's really delicious! Mother, if you don't believe me, try it yourself. "

Sui'er was frightened and cried by her mother's attitude, "Mother, I want to eat!"

Ge Taohua directly held the pot of lobster in his hand, and wanted to go out to throw it away, but was stopped by Qian Feng.Ge Taohua had no choice but to throw the basin on the table, stand in front of Qian Feng with her hips akimbo, and shouted: "If the child has something wrong with eating, I will never end with you!"

Qian Feng laughed, brought out the crucian carp, and said, "Don't worry, sister-in-law, come on, can you eat fish?"

Ge Taohua gave Qian Feng a blank look, and was about to drink the soup with a big crucian carp soup bowl, but Qian Feng took it again.He poured half of the soup into another bowl, cut off a crucian carp that was only a few inches long with chopsticks, put half of it into another bowl, and handed it to Mrs. Yang, "Mother, this bowl is yours. Don't you have a baby in your stomach?"

Yang Shi and Ge Taohua gave Qian Feng a hard look at the same time.

Only Qian Feng and the two children dared to eat a big lobster, and everyone else ate vegetables.It was rare for Qian Feng to cook a meal, and it tasted pretty good. Yang sipped the crucian carp soup and said, "Feng'er, you don't work in the fields anyway, so you can take care of the lunch and dinner at home in the days before getting married. I'll make breakfast."

Qian Feng gnawed on the lobster meat, rolled his eyes, and said, "Okay. That... Mother, can you give me some money?"

"Do you still need money to cook for your own family?" Yang's brows were furrowed.

Before Qian Feng answered, Song Qiu said beside him, "Grandma, Second Uncle is going to buy silkworm seeds, and then he can eat silkworm chrysalis when they grow up."

When Yang vomited, the crucian carp she ate rushed into her throat. She really didn't want the crucian carp to vomit out like this, so she had to swallow it forcefully.

Qian Feng saw that his mother almost vomited, and his elder brother, sister-in-law and father couldn't eat anymore. For them, eating silkworm chrysalis was more disgusting than eating monster shrimp.Qian Feng quickly explained, "Mother, don't listen to the pine ball nonsense. I raise silkworms to make money. Silkworm cocoons can be made into silk. Mother, you must know how expensive silk is?"

Yang put down the bowl and sighed: "Son, can you think of something serious? You are going to get married next month. If you are still like this, don't scare the pomegranate. When the time comes, she will get married." What should I do if I am arguing about going back to my mother’s house? I just need to farm well, and our family can’t get rid of the pot? Didn’t Lao Wu in the town think about raising silkworms the year before last, but there was no dealer to collect them, so the few loads of silkworm cocoons could not be sold and could only be kept at home. Waiting, his daughter-in-law stretched the cocoon silk and said that she wanted to make it into silk and weave it into silk cloth, but she almost lost her eyesight, and in the end she didn't even weave a piece of cloth the size of a handkerchief. Isn't this a waste of money and life? ?”

However, Qian Feng felt that he must have a way to sell it, and no one would come to collect it. Didn't he know that he would drag it to several bustling cities to sell it?Isn't Suzhou, the so-called hometown of silk, just a few hundred miles away?Thinking about it, most of the people here have never even been out of Yinshan Town, nor have they seen the neighboring towns and counties, let alone the neighboring provinces hundreds of miles away.

Of course, these things are nothing to him, Qian Feng, he has made up his mind that this silkworm must be raised!
(End of this chapter)