Fight the Giants

  Chapter 372 Dissatisfied

  Mr. Yang looked over and over with the white fox scarf.

   "Such a good thing, you can't buy it outside."

   Now that the family has money, she and Huo Erhuai are willing to buy things for the children, but such a high-quality fur has no stray hairs, and the whole piece of fur is so complete that money cannot buy it.

   "It's a gift from the nobles." Huo Xi teased Huo An, and replied.

   "That's it. Little people like us who have nowhere to go can't buy such good things. We are lucky in An'an."

  Mr. Yang cheerfully put away the white fox scarf for her son. I'm going to wait for it to cool down before giving it to my son.

  Her son An An has enjoyed a great blessing.

Brothers, sisters, and uncles all came here through hard times, but he ate well while he was still in the womb, and now he has a nanny to take care of him. She is usually busy, not only the nanny, but everyone in the village will help and compete Rushing to hug him.

   is a very blessed child.

   "Sister, give me a hug for An An." Huo Nian followed beside him, raising his head and reaching out to hug his younger brother.

   "You can't hold it."

   "I can hug!"

  Seeing that Huo Nian insisted, Huo Xi let him sit on the chair, put An An in his arms, and protected him by himself.

  Huo Nian hugged An An, grinning. Sitting on the chair also borrowed strength, and he was able to free up a hand to gently shave An An's soft little face.

   "My brother is so soft, oh, give me a bite."

  He put his head down and opened his mouth in a gesture to bite An An. An An made him grin, and even waved his fist to push his brother away.

  Seeing that he was hugging him securely, with his mother and nurse beside him, Huo Xi confessed and went to the silkworm house to watch the silkworms.

  Chuangzi has never raised silkworms, but in the Jiangnan area, there are many people who grow cotton, grow mulberry and raise silkworms, and there are many weavers. The income of growing mulberry and silkworms in the field is higher than the output value of farming, and there are sericulture people everywhere. It was easy for Huo Erhuai to get silkworm eggs from the Jiahu area.

  Chuangzili reserved a place for silkworm houses last year. In the spring of this year, the silkworm house has been set up, and the staff for raising silkworms has also been found.

  By the time Huo Xi went to see it, all the silkworms at this meeting had been fattened up. Silkworms are already in the fifth instar stage, and this is the time when they eat the most. They need to be fed at least four to five times a day, and they will spin cocoons in a few days.

   It will be cold soon, this batch should be the last batch.

  Several Zhuang women are spreading mulberry leaves on silkworm beds with baskets on their backs. Huo Xi leaned over and stared at it.

   After watching for a while, he turned around and almost stepped on someone.

   Turning his head to look, he saw Huo Nian following her at some point, quietly next to her, staring intently at the fat silkworm wriggling and eating mulberry leaves.

   "Sister, there are so many silkworms." They were densely packed, like bugs, still wriggling and rustling, which made Huo Nian get goosebumps all over his body.

  Huo Xi gave him a funny look, seeing that he was about to move, Pi Xiaozi still held her hand tightly, and comforted him with a smile: "Don't be afraid, they don't bite people. These silkworms are good things."

   "I, I'm not afraid."

   That's right, Huo Nian was shaking off his goosebumps again, seeing that the hairs on his heart were going straight up.

  Seeing that he was feeling unwell, Huo Xi led him out of the silkworm room. It was a little funny to see him greatly relieved.

  Drove him into the village, and saw that not far from the silkworm house, there were a few older servants doing something with bamboo, so he dragged him over to look.

   "This is a cluster of bamboo, which helps silkworms cocoon." Several servants saw that they were two little masters, and explained with a smile.

   "What is the bamboo cluster?" Pi Xiaozi squatted down to look.

"These silkworms are about to become mature silkworms. They are ready to go up the mountain to cocoon. At this time, we need to make something for them to go up the mountain. These bamboo clusters are used to help them go up the mountain to spit silk and cocoon. When they form cocoons Silkworm cocoons can be sold for money, or they can be peeled off to obtain silk.”

  Hearing this, Huo Nian moved two steps forward with great interest, asking questions from time to time.

  Huo Xi heard that silkworm farmers now use bamboo branches, branches or bamboo clusters to help silkworm babies cocoon, and frowned. During the process of cocooning like this, someone must guard the silkworm house, otherwise, birds, wasps, insects and the like will easily enter and eat the silkworms.

  Huo Xi thought about it, went to Qi Da, and asked him to bring someone to peel some hemp skin.

   Qi Da didn’t know what he was going to do, but as the head of the farm, they would do what the master asked them to do. This year the farm raised silkworms, and at the end of the year, everyone would get a lot more rewards. Just thinking about it gives me strength.

  After the servants peeled back the hemp skins, Huo Xi instructed them to boil and dry the hemp skins.

   Before she could move, a day passed.

  Huo Nian followed her to see the little brother on the Zhuangzi, and played hard with Bao Kang on the Zhuangzi for a day. The next day, Huo Erhuai carried him on the boat while he was still sleeping.

   This kid only has a one-day rest period, and he has to go back to the school for class.

   Mrs. Yang was on the pier of Zhuangzi, watching Huo Erhuai board the boat with Huo Nian, who was sleeping unconsciously, with a distressed expression on her face.

  He said to Huo Xi who was standing aside to see them off: "Otherwise, Mother will take An An back to the city, and she can still take care of Nian'er all the time."

   "It's okay, mother, he has grown up now, and he can't always cling to you and dad like he was when he was a child. Mother still takes An An on the Zhuangzi, so that he doesn't have so much scruples about what he eats and uses."

  The streets of Beijing are still full of people in white clothes and plain clothes. They have to sneak around to eat meat, and dare not eat it openly. Although the ban on slaughtering has passed, the emperor is still a vegetarian, and the civil and military officials and ordinary people dare not buy meat with too much fanfare.

   This is the time to build a good relationship, and the Jin Yiwei are all watching.

   I'm afraid that this year's Spring Festival will be less lively.

  Huo Xi went back to catch up on sleep, woke up after a nap, and instructed the servants to tie hemp rope nets with hemp skins.

  Huo Erhuai came back from the city and asked her curiously what she was doing.

"I plan to use this kind of hemp rope net to make silkworm clusters on the silkworm bed, and then cover it with a dense layer of gauze, so as to add a layer of barrier to them, which is convenient for silkworm babies to cocoon and reduce the death of silkworm babies Rate."

  Huo Erhuai also helped after hearing this.

   "Dad, how many times have you cocooned this year?"

   "I've made cocoons three times. My father calculated that one mu of mulberry fields can produce 70 catties of cocoons."

"so little?"

  The two Zhuangzi only have thirty-five acres of mulberry fields in total, and one acre of mulberry fields is less than a cocoon? In this way, if we raise silkworms four times a year, the two Zhuangzi can only receive one hundred shi of silkworm cocoons.

   A catty of silkworm cocoons is one hundred Wen, and a catty of silk is five hundred Wen. Calculated in this way, the annual income of the two Zhuangzi from raising silkworms is less than one thousand taels of silver?

  The cocooning rate is a bit low.

  Huo Erhuai comforted her: "This is already a lot. In the past, neither of the two Zhuangzi had ever planted mulberry trees or raised silkworms. This is equivalent to a thousand taels for nothing."

  How could it be for nothing?

  The sloping fields of the two villages were left unused in the past, but they were only used to get some shrubs, and to get some firewood in winter, which was a waste of land. After cleaning it up, planting mulberry trees, and investing manpower and material resources, how can this be such a profit.

  The silkworms in the south of the Yangtze River have already been matured. Huo Xi was not very satisfied with the result.

   The second watch and the third watch are at noon

  (end of this chapter)