Chapter 62: Silkworm Raising

In the early morning, the weather was refreshing, and the steaming water vapor rose from the hot spring pool, thick and white, and was in it, like walking in the clouds.

Hidden in the water vapor, a pair of men and women snuggled up to each other. In the early morning, when you soak in a hot spring, you will be full of energy all day.

In the water vapor, a voice came: "Qingqing, don't you really take wedding photos?"

"If you don't take pictures, I'm allergic to photography and have a dizzy lens."

"My face is gone, why are you still dizzy?"

"This is a mental illness, for more than ten years... Anyway, I don't take pictures... I feel dizzy when I look at the camera..."

The sun is rising higher and higher, the temperature is gradually rising, and the water vapor in the hot spring pool is gradually thinning.

"If you don't take photos, don't take photos," Yang Ming nodded, "It's the same if there is no wedding photo..."

"I didn't expect you, a big man, are quite sentimental. Isn't Mrs. Liu making Hanfu for us? If Mrs. Liu's craftsmanship is good, we will just wear Hanfu and take a photo. How about it?" Wei Qingqing made a concession.

"Finish!" Yang Ming nodded repeatedly.

"The silkworm is covered by Baoer, what about the loom? I will tell you! I can neither spin or weave..."

"Tsk! I hope you, a lazy woman, will I not have to sleep in the future without any clothes and sleep in the open? I bought a textile machine last night, which is fully automatic. As long as you put the cocoons on it, the silk cloth will come out." Yang Ming said, but his hands became unhonest and secretly climbed up Wei Qingqing's thigh.

By the way, raising silkworms and weaving cloth is also considered a farming and sideline business.

"I'm lazy, please don't touch me..." Wei Qingqing stunned Yang Ming's bad hand, pulled a face, moved to the side, and pouted Lao Gao.

"You lazy woman, just be lazy, and you dare to get angry? Don't you know who is the head of the family in our family?" Yang Ming rushed over with a smile and started playing in the pool with her.

After laughing and making a fuss, the two of them were lying at the bottom of the pool, and the water in the pool just didn't reach their necks.

"Today is the seventeenth day, where is the market? Let's go to the market..." Wei Qingqing's little face was simmering red by the hot spring water.

"Niujiawoshed, Lijiazhuang, Hujiabao, tomorrow is Saturday, there is a Ji in Majiagou. Maybe Fangfang and Zhang Yang are here too. Let's go tomorrow. Let's see if you can meet Mr. Niu. He has left us the right ideas..."

"When you talk about pigeons, I remembered, how are the meat pigeons we raise? Let me show you a pair..." Wei Qingqing said.

"Okay..." Yang Ming immediately took out a pair of hybrid pigeons from the farm space. The pigeons were the fourth nest of the second generation and were able to hatch young pigeons. They were extremely fat, one foot long, half a foot wide on their shoulders, thick legs, huge heads, and a squinted tail. Their hairs were particularly large, and they walked tremblingly, like the rippling waves of water waving on the calm lake.

As soon as the two meat pigeons came out, the male started to snore, with a low and loud voice. The boss with a big bulge turned around the female, and the male snores, and his feathers loosened and looked even bigger.

"Is this a pigeon or a chicken?" Wei Qingqing was stunned.

"If you want to say the little stupid chicken, it will grow so big, but if it is a broiler, the pair of meat pigeons will be far from that." Yang Ming said, and took out four and a half-large pigs and scattered them by the pond. "I told Mr. Huang and the others yesterday that our pigs have been scattered in the mountains. Today we will really scatter them into the mountains. This is a second-generation pig. I don't know whether it grows fast or not, but the meat must be of good quality."

These four and a half-big pigs were as soon as they came out, and they crawled into the flowers and plants, and started gnawing in big mouths.

"Oh, they are eating my flowers, hurry up, drive them out." Wei Qingqing stopped doing it immediately, and anxiously pinched Yang Ming's arm, pinching Yang Ming to grin.

In the end, Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua were used. The two puppies, when they saw their owners anxious, immediately rushed out and bit them at the butts of the four and a half-big pigs. Of course, these two puppies were not really biting, they just scared them. In a few seconds, they drove the four and a half-big pigs to the corner, and made the four and a half-big pigs confront them a little nervously.

"Okay! My little black flowers are still useful..." Wei Qingqing saw the two little puppies looking at the pigs and preventing them from ruining their flowers and plants. She immediately applauded and glanced at Yang Ming provocatively, which meant that you were not as good as the little black flowers.

Yang Ming came out of the hot spring pool and drove four and a half-large pigs out of the small valley, allowing them to go outside to find food and eat by themselves.

"Is this good? Let them run all over the mountains, will they run to the hot springs and stool and pee?" Wei Qingqing was a little worried again as she watched the pig being driven out of the valley.

"Probably not?" Yang Ming was also a little confused.

Wei Qingqing pouted her little mouth and acted coquettishly: "What does it mean? What I want must not be! Otherwise..." Thinking about the hot spring pool where she was in, the pool water was soaked in pig feces and pig urine, how could it be relaxed?

"Okay, okay, let's circle the outside of the spring and make a pool?" Yang Ming said.

"Why are you still standing there? Go quickly?" Wei Qingqing said anxiously.

"Chengchengcheng, I'll go right away. By the way, do you know the contact number of the engineering team?" Yang Ming asked.

"You are so stupid. Didn't Mr. Huang still live in the village? I asked him to call his son. We can't use others for nothing this time, and we have to give them some engineering fees no matter what." Wei Qingqing said.

Yang Ming hurriedly went to find Mr. Huang and asked him to contact his son's engineering team.

The old man took action himself, and the fat foreman came very quickly. Although they were now carrying a job, building a pool was not a big project. If you bring three people with you, you can basically handle it.

After working hard all day, I finally got it all done, and it was done more tightly. The pool was half a meter high and the roof was sealed with cement. Only a one-meter-diameter round ventilation port was left. It was covered with an iron lid. There were two small holes the size of a palm on the iron lid, which could usually release the pressure in the pool. If the pressure in the pool was too high, the water vapor inside would lift the iron lid and vent it by itself. The water temperature increased slightly, approaching boiling water. However, the water temperature in the hot spring pool did not change much. After all, the pipeline was hundreds of meters long, and the temperature would not be too obvious.

"If you take a cage, you can steam buns directly." Wei Qingqing looked at the vent and sighed.

"What you said makes sense. What do we want to steam in the future? You can get it here to steam it directly. How much firewood will it save?..." Yang Ming's eyes lit up.

"Praise me, this is what I thought of..." Wei Qingqing said proudly.

"I'm just praising me, lazy woman, why don't you go home quickly and cook for the head of the family? Otherwise, the family law will serve..."

"Hate, who cares about you..."

The small mountain village in the evening is shrouded in the twilight, with smoke rising from cooking and barking from dogs.

"Can we pick these persimmons in our house be picked, right?" Yang Ming stood under his persimmon tree and spoke to Wei Qingqing, who was cooking in the house.

"It's still green..." Wei Qingqing said while pulling the bellows.

"I heard that this thing needs to be covered. Now I will pick it up and cover it for ten days and half a month, and it will turn red."

"Then pick it, where are the chestnuts? But there are many cracks." Wei Qingqing said: "By the way, how much did you give the engineering team?"

"Five thousand, our pool is not small, and it costs two or three thousand yuan alone..." Yang Ming said, walking under the chestnut tree and carefully searching for the cracked chestnuts. It didn't matter. More than half of the big chestnuts were cracked, so Yang Ming picked a few of them.

"I also took care of lunch, don't tell me. These little workers have a lot of appetite, especially foreman Huang..." Wei Qingqing said.

"It's not that they have a lot of appetite, but that our food is delicious. Don't you see what they are all over?" Yang Ming opened the chestnuts and made out the chestnuts inside. "Let's make fried chestnuts tonight..." There were only a few chestnuts, and it was not worth stir-frying. Yang Ming picked a few more under the tree, and there were 4 or 5 kilograms before stopping.

"I don't have that skill, I can only cook..." Wei Qingqing said.

"Cook it, just cook it. Who made us have a stupid wife..." Yang Ming looked very regretful and helpless.

"I find that you are becoming more and more annoying..." Wei Qingqing rolled her eyes fiercely to Yang Ming.

"Brother Yang, Sister Qingqing, what are you cooking tonight?" A nice voice came, and Liu Nannan's figure appeared at the gate.

"We want to make candy fried chestnuts, but you, Sister Qingqing, won't..." Yang Ming said: "How is the greenhouse?"

"It's okay, it's all good. Don't you make fried chestnuts with candy? Let me make it for you. My aunt's house has fried chestnut stones..." Liu Nannan said.

"Okay! But it's not considered overtime pay..." Wei Qingqing likes this beautiful little girl more and jokes when she hears this.

"Stingy...the exploiting class..." Liu Nannan gave Wei Qingqing a blank look, found a basin from the house, began to clean the chestnuts, and then used a knife to cut a small mouth on the chestnut's butt.

"I haven't seen the little girl for a day, right? I don't know where she is?" Yang Ming felt something missing around him. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that Xiao Baoer was missing.

"She went to school...isn't it? She should have gone from school long ago. She should have come to our house to watch TV?" Wei Qingqing said, feeling a little uneasy. Don't let her grandma take it away anymore, right?

"I went to her grandma's house when school was over in the afternoon." Liu Nannan washed his chestnuts and interrupted.

"Oh! This little guy seemed to say yesterday that he wanted to get us a few silkworms, so he wouldn't really go today..." Yang Ming suddenly realized.

"Maybe, you go pick her up..." Wei Qingqing said.

"I'll go now..." In the middle of the night, the little guy went out by himself. If her grandmother asked him to take him, he would still be back. If he encountered a beast or something, it would be broken.

As soon as I reached the entrance of the village, I saw a little girl with a schoolbag carrying her back, jumping towards this side along the hill path. At her feet, she was following two stumbled puppies.

"Dad..." The little girl recognized Yang Ming from a distance, and immediately shouted happily, then ran over quickly. The two puppies also accelerated their pace. One puppies ran so anxiously and fell twice.

"Looking at your sweaty run, be careful of a cold..." Yang Ming bent down and picked up the little guy. The little puppy also rushed over. He stood up and hugged Yang Ming's trouser legs and screamed.

"Hehe, dad, grandma gave me 10 silkworm babies, and a bag of mulberry leaves..." The little girl was very proud to ask for credit.

"Hmph, are you still beautiful? When you go out in the middle of the night, I don't know if you want the adults to accompany you. There will be another spanking event..."

"When they went to grandma's house, it was still bright..." the little girl said dissatisfied.

"Okay, okay, you're right. It's Saturday tomorrow. Will you go to school?" Yang Ming walked home with the little guy in his arms.

"No..." said the little girl.

"Tomorrow, your godmother and I will go to the big market in Majiagou. Will you go?" Yang Ming said.

"Go, of course I have to go, why is there less to go to the market? Baoer?" the little girl said happily immediately.

As soon as I arrived at the door of my house, I hadn't entered the yard yet, I smelled a sweet fragrance and floated out of the house. Xiao Baoer immediately cheered: "It's the fried chestnuts of candy, it's so good, I love it..." The little guy struggled for a few times, slipped out of Yang Ming, and ran to the house one after another.

"It's really delicious..." Yang Ming sniffed and praised sincerely.

After dinner, the lights in the east room were on. Yang Ming, Wei Qingqing, Xiao Baoer and Liu Nannan surrounded a large shoe box and watched attentively. In the shoe box, there was a layer of tender mulberry leaves. Ten silkworm babies were lying on the mulberry leaves, eating in big mouthfuls, two or three mouthfuls, and then ate a hole the size of a nail on the mulberry leaves.

Not only did the silkworms eat, everyone's mouths were not idle either, especially Xiao Baoer, with oily and red chestnuts with red candy. After a few clicks, only the shells were left. The sweet and fragrant and soft meat all entered the little guy's stomach, and the little mouth and hands were full of red sugar.

"It's too fast, these silkworms can really eat..." After a long time, Wei Qingqing shook her head and sighed. She grabbed the big tea tray on the edge of the kang, and then grabbed a candy-fried chestnut. She gently pinched it, and the hard shell cracked, revealing the golden meat inside.

"These silkworms are almost grown into adults, and they will be able to spin silk in three or four days. However, you don't have mulberry leaves here and you can't raise them. By the way, you don't want to start with raising silkworms, right?" Liu Nannan said.

The little girl remembers that Yang Ming said yesterday that he would provide the raw materials. Do they want to start with raising silkworms? How long does it take to raise enough silkworms to make a piece of clothing? The little girl suddenly felt that the matter of the clothing company she mentioned last night was particularly unreliable.

"Of course, does silk start with raising silkworms?" Yang Ming nodded with a smile.

"Ah?..." Miss Liu Nannan felt that Yang Ming was just a layman who knew nothing.

"You heard him talk nonsense. There are so many silk cloths in the textile factory, but they just don't protect the quality. When you encounter someone who is not good at it, you can't even find out if you cheated on chemical products. Let's get some samples and compare them to avoid being fooled..." Wei Qingqing gave Yang Ming a blank look and said.

Wei Qingqing certainly knew that Yang Ming was telling the truth, but she still wanted to make it a good deal for him.

"So that's the case? But we can ask someone who knows it? My aunt understands..." The little girl breathed a sigh of relief, but gave Yang Ming a blank look. This guy's words are unreliable and he will ignore him in the future.

It was getting dark. When Liu Nannan and Xiao Baoer both returned home, only Yang Ming and Wei Qingqing were left in the room. The two of them got into the quilt. Yang Ming poked Wei Qingqing and said, "Oh, call Fangfang and the others and ask if they are coming. If they want to come, let them get early and we go to the market together."

"I've asked a long time ago that they won't come tomorrow..." Wei Qingqing pillowed on Yang Ming's chest, and her black hair slid onto Yang Ming's chest and abdomen like a waterfall.

"If you don't come, don't come. Let's take Xiao Baoer with you tomorrow..." Yang Ming said.

"Well! I've been busy all day, and I'm tired. I'm going to sleep with the light..." Wei Qingqing said in a daze.

"Haha, let's sleep..." Yang Ming pulled the light rope and the room was pitch black. Yang Ming pulled the quilt and covered both of them.

"Oh, I hate it, I'm tired..."
Chapter completed!