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When Pei Ting was a child, when it came to raising silkworms, she was only tired, bitter, and troublesome!
Even the small benefit of planting mulberry trees, that is, being able to eat sweet mulberries, can't offset the hard work of picking mulberry leaves and raising silkworms!
When the season comes, as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, no matter whether it is sunny or rainy, no matter whether it is hot or cold, just go to work in the mulberry field anyway!
The mulberry fields of each family are next to each other, and each mu of mulberry fields is lush and lush.
In the eyes of mother Deng Ping, this green color is full of vitality, which means that this year's harvest must be good, so I will be very satisfied!
But in Pei Ting's eyes, the green all over the ground is just the chief culprit for making her family suffer!
Pei Ting's father would occasionally help out when he came back from get off work, and his elder brothers Pei Hai and Pei Ting were basically soy saucers!
The main laborers of Pei Ting's family are her mother Deng Ping, who is in her thirties, and her teenage sister, Pei Qin.
Just these two weak women take on all the farm work in a family!
Chinese women are really great!
well!
Pei Ting still remembers that every household has a 2-wheeled flatbed cart, which is not pulled by animals, but people are pulling or pushing it forward.
In summer, I finish breakfast after 6 o'clock in the morning. After breakfast, I push the empty flat car to the mulberry leaf field.
From 7.8 to 11 o'clock, it took only 3 or 4 hours. When I got home, the flatbed truck was already full of picked mulberry leaves!
There are at least 7 or 8 pockets on the car!
That's no ordinary pocket that weighs tens of catties!
Pei Ting¡¯s home pockets for mulberry leaves are basically the kind of bags that hold 50 catties of noodles. Two or three of them can be disassembled and sewn into a big pocket, which is convenient for storing more mulberry leaves in a large space!
Anyway, the pockets filled with mulberry leaves are taller than 8-year-old Pei Ting!
Picking mulberry leaves is also skillful!
If it is picked one by one, the silkworm baby will starve to death!
A handful of bald ones will destroy the mulberry leaves!
In addition, the juice from the mulberry leaves is milky white, milky white, sticky, oh, the body is white juice, and the hands are green and white juice!
There is no place to feel comfortable in the ground!
Anyway, Pei Ting didn't learn how to pick mulberry leaves quickly and accurately until the time when the family didn't raise silkworms!
One can imagine how hard it was for Pei Ting's mother, Deng Ping, and her sister, Pei Qin.
Moreover, the eating habits of silkworm babies are the same as that of human beings, eating three times a day, and for the health of silkworm babies, the mulberry leaves are best to be fresh.
Therefore, once silkworm babies start to develop, this 40-day cycle requires uninterrupted nursing and feeding every day!
To put it bluntly, it's really like raising a child!
Sericulture can be divided into five processes, silkworm eggs, ant silkworms, cooked silkworms, cocoons, and silkworm moths!
Sericulture is an important skill created by the working people in ancient China.
It is said that the method of planting mulberry and raising silkworms originated from Leizu, the wife of the Yellow Emperor.
Everyone thinks that the ancestors of silkworms are wild silkworms. Anyway, the appearance and shape of wild silkworms are almost the same as those of silkworms.
Moreover, wild silkworms and silkworms can also naturally hybridize to produce offspring after they grow up.
The unit of silkworm eggs is one by one, probably as big as an A4 paper!
I don't know how many Pei Tings are on one sheet!
Anyway, it's densely packed with black!
Anyway, 30,000 silkworms can be raised on one mu of land, and the baby silkworms are 4 instars all their lives. They sleep once every 7 days, a total of 4 times, and then spin silk.
Pei Ting's family sells cocoons to make money.
Raise 20,000-30,000 cocoons per mu, about 80-120 catties of cocoons, more than 1,000-2,000 pieces.
Wuliu County, Linyuan City, S Province, where Pei Ting lives, can grow 3 stubbles every year.
At that time, I heard rumors that 5-6 stubbles could be raised in province G.
In addition to raising silkworms, they also sell mulberries!
It is said that the yield per mu is 5,000 jin of mulberry fruits and 3,000 jin of mulberry leaves, and the benefit is more than 5 times higher than that of simply planting sericulture and raising silkworms.
However, due to geographical issues, climate, and soil, they are all different, so the mulberry trees must be different too!
Even if the high-yield mulberry trees come here, they may not necessarily survive!
But that's just a rumor, it's too far away from Pei Ting's house!
It was inconvenient to come and go in that era!
Lack of car and money!
Silkworm eggs are cultivated on thick rice paper!
The village will count the number of sheets needed by each household! Then report it up together and buy it back from the Sericulture Station!
When the silkworm baby is not yet a living baby, that is, when it has not yet become an active egg, the requirements for temperature and light are particularly strict!
I always remember that my mother, Deng Ping, was upstairs. In addition to having to replace a 200-watt light bulb, the windows were covered with thick curtains during the day and night, and the silkworm plaque was also covered with thick cloth!
Don't let Pei Ting in either!
Pei Ting would hum, what the hell, she was afraid of frightening the little silkworm!
In fact, it is afraid of affecting the silkworm production rate!
well!
Anyway, it needs careful and considerate care!
When the silkworm just hatched from the egg, you should be very careful with it, feed it with tender mulberry leaves, and use very soft chicken feathers to move it when changing the mulberry leaves!
Sometimes the mulberry leaves are too dry, and if you are not careful, you will leave the silkworms on the mulberry leaves to be discarded during the process of changing the mulberry leaves.
As the silkworms grew up a bit, they ate more mulberry leaves, so picking mulberry leaves became the most important thing every day!
When the mulberry leaves are picked, put them in a bag, transport them home, pour out the mulberry leaves, rinse them with water, sometimes you need to sprinkle them with medicine, mix them evenly, and then put them in the bag!
Ship it upstairs!
Bag by bag!
The mulberry leaves added with water are dead and dead.
Later, Dad Pei Jinwang used his intelligence to tie a stick to the railing at the entrance of the building, press a simple pulley, a thick rope, and hang a hook, and it became a simple version of a small artificial crane!
Then the daily work is done, Pei Ting is responsible for packing mulberry leaves.
Then Dad Pei Jinwang was responsible for hanging himself.
Sister Pei Qin is responsible for picking up the mulberry leaves.
Mother Deng Ping took over the mulberry leaves to feed the baby!
Sometimes my elder brother Pei Hai takes over the job of hanging mulberry leaves from my father at home!
Others don't know!
Anyway, Pei Ting has done enough!
Pei Ting often complained to her mother when she was a child. You said silkworm babies are really picky, and it¡¯s not enough to eat one or two meals a day!
In addition to eating fresh and clean food, you should also feed them on time!
They are refreshing to eat, put the mulberry leaves on it, and you listen: "Shushashasha" Oh, it's really delicious to eat!
It is hard for us silkworm farmers!
Mother Deng Ping will give her a supercilious look,
"Quickly annoy Lan Ha for nothing, save yourself, why don't you have a meal!"
"Silkworms also know how to make a cocoon and sell it to our family for money! You can eat it, what can sweat do!"
have to!
Say no more!
In addition to being too lazy, if you have intensive phobia, you will definitely not be able to raise it!
The little black dots are wriggling on the paper!
Pei Ting is the most unpromising, since she was a child, she was afraid of all things without legs, and things that couldn't see legs!
For example, caterpillars, earthworms, eels, snakes, etc.!
Pei Ting is afraid from a young silkworm to an old silkworm!
When silkworms were young, they were dark and scary, but as they grew into white and soft silkworms, Pei Ting was even more afraid!
Every time Pei Ting transported mulberry leaves upstairs, she was worried, afraid that there would be a fat silkworm stuck to her head or back!
Pei Ting still feels so scared when she thinks about it now!
It is difficult to raise silkworm babies when they are young, but it is easier to manage when they grow up.
When it is about to form a cocoon, take some straw and braid it like a girl braiding it into a messy shape of branches and branches.
Pei Ting's family called that wheat stalk a "centipede", anyway, it's the shape of a centipede!
Dozens of long and short "centipedes" were gently placed on silkworm baby's bamboo plaque!
We can finally come to an end!
When the silkworms are mature, they will automatically climb up the centipede mountain and start spinning and cocooning!
We will see the dawn of victory! (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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