Chapter 444 Silkworm House

There was indeed a forest ahead, but only twenty meters away, the forest was cut off by a long, pitch-black crack. A piece of the dense forest was swallowed up by the darkness, and even the sunlight did not feel warm.

The crack is extremely long, extending from left to right until it connects with the next crack.

The entire mountaintop seemed to be isolated by a thick black line, and the crack was extremely wide...

A few dozen meters? Or a hundred meters?

Anyway, the person standing next to him is as small as an ant.

The scene in front of him was so spectacular that Zhao Yeqing could only hear his own heartbeat; even the sound of the wind around him became distant.

"No wonder... No wonder the man at the oil press chose to commit suicide in the house instead of escaping."

There is no escape.

The entire mountain was separated, and the relatives turned into frenzied people. There was no signal and no rescue. If the landslide had not created a slope leading to this side, they would not have been able to get here.

Mu Xi held her hand and said, "The crack here is the one that extends from the gas station, and the one on the right is the one at the entrance of our mountain road. They just happen to be together."

Zhao Yeqing hummed softly, and the saw in his hand hit the stones beside the pond intermittently.

Not wanting to look at the fish in the pond anymore, the two men walked to the edge of the woods to chop down trees, sawing them into pieces before carrying them down the mountain.

By noon, only less than half of the parts of the loom had been made.

Zhao Yeqing carefully polished the wood with sandpaper. "I'm afraid I can't finish it today. I have to go home tomorrow anyway. I'm still worried that the dog is the only one guarding the house."

She can only go home alone first and then come back to pick up Mu Xi, or Mu Xi can go with her, and then one of them will stay at home while the other brings some more things and comes to stay for a while until things are done.

I always feel uneasy if there is no one at home.

Mu Xi sighed and said nothing. He felt uneasy leaving Zhao Yeqing alone at home. Rather than worrying about the cattle and sheep at home, he was more worried about Zhao Yeqing being alone.

Every time this happens, the black bear incident always makes him feel scared.

But he couldn't really keep the person by his side forever, so he didn't say anything in rebuttal, but silently adjusted the speed of his work to twice the speed.

Xiao Hei was having a lot of fun, running around in the mountains.

This hill is cut off by a crack. In addition, there have been human activities here before. It is not a protected area with rich natural species. There were no dangerous animals living here originally. After being cut off, animals cannot get here. Apart from snakes, there are probably no other dangerous animals in the mountain.

Not to mention, it’s quite suitable for living here, and there are big houses ready-made.

It is somewhat unrealistic to live here permanently. Even if everything else in the house is already there and does not need to be moved, it is not easy to move the generator alone. But it is no problem to come here occasionally for a short stay of two days to collect some supplies.

The two of them let Xiao Hei play outside by himself without worry. After a few minutes, they looked up and saw a dog and a snake standing face to face in the middle of the road. Zhao Yeqing felt his scalp tingling. After calling Xiao Hei, he used a stone to drive the snake away.

It was just a small green snake as thick as a finger, the most common one in the fields in the village. Xiao Hei was very brave, and Zhao Yeqing was afraid that it would bite the snake in one bite just like it ate the grasshopper yesterday.

I ordered Xiao Hei not to eat snakes, but I don’t know if he understood what I said.

Zhao Yeqing took Xiao Hei back to the house, rubbed his sore neck, and planned to rest for a while.

I saw the stairs leading to the third floor from the second floor, and thought about how the two of them had never thought about going up to take a look.

Mu Xi didn't raise his eyes, and didn't stop his hands. He just said, "I went there, there is a silkworm house upstairs."

Zhao Yeqing stepped onto the stairs and saw many racks on them. In the dustpans on the racks were many dead silkworms that had completely dried up. There were also many dead moths by the window.

It's actually for weaving silk?

Zhao Yeqing was a little surprised. In the nearby villages, it was rare to hear of families raising silkworms and weaving cloth. There were people raising silkworms, but most of them sold silk cocoons. The scale of this family's silkworm breeding did not seem large, and there was a loom downstairs. It was estimated that they really wove the silk by themselves.

Unfortunately, she doesn't even know how to reel silk.

The process is to find the thread ends of the silk cocoons soaked in hot water, extract the silk threads by peeling the cocoons and mixing them together, and then use a spinning wheel to make a silk thread.

Drawing silk requires keeping your hands immersed in water, which is an extremely laborious task, and therefore the price of silk products has always remained high.

She first learned about silk when she was in junior high school. At that time, she said she wanted to buy a silk dress for her grandmother. But after learning the price, she had to give up the idea and thought that she must buy it when she grew up and made money.

Time waits for no one, and in the end, she lost this opportunity before she could make money.

Zhao Yeqing was absorbed in kneading the shriveled body of a silkworm and didn't come back to his senses until he rubbed it into powder. Mu Xi looked at the person going downstairs with a depressed look on his face and was a little confused as to why he was not happy after going upstairs.

If he wanted to ask, he just asked directly. Zhao Yeqing didn't hide anything and didn't let him guess. He just said what he wanted to say.

After listening to this, Mu Xi said, "Let's do it now. When it's done, we'll burn it for her next time we return to Meishan."

Zhao Yeqing choked and looked at him as if he were a fool. With this interruption, his depressed mood was relieved a lot, and he sat down and continued to fiddle with the unfinished parts.

A loom and a spinning machine have many complicated parts. By the time I was about to go home, many delicate parts had failed to be made several times. It would probably take several days to completely replicate them.

The two hadn't figured out how to go back yet. Mu Xi put down his things and decided directly: "Let's go back together. There's no rush to make it right away. Prepare more things first. I can also go back and get some handy tools."

I still have to climb back up this slope, and I don’t know if it’s easy or not.

The two packed their backpacks, rode the tram halfway, and returned to the bottom of the slope in less than ten minutes.

Mu Xi started the tram and moved upwards. The horsepower was sufficient, but two people could not go up at the same time, so only one person could go up.

It was not difficult for Zhao Yeqing to walk up by pulling the rope. If the distance from the edge of the cliff to the meadow was not a bit long, he would not have to take the electric car back. It would have been more convenient to leave it at the bottom of the slope.

But there are cars in the village. There is a car in the European-style three-story building where they live. The car is parked in the corner of the first floor. It is also a small three-wheeled car, but this small three-wheeled car is not rechargeable, but refueled.

When people in the village carry things up and down the mountain, they generally don't use electricity. Electric vehicles are not as powerful as gasoline vehicles. A weak vehicle loaded with heavy goods will get stuck halfway when riding uphill.

There is no oil in the car now. Mu Xi plans to bring some oil next time so that he won’t have to ride down the electric scooter.

It was just past noon when I got home.