Chapter 228: Silkworm Breeding

"Brother!" Su Chenyan looked at Su Shiyan inquiringly.

Today is my father's wedding, and the three brothers are staying in the house, listening to the noise outside and the guests coming and going.

On the day of the originally planned wedding, he made a scene in front of the guests and prevented Yang Chunhua from entering.

She had to ruin the matter so that no one in the village would dare to marry her father. As long as her father was free, her mother would have a chance to come back.

But that night their father told them that whether they married Yang Chunhua or not, their mother would never return to the Su family, and Yang Chunhua had no relationship with their mother.

"Forget it!" Su Shiyan said after hesitating for a long time. Then he fell onto the bed in frustration, pulled the quilt over his head, not wanting to listen to the noise outside.

I only see the new people laughing, but never hear the old people crying.

Su Shiyan couldn't congratulate him against his will, and ruining the matter would be of no use, so he could only give up and ignore it.

I felt very sad because my mother would never come back. From then on, another woman replaced my mother and took her place to take care of my father.

After struggling for a long time, he couldn't make up his mind at the last moment.

Three days after the wedding, Su Laoer was busy in and out of the house. The whole village was reorganized, leaving a dozen people to work on the flour-making, and the rest went to Jinfeng Village to help build the road.

There is still a month before the wheat matures. If we hurry up, we can repair a section.

Su Laoer is busy like a top. How to reasonably allocate manpower to achieve the highest efficiency tests the organizer's ability to coordinate and coordinate.

People also had to be transferred to Qingshi Mountain to burn cement, so Su Laoer was busy on both ends.

Three days later, Su Laoer led the strong men in the village to Jinfeng Village. Only women, children and a dozen laborers were left in the village. The bustling village became much quieter.

The children also began to have stable teaching hours.

It was silkworm breeding season again, and Old Man Yang went to the county government office to get the silkworm seeds.

In the Su family's silkworm breeding room, there were two winnowing baskets filled with chopped young leaves, and many newly hatched silkworms on them.

The silkworms need to eat about three quarters of an hour after hatching. The silkworms are very small, like sesame seeds, so the mulberry leaves need to be chopped into small pieces to make it easier for the silkworms to eat.

Du, Wei, and Yang Chunhua used goose wing feathers to drive the hatched silkworms onto the mulberry leaf fragments and filled two winnowing baskets.

Don’t underestimate the two winnowing baskets. After a few days of molting, they need to be packed according to a certain density, one becomes two, two becomes four, four becomes eight. After shedding several times, the prepared winnowing baskets will be full.

"I haven't raised silkworms for so many years that my hands are numb!" Wei clumsily drove the silkworms.

"Yes, it happened many years ago!" Mrs. Du also found it funny.

After marriage, she took care of her husband and children. As her husband was transferred and promoted, she gradually stopped taking care of these things.

Looking at the silkworms that are the size of sesame seeds, I am afraid that if I use too much force, I will crush a large number of them to death.

Atang, Xiaotao and Aolu wanted to help but were stopped and could only watch from the side.

"Mother, is it really the silk that the silkworm spits out?" A-Lu couldn't help asking.

Even though A Lu is only twelve or thirteen years old and her family hasn't raised silkworms for many years, she has never seen one.

"Of course, don't underestimate it because it's small now. It grows a little bigger every 7-10 days by molting its skin. It will molt a total of four times and grow into a silkworm as thick as a finger. It stops eating and drinking and starts to spin a cocoon." Wei said.

"Ah? My fingers are thick?" A Lu raised her hand and looked at her fingers.

Looking at the sesame-sized silkworms in the winnowing basket, I can’t imagine that the difference is so big.

"Don't underestimate it because it's small. In just one month you'll see it's as thick as your finger," Yang Chunhua joked.

Yang Chunhua has been raising silkworms for many years. Among the three, she became the one at the helm, commanding Du and Wei.

The three sisters-in-law got along very harmoniously. Du and Wei were four or five years older than Yang Chunhua. As Yang Chunhua was smaller, they naturally treated her as their younger sister.

We all worked in the village before and knew each other, but we didn’t know much about how to get close to each other.

Now living under the same roof, Mrs. Du and Mrs. Wei felt that Yang Chunhua was very compatible and comfortable with them. She was unlike Mrs. Qin, who was picky, stubborn, stingy and brainless.

Yang Chunhua speaks softly and has a very good temper. Not only adults like her, but children also like her. The little ones all like to be around her.

It seemed as if she had a magical power that attracted children. Su Zhaoyan was awkward at first, but later he followed Yang Chunhua unconsciously.

Although she refused to admit it, Yang Chunhua just smiled.

She took time to sew new clothes for her children. The stitches were fine and her needlework was excellent. They were Su Zhaoyan's favorite lake blue.

Su Zhaoyan didn't even have the courage to refuse. The new clothes fit him so well that he was reluctant to take them off.

Although he didn't call out for his mother, his expression was much gentler, and he even followed behind to help.

Yang Chunhua always praised him in time, produced a piece of brown sugar for him like magic, and touched the little guy's head lovingly, as if he were her own treasure.

Gradually, Su Zhaoyan began to become attached to this stepmother.

Yang Chunhua treated Su Shiyan and Su Chenyan equally and sewed new clothes for them.

The two young men thanked him politely but did not wear them, but Yang Chunhua did not mind.

His mother is here, and he is an adult of eighteen or nineteen with his own thoughts and consciousness. It is impossible to force him to agree with her.

Now that the second house is subtly peaceful, Yang Chunhua focuses more on taking care of the daily life and studies of the youngest, Su Zhaoyan.

Yang Chunhua was a noblewoman raised in an aristocratic family. She was well-educated and well-read. The number and quality of her collection of books were far beyond the reach of the Su family.

Whenever they chatted, they could always hear Yang Chunhua's strange stories, which were of a different style compared to Su Ying's profound knowledge, and the children listened with great interest.

Yang Chunhua never felt impatient, because her Abao used to pester her to tell stories like this.

There was endless work to do at the Wang family, and when he went to the Su family, he also did work, but his work was always snatched away by the Du and Wei families.

After feeding the livestock after dinner, there is almost no physical work to do. I can chat while doing my work, and the atmosphere is relaxed and pleasant.

Sometimes Yang Chunhua felt confused. Why was it so much easier for the Su family to do the same job?

"Here I come, here I come!" Su Ying came in holding a bowl.

"Aying, what did you make?" Yang Chunhua smelled a strange smell, which included brown sugar and perhaps garlic.

"Brown sugar and garlic water!" Su Ying said.

Mix garlic, brown sugar and water in a ratio of 1:2:10, boil and let cool to room temperature.

"What are we going to use it for?" Mrs. Du, Mrs. Wei, and Yang Chunhua looked horrified.

Silkworms don’t like mulberry leaves with water. What is Su Ying doing?

"Feed it to the silkworms!" Su Ying said seriously.

"Aying, no!" The three of them stopped her in unison. How could you raise silkworms like this?

"This can help the newly hatched silkworms strengthen their physique and replenish nutrients." Su Ying explained.

"I want to do a trial and compare, using some and not using others. If this method works, I can promote it."

These are some small tips in modern sericulture. Su Ying has never raised silkworms, and has never seen the dosage, actual effects, etc. with her own eyes, so she can only experiment and compare them herself.

"Oh! Let's do it!" Mrs. Du had no choice but to support it.

Anyway, this girl never has a moment of rest. I don't know where she gets the energy to make such trouble.

Su Ying sprayed the brown sugar and garlic water on the freshly cut young mulberry leaves, and then sprinkled them into one of the winnowing baskets.