Chapter 253 Making Silk Mask
Jingshu suddenly thought, isn’t handicraft what Zijin is good at?
If the first year of the apocalypse was characterized by hot weather, drought, and water shortage, which killed 90% of the plants and led to the subsequent famine, then the second year was characterized by heavy rain and floods, which destroyed 70% of the homes and daily necessities. Although the government salvaged and repaired some supplies, compared to the various non-recyclable and moldy supplies, people's lives fell back to the primitive age from that year on.
So in the third year of the apocalypse, there was a shortage of cotton, linen, and other supplies. Because the temperature dropped, everyone needed more clothes and bedding. So when earthquakes began in the third year, everyone would strip clothes from the dead.
Wear as thick clothes as you can. To keep warm, most people put on a lot of random clothes.
Jingshu would wash the clothes taken off the dead and give them to Zijin. Zijin would take them apart and sew them together to weave warm and thick clothes again. Jingshu then learned that Zijin's family was poor when she was a child, and that her grandmother, who picked her up, raised silkworms, peeled silk, and made handmade clothes, raising her and helping her learn this craft.
Zijin said she had no surname because her biological parents abandoned her. If she had to take a relative's surname, she would take her grandmother's surname Ali. The name Zijin was given by her childhood sweetheart. After her grandmother passed away, she only had a name but no surname.
After hearing Jingshu say this, Zijin showed an expression of sudden enlightenment, "Then it should be me. Everyone in the family compound knows that I am good at handicrafts. I have been doing this kind of work since I was a child, so I am very familiar with it. Thank you for your help today. If there is anything you need, I will help you."
As she said this, she saw the red nematode on Zijin's head slide onto her nose bridge and drill into her nostril. Zijin skillfully pulled out the red nematode, and then nimbly tied the red nematode into a knot with her fingers, and then flicked it out, just as smoothly as picking out a booger, rolling it into a ball, and then flicking it out.
Fortunately, Zijin has a naturally cute baby face with baby fat. If he had an uncle's face, Jingshu might kick him away.
Jingshu showed a subtle expression. It turned out that she still couldn't accept Zijin like this!
It seems necessary to implement a transformation plan.
Zijin is a person with low self-esteem, low self-confidence and insecurity. If someone suddenly treats her very well, she will definitely be wary of Jingshu. However, even if it is a normal stranger, if you suddenly treat them very well, they will be wary.
The first step in the transformation plan is to dislike her. You have to dislike her very much so that she will think that you are a normal person and not deliberately approaching her.
"You're so dirty! Even if I wanted to ask you for help, what if all those red nematodes on your body get into my silk? That would only make things worse."
Zijin bit her lip and lowered her head. This person clearly didn't care about these things just now, and she almost forgot about it. She said how could someone not care about these things.
The second step of the transformation plan is not to show her pity and give her charity, thereby lowering the standards for hiring. Instead, we need just such a person and strengthen the requirements so that she believes that it is her own ability that got the job and not anything else.
"Well, I was originally in need of a job, so I helped you out. If you really want to repay me, clean yourself up and then help me make some facial masks out of silk cocoons so I can see the speed and skill of your handiwork.
If you do well, I might consider hiring someone to cook and separate the cocoons, and even make silk quilts and clothes. However, I have high requirements. I don't want someone who can only produce two or three kilograms of cocoons a day. As for the salary, it depends on your skills, but it starts at 4 virtual coins a day."
Jingshu's space still has some silk cocoons from last year. Because there are few of them and they can't be used for much, she has kept them.
Today she just happened to have some money to make some silk facial masks. Although she didn't need a facial mask, Su Mali, the money-giving boy, said in her circle of friends that the stock of facial masks had been used up. If she wanted a facial mask at a high price, she would also add: she only wanted a pure natural silk mask without hormones. This eliminated 90% of the remaining facial masks on the market.
Silk protein contains 18 kinds of amino acids that are extremely nutritious to the human body. It has good air permeability and excellent water absorption. It is even used in surgical wound dressings and burn wound dressings.
It helps wound healing and is known as artificial skin.
In addition to facial masks, Jingshu also plans to develop this industry. After all, people who can still afford surgery will probably be happy to use this silk mask to apply to their wounds.
"Four, four virtual coins?" Zijin was a little surprised. This was almost as high as a civil servant. What on earth was this person doing? Did she have that many silkworms at home? Raising silkworms was not easy these days. What on earth was this person doing?
Zijin kept looking at Jingshu. Yeah, this guy seemed to have just given Captain Li a bottle of white wine, and I heard he even had snakes at home? He must be someone with plenty of money.
"Why are you so excited? I haven't even seen your handicraft skills. Just tell me if you can do this job and whether you can meet my requirements." Jingshu rolled her eyes.
Well, that's the posture of a rich man.
Zijin bit her lip again, a little regretful. "I'd love to clean myself up, but the plastic raincoats the government gives me always let water seep through, and countless red nematodes get tangled up in them... I don't have any salt to wash my hair with, and silkworm cocoons are even more attractive to red nematodes, so I'm afraid they'll be covered in worms... So I'm afraid I can't help you. If there's anything else you need, I'll definitely help."
"Well, my house is in the villa area. There is a salt water pool at the door. I will take you there to wash your hair. You can make the silk mask first, and then we can talk about other things."
Jingshu took Zijin to soak in the salt pond in front of her house for a long time. Zijin's hair, which had been kept for more than ten years, had reached her ankles. One could imagine how many red nematodes were stuck on it. Every time Zijin walked, it was as if he was holding a moving python.
There are not only red nematodes, but also red nematode feces and eggs.
Anyway, Jingshu poured a few more bags of salt into the pool and changed the water. It took half an hour to clean all the garbage off her body. Jingshu breathed a sigh of relief, "Here, a waterproof rain hat. Put your hair up and wrap it tightly and wear it."
Zijin embarrassedly tied up her finally clean hair and wrapped it with a waterproof hat. She felt elated. If she had this thing earlier, why would she have been despised for three months!
Jingshu set up various shelves and necessary items under the shed at the entrance of the villa, and Zijin then began her performance.
"Put the cocoons in a container and boil them, so that the silk can be kept from turning over after degreasing. Boiling the cocoons is very particular. If they are too rotten, the facial mask will not be strong enough. If they are too raw, there will be lumps." Zijin took out the cocoons skillfully and began to separate them.
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