Chapter 234 Big Eater Silkworm
"Something's wrong. Silkworms eat all day long. As long as there are edible mulberry leaves, they will keep eating."
"When they stop eating, that's basically when they start spinning silk and making cocoons."
Jiang Wang came forward to talk to them, and everyone was still feeling strange. After a while, the little guys started moving again, eating with a cackle.
The flesh of the mulberry leaves was eaten away in a short while, leaving only the bare veins of the leaves in the bamboo sieve.
Looking at how much these guys eat and how fast they eat, Shu Lingyi has begun to worry about his mulberry leaves.
"Qingqing, take a quick look. When do these guys spin silk and make cocoons? There is usually a cycle, right?"
Luo Zhiqing nodded and opened her pet list to check the information.
"It'll take 15 days, half a month...it feels like a long time."
Luo Zhiqing couldn't help but complain, and at the same time, she severely hurt Shu Lingyi: "Half a month...how many mulberry leaves did you have to eat?"
Especially these ten colorful silkworms, they eat fast and never stop. If they eat at this speed for half a month - Shu Lingyi must have contributed at least several thousand or tens of thousands, right?
Just these ten would probably consume two hundred mulberry leaves a day, right?
Although the speed of others is much slower, maybe 70 to 80 to 100 tablets a day may be needed.
"Luckily you only have 300 of them. What I stockpiled is enough for them to eat for a week."
"Once the drainage system problem is solved, it should be no problem to plant mulberry trees, and we will be able to harvest a lot by then."
Jiang Wang was still staring at the silkworms, observing how they ate and felt amazed.
"Normally, silkworms on the Blue Planet can only eat 20 to 30 leaves in their lifetime, and can only eat one-fifth of a leaf a day."
"Then when they are two or three years old, their appetite will increase and they will eat more."
But now these silkworms eat much more in a day than the silkworms on Blue Star do in most of their lifetime.
"It seems that these silkworms are called big eaters. They eat a lot now and will produce a lot of silk in the future. As for the quality and color, they may vary depending on the individual silkworms."
Luo Zhiqing read the detailed introduction of her pet interface, so when she attacks my silkworms, the unified state is [eat, eat, eat].
She could only say: "Being able to eat is a blessing, haha."
"Newborn silkworms prefer tender mulberry leaves, and when they get older they prefer old mulberry leaves."
Shu Lingyi understood that the tender ones had a longer shelf life, while the older ones would expire soon.
However, mulberry leaves have a relatively long shelf life of more than a month. Shu Lingyi picked out those with a longer shelf life and gave them to Luo Zhiqing.
These mulberry leaves are dry and moisture-free after being stored in the granary, so there is no need to worry about the silkworms getting diarrhea after eating them.
A group of people gathered around these newly born silkworms, looking at them with great curiosity.
After all, even though I knew about it before, I had never raised one myself. Looking at the white and soft silkworms chewing mulberry leaves, they looked so cute.
Their little feet can stick to the mulberry leaves, and then they may not move their bodies but just put their heads on the edge of the leaves and slowly eat.
Some are even more outrageous. They will climb on their companions and step on their bodies to eat other mulberry leaves.
“They’re all so cute.”
Luo Zhiqing couldn't help but reach out to tease her, and she was looking forward to being able to spin silk and weave cloth from the bottom of her heart!
Speaking of this, Shu Ling thought of the two blueprints he had drawn up today. Like the raincoat and rubber rain boots, they could only be made using resin processing equipment.
So she studied on her own.
Of course, the drawings of the nylon thread were given to Luo Zhiqing, so that she could use it to make more things, weaving it into cloth to make pants or tops.
This thing can act as an insulator. If I encounter an electric eel again in the future, I won’t be as unlucky as today.
"Qingqing, I gave you the blueprint for the nylon thread. Have you studied it?"
"I've learned it. I can gather the materials and try to make it tonight."
Luo Zhiqing looked at her hands and smiled confidently: "I always feel that I will be promoted. It should be tonight or tomorrow morning!"
"These silkworms are really my lucky stars, and so is Yi Yi!"
Shu Lingyi was a little confused by her sudden enthusiasm: "Okay! I'll wait for your good news."
Now several people left one after another, and when they came out of Luo Zhiqing's house, they saw Qi Xuanze working in the heavy rain.
"Boss Yi Ling! The ditch has been almost dug, and all we need is for you to fill it with materials and finalize it!"
The rain was so heavy that people's voices were easily drowned out.
Qi Xuanze had to use a very loud voice to convey the message to Shu Lingyi, but it was still a little unclear.
Shu Lingyi took a bamboo umbrella from Luo Zhiqing's house and said, "I'll go see how he's doing. You guys go to my house first."
"Especially Comrade Zhong, you are not in good health right now, go and warm yourself by the fire and wait for me to come back."
After saying that, she walked towards Qi Xuanze. She also needed to check the work properly.
Qi Xuanze's ditch was dug right down along the hillside, and at this time a lot of rain water gathered and flowed through it.
But it's just a ditch. In this weather, the rain will bring up mud and sand. If no materials are added to fix it into a drainage channel, it will soon be filled with mud and sand.
"There are already water pipes installed underground. We are currently trying to divert all the water here to the entrance of the territory. It would be best if we could dig a longer pipe from there to the nearest water source."
"Then I'm working on connecting this place to the reservoir, and I've also installed the rainwater collector."
“The next step is to invest in more drainage pipes to improve the drainage system.”
Shu Ling took a quick look at Qi Xuanze's introduction. Although he didn't understand it very well, it looked pretty good.
Especially seeing that the condition of the farmland has improved a lot.
However, with the arrival of heavy rain and extremely torrential rain, the drainage system has improved and ordinary crops are no longer suitable for planting.
They will be killed by heavy rain.
"Sure, I have high hopes for you. I'll produce some more water pipes later and make a rainwater collector before I go to bed tonight."
"Now that the reservoir has been built, it should be able to store a lot of water with this amount of rainfall."
Qi Xuanze continued to take the flat-headed brother to dig ditches, and Shu Lingyi went back home to apply medicine to Zhong Qingwei.
She also boiled a pot of medicinal soup, and after drinking it later, she asked Tianzhu to send him off.
Anyway, Tianzhu has now found the way home and has become a mature Tianzhu.
"Is that old Nan a new resident?"
"Yes, he was washed to the gate of the territory by the flood yesterday. He used things to trade with us, and Qingqing and I gathered some things to make him a resident here."
Zhong Qingwei obediently let Shu Lingyi remove the bandage and apply medicine on him.
After listening to Shu Lingyi's description, only one concept came to his mind - Comrade Yi Ling saved the hero with his kindness and saved this strange man.
Apart from Luo Zhiqing and Jiang Wang, two people with special identities, he was not the first person to be brought into Comrade Yi Ling's room!
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