Chapter 241 Want to exchange for grain
"Aying, shall we spray?" The three sisters-in-law took the diluted paint water and confirmed again.
"Yeah, spray it the same way as brown sugar and garlic water." Su Ying nodded.
These pigments are concentrated into a paste. They are dissolved in hot water according to the proportion, cooled to room temperature, and then sprayed on mulberry leaves to feed the silkworms.
An experimental comparison was also conducted, with one group receiving normal feeding and the other receiving feeding sprayed with brown sugar and garlic water.
Four colors mean eight sets of data. The three sisters-in-law and Su Lu are each responsible for the comparative feeding, observation and recording of one color.
The four rooms are separated and do not interfere with each other.
Su Ying comes to observe two or three times a day. Another thing she does is to speed up the children's abacus lessons.
Su Boyan packed up his bags and left with County Magistrate Hu that day.
Originally, they wanted to wait until the wheat was harvested before leaving, but County Magistrate Hu became increasingly busy, so Mrs. Du decisively packed her bags and let her eldest son go.
Before leaving, Su Boyan instructed his younger brother Su Zhongyan to run the village school and take care of all the matters at home.
He also told Su Shiyan, Su Chenyan, and Su Quanyan not to be discouraged, saying that County Magistrate Hu knew how to use people well, and that when the time came, opportunities would naturally come.
Su Ying wrote a set of abacus formulas for Mrs. Hu, with different formulas for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Mrs. Hu will play first. After the wheat is harvested, the young men will go to the county government office for classes, and her accountants can come and learn.
At the same time, he asked his brother to take two abacuses, along with a table of formulas and instructions for use, and mail them to his father and third uncle through the post station.
As for the children, they were very enthusiastic about learning when they learned that after they learned abacus, the teacher would take them to the countryside with the household department to help collect taxes and grain.
Every day after school, he would come home and sit there muttering to himself while using the abacus.
Not to mention that this method of calculation is much faster than counting sticks, it also aroused the interest of several village elders. They asked Wang Sanlang to make a few more abacuses and learned to use them.
Nowadays, in Huanggou Village, besides waiting for the wheat to mature, you can hear the crackling sound of abacus wherever you go.
"Aying, look, the silkworm's legs have changed color!" Yang Chunhua said in surprise.
The first thing I do every morning after breakfast is to go and see the silkworms, which have been fed pigment for three or four days.
Yang Chunhua was in charge of the red color. As soon as she entered, she found that the silkworms in the winnowing basket seemed to have turned red. Upon closer inspection, she found that it was the silkworms' feet that were red, bright red.
"Well, most of the valves are red. In two days, the rest should also turn red." Su Ying said after taking a look.
Some silkworms have completely red spiracles, some have partially red, and some have only a little red.
"Oh, mine too!" Wei in the other room also exclaimed.
"Aying, Aying, mine has changed too!" Su Lu ran to the door and shouted loudly.
Mrs. Du was smiling, but needless to say, her face was changing color.
"Oh, that's great, we're almost there!" Several people couldn't suppress their excitement.
"Hold on, hold on! It's still early, we don't know what color the silk will be!" Su Ying pretended to be calm.
"At least the direction is correct!" Yang Chunhua said happily.
After all this time, I finally did something meaningful. Even if it doesn't work this time, I can continue the experiment next season. The direction is right, and I will succeed sooner or later.
"Yes, Second Aunt is right, at least we are heading in the right direction!" Su Ying said with a smile.
"Let me take a look!" Old Mrs. Su heard the noise and came over with her crutches to take a look.
Those jars of paint were more expensive than a box of silk and satin. The concentrated non-toxic and harmless paint required more than ten or twenty jars of dye to dye hundreds of rolls of silk and satin, but they were used to feed the silkworms.
It was also given by the county magistrate's wife. If it was bought by the Su family, the old lady wondered if she could control her hands and not beat Su Ying with a cane, what a prodigal son!
"Mom, come and see!" Yang Chunhua helped the old lady into the silkworm room.
"Tsk tsk, you guys really figured it out?" The old lady was amazed. She was too old to understand these things.
"Not yet. It hasn't spun silk yet, so I don't know what it will look like!" Yang Chunhua said modestly, but the pride in his eyes could not be concealed.
"Even if you can produce colored silk, can you reel, draw and weave it yourself?" Old Mrs. Su curled her lips.
"?" Everyone was stunned. Yes, they were so busy being happy that they forgot about it.
What's the color of this colored silk like? Will it fade or discolor when exposed to water? There aren't many of each type of colored silk; after spinning, at most only one piece of each color is produced.
But there were no silk reeling and weaving tools at home.
Alas, things seem simple, but there are many details involved!
Several people looked at Su Ying, what to do?
"What are you looking at me for?" Su Ying smiled indifferently, "First, let's see if we can raise colored silkworms. If we succeed, we can consider the follow-up."
By default, white silk cocoons are qualified cocoons, and the occasional ones with different colors will be picked out and thrown away.
If the cocoons spit out by this batch of silkworms are of different colors and shades, they will either be rejected or regarded as inferior cocoons when they are delivered.
So Su Ying hadn't considered the follow-up at all, and was purely experimenting with the first phase.
However, the old lady's words reminded her that if she really spit out colored silk, she should not hand it over, but reel silk and weave cloth at home to see what the quality of the colored silk is.
Well, we also need to prepare silk reeling tools and a loom.
"No rush, there's still some time. We'll harvest the wheat tomorrow, so let's take care of this first." Su Ying sorted out her thoughts.
There are quite a few people in the family, but the real labor force is only the four young men at home, the second brother Su Zhongyan, Su Shiyan and Su Chenyan from the second uncle's family, and Su Quanyan from the third uncle's family. The rest are women and children.
My second uncle might come back in the next two days, so we still need to ask Wang Sanlang and others for help.
Su Ying came to the vermicelli factory and discussed with Wang Sanlang and others.
"Don't worry, Ying, we have been keeping an eye on your wheat!" Wang Sanlang said with a smile.
"After my family harvests the wheat, can I exchange it with yours for wheat seeds?"
"Yes, Aying, my family also wants to change the wheat seeds!" said other villagers.
The wheat grains of the Su family are large and full, forming a vast expanse of golden grains, which is so rare to look at that it is expected that the harvest will be at least 20% to 30% higher.
"Uh, okay!" Su Ying had never thought about exchanging wheat seeds.
As long as the soil is fertilized, the wheat seeds are screened before sowing, and the planting process is carefully cared for, the wheat in the village will be this good next year.
However, the idea that high-quality seeds can improve planting quality and harvest is correct.
"Do you all want to exchange them? Go to the village chief's house to register, and then find a time to exchange them after they are dried." Su Ying didn't want to go to this house today and that house tomorrow.
"Okay! We'll find the village chief later!" the villagers said happily.
Su Ying came to the village chief's house and told him that she needed help to harvest wheat tomorrow, and also told him about the villagers exchanging wheat seeds.
"Well!" said Old Man Yang, "but I guess there won't be much wheat seeds left in your family."
"Why?" Su Ying was puzzled.
Each family in the village could exchange 30 kilograms, which is only about 1,000 kilograms.
More than ten acres of land were divided into two parts for comparison. Nine acres of land were covered with humus, and the yield per acre was about two hundred and twenty to three hundred kilograms, and at least two thousand kilograms were harvested.
The eight acres of land are not covered with humus, and the yield per acre should be 170 kilograms, and 1,300 kilograms can be harvested.
"You! Have you forgotten what Lingnan is now?" Old man Yang pointed at Su Ying and smiled.
"Specialized grain district! Such good crops, do you think the Minister of the Temple will let it go?"
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