Chapter 879: Greenhouse Sericulture

"Sister, don't say that. The money for the rope is the money for the rope, and the money for the silkworm eggs is the money for the silkworm eggs. These are two different things. Apex 23S. The fastest update," Zhao Zhongyao said again.

"Okay, big brother, I'm going to help you find silkworm eggs, but it may take half a day. You don't have to wait here. You can just come back tomorrow morning."

It is not easy to find silkworm eggs. The eldest sister didn't want Zhao Zhongyao to wait here all the time, so she asked him to come back the next day.

After hearing what the eldest sister said, Zhao Zhongyao said again: "Okay! I'll come back tomorrow." Zhao Zhongyao also felt that he was busy with work and couldn't wait here all the time. It would also be delayed if he drove over tomorrow.

It won't be long.

In this way, after Zhao Zhongyao discussed with the elder sister, he returned to the base.

The next morning, Zhao Zhongyao drove to the eldest sister's house by himself.

After seeing the eldest sister, Zhao Zhongyao looked at her and asked: "Sister, have you found wild silkworm eggs?" The eldest sister looked at Zhao Zhongyao and smiled and said: "Fortunately, after searching for a long time, I finally found it.

Let me show you some."

After the elder sister finished speaking, she returned to the house, took out a small branch from a piece of rag, and then came to Zhao Zhongyao.

"Let's take a look! These are wild silkworm eggs." As the elder sister spoke, she placed this small branch in front of Zhao Zhongyao.

Zhao Zhongyao took the branch and looked at it, but saw nothing at first. It felt like there was nothing on the branch.

"Sister, what's on this branch? Why do I feel like there's nothing?" Zhao Zhongyao looked at the branch in his hand and felt like there was nothing.

"Brother, you have to look carefully. These silkworm eggs are very small. If you don't look carefully, you can't see them at all." This eldest sister saw that Zhao Zhongyao couldn't see the silkworm eggs on the branch. She

Then he walked to Zhao Zhongyao again and pointed it out to him.

After the eldest sister's guidance, Zhao Zhongyao saw some small needle-like things on one side of this small branch. These things were really too small. If you didn't look carefully, it would be difficult to see them.

Discover.

"Sister, these are the little things." Although Zhao Zhongyao is not a biologist, he has seen some silkworm eggs, but they are not like these silkworm eggs in front of him. They are so small that you can't even see them.

"Yes! These are wild silkworm eggs." The eldest sister looked at Zhao Zhongyao again and said.

Zhao Zhongyao looked at the eldest sister at this time and said: "Sister, how come these wild silkworm eggs are different from the domestic silkworm eggs! I have seen some domestic silkworm eggs before, but they are not so small. Although they are not very big.

, but it’s also easy to see.”

After listening to Zhao Zhongyao's words, the eldest sister smiled again and said: "Of course wild silkworms and domestic silkworms are different. Bombyx silkworms are bred from wild silkworms. In order to increase silk production, domestic silkworms must grow bigger.

Some. And wild silkworms are half smaller than domestic silkworms! You said that the larvae of wild silkworms are half smaller than the larvae of domestic silkworms, so how big will their silkworm eggs be?"

The eldest sister saw that Zhao Zhongyao didn't understand why the eggs of these wild silkworms were so small, so she explained it again.

After Zhao Zhongyao heard this, he understood what all this was about. But he still doesn't understand why the silk of wild silkworms is so much stronger than that of domestic silkworms.

So, Zhao Zhongyao looked at the eldest sister again and said, "Then why is the silk of wild silkworms stronger than the silk of domestic silkworms!"

After listening to Zhao Zhongyao's words, the eldest sister said: "I'm not very clear about this issue. I think it may be that domestic silkworms spin a lot of silk. If the quantity is too much, the quality will naturally decline. And wild silkworms spin a lot of silk."

There is less silk. This small quantity means high quality. Also, wild silkworms live in the wild, and they must make their cocoons very strong. Otherwise, they will be eaten by other animals casually.

How can we breed our own next generation?"

After listening to the eldest sister's words, Zhao Zhongyao seemed to understand something. He looked at the eldest sister again and said: "Okay, what the eldest sister said makes sense, maybe that's the reason. Well, you take this hundred yuan

Take the money, I'll take the silkworm eggs."

As Zhao Zhongyao spoke, he took out a hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it to the eldest sister.

When the eldest sister saw that Zhao Zhongyao wanted to give her money again, she felt a little embarrassed. She immediately looked at Zhao Zhongyao generously and said: "Brother, no need, you already gave me two hundred yuan, this money is yours."

Take it yourself!"

"Sister, don't say that. These silkworm eggs are so small. You must have spent a lot of effort looking for them. How could I let you work hard in vain?"

Zhao Zhongyao thought that the silkworm eggs that this eldest sister found were so small that it would be difficult for ordinary people to find them in front of others. In this case, it can be imagined that it must be a waste of time for this eldest sister to find these things in the mountains.

A lot of energy.

"Brother, why are you so hard? We often work in the mountains and are used to it. This kind of hard work is nothing."

What this elder sister said is true. How can women in rural areas not contribute as much as women in cities? Women in rural areas, like their men, also have to work in the mountains and fields frequently.

"Sister, no matter what, this is the reward for your labor, just take it! Your mountain village is really poor! If there is a chance, I will help you get rid of poverty and become rich."

At this time, Zhao Zhongyao suddenly had a strange idea. He was thinking that if their research was successful this time, they would definitely need a large amount of 'biological steel' if they wanted to develop some new types of body armor.

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To produce a large amount of 'bio-steel', you need a large number of wild silkworms. But if you want to breed a large number of wild silkworms, you need the help of local people. If they can help together, it will be equal to

It gives them a chance to work. In this way, they can make money without having to travel far.

When Zhao Zhongyao said this, the eldest sister was of course very happy. But she did not take Zhao Zhongyao's words seriously. She felt that he might have said it as a polite word. He did not really want to help them get rid of poverty and become rich!

"Really! Thank you so much, brother. Oh, I forgot, I heard that you are the director of Jianghai Machinery Factory! It seems that you can really help us get rid of poverty and become rich. Here,

On behalf of our entire village, I would like to express my gratitude to you."

After hearing what Zhao Zhongyao said, the eldest sister didn't pay attention at first. She also thought that Zhao Zhongyao might just say this as a polite word. But then she thought again, Zhao Zhongyao's identity was from them.

The director of the Jianghai Machinery Factory not far from the village, she felt that it was not impossible for Zhao Zhongyao to say such a thing.

"Sister, don't worry! Our Jianghai Machinery Factory will continue to expand its scale and grow stronger. When the time comes, if we need some workers, we will also let the young people from your village work. When the time comes,

Then you can have a formal job like people in the city."

Zhao Zhongyao knows that what he has to do is to speed up the country's economic construction. Improving people's livelihood and raising people's living standards is the purpose of building a country.

The purpose of all our work is not just to let people live a happy life. But how to live a happy life is to first give people a job that can make money to support their families, so that they can work in peace and make money to support their families.

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This eldest sister, seeing that Zhao Zhongyao was serious about what he said, was certainly very moved. She looked at Zhao Zhongyao again and said, "Thank you so much. With your words, our whole village can live a good life."

The time is coming soon.”

"Sister, you don't have to be so polite. This is what we should do." Zhao Zhongyao also said politely.

After that, Zhao Zhongyao said some kind words to the elder sister, then drove back to the 308 base with this small branch.

After Zhao Zhongyao returned to the base, he showed this small branch to Liu Feng.

When Liu Feng first saw this small branch, his expression was the same as Zhao Zhongyao's. Because he was also planted on this small branch and could not see anything. I don't know, Zhao Zhongyao gave him

What's the use of a twig?

"Liu Feng, look at what's on this branch." Zhao Zhongyao looked at Liu Feng and said.

Liu Feng took the small branch that Zhao Zhongyao gave him. He looked around, but he couldn't understand. There seemed to be nothing on this small branch. There was something there. He couldn't see it at all.

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"There are some small wild silkworm eggs here. Take a good look at them. They are on the side of this small branch." Zhao Zhongyao saw that Liu Feng couldn't see these small silkworm eggs, so he pointed them out to him.

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After listening to Zhao Zhongyao's words, Liu Feng took a closer look at this small branch. On the side of this small branch, he finally found some small particles. These small particles were just like the tips of needles.

It's so small that if you don't look carefully, you can't see it at all.

"Are they these little things?" Liu Feng looked at the tiny particles on this small branch. He was also surprised. "Yes, these are the small particles. They are the eggs of wild silkworms." Zhao Zhongyao looked at it again.

Liu Feng said.

Although Liu Feng specializes in biology, he has always been studying domestic silkworms when it comes to insects such as silkworms. He really has no research experience in this kind of wild silkworms.

"Then we need to hatch these wild silkworm eggs now, and then raise them to make them spin silk." Liu Feng felt that this is what Zhao Zhongyao wants to do now.

"No, we have to transplant the spider genes into the bodies of these wild silkworms so that the silk they spin will have the strength of spider silk. Although the silk spun by these wild silkworms is already very strong, it has not yet reached the level of

What we require is the strength of the 'biological steel' that can be used as body armor."

Zhao Zhongyao knew that the silk of this wild silkworm was very strong, but it had not yet reached the strength of the 'biological steel' that Zhao Zhongyao wanted to study. He wanted to make the silk of this wild silkworm as strong as he said.

The strength of 'bio-steel' requires complete genetic modification of this wild silkworm, so that the silk spun by this wild silkworm has the characteristics of spider silk.

"Okay, Director Zhao makes sense. Let's do this next. We will definitely research the 'bio-steel' we want." After listening to Zhao Zhongyao's words, Liu Feng felt very good.

It makes sense. Now that they have these wild silkworms, it seems that they are not far away from developing 'biological steel'.

In this way, during this period of time, Zhao Zhongyao and Liu Feng worked together to carry out genetic transplantation of these silkworm eggs, transplanting the spider genes into the eggs of this wild silkworm. Then, they hatched the eggs of this wild silkworm

Out came the little wild silkworm.

Of course, all of this was done in a greenhouse. It was only March now, and the weather was still relatively cold. After Zhao Zhongyao hatched these wild silkworm eggs, he got some fresh mulberry leaves for them.

Because Jianghai City is very close to the seaside. Although it belongs to the southern region, the climate here is affected by the ocean, which means it is still relatively cold. In the winter here, the mulberry trees on the mountains have also lost their leaves.

In order to get some fresh mulberry leaves, Zhao Zhongyao actually took a plane and flew to a place further south than Jianghai City before he found some fresh mulberry leaves. Fortunately, these wild silkworms were very small and didn't eat much.

One mulberry leaf is enough for it to eat for several days.

Zhao Zhongyao only picked about ten kilograms of fresh mulberry leaves, which was enough for these silkworm babies to grow up.

These wild silkworms live very comfortably in the greenhouse, eat quickly, and grow very fast. In almost a month, these silkworm babies have grown to half the length of domestic silkworms. Such a size, for wild silkworms

, has grown up.

Soon, the bodies of these wild silkworms slowly changed color. At first it was cyan, then slowly turned into white, and finally, these wild silkworms turned into yellow.

When the bodies of these wild silkworms changed, they stopped eating mulberry leaves. At first, Liu Feng didn't understand what was going on. Although he had done some research on domestic silkworms before, he didn't know much about wild silkworms.

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Liu Feng knew that when the silkworm was about to spin silk, it stopped eating mulberry leaves. However, the color of its body did not change much. It usually just became slightly whiter.

But now the wild silkworms they raised turned golden yellow when they grew up, which was a bit strange. For a moment, Liu Feng didn't understand whether this change was good or bad.

"Director Zhao, our wild silkworms have all changed color." Liu Feng was the first to see this situation. Because he often takes care of these wild silkworms. Since Zhao Zhongyao has other work, he can only take care of these wild silkworms in his free time.
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