Li was among the first batch of orphans to be taken in as a disciple by Zhao Yingong. She had received cultural education for a long time in Zhao Yingong's "private school", and this time she was selected to stand alone as a promotion for Jixian Village.
Technical and administrative head of the station.
Li Yaoer gave her a quick training in sericulture technology at the villa. Although Wang Siniang was clever and had rich experience in raising sericulture, she was illiterate and her receptive ability was a little worse. In comparison, there were already B
Li Zheng, who has a diploma, is much better off. After all, lending and establishing cooperatives all involve financial and digital management. Wang Siniang is illiterate and cannot manage and supervise herself. Therefore, she can only serve as a nail in the village.
and the presence of characters in the scene.
Dudoniang didn't know the orifice inside, but she had good eyesight and could see that although this man was young, he was also "in charge", so she didn't dare to take a peek.
Gradually, there were more and more people in Wang Siniang's house. Every time a ship brought new things, there would always be one or two more people unknowingly. There were men and women, and the common characteristic was advancement and retreat.
He is well-founded and taciturn. It is rare to see everyone gathering together to chat. Basically, everyone is busy working and there is no stopping.
The incubation of silkworm ants usually starts at 4:30 in the morning and emerges at 8:00 in the morning. After all the silkworm ants are hatched, the silkworm ants are transferred to the silkworm foil and raised. Here in Jixian Village, the ant silkworms are collected by sweeping them with feathers.
——This is also the most commonly used. Every household has feathers specially prepared to sweep away ants and silkworms. However, a different method is used here.
According to Reizheng's instructions, Tadonna and other working women spread a thin but tough tissue paper on the silkworm foil after the ant silkworms came out, and then sprinkled chopped withered mulberry leaves on the tissue paper - this
It's called mulberry, and it's specially used to attract silkworm ants to the paper.
After the silkworm ants smell the fragrance of the mulberry, they will climb up the tissue paper. Then gently sweep the mulberry away, then move the tissue paper to the silkworm foil for raising silkworms, turn the tissue paper over to mulberry, so that it is completely
It is a complete job of harvesting silkworm ants. Not only does it save labor, it also does little harm to silkworm ants and unhatched silkworm eggs.
Dudoniang saw that the number of silkworm ants harvested by this method was much higher than the usual sweeping method. She secretly remembered in her heart: I will do the same in raising silkworms in the future.
Newly born silkworm ants squirm in the "silkworm basket", they look very strong, and the color is black. This kind of silkworm ants is rarely seen in previous years. The Cantonese species of Wang Si's family are really good! Duoduoniang regrets why she
They don't raise cloths on credit - they are obviously given very generous conditions.
The silkworm ants from other households in the village came out a little later, but the situation is pretty good. It seems that this year's silkworm flowers are much better than last year, at least an eighty-nine point level. The silkworm ants are also in good health.
The appearance of silkworm ants in Shen Kaibao's house was rare, which made him forget all his troubles for a while, and he had great hope in his heart.
However, during the first and second sleeps, it was cloudy and rainy. The temperature dropped all the way. Silkworm disease began to appear in the silkworms in the village. Seeing people constantly pouring "silkworm baskets" into the stream near the village, Shen Kaibao felt another big stone weighing on his heart.
:Looking at it like this, it’s impossible for the wife to sleep peacefully.
According to experience in previous years, about one-fifth of the silkworms will be lost during the silkworm season in ordinary years. In a bad year, only one-third of the silkworm ants can survive to form cocoons. Of course, there are even worse things, that is, the villagers There is a large area of harvest failure. But this kind of thing is rare.
For Shen Kaibao and most of the villagers, this year's silkworm flowers must be at least eight points to make up for their losses this year and support them for another year. If the silkworm flowers are only six or seven points, many people will lose money this year. It will become very difficult.
Nervous emotions permeated the whole village. Although no incense was burned at home during the silkworm raising period to avoid affecting the silkworms, every household prayed in front of the statues of the Kitchen God and the Silkworm God, praying that the next three sleeps would pass peacefully.
The silkworm room in Wang Si's house has good thermal insulation. It also has means of heating and monitoring the temperature and humidity, which can always keep the temperature and humidity in the silkworm room at the best state. In addition, the disinfection work in advance is done well, and the silkworm farmers are clean and hygienic. The work is also very tight, so the silkworms are very strong. Duoduoniang is even busier at work now - she now wears cotton clothes like a child's wrap every day, covered from head to toe, even Everyone must wear a scarf on their heads and wash their hands when entering and exiting the silkworm room. There is a stone sink in front of the silkworm room, which is full of water with a pungent smell that has been mixed with unknown substances. Those who enter and exit must hold their hands. I soaked my arms together for a while and then took them out. Someone was assigned to supervise. If anyone forgets and washes his hands only after being reminded, he will be given a fault.
There are more and more jobs, and the rules are becoming stricter. What is implemented here is a set of "operating procedures." Yuli is responsible for teaching step by step. No matter whether the silkworm ladies understand it or not, they just need to follow it. , no less, no more, no more changes allowed. Every move must be done according to the rules. If you do something wrong in any link, you will be recorded a demerit.
If you record three faults, you will have to have your wages deducted - this is very light. Duoduoniang has also been deducted several times. If she is a slave under the name of "Mr. Zhao" of Wang Siniang's family, it will be much worse if she commits the crime. Not only will she have to Deducting money will inevitably lead to physical pain: Duo Duo Niang heard several times in the side room beating meat with bamboo boards and crying and begging for mercy. Sometimes she could see a few silkworm ladies who were not very clever and knelt down after work. Memorize "operating procedures" in the yard.
"Mr. Zhao's food is really not delicious." Every time Dudoniang sees this kind of thing, she will feel a chill on the back of her neck, so she remembers all the rules very well - although she will not suffer You will be punished by kneeling down, and you will be deducted too much money. You will not be laughed at until you go home.
As the three sleeps passed, the sericulture work entered "gao chao". Duoduo Niang and the sericulture ladies all lost weight, and their eyes were covered with red threads due to insomnia. Although the system of working in two shifts is implemented here, It's better than raising silkworms at home, where you have to stay up day and night, but the workload is much greater.
In addition to constantly cutting and putting leaves in the class, the silkworm ladies also patrol regularly. If they find dead silkworms or diseased silkworms, they will immediately use silkworm chopsticks to pick them out and put them into a special collection bucket.
The work of cleaning up the silkworm excrement is also very arduous - but it is much more convenient to clean up the silkworm excrement here than to raise silkworms at home. The bottom of the silkworm excrement in Wang Si's family is covered with a very fine silk screen. When cleaning, you only need to lift the screen.
, the silkworm excrement will naturally leak out, just pour it into the special silkworm excrement basket.
Silkworm excrement and stiff silkworms are stored in a dedicated room and dumped together into the biogas pool behind the toilet at night to kill viruses and bacteria through fermentation. Selling silkworm excrement as fertilizer is also an income for silkworm farmers, but traditional
Silkworm excrement is not strictly isolated, controlled and harmlessly treated during sericulture, so it has become an important transmitter of silkworm diseases.
Although the sericulture ladies have toiled day and night and often got into trouble, Wang Siniang's treatment was also improved. She ate three meals of rice a day, and saw meat and fish every day. A meeting was held to "motivate" every day before going to work.
If the work is excellent and the targets are met well, the top three will receive additional bonuses in proportion.
Wang Siniang and Li Zheng took turns to supervise the work, and their voices became hoarse and their eyes became red. Everyone worked hard in this fierce political atmosphere - the extension station raised a lot of silkworms, but it employed far less people.
It all depends on work efficiency.
The atmosphere in the village was also busy and tense. Shen Kaibao's family, including his teenage grandson, had not slept for days and nights. Although there was the shadow of silkworm disease, they had to pour out a few "silkworm baskets"
", but the remaining silkworms are still up to par. The "babies" after "Four Sleeps" ate seven tons of leaves on the first day. They were all green and strong, and there was a "rustling" sound when eating the leaves. I saw it.
The mulberry leaves he owns are not enough, and the mulberry leaves he bought with all his savings are almost used up. Shen Kaibao estimates that it will take 30 tons of leaves to get to the upper clusters, and it is completely insufficient to rely on his own ability.
Shen Kaibao and his son Daqing Sanqing discussed where to borrow money to buy leaves.
"We have pledged all the land to him. If we want to speak again, what will we pledge? Mr. Cao will not agree." Daqing said.
"If you can't borrow it from Mr. Cao, why don't you ask Shopkeeper Wang in town?" San Qing said.
Shen Kaibao said with a sad face: "It was okay in previous years, but this year shopkeeper Wang said that he has crossed the river like a clay Buddha."
"It seems that I still want Master Cao..." San Qing said in a daze. He really couldn't hold it anymore. His double eyelids seemed to weigh hundreds of kilograms and he just wanted to close them.
Shen Kaibao didn't speak. He thought over and over again. Apart from Mr. Cao, he really couldn't think of anyone who could or might lend him money at the moment. But Mr. Cao was a shrewd man and didn't have any real mortgage money.
He has never been willing to borrow it. According to the current market price, these thirty dans of leaves cost at least four yuan per dan.
Daqing said: "You can either ask Ye Xing for credit first..."
This is a way, but the price of borrowing leaves on credit is not only high, but the interest rate is also ridiculously high. Thinking that many of his cocoons are gone before they are confiscated, Shen Kaibao's heart becomes anxious.
At this time, there was a sudden noise in the rice field outside. It turned out that the man from Duo Duo Niang was passing by with ten tons of leaves transported by boat. The conversation between father and son was interrupted, and they all went out to watch the excitement.
Shen Kaibao was a little surprised. He knew that Duo Duo Niang's father-in-law had much less mulberry land than his own. Although they only raised two "cloths" this year, the leaves were definitely not enough to eat. A few days ago, he saw Duo Duo Niang's father-in-law. I have no money to buy mulberry leaves, but I have a sad face. Why did I raise the money today?
He quickly stopped Duoduoniang's man and asked where Ye came from? What's the market price?
"Duoduoniang got this on credit from Mr. Shen's family." He said loudly, "His family has Ye Duode!"