Wen Family Has a Wife

   Chapter 64 Silkworm Raising Program

   Seeing him like this, Chen Ningya laughed angrily, and she slapped a piece of paper in front of him before going out, "Ming people don't speak secretly, I want these tools, you can type them out for me this year."

"What are you going to do for a year?" Wen Youshan muttered in confusion, spread out the drawing and looked at it, he was immediately stunned, stared at it for a while before he said depressedly, "What is this for? "

  I saw a bunch of things he had never seen before on the drawings. Some of them seemed simple, but in fact they were complicated in structure and had a lot of small parts. Isn't this what carpentry he was testing for? In addition, there are some big things that look very complicated, let alone fight, he can't start.

   "Miss, this is you." Wen Youshan was stunned. He looked at Chen Ningya and the drawings, his mind went blank.

Chen Ningya took a sip of tea calmly, and pondered: "I plan to start weaving cloth next year, this thing is valuable, a piece of pure white silk cloth sent to the county cloth village can be exchanged for three taels of silver, if weaving satin, the price If it can be doubled, we will start raising silkworms and weaving cloth next year, and the money at home will be considered a bright road, and there will be nothing for outsiders to say about what we do in the future.”

  Wen Youshan was completely stunned, and he couldn't even speak when he was trembling, "Miss Goddess. You can raise silkworms and weave cloth?"

Don't blame Wen Youshan for being so shocked. He knows about silkworm raising and weaving, but only if he knows silkworms and silk and satin. As for how to turn silk into silk and satin, it is a question mark for him. Most of the products produced in the southwest are used for tribute, and only a small amount goes to the people. The quantity is scarce and the price is high. Not to mention ordinary people, even wealthy families can’t afford them, and only the rich and noble can afford to wear them. Like Mr. He, who he met before, was wearing brocade, and that suit was estimated to cost dozens of taels of silver.

"Hold on your chin, don't drop it, you'll have to get used to it in the future, come here now, and I'll tell you what these tools are and how to use them." Wen Yuanzhen admired her nobility. She felt that her mother must have been a young lady from a big family before, otherwise how could she be so powerful?

  Wen Youshan didn't know what to say at this moment, so he just wanted to be obedient. He even took a small stool and sat on the side, looking at Chen Ningya like a child.

Chen Ningya gave him a coquettish smile, glanced at him, and said sternly: "The slender and quiet woman, the meridian of the meridian, shakes and tolerant, and the first tool is called Huajizi, also known as Huaji, "The Machine Woman" "Fu" wrote that "the square and the circle are wrong, the wonderful and the strange, the insects, birds and beasts, things have their own suitability", as the name suggests, this Chinese machine is a machine that can weave patterns. Of course, we are not as good as Jiangnan. The kind of Hualou, complex Huaji needs the cooperation of many people, I am alone, we can't make that kind of brocade with complex patterns, otherwise our family should be famous. The Huaji I asked you to make is relatively simple. , we can weave satin with a simple texture, that is, a single color, when we dye it ourselves, we can sell it for a few taels more."

  The best silks and satins that flow into the folk are monochrome and textured, and she dare not weave even the best ones, for fear that too much limelight will bring disaster to the family.

"The second tool is a spinning pendant. It is used for spinning. Although the price of yarn is not as high as that of silk and satin, it takes less time to weave and does not require as many threads as brocade. If the material allows, I would still like to weave yarn. , so you just help me do it together, the third tool is the spinning wheel"

   Chen Ningya talked in detail for a long time before introducing all the tools and uses to Wen Youshan.

  Wen Yuanzhen listened silently by the side, looked at the burly Wen Youshan with bright eyes and asked, "Did you understand?"

Wen Youshan swallowed hard, not wanting to show his timidity in front of his daughter, but to be honest, he just doesn't understand, he has never played such a delicate object, and he doesn't understand some of the functions that Chen Ningya said, okay. When he was a young boy, he did woodwork, and after careful research, he was able to make it.

Chen Ningya knew what he was worried about, patted him on the shoulder twice, and comforted: "Don't worry about this, take your time, anyway, I'll be watching while you're doing it, if there's anything wrong, you can do it then. Immediately, the most important thing now is that you have to go into the mountains to help me transplant some mulberry, elm, zhe, and mulberry trees. These leaves are edible by silkworms. Of course, mulberry trees are the best.

   Now that spring is too early, it is too late for me to raise silkworms. Let’s start next year. You can help me prepare this year. "

  Wen Youshan immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, there was still time for him to think about it. If he started raising silkworms and weaving cloth this year, he would probably go crazy.

Now that this matter has been mentioned, Wen Youshan naturally does not dare to neglect, not to mention that it is related to their family's livelihood. If you don't understand the tools, you can slow down first, but the tree has to be transplanted quickly. If it is transplanted now, it will be taken care of. If you are careful, you can still survive, but you have to go to the village chief first to breathe. If necessary, you have to spend some money to buy the hillside around his house. Anyway, everyone will know about silkworm breeding at that time. It is not good. veiled.

   He did what he said, and the next day, Wen Youshan went to the town early in the morning to buy a package of snacks and delivered it to the village chief's house.

  The village chief's mother-in-law was so happy that she couldn't see her teeth, she was so enthusiastic, "Is there a mountain, can I find your uncle? Come in and drink a glass of water, the weather is hot, don't sunbathe outside."

  Wen Youshan laughed twice, handed the dessert to the village chief, and said obediently, "I just want to ask the tree something."

   "Why don't you even send snacks, you are an outsider!" The village chief's mother-in-law laughed and said so, but she didn't take too many things, and she called out her old man in three or two times.

Apparently, the village chief just woke up not long ago. He is old and doesn't like to move. In addition to the hot weather, he is even more reluctant to go out. Seeing Wen Youshan coming over, the village chief hurriedly took the people to the shade behind to talk, "Speak, no. If you don’t have anything to do with the Three Treasures Palace, you also brought snacks, what do you want me to do for you this time?”

   Wen Youshan just touched the cold stone bench and hurriedly said, "Uncle, I didn't want to ask if the hillsides near my house could be sold, and how much would it cost to buy them."

The village chief glared at him with an expression of looking at two fools, and patted Wen Youshan's head in disgust, "I said your brain is flooded or what? Is it bad to have money to buy farmland? What kind of sloping land did you buy? Is it possible to grow grain or build a house? Even raising chickens, chickens are disgusted!"

Wen Youshan covered his head and wanted to cry without tears, and kept begging for mercy, "Uncle, don't fight, I'm not asking, besides, Tian Duo is valuable, I only built the house last year, where is the spare money, then It’s different on sloping land, although you can’t grow food, you can plant trees, and I can do something by myself.”

   (end of this chapter)