"I arranged for someone to buy silkworm seeds, haven't you started raising silkworms yet?" Shi Lei asked a little strangely. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

He was not angry about this, these guards and dealers had always carried out his words thoroughly. If they haven't started yet, there must be a reason why they don't.

"Silkworm seeds are easy to buy, but we don't have mulberry forests. I can't raise it if I buy it. The guard said with a sad face.

"Your sister." Shi Lei patted his head and couldn't help but scold.

This is a typical three-beat party style, everything you do is patted on your head to come out, and you want to come out of it. After the arrangement, I took a belly to watch the show, and I didn't continue to care about the stubble of silkworm raising.

"There are eight brothers, but there are no sisters." The guard replied a little dazedly.

"Oh, your family is quite prosperous. Ha ha. Shi Lei tried his best to hide his embarrassment, and couldn't tell the other party, this is a habitual curse.

"Hmm......" Shi Lei couldn't help but groan, think about what to do about this, what is the key?

Silkworms, in Shi Lei's opinion, are actually a kind of caterpillars, and they are very edible kinds, and they will grow faster if they eat more.

When it reaches a certain size, it will form a cocoon, and what comes out of the cocoon is a fluttering moth. Then they lay eggs, hatch out and become caterpillars again, and so on.

And the beautiful silk is to open the cocoons of their knots, peel off the cocoons, and then spin them out, and it becomes silk.

But this caterpillar, it is also divided into types, at least the things it eats are different. Those who eat mulberry leaves are the most common mulberry silkworms.

Those who eat all kinds of oak trees are naturally the silkworms, that is, the legendary silkworms. Although it is not as exaggerated as in martial arts novels, this thing is naturally turquoise, and the silk is exceptionally beautiful, so it is a very expensive and rare raw material both ancient and modern.

Others and so on, what else are castor silkworms, cassava silkworms, black tree silkworms, camphor silkworms, chestnut silkworms, barberry silkworms, willow silkworms and so on, as the name suggests, the leaves they eat are not the same.

Shi Lei thought that the kind of silk thread that could make fishing lines was actually camphor silk. And it is not a silk thread formed by cocooning, but during its maturity period, the mature silkworm is first soaked in water, and then by hand, the silkworm belly is torn, two silk glands are removed, immersed in glacial acetic acid, and the wire is drawn.

After washing, it is smooth and transparent, tough and water-resistant, transparent in the water, and is the best fishing line.

In addition to being used as a fishing line, it seems that it can also be used as a suture for surgery.

Shi Lei rubbed his chin and continued to recall, this camphor silk is good as a fishing line. But if you want to make silk, it doesn't seem to be easy to use.

There can only be a small amount of raising a little to play, one is the problem of silk, and the other is that this thing is relatively slow to grow, as if it takes eighty or ninety days to grow a stubble.

The reason why everyone chooses to raise mulberry silkworms, and others raise less, is because this thing was discovered at the earliest, and all kinds of technologies are very mature, of course, it also has a lot to do with the fact that mulberry trees are easy to find as a food source.

But the most important reason, in Shi Lei's view, is because this kind of mulberry silkworm is a typical example of eating and growing, isn't there a word called cannibalizing whale swallowing, which means that this thing is definitely a foodie.

If you can eat and grow, the natural economic benefits will be high, this silkworm will be able to raise a stubble in less than a month, and the others will have to be two months or even three months, which one to choose to raise, nature is clear at a glance.

However, because this mulberry silkworm is relatively the best to raise, it also causes a problem, that is, mulberry forests are often very expensive.

Especially here in Shuzhong, those well-cultivated mature mulberry forests are the cash cows of various big families in Shuzhong.

Most of them are passed down from their ancestors for several generations, and it is easy for no one to sell such a cornucopia, unless the family really can't live anymore.

As for Shi Lei's Zhuangzi, all kinds of resources are abundant, and there is no shortage of surrounding forests, but there are no densely growing mulberry trees.

Even if there are so many trees in any of them, it is not realistic to pick them back and forth, and it is not enough to satisfy the appetite of these foodies. What's more, Shi Lei still can't figure out where to find these scattered mulberry trees.

As for the current cultivation of mulberry forests, not to mention Shi Lei's hands, there are no good hands in this area, they are all crops from the Loess Plateau, and they are all good at serving crops, and it is really a bit blind to fiddle with mulberry trees.

Let's just say that this mulberry tree is planted, and when it grows up, there must be a process, how can there be a plant that can be harvested, and it is still its most important leaves that can be eaten.

However, after thinking about it for a long time, I really thought of a suitable one for Shi Lei, that is, amber silkworms.

Of course, this silkworm did not eat amber and grew up, but took Nanmu leaves as the staple food, and other camphor trees, smiling, tiger thorns and wild shuangzen, they all eat. The diet is quite mixed, which means that they are very easy to feed.

And Shi Lei chose this amber silkworm, the most important reason is its eating nature, because in his own territory, there is a forest, and the growth is basically all kinds of nanmu.

This kind of thing is definitely a good thing for furniture, Shi Lei has a plan early on to launch them and use them as the signboard of his furniture store.

Especially those golden silk nanmu that will definitely appear in it, it will definitely be a money-collecting machine at home.

Therefore, this forest was protected as early as possible according to Shi Lei's requirements, and the farmers could not go there to cut wood for use.

Now it has another function, which is used to breed this amber silkworm, and there is no need to go around to find food for them.

And the reason why this amber silkworm is called this is because the silk they produce is tough and amber-luster, and the silk fabrics they make are often used to make expensive clothing.

In other words, it's worth a lot of money!

The only problem with such a thing may be that the silkworm seed cannot be found, because there is no amber silkworm in the entire Shu, but this is not a problem for Shi Lei at all.

As long as you get some ordinary silkworms and use the system to transform it, won't it be over? The price of this thing is much cheaper, and the size of silkworm eggs is still small, so it is more energy-efficient to transform.

No matter how you think about it, the cost performance is leveraged, and one out and one in, this profit is much higher than that of breeding silkworms.

"Buy the silkworm seeds back as soon as possible, according to the quantity I requested, I have my own way to solve it." Shi Lei waved his hand and said firmly.

The guard quickly agreed and ordered the task to continue.

Shi Lei didn't have the heart to continue fishing, his mind was full of the beautiful money of silkworm raising, as well as various follow-up development plans.

Looking at the corners of his mouth that he couldn't pull anymore, he knew that this guy, and he didn't know what beautiful things he had thought, and he must have floated again.

The bear children, seeing that the head of the house was thinking about things again, ran away with eyes and went to play in other sections of the river.

And the surrounding guards have long been accustomed to Shi Lei's appearance from time to time, and they didn't bother him to entertain himself there.

When Shi Lei finally retracted his thoughts, he found that his legs were a little numb, and he had been sitting on the pony for too long, and his blood was not smooth.

Quickly stood up and jumped, after a long day of activity, it was time to go home for dinner.

Shi Lei was not the only one who had this idea, and Shen Xing hurried back from a distance.

"The head of the family, my subordinates have made some discoveries." Seeing that Shi Lei seemed to be waiting for him to go along, Shen Xing hurriedly took two steps.

Although he couldn't distinguish the face, Shi Lei's dress and the style of being guarded in the center, there was absolutely no second one in this Zhuangzi. (To be continued.) )