After eating that one, Siqi doesn't care about this, if there are insects crawling over, it's a big deal that your stomach hurts, and happiness is the most important thing.

After they had eaten some, they tied the hem of their clothes so that they made it into a small pocket, and then they took off all the red and purple April bubbles and put them in their pockets.

After picking this plant, there was still one in front, and after walking for a while, I saw a lot of it, and several children were so happy that they hurriedly picked it in the small pocket in front of them.

There are usually few people in this forest, mainly because they are not on the main road, and they have to pass through this piece of soil to go up, and today they only discovered it by chance.

Siqi saw a tree in front of him with yellow fruits on it, carefully identified it, and laughed, "Look, what is that?" ”

Zijie and Menghuan looked at her hand and smiled when they saw the tree in front of them, "This is a wild loquat, there are wild loquats, let's go pick them quickly." ”

They let one person carry the April bubble they had just picked, and the other two people put wild loquat in their pockets, this wild loquat is also very delicious, and the taste of the loquat that Siqi had eaten in his previous life is a little different, it is still very sweet and yellow.

Before I knew it, the sun was about to set, and after an afternoon of playing in the woods, the pockets in front of the children were full.

Xuanshi smiled and said, "You guys really have gained a lot, let's go, go home, go back and wash and eat." ”

Liu and Xuan took a few children home and went down from the mountain, singing songs along the way, and they were all very happy.

The family has also finished busy, and the people who came to breed the sheep have already led the sheep away.

Mengzhu found a basin and asked the three of them to pour out all the fruits in their pockets, and then squatted by the well to wash it and put it in a bowl.

One person tasted two and didn't eat again, waiting for Zijun and them to come back from school, and everyone ate together.

Siqi looked at these wild fruits, and wanted to make money again, so he took the wild fruits to the town last year and sold them at a very good price.

But think about it, there are not many wild fruits at this time, and they are busy raising silkworms and sheep to raise, so don't think about making money from this this year, it's really too busy.

……

The second silkworm they raised set cocoons in late May, and this time they didn't plan to sell the cocoons, but thought about reeling silk at home.

After saying their thoughts, Wu said with a smile, "It's not difficult to reel silk, I'll help you get it, and you can't waste it with all your hard work." ”

Several children were shocked, and Siqi hurriedly asked, "Grandma, do you know how to reel silk?" ”

Wu nodded, "Yes, there is a large silkworm farmer in my mother's village, and when I was a child, I often went to help reel silk to earn wages." ”

Siqi smiled and said, "I knew that grandma would, why did we have to learn from others in the first place?" Now I've almost forgotten about it, grandma, I've already collected the cocoons, this time let's try to reel the silk, so that we can sell more silver. ”

Wu said with a smile, "It's okay, anyway, I'm not busy lately, but if you reel the silk yourself, you have to get a spinning wheel, and you have to spin the silk into thread, otherwise the price is not as high as the silk thread. ”

After thinking about it, this is okay, anyway, she is now trying to grow cotton, and when the cotton is planted, if she wants to weave cotton cloth, she has to use a spinning wheel to spin cotton into cotton thread.

When the time comes, it will also be used, there is only a loom at home, there is no spinning wheel, and you still have to get one back.

After a few discussions with the children, they settled the matter, and now they have some silver on hand, and the spinning wheel is not expensive, and it is sold in the town, so it is convenient to get one back.

It happened that he was going to catch the market the next day, and Lin Changyuan was going to buy some things and come back, so he went to buy a spinning wheel by the way.

Next, the Wu family will take them to reel the silk, and the cocoons can't be left for too long after they are harvested, otherwise the silkworm chrysalis inside should hatch.

The process of reeling silk is actually very simple, wash the pot and boil a large pot of water, then put the cocoon in it to boil, pick up the silk threads floating on it with your hands, and combine several threads into a strand.

Then it is necessary to soak it in the water prepared in advance, and after soaking, take it to the sun, soak it in the well water at night, and expose it again during the day, so that it can be done after a few rounds, which is to remove the gum on the surface of the silk thread, so that the silk thread will become white and soft after that, otherwise it will not be sold for money.

Thinking that a few of them have really gained a lot of knowledge, Mengzhu said with a smile, "We looked at it last time, and thought we had learned it, but now when we look at it, we have learned an introduction, fortunately grandma will, otherwise we will really destroy these cocoons." ”

Siqi agreed deeply and nodded, "We really don't understand, I thought it was very simple." ”

Wu said with a smile, "This silkworm raising looks simple, and the money comes quickly, but the hard work is only understood by those who have really raised silkworms, even if it is a small thing, you have to do it seriously, otherwise you won't be able to make money in the end." ”

They are really educated, and although these tasks seem simple, they also require a lot of patience to do.

When the silk is ready, it is to be spun into silk thread in a spinning wheel, bundled into bundles, and sold in the town.

Siqi was very excited, and immediately followed Lin Changyuan to the town to sell, just like she thought, the silver earned after spinning into silk thread is indeed more, and it is more cost-effective, even if it is worth wasting some effort.

The same two silkworm cocoons, this time sold for more than seven taels of silver, nearly eight taels, which made everyone very happy.

The extra silver, Siqi's proposal was handed over to the public middle school, and Mengzhu and a few of them had no opinion, anyway, the silver was at home, and it was the same for everyone.

They are just children, and they think it is useful to earn money, so they work so hard to earn money, even if they save that money, and hand it over to make the life of the family better, isn't it more important?

This time, Wu didn't refuse, after all, she had already decided, and she would help Siqi and them spin silk threads in the future, so that it would be reasonable to take the money.

She doesn't want to take the children's hard-earned silver, but this is okay, the family has more money, usually buy more meat to eat, prepare more snacks at home, and life will slowly get better.

When she returned to the house after dinner in the evening, Wu couldn't stop laughing, and Lin Dezheng glanced at her, "Old woman, what are you laughing at?" Don't scare me, that Zhang Wu's daughter-in-law in the next village is so crazy. ”