After several days of hard work, these silkworms finally entered the dormancy period again, which is the fourth sleep.

The four sleeps are the longest, and they will sleep for nearly two days before they start eating mulberry leaves again, and they can finally take a break.

Menghuan said, "Finally, I don't have to pick mulberry leaves." ”

Siqi couldn't bear to hit her, but he still had to say directly, "When they wake up, we can be busy, this is the time to eat the most mulberry leaves, we have to eat for seven or eight days, but then they will form cocoons, and they will be able to sell them for money at that time." ”

As soon as they heard this, everyone became excited and could sell for money, which is what they have been looking forward to.

Siqi has been thinking about ideas these days to make money, and she is tired from her daily work, and she finally has a day off, and she can't sit still, and wants to go to the mountains for a walk.

The last time she went to the mountains and saw wild cotton plants, she always remembered that cotton usually blooms in June, and it was still early, but she still wanted to see it.

Meng Shan naturally wants to take her younger brothers and sisters to pull herbs, and once the summer is over, there is no way to make money from this, Siqi pointed to the mountain with a basket on his back, "Let's go to the mountains to have a look." ”

Meng Shan smiled, "The mountain road is not easy to walk, let's be in a nearby place, we can find as many as we can." ”

With my younger siblings, it's still not good to go into the mountains, and if you fall, you can't do it.

Siqi sighed, it's really troublesome to be young, if you are older, you can go wherever you want.

After a day's rest, the sleeping silkworm baby came alive and needed to eat a lot of mulberry leaves.

Siqi was already prepared in his heart, and the silkworms had to eat a lot at this time, and he couldn't wait for people to stand on the side and add mulberry leaves.

A few of them are also busy raising these, but they have to take care of other things at home, so they are a little tired.

I went out to pick mulberry leaves three or four times a day, Mengshan and Mengzhu were bigger, and when they went out to carry them back, Siqi and Mengzhu washed them at home, and when they were too busy, Wanrong and Siyao also put down the needle and thread to help.

Wanrong took a handkerchief to wipe the mulberry leaves, and said with a smile, "It's really tiring to serve these ancestors, and the food is fine." ”

After three days, I ate more, just packed up the mulberry leaves, and after a while, only the light rod remained, and Menghuan was about to cry urgently, "Sister, they eat so fast, I'm too busy." ”

Wu said at the door of the upper room towards the stove house, "The eldest daughter-in-law, you and the third daughter-in-law are free to help a few girls, these silkworms eat too much, they heard the movement of eating mulberry leaves when they fell asleep last night, and they are very tired." ”

Liu laughed, "Mother, we know." ”

Xuan's came out to carry water, watched a few of them rubbing mulberry leaves around the well, and said with a smile, "The silver is not easy to come by, this time the girls really know." ”

After seven days of busyness, these silkworms have quieted down again, and they don't eat mulberry leaves, which is about to form cocoons.

Everyone put the prepared ones in advance with thin branches and chop them well, and some of them are tied with straw, and the first time they raise, they don't know which one is better.

These things are placed in the silkworm room, Siqi looked at all the silkworms, and put the silkworms whose bodies have become a little transparent, yellow, and have been shortened on the haystack, which is called a tuft.

Then you just have to wait, and when the other silkworms have also become ripe, they will slowly cluster on their own, and this thing will be placed next to the shelf, and the silkworms will climb up on their own.

Raising silkworms has reached the most critical step, and several girls are so happy that they are reluctant to sleep at night, so they have to keep staring, for fear that something will go wrong.

In her opinion, it is a good thing for children to be diligent, it is better than being lazy and lazy, and they don't know how to work.

This process of forming a cocoon takes several days, and they can't stay awake all the time, so they keep watch together on the first day, and go back to their rooms at other times, so that one person can be alert and get up from time to time to take a look.

After waiting for about four days, all the silkworms had formed cocoons, and the haystacks they had made were evenly distributed with dense white balls, which were very fluffy and cute.

Thinking about it, if he had a dense phobia, this scene would be really torturous.

Except for her, no one else has ever seen what a silkworm cocoon looks like, which is quite strange.

Menghuan squatted on the side and watched, and said curiously, "Where did those silkworms go, are there only these cocoons left?" ”

Siqi smiled and said, "The silkworm was wrapped in it and turned into a silkworm chrysalis. ”

Menghuan nodded, and Mengzhu asked her, "Siqi, can you sell it for money now?" How much can these cocoons sell for? ”

Siqi nodded, "It's time to sell for money, if you wait a few more days, these silkworm chrysalis should become silkworm moths again." ”

Of course, everyone is happy when the cocoons are formed, but it is also a big project to clean these cocoons from the haystack next to each other.

It was a wise decision to only take a silkworm seed back, but I didn't think it was much at first, but I didn't know that this silkworm seed had already made people run off their legs.

There are also many people in the family, all of whom help them pick cocoons down, Wu Shile said, "I didn't expect to be tossed out by a few of you girls, these cocoons should be able to sell a lot of silver, okay, capable, our girls are all good." ”

Meng Shan's hand kept moving, and she said a little embarrassedly, "If it weren't for the help of my mother and third aunt, we would really be too busy later, and these silkworms will eat too much when they are about to form cocoons." ”

"It's to eat enough to form cocoons, otherwise this silkworm cocoon is not good, the Gu family also raised silkworms, the reason why they didn't raise it well, I think it's their own laziness, their family raised more silkworms than we here, but I haven't seen how many mulberry leaves they pick back, you say silkworms can't eat enough, can they make good cocoons?" Liu helped on the side, and said with a smile, of course, this Gu family is the Gu family's big house.

Wu hurriedly said, "Eldest daughter-in-law, you can't go out and talk nonsense, the people of the Gu family are not easy to get along with, if you hear this, you should shout outside, let's live a down-to-earth life, we can't get mixed with these." ”

Liu also felt that he had said too much, so he hurriedly nodded, "Mother, I know, that is, I thought of mentioning it casually." ”

Si Qi thought in his heart, it turns out that the Gu family didn't raise silkworms well because of this, so it's no wonder, you raised silkworms, and you refused to feed mulberry leaves, so you expect people to give you cocoons, how can there be such a good thing?

Sure enough, you have to be down-to-earth in everything, although this silkworm raising makes money, it is also hard work, she knew it from the beginning.

Every step must not be sloppy, otherwise it would not end up like this.

Siqi looked at the cocoons in the basket, a white patch, happy, and didn't know what the price was.