"Is this what you call a cocoon?"

Seeing Ah Su's curious look, Shelley asked rhetorically, "What?" Have you never seen one? ”

Ah Su shook his head, he had seen moths, but it was the first time he had seen them as larvae.

"This isn't a larva anymore......"

After all, the work of raising silkworms in the future will also be handed over to her, so taking this opportunity, Shelley taught her about the life of silkworms to pupa and then to moths. In order to make her know better, Shelley also used a knife to remove a cocoon and remove the chrysalis that was still wriggling inside

“…… The state you see at the moment is a chrysalis, and the outer layer is silk that can be made into silk. Whether it is silk or chrysalis, it is a very valuable existence. Among them, pupae can be used as both food and medicine. Silk is what I call silk, which is more valuable than gold, and is the most important reason why we breed them. ”

Ah Sui listened carefully, while Xiao Naya on the side asked with starry eyes, "Sister Princess, can this little insect really be eaten?" Is it tasty? ”

Ah Sean covered his face, blushing for his daughter. But Shelley didn't mind in the slightest.

As an ingredient, silkworm chrysalis is still very delicious, but there is a disadvantage, if you want to eat it as food, it must ensure its freshness, once the freshness period is passed, the taste and texture will decline.

Therefore, in the original plan, except for some of the pupae to be used to raise adult moths and continue to reproduce silkworm babies, most of the remaining air-dried medicinal materials, leaving only a small part for direct consumption.

But with the advent of Vader, all this is different. Because of him, Shelley will have an artifact for storing food and keeping it fresh, that is, the refrigerator.

As mentioned before, his ability is to adjust the temperature, and he can only change the temperature. Therefore, you only need to build a sealed wooden box, and then keep the temperature of the wooden box at a low temperature at all times, then this wooden box can achieve the effect of a refrigerator.

With this hand, ingredients such as silkworm chrysalis that require special storage can be sold as commodities to farther markets. If it weren't for the prejudice of human beings against the ability to filth, Shelley would have even wanted to sell the "refrigerator" directly.

Hearing that her son had such a great benefit, Ah Su, as a mother, was naturally very happy, and at the same time, she was glad that she had never given up on him.

But the most important thing at the moment is the processing of silk, and Shelley needs to teach Ah Sew to draw silk so with his own hands. After all, there is only one silk drawing machine at present, and if you wait until a sufficient number of silk drawing machines are made, the chrysalis in the cocoon is estimated to have already become a moth out of the cocoon, so that these cocoons will be wasted. Therefore, the oldest method has to be used, the wooden stick winding method to draw silk.

"You see, this is the thread, and I told you before that the cocoon is made of an uninterrupted thread from beginning to end, so as long as you find the thread on the cocoon, it can be slowly extracted."

As she spoke, Shelley wrapped the thread on the cocoon around the wooden stick she had prepared, and then grabbed the stick and made a circle, and the silk was wrapped around the stick little by little.

"I'm pulling the filament directly, this method actually has a very high failure rate, and it's easy to break the filament. I can do it because I'm proficient, and you must not do it. ”

"So what are we going to do?"

"It's very simple, pour the cocoon into hot water and soak it for a while, so that it will become soft, with a certain elasticity, and when pumping, it is not easy to break the silk."

When it was Shelley's turn to try, Shelley realized that he had really underestimated her craft. Just looked at herself to cover it up, and when it came to her hands, she actually succeeded at one time and did not fail. Seeing this, Shelley couldn't help but applaud her. Ah Sew was not proud of this, but was deeply attracted by the silk in his hand.

"Such a beautiful silk thread, human beings simply cannot make such smooth and bright silk. What would it look like if it were used for fabric? ”

"Weave it and you'll know." Shelley sent the wooden cocoons to her, "There are less than 350 cocoons in this, enough to weave two square scarves with a side length of 1 meter, in addition to supervising the people below to complete the work of drawing silk these days, there is also the completion of two square scarves, this is currently the only silk drawing machine, which can help you complete the silk drawing faster, and you can teach the people below to draw the wooden sticks." ”

In fact, in the previous life, to weave a square scarf with a side length of 1 meter, at least 300 cocoons were needed, and the cocoons in this world were very large.

Ah Su, who took the wooden barrel, said with a serious face: "Don't worry, Your Royal Highness Princess, I will definitely do my best to complete two square scarves for you." ”

Shelley nodded: "I have received the news, my housekeeper will be back tomorrow, and the funds will be in hand by then." You go back and tell everyone that we will start working tomorrow. Let's not relax, Owen and they will bring back a lot of silk tonight, if there are not enough people at that time, you are allowed to recruit from the residents of the town, and the conditions offered by my side will remain the same. ”

"Don't worry, we'll make it happen."

Ah Sui left, and hugged his children before leaving, this time he was much less sad. The two children are also very sensible and don't pestering Ah Sew too much. The key is that after she leaves, Vader can't be idle, because the sealed box that Shelley commissioned Lao Mu to temporarily build this morning has arrived, and there are five boxes in total. Vader also had to adjust the temperature of the wooden box to zero degrees Celsius as Shelley requested.

What is zero degrees, even if Shelley explains it now, he may not understand. But Shelley taught him a way to get the temperature to zero without a thermometer, and that was to take a basin and put it in a box as a reference. When you see that the water in the basin starts to freeze, it means that the temperature of the box has reached zero degrees.

Although this method is simple and crude, it can be inaccurate. It's just that this little bit of error doesn't affect too much, so Shelley won't care about it.

"Ha~~~ It's not easy to arrange people out, I'm so tired~~"

Everyone around her was assigned to the task, and she sat alone in the living room, staring at the ceiling in a daze. I wasn't in a daze, but I was thinking about what I was missing, and when I thought about it, I found that there were many things missing. But she is also very helpless, there are so many people, even if all the physical labor force here is recruited, I am afraid there will not be 1,500 people.

You must know that in the previous life, there were thousands of workers in any larger factory, and so many people are estimated to be serving several assembly lines. On the other hand, there are so many projects to develop on his side that Shelley is now at the point of being desperate to snatch people from several neighboring towns.