Chapter 51: True and False Silk
There was such a big movement in the courtyard, Dabao didn't know if he was frightened, and when Ji Yu turned around, he saw him half-hidden at the door of the stove room staring at this side.
The fire naturally went out, Ji Yu touched his head, and led it again, letting Dabao sit down and continue to fill the firewood.
Zhen Jili came in with his hands behind his back, with a smug expression: "How is it?" Thanks to my clever plan to take family leave today, if I don't come, you won't be bullied to death! ”
"Not necessarily."
Ji Yu was brushing the small pot, pointing to another stove hole, and asked him to make a fire with Dabao.
Zhen Jili walked over and sat down crookedly, Dabao's small brows were slightly invisible, and he stared at the firewood in his hand.
Seeing this, Zhen Jili teased him: "If you don't burn it, I respect the old and love the young the most." ”
Ji Yu shouted Dabao: "Sister is hungry, you two burn it together, who burns whom, so that we can eat quickly, okay?" You see, your hole is bigger than his, so let him burn the small one. ”
Dabao was not very happy, looked at the two stove holes, and it was indeed his own bigger, so he stopped competing with Zhen Jili, turned his head and continued to add firewood to his stove hole.
Zhen Jili: "......" dares to let him burn the pot to see that he is pitiful?
But he also saw that Dabao seemed to be different from ordinary children.
He moved his mouth, but he didn't have to ask after all.
"You just said that it may not be, I think you are just capable. Tell me what you're going to do with those people if I don't come. ”
Ji Yu cut the vegetables without raising her head: "I didn't know that Wang De would also come at first, so I only thought of a response plan for Gu Yutian." ”
Hearing the news of Widow Xie's dismissal, Ji Yu did not rush to Hu's house as soon as possible, but went to the town to ask the owner of the bookstore Fang for news.
Juyong Town is so big, it is not difficult to understand the situation of the silk reeling workshop, and when she went, she was just in time for Song Jing to exchange books, and one of Song Jing's classmates happened to be neighbors with Nagu Yutian.
The news obtained from several channels intersected, and it really made her discover a big insider, or Gu Yutian's handle.
"What's the handle?" Zhen Jili was very curious.
"The daily work of the silk reeling workshop is to soak the silkworm cocoons in a hot pot soup to extract the silk. Silkworms are essential. The main food of silkworms is mulberry leaves, and most of the mulberry leaves have fallen during this season, and they will not germinate until the beginning of spring. ”
Zhen Jili was a little dizzy when he heard it: "What silkworms, cocoons, and leaves, what does it have to do with Gu Yutian?" ”
Ji Yu glanced at him.
"According to the growth cycle of mulberry leaves, the main seasons for raising silkworms are spring silkworms from May to June, summer silkworms from July to August, and autumn silkworms from September to October. But now it's November, and the silk reeling workshop shows no signs of stopping. ”
Aunt Xie said that during the time she returned to work, she was neither allowed to pull cocoons nor reel silk, but was called to scrub a kind of bark with many female workers, and the cleaned bark was sent to another yard by a special person, and she didn't know what to do.
They can't figure out the mystery inside, but Ji Yu, who has seen too much "315 anti-counterfeiting" in her previous life, can guess a rough idea.
When I heard from an old mother who cooked in Gu Yutian's house, he had indeed hired people to cut down a light brown tree in the deep mountains and old forests recently, and Ji Yu was almost sure.
And gave some benefit, so that the old mother brought out a piece of bark.
It turned out later that the fibers of this bark were specially treated and could indeed be turned into filaments.
At first glance, it is almost unrecognizable, but in reality the two are very different.
Real silk is milky white in appearance, slightly yellowish, with a soft surface luster and long silk.
Some viscose fibers and man-made fibers produce filaments that are also longer, but they are not as good as silk in terms of fluffiness and heat insulation.
"The most important thing is also the easiest point to distinguish between real and fake silk - real silk is not flammable, and fake silk is on fire."
Zhen Jili touched his chin and nodded: "Sounds very reasonable." ”
When I saw it, I knew I didn't understand.
It just so happened that Ji Yu deliberately left some samples in her hand, she was originally going to deal with Gu Yutian, but now she can't use it, so she just tried it on the spot to show him.
Pull a burning branch from the hole and approach the silk.
It will only burn when the flame is close, and it will be extinguished as soon as it leaves, leaving a smell similar to that of an eggshell.
Then carefully observe the combustible, the burning place is black and shiny, twisted by hand, it is powdery, and the particles are delicate.
And in the same way approach the fake silk.
It burns a little more than a cocoon, and the flame leaves and is extinguished later.
A lot of ash smoke rises during the combustion process, and then there is a smell of burning paper, and the burning material has black particles, which are crushed and wrapped in fibers that have not been completely burned.
Nothing is more concise and vivid than an experiment.
Zhen Jili gave her a thumbs up, but there were doubts.
"Aren't you afraid that Gu Yutian will not only deny it, but will deduct a false charge for you?"
"It doesn't matter if Gu Yutian admits it or not, these weren't originally for him to see. I inquired that in a week, eight foreign merchants will come to the silk reeling workshop to inspect the goods, if I guess correctly, this batch of goods must be true and fake. At this time, whenever there is a little rumor coming out...... Do you think he dares to take this risk? ”
"I'm glad I didn't offend you!" Zhen Jili hugged his shoulders and trembled: "But I really read it right, your head just looks different from others." ”
It doesn't sound like a good word.
"Although his arms can't reach his thighs, the little people don't want to sit still, and they just rack their brains to find some way to protect themselves."
The pot on Dabao's side is about to boil, and Zhen Jili only cares about talking, and he doesn't know that the fire is about to go out. Ji Yu knocked on the pot, and he hurried to add firewood.
Stir-fry in a lard pan with ginger, garlic and dried chili rings until fragrant.
Then fry the peeled red tomatoes until they are red, and add the winter melon cut into small cubes and stir-fry.
There is a small half pot of pork bone soup that was boiled before, scoop a few spoonfuls into it, just haven't cooked, cover the pot and boil for a while.
"But today is really thanks to you." Ji Yu said this sincerely.
Although she took Gu Yutian's handle, she could use it to fight back when Gu Yutian came to the door to threaten her, but in fact, there was a great hidden danger.
Even if Gu Yutian retreats for a while, he is bound to hold a grudge. As a last resort, she really didn't want to make herself a mortal enemy, which would cause a lot of trouble.
For this kind of bullying people, it is the method of Zhen Jili to suppress the situation, and it has the effect of shifting thousands of pounds. Not only did the oppressed not dare to hate, but they were afraid that it would be too late.
Zhen Jili, who was suddenly praised, trembled his two eyebrows happily, and almost didn't fly into the sky.
"Hmph, you still have a little conscience! Anyway, I have eaten a few more years of salt than you, and you still have to learn from what I have! ”
Give three colors to open a dyeing workshop, which is very suitable to describe Zhenjili.
Ji Yu asked him to remove the fire, lift the lid of the pot, season it with salt, green onions, and pepper, and then use thin potatoes to dry the soup, and a tomato fried winter melon is ready.