Confused, Eucalyptus asked, "What is going up the mountain?" ”

The fragrant leaves piled up the straw stack Nunu mouth on a canopy of straw, originally used straw to "build a mountain", in order to let the silkworm baby "go up the mountain" to form a cocoon.

After going up the mountain, the silkworm baby spun silk to wrap itself, and the silkworm cocoon was crystal clear. The silkworm baby needs about one day to sleep each time, and after five or six days of feeding after three sleeps, it is the last molt of the baby, which is called "big sleep".

The silkworm baby has to shed its skin four times in its life, and each molt is called "sleep". Silkworms do not eat or move when they sleep, and the surface is like sleeping, but they are actually shedding their old skins and continuing to grow after putting on new skins.

Now the silkworm baby is looking for its place in the built space. At this time, the back of the silkworm baby is shiny, and the body is transparent and yellow, which means that it is going to spin silk and form a cocoon, and it can form a complete cocoon after about two days of going up the mountain, and metamorphose into a pupal in the cocoon.

Lan Eucalyptus looked at the women employed in the silkworm breeding room were busy, not only feeling that silkworm raising is a phased, high-intensity work, they have to pay several times more hard work and sweat than ordinary farm work, but also need the meticulous care of silkworm farmers.

Just as she was out of her mind, Sister Qiu came in with a basket of mulberry leaves on her back, "Sister Lan, according to your instructions, I picked most of the ripe mulberries in the field, and left a few branches that you said you wanted to eat yourself, and the people from the fruit wholesale station promised to drive over in the afternoon to buy them." ”

Lan Xiangye nodded, "Okay, thank you for your hard work, Sister Qiu." Eucalyptus, let's go around the mulberry fields! ”

The two of them walked to the side of the ridge, and they saw a large area of mulberry fields with lush leaves.

The mulberry tree is a treasure tree for southern farmers, the leaves of the mulberry tree can be fed to silkworm babies, and the mulberry can be picked and sold at a high price.

At this time, the mulberries are fully ripe, and the fields are full of mulberries that have not had time to be picked and fall into the ground, which makes people feel a little distressed, which is delicious.

And there are still a few corners of the huge mulberry field that have not been picked, and the purple-red and purple-red mulberries are pressed down on the branches, which is very tempting, and people swallow saliva when they see it.

In a few minutes, the blue eucalyptus picked a basket, and she and her aunt ate it while picking it, and it was so sweet that her tongue and mouth were also dyed purple.

Blue eucalyptus picked a few mulberry leaves and put them in the back basket, and the fragrant leaves somehow, blue eucalyptus replied: "Since you have wandered around the mulberry field, I will pick some mulberry leaves and bring them back to the silkworm baby in the silkworm room." ”

Xiangye smiled, "Auntie knows that you want to help share the burden, but picking mulberry leaves is a science." Each picking must be the same height of mulberry branches on the same direction of mulberry leaves, the mulberry leaves must be placed evenly, only in this way will the silkworm baby grow evenly, there will be no different growth period. If you have a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, you can't use the mulberry leaves you pick back. ”

Lan Eucalyptus was shocked, "Ah~ It would be like this!" I didn't expect that just picking mulberry leaves is so exquisite! ”

Xiangye was not surprised, and sang as he walked: "Mulberry is a cash cow, and silkworms are cornucopia." In the first half of the year, silkworms depended, and in the second half of the year, they relied on Farming is relied upon for food, and silkworm raising is used for money. Silkworms are easy to use for a year, and fields are delicious for a year. Unkempt and barefoot for a month, live happily for a year. Mulberry scissors scrape and scratch, don't be meat, it's a ......"

Listening to the catchy agricultural proverbs, Lan Eucalyptus also remembered Zhu Fengsheng's "Tongxiang Night Weaving" in the Ming Dynasty: "Sangtuo is green and many, and thousands of trees are shining." The sound of the machine is rolling, and the lights are shining. Jia Ke stayed in the gold, and the son returned from the city, and he liked to lose the official endowment, who sighed that he had no clothes. ”