Not to mention that the people in the mushroom skin village are waiting for Zhang Erlang to say a word, and they have a stomach of questions to ask, among the back offices of Ganzhou City, Ji Qingling is standing in front of a privet tree and looking at it seriously.

In the past, they used to talk about fire trees and silver flowers, but now she seemed to see a silver tree covered with snow and ice.

The privet tree is evergreen, and even in winter, the leaves are green.

On the tree in front of him, the little insects that had been put up three months ago were long gone, and only the hoarfrost-like stuff of the trunk and branches thickly wrapped around the privet tree.

The green leaves and white branches complement each other, creating a strange sense of harmony.

Qiu Lu held a porcelain bowl in her left hand and two chopsticks in her right hand, took a few steps forward, gently plucked a small piece of white "frost" down, handed it to Ji Qingling, and said: "Girl, you see, the insect is wrapped in it, and this white is wax, I don't know if it's the silk it spit out, or something else." ”

Qiu Yue and Qiu Shuang came forward, and several people didn't understand how to point, and after watching it for a long time, they all started to touch it.

After raising it for more than half a year, the ash worms raised in the back office finally began to bear wax flowers, but they were different trees, and the results were really a little different.

The one in front of me is the most waxed, the branches are covered with white wax silk, the best place is one inch thick, and the place where the silk is poor is half an inch.

"The bugs on this tree grow the best." Qiu Lu explained to Ji Qingling, "The trees next to it are almost all harvested, and a total of insects are put on eleven trees in the back office, not counting this one, I got almost more than 30 catties of ash silk, and I boiled it with water according to the method that the girl said, and I got a total of more than 40 catties of head wax." ”

As she spoke, she pointed to the front right and said, "Girl, look over there, the ash worms on that tree have little to do, so I have left it for you to see." ”

Ji Qingling followed her hand and looked over, just a zhang away, on another privet tree as big as the one in front of her, only dotted with white flowers.

When she got closer, she noticed that not only were there few insects on the tree, but some of the white threads around it were not even covered with itself.

"What's the difference between the bugs on these two trees? Why is the wax so bad? Ji Qingling asked.

Qiu Lu didn't know the reason, only lit a sign on the tree that wrote "B Four", and said: "This year is only the first year, I don't know why it's so bad, but according to what you said, we have made marks on different trees, how to raise the insects on weekdays, how to raise them after the tree, have written them down, and raise them for a few more years in the future, make comparisons, and think about it will also know." ”

When she said this, she couldn't help but look at Ji Qingling and asked, "Girl, do we still want to raise insects next year?" ”

Ji Qingling was thinking about things in her heart, and when she heard her ask, she subconsciously shook her head, and when she raised her head again and wanted to speak, she saw Qiu Lu with a relieved look.

"You hate insects so much?" Ji Qingling couldn't help laughing and comforted her, "There's no way, I didn't feel so relieved about the people next to me, so I had to ask you to help lay a foundation, now I know that I can raise it and make wax, and if someone else is busy, it's none of our business." ”

Qiu Lu heard Ji Qingling say "I don't feel at ease with the people next to me", and suddenly felt that more than half a year's hard work had paid off, and she couldn't wait to raise ash worms for another two years, so that Ji Qingling knew that it was a bitter and difficult thing, as long as the other party gave an order, he would have no regrets.

She was bent on saying two sensual words, but in front of Qiu Shuang and Qiu Yue, she was really embarrassed, her face turned red all of a sudden, her hands were clenched into fists, and she muttered for a long time, but she still didn't say it.

Ji Qingling naturally didn't see the little girl's thoughts, she was bent on rewarding Qiulu, but she felt that it was a bit thin to just give the prize silver, so she had to say: "After raising insects for such a long time, it's hard work, why don't you give you an extra two months of monthly money, and then let you rest for three or two days?" ”

Qiu Lu hurriedly shook her head, waved her hand, and said, "No, it's not that I raise it alone, I run on both sides on weekdays, and Sister Qiuyue and Qiu Shuang have helped to take care of a lot, if it wasn't for them in the room, I can't see it." ”

Ji Qingling smiled and said: "You are very ghostly, since this is the case, the three of you are allowed to rest for two days, go out for a walk, and also see the scenery, buy something or something, so as not to be tied up by me every day." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, the three girls in the courtyard invariably said "ah", and all of them had a smile on their faces, and they couldn't even suppress it.

Qiu Shuang said "oops": "How embarrassing is this! ”

She glanced at Qiu Lu on the left and Qiu Yue on the right, and saw that no one spoke, so she endured it for a long time, but she still couldn't wait to speak: "Girl, can the three of us take this leave together, or can we only take it separately?" ”

Ji Qingling thought for a while and said: "It doesn't matter if the three of you go away for a day or two, just call a little girl to come in and look at the house, while there is nothing important in these two days, I don't want to call people very much, you can explain the matter at hand, you can go out to play in one place, you have been in Ganzhou for a year, and you haven't walked carefully yet?" ”

This time, even Qiu Yue didn't want to talk about face, and the three of them couldn't close their mouths with a smile, so they only stepped forward to salute and thank them, and said something about raising insects.

As he was talking, he saw Rosin Xiang coming from outside, and gave a salute before saying, "Girl, someone from the Li family on the mountain has come, saying that they have brought new wax, and I have something to tell you, asking if you can spare your hands at this time." ”

Since entering the summer, Gu Yanzhang has been running in and out of the city, on the one hand, he has to arrange to dig culverts, and on the other hand, he has to go to the camp outside the city to settle the homeless.

Ji Qingling took over the matter of the ash worm and helped keep an eye on it.

Because she took over, Li Jin, who raised insects on the mountain, began to ask his daughter-in-law to come back and ask everything.

As soon as Ji Qingling heard what Rosin said, she knew that this was Mrs. Li's coming, she asked a few words, and then took a few little girls back to the side hall.

Li's wife was sitting in the hall with a little girl, with a basket at her feet, waiting for Ji Qingling to come in, and she took the little girl to salute.

The two sides met the courtesy, and exchanged two more words, Mrs. Li didn't talk nonsense, and immediately brought the shoulder basket next to the chair, she lifted the cloth on her head, and said to Ji Qingling: "According to Madame's original instructions, this new wax is divided into six layers." ”

As he spoke, he hugged the two baskets, took out all the wax blocks inside, put them on the table, and pointed them to Ji Qingling one by one.