Yao Dong led Ye Xi to the house, and as soon as he arrived at the door, someone carried a basket of dead silkworms out.

Looking at those silkworms, Ye Xi also frowned slightly. It's not easy to raise it to such a big age, and so many people died at once, it's no wonder that Master Tan and Yao Dong are full of sadness.

It's a real pity.

Listening to what Yao Dong said, this time the disease is menacing, and many silkworms have died one after another in the past few days.

Although the dead silkworms were quickly disposed of, and the house was disinfected as much as possible, the spread of the disease could not be controlled.

"If only it could form a cocoon as soon as possible." Yao Dong sighed.

Ye Xi looked at him fixedly, "You're right, if you can form a cocoon in advance, at least some of the losses can be recovered." ”

As long as the silkworms that have not yet gotten the disease and form cocoons in advance, even if the yield will be damaged and declined, it is also the best way at the moment.

If you don't form cocoons for a day, most of the silkworms will die every day, and the loss is incalculable.

"I'm just casually saying, where can there be such a method?" Yao Dong smiled bitterly.

"I have a way." Ye Xi said suddenly. She remembered the pearl dew grass she saw in the back mountain, and in modern times, someone had already studied that pearl dew water grass contained a substance, which was extracted and called ecdysone.

Generally, silkworm farmers will feed ecdysone when a small number of silkworms are mature, so that the silkworms will mature in clusters.

In this way, the upper clusters are neat, you can save some mulberry leaves and labor, and some people have calculated that the yield will increase slightly.

She once saw people in the village not buy ecdysone, but directly dug up dew grass and boiled it, and mixed the medicinal juice on mulberry leaves to feed silkworms, which was also effective.

Now Master Tan's silkworms are not yet mature, feeding ecdysone will certainly affect the yield, but it is also the best way at the moment.

"Do you have a way?" Yao Dong looked at Ye Xi in surprise.

He really hadn't heard of anything that could make silkworms spin silk in advance. After all, silkworms also have a time to grow, everything has its own rules, where is so easy to change.

"Can I give it a try?"

"Are you sure?"

"There is a certain degree of certainty, but the ugly words should be said in front, urging the mature silkworms, and the silkworms will naturally be less, which must be well known."

"It's all come to this, and less is better than nothing." Yao Dong took Ye Xi to talk to Master Tan.

Hearing that Ye Xi could make silkworms spin silk in advance, Master Tan's eyes suddenly burst into light, and he was a little suspicious.

"This is unheard of, is the girl really sure?"

"Then does Master Tan dare to accompany me to gamble?" Ye Xi looked at Master Tan fixedly.

Master Tan's hesitation, Ye Xi naturally understood. I thought that before the advent of ecdysone, such a thing seemed impossible for anyone.

At the moment, it can be regarded as a big gamble, it depends on whether Master Tan dares or not.

If Master Tan didn't dare, she wouldn't persuade him more. After all, it is clear what the result will be, if you talk too much, you will get yourself into trouble.

The silkworm disease spreads very quickly, and perhaps just after feeding the dew grass, some silkworms still die of the disease, which inevitably makes people think that it is her fault.

"Adong, what do you think?" Master Tan looked at Yao Dong.

"Xiaoxi grew up with me since she was a child, and she is a kind girl."

"Since you can trust her, then I don't believe her." Only then did Master Tan look at Ye Xi again, "That is the case, Miss Ye can rest assured, no matter what the result is, she can't rely on the girl." ”