Zhao exclaimed, "Siya is so powerful? I can't even pull a thread!"

Chen couldn't help but laugh as he looked at her expression.

"Don't you think I'm biased?"

Zhao said, "Mother, if you want to listen to the truth, then I will say it."

"Say it."

"I think, if it weren't for Siya, we wouldn't have been able to collect so many cocoons! The silkworms raised by other people in the village at the beginning died in patches!"

Zhao said, hehe laughed, and then said, "I'm not confused now! After Siya got married, she helped us both openly and secretly. She wants to pull a little now, of course we have to help her a little, my mother said, didn't you?"

Chen nodded her forehead: "But you can be broken!" Don't you feel sorry for the silver that sells silkworm cocoons?"

Zhao smiled stupidly: "Mother is not short, I eat and drink, what do I feel sorry for!" It's a big deal that next time we'll raise a little more and earn back the money this time!"

Chen Shi saw that her expression did not seem to be fake, so he was completely relieved: "Don't worry, as long as you are sincere to Siya, she will not forget your sister-in-law!"

This honest daughter-in-law is also as good as an honest daughter-in-law, at least she doesn't have so many eyes, it seems that she has suffered a loss, maybe the good fortune is behind!

Since coming out of Xie Dai's study that day, Qi Lele has conducted deep self-reflection.

The results were remarkable, and she remembered that soap could also be made from plant ash!

It's just a soap made of plant ash, which is irritating to the skin and does not have the effect of beautifying and nourishing the skin. But if you use it for laundry, that's enough.

"Make soap out of plant ashes?"

"Yes! It's not complicated, but it's hard to grasp the proportions."

"Tell me about it."

Qi Lele said: "First, use a copper mesh to filter the plant ash to filter out large pieces of black charcoal and other impurities, then add water to soak and stir thoroughly, and after standing overnight, the plant ash alkali solution is obtained."

"Strain out the residue from the lye and heat it until the lye can dissolve the chicken feathers, and the lye is ready."

"Then add the lard and stir it while heating it until the lye becomes sticky enough to hold the chopsticks, even if the soap is ready."

"The rest of the process is like a pancreas, putting soap liquid into a mold and waiting for it to solidify and then take it out."

Xie Zi'an said, "It doesn't sound difficult."

"But this ratio is really difficult to grasp, the alkalinity of the ash burned by different plants is different, and then I am not sure how much lard to add."

"Try it a lot, and you can make it."

"Who's going to try?"

Xie Zi'an said, "Jing Yan Jing Yue. They can't help much from the staff dormitory, and Zhiyan always follows them."

"Okay."

Qi Lele couldn't help but sigh: "Obviously, there are so many people in the family, but I always feel that there is a shortage of manpower. Half of the distillation vessel sent by Shopkeeper Ye is still idle!"

Xie Zi'an said: "Don't worry, when the staff dormitory is built, we can free up some manpower."

Qi Lele's heart moved: "Why don't we recruit some short-term workers in the village to build houses, and our own people arrange to do the important things?"

Xie Zi'an reminded, "Even with manpower, there is no extra room for distillation."

Qi Lele slapped the table: "I still want to recruit people, I want to build a few more small factories!"

She can see that even if there is a staff dormitory, it is just one more place to live, and there is still a shortage of other production places!

Nowadays, at home, it is necessary to make sesame oil and sesame paste, pancreas and soap, distillation of alcohol, distillation of liquor, and now the development of soap, and there will be more things in the future, and there must be a special place for production.

In addition, there is sericulture, which was originally planned to add a spacious back cover room behind a small courtyard, which now does not seem very suitable.

If you want to raise silkworms, draw silk, and even weave cloth on a large scale in the future, you need a more spacious and easy to expand place

is inappropriate.

It's better to build another place to raise silkworms!

These were actually in the plan early on, but Qi Lele was reluctant to spend a large amount of money, so it has been delayed until now, resulting in being overstretched now, and he can't let go of anything.

"These are silkworm eggs? So small?"

Mu Shiwan looked at the dense black dots on the thin piece of paper, and subconsciously held her breath, lest one of them be careless and blow these silkworm eggs away.

"When the silkworm first hatches, it is about the size of a grain of rice, so you have to sweep it with a soft brush."

"And how long does it take for this egg to hatch?"

The most experienced in this matter is Su Yi: "About half a month."

Mu Shiwan looked disappointed: "It took so long?"

Xie Ziyan said, "What? Are you in a hurry to go back?"

Mu Shiwan glanced at him before she said, "That's not very urgent, it's just that it's not appropriate to bother for a long time."

When Qi Lele came in, he just heard this, and he wanted to see what Xie Ziyan said, but he saw that the stunned boy actually turned his head and said nothing.

This silly boy!

Thanks to her excuse that she has something to do in the past two days, she asked Xie Ziyan to take Mu Shiwan to ride Feiyun around for a walk, which looks like her feelings are a little more than before!

But Xie Ziyan wants to continue to stay like this, she can't take it!

"Sister Shiwan, is she leaving? My mother said yesterday that I wanted my father to write a letter to Master Mu, and I want to keep you for three or five months!"

Mu Shiwan turned around and said with a smile: "Sister said that it was funny, three or five months, that's too long!"

"Soon, the happier the days pass, the faster time flies!"

Xie Ziyan also spoke: "If you like it, you can stay for a few more days, it's better than you being at ease in the capital."

Mu Shiwan paused and responded, "Okay."

Qi Lele's eyes turned back and forth on the two of them, and said with a smile: "It's time to pick the silkworm cocoons next door, do you want to come?"

"Yes!"

Li Zheng has been so busy lately, seeing that the Xie family's private school is about to open, and the people who came to him are about to break through the threshold.

There is no other reason, it is Xie Dai who pushed the matter of recruiting students to the clan, only saying that it was to repay the kindness of Shangxi Village, so he opened a private school, and the specific students to recruit are decided by the clan.

Recently, spring silkworms have begun to form cocoons one after another, this is an errand assigned by the county order, and he doesn't dare to be sloppy.

Gather the people who received the silkworm seeds in the first place.

"The people sent by the county lord to collect the cocoons are coming in the next two days, you go back and clean them up, carefully pick out those dead cocoons and rotten cocoons, and start to be lighter, otherwise people won't accept them when you turn around, don't come to me!"

"It's no use begging me! That's the person sent by the county magistrate, I don't have such a big face!"

When everyone dispersed, Qi Da and Chen came to Li Zheng's side and asked, "Uncle, do you think my cocoon can not be sold?"

Li Zheng was stunned: "Not for sale?"