Chapter 971: Picking mulberries and feeding silkworms
The stump attached to the mulberry tree was driven away by the tree god in a short time. As she continued to wander, she saw a girl who was picking mulberries coming, and she attached it to a mulberry leaf, and asked her to put it in a basket and carry it home. This girl is Sima Hua, she put down the basket, wiped a handful of sweat, and began to work. Her house has two old-fashioned tiled houses connected together, with spacious halls at the top and bottom, and a bright patio in the middle, surrounded by aisles, the aisles are wider, and on the side against the wall is a row of stools, on which are placed covered dustpans, together with the upper and lower halls, each with four square tables, a total of eight, on which are placed baskets, some covered with lids, and some covered with cotton wool. At this time, Sima Hua walked to the aisle of the patio and opened the dustpan cover one by one, inside were wriggling silkworms, these white and bright Dandan guys looked very cute, some of them were chewing mulberry leaves, listen carefully, there was a "clacking" sound, the mulberry leaves were bitten into holes, showing a few thin tendons; Some silkworms seem to have eaten enough, and they stretch their necks very energetically and raise their heads to look at the outside world.
Sima Hua finished removing the dustpan cover on the aisle, and then uncovered the basket cover on the square table in the upper and lower halls, but the basket covered with cotton wool did not move.
Subsequently, the mother also came, the two of them grabbed the fresh mulberry leaves from the bamboo basket together, sprinkled the ground into the dustpan, sprinkled into the basket, this is called feeding the silkworms, the silkworms are fed, grow up, and spit silk into colorful cocoons. As Sima Hua worked, he imagined the use of them for weaving silk, and he was particularly energetic when he started to work. Her pink scarf around her neck was silk fabric, soft and smooth, and the color was eye-catching.
It's late spring now, it's warmer, so you don't have to wear a scarf, but Sima Hua loves the color of this silk scarf, not so much to wear it, but to use it to set off his youth and beauty.
The mulberry leaf was being eaten by the chubby silkworm in the basket, and the goose jumped away in an attempt to attach itself to the body of a silkworm. But all silkworms have spirituality, that is to say, each silkworm has a scattered spirit attached, and if it wants to invade, it will be counterattacked.
At this moment, Wei Cai had a thought, and it was noticed by a scattered spirit, which summoned all the scattered spirits to punch and kick and besiege Wei, and the enemy was attacked on his back and had nowhere to hide. There is no endless road to the sky, and the netherworld is also average. Just when the sky should not be called out and the earth is not spiritual, the god of animals came, and the scattered spirits did not dare to make a mistake, and they dispersed. He knelt in front of the god of beasts, kowtowed again and again, and said Shenjun, please give me a way to live!
I'm here to give you some pointers. The god told him to get up and go with him to the upper hall. I saw Sima Hua standing with her mother, and her mother pulled open the cotton wool on a basket, which was full of pieces of silkworms that had not yet hatched into silkworms. Her mother said: It will take another week to hatch before it can hatch. and covered it with the warm cotton wool. Si Beast God said that he conveyed the reincarnation order of the Wheel King, so that the dragon was reincarnated as a silkworm. He was embarrassed and said: No, I am attached to the mulberry leaves, and I have been beaten by those scattered spirits, if I attach to the body of the silkworm, will I not be beaten worse by them?
Si Beast God smiled slightly and explained: You can only attach to the silkworm that has not hatched into silkworms, because which scattered spirit the silkworm is attached to is determined by heaven, not just to seize things, there is order. And he pointed to the basket with the silkworm and said, "Now you go in and attach it to a silkworm, and in a week the silkworm hatches into a silkworm, and you will become one of the silkworms."
There is cotton wool on the opening of the basket, how can I get in? Yu asked. Si Beast God said: You now exist as an ideology, not in a material form, as long as you move a thought attached to the silkworm to be reincarnated, you will naturally enter.
So according to its instructions, sneaked into the basket, parasitized on one of the silkworms, it felt warm, a week later, it poked out a head from the embryo of the silkworm, the head was black, like a sesame seed, but it was the same as the silkworms, full of splendid vitality.
Sima Hua's mother will take care of her, and she has a premonition that a new crop of silkworms has been born, so she carefully uncovers the cotton wool, only uncovers a slit, and tries not to let the cool breeze pour in, otherwise, the silkworms that are born are very weak and easy to freeze to death, although it is April weather, some warm, but the climate is not normal, and silkworms can not be affected by the wind and cold. Sima Hua, who has raised silkworms for most of her life, knows what to do, she cuts the mulberry leaves finely, and scatters them like confetti, if the mulberry leaves are not fragmented, a large piece of it falls down, because of the weight of the newborn silkworms, if it is not good, it will crush them, and even crush them to death. So Sima Hua and her mother were very careful, and explained to Sima Hua why she did this, Sima Hua stood next to her, watching her mother's demonstration, while watching the young silkworms eat finely chopped mulberry leaves, those young silkworms will eat when they are born, as if it is determined by nature, they are greedy like hungry wolves pounce on bread. Ma Sihua quickly closed the cotton wool.
A few days later, when the basket was opened, the silkworms had grown into rice grains, and the mulberry leaf feed was more supplied. At this time, Sima Hua and her mother replaced the cotton wool covered with a bamboo braided cover, because the silkworms' resistance was stronger than before. Among the silkworms, the fat silkworm is particularly amused by Sima Hua, it is the last reincarnation from the sting, of course Sima Hua is not clear, but he is very concerned about it, it is very edible, a mulberry leaf two or three silkworms lie on it, eat it for a while before eating it all, and it eats a mulberry leaf alone, it takes almost the same amount of time, so the size is almost twice as big as the average silkworm.
When feeding mulberry leaves, Sima Hua gave it a name in front of her mother, called Fatty. The mother echoed and said: The fat man is good, the physique is good, and the quality of silk spinning in the future is also good. It's good, and I eat a lot of mulberry leaves. The mother turned her head and said to Sima Hua, you have to be diligent and fast, pick more mulberry leaves to feed. Sima Hua still lowered her head to look at the fat man, the scarf on her neck had reached the edge of the basket, and was touching her fingers, she pulled it and touched a small hole on it, which was the last time she went to the mulberry forest to pick mulberry, and she was in a hurry to get into the jungle for a while, and was broken by thorns, she suddenly said: When this stubble of silk comes out, I will use them to weave another scarf, which is the best silk material. She tugged at the scarf around her neck, twisted the hole in it, and said, "It's time to change this scarf."
The mother didn't care what she said, but urged her to go out to pick more mulberry leaves, and cover the other baskets with cotton wool at home, planning to hatch another crop of young silkworms. Seeing Sima Hua walking to the door of the hall, the mother raised her voice and asked, "Huazi, do you want me to accompany you?" Mother! No, you're busy. Sima Hua carried the bamboo basket on his back and walked straight towards the mulberry forest in the back mountain.