On the second day, in the morning, after eating breakfast.

"Susu, you want the cocoon, you can see enough." Yesterday, Huang Shisu asked Mai Dong to collect silkworm cocoons and come back, and after Mai Dong came back from collecting three wooden barrels of silkworm cocoons, he asked Su Su at his house.

"This cocoon looks like a lot, but it's not practical enough.

Second brother, if you visit the villagers' homes again and collect some more silkworm cocoons for me, even if it costs money.

In addition, second brother, you and the villagers said again, in the future, our family will also buy silkworm cocoons, and three silkworm cocoons will cost a penny." Huang Shisu explained to her second brother.

"Good! Susu, what are you doing with these cocoons?" Huang Maidong asked a little incomprehensibly.

"Susu, don't you want to take these silkworm cocoons and weave them into cloth?" Huang Zhang, who was in the kitchen, asked thoughtfully.

As for the matter of grinding medicinal herbs, Huang Zhang's family has already arranged for a group of villagers to do these things.

Luo Ping led a part of the villagers to serve Yaoshan.

Xiao Qiuling, Jiang Rou, and Liu made rouge in another room.

After how to make rouge and the recipe to be kept secret, Huang Zhang simply vacated a room to make rouge

"I also wanted to extract silk and weave it into cloth to make clothes, but the process was too complicated.

It will take a lot of manpower and material resources, and I can't complete it in a short time, it's too troublesome, and I don't want to do it.

I'll just make something simple." Huang Shisu said helplessly.

"Susu, what simple things are you doing with these cocoons?" Mai Dong was intrigued by his family's Su Su's words, and he asked with a curious expression.

"I don't know if I can do it yet, so I'll experiment first.

If it really happens, maybe I can use the cocoon to find a new way for our family to make a fortune in the future." Huang Zisu just didn't tell her second brother, and sold her second brother a guanzidao.

But Mai Dong was itching in his heart, and he just wanted to know what his Su Su was doing with silkworm cocoons.

"Susu, what should we do with these cocoons now?" After Huang Maidong left, Huang Zhang asked her Su Su.

"Grandma, you help me burn some straw, pass the water with straw ashes, and boil hot water in another pot." Huang Shisu arranges for her grandma.

And she took a half-bent bow that had been made in advance, and brought a white cloth bag to pack the cocoons one by one, and later she would throw the cocoons into the pot and scald them.

And today, Huang Shisu takes these cocoons, neither by sucking and peeling off the cocoons, but into silk cloth, because it is too troublesome.

Therefore, Huang Shiso uses these cocoons to make an affordable and convenient thing, which is to make silk quilts.

Silk is much easier to make than to peel off the cocoon and weave it into cloth.

First of all, there is no need to pick silkworm cocoons, whether it is a double palace cocoon or a single cocoon, it can be made into a silk quilt.

If you peel off the cocoon, the double cocoon will not be able to be used, and it will not sell at a high price.

Because the double palace cocoon has two silk heads, it can only be used to make silk cotton.

"Susu, I've burned the straw ashes and passed the water with gauze, should this water be poured into another sip of boiling water?" Huang Zhang's hands and feet were nimble, and she completed what she Su Su explained in two or three clicks.

"Yes, pour it in." Huang Shiso also finished bagging these cocoons at this time.

The straw is burned to ashes and passed through the water, and the water becomes alkaline.

The skin of the silkworm cocoon is hard, and it needs to be boiled with water before making silk cotton, and a little alkaline water will be added appropriately during the cooking process, which is used to soften the sericin. This process is done until the cocoons are loose and boiled.

After Huang Zhang poured the alkaline water into the pot, Huang Shiso then threw the cocoons into the pot and began to cook.

When the cocoons are boiled loosely, the cocoons packed in the cloth bag are fished out, the mouth of the cloth bag is untied, and then scattered in a large vat next to it.

The vat was filled with cold water, and a half-curved bow was tied to the edges.

This bow is the main tool for making silk cotton.

First of all, you need to tear the cocoon, take out the silkworm chrysalis and the chrysalis inch cotton, because no chemical agents are added when cooking the cocoon, so the silkworm pupa can stay to eat, crispy and delicious. Chrysalis is a waste material and is thrown away directly.

After taking out the silkworm chrysalis, put the silkworm cocoon into the clean water, and constantly pull with both hands to hold the loose silkworm cocoon open enough, and then put it on the bow. In this repeated cycle, the cocoons are put on the bow one by one, and when they accumulate to a certain amount, a thick silk pocket is formed.

After that, after the silk pocket is taken off and dried, it becomes the raw material of silk cotton for us to make silk quilts, which is the process of making silk cotton in the traditional way of peeling cocoons by hand.

This process seems simple, but in fact, it also pays attention to technology, and people who are not skilled in technology often pull the silk pocket unevenly, resulting in a pile of silk lumps at the mouth of the pocket. Using this kind of silk cotton to make silk quilts is often not ideal, and a large number of silk tendons and silk bumps will appear in the quilt.

"Susu, just tear the cocoon open, and then put on a half-curved bow.

Then Grandma is here to help, so we can finish it quickly." After Huang Zhang's on the side saw her Su Su's work, after looking at it, she immediately found a big water tank and began to help according to her Su Su.

"Susu, what are you doing with these cocoons after you tear them apart?" Huang Zhang's hands did not stop, and when he was busy, he asked Su Su of her family.

"Silkworm cocoons can be used not only to make silk, but also to make silk quilts.

And the work and process we are doing now is the step of making silk quilts." Huang Shisu explained a few words.

"Silk quilt?" Huang Zhang's had only covered a quilt or something, but she had never covered a silk quilt, and she had never even heard of it, so she suddenly became puzzled and curious.

"A silk quilt is a quilt made entirely of silk, which promotes sleep, is good for health, effectively keeps warm, prevents colds, and is gentle and comfortable.

The silk in the silk quilt is mainly extracted from plant fibers, which has a very good skin-friendly feeling, and is very soft and comfortable to cover, because the real silk is made of pure natural materials, which is very safe and will not have harmful effects on human skin, and these proteins have a certain role in promoting human sleep.

The silk quilt is very magical, with the characteristics of warm in winter and cool in summer, in the summer covered with a gentle silk quilt will not make you feel very hot, in case you kick the quilt in the middle of the night and catch a cold, and in winter, the same is a gentle silk quilt, but it has an excellent warm and constant temperature effect, so that your quilt is like a stove, warm and dry, will not be easily cold.

The silk quilt is made of silk, and the texture is very soft, and the cover is as thin as a cicada's wings, which does not give people a sense of oppression and makes people uncomfortable, but is very comfortable." Huang Shisu explained to Huang Shisu and let her understand the use of the silk quilt.