Chapter 5 Cocoon
Several people came to the foot of the mountain
Shen Xia did not look for a road that others had walked on. Although that road was easy to walk on, it was a road that everyone had walked on, so there was no chance that there would be anything good there.
Shen Xia pulled a few vines from the roadside, then squatted down and tied Xiaowu's two trouser legs.
Then he turned around and wanted to tie Song Ming up, but Song Ming quickly said, "It's okay, I can do it myself."
Shen Xia glanced at his injured hand and said, "Are you sure you can tie it yourself?"
Song Ming then remembered that his other hand was still hanging! He blamed himself again, wondering why he was so careless, otherwise Xia Xia wouldn't have to worry about the family now.
In fact, I understand that Xia Xia wanted to come to the mountains to take a look around because she wanted to take care of the elderly, weak and sick people at home and find some way to make money.
The few of them kept walking inside, but apart from finding some wood ears, they really found nothing.
Is God going to destroy me?
See if there are any herbs that can be sold for money.
It was not until he walked further inside that Shen Xia was shocked.
There were so many silk cocoons on the mulberry trees that Xiao Wu and Song Ming didn't understand why Shen Xia was so happy to see this. These things were useless and couldn't be eaten. They were full of bugs.
After Shen Xia was happy, she looked at the two people who were at a loss and said, "You don't know this."
"I know it, it's a kind of insect, it's inedible. Xia Xia, let's go find something else!" Song Ming said to Shen Xia.
Shen Xia didn't explain. It was best if they didn't know each other. There would be business opportunities if they didn't know each other.
Shen Xia said to Song Ming and Xiao Wu: "Come, let's pick this white cocoon and take it back."
When Shen Xia picked them, she saw that some of the silkworms had not yet emerged from their cocoons, which meant that the pupae were still inside.
Judging from the visual, there are at least hundreds of them. Considering the reproductive capacity of silkworms, with this number, after hatching, the next batch can make money.
But raising silkworms requires a house, and the Song family’s house is too small.
How to do it!
Never mind, let’s take it back first.
These silk cocoons filled up the small backpack that Xiaowu was carrying.
After collecting the cocoons, the few of them continued to move forward. At this point, it was considered a big harvest.
It seems that my luck is pretty good today.
As they continued walking, they found a lot of bamboo fungi. No one was picking them, probably because others thought they were inedible!
Shen Xia also picked them all. Xiao Wu was about to say that these things were not edible, but seeing his sister's happy face, he gave up and didn't disturb her interest.
I picked up a lot of mushrooms along the way.
Xiao Wu couldn't help it now: "Sister, you really can't pick this up. It's poisonous. Before, someone in the village picked up this thing when he had nothing to eat, and he was poisoned to death."
Shen Xia patiently explained: "There are many kinds of this mushroom, some are poisonous and some are not."
"Then how do you tell the poisonous ones from the non-toxic ones?" Song Ming also became interested.
"The prettier the color, the more poisonous it is." Shen Xia simply said this, and then thought for a while: "Some ugly ones are also poisonous, but the beautiful ones are definitely poisonous."
"Oh." Xiaowu felt like he understood, but also like he didn't.
Forget it. I’ll just let my sister take a look at the things I pick up next time.
Then a few people walked inside.
Song Ming said, "Xia Xia, we can't go any further."
Because Song Ming had hunted with Song Jiang before, he knew that there were deep mountains ahead.
In fact, Shen Xia wanted to go inside, but after thinking about it, he decided to give up. After all, he was not alone, and it would be difficult to run away if there was danger.
He also listened to Song Ming's words and planned to go back, but...
Just as I was about to go back, I saw a few small red fruits on a small branch under the tree in front of me.
After a closer look, isn't this ginseng? Finally, a big harvest.
Shen Xia was happy just thinking about it. She walked over gently, pulled aside the vegetables next to it, and saw that it was indeed ginseng.
It has been able to survive here for so long, thanks to the fact that people here don’t know what a ginseng plant looks like.
Most people can recognize ginseng if they look directly at the root.
Shen Xia used a small shovel to gently dig up the surrounding soil and looked at how many corners the ginseng's neck had. It looked like it was about fifty or sixty years old. I don't know how much it is worth at this age.
Xiao Wu saw Shen Xia carefully digging the plant and asked, "Sister, what is this?"
"This is ginseng," Shen Xia explained.
"Sister, you actually know ginseng."
"Uh," is this a revelation? All I can say is, "I saw that in a book."
"Sister, you can read. Who taught you?"
Why were there so many whys? In the end, in order to avoid suspicion, I could only say, "Jiang Yi lent me a book before, he taught me."
When Song Ming heard this, he thought, Xia Xia must have liked Jiang Yi very much before! Otherwise, she wouldn't have worked hard to learn to read for him. She must have wanted to be more worthy of him.
At this time, Shen Xia didn't know that Song Ming behind her had made up a whole drama about her and Jiang Yi's relationship in just a short period of time, and she was still sad and upset.
Finally, after half an hour, Shen Xia dug out the ginseng completely intact.
Carefully wrap it with the large leaves next to it and put it in your backpack.
On the way back, Shen Xia also dug some common wild vegetables.
Anyway, I have to fill all three backpacks before going back.
It was noon when I got home.
When Song's mother saw the three people return safely, she finally felt relieved.
"You're back, hurry up and put down the backpack and come in for dinner," Song's mother called out.
"Okay, Mom." Shen Xia was very satisfied with her harvest today, so her face was full of smiles. Only she herself didn't know how attractive such a sunny smile was. Even Song Jin next to her felt a different atmosphere.
It is said that people who cannot see have very sensitive other senses, and this is indeed the case.
Everyone was happily eating lunch: "Mom, how far is this place from town?"
"It's not far. It will take an hour by ox cart."
"Oh, what about walking!".
"Two hours."
Two hours for the round trip means four hours, or eight hours. Even if your legs break, you may not be able to reach the destination.
Finally, I can only ask: "When will the ox cart be available?"
"Every morning, just walk to the village entrance and you will find it."
"Well, I just dug up a ginseng in the mountains. I want to go to the town tomorrow to see how much I can exchange it for." Shen Xia was afraid that the Song family would think too much if he went to the town, so he explained the reason.
Except for Song Ming and Song Yu who were not surprised to see the ginseng dug by Shen Xia, the people at the rest of the tables were quite surprised.
While everyone was here, Shen Xia also expressed her attitude to prevent them from having wild thoughts all day long.
Shen Xia organized her words in her mind and began to speak: "My original family didn't have a good life either. First of all, thank you, mother. I am very grateful for your concern for me, no matter what your reasons were. Now that I have come to this family, I am a part of it. I hope that we can all work together to make this family better and better."