Chapter 45 Silkworm Ants
Watching everyone leave
Then he put the remaining 20,000 silkworm eggs in a dustpan and gave them to the two children.
Then he said to them, "You are still small now, so you can keep them in a winnowing basket and separate them when they grow bigger."
"OK,"
Xiaowu said to Xiaotian: "Let's go pick mulberry leaves?"
Xiaotian said: "Brother Xiaowu, you didn't listen carefully. It's still hatching now. You don't need to pick mulberry leaves. You have to wait until it hatches."
"Ah! Okay then!"
"Sister, how many days will it take for it to hatch?"
"Brother Xiaowu, you didn't listen. I just said that the silkworm eggs are already a little green, and silkworm babies will hatch in two days."
"Oh, Xiaotian, you are so good at remembering letters,"
Shen Xia looked at Xiaotian and Xiaowu: "Are you sure that Xiaotian has a good memory, or that you didn't listen at all."
"Haha, Xiaotian and I will raise him together, so it's good for one of us to listen."
"You have so many, so you need a lot of winnowing baskets and bamboo grids. You'll have to trouble your elder brother to make winnowing baskets for you."
"Okay, big brother. Thank you for your help." Xiao Wu said to his big brother.
Shen Xia found it funny to see Xiao Wu acting like a spoiled child to everyone.
"Brother, you don't have to weave small ones. You can weave one as big as a bamboo mat. Just put a shelf on the ground. It's too troublesome to weave them one by one."
"Also, if there are too many of them, we can raise them on the ground, but our house is small and we don't have a separate room to raise them."
"When we build a new house in the future, this old house can still be used to raise silkworms," said Shen Xia.
Song Jiang listened quietly to her plan. Although he was not as smart as her, he just did what she said.
Shen Xia looked out from the yard. Because his family was at the end of the village, there was a wasteland on the right.
Most people gathered on the left and at the entrance of the village.
I don't have money now, but if I had money, I could buy the land next door. It's close to my home, and there are several small pieces of land in between, and I don't know who it belongs to.
If I buy wasteland, I will buy it together with it.
I don't know if they are willing.
Forget it, I don’t want to think about it. I still don’t have the money now.
When I was staring at the ground outside,
Song Ming and his mother came back.
Looking at the two of them: "Hey, just the two of you, where's the third brother?"
"Isn't the third child at home?" Song's mother asked curiously.
"Oh, I didn't notice. You guys went to do the laundry."
"Yes."
Song Niang went to hang out the clothes.
Song Ming walked over slowly: "Xia-Xia Xia, I'm sorry for last night, I-I didn't mean it."
Shen Xia saw his ashamed expression and said, "Second brother, can't you just pretend nothing happened like your eldest brother?"
I have to mention it again, and everyone is embarrassed.
Then she looked at him angrily and said, "Next time you come in without knocking, I will chop off your hand."
"Ah?" Song Ming was shocked when he heard Shen Xia's words. Is Xia Xia so angry?
Shen Xia looked at Song Ming and said, "I was just kidding you, but don't do this again next time."
Song Ming finally reacted, his face returned to normal, and he said with a smile: "Okay, if it happens again, you will kill me and my brother's hands."
Song Jiang was listening nearby, his face full of black lines. Damn it, forget it.
I had some free time, so I went to look for Song Jin, and found out that he was in Song Yun's room.
Let him go back to his room and give him acupuncture.
Three days passed like this.
Xiaotian and Xiaowu's silkworms have all come out.
I thought everyone was raising a batch of silkworms, so they should all come out today.
So early in the morning, several other families came to the house. Although they had told the method, they were still afraid of making mistakes, so they all wanted to come and see how Shen Xia fed the baby.
Two people from each of the five families came, and the time was the same, as if they had made an appointment.
Seeing that everyone had brought some, it was hard to refuse, so he said, "Let's go! One backpack is enough for the first day."
There were twelve or thirteen people in this team, two from each family, but there were three in my family.
Unless otherwise occupied, the villagers all do their own things, so it is rare to see so many people traveling together.
Someone on the side of the road asked curiously, "Where are all of you from the Jiang family and the Zhou family going?"
Aunt Zhou said perfunctorily: "Let's go to the mountain to pick wild vegetables."
“Oh, so many people.”
"Yes! If there are more people, we can go inside together."
"Oh I got it."
It didn't take long for everyone to reach the foot of the mountain. There weren't many mulberry leaves, but they were enough for the next few days.
Shen Xia walked to a mulberry tree and said, "Everyone, look here. Look at the mulberry leaves. Because of the years, they have old leaves, new leaves, and tender leaves."
"Because the silkworms are very small and have just come out, they don't have teeth, so we have to pick these tender green leaves."
"Did you see that?"
"I saw it." Aunt Yang said.
"Okay, let's pick them together! We all have the same 20,000 silkworms each, so one basket is enough. Don't pick more."
Everyone said in unison: "Okay,"
"Don't worry, Xiao Song, we will listen to you."
Aunt Liu from next door with a child also said: "Sister-in-law, everything is up to you."
Everyone started picking leaves. Xiaotian and Xiaowu were very happy. Xiaotian felt that he finally had something to do.
At this time, Aunt Yang was walking by and picking mulberry leaves: "Thank you, my dear wife Xiao Song, for thinking of your uncle Yang when you have good things to do."
Shen Xia smiled and said, "You're too polite, Auntie. Uncle Yang has also helped me a lot. We should help each other. Isn't Uncle Yang at home?"
"Yes, I caught the bus this morning. Song Jiang came that day, and he happened to be at home, otherwise I would have missed it."
"What are you talking about? Even if Uncle Yang is not at home, I will ask you later, just a little later."
Aunt Yang smiled when she heard this, and when she saw her daughter-in-law coming over, she introduced her, "This is my daughter-in-law, her name is Huilian, you can call her Sister Huilian."
"Well, okay, Sister Huilian." Shen Xia said politely.
"Your name is Shen Xia, right? Then can I call you Xiao Xia from now on?" Huilian looked enthusiastic.
"Okay!" Shen Xia didn't think much about it.
The two of them picked mulberry leaves together and chatted, and then Shen Xia felt something was not right.
Look carefully at the person in front of you.
Hui Lian looked at Shen Xia and smiled, "Xiao Xia, don't think too much. I'm just curious. You are so smart, where did you get this thing?"
"Really?" Shen Xia's expression also became unhappy at this time.
Aunt Yang next to her felt something was not right, so she came over and said, "Go pick leaves over there and don't disturb Xia Xia." Then she pulled the person away.
Watching them both walk away.
I didn't say much.
"Mom, what are you doing?" Huilian shook off Aunt Yang's hand.
"That's what I wanted to ask you! Just do whatever I tell you to do. Why are you asking so many questions?" Aunt Yang said to her wife unhappily.
"What's the big deal? I just want to ask, if this really makes so much money, why does she raise it herself and let us raise it? Is there some trap?" Huilian asked suspiciously.
"This is not something you should be concerned about." Aunt Yang was really angry.
Uncle Yang and the Song family have always had a good relationship.
Especially during this period, the Song family seemed to be doing snack business, and they were more or less generous to our old man. This kind of relationship is based on mutual trust.
It would not be worthwhile to offend this short-sighted daughter-in-law, so I'd better bring my second daughter-in-law with me next time.
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