Chapter 74 Everyone Wants to Raise Silkworms
Watched the mother and daughter leave.
Song Jiang and Song Ming finally felt relieved.
This incident left a serious shadow in Song Jiang's heart. In the days that followed, whenever a woman approached him, he would stay away from her, and others who wanted to take advantage of him would have no way to do so. Of course, this is a story for later.
Third Uncle watched Shen Xia send the man away in just a few moves, and he admired her in his heart.
It will be difficult for the Song family not to prosper with her in the future.
Very good, Song Yun won’t have to worry about studying anymore.
Seeing that everything was resolved, it was already noon, so he said, "It's okay, everyone go back!"
After Third Uncle said this, no one reacted.
Third uncle was also stunned. What was going on?
Seeing that everyone is here and doesn’t want to leave, what does this mean? Is there something exciting to watch?
Shen Xia was also stunned. After watching the excitement, she still didn't want to leave?
At this time, a man Shen Xia didn't know stepped forward and said, "The village chief is..." He hesitated,
Uncle San frowned: "If you have anything to say, just say it. What's wrong with being a real man if you hesitate to speak?"
As a result, a woman next to the man hurriedly pulled him away, looked at the village chief with a smile on her face, and then glanced at Shen Xia: "Village chief, it's like this, it's just that I heard that the Zhou family, the Liu family, the Yang family, and the Jiang family in the village have been following the Song family to raise something to make money. My man just wants to ask if we can raise one together."
The main thing is that Xinzhai has supplied the goods, so he must have made friends with someone. He must be able to make money by raising something, but we can't let them make money secretly.
Shen Xia knew this woman. She was one of the people who helped Chen Fang speak up for Ying Niang that day.
After hearing what she said, dozens of neighbors looked at Shen Xia, but Shen Xia did not speak.
Aunt Liu was also next to Aunt Liu, as both families were near the Song family, so as soon as the quarrel started, the two of them would come over. In addition, they had been picking mulberry leaves together recently, so the two families had become quite close.
The two stood together, looked at each other, and didn't know what to say.
Aunt Liu thought, we are the first batch and haven’t started making money yet, but now they have heard that the Song family is making money, so they came here.
I didn't believe in Shen Xia just because I saw her making money, but I believed in her and followed her before there was any result.
Now that they see that the Song family can make money, they want to come over.
The third uncle thought that he had heard about this from his wife, who said it was his daughter-in-law who said it, so he didn't take it seriously.
Seeing that everyone was asking, he turned to look at Shen Xia. Why were he looking at Shen Xia?
Because it goes without saying that these ideas came from Shen Xia. If the Song family had this idea, it would not be like this now.
Shen Xia had to look at the Buddha instead of the monk, watching his third uncle looking at him.
After thinking for a while, he said, "I read in a book about raising silkworms, but the first batch hasn't been sold yet. I don't know if I can make money, so I don't dare to raise them on a large scale."
"We have to wait until the finished products are ready and there are ways to sell them before we dare to raise them on a large scale. Besides, with our current home, we can't harvest too much and there is no place to store them."
"Wait until the house is built before taking delivery."
One person asked, "How do you collect it?"
This person asked what everyone was curious about.
Shen Xia looked at her and said, "I have some insect eggs here. You can take them back and raise them. Let them eat mulberry leaves. When they form cocoons, sell them to me. I'll charge you thirty to forty cents per pound."
When everyone heard this, they thought that eating mulberry leaves was a cost-free business and they were readily available in the mountains.
Everyone is eager to try it.
Shen Xia looked at everyone's excitement and poured cold water on them, saying, "Don't be happy just because of the price. If I can't sell it, it's useless for you to keep it, so don't be anxious."
"If you want to grow them, you can get the mulberry leaf seeds from me and plant them on your own wasteland. When my house is built and there is a place to pile them, you can grow them there. The mulberry leaves will be almost grown by then."
Some people were surprised: "Why grow mulberry leaves yourself when there are already some on the mountain?"
"When everyone was raising them, the mulberry leaves they had were not enough. These silkworms have a good appetite. Besides, the mulberry leaves from the mountains are not as good as the ones we grow ourselves,"
"If you don't believe me, ask Aunt Liu. There are only a few families raising mulberry trees now, and the mulberry leaves on the mountainside have long been gone."
Everyone looked at Aunt Liu.
Seeing the two of them nod, I finally believed it.
Someone also asked: "How many mulberry trees can be planted with how many silkworms?"
"One acre of mulberry leaves can support 30,000 to 50,000 silkworms, and 30,000 silkworms can produce 100 catties of silk cocoons. In other words, if you plant one acre of mulberry leaves, you can produce 150 to 160 catties of silk cocoons. If the price is 30 wen per catty, that's 4 to 5 taels of silver."
"How long does it take to raise this adopted son?" another person asked.
"About a month or so. But if you kill it, you won't get a penny. It's not that easy to raise it."
At this time, several people said: "I am willing to raise it."
"I would like that too."
"I would like that too."
Originally I thought there might not be a harvest, but after hearing about the income, the comparison shows that I started from scratch, and if the fish die, there is nothing I can do. But if they survive, the income from this batch can be equal to more than two years' income for a family!
"If you want to raise them, you can only wait. You can go to the mulberry village first."
"When the house is built and there is space for the pile, we will collect it."
Someone was anxious: "When are you going to repair the house? We will all come to help."
"Yes."
"We're coming too."
"Yes, we'll come too."
The corners of Shen Xia's mouth twitched. This was the temptation of the pie in the sky!
"It will take two days,"
"Okay, we'll all come then." A big man said. Shen Xia took a look and realized that this was Uncle Song Chengjun who lived next door to Aunt Liu. He was also there to help when Xiaotian's grandfather died last time. Shen Xia still remembered him.
"Okay, Uncle Song."
Then Shen Xia said to Song Ming beside him: "Second brother, go and get the mulberry seeds from my room."
"Okay," he said and ran inside.
After a while, Song Ming took out a backpack full of seeds. One acre of land required five kilograms of mulberry seeds, so several families took thirty or forty kilograms last time.
There are only fifty or sixty kilograms left. Although there are dozens of people now, they are all families, so there are only about ten families. Add on a few families who don't believe, so there are only ten families left.
Then each family gave five kilograms and ten kilograms were left.
When I finally finished talking to everyone, everyone left.
Before leaving, the woman who had played tricks on my mother with Chen Fang kept apologizing to my mother, saying that she had been deceived by Chen Fang and now regretted it deeply, and asked my mother to forgive her for her mistakes.
My mother would definitely not care about these things, so she politely said that she didn't take it to heart.
Of course, I can’t say anything else.
But who doesn’t know?
See! This is the importance of interest relations. As long as there are interests involved, everyone will be kind.
After everyone left.