"Put your hand down first! Why do you seem to be more anxious than me?

Really..." At this time, Mr. Zhou teased another sentence, which made Wen Si Niang blush with shame! After that, he heard Mr. Zhou laugh and said, "What will I ask next? Si Niang just answer truthfully. You must say it carefully and thoroughly, and you cannot hide it at all!"

"Okay! That's what you said!"

At this time, Wen Siniang lamented in her heart: I don’t know what shameful things this young master will ask?

Do you really want to tell him the truth as he wants?

Just as Wen Siniang was thinking about it, the young master smiled and asked, "Now, let me know the important things about raising silkworms in your farm."

"ah?

Raise silkworms?”

At this time, Wen Siniang suddenly felt a strange feeling from her heart! It was like a dream when she was sleeping, making people feel empty. I don’t know if it should cry or laugh! “What about raising silkworms?”

Wen Siniang couldn't help but ask again.

"Of course, if you want to say something else, then I won't stop you..." Shen Mo smiled and joked again, which made the fan's pretty face turn red.

After that, I saw Madam Wen breathed a sigh of relief.

She picked up the teacup on the table and ate half of it, then calmed down and began to talk about the silkworm raising to Mr. Zhou in detail while folding her stomach.

At this time, the girl Cheng Cheng on the bed looked around in surprise and looked at Li Linghao and Li Lingjie! Cheng Cheng never expected that this boy named Zhou was really so concerned about the matter of mulberry silkworms.

It seems that I really have a mistake. When this guy is acting, he doesn’t have the slightest taste of a man from the world?

Just listened to Wen Siniang's tone soft and sweet, and she was a little stuttering at first.

But later, when it comes to the silkworm breeding craftsmanship that he is best at in his life, the pretty lady's words gradually began to become fluent.

"It's so that Young Master Zhou can learn that... Silkworms are the most inseparable from mulberry leaves, so from the beginning of the budding mulberry leaves in April every year until the leaves fall off in November. During this period, silkworms can be raised. Generally, when the year is good, they can be raised for five seasons."

"The first silkworm stage is called spring silkworms, because just after one winter, spring silkworms are not prone to illness.

Therefore, this period of silkworms are most likely to have high yields.

However, when silkworms are young, they are easily invaded by air conditioning, so keep warm."

"The cocoons Mr. Zhou looked at today are the cocoons we have on the best spring silkworms here."

"After this, there are the summer silkworms that are being raised now.

Because the weather in summer silkworms is stuffy, the quality of the silkworm cocoons is not good.

The silk made by summer silkworms is easy to break. If it is used to weave the dragon silk you brought today, it is absolutely impossible."

"Then the third phase is called the early autumn silkworm, because at this time, you can only pick a circle of leaves under the mulberry tree to feed it. If you pick too much, it will damage the vitality of the mulberry tree.

In addition, silkworms are prone to illness due to hot flashes, so this third phase of early autumn silkworm is the worst phase of silkworm cocoon throughout the year.”

"After this, the fourth phase is called Mid-Autumn Silkworms. During this season, mulberry trees are prone to illness and insects.

So we call this season another "Embaric Leaf-grabbing..." When Shen Mo heard this, he nodded secretly and thought to himself: "By the way, there are no insecticides in this era... eh?

It seems that there is no way to have insecticides!"

"After spraying the insecticide, the mulberry leaves were saved, but will the silkworms who eat mulberry leaves be poisoned to death?"

When Shen Mo thought about this in a mess, the fan lady in front of him continued: "In this fourth season, the yield of Mid-Autumn silkworms is the highest, especially this year's summer silkworms and early-Autumn silkworms are very small, so everyone points to the prospects of Mid-Autumn silkworms... It is estimated that our farm will purchase a large number of silkworms, and we will be very busy at that time."

"After this, the fifth phase of the last period is the late autumn silkworm.

At this time, how much silkworms raise depends entirely on mulberry leaves.

Moreover, the hot and cold are uncertain at the turn of autumn and winter, and silkworms are prone to illness, so the yield is not large."

When he heard this fan lady explaining the five silkworm periods of a year clearly, Shen Mo nodded and smiled: "I heard from Mrs. Wen that, basically how many silkworms are raised and how great the cocoons are, it is almost all determined by the number of mulberry leaves. Is that true?"

"What is Mr. Zhou talking about!"

At this time, Madam Wen also felt vaguely in her heart that she seemed to have no need to serve the young master shamelessly tonight.

So when she was at peace, she seemed much more calm and felt a sense of confidence.

"Then these mulberry leaves, you silkworms, all bought them with money?"

At this time, Mr. Zhou asked him again.

"That's right," the fan lady nodded and replied: "In our mulberry silkworm production areas, all the best mulberry gardens are in the hands of Qian Renjia. They are watering and fertilizing at all times, and the service is particularly careful."

"As soon as the mulberry silkworm season comes, the loads of mulberry leaves are picked and the money is taken!"

"If a poor family raises silkworms, it is like a slave at home, before he arrived at the Silkworm Village.

In order to raise money to buy mulberry leaves, we really want to sell our children!"

"So that's it! The source of these mulberry leaves is controlled by the wealthy family."

When he heard this, Shen Mo nodded secretly and wrote down this point.

After that, Shen Mo inquired about the price of mulberry leaves and the output of silkworm cocoons.

Then he finally asked the fan lady the question that he had been puzzled in his heart for a long time.

"The price of silkworm cocoons is also very high. Why do ordinary families who raise silkworms live so hard?"

At this time, the fan lady heard this and shook her head and sighed.

"The young master comes from wealth and honor, of course he doesn't know the difficulties of us poor people."

"In our silkworm breeding family, a male student will have to pay a donation. What do they care about whether your family raises silkworms?

"When it comes time to collect taxes, just kick the door open and it will be a life-and-death urge.

If you can't pay the tax, you'll just pick up sticks on the board, take the boss's wooden shackles and kneel in the sun at the entrance of the yamen!"

"So if a poor family has a male child, they have to pay an extra tax, which makes it too late to cry at home after giving birth. How can there be any joy?"

"In addition to donating money, there is also a bonus, which is another tax."

The fan lady frowned and said, "This is a scattered silk that every household in the mulberry and silkworm land must submit a regular amount of silk.

This silk is also called tax silk, which was collected in the third year of Emperor Gaozong's Jianyan."

"These taxes make it hard for us, such as the ones, to pay the tax even if they work hard every year.
Chapter completed!