bookrebus Chapter 393: Continuous Expansion
Chapter 393: Continuous Expansion
Seeing that Shi Bin was determined to win, Xiao Mo couldn't help but pour cold water on her.
"If you want to marry Liuli, I'm afraid you still have a long way to go."
The last time he was arranging a marriage for Niu Hongyun, Ye Jintang took the opportunity to ask Shi Bin whether he cared about Lin Ruoyu's past.
Now that Lin Ruoyu has turned into Liuli, a person's appearance and voice can change, but the memories of the past cannot be changed. Even if Shi Bin doesn't mind, what does it matter? If Lin Ruoyu can't get over it herself, the two of them can forget about being together.
"Don't worry, we are still young, and there will always be a time for the flowers to bloom."
Shi Bin was still very optimistic. He knew Liuli better than anyone else and naturally knew where to start best.
After leaving the spinning workshop, Xiao Mo returned to the palace and told Ye Jintang directly about Shi Bin and Liuli.
Ye Jintang was not surprised at all, as she had done it on purpose.
"Alas, Liuli can't get over her own hurdle. I hope General Shi can pull her out of the abyss and stop her from torturing herself."
"Let them sort out their problems slowly on their own. There's not much we can do to help them."
Xiao Mo changed the topic and mentioned that his subordinate's wife became pregnant just one month after getting married.
When Ye Jintang heard that Xiao Mo wanted to induce labor again, he immediately changed the subject.
"You went to the spinning workshop and saw how it went. I hope the women workers there were not frightened."
"It's all good. They were afraid that they wouldn't be able to start work at first, but they felt relieved when they saw new cotton being stored in the warehouse."
"I'll ask Duan Feng to send some people over there to guard the cotton warehouse at night. This way it will be safer."
"I heard that the cotton warehouse was burned down. Can you find out who did it?"
"There's no need to check this. I can tell from my imagination that it must be those cloth shops that did this. Our cotton was burned, so they are the only ones who benefited."
"I thought so too. Since they dared to burn the cotton warehouse, they must have done it very cleanly. It would be difficult for His Majesty to find evidence."
"We'll have some clues on this matter tonight."
"Oh, so fast?"
Xiao Mo came forward and told Ye Jintang about his plan.
"That's a good idea. Cut the Gordian knot."
The two talked for a long time. Xiao Mo was called by Mr. Cai to the front yard to discuss matters, while Ye Jintang entered the space.
The spinning workshops were constantly expanding, and her cotton naturally had to keep up.
While planting cotton, she couldn't help thinking that no matter how good the cotton was, the cloth woven from it was still cotton, and the price could not be too high.
But if you plant mulberry trees, raise silkworms and weave beautiful silk, the cheapest piece of silk would cost more than ten taels of silver, and the more expensive ones could even cost dozens or hundreds of taels of silver.
With the same amount of effort, the value of the goods produced can differ by more than ten or twenty times. No matter how you look at it, it is more cost-effective to plant mulberry trees and raise silkworms.
But Ningchuanzhou is not suitable for growing mulberry trees. If she wants to weave silk and satin, she can only rely entirely on space.
"I don't know how long it will take for the space to produce a batch of cocoons."
While the cotton was growing, Ye Jintang went to look in the large wooden boxes next to the farmland. She seemed to have seen silkworm eggs.
The big wooden box next to the farmland is getting bigger as the space is upgraded, and there are more and more things inside.
Most of them are crops and common Chinese medicinal materials. After three upgrades, there are only 6 more precious Chinese medicinal materials, which is really too little for her.
After searching for a long time, I finally found some silkworm eggs in a small cotton bag.
Now that there were silkworms, it was natural to plant a mulberry tree. There was a small bundle of mulberry branches in the wooden box. She took out one and planted it on the edge of the farmland.
The small branches quickly took root in the farmland and sprouted new branches and leaves. In just two cups of tea, a small mulberry tree with lush branches and leaves appeared in front of Ye Jintang.
She went forward, picked some mulberry leaves, put them in a bamboo basket, and then put the silkworm eggs on it.
At first she thought it would take a long time for the silkworms to hatch, but it turned out not to be the case.
She placed the silkworm eggs on mulberry leaves, and within a few breaths, the silkworms hatched.
Normally, all silkworms should be white, but the silkworms in the bamboo shoots are not only white, but also black, brown, gray and even a few dark red.
This was the first time Ye Jintang had seen colored silkworms.
"The colors are different, so the silk that is spit out will also be different in color."
Ye Jintang was harvesting a crop of cotton. When he turned around, he found that the silkworms had grown up and had eaten all the mulberry leaves in the bamboo basket.
“It’s quite edible.”
She waved her hand and a handful of mulberry leaves fell into the bamboo basket.
After feeding seven times in a row, the silkworms in the bamboo basket grew up and began to spin silk and make cocoons.
Now Ye Jintang could finally see clearly what kind of silk the silkworms of different colors were spitting out.
The silk produced by black silkworms is black, the gray ones are silvery white, the white ones are normal white silk, the red ones are red silk, and the brown silkworms are the most special, as they produce golden silk.
The silkworms are very hardworking. Ye Jintang planted two more crops of cotton. When he came over, he saw that the bamboo flat was already full of cocoons of various colors.
The silk cocoons are relatively large, at least twice as large as ordinary cocoons, which means that the silk output of the cocoons will be higher.
Ye Jintang was not in a hurry to collect the silk cocoons, but continued to grow cotton. By the way, he caught two fish from the fish pond to add to the dish for tonight.
The cocoon only stays in the bamboo basket for a quarter of an hour before the silkworm inside breaks out and becomes a butterfly.
Butterflies of various colors were dancing in the space. Ye Jintang gently stretched out her hand, and a large black butterfly with two long tails fluttered its wings and landed on her fingertips.
The black butterfly is as big as a palm and looks extremely gorgeous and beautiful.
Ye Jintang couldn't help but sigh, it was worthy of being a product of this space, even a butterfly was so beautiful.
The butterfly flew in space for a while and then laid its eggs on the mulberry tree.
Ye Jintang collected the silkworm eggs and put them back into the bamboo basket.
She repeated this process over and over again, and by the time she had dinner in the evening, she had more than 20 bamboo flats in her space and harvested two sacks of silkworm cocoons.
She roughly calculated that she could harvest a batch of silk cocoons in half an hour. If she raised a lot of silkworms, she would have no problem harvesting dozens of sacks of cocoons in half an hour.
However, raising silkworms is quite time-consuming. She must stay in this space for half an hour. If she doesn't keep track of the time, she may not get the cocoons but instead harvest a large group of various beautiful butterflies.
In order to get enough silk cocoons, Ye Jintang decided not to go out this winter. She would stay in her space every day to write medical books, grow cotton, and raise silkworms.
When next spring comes, she won't have to do anything but lie at home, and countless amounts of money will flow into her pocket.
Xiao Mo did not go out at night. He was concentrating on studying the baby with Ye Jintang. She was so annoyed that she wanted to kick him off the bed.
The next morning, when the two got up and washed, Jiang Heng came over and told them about the burnt cotton.
"Last night, I, together with General Duan, arrested Tian Xin, the owner of Songluo Cloth Shop."