Ancient natural disasters: The whole family traveled through time and was almost wiped out

Chapter 238

The village wall must be at least three meters high, and four meters or more at important locations. However, there was no cement in ancient times. These days, I have been testing the hardness of lime mortar and glutinous rice mortar. I have to admit that the hardness of the wall built with lime mortar is indeed not as high as that built with glutinous rice mortar.

But using a large amount of glutinous rice paste at this time?

Are you crazy or is he crazy?

Jiang Xiumian is so worried!

In addition to being a supervisor and a contractor, he also has to study cement. He is already very busy, and now he has to help Jiang Xiubai teach people how to raise silkworms?

——The door is there, take care!

"Brother Mian! Please!" Jiang Xiubai grabbed Jiang Xiumian's arm and shook it.

Jiang Xiaomi couldn't bear to watch: "What sin have I committed to come here to watch a macho man act like a spoiled child? Oh, no, you're not a macho man yet! Hahahaha——"

Jiang Xiubai glanced at her, ignored her, and continued to shake: "Brother Mian!"

"Hiss—" Jiang Xiumian bit his back teeth and pulled his hand out: "I really can't stand you, let go."

"What's wrong?" Jiang Xiaomi noticed Jiang Xiumian's movements, rolled up his sleeves, and saw his arm covered in bruises: "What's wrong? Did you get hit?"

"I accidentally hit it yesterday."

The whole wall collapsed yesterday, burying Jiang Xiumian inside. His hand was injured the most seriously, and it hurt so much that he almost rolled his eyes when he was hit.

"Hiss - I pinched you and it hurt, didn't I?" Jiang Xiubai felt the pain just looking at it: "I'm sorry, if it hurts, tell me!"

"Look, I'm too lazy to even say I'm in pain. Do you think I still have the energy to help you teach people how to raise silkworms?"

Jiang Xiubai: “…” You win.

"Ouch——" Jiang Xiumian jumped up in pain.

Jiang Xiaomi had taken out a bottle of medicinal wine at some point, poured it into her palms to warm it up, and then rubbed it on Jiang Xiumian's arms. The technique and strength were so strong that Jiang Xiumian almost fainted, and his whole body was twisted into a knot.

"Bear with it. Rub the blood clots out and it won't hurt so much tomorrow."

"It hurts me now!"

Jiang Xiumian was held down by Jiang Xiubai and Jiang Xiaomi. He knew he couldn't break free, so he could only grit his teeth and endure it. His face was flushed and the veins on his neck were clearly visible.

After massaging his arms, the servant brought Jiang Xiubai some food, which was fed to him. Jiang Xiumian and the other man looked listless and opened their mouths mechanically.

While feeding, Jiang Xiubai looked at Jiang Xiaomi: "Xiaomi..."

"I'm not free either!" Jiang Xiaomi was also eating here. She knew what he wanted to say and immediately refused: "How about you try to overcome it?"

"If I can overcome this, why would I look for you two? It would be great if I could overcome it quietly! I'm really scared!" Jiang Xiubai fed Jiang Xiumian several mouthfuls in succession, and the latter's mouth could hardly chew enough.

After Jiang Xiubai's repeated requests, Jiang Xiaomi and Jiang Xiumian finally - still did not agree.

That night, Jiang Xiubai had a dream. He dreamed that a dense number of silkworms were crawling all over his body, spinning silk and making cocoons on him, and suffocating him inside the huge cocoons. He was scared to death and almost fainted. He was still scared when he woke up.

"Don't be afraid, the silkworm eggs haven't hatched yet." Jiang Xiubai wiped the sweat off his forehead. Even though he was scared to death, he still had to decorate the silkworm room.

What else can we do? The mulberry trees have been planted.

Jiang Xiubai thought about raising a flock of silkworms to test the waters first. After all, the harvesting cycle of silkworms is only one month, and raising silkworms in this kind of weather is risky. Only if he can raise them well can he promote it in the whole village.

The only thing he was thankful for was that raising silkworms was not too urgent and he could take his time.

The mulberry trees have just been planted, and raising a silkworm requires 450 to 500 kilograms of mulberry leaves, which is quite a lot. We need to give the mulberry trees time to recover first.

However, the silkworm room needs to be arranged first. Raising one bed of silkworms requires about 30 square meters of silkworm rearing area and a 10 square meter special mulberry leaf room.

The suitable temperature for silkworms is 24C - 25C. In today's weather, we must also consider keeping warm, because within the suitable temperature range, silkworms have a strong appetite, eat more, grow faster and make thicker cocoons.

Jiang Xiubai was determined not to allow the silkworm room to be located in his own house or Jiang Xiaomi's house. After much deliberation, he chose Jiang the tailor's house because his house had more rooms and was close to the fish pond.

In addition, raising a flock of silkworms requires a lot of preparations. A 0.8-meter-wide silkworm winnowing basket is needed for 15 to 20 pieces. Jiang Xiubai can draw a picture and ask the village carpenter Jiang to weave it according to the picture. At least four baskets for mulberry leaves are needed.

With these arrangements, Jiang Xiubai finally doesn't have to "couch-couch-couch" every day. He goes to the chicken coop, and I let his cute chicks soothe his traumatized soul.

Looking at the fluffy chicks, Jiang Xiubai picked up a few of them and said, "You are still the cutest~"

During the time when the silkworm room was being arranged, eighty-three chicks had been hatched in the chicken coop. Their mother hens took them for a stroll in the chicken coop, but there were still seven that had not hatched yet, and the mother hens did not care.

Jiang Xiubai knew that these eggs were basically bad eggs, and the mother hen would abandon them. He put the chicks down and said, "Go play with your brothers and sisters."

He then picked up an egg. The egg was white, and he shook it, but the yolk didn't seem to be loose.

"Hmm?" Just when Jiang Xiubai was about to put down the egg, he felt a vibration. It was not strong, but it was real.

The chick in the egg is still alive!

Jiang Xiubai took out a flashlight from the space and looked at it again and again, but he couldn't determine the position of the head. This situation was most likely because the embryo was abnormal and the chicken had a difficult birth. It was impossible for it to break out of the shell by itself, and artificial intervention was required, otherwise it would suffocate to death.

Then he took out a sharp blade, found the air chamber of the egg, broke a small hole there, and then slowly and carefully pried open the eggshell bit by bit. He had to be careful in this process. Too much force would hurt the chicks. If a large number of them happened, the delivery would most likely fail, and he had to find the chicks' heads as soon as possible.

"You want to do it yourself?"

Jiang Xiubai was still peeling the eggshell bit by bit when he suddenly found that the chick inside had started to peck at the eggshell by itself. Jiang Xiubai stopped moving and watched it break out of the shell with a smile on his face.

"Great!" Jiang Xiubai praised, "You must be starving. These are all yours. Eat them." Jiang Xiubai was talking about the eggshells he had peeled by hand. He didn't know whether the chicks understood him or were just hungry, so they pecked at the eggs and ate them.

Seeing the caring heart of this old father, Jiang Xiubai almost peeled all the eggs nearby and fed them to the dog.

Unfortunately, except for this lucky one, the other six eggs have stopped developing.

There are a total of 84 more chicks, and other hens are also starting to lay eggs. The restoration of chicken freedom is just around the corner.

Chicken freedom, what a luxurious word. In modern times, it is very simple to achieve chicken freedom. As long as you have a job, the salary does not need to be too high. After all, you can afford frozen chicken legs at ten yuan per pound, and you can eat them every day.

But in ancient times, it was simply impossible.

Ultimately, it’s the shortage of supplies.

The main reason for the shortage of materials is low productivity. Both planting and breeding take a very long time.

What Jiang Xiubai and Jiang Xiaomi need to do is to shorten time costs and improve production efficiency.

So, even if his current physical condition was caused directly or indirectly by the system, he was still very grateful to the system - if there were no system, they would not know where they would be begging for food now.

If the system knew that Jiang Xiubai was thinking this way, it would really cry to death——

Host! You finally understand my good side!

What can and cannot appear in this era, you buy it if you say so! I will be fined if I say so!

This system has said nothing!

No!

How many points did the main system penalize me for buying that harvester?

And the industrial thermometer I bought almost cost me my entire company, didn't you know? I finally came back, but you still ignore me? Have I complained to you? Have I accepted it silently? Have I waited until you were in a good mood before communicating with you?

In order to save money to buy medicine for you, I paid out of my own pocket to upgrade the scanning distance. Did I take credit for it?

Jiang Xiubai naturally didn't know about Mensao Tong's inner monologue, because it was already half a month away from Qingming Festival. All the mulberry trees had changed their roots, all survived, and had sprouted new buds and grown new leaves. The most terrifying thing was that the silkworm eggs had also hatched.

It was Grain Rain day, and it didn't rain. The temperature had even risen to 6 degrees Celsius. The sun was shining on his body, making him feel very warm, but Jiang Xiubai's heart was freezing.

He really didn't want to go into the silkworm house, so he went to his mother and taught her how to raise silkworms. But the silkworms had already hatched for three days, and he had to go and see them even if he didn't want to...

Jiang Xiubai hid behind Liu and stretched his head to look around. He saw a layer of clean mulberry leaves at the bottom of the large bamboo sieve, and a layer of chopped mulberry leaves on top. The chopped mulberry leaves were covered with dense black spots. If you listen carefully, you can hear a rustling sound. It was the silkworms eating the mulberry leaves.

When a silkworm is just hatched, it is a black dot. As it grows up, it remains a black silkworm. Only when it grows up and sheds its skin will it become a white silkworm.

However, whether they were white or black, it didn't stop them from disgusting Jiang Xiubai.

Jiang Xiubai had no idea how great the poem "A silkworm may not stop spinning silk until death, a candle may not stop shedding tears until it is burned down to ashes" was. He only knew that the goose bumps on his body were getting bigger and bigger.

He took a look and hid behind Liu again, pulling Liu's clothes. Liu staggered two steps and had to advise him: "If you are afraid, why did you come!"

Jiang Xiubai felt miserable. Do you think he wanted to come? It was because he was the most professional among all the people.

"Mom, did you remember what I told you these days? You must chop up the tender leaves before feeding them to ant silkworms. Young silkworms don't have to chop them, but they still need tender mulberry leaves. The most important thing is that all the leaves you pick must be washed and dried before feeding them to the silkworms. They must be dried, otherwise the silkworms will have diarrhea after eating them, and they might even die."

Liu patted him and said, "I remember that! Can you please stop saying such unlucky things in front of the silkworms? There are at least tens of thousands of silkworms here. Some of them are timid and might be frightened by you!"

Ouch——

Jiang Xiubai covered his chest with his hands. Just hearing such a number made him shudder.

"Mom, there's one more thing I forgot to tell you. Go to my room and get the softest brush. When you change the mulberry leaves, use that brush to remove the silkworms from the leaves you want to discard. Be sure to use your strength to avoid killing them. Be careful, too, or the silkworms will get stuck on the old leaves and might get thrown away together."

"Okay, I'll get it now!"

Liu left after saying this. Ever since she knew that the Jiang family's ancestor was guarding her son and blessing him, Liu felt much more relaxed. She no longer restricted Jiang Xiubai in this or that, and naturally she could not keep a pair of eyes on him every day like before.

"Hey, wait for my mother!" Jiang Xiubai immediately chased after him with a sad face - what's the difference between leaving him in the silkworm room and leaving him in a haunted house? !

After the Grain Rain, little Yutou turned one month old. There was no way to prepare a full-month banquet. What should we prepare? What should we prepare?

But Jiang Yipei and Jiang Suying rushed back overnight and have been busy like tops for half a month. If they don't take a break to replenish their energy, they will really be sacrificed at work.

When little Yutou was one month old, only Qin's family and Old Master Jiang's family in the village were notified, and then the rest of the Jiang family was informed.

The other people in Jiangjia Village were not notified, as they all had to go to work. Even Jiang Xiumian had to be invited by the servants when it was time for dinner.

Early in the morning, the fat chef was busy. After Qin's family came over and had breakfast, little Yutou's grandparents each put a red paper bag around his neck. Old Lady Yang and Jiang Lizheng also gave him one. After saying some auspicious words such as "stay healthy", "grow up quickly", and "get a good score on the imperial examination" -

Old Mrs. Yang carried little Yutou in a sling and tied a pair of Jiang Lizheng's pants outside the sling.

In the dialect of Jiangjia Village, "Ku" and "Fu" are homophones, and the meaning is very clear, which is to hope that the children will grow up to be rich and noble.

——The dreams of ordinary people are so simple.

Then, according to custom, grandpa and grandma would carry the baby to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables, some onions and celery - smart and hardworking.

However, the vegetable gardens were all bare now, so there was no need to go there, so she carried him on her back and strolled around the village. This was considered "lucky", and by the way, she let him see the village where he would grow up in the future.

Ten days after the full moon, there is a local custom that Qin has to take the child back to her parents' home to live for a while. This makes Jiang Yiyu very busy, and he wants to move all his belongings to Qin's house, for fear that his wife and child will be cold and hungry.

Since he couldn't leave, it was great that he could take the time to send the mother and daughter over there.

The Qin family's conditions were indeed not as good as the Jiang family's, but there was no way they would treat a girl who came home to visit her relatives badly, and the Jiang family had sent them a lot of things.

But now that the weather is warmer, it's time to start preparing the land and planting beans.

Plant melons and beans around the time of Grain Rain.

If you miss the best time to plant rice, you can't miss the time to plant beans.

Although bean rice is not as delicious as rice, it can also fill your stomach.

In today's situation, everyone has a sense of crisis, so it is important to store more food at home!

As a result, the Qin family went out early and came back late every day, and really didn't care much about Qin, leaving only a few young ones to accompany her.

Qin also knew how difficult it was to live at her parents' home, so she went home after staying there for six days. She originally wanted to stay for twelve days - the number of days one stays at her parents' home should be an even number.