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Chapter 248

Bai Ying recognized the girl, whom she had seen at the wedding. Her name was Wang Jinyu, and she was only two years older than her. She was also a reformed element sent to the farm.

Wang Jinyu is also from the animal husbandry team, but the animals she is responsible for raising are not pigs, cattle, or sheep, but... silkworms.

She spends the whole day in the silkworm greenhouse and hardly ever goes out except to get food from the canteen. Bai Ying has been on the farm for nearly a month, but she has never had the chance to meet her. It's a coincidence that they met today.

"Mr. Chen, we're here to bring you food. Sister Jinyu, would you like to stay and have something to eat?" Bai Ying put the food on the table and took the initiative to invite her.

Seeing Shen Ao and Bai Ying arrive, Old Chen secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He studied economics and really didn't know how to raise silkworms, so he couldn't help Wang Jinyu.

Wang Jinyu kept asking him to help find a solution, and he felt embarrassed because he couldn't think of one. The sudden arrival of Bai Ying and Shen Ao rescued him.

"No," Wang Jinyu was too embarrassed to stay for dinner, so he said goodbye to Mr. Chen, "Mr. Chen... I'll be leaving now. I'll come back to ask for your advice another day."

Mr. Chen: “…” If possible, please don’t come.

Seeing Wang Jinyu about to leave, Bai Ying suddenly stopped her, not knowing what had occurred to her. "Sister Jinyu, I just heard you talking about production targets. Could you please tell me what targets Captain Ding has set for you?"

Wang Jinyu was forced into a corner and had no other choice but to complain to Bai Ying.

"Don't mention it. Captain Ding bought some silkworm seeds a while ago and asked me to raise them to make cocoons for money. I carefully cared for them for over ten days before the larvae hatched, and then... the larvae started dying inexplicably in large numbers, hundreds a day. If this continues, I'm afraid there won't be a single one left!"

Because sericulture requires little investment and has a short payback period, there were many families raising silkworms in the village after the liberalization in the previous life. Bai Ying was influenced by them and was not unfamiliar with some of the terms that Wang Jinyu said.

Silkworm seeds are measured in pieces. This paper is made from mulberry bark. After mating, the female moth will lay eggs on the paper. When a piece of paper is full of silkworm eggs, it is called a piece of silkworm seeds.

Basically, one sheet of silkworm seeds will contain no less than 25,000 silkworm eggs. Silkworms are raised in greenhouses, and then the silkworm seeds are placed in a box built with a wooden frame and covered with gauze to prevent the larvae from running out. The main feature is that it is ventilated, breathable and warm, providing a suitable hatching environment for the silkworm eggs.

The silkworms will hatch within one or two weeks. If they are fed with fresh mulberry leaves every day, they will grow into adults in about a month. Then the silkworms will spin silk and make cocoons to enter the pupal stage. They will wait for two or three days before breaking out of the cocoon and becoming moths. The whole process takes about 40 days.

Ideal is full, the reality is very skinny.

Silkworms are so fragile that they can die in minutes if the environment is too cold or too hot. They will also die if they smell a little bit of anthelmintic. For example, if there are ten silkworm farmers, only one or two can raise silkworms well and make a profit throughout the year.

The problems Wang Jinyu encountered are common problems faced by silkworm farmers.

As for how to solve it, Bai Ying probably knows...

"Sister Jinyu, I have an idea. Would you like to try it?"

"What? You have a solution! Tell me now!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Jinyu excitedly pressed Bai Ying's shoulders. If Shen Ao hadn't given her a murderous look, Wang Jinyu would have shaken Bai Ying back and forth until her bones were broken.

Old Chen, who was eating, gave Bai Ying a sympathetic look.

Finally someone can understand his pain.

"Uh uh uh......"

Bai Ying was startled by the usually calm Wang Jinyu's sudden expression. She quickly advised, "Sister Jinyu, calm down. I'm right here and I won't disappear suddenly."

Wang Jinyu took a deep breath, and finally managed to calm down her inner excitement. She loosened her grip on Bai Ying's shoulder and regained her usual composure. "Okay, you talk, I'm listening."

"Sister Jinyu, let's first find out the cause of the mass death of silkworms. Let me ask you, are you following the silkworm-raising methods taught to you on the farm?"