Travel to the mountains and make a fortune in silence

"Brother Yun Kai, I appreciate your kindness, but I can't take these cocoons back." Wang Qing'er emptied all the cocoons from the bag back into the basket and returned the bag to the servant.

The fact that Yun Kai brought them to the silkworm farm today is already an exception; she can't take the silkworm cocoons out again, especially the seven-colored ones.

There must be many people eyeing these colorful silkworm cocoons, and his silkworm farm is certainly not impenetrable; there must be people with ulterior motives among them.

If she takes these silkworm cocoons out today and someone with malicious intent takes advantage of the situation, that would be bad.

Besides, she knows how silkworms reproduce. If she takes these things back, what if she suddenly decides to raise silkworms someday?

How would she explain this to the Yun family? To prevent future troubles, she still wanted to eradicate them at the source.

If she ever really wants to raise silkworms, she can just talk to Yun Kaiming about it.

Seeing that Wang Qing'er wouldn't accept it, Yun Kai didn't insist anymore, thinking he would give her a few pieces of fine Yun brocade next time.

"My lord, the madam sent me to ask if we can leave yet?" Qin Miaomiao was getting impatient waiting outside, so she sent a guard to urge them on.

Mu Zhicheng said, "I'll go out now."

As the group walked outside, they saw Qin Miaomiao sitting outside the carriage, eagerly waiting and glancing towards the gate from time to time.

"Wife, I'm here." Mu Zhicheng ran towards his wife as if they hadn't seen each other for a long time, which showed that the two had a very good relationship.

Seeing this, Mu Nan silently took his wife's hand and they walked towards the door together.

Yun Kai followed behind, watching, and shook his head with a wry smile.

He has lived for twenty-three years and has yet to meet a girl who catches his eye.

There wasn't even a maidservant in the mansion, only a personal servant. He usually went out without any servants and took care of himself.

He didn't have any particular fetishes; he just wanted to find a girl he could fall in love with at first sight.

Although his parents kept urging him to get married, he disagreed, and his parents couldn't do anything about it, so his marriage was delayed indefinitely.

He wasn't in a hurry; he just let things take their natural course. Later, his parents came to their senses and stopped pressuring him to get married.

So now at twenty-three, I'm still single.

"Qing'er, let's go eat something in the carriage before we set off," Mu Nan whispered to his wife.

"Okay." She was indeed a little hungry, so she nodded in agreement.

"Miaomiao, let's go to the carriage to get something to eat." Wang Qing'er took Qin Miaomiao's hand, gesturing for her to get into the carriage.

"Okay." Qin Miaomiao agreed and then climbed into the carriage without any hesitation.

Mu Nan also helped his wife into the carriage.

"Qing'er, is this a carriage or a room? Why are there such thick mattresses and pillows?" Qin Miaomiao examined the interior of Wang Qing'er's carriage.

"Well, I don't like sitting, I prefer lying down, so my husband laid out two mattresses for me."

Wang Qing'er scratched her head, a little embarrassed, and said, "Who told me to like sleeping? When I ride in a carriage, I mostly lie down to sleep. If I don't have a thick mattress, my whole body aches and feels like it's going to fall apart."

"Hmm, it's more comfortable with thicker mattresses. Should I put thick mattresses in the carriage too?" Qin Miaomiao rolled around on the mattress a few times.

"Come, have some pastries and some tea." Wang Qing'er took out pastries from the food box and placed them on the small table, then poured a cup of tea for each of them.

Wang Qing'er then picked up a food box, a pot of tea, and a stack of small bowls, and handed them to her husband sitting outside the carriage, asking him to distribute them to the others, including the guards.

"Mmm, Qing'er, your pastries are the best, and your tea is something you can't get anywhere else." Qin Miaomiao ate several small cakes in a row; today's cakes had fresh milk and sugar added.

Fresh milk and sugar can be bought in the county town, but the fresh milk is not produced by dairy cows, but by yellow cattle.

The daily quantity is not large. The small jar she bought was ordered by Mu Xia a few days ago, and a small jar has been delivered every day for the past few days.

The milk was directly squeezed out, and after Wang Qing'er received it, she boiled it at high temperature before distributing it to Zhou Shi and the two children.

I didn't expect milk to be so scarce here. It seems we must take good care of our cows and breed more so that selling milk will become a major source of income for our family in the future.

She also made milk cookies and walnut shortbread last night. The last time she came to the county town, Mu Nan set up a small oven in the yard.

Walnuts can be bought in the county town, and she was thinking of buying more raw materials to take back home and cook for her family so that they could all try them.

"Eat more if you like, all of these have milk added," Wang Qing'er said as she ate.

"It smells milky after adding milk, but is there any place to buy milk in this county?" Qin Miaomiao used to drink milk every day in the capital, but she hadn't found any place to buy milk since she came to the county.

“There’s a place that makes yellow milk, but it’s hard to find; you have to pre-order. I’ll take you there when we get back. Once you’ve pre-ordered, they can deliver it to your door every morning.” She’s only pre-ordered one jar a day so far, but she’ll want to pre-order more when she gets back.

This time I brought a lot of soapberries and other raw materials for making scented soap, as well as molds.

It's time to start making milk-scented soap and milk-smoothing cream. We can look for more milk sources; goat milk would also work.

Fortunately, several of the family's dairy cows are already pregnant and will start producing milk next year.

There are two more sheep that will give birth in two months. We'll feed them plenty of nutritious food to encourage them to produce more milk, and the excess milk can be used to make sheep milk soap.

"Okay, I'll go with you." Qin Miaomiao picked up her teacup, took a sip, and asked curiously, "Did you see any silkworms?"

"No, they've all spun cocoons. Brother Yun Kai's family even has seven-colored cocoons, they're so beautiful."

"Yes, my family also raises silkworms, but we don't have the seven-colored silkworms. Only the Yun family in the entire Eastern Liang Kingdom has the seven-colored silkworms."

"You raise silkworms too? Mu Zhicheng has never seen silkworms before?"

“I don’t like them, so I’ve never taken him to see them. Qing’er, have you really never seen silkworms before?” Qin Miaomiao asked with some doubt. She always felt that Wang Qing’er not only knew about silkworms, but should also know how to raise them.

In any case, Wang Qing'er gave her the impression of being omnipotent, like an immortal, like Yun Kai's grandmother.

"I've never seen one before, I've only heard of them. I know about mulberry trees and the fruit that grows on them that we can eat."

Wang Qing'er slapped her forehead as she spoke. How could she have forgotten to pick some mulberries to eat? So she took out a small tray from the hidden compartment of the carriage, lifted the carriage curtain, and handed the tray to her husband: "Brother Mu Nan, would you please pick some mulberries for me?"

"Okay." Mu Nan took the tray, jumped off the carriage, and used her lightness skill to fly towards the mulberry grove.