Chapter 1017 is this
Everything was ready. After Lu Miao waited for the water on the stove to boil, he picked up a dozen silkworm cocoons and threw them in and pressed them with chopsticks to cook.
Fu Jingyou was watching from the side. Seeing that she had no follow-up needs, he went down to the ground to look for He Hongjin with the pole carrying rice.
Let’s talk about the back door of the kitchen.
The water was boiled for seven or eight minutes. When the cocoons were cooked through, Lu Miao used chopsticks to pick up the silk ends of the cocoons and pull them out.
Then, gather the silk from more than a dozen silkworm cocoons together, and wrap it around the part where the fan handle joins the fan frame several times to fix it.
Finding a comfortable angle, she held the handle of the fan and kept turning it.
The silk is very thin, but after more than a dozen strands were wound together for half an hour, the silk gradually began to have a satin-like texture.
Lu Miao gained a little confidence and continued to calm down her impatience.
During this period, Xiao Baichuan woke up from his nap and ran over with his bare feet to pull the cloth bag on the floor.
Baichuan held the cocoon in his little hands and played with it. He squatted next to his mother and raised his head, mumbling in a childlike voice and asked:
"Mom, what is this for nothing?"
"This is a silkworm cocoon, the little house made of silk from the silkworms my mother raised in front of me."
"Can silkworms spin silk to make small houses?"
"Yes~"
"Then I will also spin silk to make a small house or a big house for my mother to live in!"
Lu Miao touched Bai Chuan's little head, raised the corners of her lips and rolled her eyes in a smile:
"Okay, mom is waiting for Baichuan's big house!"
Baichuan grinned widely, his head and head were a little shy, and he left a shallow saliva mark on his mother's arm.
It seemed like he really wanted to spit out silk.
After a whole afternoon of making jokes, Lu Miao's futuristic fan gradually took shape.
The silk is wound smoothly and shiny, and the effect looks pretty good.
Lu Miao was so inspired that after dinner and washing, she could not help but work overtime and continue winding silk while sitting in front of the kerosene lamp.
It's just that it's not so smooth at the back.
It was almost finished, but something went wrong temporarily.
The fairly flat fan surface wrapped in front suddenly swelled and wavy lines appeared.
Lu Miao was confused for a long time, and after careful inspection, she discovered the problem.
Although the silk in the front is wrapped evenly, the silk in the back is wrapped too tightly, and the shrinkage of the fan frame causes all the silk wrapped in the front to loosen.
At this point, this fan has basically been wasted and there is no way to get it anymore.
Lu Miao sighed and put down the fan sadly.
Fu Jingyou stood behind her intimately and supported the table:
"What's wrong?"
Lu Miao showed him the fan.
Fu Jingyou lowered his eyes and found the problem:
"Why did it become like this? Can it be rectified?"
“It’s my first time and I have no experience...”
Lu Miao bulged her mouth, feeling quite frustrated and annoyed:
"There is no way to remediate the designated remedy. You have to start over tomorrow..."
Fu Jingyou put his arm on her shoulder, nodded and patted her reassuringly:
"If you get tired of playing with it, I won't do it. If you still want to play with it, I will take the time to tie up a few more fan frames for you tomorrow... It's too late now, go to bed first."
"Yeah."
Lu Miao twisted her aching neck, straightened her chest, and moved her shoulders, back, and spine.
She nodded obediently, cleared the table and stood up.
Fu Jingyou waited until she took off her coat and lay down before blowing out the kerosene lamp.
In terms of his interest in serving, Lu Miao can probably be said to be an activist.
Although the fan yesterday was scrapped, there was obviously a high probability of success during the production process.
So, after finishing all the trivial matters the next morning, Lu Miao couldn't wait to get into production. It was also the first time for Lu Miao to make a silk fan.
She didn't know what specific problems she might encounter, so she could only slowly make adjustments based on her personal situation.
She was careful to avoid problems like yesterday, but after winding the thin silk a few times, the sound of a bicycle came from in front of the door.
He raised his head and looked out the window, and it turned out that Hu Zhiyuan was coming.
Lu Miao briefly dealt with the fan frame, then put down her things and got up to go out.
Outside the door, Hu Zhiyuan set up his bicycle and shouted:
"Sister! I should have found what you want. Can you see if it's this?"
"Let me see?!"
Hu Zhiyuan came with a small backpack on his back from the front of the car.
Lu Miao took the small backpack and took a closer look. It contained several pieces of cacti. Sure enough, some mottled white spots could be seen.
She happily stretched out her hand to grab it, but Hu Zhiyuan stopped her and said:
"Girl, please take it easy! Even though this thing is not very eye-catching, it will still hurt if you get pricked!"
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Hu Zhiyuan was the first victim.
When he was picking up these cacti, he didn't pay much attention to them.
As a result, my hands hurt and itched all the way while riding the bike.
He stopped and took a look, but he could vaguely feel small thorns.
But it takes a lot of hard work to find where the thorn is.
Hu Zhiyuan didn't have the patience to deal with it, so he could only scratch it when it was itchy, and scratch it when it was itchy.
"Okay, I get it!"
Lu Miao said with a smile, turned his head and looked around in front of the door, and finally carried the basket to the steps under the window sill and poured out all the cactus.
There are not many "little white spots" on the cactus.
Hu Zhiyuan came here on a bicycle. Along the bumpy road, many "little white dots" had collided and broken, revealing different shades of red.
It’s definitely a cochineal insect!
"It's this, it's this!"
Lu Miao was overjoyed and asked quickly:
"Where did you find this? Are there any more there? Are there many?"
She asked three times in a row, showing how urgent she was.
Hu Zhiyuan scratched his forehead and said hesitantly:
"This insect doesn't seem to grow very long. I've taken a rough look at places with cacti, and all I can find are here."
"Huh?"
Lu Miao was stunned for a moment, then lowered her head to reach the cactus on the steps.
There are four pieces of cactus in total, and the cochineal insects on each piece are sparsely distributed, not too many, and all of them are very small.
Even the cochineal insects that died and formed black scabs took up more...
Under normal circumstances, the breeding ability of cochineal insects is still very strong.
But Lu Miao understood after thinking about it.
At this time, the environment has not been polluted, and the ozone layer has not been destroyed.
Although the summer here in H Province is hot, the temperature is actually not bad.
However, for cochineal insects, the temperatures in autumn and winter in Province H are still not suitable for survival most of the time.
The cochineal beetles that can survive in such natural conditions are only a handful among the few.
It rained heavily for two days a few days ago, so some of the limited quantities may have been damaged...
Lu Miao felt regretful and helpless, but there was nothing she could do.
Picking at the black scab on the cactus, Lu Miao twisted it open with all her strength, leaving dark red marks on her fingertips.
She thought for a while, reached out to Hu Zhiyuan and asked:
"What about this dark brown insect scab? Are there any more on the cactus over there?"
"There are still some of these numb ones. Why, can this one be used too?"
Lu Miao nodded, carefully avoiding the small thorns, took the cactus to the window sill and placed it:
"It's hot today and the water evaporates quickly. It should still be usable if you take it back in time...Are you busy this afternoon? If not, take me over to have a look."