Ancient wasteland

Jing Que and Ye followed Zhuang to the mountain where cocoons could be seen, and the silk cloth that Zhuang asked to take was also delivered to Jing Que. Jing Que held the cloth and examined it carefully.

It is indeed woven from silk, and it is a relatively common and relatively good quality mulberry silk.

In fact, there are two types of silkworm cocoons commonly used for silk reeling and weaving. First, the silk is white, fine and soft mulberry silk.

The second is tussah silk with a darker color, mostly nearly black and brown. Silkworm cocoons can also be used for silk reeling, but the relative quality is not so good.

Most silkworms appear in the south, and after successful domestication, they are kept indoors and fed with mulberry leaves, while tussah silkworms are kept in a wild state.

You can just throw it on the oak tree. Just now Zhuang said that their tribe picks cocoons from the tree, but Jing Que thought that the ones in their tribe were tussah silkworms.

How to put it, although in comparison, tussah silk is not as good as mulberry silk in terms of quality and high fiber length, but it is actually very good.

After all, even if it is tussah silk, the fiber length is much longer than that of hemp fiber and cotton fiber, especially when there is no spinning machine.

The utilization rate of natural long fibers such as silk is much higher than that of cotton and linen. Cotton and linen have not been popularized yet, and there is no clothes to wear.

In this case, whether it is mulberry silk or tussah silk, it must be very popular. No one would be so stupid as to dislike tussah silk.

What worried Jing Qu a little was that he had raised silkworms as an experiment in school when he was a child, and they were mulberry silkworms, so he didn't know much about tussah silkworms.

I am more familiar with mulberry cultivation, including silkworm moths hatched from silkworm cocoons, silkworm babies hatched after silkworms lay eggs, how to raise silkworms, cocoons, and silk reeling!

Zhuang saw that he took the silk cloth to examine it carefully, and was a little puzzled, "Is there any problem?"

Jing Qu shook his head with a smile, and asked casually, "You weave silk from cocoons. The silk is relatively long and thin. How long does it take to make this cloth?"

In his hand, he held a 10cm square piece of silk fabric about the size of a handkerchief. It was so thin that the lines on his hand could be seen through the light.

In addition, silk itself has a cool feeling. Silk fabrics of this thickness have no warmth retention effect, but they are very suitable for wearing in the dry season and are very cool.

It's a bit like the cotton leaves in their tribe, but because the silk is very thin and easily broken, such a piece of cloth may take more time!

Zhuang didn't know this. He was detected as a beast-shaped talent since he was a child, and was selected as a seedling by the tribe to focus on training. The main task was to cultivate.

There is no need to participate in hunting on weekdays, and it is supported by the tribe and priests, especially after the former beast king returned to the embrace of the beast god, there is no beast king in the tribe.

Urgently needing a Beastmaster to uphold the prestige of the tribe, Zhuang and his selected partners were indifferent to the outside world, concentrating on training all day long.

Knowing nothing about the tribal affairs, the warrior following Zhuang hurriedly replied, "This silk cloth needs to be weaved all day from morning to night."

Jing Qu gently pinched the silk cloth, raised his brows, and smiled slightly, "Zhuang, I think you need to know more about spinning machines and looms."

Zhuang had never heard of spinning machines and looms, but he believed what Jing Zhu said, they were all good things, so he smiled a little after thinking about it, "Okay."

The Heishui Tribe began to use silkworm cocoons to reel silk and weave cloth very early on. The mountains where silkworms were raised were extremely guarded, and many warriors with weapons were seen from afar.

Even people from their own tribe can't enter and exit that mountain at will, and they will be stopped if they are far away.

Fortunately, they had Zhuang leading the way. As the strongest in the tribe, Zhuang was very respected. After being interrogated by the guards at the intersection, they let them pass.

The weeds and shrubs at the foot of the mountain have been cleaned up, and the road is very open, leaving the entire mulberry forest with traces of fertilization at the bottom of the trees.

It looked very well taken care of. They walked a little into the woods, and when they got closer, they could hear the "brushing" sound of silkworms nibbling on mulberry leaves.

It was a bit like the sound of rain. There were silkworms crawling on the mulberry trees in front of me. It seemed that there were quite a few of them, and they were densely crawling on the leaves.

...there were several mulberry trees in front of them that had been gnawed into bare poles.

Jing Que looked at the gnawed mulberry tree, and couldn't help covering his forehead, "We can't let silkworms just grow on the tree like this, and don't limit their number.

If this continues, the newly grown leaves will be gnawed off by them before they grow up, and if the leaves behind cannot keep up with them, they will have no food to eat.

Even if the climatic conditions in your tribe are good for the growth of plants, the mulberry trees can't help them chewing like this, so it's better to control the number a little bit. "

Zhuang was full of doubts, "How to control it?"

Jing Que looked at the bare tree in front of him, and then at the luxuriant mulberry tree next to him, "Take those trees that have a lot of silkworms and catch them on the trees that don't have them.

It's the so-called quantity control. You guys are really born and raised and don't care about them at all. You just wait for the cocoon to pick the cocoon.

By the way, are there any cocooned moths now... Let's take the cocoons back to hatch silkworm moths. "

Zhuang nodded slightly, "We will control the quantity."

Then look at the soldier leading the way and motion him to lead the way.

Jing Qu shook his head with a smile, "You don't need to control it now. When your tribe starts to raise silkworms artificially, you will pick all the silkworms from this tree back in the future."

The soldiers led them to another area, where many women were busy picking cocoons, and the wooden frame for cocoons on the ground was almost full.

It's easy, since they don't have to pick them by themselves, Jing Que motioned them to move the framed cocoons back to the Blackwater Tribe and start building silkworm rooms for hatching.

The temperature and climate of the Heishui tribe is about 20-30 degrees, and the wild environment is very suitable for raising silkworms, and there is no need to adjust too many conditions.

According to Jing Que's request, Zhuang asked someone to build a shed with wood, and hung curtains woven of wood and weeds to keep out the wind.

The main reason is that the stone houses of their tribe have poor ventilation and humidity, so it is better to build a shed directly to keep out the wind and rain.

After the shed was built, Jing Que had someone make two large wooden frames with a shallow bottom, and after spreading silk cloth, he poured the silkworm cocoons he brought back into the wooden frames.

In the follow-up, we only need to wait for the silkworm cocoons to hatch into silkworm moths, and then the silkworm moths will lay eggs and then hatch silkworm babies. Jing Zhu spreads the silkworm cocoons into the frame.

Take a cocoon and talk to Zhuang, "Zhuang, this is a cocoon, from which moths will hatch in the future, you have to arrange someone to watch it here.

When the silkworm moth hatches, it will lay eggs soon. The silkworm eggs are relatively small particles, which are very small, so don't miss it at that time.

When the sundries are cleaned out, the other thing is that after the silkworm eggs hatch, the silkworm babies need to be fed with mulberry leaves, just like the leaves on your mountain.

When they just hatched, they may not be able to chew on too old mulberry leaves. Picking fresh young leaves and chopping them up can improve the survival rate. "

Zhuang listened carefully, but he didn't know how to deal with these things, so he told the soldiers who were helping him to remember, "Do as he says."

Jing Zhu thought about it for a while, "That's all for now, the climate here is very suitable for raising silkworms, so you don't have to worry about external factors.

When the baby silkworms hatch, I will teach you how to clean the silkworm excrement, how to replace them with wooden frames, and how to make cocooning utensils later.

There are quite a lot of anti-needle things, and now it is not so easy to explain clearly by just talking about it, so I will teach you how to do it one by one.

Oh, by the way, after silkworm cocoons hatch and moths emerge, they will bite through the silkworm cocoons and drill out. Once the silkworm cocoons are damaged, they cannot be used to spin silk.

Can you give me those broken silkworm cocoons? I want to take them back to the tribe to make bed silk quilts, which can be used to keep warm in the cold season!

Aw, you don’t need it, the climate in your tribe is very warm, and it probably won’t be too cold at night, so just pass by casually, I’m afraid of the cold. "

Zhuang nodded in agreement, "Okay, I'll send it to you then."

Then he smiled and said, "Since you are afraid of the cold, stay in our tribe. It is so warm all year round, and there will be no shortage of food."

Jing Que pretended not to hear, and clapped his hands with a smile, "Okay! That's all there is to explain for now, anyway, we won't leave for the time being.

Take some time to come over every day to check the situation. If I really find any problems, I will tell you, so let’s do this today. "

Anyway, in the wind and sun in the wild trees, these silkworms can grow to cocoons, providing them with a comfortable living environment, there must be no problem.

This is the legendary independence of nature. If the climate in their tribe is to raise silkworms, it is estimated that they must take care of them carefully like their ancestors.

Zhuang nodded, "OK."

Looking at the white silkworm cocoons inside the wooden frame, he smiled slightly, "It's going to be fine here, I'll take you to the tribal market for a walk.

I left the tribe to practice in the arctic ocean, and I haven't come back for a long time. I happened to take a look at the changes in the tribe. "

Jing Zhu readily agreed, "Okay! Let's go, let's go hunting for treasure."

Hanging on Ye's arm, he followed Zhuang to the market of the Blackwater Tribe. It must be said that Blackwater City is indeed one of the four super tribes.

There are many houses and buildings in the tribe, but they are only slightly messy. Some original architectural plans can be vaguely seen, and the streets are very wide.

Not to mention the convenience of walking, you can see everywhere on the corners and streets, all of which are small and exquisite plants and flowers, matched with rather quaint stone buildings.

And although it is a settlement, there is no obvious smell.

... Oh, this refers to the feces-like stench, which naturally has a damp and rotten smell. The environment of their tribe is too humid.

Many stone houses are covered with moss, and all kinds of walls and floors compete with each other, turquoise, dark brown, and even red!

There is enough water in the air to support it, and the growth is particularly vigorous. In addition, it occasionally smells the smell of rotting food.

No way, the air is too humid and the temperature is suitable for bacteria to multiply.

It is estimated that the cooking in their tribe has to be eaten in one meal, otherwise it will be left for a long time, and I am afraid that it will be rotten and smelly.

Jing Que originally wanted to sell the bacon to their tribe, but he didn't know if the people of the Blackwater tribe would like it, or not.

The Blackwater tribe has no shortage of food in all seasons, and bacon is at best a icing on the cake for their tribe, not a necessity.

Even if some people in the Blackwater Tribe like bacon, the demand will definitely not be too much, and this business needs to be carefully considered.

The main reason is that their tribe is too far away from the Blackwater tribe... It takes about 10 days for them to go to the Dahe tribe with manpower, but it only takes one day for them to go wild.

This time, it took them 6 days to fly from their tribe to the Blackwater tribe. According to this time, it took them two months to travel.

It takes 4 months to go back and forth!

Wow, this cycle is a bit too long, Jing Zhu shook his head, it seems that the business relationship with the Blackwater Tribe mainly depends on him and the wild.

He was the only one flying around... To be precise, Ye was flying around with him. His two teams were small, so they definitely couldn't carry too many things.

If you want to do business, you have to exchange for some valuable and portable items. What Jing Zhu intends to do is to exchange some dry seafood with the people of the Blackwater Tribe.

Such as dried fish, scallops, and dried sea cucumbers. In addition, there are dried shrimps, dried shrimps, oh, and kelp and seaweed. These two need to be replaced.

Their tribe and other surrounding tribes live deep inland, and all they use are the mineral salts produced by the Dahe Tribe, which is prone to iodine deficiency.

Jing Que knows that iodine deficiency can easily cause big neck disease. Although this situation has not occurred in the tribe for the time being, it is better to prevent it as soon as possible!

Zhuang quickly took them to the market in the tribe. The bay extended a little, and a pier was built around it, with boats parked around it.

The people coming and going are very lively, and the stalls are a bit messy, but Jing Zhu has experienced trade fairs, and it looks very good.

Probably because of the proximity to the sea, there are some fish and shells on the stalls, and the fish just seen from the sea are alive and kicking.

The scales shimmered in the sun, and the sound of shouting and slaughtering fish was mixed, which sounded a little chaotic, but full of life.

The seafood they sell is very cheap. When Jing Que saw someone using a pearl the size of a soybean, he bought three two-foot-long fish!

Jing Zhuo, "..."

Suddenly I feel that I have a basket of pearls, and I am a super local tyrant!

He took out two longan-sized pearls from his pocket, stuffed them quietly into Ye's hands, and proudly puffed out his chest, "Ye, buy whatever you want!"

If we have money, we can contract the entire market and buy everything we want here!It is estimated that there are so many pearls that cannot be used up!

Zhuang suddenly looked at him with strange eyes, thoughtfully, "You and Ye... are you on top of the two of you? It doesn't look like it."

After speaking, he turned his head to look at Ye, and still didn't feel like it. Ye looked very strong, not to mention that he was an orc warrior, and his talent was very good!

Jing, although he knows a lot of things and can prepare strange poisons, he is really too thin, if it is really Jing.

Zhuang blinked gently, "Don't you feel tired?"

Jing Que's face was full of black lines, so he just gave two pearls, what does it matter who is on it? !It doesn't matter, who said he can't keep wild animals!

"Tangtang beast king level powerhouse, why are you so gossip?!"

Zhuang slightly smiled, "I'm just curious. I've been practicing all these years without a partner. I'm curious after hearing about it."

Jing Que ignored him, turned around and took Ye to the market, followed the plan he set to find a stall selling kelp, and wanted to buy some kelp.

But the kelp on the stall here is all wet, Jing Que looked at the stall owner selling kelp, "Well, I'll buy all these kelp.

I want the kelp you fished out tomorrow too, but I need you to help me dry it all, just put it in the sun and dry it.

In addition, besides kelp, do you know how to dry dried fish and dried shrimp? If there is dried fish and dried dried shrimp, I want it... Do you have a fever? "