novelaction Chapter 475 Silk Quilt
Chapter 475 Silk Quilt
Zhao Yeqing had already planned it, calculated the days, and chose the safest time.
Mu Xi was a little frightened and almost didn't sleep. He went out early in the morning before dawn and went to the mountain stream to collect some polygonum.
It is the kind of spicy polygonum that was harvested before to make sweet wine. It happens to be autumn now, which is the season for its flowering. When you go to the wet water, you can see them at a glance.
This time I didn't pick it back to make distiller's yeast. It was also a medicinal material.
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I don’t remember if I posted it last time when I made Jiuqu. I’ll post it again.
Taking the stems and leaves of the above-ground part of the flower, it has medicinal properties of anti-inflammatory and hemostatic, and can also treat rashes and snake bites. Mu Xi took the root of Polygonum, washed it directly and boiled it in water. Drinking it can prevent pregnancy.
This medicine does very little harm to the human body and can regulate menstrual periods. It was also used as seasoning in ancient times. In modern times, it is also used to make distiller's yeast or brew wine. It is not without better effects. Mu Xi chose it anyway. The one that does the least harm to Zhao Yeqing,
Zhao Yeqing drank a bowl and felt that the taste was okay and not too bad. After listening to Mu Xi's introduction, he couldn't help but be a little confused: "This spicy polygonum has such a function? Then why didn't you tell me earlier..."
She closed her mouth as soon as she finished speaking, as if she was very eager to say this.
Mu Xi rubbed the top of her hair: "Silly, it's because the medicine is poisonous, and no matter how good the medicine is, it can't be guaranteed to be foolproof. Even Western medicines that have been mixed and tested before will still have accidents."
But this time he picked a lot and came back. Remembering what someone was mumbling while sleeping last night, Mu Xi thought about picking more and using them after drying them.
I found a lot of family planning supplies in the tourist area. Those items had expired. Even though they were not harmful to the body, the rubber inside them had deteriorated in toughness and would break if I pulled them with a little force.
Zhao Yeqing said it was a pity. If I had known this would happen, it would be better to use it before it expires.
Mu Xi didn't even know whether he should answer this. Some people were still scolding him when they got up in the morning, but now they say this...
What is there to say?
"People are addicted to food."
Zhao Yeqing kicked him in the calf, "You are so addicted!" She was convinced. How could anyone say that to his girlfriend about this kind of thing?
But she did have some regrets. She would have taken advantage of it if she had known it, especially during the polar night. The whole year when it was dark was not to mention how depressing it was.
After being kicked, Mu Xi shut up and went downstairs to work.
The koji I made before is almost used up, so I made a lot of koji using the old koji mixed with the newly picked Polygonum spp. After a while, when it gets colder, I can drink warm koji again.
Time passed slowly, until the second wave of silkworms also came up and formed cocoons. The two harvested the first batch of cocoons, and the helicopter did not appear again.
Mu Xi took over the task of removing the silkworm chrysalis. Even if it was to be made into a silk quilt, the step of pulling out silk and peeling off the cocoon was not required. It was still necessary to take out the silkworm chrysalis that had not yet grown up and turned into a butterfly.
The silkworm cocoons were thrown into the hot water one by one, and the taken out silkworm chrysalis was placed in a basket. It was edible, but the two of them were not very interested and planned to use it to feed the chickens and ducks.
In fact, you can also throw the cocoons with silkworms in them directly into hot water to boil, and then peel them out after boiling, so that the cocoons will not be destroyed. Last year, the two originally planned to throw away the cocoons after they had broken out.
But later Zhao Yeqing kept a few, tried cooking them and found that they were not unusable, but not that good. He kept some in the cabinet, thinking that if the second batch was not enough, he could make up for it.
Better than expected, 80% of the second batch survived to form cocoons. Some of the square clusters made before were not enough. Some squares were occupied by two silkworms, and they formed cocoons together. 'Double Palace Silkworm'.
Zhao Yeqing found an introduction in those obscure traditional Chinese books, saying that this kind of silkworm cocoon is very suitable for making quilts. The silkworm shell is very thick and has a large amount of silk, but it is not suitable for stripping the cocoon to make clothes because two silkworms spin cocoons together. , the silk is messy.
Generally, a silkworm spins a cocoon in a very regular pattern. It weaves the cocoon back and forth and then in a figure-8 pattern. As long as you find the silkworm head, it will be like grabbing the head of a ball of thread. When you pull it, the cocoon underneath will roll and spin the regular silk. to be released.
This kind of chaotic double palace cocoon is not good for making silk thread, but it is just suitable for two people to make a quilt.
The output is just too small. It is estimated that there are only about five or six double-sided silkworms out of a hundred silkworm cocoons.
Mu Xi boiled the cocoons again and again. After repeating the process four or five times, he slowly boiled and melted the colloid in the cocoons at low temperature, and then cleaned it so that the cocoons could be pulled evenly when the cotton was opened.
The tool used to open cotton is a curved wide bamboo strip. After cleaning the cocoon, pull it apart in the water and put it on the semi-elliptical bamboo bow wire support. Layer by layer, until it turns into a white The small cotton bag, then take it out and hang it on the rope to dry.
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Bamboo bow wire brace
Some of the cocoons were not in good condition and were removed. Yellow or black dirt could be seen on the surface. The two of them didn't feel bad and threw them directly into the compost bin, which was full of protein.
Zhao Yeqing tried to take one to peel off the cocoon, but failed as expected.
Mu Xi was a little slow on his own, and Zhao Yeqing stopped trying. They first made the small cotton pocket for the quilt together. Taking advantage of the sunshine in the past two days, they could pull off the quilt once it was dry.
The little cotton bags occupied all the clotheslines one by one. After finishing, their arms were sore and swollen, and they had to go back to the room to take off a quilt.
When sewing silk quilts, you must have a quilt cover. I brought back many white quilts from hotels from tourist areas. The filling cotton inside was made of chemical fiber. After the two took them out, they randomly found a plastic bag, stuffed it in, and threw it into the original host house. It was filled with ashes.
Wait until winter. If it gets colder this year, you can make some new cribs for the dogs at home.
The quilt cover that had not been used for a long time had to be washed. The quilt cover and the small cotton pocket were dried at the same time. The two of them moved their arms and were ready to start making the quilt.
The book says that the force must be even. It is best to have more than four people pulling the quilt, so as to ensure that there are no thin ones or thick ones. However, conditions do not allow it, so only two people can get on it.
Mu Xi put several wooden tables together to make it easier to put the torn silk.
The tacit understanding between the two, coupled with the results of several years of training, gradually mastered the strength and rhythm after pulling a few cotton bags.
Layer by layer, layer by layer, after using up three-quarters of the cotton bag, a silk quilt weighing about five kilograms is mostly ready, leaving only the final step of fixing it with needle and thread and putting it into the quilt cover.