Chapter 1492: The spiritual silkworm
used a butcher's knife to kill chickens. Jin Maohou couldn't help with the trivial matter of killing chickens. He waited for the little boy to kill more than a dozen chickens, then carried a bucket to fetch a bucket of hot spring water to scald the chicken feathers, scalding the chicken feathers. Pour the water into the big hole that the little one dug, and then help pluck the chicken feathers.
Jinmaohou followed the little one as a personal guard. He had seen the little one deal with monsters, chickens and ducks. She would not waste anything that could be used. Chicken and duck feathers also had to be collected. He piled the plucked chicken feathers separately, with feathers and The fine feathers are separated, and the skin shells taken from the chicken feet and beaks are thrown into the big pit.
The golden retriever lion's operations were also smooth and smooth. He Chaoyang was stunned again and had to admit that it was inevitable for the golden retriever lion to be favored by his junior sister. That spiritual beast was smarter than humans and could do any job. How could his junior sister not do it? I prefer big lions.
Jin Maohou didn't know what the human monk was thinking. He worked quickly, and he didn't pluck the chicken feathers one by one like ordinary humans. He threw a dozen of them into the air, controlled them with his true energy, and plucked them out in the blink of an eye. Light.
He not only knows how to pluck chicken feathers, but also knows how to butcher chickens and ducks. He disembowels the chickens with a single stroke of his sharp claws, and then takes out the internal organs. The chicken livers, intestines, stomachs, etc. are placed in different pots and buckets. Some chickens have The fat is also stored separately. The processed chicken is also cleaned and the chicken feet are chopped off.
Jin Maohou, who is working as a chicken butcher, seems to be an old pro, and he is indeed an old pro. Who knows that the clay roasted chicken made by Xiao Doian is delicious? Xiao Doian is often too busy to have time. In order to eat the clay roast chicken, he often Undertook a series of tasks including catching pheasants, killing chickens, plucking feathers and dissecting them. Finally, the little ones were asked to mix the condiments, wrap them in mud and burn them in the fire.
After watching Jin Maohou's hands-on ability, He Chaoyang only had a capital word for "obedience". The noble and arrogant Jin Maohou could do that, and he wouldn't be convinced!
He Chaoyang, who was completely convinced, and with an open mind and eagerness to learn, earnestly learned to do what only the handyman disciples of the Yuxia Sect did, and helped his junior sister.
The two of them and one lion stayed at the hot springs and worked hard. They stayed in the cave at night and processed chickens and grouse during the day. They were busy for three days. On the fourth day, they killed monster-level rabbits, skinned them or scalded them, and then dissected them. .
Time passed day by day, and it was New Year's Eve in a blink of an eye. On the day before New Year's Eve, Classmate Le set up a magic circle for the hot spring to protect the stone jar he placed next to the spring. He packed it up and returned with Jinmaohou and Senior Brother He. Yuxia Sect.
No matter in Yuheng Sect or Yuqing Sect, the host is invited to eat spiritual food, and Yuxia Sect is no exception. Student Le returned to the side hall of the main courtyard arranged for him by Yuxia Sect, and counted the spiritual food he had stored. She took out one and gave it to Head Shang. As for the arrangements between Head Shang and the Yuxia Sect bosses, she didn't care.
Sect Master Shang was overjoyed when he received a big gift, and divided it between the inner and outer disciples. The outer disciples each received five catties, the inner disciples received ten catties each, and the elders received more, twenty catties each.
In addition to spiritual food, there is also an incense made by a fairy.
At the New Year's Eve dinner that year, the disciples of the inner and outer sects of the Yuxia Sect gathered in the inner and outer sect's kitchen hall, and ate a feast of spiritual food in the incense. Not even a single meal was finished. The higher the rank, the higher the strength. The Nascent Soul monks were secretly prepared, but they still almost lost sight of one thing.
After a wave of promotion turmoil, the Yuxia Sect's outer sect added more than 40 Jindan cultivators, and the inner sect added 70 Jindan cultivators. Five disciples who had perfected the Jindan late stage were promoted to Nascent Soul, and two Nascent Souls were perfected. The disciples advanced to the out-of-body stage, and one disciple who had been stuck in the out-of-body stage for two hundred years successfully broke through the bottleneck and became a monk in the distraction stage.
A New Year's Eve dinner excited all the inner and outer disciples of the Yuxia Sect. Head Shang and the elders burst into laughter and secretly decided to count the inventory another day to see how many of the little fairies' favorite things there were.
As the person involved, Mr. Le Xiao has long ago developed the ability to remain calm even when faced with the most difficult situations. He remained calm even when being watched like wolves by Master Shang and others. After having the New Year's Eve dinner, he returned to his residence and went into "retreat". "Understanding, he actually slipped back to his own star core space to plow the land, plant trees and sow seeds on Jixin Island and Yak Plain.
She stayed quietly in the inner courtyard of the Yuxia Sect for five days, and then escaped on the sixth day of the first lunar month. She took her most caring golden lion to the hot spring in the volcanic area, and started to take out the medicinal soup from the stone vat. Put it in a jar, fill the vat with hot springs and soak it for the second time.
After collecting the medicinal soup, Classmate Le wandered around the mountains in the volcanic area and waited until the early morning of the ninth day of the first lunar month to collect snow and dew, which was the beginning of spring. After three days of busy work, he returned to the geothermal springs to continue killing wild beasts and monsters.
The direct disciples and inner disciples of Yuxia Sect first paid greetings to the elders of the sect at the beginning of the first month, and then walked around each other. They stopped visiting to communicate with each other after the fifteenth day of the month. He Chaoyang led his junior disciples and forty disciples who were also direct disciples. The inner disciples went to the volcano area to work as handymen for Little Fairy and Junior Sister.
In areas with volcanoes in the Yuxia Sect, the ice and snow melt early, in the middle of the first month, and there is almost no snow at the end of the month, and plants sprout and take off in mid-February.
When everything in the volcanic area revived, Le Xiaoxiao rushed into the mountains to scavenge his favorite resources. It was not until the beginning of May that he went to find Senior Brother He and admire the unique Ice Spirit Silkworms of the Yuxia Sect.
The little fairy was playing in the mountains. He Chaoyang took his fellow apprentices and took turns to divide the work. One group of people helped the little fairy deal with the beasts and monsters, and another group of people went to the mountains to collect. They rotated the work every half a month.
At the end of April, the snow in Yuxia Mountain has almost melted, and the plants in the volcanic area are already full of green. The new leaves of the mulberry trees growing at the foot of the volcano or halfway up the mountain are lush and green.
Every year at the end of April or early May, when the north gets warmer, the unique Ice Spirit Silkworms in Yuxia Mountain may wake up from their slumber, or the eggs may begin to hatch into young silkworms, beginning the growth period of the year.
The Ice Spirit Silkworm is extremely picky and can only survive near active volcanoes in volcanic areas. Moreover, it only eats mulberry leaves that grow in volcanic areas and will not taste any other mulberry leaves. It is also so stubborn that it would rather die than surrender.
The Yuxia Sect did not interfere too much with the way the Ice Spirit Silkworms lived. They adopted a stocking method and built silkworm houses in the area where the Ice Spirit Silkworms lived. Every autumn, the Spirit Silkworms were moved to the silkworm rooms to let them spin silk and form cocoons.
There are two types of spiritual silkworms after they spin cocoons. One is that silkworms turn into pupae in the cocoons, and finally turn into silkworm moths to lay eggs and reproduce. The other is that spiritual silkworms hibernate in cocoon nests, survive the winter, and wake up the next year. , bite out of the cocoon and come out to look for food.
Every year at the end of April or the beginning of May, the disciples of the Yuxia Sect who are responsible for taking care of the ice silkworms will stay in the silkworm room and send the silkworms that have woken up from hibernation and the hatched baby silkworms to the mulberry tree, and then they don't need to take care of them anymore. , Ren Bingling Silkworm abides by the laws of nature to survive.
There are three varieties of Ice Spirit Silkworms in Yuxia Sect, one is white silkworm, which spins white silk, one type has light yellow skin and spins light golden silk, and one type has a green shell and the silk it spins is also naturally green. .
He Chaoyang accompanied Little Fairy's junior sister to the sect's Ice Spirit Silkworm living area, first to see the white Ice Spirit Silkworms.
The three types of silkworms in the Yuxia Sect have their own circles. The white silkworms live on the mountainside of an active volcano with a height of 40,000 feet. They will die even if they move to the foot of the mountain.
The golden silkworms that spin golden silk live in the area from the foot of the active volcano to the mountainside about 10,000 feet high. If they were to reach a height of more than 20,000 feet, they would definitely die.
Green-skinned green silkworms live in the area between about 36,000 feet and below 50,000 feet in Huohuo Mountain. If they are moved to a higher altitude or to a lower altitude, they cannot withstand the temperature changes and will go hungry.
He Chaoyang led the little fairy to the foot of the volcano where the white silkworms lived. He quickly put on a set of robes made of ice spirit silk, and then took his junior sister to the mountainside to find the spirit silkworms.
In addition to being picky about their living environment, Ice Spirit Silkworms are also picky about people. Only people with wood or water attributes can approach them. If people without that attribute approach, they will riot en masse.
He Chaoyang's wood attribute is not high. In order to prevent the spirit silkworms from rioting, he still wears robes made of ice spirit silk. The spirit silkworms' robes have their own smell, and the spirit silkworms will not reject the familiar smell.
Little classmate Le, she is born with a degree of affinity and does not need to wear a spiritual silk robe. The big golden-haired lion cannot go to the living area of the ice silkworm. He helps the little one kill the monsters next to the hot spring.
He Chaoyang led his junior sister up to the halfway point of the active volcano, looking for Ice Silkworms in the mulberry forest and observing their living habits and food intake.
After staying in the white silkworm area for ten days, Le Yun collected the information she wanted, and then went to study the golden silkworm. She also stayed in the golden silkworm living area for ten days, and then went to the green silkworm living area.
After traveling around the living area of the Ice Spirit Silkworm and studying the living environment and habits of the Ice Spirit Silkworm, Classmate Le still couldn’t wait for the Silkworm King of the Yuxia Sect to wake up, which was a pity.
The Ice Silkworm King of the Yuxia Sect is a white silkworm king. It is already 170 years old. It sounds incredible, but among the previous silkworm kings of the Yuxia Sect, it is actually still a teenager. It is said that it has lived the longest. The Silkworm King was more than 3,000 years old, and he was still a wise spiritual Silkworm King. Unfortunately, he encountered a lightning disaster in the late foundation building period and was chopped into pieces by a thunderbolt.
One year before Le Xiaoxianzi visited the Yuxia Sect, the White Silkworm King hibernated.
After studying the Ice Spirit Silkworm, classmate Le returned to the Yuxia Sect and observed on the spot how the disciples of the Yuxia Sect peeled silk and pulled out cocoons.
The silk of the Ice Spirit Silkworm is very thin and has high toughness. The entire silk reeling process of stripping and extracting cocoons is all done manually. It is still the most primitive method of extracting silk from cocoons one by one. The person who strips and strips cocoons must be at least a Golden Core monk.
Before reeling, the silkworm cocoons are soaked in spiritual spring water for three days and three nights, cooked in a special small stove, and then the silk is drawn by hand and wound on a wooden frame.
The cocoons are not boiled directly in a pot on the stove. Instead, a wooden basin is placed in the hot pot. The wooden basin is filled with hot water to soak the cocoons. Since the stove is constantly on, the water in the pot is boiling water. The water temperature also maintains a certain temperature.
The wooden basin and the silk-wrapped wooden frame are both the core parts of mulberry wood.
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