Chapter 252: Making Silk Mask
Jingshu suddenly thought, isn't Zijin's specialty handicrafts?
If the first year of the apocalypse was hot and dry, which killed 90% of the plants and led to famine, then the second year of the apocalypse was heavy rain and floods, which destroyed 70% of the households and daily necessities. Although the government salvaged some supplies, compared with the non-recyclable and moldy supplies, people's lives fell to the primitive era from that year on.
So in the third year of the apocalypse, there was a shortage of cotton and linen clothes and quilts. Because of the drop in temperature, everyone needed more clothes and quilts. So when the earthquake started in the third year, everyone would take clothes from the dead.
Wear as thick clothes as you can. In order to keep warm, most people put on clothes that are out of place.
Jingshu would wash the clothes taken off the dead and give them to Zijin. Zijin would take them apart and sew them to weave warm and thick clothes. Jingshu then knew that Zijin's family was poor when she was a child. She was raised by her grandmother who picked her up and raised her by raising silkworms and making handmade clothes. She also learned this craft.
Zijin said that she had no surname because her biological parents abandoned her. If she had to take a relative's surname, she would take her grandmother's surname Ali. The name Zijin was given by her childhood sweetheart. After her grandmother passed away, she only had a name but no surname.
After hearing Jingshu say this, Zijin showed an expression of sudden realization, "That should be me. Everyone in the family compound knows that I am good at handwork. I have been doing this job since I was a child and I am very familiar with it. Thank you for your help today. If you need anything, I will help you."
As she said this, she saw the red nematode on Zijin's head slide onto her nose bridge and drill into her nostrils. Zijin skillfully pulled out the red nematode and flexibly tied the red nematode with her fingers, and then flicked it out, just as smooth as digging a nasal booger and rolling it into a ball and flicking it out.
Fortunately, Zijin has a baby-fat and cute baby face. If it was an uncle's face, Jingshu might kick him away.
Jingshu showed a subtle expression. Sure enough, she still couldn't accept Zijin like this!
It seems necessary to implement a transformation plan.
Zijin is a person with low self-esteem, low self-confidence and no sense of security. If someone suddenly treats her well, she will definitely be wary of Jingshu. However, even if it is a normal stranger, if you suddenly treat someone well, most people will be wary.
The first step of the transformation plan is to dislike her. You have to dislike her very much, so that she will think you are a normal person and not deliberately approaching her.
"You are too dirty all over. Even if I want you to help, what if the red nematodes on your body jump into my silk? Isn't this a hindrance?"
Zijin bit her lip and lowered her head. This person didn't care about these things just now, and she almost forgot about it. She said how could someone not care about these things.
The second step of the transformation plan is not to show charity to her out of pity, thereby lowering the standard of employment, but to just need such a person, and strengthen the requirements, so that she thinks that it is her own ability that gets this job and not anything else.
"Well, I originally needed to find a worker, and I helped you by the way. If you really want to repay me, clean yourself up and help me make some facial masks with silk cocoons, so that I can see your handicraft speed and skills.
If you do well, I can consider hiring someone to cook and remove the cocoons, and even make some silk quilts and clothes. However, I have more requirements. If you can only remove two or three pounds of cocoons every day, I don't want it. As for the treatment, it depends on your skills. Anyway, it starts at 4 virtual coins per day."
Jingshu's space still has some silk cocoons from last year. Because the number is small and there is nothing to do, she has been saving them.
Today, she just took them out to make some silk masks. Although she doesn't need to apply a mask, Su Mali, the money-giving boy, said in the circle of friends that the stock of masks has been used up. If you ask for masks at a high price, she also adds a sentence: only pure natural silk masks without hormones are needed, which will eliminate 90% of the remaining masks on the market.
Silk protein contains 18 kinds of amino acids that are extremely nutritious to the human body. It has good air permeability and excellent water absorption. It is even used in surgical wound dressings and burn wound dressings, which helps wound healing and is known as artificial skin.
In addition to facial masks, Jingshu also plans to develop this industry. After all, people who can still afford surgery now are probably happy to use this silk membrane to apply to their wounds.
"4, 4 virtual coins?" Zijin was a little surprised. This is almost catching up with civil servants. What exactly does this person in front of him do? Does she have so many silkworms at home? It's not easy to raise silkworms now. What does this person in front of him do?
Zijin kept looking at Jingshu. Yes, this person just gave Captain Li a bottle of white wine. I heard that he seems to have snakes at home? He should be someone who is not short of money.
"Why are you excited? I haven't seen your handicraft skills yet. Just tell me if you can do this job and whether you can meet my requirements." Jingshu rolled her eyes.
Well, it's the posture of a rich person.
Zijin bit her lip again, feeling a little regretful: "I also want to clean myself up, but the plastic raincoat issued by the government will always have water seeping in, and countless red nematodes will entangle me. I don't have salt to wash my hair, and silkworm cocoons are more attractive to red nematodes, so I'm afraid they will be covered with worms. So I'm afraid I can't help you. If you need any other help, I will definitely help."
"Well, my home is in the villa area, there is a salt water pool at the door, I will take you to wash your hair, you make the silk mask first, then we can talk about other things."
Jingshu took Zijin to soak in the salt pool at the door of her house for a long time. Zijin's hair, which had been kept for more than ten years, had reached her ankles. You can imagine how many red nematodes were stuck on it. Every time Zijin walked, she walked like she was holding a moving python.
There were not only red nematodes, but also their feces and eggs.
In short, Jingshu poured a few more bags of salt into the pool to change the water. It took half an hour to clean up all the garbage on her body. Jingshu breathed a sigh of relief, "Here, waterproof rain hat, put your hair up and wrap it tightly."
Zijin embarrassedly put up her finally washed hair and wrapped it with a waterproof hat. She felt so happy. If she had this thing earlier, why would she be despised for three months!
Jingshu set up various racks and things under the shed at the entrance of the villa, and Zijin began her performance.
"Put the cocoons in a container and boil them, so that the silk can be free from turning after degreasing. Boiling cocoons is very particular. If they are too rotten, the mask will not be strong. If they are too raw, there will be lumps." Zijin skillfully took out the cocoons and began to peel them.