The Herbal Scents of Farm Life
Chapter 201 - 201 201 What Do You Think of This Matter

Chapter 201: Chapter 201: What Do You Think of This Matter? Chapter 201: Chapter 201: What Do You Think of This Matter? From the moment she entered this silkworm room, she could distinctly feel it was barely warmer than the outside.

If it were just an ordinary room, there wouldn’t be any issue with it being this temperature. But this was a room dedicated to silkworm rearing, which although aired, at least should have had some warmth from burning charcoal. How could there be no residual heat at all?

“This…”

The man’s face turned red with embarrassment upon hearing her words.

“The lady is right; we are deeply worried about this situation. Since about ten days ago, every silkworm room here has been this cold, causing all our silkworms to freeze to death.

Grandpa, this is our third batch of silkworms. If they freeze again, the loss will be substantial.”

He looked at Ya Molian.

If these mysteriously cold silkworm rooms continue to be like this, their first batch of silk brocade for this year will undoubtedly fail to be produced. This wasn’t just a question of losing silver coins, but a matter of their reputation and credibility.

“Sang, what is your take on this?”

Instead of responding, Ya Molian turned to look at Lin Caisang.

“Are you asking me?”

Lin Caisang pointed to herself, blinking her eyes.

Why did people keep throwing problems her way recently? It was the same with Liu Baixiao’s case. Every time Grandpa saw her, he passed the problems to her, as if she was the head of the household.

Now Ya Molian was doing the same thing.

“Can I have a look around this room first?” She asked.

“Go ahead, be careful,”

Ya Molian nodded his head, giving her a word of caution.

A silkworm room couldn’t be too large because it required constant heat in winter. If the room were too big, the heat would quickly dissipate, hence, each silkworm room was equipped with only two rows of shelves.

On top of the shelves were layers of oval-shaped sunning mats specially made for silkworm breeding to maximize space usage.

Of course, Lin Caisang couldn’t deduce anything from just one silkworm room. So, after taking a stroll inside, she went out to look into each room down the row.

She quickly came back.

“Um… Brother Molian, can I ask him a few questions?” She looked at Ya Molian, who was still deeply engaged in serious conversation with the man in black.

Ya Molian nodded, signaling the man in black with his eyes. The man immediately cut his conversation short and turned to face Lin Caisang.

“Miss, feel free to ask,” he said.

“Are all the silkworm rooms in Wang Town like this?” Lin Caisang glanced around the silkworm room.

“I’m not talking about the layout of the silkworm room, but its temperature. It’s noticeably abnormal, it shouldn’t be like this in every household, right?”

“Ah, well…”

Hearing her question, the man in black was visibly at a loss for words.

“The situation is the same in almost every silkworm-breeding household in town, and some households outside town too. Just now I mentioned to my master a silkworm-breeding family to the south of Wang Town. Of course, its scale can’t compare with ours.

However, this family did not encounter our problem. They’ve already had their first cocooning of the year. Moreover, the small-hold silkworm-breeding households that sell their cocoons to them never faced our situation.

I’ve already sent people to investigate, but we have not been able to find any connections,” he explained.

He was perplexed by this matter. It was one hell of a coincidence that all silkworms raised by the households in Wang Town had frozen while this one family was unaffected.

Who would believe this was just a coincidence?