Traveling through time and space to achieve a well-off life with your family
Chapter 81: Peeling off the cocoon
Recently, Cheng Mo has been focusing on raising silkworms. Every morning when he wakes up, the first thing he does is to rush to check on the silkworms. Then he carefully cleans the wooden boxes that contain the silkworms, sweeping out all the feces and leftover mulberry leaves. This goes on day after day, and before he knows it, several days have passed.
Finally one morning, when Cheng Mo got up early as usual to visit his beloved silkworms, he was pleasantly surprised to find that these little guys had actually started to spin silk and make cocoons! He happily counted on his fingers the days until the harvest.
When the day came for silk harvest, Cheng Mo was so excited that he could hardly contain himself. He got up before daybreak and prepared a large pot of water to boil. Residents who had heard that silk could be harvested today came to Cheng Mo's house early to watch and learn.
After the water boiled, he carefully put the snow-white cocoons into the boiling water to cook them. The purpose of doing this is to allow the sticky substances contained in the silk threads in the cocoons to fully dissolve, thus making the originally hard silk threads soft and docile.
Next, Cheng Mo took out the silk reeling machine that she had prepared in advance, placed the boiled cocoons on it in an orderly manner, and slowly extracted the silk threads bit by bit through the machine. During this process, the extracted silk threads had to undergo repeated stretching and sorting, only in this way can the toughness and quality of the silk threads themselves be effectively enhanced.
Finally, the winding mechanism, having completed its mission, will neatly wind the extracted silk threads into beautiful and elegant silk thread rolls.
Looking at the bundles of white or yellow silk threads neatly placed on the table, the orcs were extremely curious. Some were bold enough to touch them. The delicate and soft feel made them love it.
"Lord City Lord, how do we turn these into clothes?" a female asked while touching the silk.
Cheng Mo replied while watching the silk reeling machine working: "It's just like weaving wool. First spin the yarn, then weave the cloth, and finally cut it into clothes."
"Clothes woven with this kind of silk thread must be very comfortable and nice to wear!" The female couldn't help but sighed as she gazed at the snow-white, soft and delicate silk in front of her with envy on her face.
However, the amount of silk is very rare, so the clothes that can be made are naturally very limited. Moreover, this precious silk was first discovered and carefully cultivated by Cheng Mo. There is no doubt that the first to enjoy this luxurious treatment must be Cheng Mo's family. As for when other tribesmen will be lucky enough to wear such silk clothes, they may have to wait patiently for some time.
Cheng Mo keenly caught the desire and yearning in the female's eyes, so he immediately stated: "Now that we have mastered the skills and experience of raising silkworms, we will start large-scale production next, and strive to make every member of the tribe wear beautiful clothes woven with silk. I arranged for people to go out and look for these silkworms a few days ago."
Hearing this, the female was extremely excited and couldn't wait to interrupt and said, "Great! Then I will go home and clean up a room for raising silkworms!" Before she finished speaking, she left in a hurry. The orcs around followed suit and hurried home to prepare a room suitable for raising silkworms.
The silk spinning technology is exactly the same as the original wool spinning. Kong Fu led a group of females to work hard in the textile factory. Seeing that everyone was making good progress, Cheng Mo was relieved to join hands with Ban Mu to embark on the journey again to explore new things.
The two of them traveled happily all the way, and did not forget to collect all kinds of new things. During this period, 079 appeared once, but disappeared after only announcing a collection mission.
The scope of this collection was very wide, ranging from seeds to birds and beasts. However, Cheng Mo had a special liking for collecting seeds, but in fact, the most collected items were various animals.
There are now cattle sheds, sheep pens, chicken coops and duck sheds in the city, and soon a new stable will be built.
At this time, Cheng Mo and Ban Mu stood side by side on the top of a hill. In front of them was a vast grassland. Several wild horses were galloping and enjoying their meal leisurely.
"Banmu, drive carefully!" Banmu was about to set out to hunt wild horses. Cheng Mo looked at Banmu worriedly. Even though Banmu was now strong enough to kill a group of wild elephants alone, in Cheng Mo's eyes, Banmu was still the orc who fainted from hunger in the wild.
"I got it! Xiaomo, just stay here and wait for me to come back." After saying that, Banmu's body shape suddenly changed, turning into a wild beast, flapping his wings and flying straight into the sky.
The wild horses that were eating leisurely suddenly felt a huge shadow above their heads. They became alert and raised their heads. It would be fine if they didn't look, but they were shocked when they saw it! They saw a huge winged tiger with wings several meters wide hovering in the air. Its eyes as big as copper bells stared at them fiercely, giving off a chilling aura.
The sudden change frightened the wild horses, and they instinctively let out sharp neighs, as if sending danger signals to their companions. Then, the wild horses that had originally gathered together fled in all directions in an instant, and the scene became chaotic.
However, the Banmu did not dive down to attack immediately, it seemed to have its own plan. It soared quietly in the air, carefully observing the horses running wildly below, trying to find their leader.
Gradually, the horses on the ground seemed to realize that Banmu would not pounce on them for the time being, so they began to gather again, and under the leadership of their leader, they adjusted their formation and continued to run forward.
Seeing the change in the behavior of the horses, Banmu finally locked onto his target - the strong and hairy leader of the herd. He opened his bloody mouth without hesitation, let out a deafening roar, and then pounced directly at the leader of the herd at lightning speed.
The leader of the herd had no time to react and was knocked to the ground by the powerful impact. He struggled to get up from the ground, but the bamu was too heavy and no matter how hard he tried, it was useless. The other frightened wild horses became more and more panicked. They stood far away and whenever anyone dared to try to escape, the bamu would roar again to warn them, scaring the wild horses so much that they trembled and dared not even move. They could only pace back and forth anxiously.
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