From a Slave to a Overlord, My Experience with the Beast World

"That's it, let's start picking them, just the white petals will do."

After saying that, Li Mingsheng started to work. Picking cotton is not a very tiring job, but it is a bit tedious. It also requires hunching the back for a long time, which can easily cause backaches.

Several people worked together and picked a small piece of cotton by noon. This stuff was not heavy and was light, but because it was fluffy, it could not be put in enough. Li Mingsheng and his team even compacted it deliberately, but it still filled up the backpack quickly.

"Go back first, come back in the afternoon and bring more people."

When they came again in the afternoon, the team was much larger. Lan and his collection team had returned early, so Li Mingsheng called them to join them.

With the addition of these twenty or so sub-orcs, the speed became much faster.

For five consecutive days, with the help of Lan and other sub-orcs in the gathering team and other orcs who came back from hunting, all the cotton on the endless hillside had been collected by the tribe.

In total, we picked about 5,000 kilograms of cotton, including seeds.

Li Mingsheng looked at the white cotton on the bamboo mat and felt satisfied. This was more than enough to give each person in the tribe an eight-jin quilt.

It was late autumn and most of the plants had turned yellow. The collecting team had been out for several days but had not gained much. Fortunately, there were enough lotus roots, and the tribe had pickled large-leafed vegetables in more than a dozen large jars. They also had a lot of other miscellaneous dried vegetables in stock. Li Mingsheng simply told the collecting team not to go out and processed the cotton directly in the tribe to make quilts.

The hunting team has brought back fewer and fewer exotic beasts, and many of them have already migrated before the snow season arrives.

Li Mingsheng specially made a tool for removing cotton seeds. It was made of two round bamboos placed close together, and a handle was made on the right side of one of them to make it roll.

Put the cotton in and roll a bamboo stick, and the cotton and seeds will be separated.

He and Lan and the other sub-orcs made dozens of them, and then let them process the cotton seeds themselves.

Because there were dozens of people involved, the task was completed in less than two days.

The cotton after removing the seeds still looked very firm. Li Mingsheng taught them how to twist the cotton into thread and made tools to fluff the cotton. After fluffing the cotton, it became as fluffy as clouds and needed to be sewn up with a net bag made of thread.

Li Mingsheng first taught them how to make a bed, and then left the rest to Lan Hehui and the others.

He had something more important to do, which was to build temporary houses for the tribe before the snow season.

Li Mingsheng’s plan was to build two dormitories not far from the altar and then put kangs on them.

This way they can sleep here during the snow season, and when more houses are built next spring, this room can also be converted into a dining hall.

"Chief, everyone is here." Because they had to build houses for themselves, the people in the tribe were particularly concerned. They had no complaints about Li Mingsheng's order to suspend their hunting. After all, it was late autumn now, and exotic beasts were becoming increasingly difficult to find.

"Okay, we already know how to build a toilet before, now we are building our own house to withstand the wind and snow, so we can't be careless."

Li Mingsheng emphasized again that they must not cut corners. After all, it is their own residence. It would be bad if the house collapsed due to shoddy construction.

"Chief, we understand."

"Okay, let's get started."

As Li Mingsheng finished his words, the orcs all worked hard, some digging the soil, some moving stones. In less than a day, the foundations of the two dormitories were laid.

Although there are relatively few sub-orcs in the tribe at present, Li Mingsheng and the others did not say that the sub-orcs would be made that small. Overall, they are just a little smaller than the orcs.

When they started laying bricks and putting up beams, both orcs and sub-orcs came to help. Except for Lan and Hui who were making quilts, Wenqing's team, and Shu and his team who were responsible for making paper, almost everyone in the tribe came.

The entire tribe worked together and completed the project quickly in less than three days. Now all that’s left is to cover it with tiles and seal the roof.

For the beams, Li Mingsheng specially selected ebony, which is very hard and strong, and also resistant to decay. It is an excellent building material and can protect the house for at least a dozen years.

After it was completed, Li Mingsheng and Yanli even held a simple inauguration ceremony.

There are rows of kangs in the house. With the coming of the snow season, Li Mingsheng still wants the whole tribe to live together first. When it gets warmer in spring, he will build more houses and arrange the orcs and sub-orcs to live in according to their contributions.

"Wow, is this the house we are going to live in from now on? It's so big and bright!"

These days, different orcs and sub-orcs come into the house every day to watch.

They were all amazed at the magic of the Creator. They never expected that their own hands could build such a beautiful house.

"The chief said that we will sleep here when the snow season comes."

For the people of Jiuzhou tribe, sleeping together is not a strange thing. After all, before Li Mingsheng and his companions arrived, when Shen Ya was still there, except for Shen Ya, the leader, the law enforcement team and the captains of each hunting team, they basically slept in the same cave.

After building the house, Li Mingsheng organized the orcs of the tribe to cut wood and build charcoal kilns.

After all, the coldness of the snow season is obvious to all. Li Mingsheng has never seen the snow season on the Mimixi Plain, but he has heard from Jin Wu that the snow season here is also extremely cold, although the wind and snow will be blocked by the surrounding mountains.

But the severity of the situation ranges from frostbite to freezing to death.

After a few more busy days, the people of the Jiuzhou tribe prepared everything while the wind was still roaring.

A small kitchen was built next to the dormitory to prepare tribal food for Wenqing and his friends during the snow season. In addition, a small house was built next to the two large dormitories. It is the residence of Li Mingsheng and Yanli, and also their temporary office for handling tribal affairs.

The next day, when everything was ready, the tribesmen had moved into the dormitory. Everyone was given a quilt. In order to save cotton, the quilt cover was made of animal skin. They even got a set of cotton-padded clothes and trousers.

Because it was made in a hurry, the stitches are crooked and the cotton is not evenly spread, some places are thin and some places are thick.

"It's snowing." When Yanli came in from outside, there were already some snowflakes floating in the sky, and these snowflakes were dancing in the air as if they had life.

"No wonder it's so cold today." Li Mingsheng looked at the snow falling outside, which was mixed with some freezing rain.

I secretly sighed in my heart that this year's snow season is much worse than previous years.

Not only Yanli and Limingsheng noticed the snow outside, but almost everyone in the Jiuzhou tribe, except the children, had already gotten up. Looking at the wind and snow outside, they sat on the kang, hugging their quilts, and for a moment they felt that they were very lucky.

The people of Jiuzhou tribe felt a little sorry when they thought about those who left the tribe with Zhuo Qing and the others. They wondered if they could withstand such cold wind and snow!