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

The hemp stalks were soaked for more than ten days. This process is called retting. It took much longer than the last time to confirm whether it was hemp stalks. Although Yanli didn't quite understand, he didn't ask too much. He believed that Li Mingsheng must have his own reasons for doing this.

Li Mingsheng seemed to have guessed Yan Li's doubts and explained, "Before, we just wanted to confirm whether it was hemp stalks, so we simply soaked them for two days and confirmed it after peeling the skin. But now it's different. We are going to make hemp thread, so we can't be careless. We must soak the hemp stalks for a sufficient amount of time to decompose the colloid on the hemp skin and make the fibers inside spread out."

Yanli heard from the other party something that he had never come into contact with before: what are differential objects?

It’s a pity that Li Mingsheng didn’t have the same tacit understanding with him this time, and Yanli didn’t ask any further questions. He just needed to know that he had to do this, and he didn’t necessarily have to know the reason.

Ten days later, Li Mingsheng and Yanli fished out the thoroughly soaked hemp stalks, tore off the hemp skins, and started spinning.

Li Mingsheng first split the hemp fibers into relatively thin threads. Since manual splitting was slow, he also specially made a very small comb to split the threads.

Speaking of combs, in the spring, Li Mingsheng specially made one for Yanli. It was made of ebony and was particularly strong. Yanli had medium-long hair, so he made it specially for her. Li Mingsheng himself had short hair, so he didn't keep one for himself.

Speaking of the process of making this small comb, Li Mingsheng suddenly had an idea and made a big one, intending to use it to comb Yanli's animal-shaped hair.

After the comb was polished, Li Mingsheng started to use the small comb. While splitting the thread, he used a small round wheel made of stone as a spinning wheel. He hung one end of the fiber and held it in one hand. He rotated the aramid wheel to gradually stretch the fiber and twist it into thread.

Li Mingsheng continued this operation for five days before he finally made all the hemp stalks into hemp ropes. Looking at the bundles of hemp ropes, Li Mingsheng felt a great sense of accomplishment. However, he became a little discouraged when he thought about weaving cloth. In the manual era, it took a long time to do these things. In modern times, it would save a lot of effort if these things were done directly by machines.

He encouraged himself!

Li Mingsheng took some of the fiber hemp raw materials that had been made into thread and flattened, tightened, and rolled them up on a wooden frame to make the warp, and wound the rest around a wooden shuttle to make the weft. This wooden shuttle was specially made by him, and he made two sets in total. Yanli also followed him to weave the cloth.

After nearly half a month of rest, the injury on his left shoulder has healed, and it doesn't matter if he doesn't do strenuous exercise.

The two of them used simple foot pedals and hand-held devices to open the mouth, lift the reed, and throw the shuttle. At the beginning, their movements were very clumsy and they stumbled a lot, but fortunately, Yanli and Limingsheng were both quick learners, and after a morning, they gradually became proficient and their speed increased.

The woven cloth is wound around the warp beam, and when it reaches the appropriate length, Li Mingsheng cuts it into pieces.

Yanli looked at the linen made by his hands, stroked it gently, then looked up at Li Mingsheng, his eyes sparkling, as if all the stars were in his eyes.

"So light, so thin, and feels so good!" Yanli touched the linen cloth very carefully, fearing that his claws would accidentally tear it.

"What's the big deal? If I find silk, I can make you a set of softer, smoother and more comfortable material!" Li Mingsheng looked at the other party and assured him.

"Softer and more comfortable?" Yanli nodded vigorously. He knew that Li Mingsheng had this ability, but when he thought of the gap between himself and Li Mingsheng, Yanli couldn't help but feel weak. Now the only help he could give to Li Mingsheng was to work hard to become stronger.

It took the two of them nearly seven days to turn all the hemp threads into linen cloth. By the time they finished making the linen clothes, it was already early summer.

"Brother Li, does it look good?" Yanli asked while turning around, wearing the linen clothes that Li Mingsheng had just made.

Li Mingsheng made three sets of linen clothes for each of them, one set with long pants and long sleeves, and two sets with short sleeves and shorts.

Long pants are used when entering the woods to avoid being cut by the grass!

For this set of shorts, Li Mingsheng made them in cardigan style, with several hemp ropes for tying them up.

Looking at Yanli wearing the clothes he made, revealing her collarbone and a little bit of her chest, and her long legs in the lower body, she looked well-proportioned and powerful.

"It looks good!" Li Mingsheng replied with a smile. It is indeed beautiful.

The other party has been getting better and better these days, and after absorbing all the essence of the giant wolf beast, he has successfully been promoted to a six-star orc warrior.

He looked more energetic than before, and his long hair was smooth after being washed with soap. He tied it behind his back with a hemp rope.

Yanli was very happy to get a positive reply. If there were other spectators, Li Mingsheng judged that he might be like a peacock, spreading his feathers everywhere.

In addition to making clothes, Li Mingsheng also kept a large piece of linen for covering at night, and used the rest to make a pair of loose shorts for each of them to use as pajamas, and also made a few pairs of linen shoes.

For several days, Yanli was so tired that she wore three sets of linen clothes in turn, even the long-sleeved one was worn under the scorching sun. The days passed in such a busy manner, and in the blink of an eye, it was already midsummer.

The sun in the sky was scorching and hot! At the end of early summer, Li Mingsheng successfully broke through to the level of a seven-star orc warrior.

For a warrior at this stage, it is not particularly difficult to get promoted. An average orc warrior can achieve this with a decade of hard work. What is rare is for a warrior to be promoted to the level of a general, and this requires something to break through.

That is the level-breaking fruit. This thing is relatively difficult to come across. It is usually hidden in deep mountains and forests, and is guarded by high-level exotic beasts.

However, for Yanli, Li Mingsheng's promotion speed was very fast, and even he himself benefited from it. In just half a beast year, he was promoted from a two-star orc warrior to a six-star orc warrior.

"It's too hot. Let's make some mung bean soup and add some honey to get rid of the heat!" Li Mingsheng arranged while fanning himself with a cattail leaf fan.

They came across the mung beans by chance about two hours after they entered Wugui Mountain. Li Mingsheng saw that they were ripe, so he picked them all at once. He also found the honey about a hundred meters away from the trap in the back mountain.

As spring passes, honey becomes sweet.

When Li Mingsheng brought it back, Yanli ate it for many days in a row, either soaking it in honey water or eating it with starch root.

It can be seen that he really likes sweet food!

"You go and make a fire, I don't want to go!" Yanli became lazy after entering midsummer, and he especially liked to stick to Li Mingsheng.

Orcs with fur are not as heat-resistant as cold-blooded animals like Dawnborn.