There was no wedding leave at that time, so Lu Yan still had to get up early for training the day after his wedding, and then return to the carpentry team to work after the training.

Qiao Yu also arrived there and asked Lu Yan, "How's the spinning wheel I asked you to make a while ago?"

In the summer, Mang sheared the goats according to Qiao Yu's instructions; when winter came, the tribe slaughtered a group of goats and accumulated a batch of wool.

These were ordinary goats, not sheep. Their wool wasn't very abundant, and the quality wasn't particularly good. Qiao Yu was under the impression that only sheep wool could be spun into yarn, not goat wool. But regardless, she wanted to try it. So she decided to build a spinning wheel.

Anyway, they harvested a crop of hemp this year, though not much, only a dozen or so plants. After carefully saving the seeds, she planned to see if she could spin the hemp into thread. After all, a spinning wheel would be useful. Next year, they would have more hemp, and by then they would be able to weave linen cloth.

After Qiao Yu returned to the tribe some time ago, he asked the women to use wood ash to wash and dry the goat hair, and asked the carpentry team to make a spinning wheel.

If wool could not be spun into thread, she planned to teach women to sew wool into soft animal skins to make down jackets or duvets for newborn babies. Now that they had iron needles, and when they could spin linen, it would be much easier for women to sew clothes.

The linen clothes of the Shifang tribe were obviously woven on looms, but I don't know if they even have spinning wheels. When Shuiyue stayed in the Shifang tribe, she was mostly locked up in Ji Er's house and couldn't come into contact with many things, so she knew nothing about this.

Qiao Yu had no choice but to rely on the few memories she had from her past life and had Lu Yan find her a skilled carpenter to build a spinning wheel according to her instructions. The previous spinning wheel had been unsuccessful, so this time Qiao Yu improved on the original one.

At their pace, Dragon Tribe Spinning Wheel version 1.1 should be finished today. Lu Yan was the captain of the carpentry team. Although Qiao Yu personally directed the work of the team members, she still consulted Lu Yan first, as a sign of respect for the team leader.

"Ah? It seems... it's done." Lu Yan knew very well how strict Qiao Yu was with her work, and he couldn't help feeling guilty when he heard her ask this.

He had been so preoccupied with the matter of getting married these days that he hadn't paid any attention to the spinning wheel.

Qiao Yu glanced at him, said nothing, and turned to find Yun Liang, who was in charge of the spinning wheel.

"It's done. Yu, take a look and see if it works." Yun Liang said quickly.

Yun Liang is the Liang from the original Valley Tribe. Because there were few women in the tribe, he was not strong enough, and was not good at hunting, so he was still a bachelor in his forties.

Since joining the carpentry team, he has become the best carpenter in the team with his dexterous hands. Although Lu Yan is smarter than him, his mind is not on carpentry. He is obsessed with hunting and has fallen behind Yun Liang in carpentry.

After being rejected by Shan, Bai Xue searched the tribe for a man and finally chose Yun Liang. Three days ago, she married into Yun Liang's family with her children. Yun Liang was in high spirits and worked extra hard these days.

He took out the spinning wheel and said to Qiao Yu, "I've tried it. It should work fine. I can crank the handle and the wheel will spin. But I still don't understand how to use it to make thread from wool."

Qiao Yu didn't say anything.

While traveling, she had played with a hand-cranked spinning wheel at a tourist attraction and, curiously, studied its mechanism. She learned that it consisted of a wooden frame, spindle, pulley, and handle. At the time, she was spinning pre-made yarn. As for how to spin individual strands of wool on a spinning wheel, she needed to learn more.

She wanted to share her idea and ask Yunliang or someone with a more flexible mind to try it out. But she still had some familiarity with spinning wheels; she had made this one. If she didn't try it herself and let someone else tinker with it, it probably wouldn't take a year or two to see any results.

So she had to do it herself, designing the spinning wheel, learning how to spin, and then teaching others. There was no other way, because she had no talent at all and had to start from scratch.

When she came, she brought some clean wool.

Sitting down at the spinning wheel, she twisted the wool, trying to draw thread from it.

And then... she failed.

After failing several times, she finally realized that goat hair was too hard and too short, and had little fluff, so it was impossible to spin yarn into it.

She threw away the goat's hair, took the hemp that had been soaked in water and beaten, and began to spin the hemp thread.

This time it actually worked.

Although the yarn she spun was uneven, with some thicker and some thinner, and she nearly broke it due to the lack of coordination between her hands, this was not a problem. As long as a skilled woman could spin a uniform hemp yarn, she would definitely be able to do so.

"It can actually be made into thread?" Yun Liang was amazed when he saw that after the hemp passed through the spinning wheel, it became a long thread wrapped around the spinning wheel, and its toughness also became a bit stronger.

The boat builders nearby saw them testing the spinning wheel and had already gathered around. Someone asked, "Is this the kind of clothing people from the Sifang tribes wear?"

Shuiyue also came over to watch. She laughed when she heard this and said, "Not everyone in the Sifang tribe wears linen. Only a few people of high status can wear it. Everyone else still wears animal skins."

After a pause, she continued, "Actually, I think our Dragon Tribe is much better than them. They don't make pants out of animal skins. It's very cold during the snowy season."

Speaking of this, the people of the Dragon Tribe immediately became proud: "That's right. This is all taught to us by Yu. Yu is the smartest person."

In the past, they used to wrap animal skins around their waists and legs to cover their modesty and keep out the cold. But only after wearing pants did they realize how insulated they were.

Because we had to walk a lot, and go hunting in the mountains in late autumn and early spring, we couldn't wrap animal skins below our ankles, but only a little above. Because they were hollow, the wind would really make our butts cold, and no matter how many layers of animal skin we wore, it wouldn't keep us warm.

Now that they had pants, that problem no longer existed. They were both warm and convenient for movement. With pants, they were so proud to see other tribes wearing only animal skins around their waists.

To prevent people from other tribes from following their example, they went out to attend the trade fair in late spring and early summer last year without wearing pants. Fortunately, the weather was hot at that time, so not wearing pants was just right.

Qiao Yu had long since turned a deaf ear to this level of flattery.

She stood up and said to Yunliang, "You try spinning it."

Everyone had been eager to try out the spinning wheel. In fact, they had wanted to try it out since it was made yesterday. But they had no wool or flax, so they had to give it a try.

Seeing that Qiao Yu actually let Yun Liang try it, everyone was envious.