Chapter 333

In addition to making various distilled flower and leaf dews, Yu Sui also discovered another advantage of these flowers and leaves.

The linen cloth used for filtering was originally a very old dark yellow, but now it has been dyed purple and green.

He just washed it with clean water and found that the color was only slightly lighter, so it can be used as a dye.

The tribe has already planted a large amount of cotton, and will definitely weave a lot of cotton cloth in the future. It can't all be white, especially for making clothes. White looks good but it is easy to get dirty.

Besides, white clothes are fine as an embellishment, but it's hard not to associate white with something...

In winter, he joked with Barlow and asked him to find some minerals that could be used for dyeing. Barlow actually found a few kinds from the dwarves' collection, but there was not much cotton cloth in the tribe at that time, and Yu Sui had used up all the cloth he used and gave away, so he put it aside and only remembered it now.

In addition to mineral dyeing, pure natural plant dyes are also very good, the color retention time is also good, and the colors are more varied.

He just tried it, but some of the flowers were light in color, so he couldn't dye it successfully. It might also be that the linen was already colored. If he changed it to pure white cotton that was easy to color, maybe it would be successful.

It is spring now. When the fruits are ripe, many fruits can be used, such as grape skins and pomegranate peels in the previous life. It is said that lychee shells can also be used as dyes. I will try each of them slowly when the time comes.

As there was flower juice on hand, Yu Sui asked Xiaohua and the other cubs to go home and bring back a set of cotton clothes and soak them in the juice.

I played with tie-dyeing when I was traveling before I was 18 years old. I have a vague impression of it. I learned how to tie some patterns with hemp rope.

Female cubs naturally prefer beautiful things. Xiaohua, Fenfen and other female cubs lay in the front, guarding the basin where the clothes were soaking, waiting eagerly.

I don’t know if the bird-tribe beastmen are like those in the animal kingdom, where males are better at dressing up, but the beastmen Yu Sui has seen are all females who prefer to dress up, with a few males occasionally.

Loving beauty is a good thing. After Yu Sui makes skin care products, he plans to share some of them with his family members as a welfare benefit.

The floral dew is very successful, each with its own characteristics. It can also be used as perfume. Without chemicals, the fragrance lasts for a shorter time, but the advantage is that the smell is natural and very pleasant.

Yu Sui also became interested in becoming a perfumer, mixing different flavors of flower dew and grass dew in different proportions, and the smell is very wonderful.

When making floral dew, Yu Sui got an unexpected surprise, which was various essential oils.

After the distilled floral water has completely cooled down, the essential oil is on top. Yu Sui didn't have a dropper to suck it out, so he had to carefully pour the essential oil into a small bottle, write a label on it with white paper, and tie it on.

Fortunately, the dwarves made glass bottles, otherwise he would not be able to find a nice container to hold the floral dew. If he used a ceramic bowl to hold the floral dew, regardless of whether it looked good or not, it would evaporate in no time.

Glass is also difficult to make. The tribe has been very busy recently, and the dwarves have been assigned a lot of work. Many machines are made by them. Yu Sui's original plan to sell glassware was put aside for the time being.

The tribe no longer lacks gold coins, so the dwarves can just make enough glass bottles and jars for the tribe to use. Glass bottles are more tightly sealed and more beautiful.

"Brother Yu Sui, what's the point of making these? Can they be drunk?" Xiaohua sniffed the row of glass bottles in front of her.

In fact, Xiao Ding, who had been hiding aside and took a bite when Yu Sui wasn't paying attention, frowned and said, "It's definitely not that bitter..."

"Haha, you're cheating again." Xiaohua couldn't help but laugh at him.

Yu Sui's mouth corners curled up secretly. He could actually see clearly with his peripheral vision when Xiao Ding tasted it secretly. Moreover, the juice in the bottle was condensed from leaves. Even though water was added, the taste would definitely not be very good.

He happened to recognize the leaf and knew it was non-toxic, so he let Xiao Ding drink it secretly without any worries. As for the others, Yu Sui didn't know about them, so he couldn't let the little cubs drink them by mistake.

"These are floral dew and essential oils. They're what adults use to make perfume on their clothes. Don't drink them. What if some of them are poisonous?"

Anyway, the taste was not good. After hearing what Yu Sui and Xiao Ding said, many cubs lost interest in the flower dew.

The fluffy cat grabbed Xiao Ding's tail stealthily, then jumped up and ran away quickly.

Xiao Ding was already unhappy about eating something that tasted bad, so he immediately jumped up and chased after it to play with it.

It turns out that all cats are so neurotic, even cat orcs are no exception. It seems that this nature is in their genes.

Yu Sui smiled, lowered his head and continued to fiddle with the remaining flowers at hand, to see if he could find one with a better dyeing effect.

After finishing all these, the clothes were almost done soaking, so Yu Sui took out all the clothes, washed them with clean water and hung them up to dry. The colors were indeed quite good, especially those dyed with the biting flower. Although it was a gorgeous purple, the dyed clothes were not that purple, but more of a dark pink, which looked very beautiful.

The only thing is that Xiao Ding's clothes were soaked and turned dark pink...but he still liked it very much.

Yu Sui felt a little embarrassed watching the little ones cheering and jumping around under the clothes, but no one here should be prejudiced against colors. Xiao Ding's human form also had a bit of baby fat, so he would definitely look very cute in the clothes.

However, the pattern Yu Sui had deliberately made didn't take shape. He had originally wanted to make it into the shape of a butterfly or a flower, but unfortunately he didn't have the skills. It wasn't ugly, but the shape was unrecognizable...

Seeing that the little ones were very anxious, Yu Sui used wind magic to speed up the drying of the clothes.

The sun was scorching, and with the help of wind magic, the clothes dried in no time. The little cubs jumped up, picked up their clothes, turned into human form, put them on, and ran out to show off everywhere.

Light yellow, light pink, dark pink, and grass green, each one looks like an elf in a cartoon.

The dwarves and the argali have dark skin, so light-colored clothes look a bit strange to them, but they are quite happy with it.

Only Maomao was unhappy. He had just arrived in the Heitu tribe not long ago, and it was impossible for him to take clothes with him when he was escaping. When he was in human form, he only had a tattered fur coat. Now that the weather was hot, he didn't wear any clothes and rarely used his human form.

Everyone had at least one cotton shirt. When they heard that Yu Sui wanted to dye his clothes, they all picked out their favorite ones, except Maomao, who didn't have any.

Xiaochu hadn't left yet. He looked at the light green clothes in his arms. They were new cotton clothes he had just bought this winter. He felt a little reluctant to part with them, but he still handed them to Maomao and said, "You wear this."

Maomao turned his head away in disdain, swung his tail, and then jumped up and ran away nimbly.

"It's okay. I will exchange another batch of cotton cloth with the Xilen Caravan, and then ask Aunt Kara to make a new one for Maomao." Yu Sui looked at Maomao's back and comforted Xiaochu with a smile.