Chapter 16 Weaving Look! This is cloth!
His father, Feng Gui, stood in the crowd, his face also showing obvious interest!
Is spinning and weaving really that appealing? My family is about to receive a batch of yarn!
Yu Yan recalled that a few days ago, when she asked the people in the tribe to help move the three-leaf vines back, Feng Gui was shocked that he had cut down too many.
Well, now it's someone who feels it's not enough, but he won't say...
Actually, Feng Gui wanted to go along not just because he wanted the thread and cloth, but more because it had been a long time since he had spent time with the people in the tribe at night.
Yu Yan has been a bit slow-witted since childhood. When her partner Ruihua was still alive, Feng Gui had some freedom.
Since Ruihua's accident, Fenggui has spent all his time working and taking care of the children.
He had almost forgotten that he used to be a sub-orc who liked to wander around.
Looking at the enthusiastic smiling faces and listening to everyone's lively discussion, Feng Gui couldn't be more envious.
Sigh, there's still so much chores to do at home, and I haven't even made dinner yet... He's even more worried about leaving Yu Yan home alone...
“Father,” Yu Yan suddenly called out to him.
"Hmm?" The handsome young man turned around in confusion.
Yu Yan suddenly smiled and said, "If you want to go, then go with me."
Feng Gui was taken aback: "How did you know... I guess I won't go."
Yu Yan: "There's nothing urgent at home, I can take my time. The ingredients are readily available, so cooking dinner won't be a problem."
"I'm not the same as before, so you can go have fun without worry. There's no need to rush back."
Feng Gui blinked, a surge of emotion welling up in his heart, his eyes slightly reddening.
After a moment of eye contact, he smiled happily, his features vivid, as if he had returned to his youth.
"I'm going then. Do you want to come?"
"I won't go, I want to rest at home." This was sincere.
After working for so many days in a row, and even staying up all night yesterday, he really wants to lie down for a while.
Feng Gui didn't try to persuade him any further.
Before long, the group assembled. He waved to Yu Yan, spread his black wings, and flew away into the distance with the main force.
Yu Yan looked up at his dashing and happy back, her smile deepening.
Turning her head, she was immediately met with Lan Xiu's icy blue eyes.
"Aren't you going?" Yu Yan asked in surprise.
Lan Xiu: "Hmm, I don't want to go. Let's pack together."
Yu Yan felt embarrassed. Even Lan Xiu, that "lazy" orc, had been busy for two days.
"No..." He had barely uttered a single word when Lan Xiu had already started.
"Never mind." Yu Yan chuckled and walked over briskly to help Lan Xiu with his work.
After tidying up the area under the ginkgo tree, Lanxiu helped prepare the ingredients and start the fire, while Yuyan cooked dinner for the three of them.
"Lanxiu, let's eat first. My father and the others have finally gone out for a trip, they won't be back too early, so we don't need to wait for them."
"OK."
By the time we finished eating, it was completely dark.
Thankfully, there are no mosquitoes in the Beast World, so staying up late isn't a problem.
Regarding the absence of mosquitoes, Yu Yan sincerely wished she could say, like the others here, "Thank you for the gift from the Beast God."
Yu Yan didn't let Lan Xiu wash the dishes and told him to go back and rest.
I took a cold bath by the stream and then ran back to my nest, shivering, to lie down.
When his body was tired, he felt sleepy quickly and fell asleep in less than three minutes.
In the middle of the night, half asleep, he heard rustling sounds coming from the bird's nest. He squinted his sleepy eyes and asked, "Uncle?"
"Yes, it's me," Feng Gui said softly. "Did I wake you up?"
"No...you cut down the three-leaf vines?"
"Yes, the beastmen also hunted two wild animals. I took the cut vines and we all went to the river to soak them."
"Mmm..." Yu Yan's voice grew softer and softer as she drifted off into a sweet dream once more.
The next morning, Yu Yan felt someone gently pushing him.
"Yu Yan, Xin Yu and the others said they want to take the shredded vegetables they cooked yesterday to the altar square to dry." Feng Gui's voice came into my ears.
Yu Yan gave a muffled reply, then sprouted wings and covered her head with them.
Feng Gui smiled helplessly, got up, and left the bird's nest.
By the time Yu Yan was fully awake, it was already broad daylight.
He climbed down the tree and saw Feng Gui come over, telling him about taking the silk to dry in the sun.
"I know..." Yu Yan scratched her head sheepishly, "I thought I was dreaming, haha."
Feng Gui also smiled: "Dinner's ready. Go wash up and come eat."
"Okay!"
I didn't see Lanxiu this morning; he probably went hunting.
After finishing her meal, Yu Yan didn't rush to the altar square. Instead, she dragged over the loom that she had mostly finished yesterday and spent a long time adjusting it.
Feng Gui then helped him with his work.
By the afternoon, all the tribe members who had been gathering and hunting had returned.
After putting their things away, they immediately took the dried kudzu leaves and rushed to Yu Yan's house.
Last night, almost half the tribe went out to cut vines, and the news that Yu Yan was spinning thread to weave cloth had already spread throughout the tribe.
Therefore, the number of people who came today is three to four times that of yesterday.
Even from a distance, Yin Qing exclaimed excitedly, "Yu Yan! We brought you back the dried silk threads! Can we spin them now?"
Yu Yan responded with a shout: "Let me see it first—"
"Coming right now—"
The area under the ginkgo tree has become lively and bustling once again.
Yu Yan examined the kudzu root; it had turned from yellowish-brown to snow-white after being dried in the sun. It felt delicate and smooth to the touch, and when she pulled it slightly, it was quite resilient.
“That’s enough!” Yu Yan said, taking out his spindle.
Many of the sub-orcs around him laughed and said, "We have some too!"
Then they took out spindles, some made of stone and some made of pure wood.
This time it was Yu Yan's turn to admire: "Didn't you go to cut vines last night? You still managed to make a spindle."
A master of time management!
Xin Yu smiled and said, "Making a spindle is not difficult."
Xue Fei also brought Qiu Ze over today. The two of them, one big and one small, both looked at Yu Yan with bright, sparkling eyes.
"Shall we help you spin the thread?"
Yu Yan smiled and nodded: "I'll teach everyone."
"Uh-huh!"
There weren't enough stones and wooden stumps under the tree to sit on, but no one cared and just sat down around Yu Yan on the ground.
Yu Yan rolled the kudzu thread into a ball and slowly wrapped it around her wicker pole so that everyone could see it more clearly.
"...By rotating the spinning wheel below, you can spin thread using the force of the rotation. Anyone who has a spindle can give it a try."
There were plenty of kudzu leaves, but the sheer number of people made up for it.
You grab a clump, I grab a handful, and before we've even had a chance to satisfy our cravings, it's all spun into thread.
"Sigh, when will my three-leaf vine be ready?" Yinqing complained, resting her chin on her hand. "I want to spin the thread as soon as possible."
A sub-orc named Jinxia chimed in, "I want to too."
Yu Yan: "It will happen very quickly, in a few days."
He reeled in the thread and turned to look for Feng Gui: "Father, could you help me drag the loom over here?"
Feng Gui: "Here we are!"
"A loom!"
"It's usable now, right?"
Everyone stood up, craning their necks in anticipation.
As everyone gathered around the loom, Yu Yan asked Yin Qing, "How are your claws?"
Yin Qing replied with a smile, "Completely healed! The thorn grass is especially effective."
Yu Yan nodded: "That's good. This axis is what I promised to give you. You can keep it for now and distribute it to everyone later."
Yin Qing's eyes lit up: "Okay!"
Yu Yan passed part of the remaining thread through the brush and wound it around the loom head, while the rest was used as weft thread.
Then, he sat at the front of the shelf, with both feet on the pedals, and stepped down with one foot.
The pedal is connected to a straw rope; pulling down the crossbar activates the brush.
The meridians are divided into an upper layer and a lower layer!
A small gasp of surprise rippled through the crowd.
After that, Yu Yan used the shuttle to pass through the middle of the warp threads, and the warp and weft threads intersected naturally. After being squeezed by the loom, the first step was considered a success.
"Phew..." Yu Yan breathed a sigh of relief.
Xin Yu asked with concern, "Will it work?"
Yu Yan: "Pretty much. It seems there's a problem with the pedal. I'll think about how to fix it."
The entire loom was constructed using mortise and tenon joints and tied with straw ropes.
It was his first time doing this, and he had no experience, so the pedals didn't automatically rebound.
After getting off the loom, he squatted down and looked around for a while. Under the pedal, in the middle, there were two round logs.
This allows you to step back and forth, achieving the effect of moving the pedal up and down.
Feng Gui and the others originally thought that the loom was already quite ingenious to be able to weave so many threads at once, but they never expected that Yu Yan could improve it even further!
"Yu Yan, you're so clever," Yin Qing exclaimed. "Adding two logs makes the pedals even easier to use."
Everyone else nodded in agreement, looking at Yu Yan with a mixture of admiration and respect.
Yu Yan blushed from the praise, stood up, and said, "I'll improve it later, but for now, let's use it like this."
I heard this isn't even the best yet, and everyone's really looking forward to it.
Yu Yan sat back down and wove back and forth several times with the shuttle, revealing the basic shape of the cloth.
People gathered around the loom, their eyes burning with admiration and marveling at it.
"Look! This is cloth, isn't it?"
"My Beast God, the cloth is so thin!"
"If this were woven into a large area, it would look so beautiful!"
"The thread feels so good, the fabric must be slippery too, I really want to touch it."
As they talked, everyone turned to look at Yu Yan, their eyes gleaming with pleading, "Please let me knit one too, please."
Yu Yan was amused by them; she simply couldn't resist those expectant eyes.
"Why don't you give it a try?" he asked.
In an instant, he was overwhelmed by the screams of the orcs.
...
"Yes, Father, that's enough. You can come down now."
Yu Yan stood to the side of the loom, like a security guard, maintaining order.
A long line stretched from the front all the way to the loom.
After listening to Yu Yan finish speaking, Feng Gui reluctantly let go of the shuttle, glanced at the loom one last time, and then got off.
Xuefei, who was behind him, walked briskly to her seat and sat down, happily starting to weave.
Watching others weave fabric is so smooth, but when it's my turn, it's even more wonderful!
He knitted for a couple of seconds and fell in love with the tool. Look at how fine and neat the threads are arranged! No matter how skillful your hands are, you can't knit this kind of effect.
Qiu Ze clapped his hands in praise, "Father, you knit so well! You're amazing!"
Xue Fei couldn't help but smile, thinking to herself, "If I could use the woven fabric to make a dress for Qiu Ze, it would look absolutely gorgeous!"
The more Xuefei thought about it, the more enthusiastically she wove, her nimble fingers weaving back and forth with the shuttle, her expression one of utter madness.
When Yu Yan's prompting voice rang out, he asked in surprise, "Huh? Didn't I just start knitting?"
Many people exclaimed in unison, "You've been knitting for so long!"
"Hurry, it's my turn!"
"I'm so anxious, why isn't it my turn yet?"
Although the loom is good, everyone's skill level is different, and the cloth woven will not be the same.
After everyone had tried once, Yu Yan refused to let them weave anymore for the sake of aesthetics.
In the end, Feng Gui stayed up all night again to finish weaving the cloth.
With the cloth in hand, it was natural to make the "clothes" that Yu Yan had mentioned.
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