Chapter 236 The clothing workshop is operating well, making some for the other flower fairies...
Having just said goodbye to his mother, Pepper was momentarily dazed. He paused for a moment before snapping back to reality and quickly replied:
"The spinning machines are running and have already produced several batches of magic cloth. Everyone wants wind and wood magic cloth, and some have chosen light magic cloth. Magic cloth of other attributes is still piled up in the warehouse. There are no finished products yet because everyone is still collecting materials and there are too many uncertainties in the dyeing process."
Having composed himself, the business officer asked earnestly, "My Lady Flower Fairy, are we going to sell those stockpiled magic cloths?"
Shu Xin thought for a moment and said, "Tell each caravan to take some with them, go out and see how things go. When the Magic Tree caravan returns, we can tell them to take some with them too. This kind of cloth should sell quite well if we sell it outside."
The water fairy priestess was quite proud of her improved formula for magic cloth. The main product of the caravan that the wind fairy Popsorp belonged to was the blueprint for a spinning machine. Qinqinlar's family treasury had a lot of magical materials that were directly used as raw materials for magic cloth. Obviously, this kind of magic cloth was quite popular among humans and fairies.
Pepe nodded and made a note of it.
As a business officer, he was aware of the real mission his mother was undertaking on this trip. In fact, he had hesitated to dissuade her when she decided to sign up, but he ultimately gave up the idea. It wasn't that he wasn't worried about his mother's safety, but rather that he knew clearly that even if he tried to persuade her, she wouldn't listen.
Isn't it dangerous to travel and trade outside of Ganal? Yet my mother still leads my sisters on their daily journeys.
Every bite of food he ate at home, every bottle of potion he drank while sick, was earned little by little by his mother and her companions through various natural disasters. The fact that he was able to grow up healthy and safe instead of starving or dying of illness can be said to be entirely due to his mother's caravan.
His mother was willing to risk everything for the family before, and she is now willing to risk everything for this sinful place. What right or qualification does he have to dissuade her?
But Peppert's worries and fears were hard to dispel. That was his mother, and knowing that the risks of her trip were far greater than usual, how could he not be worried and afraid!
But when he heard the Flower Fairy calmly and casually mention the arrangements for the Magic Tree Caravan's return journey in a very ordinary tone, his heart, which had been pounding, suddenly calmed down.
With the Flower Goddess above and under her protection, the Flower Fairy has transformed what was once a desolate and sinful land into a lush and prosperous territory in just over two years. With the Flower Fairy by our side, Mother and the others will surely return safely.
After seeing off the Magic Tree caravan, Shu Xin was also feeling uneasy. She instructed the Tree of Life to immediately notify her if any members of the Magic Tree caravan suffered any bleeding or injury. Then, she turned her attention to the newly built clothing workshop in her territory.
The clothing workshop complex built according to Shu Xin's vision can be described as a large-scale assembly line. Flower fairies can participate in every aspect of clothing production. In addition to the material and style, the most important thing about a garment is its color. Naturally, flower fairies can also dye the fabrics with different colors according to their own preferences in the clothing workshop.
Magic cloth is directly generated by the alchemical spinning machine. Given the current level of alchemy in the Sinful Lands, it is not possible to arbitrarily change the material and properties of magic cloth. Therefore, regardless of the type or quantity of raw materials put into the spinning machine, the final material produced is very similar, and the properties are completely fixed and cannot be changed.
In addition, the design of the clothing style is positioned further back, which led to the situation Peppert mentioned:
The flower fairies are currently focused on figuring out how to dye the fabric.
The inherent magical properties of the magic cloth dictate that the coloring process is subject to certain limitations. Furthermore, since the workshop itself does not provide weaving materials or dyeing materials, the flower fairies must collect various materials on their own.
Although the properties of the magic cloth are fixed, the various dyeing materials collected by the flower fairies have a wide range of properties. Therefore, whether it can be dyed, whether the dyed color is pure or mixed, and whether it meets the expected effect are all unknown. There are even cases where the dyeing materials directly ruin the magic cloth.
Wind and wood-type magic cloths are the easiest to color, followed by light-type magic cloths. As for other types of cloths, they are not easy to handle. The flower fairies pragmatically chose the first three types of magic cloths, and the rest were naturally put into stock.
However, the flower fairies in other territories are still wearing the clothes given to them by the Tree of Life. Shu Xin thinks that if the caravan brings magic cloth to sell, it should be able to open up the market.
After all, regardless of its properties, magical fabric is brighter and more attractive than the commoner uniforms of the Tree of Life. If it's not used as clothing but simply as a blanket, it's definitely softer and more comfortable than a straw blanket.
It seems that dyeing magic cloth has become a pastime for the flower fairies in the Land of Sin. Shu Xin thought she should tell the officials later, lest another flower fairy end up in the medical room trying to collect dyeing materials.
Having confirmed that the garment workshops were functioning well, and that farming and animal husbandry in the Land of Sin were proceeding as usual after the harvest month, Shu Xin continued her research.
The flower fairy caravans that traveled abroad brought back a lot of seeds one after another, and Shu Xin has been trying to plant and cultivate them.
The magical concentration in the Land of Sin has returned to normal levels, but because it is located in the northernmost part of the Garnar Plains and borders the Twin Moon Snowfield, the climate here is still colder for the flower fairies compared to other territories. As a result, many crop seeds collected by the flower fairy caravan from other places do not grow very well in the Land of Sin.
This is also because the seeds that were specially exchanged back later were mostly seeds of cash crops. These magical plants require flower fairies with planting magic talent to take good care of them in the local area. Not only are the external environment of the Sinful Land unsuitable, such as temperature, humidity, and light, but Shu Xin herself also does not have any planting magic talent, so she naturally cannot grow them well.
The crops in the Sinful Land, not to mention the crisp wheat and sweet wheat, as well as the various berry trees, and plants like creeping grass, clover, reeds, and fluffy flowers, all look so lush and bountiful thanks to the diligent and meticulous care of the flower fairies with their planting magic talents day after day. Of course, the green, environmentally friendly, and pollution-free pesticides also play a significant role. But even so, these plants are not as abundant as their wild counterparts in other territories.
The flower fairies felt they had ample food and a prosperous life for two reasons: one was that Shu Xin directly exempted them from the magic tax; another was that the Land of Sin did not suffer from frequent natural disasters like other territories; and the main reason, however, was that Shu Xin had developed a wider variety of food sources for the Land of Sin.
As for staple foods, acorns, which are originally so bitter that they are hard to swallow, are transformed into magical acorn flour after processing. They can be baked into fluffy and soft acorn bread or cooked into a rich and flavorful acorn flour soup.
As for vegetables, there are delicious mushrooms, various water vegetables, and all kinds of fresh moss that are constantly supplied by the underground city;
As for meat, there is fish from the underground city and snow mutton from the farm;
Even the choice of seasonings is very rich. In addition to salt powder and sugar powder, there is also MSG powder to enhance the flavor and sour dried fruit with a unique flavor. After discovering that moss can be made into sugar, there are also extremely sweet moss saccharin and moss syrup.
With plenty of staple foods, a variety of crisp and delicious vegetables, savory and tempting meats, and a variety of flavorful seasonings, plus the equally magical gray bird eggs, along with a dazzling array of recipes and desserts, the flower fairies naturally found the daily diet in the Land of Sin to be extremely rich and varied.
However, the sources of these foods were limited to the land of sin and had little reference value for other territories.
The flower fairies outside the Land of Sin still have to painstakingly tend to the wheat fields, only to have most of their crops taken away by the magic tax. They can only fill their stomachs by picking berries and leaves, gathering dried fruits and mushrooms, and exchanging food with friendly monsters. At the same time, they also have to fight hard against frequent disasters and regularly attacking monsters from the outer continent.
Now that the development and construction of the Land of Sin is on track, Shu Xin really wants to do something for the flower fairies in the other territories of Ganar.
The caravans from the Land of Sin were indeed selling acorn wine, acorn powder, and various dried fruits. Later, dried mushrooms, dried moss, dried watercress, and sugar-cured eggs, fish, and mutton that could be preserved for a long time were also added to the product list. However, this could only improve the lives of the flower fairies to a very limited extent and could not fundamentally save them from their current predicament.
The king has adopted a completely passive approach towards the Land of Sin, but the magic tax will likely still be collected. The previous massive drought left most of Ganar's territories with no harvest, so the magic tax probably won't be collected at all, which is why no patrols have come to the Land of Sin. But the drought is over, and Shu Xin thinks the patrols should be coming to the Land of Sin soon to continue collecting taxes.
Shu Xin had no intention of clashing with the king. She was still unclear about what had happened three thousand years ago. She planned to pay her taxes normally, hoping that the king wouldn't be so shameless as to make exorbitant demands.
Given the current situation, Shu Xin, who is living in the Land of Sin, obviously cannot abolish the magic tax of the Kingdom of Garnar. If she wants to completely change the survival plight of the flower fairies in other territories, she can only try to find new types of food crops.
Shu Xin had considered bitter wheat, but unfortunately, this crop from the Snow Clan was not resistant to high temperatures. With the current humidity and temperature of the rainy season in the Land of Sin, the bitter wheat was greatly affected, and the yield dropped significantly. The bitter wheat that Shu Xin tried to have the caravan take out to plant also withered and died.
Why isn't there a grain crop that is easy to grow, doesn't require special care, has a high yield, is very nutritious, and tastes great?
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