"Thanks!"
Qi Wenyuan bowed respectfully to him, "Thank you very much for your help!"
"There's no need for such a grand gesture!"
Helian Sihua was startled and quickly reached out to help the man up, saying, "I should be thanking you."
"I···"
"Stop with the 'you' and 'me' talk, I have something to do, I'm leaving now!"
Before she finished speaking, Helian Sihua ran away in a hurry as if she were being chased by a ghost.
"you···"
"Don't chase me, I really have to go!"
Qi Wenyuan withdrew his hand upon hearing the sound, and seeing him running further and further away, he turned to Gu Shiqian and whispered, "I didn't intend to chase after him either."
Gu Shiqian's lips twitched slightly. "You'd better speak less in the future."
"What's the meaning?"
Qi Wenyuan didn't react at first and asked blankly.
Gu Shiqian ignored him, picked up the ledger and said, "Think it over carefully yourself. I'm going to talk to Lao Tang and the others about purchasing supplies."
Now that the signal receiver problem is solved, the money in the account can be used.
We need to prepare in advance, otherwise countless people will lose their lives when the cold wave arrives.
Upon hearing this, Qi Wenyuan responded with an "oh" and urged, "Then hurry up and make sure you reach an agreement today."
"Know."
And so, Gu Shiqian left.
Qi Wenyuan, on the other hand, tentatively logged into the StarNet to check on Sang Ning's situation, but as always, he couldn't log in at all.
He tried entering the live stream directly, but it still didn't work.
From that moment on, he gave up completely, sighed, picked up his weapon, and walked out of the sand shelter. He then gathered people to kill insects and harvest thorny vines.
Meanwhile, after feeding himself and Emmanuel, Sanning and Louis gathered together to study how to make a loom and a bow for ginning cotton.
However, the two laymen got together and tried to figure it out, but they accomplished nothing. So, they squatted on the ground and stared at each other.
The monkey head mushroom walked past them, and after a couple of minutes it came back. Finding the two still staring at each other, it glanced at them, shook its head, and left again.
Before leaving, she reached out her thick bear paws and patted Sang Ning and Louis on the head respectively. When they looked up at her, she opened her mouth and made a sound, which, translated into common language that everyone could understand, was—
Don't argue or fight, friends should love each other, you know?
Sang Ning and Louis naturally couldn't understand the monkey head mushroom's instructions, but that didn't matter, as there were viewers in the live stream who were happy to translate for them.
So, the two people who shouldn't have understood, miraculously did.
"Okay, go do your thing, we need to discuss something."
Awkward and exasperated, Sang Ning dismissed the monkey head mushroom and asked Louis, "Don't you have any inspiration at all?"
Louis stared wide-eyed. "What inspiration could I possibly have? I've never even heard of those two things you're talking about before, let alone seen them. If you expect me to come up with an idea under these circumstances, I'm powerless to do it."
"Think of a way."
Sang Ning said in a deep voice, "If we don't get the loom working, we won't have any cloth or thread..."
"etc,"
Louis interrupted her, surprised, "A loom can make thread?"
"Maybe, possibly, perhaps?!"
Sang Ning herself wasn't sure, and spoke with great lack of confidence and assurance. Louis was speechless, squatting there pulling at his hair and glancing at her sideways, "Think carefully about how the loom works, and what the cotton-fluffing machine looks like."
Sanning, "!!!"
If she could figure it out, would she be stuck here at a loss?
But looking into Louis's piercing eyes, she paused for two seconds before saying, "Oh, I'll think about it some more, and you should think about it too."
"OK!"
So the two of them fell into deep thought again.
Emmanuel and his companions, who hadn't dared to say a word, finally couldn't bear to stay any longer and chose to leave. The atmosphere was too oppressive.
They can't help either. If they stay, it's fine if the two of them figure it out, but if they don't, they'll find them very annoying and take their anger out on them.
To avoid unnecessary trouble, it's best for them to stay away.
Do you think you can figure it out?
[The chances are slim; their furrowed brows and bitter, resentful expressions don't suggest they have any solutions.]
I wonder if the Center for Human History Research has any information about looms and cotton-fluffing machines.
[Just look it up and you'll find out.]
No, I graduated with a degree in human history, and I'm sure there's no relevant information about these two things in the human history we've studied. If Sang Ning hadn't said it, I wouldn't have known that such machines existed in human history.
There's also no relevant information or records regarding the plow and tractor she mentioned.
There's really nothing we can do about this. We can't even get them some outside help; they just have to rely on their own efforts.
However, some efforts are in vain, just like Sang Ning and Louis now. They've been brainstorming until their heads are about to explode, but they still don't have a clue.
As the weather gradually cooled down in the mornings and evenings, Sang Ning became increasingly anxious. She regretted a thousand and one times why she hadn't learned more from her teacher and the others.
If she had studied more, even if she hadn't studied well or succeeded, she wouldn't be in such a predicament now, as long as she had read those books.
Louis was equally anxious. Seeing Sang Ning sitting there in a daze, he pondered for a moment and then gritted his teeth and said, "Should we give it a try?"
How do we test it?
Sang Ning's eyes lit up instantly, and she turned to ask him, "You have an idea?"
"I have a slight idea, but I can't guarantee success."
Louis wasn't very confident, but he quickly calmed down. "However, I don't think there should be any major problems. At worst, we can just try a few more times. I can even build a bio-mech, so a loom and a cotton-fluffing machine shouldn't be a problem for me."
As he spoke, he took some charcoal, found a stone slab, and began to scribble.
"I remember you said that the earliest looms in human history were mainly powered by foot pedals, right?"
"right!"
Sang Ning had never seen an old-fashioned loom before; she had only seen them on television...
Thinking of the period dramas she used to watch, her eyes lit up instantly. "I remember now, I know what a loom looks like."
Even though the looms in TV dramas are props, props are still made based on real-life prototypes.
She snatched the charcoal from Louis's hand, pushed him aside, and then, with sparkling eyes, drew the loom from the TV series on the stone slab from memory.
I wouldn't dare say it's 100% accurate, but 60-70% should be no problem.
Half an hour later, she put down her charcoal pencil and pointed to the loom on the stone slab, saying, "It looks like this."
"Let me see."
Louis came over, and Emmanuel and the others also came over to stare at the dark charcoal drawing.
The same goes for the audience.
Everyone stared intently.
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