Summer arrives with bursts of light rain. Fortunately, this year is not as severe a drought as last year.
The tribes on the Somali continent have also resumed their lives and rebuilt their own tribes. When they get good things, their first reaction is to exchange them with the Tiger Tribe.
"Exchange all of these for cloth. This way, the females in our tribe can wear light clothes this summer. Only five or six of you will be needed. The rest will stay with the Tiger Tribe to work. In short, bring back plenty of cloth."
The males of the sheep tribe made hundreds of pairs of animal skin boots and hats. Some were large and thick, very suitable for males to wear in the cold season, while some were very light and breathable shoes that could be worn outdoors in the summer. Because they were to be exchanged, the quality of each pair was very good.
Twenty beastmen from the sheep tribe went out at once, wanting to exchange more light cloth with the tiger tribe.
When they arrived at the Tiger Tribe, they found that the outskirts of the tribe were already very lively. Several tribes had already occupied the rooms in the trading center and placed the things they wanted to trade on them.
The sheep orcs looked straight ahead and never looked at anything from other tribes.
They found Teng Ning and said directly, "Brother Teng Ning, we brought a lot of shoes and hats that we made ourselves this time. The quality is absolutely the best. Come and take a look."
The Sheep Tribe is good at sewing and is quite famous in the Somali Continent. Teng Ning took a look at these things that were in short supply in the trading center in the past, and are now piled up like mountains in the warehouse of their tribe.
"What do you want to exchange? If our tribe doesn't have enough, we can give you some silk fragments first."
"No, no, no," the sheep orc took out two pieces of silk scraps instead. "These, and these two scraps, our tribe wants to exchange them all for the cloth you mentioned! Linen or cotton will do. How much can we exchange?"
Teng Ning glanced at the items they brought and calculated them in his mind: "No problem, our tribe has a lot of cloth. If you want both, how about five pieces of each?"
"Five?"
"Come with me and see."
Teng Ning took them to the tribe's silk weaving warehouse. The shelves inside were piled with a wide variety of fabrics. These had not yet been dyed. Unlike silk, which presented a variety of colorful colors, linen was gray and cotton was the reddish-brown color of the wool animal itself.
But the soft and thin texture of the fabric still stunned the sheep orcs and almost drooled.
"One piece, is it a roll this thick? Can we exchange it for ten rolls?"
Teng Ning nodded. "You brought quite a bit of goods, including two silk fragments, so you can exchange them. Wool beast fur is a bit harder to collect, so if you exchange it all for linen, you can get two more."
Weaving is a repetitive but simple job, and it is easy for the energetic males in the tribe to do, so a lot of it has been accumulated.
"No, no, no, we want both. We want both."
There are not many females in the sheep tribe, and they can tell at a glance that these materials are enough for the females in their tribe to make a set of clothes with linen and cotton respectively, and the feel of cotton is obviously much better.
"That's no problem. I'll go check your goods carefully later. Are you really going to exchange all of them with us? Many tribes have come to exchange in the past few days. Maybe there are other things you want."
"No, we'll just change all the fabrics."
The sheep orcs have no shortage of food and drink now. The entire forest is their food, and they also have the corn seeds and potatoes given to them by the tiger tribe last time. These two things are enough for them to get through the cold season after planting for two seasons. They don’t worry about anything else, they just come for the cloth.
"Okay, then I'll go check the goods."
"We'd like to help you guys out for a while. Can we exchange this for fabric?"
"Okay, how many of you want to stay?"
"There's not much fabric left. We plan to send five people back, and the remaining fifteen will all stay here to work."
"I see..." Teng Ning thought for a moment, "If you only want cloth, you can work for ten days and I'll give you three rolls of linen to take back with you when you leave. As for cotton cloth, we might not have that much left, as our tribe needs it ourselves."
The sheep tribe's eyes fell on the colorful silk. "Why is this different from the fragments you gave us? The colors are so bright?"
There is a colorful section of the cocoon silk of the colorful-winged butterfly, and the silk fragments made by Pu Su are all woven from the white part.
But the silk's raw material was a secret among the Tiger Tribe. Teng Ning only said, "It's dyed."
"Can we change this? How do we change this?"
The silk was brightly colored and shimmered with luster. The sheep orcs were jealous and imagined how beautiful their females would look wearing it.
"Our tribe doesn't have enough of this, so we're not open to exchange for the time being. Even if we do, it will be quite expensive, so you'd better prepare more when the time comes."
The time spent on silk production from silkworm breeding to silk reeling and then weaving is incomparable to that of linen or cotton.
The sheep orcs expressed their understanding, saying that silk was obviously precious.
"Teng Ning, Teng Ning, there's a fight going on over at the market, go check it out."
Because Lin Qiu is expecting a baby, Ling Yun rarely leaves the house, and most of the affairs in the tribe are handled by Teng Ning.
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