I've been transported to the orc continent.

Chapter 264 Purpose

Weaving requires a lot of hand-eye coordination, and you can't rush it when you first start learning. Bai Ling repeatedly told them not to rush and to take it slowly.

At first, the two were a bit flustered while weaving, but after practicing, their proficiency increased significantly, and they were able to weave faster.

Since they were just starting out with weaving, the two of them couldn't keep up with Bai Ling's speed, but they were still doing quite well.

Bai Ling's family kept one loom, and another loom was placed in the council room. The council room was not far from Bai Ling's family. If the two of them encountered any difficulties while weaving, they could simply call out to Bai Ling in the courtyard in front of the council room and he would hear them.

*

Bai Ling left some silkworm cocoons unharvested on the silkworm mountain; these were for breeding purposes.

On the twelfth day after spinning the cocoon, the silkworm moth emerges from it.

Female and male moths are easy to distinguish, so Bai Ling stored them separately and put them together the next day.

After being placed together, the female and male moths quickly begin to mate, and then the female moth will lay silkworm eggs.

Bai Ling carefully collected the silkworm eggs onto clean paper, and then placed the paper covered with the silkworm eggs into a wooden box.

The silkworm's life ends there, and when they are hatched again, it's another cycle.

*

The orcs' enthusiasm for silkworm cocoons far surpassed that for everything else. For this reason, the carpentry team received wave after wave of orcs who came to order silkworm frames, silk reeling machines, spinning wheels, looms, and spinning wheels.

The carpenters' group's orders were already booked until autumn, and now so many orcs from the tribe have come to place orders, the carpenters' group simply can't finish them all.

Upon hearing that production could only begin after autumn, the beastmen were quite impatient. They had already witnessed the beauty of silk and were determined to learn silkworm rearing from Bai Ling next year. Now, the carpenters were saying they didn't have time to make tools. How could that be acceptable?

They must order the silkworm rearing tools before Bai Ling raises silkworms again.

The orcs in the carpentry team were also undecided. In their eagerness to order tools, they even came to Zhan to complain. Zhan was also undecided. On the one hand, the carpentry team's schedule was already full, and on the other hand, the orcs urgently needed tools for raising silkworms. He didn't know what to do.

In the end, Zhan still invited Bai Ling over. After hearing this, Bai Ling thought for a while and then said, "How about this, silkworm frames are very easy to make. The carpentry team can make one for each household in the clan. It can be completed in two days at most."

“Everyone learns to raise silkworms with me in the fall. After harvesting the cocoons, the six silk reeling machines in the clan are enough. Everyone first reels the cocoons into silk and then stores the silk.”

"In winter, the orcs in the carpentry group take the lead in making looms. The chieftain arranges the order in which everyone exchanges looms. After more than a year, every family in the tribe will have a loom."

This is the best arrangement. The orcs in the carpentry group have limited energy and can only make so much. They cannot make enough weaving tools to satisfy all their people in a short time. Moreover, the orcs in the carpentry group also have other work to do, so they cannot devote all their energy and time to making weaving tools.

Spending a year ensuring that every household has weaving tools is the most appropriate arrangement.

After Bai Ling finished speaking, Zhan nodded without hesitation: "Then let's do as you said, Ling. First, make a silkworm frame for each household in the tribe. Then, in winter, the carpentry team will start making looms. I will determine the order of exchanging looms according to the contributions of each household in the tribe."

Zhan paused for a moment, then continued, "A loom is a big item, and exchanging it would require a lot of things. If you want to exchange for a loom, then try to collect as many items as possible."

*

Bai Ling's father, Feng, has also learned to weave. Now he and Bai Ling take turns weaving. If the orcs in the tribe have nothing to do, they will come to Bai Ling's house to learn how to weave from Bai Ling.

Once her father had mastered the skill of weaving, Bai Ling had to go off to attend to other matters.

Bai Ling had wanted to make tofu last year, but he couldn't get away this spring because of raising silkworms. Now that he finally has time to go out, Bai Ling asked Yue to go with him to the place where the tribe dries salt to get brine.

It used to take more than ten days to travel from the tribe to the salt fields, but now, with the Sky Orcs, it only takes a day.

Bai Ling, Yue, and a beastman named Zhong, carrying baskets and several pottery jars, sat on the backs of a sky beastman and headed southwest.

Bai Ling planned to bring back more brine. He was worried that one Sky Beastman wouldn't be able to carry all the pottery jars back, so he asked two Sky Beastmen for help.

*

Just as Bai Ling set off, Zhan and several elderly beastmen arrived at the low mountain.

The surrounding tribes were busy making bricks and building houses, and there were simply not enough orcs in their own tribe. There were no more orcs living in the High Tree Tribe, and only the orcs of the Central Tribe were still living on the Low Mountain.

The orcs of the Central Tribe had already become familiar with the orcs of the High Tree Tribe. When they saw Zhan arrive with several old orcs, the orcs of the Central Tribe, who were about to descend the mountain, greeted Zhan and his companions with smiles. Zhan nodded in response and then asked, "I have something to discuss with your First Elder and Third Elder. Are they here?"

An orc from the central tribe pointed to the cave: "The First Elder and the Third Elder are both in the cave. We just finished eating, and they are packing up their things in the cave."

Zhan and several elderly orcs walked up the mountain path and arrived at the entrance of a cave.

There weren't many orcs in the central tribe, so they didn't live in the large cave, but in two small caves very close to each other, which made it more convenient for the orcs in the central tribe to live.

The First Elder and the Third Elder were quite surprised that Zhan and several elderly orcs would come to the low mountain to find them. However, their surprise was short-lived. They welcomed the group into the cave, exchanged a few polite words, and then inquired about Zhan's purpose.

Zhan didn't stand on ceremony and directly stated his purpose: he had come to ask the First Elder and the Third Elder for help in finding Sky Beastmen who were willing to settle in the High Tree Tribe.

The First Elder and the Third Elder were both stunned. They hadn't expected this. They looked at each other in bewilderment before the First Elder asked, "Clan Chief Zhan, why do you only want the Sky Beastmen to settle in your tribe?"

Zhan said, "Elder, as you have seen, since the Sky Beastmen from your tribe arrived, the speed at which our tribe transmits messages has increased dramatically. Before, if we needed to go to other tribes, it would take several days just to travel there. But with the Sky Beastmen here, even if we go to the Snow Mountain Tribe, we can make two round trips in a single day."

"The Sky Orcs have made our lives much more convenient, which is why we want to find some Sky Orcs to settle in our tribe."