jdhmnovel Chapter 281 Discovering Cotton
Chapter 281 Discovering Cotton
The next morning, Ying Ye was called to the meeting cave by Ying Sai.
Not long after Ying Ye left, his injured father brought his ill mother to the cave to see Ruan Tang.
They also brought along the best dried wild animal meat that they had stored at home.
Ruan Tang is actually not very good at accepting things from her elders, but the old people said that these were gifts for her children.
Because the children were bullied by their tribe yesterday.
This is what Ying Ye told them last night, so he came early this morning.
Ruan Tang told them again and again that the family of elephant orcs did not go to the leader to ask him to come out and seek justice. The matter has passed and there is no need to take it to heart.
Eagle Father told Ruan Tang that the female elephant had left with her partner and cub early that morning.
Ruan Tang didn't react much to the news.
That family was beaten by two cubs a few months old in the Eagle tribe. If it were her, she would have gone home overnight and would not have waited until this morning.
After chatting with the two for a while, they asked to leave, and Ruan Tang politely saw them off.
Lin Yeqing brought the children over again.
She knew that Ruan Tang's friends had not gone out today, so she stood at the entrance of the cave and did not come in.
He looked towards the cave and asked Ruan Tang, "Tangtang, I heard from the orcs of the Eagle Tribe that there are many plants in their forest that are not found anywhere else. I plan to take the children to play in the forest. Do you want to go?"
Ruan Tang wanted to stay home and spend time with her youngest children today. These little tigers and panda babies were so cute that they kept pestering her to play with them, and she was a little unable to move.
She stretched her neck towards the cave entrance and said, "Ye Zi, would you like to come in and sit for a while?
I won’t go out today. I’ll go to the fun places the kids mentioned yesterday.
Then I'll stay home with the baby. If you want to go out and play, you can go."
"Okay, then I won't go in and sit. Let's go out now, otherwise we'll be late."
Since Ruan Tang refused to go, Lin Yeqing and his friends took the children and went down the mountain.
The cold season will come soon, and the sun will rise late in the morning and fall early in the evening. If they don't go out early, they may not be able to play for long before it gets dark.
Hearing they were about to leave, Ruan Tang remembered what Ying Ye had said last night and quickly reminded them, "Oh, okay, then be careful and don't go too far. Ying Ye said there's a hyena and vulture tribe in the forest less than a day's journey from their tribe."
"understood."
Lin Yeqing's voice came from halfway up the mountain.
"Mom, can we go and play with Aunt Ye Zi?" Mo Xiaosi heard that there were many new and exotic plants, and she also wanted to go and see them.
Ruan Tang glanced at the children who were eager to try and asked them, "Do you all want to go?"
Boss Chi nodded immediately and said, "Yeah, yesterday we only wandered around the Eagle Tribe and the nearby back mountains. I heard from Eagle Ya that they have many interesting places here, and we want to go and see them too."
"We want to go too, mother."
Yixun, Jinyou, and the two dragon cubs all want to go.
"You can go if you want, but the same thing applies,"
Before Ruan Tang finished speaking, the cubs chimed in, "We get it, mother. Don't cause trouble! Don't be afraid of trouble!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the cubs who wanted to go out and play had already rushed out of the cave.
A group of people followed behind, saying to their mother as they ran, "Let's go, mother. We won't be able to catch up with Aunt Ye soon."
"Be safe! Take good care of your brothers and sisters."
Ruan Tang chased after the children and reminded them that there were only a few who expressed their desire to go out and play, but how come most of them were gone from the cave after they ran away?
In the blink of an eye, the children had already run away. Ruan Tang turned around and looked at Chi Yuan and Long Ming beside her, and said to them, "You two, go and follow the children."
Long Ming and Chi Yuan didn't want to go out today. Long Ming said, "Didn't Ruan Ruan say yesterday that she wanted to give the kids a chance to exercise alone? Since Ye Zi and her family are here, why don't we just let them play on their own today?"
Chi Yuan said that he also agreed with Long Ming's statement.
Mo Ran and Qi Xuan originally saw that the two of them didn't want to go and were about to get up and chase the cubs, but after hearing what they said, they felt that what they said made sense.
After traveling for more than ten days, it's rare to have some quiet time with my partner. Why not let the kids play by themselves today?
Seeing that her husbands all seemed to want to stay at home, Ruan Tang agreed to their wishes.
After playing with the cubs in the cave for a while, Ruan Tang asked the children who stayed at home to lead the way, and the family went to the back mountain of the tribe.
The fun place the children told her about yesterday was a valley full of snow-white flowers.
Ruan Tang walked closer and confirmed that this was actually a cotton field!
Now in early winter, it is the time when cotton blooms.
This large cotton field is so close to the tribe, but the Eagle tribe didn't pick the cotton. It seems that the tribesmen don't know the wonderful uses of this thing.
She called Little Fifteen to her side and said to him, "Baby, go back to the Eagle Tribe to find your uncle Ying Ye and tell him that your mother has found something good.
Tell him to send more people to the back mountain, and each person must bring a large animal skin bag, or a basket or something that can hold things. "
It's not that she has to share it with others out of kindness, it's just that this is the territory of the Eagle Tribe.
Moreover, it was in someone else's back garden. If she wanted to pick things from someone else's house openly, of course she had to give the owner some benefits.
The benefit of this is that it lets them know that the thing at their door is a good thing and can keep them warm during the winter.
When the time comes, she will teach her people how to make warm clothes with cotton for free, and she will feel more at ease collecting more cotton into the space.
Well, perfect.
"Okay, mother. I'll fly to find Uncle Yingye right now, haha."
When Xiao Shiwu saw his mother so happy, he knew that the cloud-like flowers must be a good thing.
He agreed to his mother's request and quickly returned to the tribe to find Uncle Yingye to look for someone.
Ruan Tang took out a pile of animal skin bags from the space.
Then she explained to her partner and children, who were looking at her in bewilderment, “These soft white things are called cotton. We can pick as much as we can.
If you save it, you can make clothes, pants, quilts or shoes in the cold season, which will keep you warm."
When the males saw her beaming face, they also became in a good mood.
Mo Bai took the animal skin bag and distributed it to others while saying, "Okay, then let's pick more. Then we can learn how to make clothes from Tangtang."
"Well, pick more. The seeds inside can be used as seeds. I can teach you how to weave and spin yarn in the future."
Ruan Tang felt a little excited when she thought of that scene.
Weaving, she can bring them one step closer to civilization!
Ling Lingjiu jumped out to praise his host, saying, "Host, this is a great idea! The development of the Beast World Continent depends entirely on you!"
"Well, I'll try my best." Ruan Tang said that she was still willing to pass on this kind of thing.
After each of them received a bag of animal skins, she personally taught them, "Don't bother with the hard shell on the outside. Just break open the shell and pick the white cotton inside."
She demonstrated with her hands, "Like this."
After seeing her do it once, the males stopped her from doing it again.
Bai Lang said, "We understand. Ruan Ruan can just go play with the little ones on the flat ground over there. Leave this here to us."
The little ones really need someone to look after them, and Ruan Tang had originally planned to spend some quality time with the children today.
However, she still had to collect a wave of them into the space before the Eagle tribe members arrived.
She said, "Well, I'll collect a wave of Eagle Beastmen before they arrive, and then go play with the children. Thank you for your hard work, and the babies have worked hard too."
"Okay." The males said in unison.
The little ones said, "It's not hard. When mom is done with your work, go and spend time with your brothers and sisters. We have to get to work."
After saying that, one of them took a few animal skin bags and went straight to work without saying a word.
Males are quick learners, they are tall and have big hands, so they can do these things easily and quickly.
Soon the cubs were left behind.
The cubs couldn't reach the cotton tree in their human form, so they could only maintain their beast form, which limited what they could do.
But it was not a problem for them. They worked in groups of two. The one in the human-animal form below held the animal skin bag in his mouth, while the one picking cotton above stood on the one in the animal form in his human form and picked the cotton one by one with great speed.
Before the people from the Eagle Tribe arrived, Ruan Tang touched the cotton with her hand and ran over, and the cotton was directly collected into the space by her.