I've been transported to the orc continent.

Chapter 311 Trivia

With experience, Bai Ling's porcelain got better and better each time. Although the perfection of the porcelain could not compare to the porcelain she bought in her previous life, it could still be described as "smooth and delicate", which was perfectly fine for her own use.

Bai Ling also taught the tribe members the art of firing porcelain. For this exhibition, several orcs were specially selected to learn porcelain making from Bai Ling.

The tribe already has a carpentry team, an ironworks, and now a porcelain team. In addition, they also need to build houses for the Sky Orcs. If it weren't for the Orcs from other tribes learning and helping out in the tribe, the tribe would definitely be in a very tight manpower situation.

As the weather gradually warms up, the orcs in the tribe are about to start farming. In addition to farming, the orcs in the tribe have another important task to do together this year: raising silkworms.

Bai Ling distributed silkworm eggs to each family. Even the Sky Beastmen who arrived last year received some silkworm eggs. Since their houses were not yet built, they could only raise silkworms in other beastmen's houses. Bai Ling and Yue's new house was temporarily unoccupied, so it was lent to the Sky Beastmen for raising silkworms. There was another beastman family in the tribe whose children had also built a new house but had not yet moved in, so it was also lent to the Sky Beastmen for raising silkworms.

To express their gratitude to Bai Ling and that family, the Sky Beastman gave gifts to both families. The Sky Beastman had only arrived in the tribe last year, and compared to the original beastmen of the High Tree Tribe, his possessions were not many. Therefore, neither Bai Ling's family nor that family wanted to accept the Sky Beastman's gifts.

They didn't want anything, so the Sky Orcs offered to contract all the mulberry leaves for the two families' silkworm farming.

This year, every household in the tribe is raising silkworms. The mulberry and oak leaves in the tribe are simply not enough. So Zhan sent all the beastmen in the tribe to Greenwood Tribe to collect mulberry leaves. The mulberry leaves in the tribe will be saved for rainy days.

The distance from here to the Greenwood Tribe is quite far. Silkworms need to eat fresh food, and since they didn't eat much at first, the orcs in the tribe formed groups of a few people. Today you go to the Greenwood Tribe to collect mulberry and oak leaves, tomorrow I go, and the day after tomorrow he goes. By taking turns collecting mulberry leaves, they can save a lot of effort.

When the orcs went to collect mulberry leaves, they naturally rode on the backs of the Sky Orcs. Apart from the High Tree Tribe, the other tribes also went to the Green Wood Tribe to collect mulberry leaves. Just like the High Tree Tribe, they traded goods with the Sky Orcs to have the Sky Orcs collect mulberry leaves for them.

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This year, Bai Ling's top priority is cotton. He selected the best piece of land, applied plenty of fertilizer, plowed and harrowed it thoroughly, and used wooden buckets to carry water to plant the soaked cotton seeds.

Besides cotton seeds, Bai Ling also pays great attention to all kinds of seeds he doesn't recognize, especially those that look similar to melon seeds on Earth. Bai Ling loves eating melons and has always hoped to grow delicious melons, such as watermelons, cantaloupes, honeydew melons, etc. Unfortunately, he has never succeeded in his wish. He has collected melon seeds before, but those kinds of melons are all very hard to eat, and they can't even be used to pickle vegetables.

Bai Ling planted all these unfamiliar seeds together, not knowing what they would grow into. The gaps between each seed were quite large.

The other orcs valued wheat the most. This year, all the orcs in the tribe planted wheat. Like Bai Ling, they used the most fertilizer, took the most care of their wheat fields, and put in the most effort.

Bai Ling didn't plant the rice seeds. This year he was going to the central tribe. His family could help him take care of the cotton, but they might not be able to help him take care of the rice. He would plant the rice seeds when he had more rice seeds this year and cleared out the fields near the river.

With the seeds planted, there was a lot more to do in the fields. In addition, silkworms had to be raised, so Bai Ling was much busier than usual. Not only him, but all the other beastmen in the tribe were also busier than in previous years. However, not a single beastman complained; on the contrary, they were all full of energy.

Being busy means reaping rewards. Farming yields food, and raising silkworms produces beautiful silk. Being busy for these things is well worth it.

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Summer rains always come suddenly. Bai Ling transformed into her beast form, carrying several small beastmen on her back as she ran through the rain. After delivering the small beastmen home, she rushed back to her own home.

The huge white lion rushed into the yard and ran to the shed in the backyard. A short while later, Bai Ling came out wearing an animal skin skirt. The rain was so heavy that in just a short time from the backyard to the front yard, Bai Ling's hair was already soaked.

Bai Ling didn't go into the house immediately. Instead, he looked around the yard and saw that the plants he had been drying had all been taken down. Only then did Bai Ling feel relieved and ran into the house.

Inside the house, Feng Hecang was weaving a bamboo curtain.

Bamboo is incredibly resilient and has a strong reproductive capacity. The bamboo planted by Bai Ling the year he regained consciousness has now grown into a large patch.

This type of bamboo looks somewhat like moso bamboo, but it is much taller and thicker than moso bamboo on Earth. Now the bamboo has grown into a large area, and the tribe has begun to cut down the bamboo for use.

The family already had bamboo baskets and hampers, and the weather was starting to get warmer. Bai Ling told her father how to weave bamboo curtains. There wasn't much work to do in the fields these days, so Cang and Feng stayed home reeling silk and weaving bamboo curtains, while Bai Ling and her younger brother Chen went to work in the fields.

Before entering the house, Bai Ling shook his head. He took a stool, sat down at the door, and asked, "Father, should I put away all the things I hung out to dry?"

Feng: "They've all been stored in the east room."

Bai Ling: "That's good. Oh, by the way, we have quite a lot of silk at home. When I have time, I'll dye another bolt of silk. What color do you like, Father?"

There was already a lot of silk at home, more than enough to make several sets of clothes for the family. Compared to the original color of the silk, the beastmen preferred the bright colors after dyeing. Bai Ling collected a lot of dyeable plants and wanted to dye some brightly colored silk to make clothes for the family.

Feng kept his head down as he worked, then looked up at Bai Ling before smiling and saying, "Ling, let's keep these silks. We can use them to make new clothes for you and Chen when you get married."

In the past, orcs would make new clothes from animal hides when they got married. Now that they have more beautiful silk at home, of course they will make new clothes for their two sons from silk.

Not only will the orcs getting married need new clothes, but their fathers and grandfathers will also need new clothes. Let's keep these silks.

Bai Ling: "Father, didn't we harvest a lot of silk this year? We'll definitely have new silk at home when we get married. If you don't want to tell me, Father, how about this: I'll dye it all the colors I can first, and then I'll dye it whichever color you like."