Infrastructure Craze (BL) (Full English Translation)

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Chapter 155 Cotton Clothes

A group of children surrounded the flowering weeds, "What can it be used for?"

"I used to cut a lot of these weeds before, piled them up in the sheep and cattle pens to use as hay."

These children usually run around Crimson Great City helping wherever they can, cutting weeds being one of them.

With Little Mushroom around, crops grew quickly, and these weeds were no exception. The key was their resilience; even if cut every day, as long as some roots remained, they would grow back, not to mention the seeds spreading everywhere after flowering. Anyway, no matter how much you cut, you can never finish, it's just annoying.

But what used to be annoying weeds had now become useful. Feeding them to cattle and sheep was good, and moreover, the flowering weed in front of them, if Zhuang Yu hadn't seen it wrong, should be cotton.

Cotton's scientific name is also called cotton, Zhuang Yu took a flower directly in his hand, carefully observed for a while, the flower was white and filamentous, very delicate, unmistakable.

Cotton seeds are very abundant, one flower produces many seeds, no wonder no matter how much you cut, there's always more. Just scattering the seeds from this one flower on the ground would sprout many new ones.

Zhuang Yu smiled, maybe they wouldn't be so miserable in this harsh winter, "Do you want to wear warm thick clothes?"

Although the children stayed in the greenhouse, they were dressed too lightly, needing to stay by the stove to keep warm, unable to go anywhere else, making a group of usually lively children feel very miserable staying in one place like caged monkeys.

The children nodded vigorously, of course, it would be nice to have warm thick clothes, they also wanted to dress like Little Mushrooms, walking like a ball, barely able to move. Their faces flushed with excitement, "Brother Yu, do you have a way? But we don't have animal skins."

The animal skins in Crimson Great City were still those old ones from before, and they were not enough at all.

Zhuang Yu smiled, "Making thick clothes doesn't necessarily require animal skins."

The group of children were stunned, indeed, their pants were made of silk, completely different from other people's animal skins.

Zhuang Yu began to take action. Because these children were dressed too lightly, Zhuang Yu didn't let them leave the greenhouse and went out himself.

As soon as he went outside, the bone-chilling wind blew fiercely, and the hot breath turned into white smoke.

Zhuang Yu instructed the clansmen to collect the flowers of the cotton plant, which were originally spread as hay in the sheep and cattle pens, and of course, the seeds had to be collected too for large-scale planting.

The collected flowers were directly sent to the greenhouse, where it was warm.

Then he went to find the Guiliu clan to study the cotton-picking machine together. The manual cotton-picking machine was not difficult to make, but it required the silk of that grinding disc-sized spider.

It had to be said that the role of weaving that spider was quite significant. Although the silk spun by silkworms could also be used, it was definitely not as durable as the silk woven by the spider. Now, silk woven by spiders was no longer used to make clothes, so there was already a lot in stock.

It took several days for the manual cotton-picking machine to be made.

Carrying the machine into the greenhouse, a large pile of cotton flowers had also been collected. These past two days, the children had not been idle, although they stayed by the stove, they were all removing cotton seeds.