Infrastructure Craze (BL) (Full English Translation)

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Chapter 19: We Have Kang Beds Now, Not Afraid of the Cold

Zhuang Yu curled up in his nest, pondering how to keep warm.

Apart from knitting warm socks with Zhi's spider silk, the only feasible solution under the current conditions seemed to be kang beds, which were also the simplest and most effective method.

Zhuang Yu's eyes lit up. That's it! He would do it tomorrow. But there was also a problem: they didn't have bricks, and it wasn't easy to build a usable kang bed.

Lost in thought, Zhuang Yu fell asleep in the cold.

Little Mushroom kept snuggling closer to Zhuang Yu, feeling freezing cold.

Early in the morning, outside the cave, the children from the collective cave filled the water pool and watered the chili field. Yesterday, the pool was filled with phosphor, and they didn't play in the water, so today they wanted to have fun.

Zhuang Yu called Zhi over and had him bring out all the spider silk. It was peculiar that these little radishes liked collecting spider silk.

There was a pile of spider silk, but it was all tangled up and completely chaotic. If someone lacked patience, they would probably recoil upon seeing such a mess of spider silk. However, Zhuang Yu didn't think much of it. He had seen the oldest silk spinning machine that extracted silk from silkworm cocoons, which was much finer than this spider silk. Despite being as thick as a little finger, these spider silks were much easier to manage in comparison.

Zhuang Yu had the children help clean the spider silk. Since it was going to be worn on their feet, it had to be cleaned meticulously, unlike the spider silk tied to the crossbow arrows, which could be washed quickly.

The group of little radishes started washing the spider silk, very diligently. They divided into two batches: the first batch washed it, and the second batch washed it again.

Zhuang Yu began chopping wood. He decided to make a hand-cranked silk-spinning machine. This was a long-term plan because he could still organize the spider silk by hand, but he would definitely use the spider silk for other things in the future. It was better to make a hand-cranked silk-spinning machine for future silk organization.

In ancient times, without electricity and industrialization, the wisdom of ancient people created such simple and practical tools. Human wisdom was unimaginable. However, it also depended on the robust physique of the people in this world, Zhuang Yu included. Otherwise, chopping wood would not have been so easy.

They worked until the afternoon. The little radishes had already washed the spider silk, and under the sun, it became soft and dry in no time.

A group of little radishes were hanging out in the water pool, leaning on the edge and watching Zhuang Yu. "What is Brother Yu doing?"

"I don't understand, but Brother Yu spins that wheel really fast."

Zhuang Yu was using his hand-cranked silk-spinning machine, which required some effort as the wood was quite rough. However, it was still good. He completed the oldest hand-cranked silk-spinning machine.

Zhuang Yu unraveled the sun-dried spider silk and tied it to the wheel of the silk-spinning machine. Then, he slowly began to crank it, stretching the spider silk into a thread, winding it in circles on the wheel like a ball of yarn.

It was delicate work, not to be rushed, only to be done slowly.

A group of little radishes marveled at the neatly wound thread, amazed at how chaotic spider silk could become so orderly. "The messy spider silk actually looks so neat now. It's really beautiful."