From a Slave to a Overlord, My Experience with the Beast World

Chapter 21 Cutting Bamboo, Weaving Baskets, etc.

The pure spirit grass outside the cave was planted a few days ago. After a few days of growth, it has become full of vitality.

The green onions outside the cave also adapted well and began to grow new shoots. Li Ming had plucked several green onions from the bundle that he had picked earlier in the past few days and stir-fried them with the MeeMee Beast. Yanli ate them for several days without getting tired of them.

This dish is very popular with Yanli. He always eats it until he is full and can’t eat any more.

Liming was afraid that Yanli would get sick if she continued to eat like this, so he had to make an agreement with her that today was the last day to stir-fry the MeeMee Beast, and they had to change the food tomorrow.

It was another sunny day. Li Mingsheng had put away two animal skins that had been used to cover the bed. As the weather was warming up, Li Mingsheng planned to make the bed. He was very busy during the previous snow season and had simply put some straw under the animal skins. Now that he had time, he planned to do it properly and cut some bamboo to weave a bamboo mat, which would make it more comfortable to sleep on.

It's a good opportunity to weave some backpacks, bamboo baskets, and bamboo baskets, and then weave a drying mat for drying mushrooms and wild vegetables.

The two headed for the bamboo forest on the back mountain early in the morning. There was a large bamboo forest on the back mountain. With the arrival of spring, the bamboo became green and lush.

The two men first used bone knives to cut down the bamboos that were broken by the snow in the previous snow season, intending to take them back to burn as firewood.

"Pick the big ones to chop down!" Li Mingsheng shouted to Yanli. It should be enough to chop down a few bundles. The bamboos here have probably never been chopped down by anyone. Each one is very straight and thick.

"Okay!" Yanli responded when she heard Li Mingsheng's voice. Because the bamboo forest was quite large and the two were quite far apart, they had to shout louder so that the other party could hear them.

Each of them chopped two bundles, and they finished in less than an hour. Yanli brought the bamboo he had chopped over and put it together with the bamboo he had chopped with Li Mingsheng.

Then the two of them rested, drank some water, and shared some berries they had picked while hunting the day before.

"Let's go and see if there are any bamboo shoots!" Li Mingsheng pulled Yanli up and planned to go into the bamboo forest to look for any spring bamboo shoots. They should have grown at this season.

"There is one here, but it's too small!" Li Mingsheng touched the bamboo shoot that had just emerged from the ground and said regretfully.

There are no bamboo shoots to eat today, otherwise I could taste the flavor of spring.

"This doesn't taste good!" Yanli looked hesitantly at the bamboo shoots sticking out of the ground, remembering that he had cooked this dish before he hunted down any exotic beasts, but it had no taste and was a bit astringent, not delicious.

"How did you cook it before?" Li Mingsheng asked with a smile when he saw Yanli rejecting the taste of bamboo shoots.

"As for me, I peeled the skin and put it in a pot, then added water, and added some salt after it was cooked."

"Cook the whole thing?"

"Yes!" Seeing Yanli's as-a-matter-of-course answer, Li Mingsheng felt a little helpless. In fact, the supplies on Wanyuan Continent were still very abundant, but these primitive orcs seemed to have not yet mastered the cooking skills.

"Let's come back in a few days. The bamboo shoots should have popped out by then. I'll make you some braised bamboo shoots then!"

Thinking of stewed bamboo shoots, pickled bamboo shoots, dried bamboo shoots, and many other dishes made with bamboo shoots, Li Mingsheng began to look forward to it.

"Let's go back and weave some baskets first!" The backpack that was simply woven with vines has become tattered after being used a few times and it probably won't last a few more times.

When the two were going back, they passed by the traps that were dug during the snow season. They took a rough look and didn't get much, just a few cuckoo chickens and a baby fire bull. Since they were all dead, they took them all away and had cuckoo chicken soup with stir-fried fire beef in the evening.

Along the way, Li Mingsheng saw a few clusters of wild onions in the cracks of a rocky ground. He dug them all up and planned to fry them with the fire bull beast.

When they returned to the cave, Li Mingsheng dealt with the bamboo first, while Yanli went to deal with the strange beast that had just been taken out of the trap.

"Take this and prepare!" Li Mingsheng saw Yanli walking towards the stream with the strange beast in his hand. He shouted to stop him and put the tattered backpack in his hand on his back.

After Yanli left, Li Mingsheng went back to process the bamboo. He first used a bone knife to cut the bamboo into two halves, and then began to split it, removing the bumps on the bamboo joints. He divided a bamboo into multiple pieces, and then used a bone knife to divide the bamboo pieces into three layers, and then thinned them.

By the time Yanli came back after dealing with the strange beast, Li Mingsheng had only processed half of the bamboo.

Seeing this, Yanli joined the group chopping bamboo.

Li Mingsheng simply taught Yanli how to do it. Seeing that the other party learned quickly, he let go and did it on his own.

The speed of the two people is much faster than that of Li Mingsheng alone.

After all the bamboos have been processed, Li Mingsheng sweeps the bamboo scraps into the kitchen. The bamboo scraps can be recycled and used to make fire.

Yanli touched the bamboo strips. It was thin but still very tough and would not break easily.

"Come, I'll teach you how to weave." Li Mingsheng held two bamboo strips, asked Yanli to sit down, and asked him to follow his steps step by step.

When weaving a mat, start from the middle, using the plank mat bottom weaving method, then arrange the strips, add bamboo strips one by one, arrange them into a regular square, use the three-pick and one-press method, weave towards the sides, and when it is large enough, start to close the edges. To close the edges, use the reverse weaving method to weave them into a straight line.

The two of them spent an entire afternoon weaving it. It was mainly Li Mingsheng who both edited and taught, so it took a little longer. Otherwise, he could have finished it in about two hours by himself.

After completion, the two people's works, Li Mingsheng's were weaved neatly and squarely, but Yanli's were a little disappointing, with the edges crooked.

Finally, I used this one woven by Li Mingsheng as a mat and spread it on the bed. Yanli tried it and found it very comfortable to lie on. There was thatch under the bamboo mat, which was neither too soft nor too hard and also cool to sleep on.

This one made by Yanli was later used by them as a drying mat for drying mushrooms and bamboo shoots.

There was still some time before dark, so Li Mingsheng started weaving bamboo baskets again. Yanli learned beside him. Li Mingsheng taught him while weaving. By dark, he had already weaved four or five bamboo baskets and a winnowing basket.

Yanli also made a bamboo basket and a winnowing basket.

"Okay, that's enough for today. Tomorrow I'll teach you how to weave backpacks with bamboo. Let's weave a few big ones and then a few small ones!"

"Good!" After Yanli finished tying the last one, he looked at the two he had made on the ground. Although they were not perfect and seemed sometimes loose and sometimes tight, he felt a sense of accomplishment when he saw the bamboo being shaped into various shapes in his hands.

Yanli was very grateful to Li Mingsheng. If it weren't for Li Mingsheng, he might never have been exposed to these things in his life. He might still be struggling for survival in a daze, racking his brains for one or two exotic beasts, and might die in the wild at any time.

In the evening, the two of them drank delicious cuckoo chicken soup, ate the newly dug pond roots a few days ago, and ate beef meat fried with wild onions.

Sleeping on a cool bamboo mat at night, Yanli fell into a beautiful dream.