I Come to Teach You Cultivation-Chapter 187 - 2: The Dawn of Civilization (2/3)

The men of the village were busily working on the front lines of the dike.

The elderly, women, and children in the rear were not idle either, risking the storm to deliver food and water to the front lines.

At this critical moment of the village’s survival.

The trivial daily squabbles and gossips no longer mattered.

Because everyone knew that without the arrival of Qiwa, the elderly, women, and children wouldn’t have survived until next year’s flood subsided.

"Old man, those bags are about to run out!"

At the village entrance pavilion, the village chief heard his wife’s voice.

When the village chief turned around, his wife had already braved the rain and dashed into the pavilion, reporting the latest news with a worried expression.

The bags his wife mentioned were those waterproof bags specially used for holding sand, stones, and soil.

The simple dike outside could hold firm mainly because of those waterproof bags from Li Family Village.

It was said that those waterproof bags were stitched with special spider silk mixed with hemp rope.

The spider silk not only felt smooth and luxurious to the touch but also had incredible toughness, making it an excellent material for tailoring clothes.

If it weren’t for this flood disaster.

His wife couldn’t imagine that someone would use such precious materials to weave waterproof bags.

"What about those wooden cages, grass bags, hemp bags, and animal skin bags we wove ourselves?"

Although silkworm farming had not yet developed during this time, some simple grass ropes and hemp ropes were available.

Weaving those grass and hemp ropes into bags could also be used for flood prevention this time.

However, the grass and hemp ropes of this era did not have significant waterproofing effects.

So they could only be used temporarily in emergencies and couldn’t truly prevent floods and disasters.

"Everyone is rushing to make them..."

"But we’ve almost dug out all the nearby trees and grasses, and we can’t find suitable materials anymore."

This was the most worrying point for his wife.

Without those bags for flood prevention, she didn’t even know how to fill those already breached gaps.

Surely, they couldn’t really use human lives to fill them, right?

Every strong young man in the village was someone his wife watched grow up.

If it really came to that, she would rather they abandon the elderly, women, and children like herself and seek refuge elsewhere.

With the Son of the Mountain God around, she believed the village’s flame wouldn’t be extinguished.

They were merely the fuel keeping the flame burning, and complete sacrifice, why not?

"Don’t be so discouraged, be careful not to let everyone see."

Glaring at his wife sternly, the village chief knew better than anyone the importance of confidence at this moment.

"According to past patterns, the supplies from Li Family Village should already be on their way."

"As long as the supplies arrive, this little rain is nothing..."

Glancing at the pouring rain outside, his wife hesitated, eventually choosing to trust her husband.

"Old man, you be careful too."

"The herbs in the village should be kept for the young men at the front, don’t catch a cold trying to be brave."

Feeling slightly offended, and seemingly wanting to say something, the old village chief widened his eyes, yet stubbornly refused to leave the pavilion.

"Stop your nonsense! Hurry back already!"

........................... 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

At the same time, on the country road leading to the village.

"This damn mountain road is really hard to walk..."

With calf muscles sinking into the mud, Li Yu rarely voiced a complaint.

Because behind Li Yu, dozens of simple carts were piled with casting materials that Li Boyang called "cement."

Li Yu didn’t understand those messy things.

He only knew they were raw materials made using lime, clay, iron ore, gypsum, and other ingredients he couldn’t recognize.

Mixed in certain proportions, then processed using various special techniques.

Mixing those raw materials with sand, water, stones, and some powdered coal slag.

And pouring it onto rocks and walls in a short time, could form high-strength concrete.

To research the fixed formula for cement and concrete.

Li Yu watched his son stay awake for three consecutive days, something that he believed would definitely become the main material for flood resistance this time.

Li Yu had absolute confidence in this.

"Brother Yu, stop complaining, who told us our bluestone road hasn’t been paved here yet?"

Closely following behind Li Yu, Li Chengfeng seemed rather carefree.

After all, Li Yu was at the front.

Besides Li Chengfeng, other members of Li Family Village didn’t need to blaze a trail, making it much easier for them.

However, that was only relatively speaking.

Trekking through this muddy dirt road in a storm, no other village had this kind of organizational capability.

"Speaking of which, the sisters-in-law did a great job this time."

"If they hadn’t stayed up all night weaving these spider silk bags, I doubt this village could have held out until now."

With Li Chengfeng actively changing the subject, other members of the transport team joined in the discussion.

Led by Chen Yun, the women of Li Family Village managed to weave so many spider silk bags in such a short time, their hard work was obvious.

But the greatest credit went to the weaving machines Li Boyang specially made for them.

Skipping the most primitive hand-weaving machines.

Li Boyang built a water-powered automated weaving workshop near the original brick and ore refining reservoir.

This allowed Chen Yun and others to leap into the semi-automated era, weaving a huge quantity of spider silk bags in a very short time.

Unfortunately, after such a long period of spinning.

While Chen Yun and the weaving machines had no issues, the spiders providing raw material were the first to go on strike.

For this, apart from continuing to feed and care for those spiders, even Li Boyang had no better solution.

After all, those spiders were descendants of Xuansi Gu.

They were spiritual spiders, or even spirit monsters, rather than ordinary animals.

If it weren’t for Li Boyang, Li Family Village wouldn’t even have the possibility of taming those spiders.

"By the way, did any of you notice where that girl Li Jingshu ran off to?"

At that moment, someone casually mentioned it, and Li Yu immediately widened his eyes.

"That girl’s gone missing again?"

Even though, in terms of seniority, Li Yu and Li Jingshu were from the same generation.

But after all these years, Li Yu undoubtedly had become half a father to Li Jingshu.

"That mischievous girl, she finally behaved for a while, why did she suddenly become unreliable again?"

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