The banquet is over, but its influence will not.
Ed's words at the banquet had a magical power, planting a seed in everyone's heart.
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The rabbits in Chitetsu Village are multiplying rapidly, and Sugi and the others have already moved to the rabbit hutch in Peach Blossom Village.
I believe that rabbit meat will soon solve some of the food problem.
Of course, some people remained in Chitie Village; not all of them moved there because some people were still needed for mining.
Blacksmith Smith plans to start with small-scale iron ore mining, and his ironworks is under construction.
The hunt will be conducted according to the weather conditions, and Ed is confident that Andrew will handle it well; he doesn't need to worry too much.
Fishing was temporarily handed over to Adelaide, who didn't want to deplete the resources, so fishing was conducted only once a month.
The main structure of the canteen built by Roderick is already taking shape and should be completed after the autumn harvest.
Ed had Roderick collect the bark peeled from the wood used to build the house, as it would be useful for making paper later.
On the long table in the castle hall, Ed was fiddling with a piece of wood shaped like an "Ω".
Ed carefully used the boiled fish glue to attach the pressed ram's horn pieces to the inside of the bow. Then he attached the deer tendon to the outside of the bow and tied it with rope.
"Okay, let's leave it like this for now! We'll talk about it again once the glue dries." Ed put down the bow that had been glued on.
"Master, is this the powerful bow? You've been working on it for so many days, isn't it ready yet?" Adelaide asked, puzzled. Her master had spent a long time just preparing this piece of wood.
Now they're sticking this and that on the wood.
"Adelaide, it's still a long way off! After the glue dries, we still need to trim and shape it. We also need to work on the bowstring, test it, and so on."
Ed was afraid that the glue would come undone or the string would break as soon as he pulled the bow. Then all his work would be for nothing.
So now we should work as slowly as possible to allow the wood to dry completely and the glue to adhere firmly.
"Oh! This is so troublesome!" Adelaide thought it was troublesome just from hearing Ed say it.
"Yes, that's right. Adelaide, the better things are, the harder they are to get."
For example, Ed wasn't too satisfied with the clothes he was wearing.
He wanted to wear a silk dress, but for him now, that was a pipe dream.
So Ed settled for second best: silk could improve existing textile tools and make clothes more comfortable to wear.
It can also enable more clothes that are currently mostly made by hand to be made by machines.
From spinning yarn to weaving cloth to dyeing fabric, I improved each step with my own knowledge, but never to an absurd degree.
Ironworking technology is not advanced enough now; we can improve it properly once ironworking technology develops.
First, make the spinning wheel hand-cranked to speed up the formation of the silk thread and make the silk thread more uniform.
The loom was more complicated, and Ed didn't know how to improve it, so he could only modify it from memory to resemble a horizontal loom.
As for other textile-related things, we'll gradually change them through practice!
"Master, what are you drawing on the parchment?" Adelaide tilted her head and looked curiously at Ed drawing some strange things on the parchment.
Ed picked up the parchment, pointed to the picture on it, and said:
"This is for spinning thread, and this is for weaving cloth. With these, making clothes will be much faster, and the clothes made this way will be more comfortable to wear. And this is rope; you can braid some like this."
"Yes, Master." Adelaide looked down at her newly made leather boots with anticipation.
She hoped the new clothes would be as beautiful as the shoes.
However, Ed knew that Roderick was very busy right now, so these things would have to wait.
Ed had no better solution than to:
"Waiting patiently for the flowers to bloom"