“After I finish weaving this bolt of cloth next year, I'll make you two more outfits.” Lou Xian Yue took out a piece of flowing cloud gauze that was lake-blue with a hint of warm orange, very vibrant and colorful, definitely suitable for making a dress to wear in the summer.
Lou Xian Yue usually stayed in the Sea Emperor's Palace and, when bored, would weave cloud gauze to pass the time, in addition to refining artifacts.
Sang Luo rested her chin on her hands, propped up on the table, watching him weave up close.
There were many unique long-fiber plants in the deep sea. Lou Xian Yue used his spiritual power to crush them, extract the fibers, and knead them in the air into smooth silk threads, then interweave the threads and arrange them tightly to weave gorgeous fabrics. He also plucked a soft, long, silver-blue hair from his head and sewed a swimming fish pattern on the corner.
To create more colors of cloud gauze, specific pigment crystals were needed, which were ground into powder and mixed with water, then the cloud gauze was soaked for several days. The control of materials and time was very important, and a slight carelessness could destroy all the effort.
If you want the color of the fabric to be more gorgeous and colorful, you need to soak each strand of silk thread separately for dyeing, which is even more time-consuming and laborious.
Lou Xian Yue liked to embroider beautiful patterns on the cloud gauze, or some protective runes with special power.
It took a lot of effort and time, usually ten years or so, to make a beautiful piece of cloud gauze.
The clothes worn by Sang Luo and Little Lan An were made of cloud gauze woven by him in previous years.
Male merfolk often learn to weave gauze before they reach adulthood. Some sell it to exchange for crystals, while others save it for decades to give to their future partners and children to make clothes.
Often, the better the quality and the greater the quantity of gauze in the hands of male merfolk, the more they are favored by females… it has a bit of a dowry meaning.
“It's not quite the same as I imagined weaving. Your technique is a bit like refining artifacts.” Sang Luo said with a smile.
“Yes, they have the same miraculous effect. Clothes made of cloud gauze are themselves a valuable magic weapon.”
With a beautiful woman by his side, Lou Xian Yue's thoughts had long since run to her. After demonstrating the process of weaving cloud gauze to Sang Luo, he put the things in the closet and took her back to the bedroom.
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The Beast World does not have the custom of celebrating the New Year. Sang Luo created her own reunion year, not talking about outsiders, only used within her family!
Every time she returned to Icebreak City, it was焕然一新(huan ran yi xin).
A few years ago, Icebreak City was just a very common city in the Northern Continent, with a total population of only a few tens of thousands, sparsely populated.
With the development of these years, many of the old buildings in the city have been demolished and rebuilt, and the city area has gradually expanded. With the prosperity of trade, more and more beastmen have come to live in Icebreak City.
Today's Icebreak City can definitely be regarded as one of the most prosperous main cities in the Northern Continent. The territory area has more than quadrupled compared to before, and the population has also surged to four to five hundred thousand, nearly ten times…
This does not include the twenty-odd satellite cities below.
Lan Cang's power almost controls the Longqiu Icefield.
The biggest surprise this time was that the City Lord's Mansion has also been rebuilt.
The new City Lord's Mansion has a bit of a Moroccan style, very gorgeous, retro, and grand. It doesn't quite look like Lan Cang's usual aesthetic, but looking at it from a distance, Sang Luo understood why.
The old City Lord's Mansion was built entirely of gray-white marble, almost integrated with the entire ice and snow world, making it easy to hide from enemies. Once the wolf cubs ran far away to play, they often got lost.
The new City Lord's Mansion looks like an eye-catching banner from a distance, adding a touch of warm light to this vast and boundless ice and snow, so even if the cubs ran to another mountain, they could see it from afar.
The area of the City Lord's Mansion has also doubled. It can be seen that Lan Cang has made a lot of money selling mines and doing business in recent years.
Many new rooms have been built in the backyard, all of which are empty. Could they be prepared for her future children?
“Luo Luo!”
Lan Cang took the children out to greet her, holding a thick cloak in his hand, “Why did you choose to come back at this time? It's also the snow season here, are you cold?”
“Not cold, seeing you makes me feel warm.”
Lan Cang put the cloak on her, tightly, “Sharp-tongued.”
Si Ye walked over with Little Zhen Zhen in his arms, “Your mouth is really good at saying the right things to the right people, you can coax anyone.”
Lan Cang looked up at Si Ye and Lou Xian Yue who came with her, both holding their own cubs in their arms.
He hadn't seen Si Ye, but he recognized Little Zhen Zhen and guessed the identity of the person, “Young Marquis Si, I've heard so much about you. The wind and snow are heavy outside, quickly take the children inside, I've prepared some tea and snacks.”
“Thank you, just call me Si Ye.” Si Ye nodded and smiled lightly, took out three Qiankun bags, and gave them to the three little wolf cubs who surrounded him.
The wolf cubs sniffed carefully around Si Ye, and after confirming that he had the familiar scent of their mother, they happily accepted the Qiankun bags.
“Hello, Little Stone Brother!”
“Thank you, Uncle Si!”
Si Ye touched the back of his neck. When he attended family banquets two years ago, he still had to call others uncle, but he didn't expect that in the past two years, he was both a father and an uncle, and his seniority has gone up all of a sudden.
The three little wolf cubs are quite cute and obedient, much more pleasing to the eye than his own daughter.
“Little Stone Brother, Chase Chase Brother, Blazing Heart Sister~”
Little Zhen Zhen jumped down from his arms and went to play with the wolf cubs.
Seeing the cubs frolicking together, Lou Xian Yue's eyes were gentle. He rubbed Little Lan An's head, who was extremely envious, “When you transform into a human form in the future, you can also run on the ground.”
“It's okay, let Little Stone take Little An to play.” Sang Luo said.
Little Stone is the most slender of the three wolf cubs, and is now about the size of an adult husky, but looking at Lan Cang's beast form, they can grow to five or six meters long when they grow up, and are still in their infancy.
Lou Xian Yue put Little An on Little Stone's back, “Go play.”
Lan Cang also rubbed Little An's head, “I haven't seen you for a long time, Little An is getting more and more handsome.”
Blazing Heart nodded frantically, “Clearly it's beautiful! Little An Brother and Uncle Lou are both so good-looking, I like Little An Brother the most!”
Zhen Zhen also jumped on Little Stone's back, “Hehe~ I also like Little An Brother!”
Little Lan An was shy and blushed from being praised by the two female cubs, “I also have a younger sister, my younger sister is also very good-looking.”
Blazing Heart turned to look at Sang Luo, “Why didn't Mother bring Little Sister over!”
“Sister is not awake yet. Next time I come back, Mother will definitely bring her over for you to see.”
“Okay!”
The little cubs went out to play happily.
Lan Cang asked someone to clean up the room.
Si Ye said to him, “No need to bother, I'll clean it up.”
Lou Xian Yue also nodded.
This time they came to stay for half a month and brought a lot of sundries, so it would be a little inconvenient for the servants to clean up.
Lan Cang didn't force the politeness, “Most of the rooms in the mansion are empty, you can choose a few rooms you like at will.”
Lou Xian Yue and Si Ye took their luggage and went to clean up the rooms.
Lou Xian Yue still chose a large room in the east courtyard, connected to an ice river. The river water was melted by underground heating pipes and diverted to the pool in the room, which Lan Cang specially prepared for Little Lan An.
Si Ye chose a room on the second floor of a middle courtyard, with good lighting. When he woke up in the morning and looked out from the floor-to-ceiling windows in front of the bed, he could just see the magnificent scenery of the sun rising from the snow-capped mountains.
