He has a spatial ability and saves three children on his escape route.

Chapter 238 Silk

Chapter 238 Silk

Back at the princess's residence, Wen Yuxia saw Nangong Wenrui pacing back and forth in the front yard from afar. Her expression shifted between joy and worry as she watched him move.

"Brother Rui," Wen Yuxia called softly, about to ask Nangong Wenrui what he was thinking, when Nangong Wenrui turned and walked towards her.

Rushing to Wen Yuxia's side, Nangong Wenrui eagerly shared, "Muhua, the silkworms we raised have finally started spinning cocoons!"

Upon hearing this, Wen Yuxia's previously calm face instantly flushed with excitement: "Really? That's wonderful! Take me there to see!"

Nangong Wenrui smiled slightly and gently waved his right hand. In an instant, a pile of snow-white silkworm cocoons appeared out of thin air on the table.

Wen Yuxia strode forward, grabbed a handful of silkworm cocoons, and examined them closely. As she stroked the soft, smooth surface of the cocoons, she turned to ask, "Brother Rui, have you found a way to extract the silk?"

Nangong Wenrui shook his head helplessly, indicating that he had not yet found a way to extract the silk, and was also worried that the silkworms would emerge from their cocoons before a method for extraction was found.

Wen Yuxia pondered for a moment, then slowly said, "Brother Rui, boil them in water until they're cooked, and the cocoons will be preserved intact."

Upon hearing this, Nangong Wenrui's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "How long can the cocoons be preserved after the silkworm pupae are cooked?" Wen Yuxia shook her head: "I'm not quite sure how long they can be preserved."

"Let's deal with the silkworm pupae first, then we'll figure out a solution later," Nangong Wenrui understood the priorities and knew that the most urgent task was to get rid of the silkworm pupae: "I'll go back to the old house now."

"Wait!" Wen Yuxia grabbed Nangong Wenrui and was pulled into the small world by the impatient Nangong Wenrui. Nangong Wenrui looked at Wen Yuxia somewhat awkwardly.

Wen Yuxia shook her head helplessly. "Remember to save some silkworm cocoons for breeding, and send me out." Nangong Wenrui asked, "Aren't you going to go and check on me?"

"I'm busy, I can't go," Wen Yuxia said calmly. The clothing shop wanted new styles, and the dye house wanted tie-dye patterns; those kept her busy enough. She didn't have time to get involved in the Nangong family's silkworm cocoons.

Nangong Wenrui smiled slightly and gently sent Wen Yuxia out of the small world. Wen Yuxia returned to her space to draw blueprints, while Nangong Wenrui returned to the Nangong old mansion from the small world.

Looking at Nangong Wenrui, who had suddenly appeared in his room, Nangong Yangjian asked curiously, "You just left here less than half an hour ago, why are you back again?"

“Grandpa, I know how to deal with silkworm pupae now,” Nangong Wenrui said eagerly. Nangong Yangjian raised an eyebrow and asked, “Oh, how do you deal with them?”

"Boil them, boil them in water," Nangong Wenrui said succinctly. The grandfather and grandson quickly went to the warehouse where the silkworm cocoons were stored and instructed the clansmen to move the cocoons to the kitchen for processing.

Since it was the first time boiling silkworm cocoons, no one had any experience. Looking at the three large pots in the kitchen, Nangong Yangjian cautiously said, "Put less water, and only one silkworm cocoon in each pot." As the water temperature rose, the silkworm cocoons in the pots slowly began to move.

Clan member A chuckled, "Silkworm pupae can sense changes in water temperature. Look, it's swimming around in the water, trying to escape." This remark drew smiles from everyone watching the silkworm cocoons being boiled.

After a while, the water began to boil. Nangong Wenrui ordered in a deep voice, "Turn the heat down a bit, don't ruin the silkworm cocoons."

After a while, Nangong Wenrui picked up his chopsticks and poked the silkworm cocoons in the water. He felt that the cocoons had become somewhat elastic, and asked the cook in a cold voice, "Are they cooked yet?"

All eyes turned to the cook, who hesitated before saying, "Let's... let it cook a little longer."

At this moment, a clansman with sharp eyes spotted the thin silk floating in the water and exclaimed in surprise, "Silkworm silk! There's silkworm silk in the water!" Nangong Wenrui used his chopsticks to scoop up some silk in the water and indeed picked up a thin silk thread.

"So, the silkworm silk automatically falls off after the cocoon is boiled in water," said tribesman A in surprise, then added, "Only one cocoon can be boiled at a time, which is too wasteful of coal."

Clan member A voiced the sentiments of everyone: cooking one cocoon at a time is laborious, time-consuming, and requires honeycomb briquettes; cooking a large pot at once risks the detached silkworm threads tangling together in a mess.

"The pot is so big, how could it only boil one silkworm cocoon?" Nangong Wenrui handed the bamboo chopsticks in his hand to the tribesman next to him and calmly said, "Use the same amount of water as before, slowly put the silkworm cocoons in, and be careful not to let them stick together."

Besides Nangong Wenrui and his grandson, along with three cooks, the rest of the people watching in the kitchen were members of the Nangong family who were engaged in textiles. After finding a way to process silkworm cocoons, they were responsible for the silk reeling.

Through continuous experimentation, the cooks mastered the control of heat and time for boiling silkworm cocoons, and the textile workers became familiar with the entire process of silk reeling.

To ensure the silkworm silk reached the required fineness for weaving, the workers ingeniously extracted silk from five or six cocoons simultaneously.

Five or six thin threads simultaneously pass through a very small hole, are squeezed together into a single thread, and then wound around the soup bowl.

The wound yarn bundles were rinsed with clean water and air-dried before being sent to the textile factory. Nangong Wenrui stayed at the old house and watched the entire process of silk weaving.

After the silkworm cocoons were treated with boiling water, they were spun into three bolts of silk. Nangong Qi, the manager of the textile factory, said excitedly, "Things are valued for their rarity. This silk will be a unique fabric for the Nangong family."

Silk was the first name Wen Yuxia told Nangong Wenrui about silk fabric. But Nangong Wenrui, who had seen silk fabric before, knew that silk fabric was the same as silk cloth. "Aunt Qi, the silk cloth of Yunxiao Kingdom is silk fabric."

"What?! The silk that Yunxiao Kingdom can't buy for a thousand pieces of gold is silk? Haha, I've struck gold! I've struck gold!" Nangong Qi laughed heartily, disregarding her image.

Thinking that it was Wen Yuxia's suggestion to raise silkworms and weave cloth, Nangong Qi said with some concern, "Young Master, will the young mistress also want to use silkworms to weave cloth?"

Emperor Xia Yichen of the Great Xia Dynasty was basically involved in Wen Yuxia's business. Nangong Qi wasn't afraid that Wen Yuxia would take a share of the profits from the Nangong family; what she feared was that Wen Yuxia would reveal the secrets of silk to Xia Yichen.

Nangong Wenrui's lips curled slightly: "Aunt Qi, don't worry, Mu Hua's business will only have one partner from now on, and that is the Nangong family."

Later, Nangong Wenrui told Nangong Qi that he had returned to the princess's residence that very night after the silkworms produced their silk and informed Wen Yuxia that Wen Yuxia had no intention of weaving silk.

"Young Master might as well go back and ask Young Madam if she has any plans to make clothes out of silk."