With the establishment of the Great Zhou trade market, the elves' mindset had been constantly changing this winter.
They had gone from, "I'm doing fine like this. I don't want to do anything," to, "I'll put in a little effort every day, earn some pies to eat and soy milk to drink, and live comfortably~"
As the season turned to winter, the weather also grew colder and colder. This gave many elves new needs: they wanted warm equipment to get through the winter.
On a new day, just as dawn broke, two elves carried axes toward the lumber yard outside it.
The clothing worn by these two elves could be described as worlds apart.
One elf wore a thick cotton-padded coat. The sturdy fabric was stuffed full of cotton, making the elf wearing it look as if he had swollen by an entire circle and somewhat clumsy.
The other elf was wrapped in thick fur clothing. He hunched over and kept huffing out warm breath, clearly feeling the cold.
There was also a huge difference in the warmth provided by different fur garments.
Ordinary leather clothing could only block the wind at most. To keep warm, one had to choose leather with thick fur attached, commonly known as a fur-lined garment.
The Dwarf Pilots of Great Zhou all wore fur-lined garments.
The most typical and common kind was sheepskin: leather covered in thick wool, with outstanding insulating properties.
There were obviously no sheep here in the Elf Forest. For the elves, the most typical fur-lined garments were bear hide and tiger hide!
Yet even in this era, bear hide and tiger hide were extremely scarce.
When winter came, ordinary elves could at most wrap themselves in some ordinary leather, stuff a few more linen garments underneath, then huddle at home