Chapter 146 (House Completion Monthly Pass)
From then on, Xiao Ling lived a life of going out every day to find bugs and raise cubs.
Jiayin also gives Xiao Ling some spiritual spring water to drink every day. Otherwise, with its size, it would be very tiring just to catch bugs for the two eagle cubs, and there would be nothing else to do.
Originally, these kids wanted to help.
Anyway, the children go to the mountains and forests every day to dig wild vegetables and find mushrooms. They encounter a lot of bugs, and they can help catch them and feed them to the eaglets.
But Xiaoling insisted on doing it by himself, saying that catching bugs and feeding them every day was cultivating the relationship between them, and he knew best what bugs the eaglets liked to eat.
The bugs caught by the children are all on the ground, and the eaglets may not like to eat them.
The children had no choice but to watch the little spirit busy catching bugs to feed the eagle every day.
When the little eagle gets a little older, it can eat other things. The little eagle starts to catch hares and picks up some pieces of meat for them to eat.
Xiao Ling began to think that with its current physique and hardness, it would be no problem to hunt a pheasant and hare. However, Xiao Ling ignored his size and could not get a big rabbit back at all.
Now the children have a place to help Xiaoling pick up rabbits.
Xiao Ling is now exercising very quickly, and can hit the target with one hit. When it kills the rabbit, the children will go over and pick up the rabbit.
Not only do the little eagles have enough to eat every day, but the Fang family members also benefit from it.
Just like that, the time has come to March, and more than a dozen rooms have been built in the yard.
Houses in the south are not as thick as houses in the north. The walls in the south are much thinner.
Moreover, the windows and roofs are not as tight as those in the north, and more emphasis is placed on ventilation. If they are too tight, the moisture inside will not be able to escape, making it more uncomfortable. The windows are also much larger than those in the north.
After that, everyone in the Fang family left half of their strong labor force behind to continue to help build the house.
Half of the people set up fire pits for the houses that had been built.
The weather will soon become humid during this month, especially inside the house.
Their adobe and billet are almost ready, so they speed up and set up the kang to burn for a few days to remove the moisture from the house, so they can move in early.
If we follow the custom here, after the house is built, it will take a while to dry out before you can move in.
The old people couldn't help building houses, so they went to plow the land with their oxen and clear up wasteland, hoping to harvest a crop of grain in the summer.
The women also opened a vegetable garden outside the bamboo and grass wall, so that they can eat vegetables that grow quickly in twenty or thirty days. They cannot eat wild vegetables all the time.
The foreman of the masons was very curious about the fire kang they made, and even followed him to learn it.
I found that this so-called fire kang has a very good way. First, the bottom is built in circles, which is said to be a flue, but the bottom is not flat, but a slope, with the top of the kang being low and the end of the kang being high.
Plate the bottom and cover it with the billet, and put a layer of sand on it, which is used for heat insulation. If there is too much sand, it will not be so hot when the kang is burned. If you feel it is not hot enough, you can put less.
After the kang tray is installed, a kang hole is left for burning the fire, which can also be connected to the stove in the outer room. When cooking here, the kang over there will be burned together, which is very practical.
When the fire is burning, the temperature is in the flue under the kang, and the heat will travel through the flue, and the kang will be dry in half a day.
After burning for a day, he discovered that although it was very hot inside, it was much drier. Moreover, the fire pit became cold soon after the fire stopped, which meant that sleeping on the fire pit would be very comfortable in summer.
This is really a good idea. He plans to go back and try to get one at his home, so that it will not be uncomfortable to sleep when the weather is too humid.
Every time I wake up, my body is covered in water and feels sticky. With this fire kang, you can dry your clothes and quilts even if there is no sun outside.
In this way, it took more than half a month to build more than a dozen courtyards with fire pits.
After burning it every day, the inside of the house is almost dry.
Fang Yunping first arranged for families with elderly people and younger children to move in in advance.
The remaining few, both young and old, and all strong laborers, made do with living in shacks.
No one has any objections, and it won’t be a few days late anyway.
Another thing is that although the weather is warm now, it is getting more and more humid. Many elderly people are starting to feel uncomfortable in their legs and feet. This is because of the heavy humidity.
And there are some people who are not used to eating spicy food, and the moisture in their bodies cannot be discharged. Wet pimples have begun to appear on their bodies, and they are itchy and uncomfortable every day.
So everyone began to pray to the Dragon God in unison. Listening to everyone praying to Xiao Ling, could they ask the Dragon God to help relieve their symptoms?
Jiayin immediately put some spiritual spring water in the pot used for cooking that day, and sure enough, everyone's symptoms were relieved and disappeared the next day.
In this way, Good News received another wave of golden light of merit.
By May, the eaglets were able to fly very high, and Xiaoling began to formally train them.
At first, the little spirit used an eagle's cry to give orders, then it said it again in an eagle's cry, and then repeated it in human language.
Gradually, the eaglets can also understand the meaning of commands given in human language.
Fang Yunping and others were shocked when they saw these two eagle cubs for the first time.
He also asked who had stolen it back, and was frightened for several days, fearing that the eagle would take revenge.
Later, when I found out that Xiao Ling had picked it up and that it might be the offspring of the eagle they had eaten, I still sighed in my heart that this was the conscience of the enemy who killed his mother and found out that he was raising offspring for others...
Looking at the little eagle hovering above the construction site, everyone became more convinced that Xiaoling was a sacred bird.
It was actually able to tame the two young eagles and even give orders in human language.
Now the two little eagles are a little bigger than Xiao Ling.
When we go out with the children, Xiao Ling sometimes gets lazy and squats on the little eagle and lets the little eagle fly with it.
The good news did not enlighten the two eagles, but occasionally they would drink some spiritual water. Even in this way, their physical condition was much better than that of ordinary eagles.
Now I can catch rabbits by myself. As for snakes, Jiayin didn't let them move.
Xiao Ling also told them that it is forbidden to catch snakes in the forest.
If eagles from other places come to catch snakes, the good news will not matter, but the ones raised by your own can still be restrained. Those snakes are the barrier here. If they are gone or reduced, there is no guarantee that other beasts or people will not come.
Before the rainy season comes in June, all the houses have been built.
Those who live in the room have a heated kang, and those who don't live there are left empty. Someone cleans the room regularly every day.
The ancestral hall has not been built yet, but the location has been chosen. It is right next to the water pool and against the cliff. Construction will not start until the rainy season has passed.
Chapter completed!