Although the story of the flowers' mating made all the tribesmen laugh and cry, Xu Chen's words also made them all remember one thing.
That is, flowers and plants are also divided into male and female types. Some only bloom but do not bear fruit, and some only bear fruit but do not germinate.
Although everyone was full of doubts about this, given Xu Chen's magical properties and the support of the great witch, many people began to believe it.
Back at the compound at the foot of the mountain, Xu Chen asked Mo to arrange something, asking him to take some milk fruits and a few milk fruit vines to the Mongolian people as soon as possible, and arrange for the Mongolian people to be planted on the hillside near the hot spring.
Mo basically takes people to visit the Mongolian people once a month, so he is very familiar with them. After agreeing, he started preparing to leave.
In the following time, Xu Chen temporarily settled down and entered a simple and leisure time.
It is already the end of January, and in a little more than a month it will be Mother's Day again.
This year's Mother's Day will definitely be bigger than last year because there is a large tribe of witches, the Pi Tribe.
In order to make this Mother's Day even more lively, the Ba people not only need to expand the Temple of the Mother, but also complete the Eye of God Altar. In addition, they need to excavate the foundations of three settlements, prepare wood, masonry, and courtyards.
The entire tribe has been very busy with the uplift and filling of the front yard dam and the construction and renovation of several river embankments and ditches.
However, Xu Chen had already arranged everything in place, and there was a dedicated person responsible for each project, so he was busy and everything seemed in order.
Xu Chen had enough sleep and food every day, then he would ride on his beloved pony and take a few half-grown dogs to patrol around the valley.
The God's Eye Altar at the entrance of the valley has basically been completed, and the final finishing work is currently being done.
After several months of construction, the top of the hill has been greatly changed. A flat land of about half an acre has been opened up, surrounded by a stone wall and some evergreen plants. In the middle, a stone brick building is built about one meter high and wide.
The octagonal altar, about ten meters long, is paved with stones of different colors in a Bagua pattern, with a huge eye in the center.
Around the altar, there are four stone beast statues.
The most difficult thing about the entire altar is these four statues. Just these four half-meter-high stones took a lot of effort, but a group of savages are also very powerful. Xu Chen had already lifted them up after he returned from surveying and planning the road last autumn.
, placed according to Xu Chen’s original arrangement, but it took a lot of effort to carve these four stones.
Since returning at the end of October last year, Xu Chen has been instructing several stonemasons to do this work. It was not until the end of spring planting in January that the four stone beast statues were completed.
However, even though it was completed, Xu Chen still felt unbearable every time he saw it.
It is so ugly that it can be called the most ugly stone beast in the world.
Originally, he designed the four sacred beasts of Blue Dragon, Suzaku, White Tiger, and Xuanwu, but unfortunately under his poor command and a group of even more crappy stone masons and carvers, the finished product looked full of abstraction and barbarism, just like the original
A group of children made similar pottery figurine toys, which made people want to die.
The four holy beasts basically have no charm at all. They are uneven and crooked, and their body proportions are seriously out of proportion. Either they have a big head and a small body, or they have long legs and thick necks. After all, the green dragon and white tiger still have some similarities, but Suzaku is completely different.
It's hard to see. It was originally modeled after my own group of golden-feathered pheasants, but in the end it looked like a duck with its neck broken.
Because it was too ugly, Xu Chen took it upon himself to carve it more carefully. Unexpectedly, half of Xuanwu's head broke off. So looking at this sacred beast that was almost headless, Xu Chen felt the same pleasure.
After being poured a ladle of cold water on it, I completely gave up the idea of beautifying it.
Compared to these primitive masons who had just learned how to make stone mortars and rough benzene tools, his hands-on ability was actually even worse, and he was considered the best in history.
Therefore, he decided to continue to work hard, allowing himself to quietly be a theoretical magician and inventor, rather than a hardworking barbarian.
However, in Xu Chen's eyes, these four stone beasts were so ugly that they were regarded as sacred objects by the entire Ba tribe.
The altar has become a sacred place second only to the mountainside Mother Temple in the eyes of the Ba people. Every time they pass by this place, they will run up to take a look, and even lie down on the altar and prostrate themselves in the direction of the temple.
Prostrations express awe.
The renovation and expansion of the temple on the mountain is relatively simple, but the amount of work is not small. It is a group of craftsmen responsible for building the house. After several months of renovation and expansion, most of it is now completed.
The renovation of the temple is not very big. It mainly involves tearing down and rebuilding the statue of the Mother Goddess that was hastily built with bricks, stones and clay. While ensuring that the shape of the statue is roughly the same, the proportions and appearance of the statue are made more reasonable and detailed.
Many places are even decorated with gold and gemstones to make the statue more luxurious and beautiful. The overall look is like the witch's scepter and the golden horn and dragon's tooth scimitar. The gold is shining in the sun.
The colorful light has a luxurious and compelling momentum.
These are not Xu Chen's plans, but the unanimous suggestions of the little witch sisters, Mu Ba and others.
Their ideas are simple and pure.
Since Xu Chen said that gods like gold and various colorful gems, then the Mother Goddess should also like them.
Now after two years of accumulation, the prayer pool has accumulated a thick layer of gold, gems and various rare ores that look sparkling and colorful. Some of these things cannot be soaked in water for a long time, so Xu Chen asked the little witch to lead people
He fished them out and put them in the cave or took them down the mountain and put them in his bedroom. Most of them were still left in the pool. Every time he came up, Xu Chen felt dry when looking at the colorful treasures in the pool.
Feel.
Even on a sunny day when the light is strong, you can see the colorful brilliance reflected from the pool at the foot of the mountain.
These gold gems cannot be eaten but can only be seen, and keeping them all is indeed of no use. Therefore, Xu Chen accepted his advice and used a large amount of gold gems as decoration when renovating the temple and remodeling the statues.
Eyes, hair, forehead, fingers, clothes, all the places that can be decorated are used, and then painted with paint. The whole new statue of the Mother Goddess looks colorful, with a sense of grace and elegance.
The strong nouveau riche atmosphere is completely different from the previous simple and rough style with an obvious wild and sloppy atmosphere.
However, after the completion of this new statue, it was very suitable for the little witch and all the tribesmen. They felt that the mother goddess decorated in this way was more in line with the temperament of the god in their minds, more sacred and majestic, and the story of obtaining these golden gems
The Mother Goddess will definitely make the Ba people feel more comfortable and secure when living there, and will better protect and bless the Ba people and the tribes who come to pray.
In order to make the temple look more solemn, the walls were completely smoothed with clay inside and outside. After drying, they were painted with lime water several times to dry them thoroughly, and then various witches were painted on the walls with various pigments.
Blessing patterns and various witchcraft characters.
Xu Chen used a pen to write in hieroglyphics on the stone wall of the cave behind a large note about the renovation of the temple, and ordered the stonemason to carve it and inscribe it on the stone wall to keep it permanently.
The temple that was renovated in this way suddenly looked more magnificent, neat and serious, and it already had a sacred and solemn aura.
Due to the limitations of the size of the cave, the temple has actually not changed much from its previous style. At most, the exterior and interior are more luxurious. The biggest change is the open space in front of the temple.
Because too many people came last year, the previously narrow open space could no longer accommodate all the people who came to attend wedding ceremonies. Therefore, after Xu Chen re-planned, he had people clean up all the small woods in front, even some with a diameter of
All the large trees with an area of 3 meters were cut down, leaving only a few large trees whose diameters were too large to handle and were used as green decorations.
Since then, the entire front of the cave has suddenly become much brighter, and the area has expanded to thousands of square meters.
However, these thousands of square meters are not flat land, but present a gentle slope structure, and the bottom has almost reached the position of the crooked neck tree.
It would be too difficult to fill such a large area into one, and it would also consume a lot of manpower and time, so Xu Chen designed it into two floors, which together with the open space in front of the cave formed a three-level platform style.
This project is not small, and the area is larger than the God's Eye Altar. Fortunately, most of the hillside is made of soil, and it is not difficult to excavate. With the use of various sharp and strong bronze tools and wheelbarrows,
The progress of this platform expansion project is not slow at all.
From the start of construction in September last year to the time Xu Chen came back from surveying the road to conquer the Pi tribe, it had already reached a small scale in more than a month. After Xu Chen came back, he stepped up his supervision and guidance. Before the spring sowing, the three-level platform structure had been roughly completed. What is currently going on is
With the final leveling and reinforcement work, the overall project will definitely be completed by the end of February.
Except for these two projects that must be completed before Mother's Day, the remaining projects are still being carried out one after another.
The filling and raising project of the courtyard dam in front of the compound has been carried out for more than a year.
Since the introduction of the wheelbarrow, the project has progressed rapidly. The project that was originally estimated to take at least three years now has less than a quarter left. The front of the entire compound has been raised nearly one meter high, covering an area of several hundred square meters.
It looks very spectacular, and it also makes the entire compound look much more spacious and atmospheric.
The most important thing is that after the completion of this project, the safety of the compound has been greatly improved, its ability to withstand rainy season floods has also been stronger, and the survival safety of the tribesmen has been greater guaranteed.
The construction of dykes and drainage ditches in several low-lying farmland areas on the other side of the river has been completed. The completed dykes look like a long snake from a distance, giving the previously wild river bank a real rural atmosphere.
Anyway, after years of constant struggle, the edge of the Ba clan is getting closer and closer to what Xu Chen was once familiar with.