Yao Xiaoqing looked at the prey and smiled and said: "Today's harvest is not bad! Why are you back so late? My father has been worried about you."
Mufeng looked at her and said with some uneasiness: "We were back a long time ago, but we found two people following us halfway. We hid in the woods for a while, and then got back after getting rid of those two people."
She smiled and said to Yun Amu who looked worried: "Mom, we are fine."
Yun Amu looked around and nodded with a smile, "It's okay. You must be hungry!" They entered the cave together.
Yaohu stood at the entrance of the cave and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the three people coming back. Mufeng told Yaohu about meeting the man with the wooden charm totem.
"They are from the Shenmu tribe. It seems they live near that valley. I told you not to go there yesterday, so why did you go there again?"
"We are going hunting in the mountains to the north this time. I don't know why they are following us?" Mu Feng looked at Yao Hu and said a little aggrievedly.
Yao Hu patted the three of them and said to Mu Feng: "I thought you went to where you went yesterday again."
Shui Bo looked at Yao Hu worriedly, "Chief, what should we do now?"
Dashi clenched his fists and looked at Yao Hu, "Chief, we are almost done. If they dare to come, we will fight them."
Everyone said in unison: "Yes, don't be afraid of them, just fight with them."
Yaohu raised his hand to stop everyone's shouting and said to them: "I tell you, if the Shenmu tribe really wants to become our enemy, we can't possibly defeat them."
Yao Hu paused and looked at them.
"What we have to do now is to avoid them and store food while winter is still far away. Now let's fence the entrance of the cave as Xiao Qing said, and practice archery as Xiao Qing said, and do more
Keep the wooden arrows, and when the Shenmu tribe finds us, we are not afraid of them, and we will have a fight with them then."
After hearing this, Dashi and the others understood that what Yao Hu said was right, and responded loudly: "Yes, leader."
Yao Hu looked at Yao Xiaoqing and said, "Xiaoqing, the wood has been cut back. What should we do? You teach us."
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said: "Father, everyone has been tired for a day. Let's fill our stomachs first and then build the wall."
Yao Hu thought the same thing, "Okay, let's go fill our stomachs first."
Everyone went in to fill their stomachs and lit two bonfires on the platform outside the cave. Yao Xiaoqing said to Yao Hu: "Father, you and Uncle Shui make tools, while Mu Feng and Uncle Dashi dig holes."
Yao Hu and Mu Feng nodded, "Okay, you teach us."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded and left a courtyard gate about one meter wide on the gentle slope facing the river. Mu Feng and the others dug deep pits every half step until they reached the cliff.
Down.
Mu Feng and Dashi picked up stone axes, stone knives and wooden shovels and got busy.
Yao Xiaoqing asked Shui Bo and Chong to make two wooden hammers out of wood. He also taught Yao Hu and Dashi to make a herringbone wooden ladder out of wood and vines.
When people unite, Mount Tai will move. The tools are ready here, and Mufeng and the others have dug a deep pit on one side.
Yao Xiaoqing asked Mu Feng, Pig and Ox to drive the stakes, while the others continued digging holes.
Mu Feng and Xiong Niu erected a log and inserted it into the deep pit. Pig climbed up the wooden ladder and used a wooden hammer to hammer the wood into the deep pit. Until the wood stopped moving down, Mu Feng and Xiong Niu filled in the soil and compacted it.
After Mufeng and the others finished driving the first wooden pile, Yao Xiaoqing shook it hard and found no looseness at the bottom of the wooden pile, so he allowed them to continue driving the wooden pile.
After Mu Feng and the others had finished driving the wooden piles on the south platform, Yao Xiaoqing, Yao Hu and Shui Bo split the bamboo, sandwiched the wooden piles with bamboo pieces and tied the bamboo pieces with vines to reinforce them.
Then use vines to connect and fix the wooden piles one by one. From bottom to top, reinforce a bamboo piece and several vines every one meter, and the southern fence is completed.
Everyone did what Yao Xiaoqing said. No one doubted her words because they believed she was protected by the gods.
After the wooden stakes on both sides are driven and fixed, it is time to reach the door.
The door is much more troublesome. There are no nails, hinges, or tools for making mortise and tenon joints.
Yao Xiaoqing thought for a while and asked Yao Hu to pick out a few straight pieces of wood.
Take two out and let him cut them to a height of two meters, draw a mark with charcoal, use an engineer shovel to cut a convex square tenon on the top, and then saw a piece of wood more than one meter long to make a beam.
After drawing the position of the falcon's eyes, Yaohu used a stone knife to chisel two falcon eyes, tried to install them twice, and polished them twice before the installation was successful.
Then two large logs were sawed, a round hole was dug in the middle, one piece was buried in the deep pit and tamped firmly, and the top was fixed to the top beam with mortise and tenon.
Yao Xiaoqing asked Mu Feng and Zhi to erect the door frame, place it at the gate, insert it into the deep pit, beat it and tamp it firmly, use vines to bind the wooden stakes and the door frame firmly, and then align the logs with the round holes dug into the beams.
The logs on the top are installed under the door frame.
Everyone looked at the doorframe in surprise and made a sound of exclamation.
After the door frame is ready, select small logs of even thickness, leave one section slightly longer, cut the others into equal lengths, and place them side by side at the door.
Split the moso bamboo, clamp the wood, fix it with vines and bamboo strips, tie bamboo pieces one foot apart, and a door is ready. Then saw two pieces of wood to make the door bars, and install it and you're done.
Yao Xiaoqing asked Yao Hu and Mu Feng to put the door up, put the long log into the log with the round hole dug, closed the door and found that there was a gap less than two fingers wide on both sides.
Yao Xiaoqing stood in the yard, looking at the finished door and yard, showing a proud, bitter and excited smile.
Yaohu opened and closed the door, Mufeng went up and opened and closed it again, and everyone went up and opened and closed the door again.
Everyone looked at Yao Xiaoqing with admiration burning in their eyes. Everyone stood in the yard, their eyes red but tireless, looking at the yard they had never seen before with smiles on their faces, and they all looked at Yao Xiaoqing and laughed loudly.
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Yao Xiaoqing was a little overwhelmed by their gazes like stars holding the moon, and felt a little excited and a little proud...
"Xiaoqing, you are so amazing." Mufeng shouted loudly and he and the bull lifted her up, threw her into the air and caught her again.
"Ah!...Ah!..." The sudden feeling of weightlessness made Yao Xiaoqing scream, and Jin Mao was startled out of the cave. He bared his teeth at Mu Feng and the others with a fierce look, and rushed towards them with open claws.
"Golden Retriever, don't move, be good!" Yao Xiaoqing hurriedly stopped it, "Golden Retriever, sister is fine, sister is playing with them."
Mufeng and the others quickly put her on the ground to comfort the fried golden retriever.
I don’t know who started singing and dancing around the campfire.
Mu Feng pulled Yao Hu and Yao Xiaoqing, and they all jumped hand in hand. Shan Amu and Yun Amu hummed an unknown ballad, and everyone sang along, with a low and desolate voice.
Yao Xiaoqing stepped forward and held the golden retriever in a circle. The golden retriever was pulled stupidly and stumbled, and then it simply hung on her body.
The pigs and the bulls competed in wrestling, and bursts of laughter and cheers resounded in the yard.