When Yao Xiaoqing was young in his previous life, the villagers in the village used stones to build their houses and lay foundations.
She still had some impressions in her mind, and with the oyster ash now available, she was absolutely sure that she could build the stone wall.
"I think as long as the stones are straightened and not skewed, there will be no problem."
Yao Hu nodded, "You go and have a rest early, let me talk to my father and Dashi, and then practice archery with them for a while."
Yao Xiaoqing suddenly remembered something, "Father, let's go to the foot of the mountain and get some nooses. We can snare a few pheasants and rabbits!"
Yao Hu thought for a moment, "Is it the one you taught me last time?"
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said: "Yes, there is a rope in the cave, just look at the condom."
Yao Hu nodded, "Okay, you go to sleep, I will take Dashi and the others down later."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded and went to wash up and go to bed.
Yaohu took Dashi Mufeng and others to the foot of the mountain, told Dashu what Yao Xiaoqing said, and then went to the foot of the mountain to put the noose.
A few people came back and practiced archery for a while before falling asleep separately.
The next day, as soon as the fish belly turned white on the horizon, Yaohu got up and arranged for men.
Ah Shui was on duty at the mountain, while Muba, Mufeng, Pig, and Xiongniu went into the mountain to hunt.
Yuzi and Ah Su stayed to help at the construction site, while the other women went out to collect food. After everyone ate the food, they set off.
Ah Chong and Ah Shui carried the buckets to the river and put away the fish cages. The two large wooden barrels were filled with fish, river shrimps and eels.
The two happily lowered the two fish traps they had made overnight into the river, and walked back happily carrying the fish and shrimps.
The people on the mountain got up one after another, ate their food, took their weapons, and then left separately.
Yaohu took Shan and Dashi down the mountain to check the trap and found that the leopard and the big tree had left.
Dashi said to Yaohu: "Chief, if they go back with peaches and are discovered by Huoli, they will be killed."
Yao Hu smiled and said, "Don't worry, these two are cunning! They won't let Tao go back to the tribe with them."
"Yeah!" Dashi nodded, "When we went to find you, Mao and Dashu were sent out to hunt by Huoli, otherwise Mao would have come with us. He used to be closer to us,
If you stay there, Firefox will definitely torture him."
"The fire fox's heart is thinner than the tip of a pine needle. He cannot tolerate others treating me better than him. It is inevitable that they will be tortured by him if they stay there." Yao Hu said lightly.
"Bah!" Shan spat, "A good tribe was made like this by Huoli, and Big Am is even more powerful than the one from Sishan."
The three of them arrived at the trap and checked but found no prey. They walked to the trap set under the bamboo forest and still found no harvest.
Several people walked back disappointedly. Yaohu remembered that he had not looked at the nooses he had lowered. The three people hurriedly walked towards the foot of the mountain and found that some of the nooses had caught pheasants and some had caught hares. They searched all the way.
Went back and harvested a dozen pheasants and hares.
Several people happily carried the hares back, and Dashi smiled and said: "Xiao Qing's method is better. I caught so many without any effort."
Yao Hu nodded, "Let's go to the pond tonight and drop a few. There must be a lot of little things going there."
The three of them went back to put down the wild animals, and then went to the kiln with their spears and bulls. They saw Yao Xiaoqing, Atu, and Yuzi loading the adobe bricks into the kiln.
"Xiao Qing, go and see how the stones will be laid?" Yao Hu said.
When Yao Xiaoqing saw a few people, he carried the basket and didn't prepare anything else. He thought for a while and said: "Father, you take Uncle Dashi and the others to carry the oyster ash to the open space at the foot of the mountain, and then go back and use wood to cut some
For a small wooden shovel like a spatula, you also have to carry a few buckets down to carry water to load the mortar.”
Yao Hu looked at her in puzzlement, "A small wooden shovel for doing things?"
Yao Xiaoqing pointed to the oyster ash, "After the oyster ash is mixed with the sand and gravel, it is put into a wooden bucket. It needs to be shoveled up with a wooden shovel and poured on the rocks. Father, the wooden shovel is a little bigger and longer than the pot shovel."
Yao Hu nodded, "Father, I'll go right away."
When Yao Xiaoqing filled up the kiln, Yao Hu and others came with ash shovels and buckets.
Yao Hu held a wooden shovel that was not much bigger than a spatula and handed it to her, "Xiao Qing, look at how this small shovel is made."
Yao Xiaoqing looked at it and smiled and said: "Okay, you can just take advantage of it."
Yao Hu looked at the wooden shovel and laughed, "What else are we going to do?"
"You carry a few loads of oyster ash to the open space, pick out the uneven stones from the piles of stones, and use stone chisels to chisel the large smooth stones into rough stones to prevent the stones from being too smooth and causing poor adhesion to the mortar."
"Okay." Yaohu led the people to carry the oyster ash to the foundation, picked up the stone chisel and started working with a "ding-dong-dang" sound.
Taro Zi and Ah Su washed the fish and shrimp, dried them in the dustpan, took the stone hoe and went down the mountain and said to Yao Xiaoqing: "We are here, Qingwu."
"You go to the pond to fetch water and mix it with mortar."
"Hey!" The two agreed and left with the buckets.
Yao Xiaoqing looked at the distance from the pond to this side and felt that it was a waste of manpower. After thinking about it, he asked Ah Chong to chop two bamboos, break the bamboo joints, draw a stream of water down from the mountain, and start mixing the mortar.
Mix one shovelful of oyster ash and three shovelfuls of sand and gravel together, then add water and mix well.
Yao Xiaoqing looked at the stones and recalled the scene when the stone wall was being built in the village. He directed Yao Hu and others to spread a layer of mortar at the bottom of the foundation pit, and then put the foundation stone on top.
The large stones are placed on the bottom layer of foundation stones, and then small stones are used to build them at staggered joints. The large gaps between the stones are filled with mortar, and the embedded gravel is filled and hammered tightly with a wooden hammer.
Everyone listened carefully to Yao Xiaoqing's instructions. At first, Yao Hu and the others were clumsy, not knowing how to match the large and small stones. They were also a little hurried. Sometimes they filled the gaps between the stones with too much mortar, and sometimes too little. Stone moving
It took four people about an hour to build the foundation stone, which was less than one meter long, by lifting it up and down. Even when the mortar overflowed, they didn't know how to catch it and level it.
After two hours of building, Yao Xiaoqing found that everyone's hands and feet were gradually getting sharper. They knew how to combine the stones, some shaped like the mouth of a shovel, some like the shape of an ax blade, and long stones with large and small stones.
Ah Chong and Xiong Niu went to the south to dig the foundation. Gen and Ah Tu were at the pile of rocks, chiseling away the excess water chestnuts on the rough stones.
Taro and Asu delivered mortar to Yaohu and the others, and everyone found a way to do things. The progress of laying the foundation was much faster. When we arrived at noon, one-tenth of the foundation of the north wall had been laid.
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Yao Xiaoqing estimated that they should be able to finish the rest of the wall by nightfall. After finishing it today, they should move faster. Based on this calculation, it will take two months to build the wall.
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At dusk the next day, Dashu and Leopard tied Tao to a tree some distance away from the tribe. The two hid outside until late at night, and sneaked back to the tribe secretly.