Tietou held the middle and upper part of the thatch with his left hand, and the stone sickle in his right hand moved accordingly.
The blade of the stone sickle hooked the root of the thatch. With the force of his right hand, he pulled back and the thatch was cut off by the stone sickle.
The cut thatch was not scattered on the ground, but was held in his left hand.
After cutting the grass, Tietou did not stop, but moved his left hand holding the thatch in a small semicircle in front of him. He only used his thumb and index finger to control the original thatch, leaving three fingers to grasp it.
With the new thatch, the stone sickle in the right hand also moves.
This action was repeated until the reeds in his left hand were almost out of hand. Tietou stopped and placed a large handful of thatch in his hand on a pile of thatch not far away.
Under the thatch pile, there is a rope woven with wool placed horizontally. When the thatch pile reaches a certain amount, it will be tied up and transported to the tribe.
Compared with other thatch, this pile of thatch looks much cleaner and neatly arranged, unlike the rough ones made by others.
This is Tietou's masterpiece.
Tietou is very motivated when doing things now, not only because he uses the newly made tool 'Scythe' by Shenzi the most, and he can harvest thatch the fastest and most neatly, but there is also another important reason.
The reason is that piles of thatch are being bundled and transported to the tribe not far away.
After a long period of recuperation, Ruhua's stomach has completely healed. After a checkup, Shenzi agreed to let them live together ten days ago.
What the adults in the tribe do at night while humming little songs often makes Tietou, who is already an adult but has no spouse, envious and unable to sleep half the night. Now that he also has a spouse, he naturally has to carry a gun and ride on a horse.
It's a pity that Tietou only knows a rough idea about this matter. Although he is anxious, he can't get in.
Fortunately, Ruhua was an experienced person. She turned her back to him and gently supported him with her hand, then pressed her backhand on his butt, and the door to a new world opened.
At that moment, Tietou had never thought about flying. He only felt like a bird flying in the sky. All the impatience in his heart disappeared, leaving only a wonderful feeling that he had never felt before.
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When he came back from this wonderful experience, he found that Hei Wa, who was close to where he was resting, was smiling at him under the light of a moderately bright fire.
It was a very strange smile, so strange that Tietou didn't know what it meant.
But his doubts did not last long, because after Hei Wa smiled at him again, he reached out and patted Zhuang next to him.
Zhuang got up and lay on the ground like a flower, and then Heiwa started to stir.
After a while, a strong and loud voice began to hum a rough song.
Looking at Hei Wa who was shaking and turning his head to smile at him, Tietou, who had never thought about this before, actually understood Hei Wa's meaning in just a short moment.
Tietou's face suddenly became hot, and he felt a little uncomfortable for no reason.
It was Ruhua who rescued him from this situation.
This considerate primitive woman once again leads Iron Head, whose self-esteem has been hurt, to explore a new world.
And he also hummed a song quickly.
Hearing this song made Tie Tou feel energetic. He lowered his head and raised it. He imitated Hei Wa, shaking his head vigorously, turning his head and smiling at Hei Wa as if he were fighting back...
From that night on, the two pairs of people competed as if they were singing a duet opera, each one's voice getting louder than the other, just like killing a pig.
It wasn't until Han Cheng, who couldn't bear it anymore, came out of the inner cave angrily, and one of them kicked his buttocks twice, that this primitive battle of spirits stopped...
While Tietou and others were harvesting thatch on the mountain and transporting it back, the senior brother and others who stayed behind were also not idle.
They were still mixing mud to the edge of the deer pen, but this time the mud was not stuck on the fence on top of the deer pen, but on the woven wooden fence below the ceiling.
Compared with a pasted ceiling, there is actually quite a difference.
First of all, the mud must be thick, at least five centimeters, and secondly, the roof grating is only plastered on the top, but here, it is plastered both inside and outside.
The senior brother who transformed from an excellent hunter to an excellent plasterer picked up the reconciled mud in his leather bag with both hands, balled it up in his hands, and made it roughly ten centimeters long, about five centimeters wide and high.
The mud strips were then firmly placed on the mud wall below.
And he also pressed hard on the wooden wall in the middle in order to make it stick to the wooden wall more firmly.
Han Cheng watched from the side, stretched out his hand to press on the hardened mud that had been built up before, and shook it a few more times, feeling even satisfied.
First weave wooden pillars and wooden strips into a 'wooden wall', and then apply a thick layer of mud on both sides of the wooden wall to completely seal the wooden wall in the mud. This method can indeed be used to make a mud wall.
And because there are these wooden piles and wooden strips inside, which can be called "bones", this kind of wall is stronger than a simple mud wall.
After all the 'wooden walls' of the deer pen with the roof are sealed with mud, and the last step on the roof is thatching, a real house is built.
In this way, when the weather is cloudy, rainy and cold, Uncle Deer and his harem can stay here. When the weather is fine and the temperature rises, they can go to a larger area without a roof.
Go to the deer enclosure for ventilation and sunbathing.
After collecting a certain amount of thatch, under Han Cheng's order and guidance, Senior Brother, Shang and others began to lay thatch on the mud-pasted ceiling.
The thatch should be laid thicker so that it can better protect against wind and rain after years of wind and rain.
And when laying thatch, it should be laid horizontally in rows.
After the lower row is laid, some mud needs to be pressed on top of them to fix it.
Then lay out the top row.
The upper row needs to cover the lower row with mud so as not to leave any traces.
In this way, with the rows of paved roads on top, the entire ceiling becomes one.
The top layer of thatch needs to be fixed, because if it is not fixed well, the entire ceiling will be greatly affected.
Han Cheng also thought of a way to tie them to the fence below with ropes, then put two wooden strips horizontally on top, and put stones on top of the wooden strips. In this way, there is no need to worry even if there is a strong wind.
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At this point, the deer pen that had been built since winter was finally officially completed.
(Interested book friends can go to Bilibili to search for the video of an Australian guy about the wall-paving thing. It is much more intuitive than what I can describe in words)
