Han Cheng seemed very happy today, and Wu also seemed very energetic. Not only them, but the entire Qingque tribe was enveloped in an inexplicable excitement and expectation.
At the beginning of spring, many of them learned one after another from the mouth of the Son of God or others that the Son of God would build something better than a deer pen, called a house, for the people of the tribe to live in.
The house is more spacious and cleaner than the cave, and the inside is brighter than the cave. In winter, it is warmer than the cave.
The concept of cleanliness was very vague to them before the arrival of the Son of God. Sometimes they would consciously or unconsciously do some cleaning, but in the end it was not customizable.
After the Son of God came, they started to rinse their teeth, wash their faces, take baths, clean animal skins, and clean caves... After doing all these things, when they looked back, they suddenly realized that this was cleanness.
Clean and tidy things always make people feel more comfortable, and primitive people are no exception.
If Han Chengcai had included the advantage of cleanliness when promoting his house last year, not long after he arrived, the people of the Qingque tribe would not have had any feelings. They would even wonder what "clean" is or what "clean" can do.
Can't fill my stomach.
But things are obviously different now. Now even without Han Cheng's advice, no one in the tribe would get themselves dirty.
Of course, except when working.
But even if they are dirty from work, they will take a bath at night. Unlike before, I don’t know if they can take a bath once a year...
After knowing that houses have so many benefits, they are naturally looking forward to such a good place. However, the Son of God said that the walls must be raised before they can start building houses, so they can only look forward to it first.
, from time to time, I fantasize about what a house that is better than a deer pen looks like.
After such a long period of anticipation, the wall was finally built, and the Son of God was finally going to lead everyone in building houses. How could they not be excited?
Even the eldest brother and others took the initiative to shorten the rest time, turning the three days of rest after the wall was built into one day.
Under the watch of everyone from the Qingque tribe, Han Cheng, a guy who had only seen building houses but had never done it before, took the rope-and-grass tape measure he had made earlier, and with the cooperation of Lame, he calmly and confidently
Bearing is measuring the foundation.
A group of people from the Qingque Tribe who didn't know the truth gathered around and looked at their son of God with reverence, who seemed to know everything. The lame man who had hit the hand was still blushing with excitement. One of them missed the move and almost fell to the ground.
"here."
Han Cheng used a wooden stick wrapped with a tape measure to poke a small mark on the ground, and turned around and said something.
The senior brother who was following him hurriedly came over with a stick two centimeters in diameter and more than one meter long, with one end placed in the fire and blackened and sharpened.
He pointed the tip of the stick at the mark that Han Cheng had just made, held it upright with one hand, and smashed it down with a stone in the other hand.
In a few moments, the straight stick was firmly established there.
After the sticks were nailed, four sticks appeared in the open space. Under Han Cheng's instructions, senior brother connected the four sticks with thin ropes. In this way, one piece was ten meters long and ten meters wide.
A five-meter open space was circled.
"dig."
Han Cheng said again.
The people who were standing aside and waiting with bone shovels took action one after another. They were divided into four groups and dug along the four lines.
Han Cheng, along with Lai, took a rope-and-grass tape measure and began to measure, trying to evenly divide the rectangle facing south into three rooms.
After nailing four more wooden stakes and pulling up two wires, the position of the foundation was completely determined.
This house is on the west side of the cave entrance, about ten meters away from the mountain wall.
Since the house was built, it faces the same direction as the cave, facing north and south, which is conducive to collecting sunlight.
The people of the Qingque tribe are already familiar with using bone shovels, and digging soil with bone shovels is a common practice.
With the joint efforts of everyone, by the afternoon, several foundation trenches 40 centimeters wide and 40 centimeters deep had been excavated.
Because we are digging along the line, we don’t have to worry about the digging being twisted.
While the senior brother and the others were digging the foundation, those who couldn't get involved were not idle either. Under Han Cheng's arrangement, they were preparing for the next step.
Instead of cutting sticks or grinding stakes, we went outside to find stones.
After much thought, Han Cheng felt that the wooden rafts and mud-covered walls built when building the deer pen were not strong enough, so he wanted to change it.
"Pah, pah"
Shang placed a few stones in the heads of the two tree trunks.
Move one of the rafters this way so that the distance between them is appropriate.
Then he took the shoulder pole he was leaning on from the large rock on one side and threaded it on the pole handle made of bent wooden sticks.
There are two poles, one at each end, and the middle of the pole is on his shoulder.
Shang, who was half-crouched and half-stretched his arms, climbed on the pole and held down a rafter head with one hand to prevent the rafter head from sliding inwards.
Then he exerted all his strength and stood up from the ground.
The pole loaded with stones was so heavy that it bent the pole a little, and it flickered up and down with Shang's pace.
Shang also mastered the skill of carrying things, and walked along with the rhythm of the swaying load.
In this way, you can save some energy, and secondly, it will not be easy to scatter the things carried on the load.
It’s not obvious yet that we are picking up stones now. If you don’t know how to use a clay pot to carry water, you can walk from the river to the tribe and half of the pot will be filled with water.
Shang did not carry the stones to the tribe, but came to the west side of the wall, put down the burden, and threw the stones in the head of the rafter one by one towards the edge of the wall.
This is not because Shang deliberately did not pick the stones to the edge of the wall to show off his muscles in order to practice his stone-throwing skills, but because as the wall increased, the 'protection ditch' on the outside of the wall had begun to take shape.
, it is too troublesome to carry two piles of stones down to the ditch, transport them to the other side and then climb up again. It is better to just throw them over to save trouble.
When there is a pile there, use the previous method to put the stones in the rafter head, pull them up with a rope, and place them on the inside of the wall.
Of course, this is also for those stones that are not too big. If the stone is too big, you can only carry it all the way around the long wall from the mountain behind, enter the courtyard from the south gate, and then
Then go north, carry the stones to a place not too far from the mountain wall, and build a house.
In this way, they would have to walk at least twice as long, so when Shang and the others were looking for stones, they tried to find ones with a suitable head.
