The first forty-ninth chapter, extreme joy begets sadness
Han Cheng is now like the old lady in later generations who lives her life guarding the chicken's butt, running to the chicken pen when nothing happens.
However, there are some differences. Those old ladies guarding the chicken butts hope to exchange eggs for some needles, threads, matches, salt and other things to supplement their family income, while Han Cheng only does it for food.
By now, Han Cheng completely understood the mood of Wu who often ran to the rabbit circle.
Maybe the last few days have been the egg-laying period for this hen, or maybe the eggs she laid have been taken away by the ferocious little monkeys, and she just wants to lay more eggs for hatching. Anyway, the eggs haven't stopped laying these days.
Pass.
This made Han Cheng extremely happy.
After recovering from the initial fright, the old rooster with a bald tail also achieved good things with the female pheasant with half of her butt exposed.
Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that there are no other pullets in the henhouse. Otherwise, why would this guy close his eyes?
As the saying goes, extreme happiness breeds sorrow, and things must reverse themselves when extremes occur. Just when the Qingque tribe was immersed in the joy of easily obtaining prey, a trouble quietly came.
It's not that other tribes came over, but the first house that is about to be completed.
From the excavation of the foundation to the installation of the tiles, everything went smoothly. Seeing that all the tiles on the roof were about to be laid, something went wrong at this time. A detail issue that Han Cheng had never considered before appeared.
Yes, it has become a roadblock.
After the unremitting efforts of the senior brother and others, the tiles on the house have been laid, and a row of tiles has been buckled horizontally on the roof ridge. The entire house can now be said to be basically completed, with only some details remaining.
question.
The problem arose at this time, which was the roof leaning against the gables on the east and west sides.
According to the practice of later generations, two or three layers of tiles were buckled backwards, and the edges were seamed with lime or cement.
This is what Han Cheng didn't consider.
Mud can be used in other places to act as a binding agent, but that doesn't work here.
Because this is the roof, the place that is exposed to wind and rain, and then replacing it with soil would be irresponsible to the house.
After a few rains, the mud used in the cracks will be washed away by the rain, and in the process, rainwater will seep in along these gaps, and the house will leak.
The most important thing is that the leakage is still in the east and west gables, and the gables are made of mud, and the roof is supported by wooden beams rather than steel bars...
After careful calculation in this way, small details have become big issues related to the overall situation.
Han Cheng scratched his scalp, why was he in such trouble all of a sudden?
I have no plans to burn cement or white ash yet.
After thinking hard and failing to think of any good way to solve the problem, Han Cheng had no choice but to ask his senior brother and the others to stop. Instead of closing the door, they would stay in the room on the east side according to the method he taught.
Build earthen kang.
Of course, Han Cheng wanted to make the Tukang, a magical tool for winter use.
And he took some people to search for traces of limestone, centered on the tribe.
The reason why Han Cheng had not extracted things like lime and cement before was because the productivity of the tribe is now limited. The most important thing is that burning these things requires a very high temperature. Ordinary firewood may not be able to do the job. The charcoal needs to be burned first, and then
Then use it to burn lime.
If possible, a bellows needs to be made...
The bellows is really difficult for the current Qingque tribe to make.
Moreover, Han Cheng also knew little about burning charcoal. He only knew that the burning wood seemed to be extinguished and then turned into carbon somehow.
Han Cheng deeply regretted that in his previous life, he devoted most of his free time to those old people in the island country, and did not need to watch more primitive survival videos and knowledge. Otherwise, he would be able to live a more comfortable life now.
You won’t be stumped by things like charcoal and lime bellows…
Han Cheng's worries about charcoal and bellows became unnecessary.
I don’t know if God no longer favors Han Cheng, a time traveler. Accompanied by the adults in the tribe, he spent ten days walking around the tribe’s nearly ten-mile radius, but found nothing.
Traces of limestone.
Looking at the roof that was almost intact, Han Cheng felt heartbroken. Even if he didn't have obsessive-compulsive disorder, he would feel uncomfortable looking at it. If it were someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder, he would still collapse...
The earthen kang in the room has been built, 1.8 meters long and 1.5 meters wide. Compared with the bed that Han Cheng slept in the inner cave before, which was less than 1 meter wide and made of hay, this earthen pit is not
I know how much higher it is.
When the time comes, Han Cheng can roll on it and do somersaults.
The earthen kang is against the easternmost gable. When the house was being built, Han Chenggong had a hole about fifteen centimeters in diameter left there.
The hole is about one meter above the ground.
This is the reserved smoke hole.
After the adobe kang is built, use adobe mud and other materials to build a hollow passage against the wall along the hole left behind the adobe kang to discharge the smoke from the hole to the outside.
In this way, there will be no smoke in the room when it is time to burn the kang.
There is an earthen kang of the same size in the west room. That is Han Cheng's kang, and the one in the east room is for witches to sleep on.
The reason for this arrangement is that this was the rule in Han Cheng's hometown in later generations.
When you live in the same house with your elders, the east wing is the most respected room, where the elders live, and the west wing is where the younger ones live.
If the house faces east and west, the north wing is the most respected.
Wu is a person that Han Cheng respects, and he is older, so Han Cheng wants him to live in the east wing. This is a way to express his respect for him, and it is also something that Han Cheng will never go back to.
, a kind of remembrance for future generations.
After searching for two more days, there was still no trace of limestone. It started to rain again. Looking at the large area on the west gable wall that was soaked, Han Cheng had no choice but to bow to reality and decided not to think about the limestone for the time being.
I first closed this side with mud and made the gap.
At worst, it's just maintenance repairs.
Thinking about it this way, although I felt a little unwilling, it was more of a sense of relief.
Sure enough, nothing is difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to let go...
"Boom, boom, boom,"
The senior brothers were holding wall tamping tools and pounding the floor of the newly repaired room.
The soil inside the room needs to be tamped down, so that it will not easily float up in the future, and it will not be easy for the embarrassing incident of grass protruding from the ground in the room.
It's raining now, and there's nothing we can do outside. It's a good time to lay down the floor in a room that's not wet with rain.
After the ground was compacted side by side, Han Cheng asked people to bring a large amount of dry firewood, burn both kangs, and light a fire in the middle one. This could speed up the removal of moisture in the room.
