Hu Zhenshan is a very conscientious tour guide, and he also grew up in Wuyao Village, so he knows this cave very well.

Wuyao Village itself is located in the mountain col, surrounded by mountains on three sides, only a narrow road leads to the outside world, it is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack for the cottage, very safe, but for ordinary villages, it will be too closed, inconvenient transportation.

Thinking of the length and difficulty of the road they took to enter Wuyao Village, it was really difficult to seek medical advice and evacuate if there was an epidemic in such a place.

But in such a remote place, so many caves were dug and such a large village was built......

Manpower is sometimes really scary.

"This door of the main kiln, you see, is made of two large pieces of wood, and the nail wood is a genuine copper nail, pure copper. It's a little rusty now, but I remember when I was a kid the copper was polished and shiny, and it looked good. ”

Hu Zhenshan held the torch with one hand and touched the door of the main kiln in front with the other, his expression a little proud.

The firelight reflected in the black door, deep cracks almost into ravines, and copper nails stitched the two huge planks together, deeply embedded in them.

As Hu Zhenshan said, now the copper nails are covered with green rust, and the places without rust are also covered with a thick copper film, which is matched with black wood, which is condensed and simple, and has a unique beauty.

Xu Wen looked at these two wooden planks, a total of four planks, and suddenly realized something.

Since going up the mountain, all he has seen are small trees and shrubs, and he has not seen any big trees. It soon dawned on him that this was because there was less rainfall here, making it difficult for the trees to grow.

This is one of the reasons why the cave has become the main building here.

In this way, you can make beams and columns without the whole wood, and you can better adapt to local conditions and learn from each other's strengths.

That's why Hu Zhenshan will show off these two wooden doors at this time, he has been far away, of course, he has seen more things, but the preciousness of wood is still deeply rooted in his mind, and he unconsciously expressed it.

It's really interesting that architecture is for habitation, it is closely related to its surroundings, it penetrates and integrates with each other.

Xu Wen had seen this exposition in some modern books before, but it was the first time he felt it so deeply.

Traveling thousands of miles and reading thousands of books......

Xu San is right, it is right to go out of such a long way.

He patted the wooden door and looked up, "What kind of inside." ”

"The caves in our Wuyao Village are different from those in other places. Hu Zhenshan said proudly. An accomplice next to him immediately coughed twice, reminding him that this was Wuyao Village, not Wuyao Village.

Hu Zhenshan was immediately stunned, and his voice was a little quieter than before. He raised the torch and pointed upwards.

"Look, you two, the arch was dug out and then leveled with stone slabs. After all these years, there is no crack in the slate, look at this handiwork!" the firelight swayed, casting a heavy shadow under their feet, but it became more and more visible to the slate above.

The two-foot-and-five-inch-long and one-foot-wide slate has a slightly frosted surface that shows its history, but after so many years, it is still very intact, and there is not a single crack on it.

"Isn't the stone a very strong material, what's strange that there are no cracks?" Xu San has always studied carpentry, and he doesn't know much about stonemasonry.

"Stone is also a natural material, but all natural materials have their own properties and textures. When a carpenter works with wood, he needs to follow its texture, and the same is true for stone. And relatively speaking, wood is soft in nature, but it is tough, and the fibers will pull on each other, and it is not easy to be damaged if it is not handled properly. The slate is hard and brittle, and it is easy to crack when applying too much force when handling. Sometimes the crack comes from the inside, and it will not show up for a while, but after a long time, it will slowly expand to the surface, and it will be very obvious. ”

Xu Wen has been reading Qin Lianying's codex during this time, and Qin Lianying's earliest learning was muddy water.

The plasterer is actually a bricklayer, who is more closely related to the key to construction, mainly dealing with stone materials in buildings such as bricks, tiles, stones, and sand.

From the very beginning, stone treatment was an important part of this.

One of the earliest things Qin Lianying learned was to identify various different stones and be familiar with their stone properties.

Xu Wen learned a lot about this according to this.

He was a quick learner and discovered that there was a lot in common between stone and wood.

As he said, whether it is stone or wood, it is a natural product and the embodiment of nature.

They have their own unique texture, their own rules, and figuring out this law can reduce the difficulty of dealing with it.

At the same time, as a natural product, they are all imperfect and have all kinds of imperfections inside.

For example, wood may be scarred, decayed, and moth-eaten, and stone may have impurities and cracks. When dealing with such imperfections, it is necessary to pay special attention to them, some need to be avoided, and some need to use these imperfections to turn them into the characteristics of the material.

It may be that Xu Wen has reached the realm of carpentry now, and his understanding of stone is also quite smooth, and it is progressing very quickly.

Now that he said it in an orderly manner, not only did Xu San understand it immediately, but Hu Zhenshan, who only knew it and didn't know why, also suddenly realized and understood.

He repeated Xu Wen's words several times in his heart, preparing to show off to others when the time came. At the same time, he did not forget his mission, and continued to follow the instructions of the mysterious man to explain the knowledge of the cave to Xu Wen.

These five caves in Wuyao Village were built at an unknown time, and they are different from those in the surrounding villages.

With the exception of the wooden doors and the stone-paved vault, the floor of the kiln is not level with the ground, and a third of the cave is sunken.

On the other hand, there are three stone steps at the entrance of the cave, and the slope is relatively high, which can prevent water from flooding in when it rains.

"There are three kinds of caves I have seen, and the five kilns are a special one. You live in Longtou Village, right, Longtou Village is very common, dug up by the mountain, we call it backing. Further inside, Yunxiu Village is very special, they are relatively flat, so they dug down a boxy layer, and then dug a hole next to it, like a courtyard around the patio, but digging down. ”

After all, Hu Zhenshan is a bandit, and he has traveled all over these four miles and eight villages, and it is not ambiguous to introduce various types of caves.

In this way, he talked for most of the night, let Xu Wen and Xu Sanli see all the buildings in Wuyao Village inside and out, and poured all the goods in his stomach clean, and after thinking for a long time, there was really nothing to say, then he exhaled and said: "That's all I know, do you two take a look again, or do my brothers send you back?"

Xu Wen didn't speak, but stretched out his hand to him, Hu Zhenshan understood, and hurriedly handed over the torch in his hand.

Xu Wen held the torch and looked inside and out again, and grabbed the weeds by the kiln and climbed to the top of the kiln to take a look as he did when he was in Longtou Village.

When he climbed up, Hu Zhenshan and a few bandits were guarding him below, as if he was afraid that he would fall from the top and accidentally fell himself.

- It's really more cautious than being a mother to protect her children.

Of course Xu Wen wouldn't fall and get hurt, after reading what he wanted to see, he nodded to Hu Zhenshan and said, "It's okay, please send us back." ”

"Okay!" Hu Zhenshan immediately became excited, took out a relatively clean green cloth from his arms, and said with a flattering smile, "Little brother, can you help me write a word?"

"What to write?" Xu asked for a moment's notice.

"Just say that you are very satisfied, you can let me go or something......" Hu Zhenshan said flatteringly.

It's like an after-sales review...... Xu Wen wordlessly took the piece of green cloth - of course, it is impossible for Wuyao Village to have paper - and asked, "Where is the pen?"

Hu Zhenshan froze instantly, and asked cautiously: "You, didn't you bring it either?"

Xu Wen did not bring it, but of course there could be no Wuyao Village, when Hu Zhenshan was scratching his ears and cheeks, Xu Wen exhaled, walked outside and peeled a piece of bark, took out a carving knife and carved a word on it and left a name: "But." Fourteen. ”

Instantaneous, clean.

Now Xu Wen's knife is smoother and sharper than the pen.

Hu Zhenshan took the bark gratefully, and Xu asked what he wanted to say, but in the end he didn't say anything, and only said to Xu San: "Let's go." ”

Xu Wen remembered the road and didn't let Hu Zhenshan send someone to send it.

After walking out on the road, Xu San glanced back and said, "I thought the bandits were so vicious, it turned out to be completely different from what I imagined." ”

"It's because they've been subdued, otherwise they've had blood on their hands. Xu Wen said calmly.

"Yes!" Xu San was reminded by him, and he was suddenly awe-inspired. After a while, he asked in disbelief, "The bandit who didn't even be killed by the official was beaten like this...... The strangest thing is that he convinces them just to give us ...... Tell me about the cave? Who do you think it will be?"