As soon as it was dawn, I went with the co-captain to check the traps.

"There was a lot of movement last night, could it be that a bear is coming?"

The co-captain was a little worried, it wouldn't be good news if there was a black bear visiting last night.

These days, when cooking meat food, I stay in the upwind position, and the wind should carry the smell of meat food to other places, so I don't think it's very likely that black bears will smell it and find it.

The trap was examined, and some feathers were found scattered on the ground next to the trap farthest from the camp, in addition to some congealed blood.

"It looks like the trap caught a pheasant last night, only to be eaten by other predators. ”

I crouched down, picked up a feather, looked at it, and told my guess.

"What kind of animal could it be a pheasant? a black bear?"

"I don't know. ”

I looked around again and found some animal footprints.

The footprints are about the size of a man's fist.

"It seems that there were indeed predators last night, and the footprints are not the size of black bears, but the paws of this animal have meat pads. ”

"Meat pads, what does that mean?"

I stood up and patted the dirt on my hands and said, "Normally felines and canines have pads on the soles of their feet, but the difference between them is that felines only show their claws when attacking. ”

From this, it can be judged that it is a feline such as a leopard that eats pheasants.

The known canines on the island are wild wolves, but wild wolves are social animals, and although last night's movement was a bit large, it was still much smaller than the movement of wolves.

The cats are very good at climbing, and the Boma ring around the camp can't stop the tree-climbing predators, so work has to be started on the wooden huts.

It just so happened that the timber was almost ready for the past two days.

"For the past few days, we have to make a fire every day, and the firewood consumption is very high, and the branches that can be used to burn the fire within 200 meters around are almost gone. ”

Nie Chunxian looked at me who was sawing wood and told me about the problems that had arisen in the past few days.

He stopped what he was doing and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"You take someone and some mud, and I'm going to make a kiln to burn charcoal in a while. ”

Nie Chunxian's eyes lit up and said, "You still burn charcoal?"

"No, but I've seen how it burns. ”

If it doesn't work once, try it a few more times, and this kind of thing doesn't cost money anyway.

And having charcoal also relieves the pressure, so that people don't have to coat and leave the camp every day to collect firewood.

In order to get a standard size of wood, I plan to make an ink fountain.

The ink fountain is a tool often used by carpenters, and its function is somewhat similar to that of a ruler.

Since it is an ink fountain, ink is needed, but there is no such thing in the forest, so I have to use charcoal to grind it into powder and soak it in water instead of ink.

None of the co-captains had ever seen a fountain, and seeing me use it to draw lines was like discovering a new continent.

"What is this?"

"This is an ink fountain, which is often used by carpenters, and also used by stonemasons to build houses in the countryside. ”

After playing the ink fountain line, everyone began to start sawing the logs into standard square logs.

The sketches of the wooden houses have been drawn, and they are actually similar to the mud houses in the countryside, except that they are now built entirely of wood.

Originally, it was planned to build three wooden houses, two for the occupants and one for storing supplies, but building three wooden houses was a waste of materials and too much time.

So I plan to build the wooden house into a more primitive stilted building.

I still saw this kind of stilted building in junior high school history textbooks, and at that time I thought that people in a primitive society were really smart.

The stilted building is divided into two floors, the lower floor can be used for prey or stacking objects, and the people live on the second floor.

Another advantage of this kind of house is that it is relatively safe, the second floor is relatively high, and ordinary predators such as black bears will not easily hurt people.

Even if the workload is reduced, it is still necessary to build two rooms.

After all, there are not only men and women here, but everyone is not a savage, so what should be avoided must be avoided.

Nie Chunxian reconciled with Xiao Qian and made a clay kiln according to my instructions, but this clay kiln could not be used immediately, and it had to be dried overnight.

In order to build an earthen kiln, Nie Chunxian's faces were more or less stained with mud.

"Everyone has worked hard, take a break and make another earthen kiln, I plan to fire some tiles to sit on the roof. ”

"What, little brother Su, are you going to do this?"

Xiao Qian looked at me like a monster, and she suddenly realized that I was like a mystery, and it seemed that she could discover a new world from me every day.

"Okay. ”

Nie Chunxian just nodded.

The soil needed to contain the tiles must not contain too many impurities in it, and it must be filtered.

In addition, some utensils can be fired, such as bowls for eating.

Nowadays, almost everyone uses bamboo cups, and the purpose of this is to make everyone's wild life close to that of civilized society.

We searched for suitable clay on the island, and luckily we found it, and it was still red clay.

Filtering clay requires a sieve, which is not found in the materials salvaged from the sea.

I had to find a way to solve it, I remember when I was a child, my grandfather would use bamboo strips to weave a sieve, but unfortunately this craft has not been passed down, and I have not tried it.

"If you don't have a sieve, can you use a cloth instead? The cloth also has holes, and if the holes are too small, let's scald a few slightly larger holes. ”

Just when I was at a loss, Nie Chunxian gave me a suggestion, and I thought this method was feasible.

And the clay filtered out of the cloth must be very fine, without large particles of impurities.

That night, we worked overtime to make tiles, and when the kiln was ready tomorrow, we would put it in and burn it.

More than 30 people worked together, and the efficiency was not ordinarily high, and it only took three hours for 2,000 tiles.

If it's just me, I'm afraid it will take two or three days.

The next day, I started to burn tiles and charcoal, and I had no experience in charcoal burning for the first time, and as expected, the charcoal in the first kiln was not completely burned, and the watering time was not accurate.

However, once it was raw and twice cooked, with the first experience, the charcoal was successfully burned for the second time.

Nie Chunxian picked up a piece of charcoal and weighed it, if she had never touched this kind of black thing before, but now it was different, this was the fruit of their labor.

"I just don't know if this charcoal can be burned. ”

Nie Chunxian was a little unsure in her heart, she had never seen how the charcoal sold on the street was made, and if this kind of homemade charcoal could not be burned, it would be a joke.

"This charcoal needs to be air-dried for a while, and it definitely can't be burned now. ”