Chapter 753: Building a House

Several people took the bacon with them and walked out with Wu Ming.

"Wu Ming, there is another problem, our house must be built on the ground, if it is revealed by those mercenaries, it will be miserable!" Du Yixuan reminded.

Wu Ming nodded, "Do you remember the map on the brown paper that day? I rarely go to places other than the map markers, although I don't know why they do this, but this is also our chance! First, we have to choose the unexpected location of their map mark, and it can't be in the woods, and it has to be backed by rocks!"

Several people nodded again and again after hearing this.

Soon, they came to the seashore outside the map mark, which was also the edge of the woods, and there happened to be several huge reefs in this place, like small hills, which was exactly the place Wu Ming and they were looking for!

"Great, isn't this the place prepared for us?" Du Yixuan laughed.

Wu Ming also smiled and nodded, "Yes, depending on the situation, those mercenaries have never been here, otherwise, such a good location, if you build a wooden house at random, it will not be worse than a cave!"

"Wu Ming, then let's start building a house?" Bai Xiu rubbed his hands excitedly.

Wu Ming nodded, "Yes, this house is not so simple, the house we want to build is called an adobe house, it is mainly made of mud and stone, if you resist the rainstorm, there is no problem at all!"

"Okay, Wu Ming, what do you need us to do, you just command!" Du Yixuan nodded.

Next, Wu Ming assigned tasks to them.

Huang Shanshan and Sun Lu are responsible for getting some weeds, this weeds are also very particular, they can't be withered and yellow, they must be particularly tough, Du Yixuan and Qian Yingying are responsible for going to the woods to get dirt, and Bai Xiu and Wu Ming are responsible for carrying the stones.

A few of them said that they were quite quick, and by the evening they had made a pile of rocks, and a hill of dirt, and the amount of weeds was naturally enough.

"Okay, we'll stop here today, these things should be safe here, let's go back, and start building the house officially tomorrow!"

Fortunately, the weather has been very good for the past few days, and not a single drop of rain has fallen, otherwise, they would be miserable.

At night, they still take turns to keep vigil, and although they do a lot of work during the day, they are very happy, but they are not so tired.

Early in the morning, as soon as the beasts had dispersed, they jumped out of the hut, and they had to finish building it as soon as possible.

And all this still needs Wu Ming's command.

They chose the location of this house in the middle of two reefs, so that the two walls of the house can be saved, which can save them a lot of time, and more importantly, this place is quite high, nearly two meters above the ground, and the terrain is on the slope, even if it rains like the last time, this place will not be threatened! It can be said that this place is quite perfect.

In the first step, Wu Ming began to make blanks, this thing is still very common in the countryside, and Wu Ming also made it with his own hands when he was a child, but that set of tools is definitely not available here.

But this did not bother them, found a log, split it from the middle, and then made a wooden shovel, got the seawater, made the soil into mud, and then scattered these weeds, with the wooden shovel constantly stirred, after mixing evenly, he found four flat stone slabs, on this reef, there are many stones washed by the sea to wash the stone slabs of the city, enclose these four stone slabs into a rectangle, put the stirred soil into it, and smooth the surface, this, a piece of grass is completed!

Of course, this blank will have to wait at least a few days before it can be used.

After making twenty of these straw blanks in a row, it was noon, and then a few people ate something here, but until now, everyone didn't know how Wu Ming was going to build the house.

Then, Wu Ming began to officially build the house!

Still with this mixed soil, which acts as cement, which is very common in the countryside, and then he began to use stones, put dirt on top of them, and began to build walls, and with two natural walls of two reefs, he made it much faster.

In less than an hour, a half-meter-wide and two-meter-high wall was built.

At this time, the others were pleasantly surprised, with the two natural walls, plus Wu Ming built stone walls on both sides, and there was a door left on one side, the prototype of this house appeared, although it was not big, but if a few of them lived, it was more than enough.

"Brother Wu, great, isn't it okay to get another roof?" asked Huang Shanshan as she jumped over.

Wu Ming shook his head, "Where is this, don't look at these two walls are very strong, in fact, they can't withstand too much wind and rain at all, and the walls still need to be reinforced!"

After all, the climatic conditions on this island are too harsh, although there are two reefs to block the wind, but Wu Ming does not dare to take it lightly, after all, they plan to live here for a long time.

Subsequently, Wu Ming built an outer wall with soil on the periphery of this stone wall, which was all dirt, but after mixing with weeds, the strength and toughness went up a lot, and the insulation effect was also quite good.

On the outermost part, he used a flat stone to set it on top of the earth, just like the tiles, so that the soil would not be easily washed away by the rain, and the resistance to storms would be increased a lot.

After finishing these walls, the time of the day has passed!

At night, Wu Ming prayed that it would not rain, as long as it was dried for a few days, and after the wall dried, the strength would be much stronger than the ability to resist wind and rain.

Fortunately, the night was calm, and the next day, I still came here early, and several girls couldn't wait to move in here, after all, even if they slept comfortably on the tree, they didn't have 6 grounds.

And every night there are wild beasts passing by below, making the heart tremble, the quality of sleep is seriously reduced, and people are needed to keep vigil at every moment.

This house is different, in Wu Ming's words, after it is built, even wild beasts will not be able to enter.

After a night of solidification, although the wall has not reached the maximum strength, it has become much stronger, and Wu Ming has to take an important step today, that is, to put on the beam!

He and Bai Xiu had already carried a very thick tree trunk over, this trunk was enough to put on two walls, and several people went into battle together to put this beam in the center of the two walls, and then things were much easier, they began to use the beam as the center, and used rattan to build the roof one after another.

By the end of the night, the entire roof had been built.

"Okay, we can spend the night here tonight!" Wu Ming laughed.

The ground here is flat rocks, a little weed, much more comfortable than the trees, and the roof is also available, the inside is quite warm, the walls are quite strong, if you block the door with big stones, you don't have to worry about wild beasts, and mercenaries won't come to this area!

The fire is lit, and there is no need to raise the fire in the iron basin, and the fire is deliberately made very large, so that it is also very effective for the drying of the wall.

One night, several people slept crookedly, and in the morning, they all got up a long time late.

"Wu Ming, does this shed roof still need to be treated?" asked Du Yixuan.

In the case of these rattans, if it rains, it will leak!

Wu Ming smiled, "This is naturally not good, and it has to go through a lot of processing!"

It's just that he doesn't know much about the roof, and he does it completely according to his own understanding.

He put the grass on top of the rattans and smeared a thick layer of dirt on them, of course, the kind of soil that was mixed together with weeds.

In the end, he found a flat stone and laid it on top of the dirt, and the roof was similar to the structure of a large tiled house in the countryside, with a pointed top and a slope on each side, so that there was no water on it, so that the roof would not leak!

After all this, this little house is basically finished.

Originally, Wu Ming planned for at least half a month, but he didn't expect that with these two big reefs, he actually made the wall by himself, which was not a few meters at all, which greatly shortened the construction period.

It's just that it is precisely because of the limitations of these two reefs that this house is in the shape of a long strip, which is quite long, but the width is a little insufficient, but it is more than enough to sleep horizontally.

"Haha, Brother Wu, the house is finally completed, you are too great, shouldn't we celebrate!" Huang Shanshan laughed.

Wu Ming shook his head, "There is still one step left, we can't always sleep on this ground, we have to get a fire kang!"

These eldest ladies naturally don't know what the fire kang is, but Bai Xiu does, but he is also the eldest young master of the Bai family, so naturally he has never slept with this thing.

If Mo Qingqing was here, it would be easy to do, because her home and her master slept on that kind of ondol.

Wu Ming also specially asked Mo Qingqing's parents about how to make this fire kang at that time, and the distance between the truth and the construction is actually quite simple, and it is almost practiced.

The next day, Wu Ming began to study this fire kang, using the same straw billet that he had made before, of course, this fire kang still has a certain height, he used stone blocks to build a wall, these two walls are knee height, and then the middle is separated by a half-meter-wide passage with the straw billet, and finally, then use this straw to spread it flat on the erected straw, and then smear a thin layer of soil on it, which is used for leveling, so that a simple fire kang is manufactured!

If you make a fire at one end, the smoke will come out along the channel in the ondol, and the energy carried in the smoke will be absorbed by the ondol, and it will naturally become hot.

And the heat retention of this straw billet is very good, even if it is a night time, the temperature can be there, so it is quite comfortable to sleep in this way.

(End of chapter)