Chapter 835: Stone Age
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After letting everyone dig four traps in a row, Xu Convenience terminated this practice, first, he didn't know if this method was reliable, and second, it was not easy to clean up if he made too many arrests at one time.
Back to the original open space, Xu Fang found some branches to make a simple broom, swept the surrounding places, and then asked everyone to find some relatively flat stones to tamp the soil in this place.
After tamping, Xu Fang asked everyone to dig clay in the distance, and he came to the edge of the jungle.
He had seen something similar to vines here before, and after coming here, Xu Fang exerted force at the root, and a few branches came down.
"Xu Fang, what are you doing?" Lina asked curiously.
Xu Fang's hands kept moving, and said with a smile: "Weave a basket out to facilitate everyone to transport soil!"
"Basket?" Lina stared curiously at the movement in Xu Fang's hand.
Xu Fang's movements were very dexterous, and it didn't take long for a basket to appear in front of Lina.
Lina looked at this delicately textured basket, her eyes were full of love, and she couldn't put it down for a long time. Xu Fang didn't care about her, and after weaving three more baskets, he asked Lina to help take the two of them, and walked together in the direction of the clay digging partner.
When they arrived, several people had already dug up clay.
"Patriarch, how do you use this?" asked Lina curiously.
Lina also looked at Xu Fang curiously, looking at everyone's curious eyes, Xu Fang smiled: "You can put the soil in the basket, so that you can load more at a time, and you won't have to run back and forth." โ
As he spoke, Xu Fang put the soil dug up by everyone into the basket, and then picked up a basket and walked in the direction of preparing to build a house.
The other three people followed behind Xu Fang after filling the basket like a French cannon.
Pouring the soil on the ground, Xu Fang asked the others to continue carrying the soil, while he poured water on the clay, then found some straw stalks and other things, roared with the soil, and then found a piece of wood and began to stir the soil.
After reconciling the soil, Xu Fang asked people to find some suitable stones, and after building a rectangular circle, leaving the position of the door, Xu Fang began to cover the soil mixed with grass stalks layer by layer.
As others brought the earth over in baskets, Xu Fang built the house quickly. In half a day's work, a place two and a half meters high was made.
The room is about six square meters, leaving a place for a door. Although there is no roof, it still amazes Lina and the others.
"Xu Fang, is this the place you said you lived?" asked Lina in surprise.
"Yes, but this one hasn't been built yet, and we need a roof so that we don't have to worry about the rain. Xu Fang pointed to the roof and said.
The construction of the surrounding walls can still be understood, but when they heard Xu Fang's words at this moment, several people were very puzzled in their eyes: "Is the roof covered with mud? This is easy to fall off, right?"
Xu Fang smiled dumbly and said, "The roof can't be all mud. โ
Xu Fang didn't let everyone be curious for too long, first used tree bark and some plants to make some ropes, then found a few wooden sticks of moderate thickness, tied them into a triangular bracket shape into a row, and then put them on the roof, and then spread grass paths and soil on the roof, and a simple thatched house was built.
"You see, you won't be afraid of wind and rain!" Xu Fang said, pointing to the thatched hut that had been built.
Lina and the others excitedly looked around the thatched hut inside and out, and then Lina asked, "Xu Fang, can you live in it today?"
"Yes, but don't hit the wall, the mud inside is not dry, and it is easier to destroy. Xu Fang smiled: "But when they are dry, it will be much more reliable, okay, a few of you hurry up and carry some clay over, let's build a few more houses today, and when everyone comes tomorrow, we can also find a place to settle down." โ
The others were already excited when they saw this beautiful house. Hearing Xu Fang's words, everyone quickly went to work.
With the experience of building a house for the first time, Xu Fang built a house with relative ease.
However, Rao has five people, but because the tools and equipment are too backward, he was busy working until the afternoon and built three rooms today.
Seeing that it was not early, Xu Fang smiled and said, "That's it for today, let's go to the trap to see the results." โ
Several people were also very curious about the trap, although they still wanted to build a house, they still put down the work in their hands and followed Xu Fang towards the trap.
After arriving at the trap, Xu Fang saw that the things on the first trap were gone. I was overjoyed, and I walked over with people to take a look, and several people suddenly had smiles on their faces. I saw a goat down there!
The goats are not small, enough for a few people to eat tonight, that's for sure.
"Xu Fang, there is prey!" Lina shouted as she pointed to the goat.
"We'll talk about that later, and then we'll look at other traps. Xu Fang said with a smile.
I went to three more traps, and to my surprise, each trap had prey, three of them had goats, and even one trap had animals similar to wild boars. Because it looked fierce, Xu Fang directly asked people to stone it to death, and tonight this guy became everyone's dinner.
The remaining three traps, Xu Fang knew that he couldn't finish eating, so he could come back tomorrow to catch these prey, let the other four people carry the prey, and everyone went back to the place where they lived together.
After the animal is cooked, several people eat together. During the meal, Xu Fang looked at the four people who had worn out the skin on their hands because of digging today, and their brows were slightly wrinkled.
As a modern person, Xu Fang deeply knows that manual labor is the most primitive and cumbersome method.
Digging is a job like that, and obviously having a tool is much more convenient.
The unarmed Xu Fang was about to give up on the idea, but he soon laughed at himself. Wasn't the ancestors of mankind equally defenseless? Not to the point where today's science and technology are so prosperous?
In such a backward era, people did not succumb to difficulties, and how could he, a person who had mastered modern knowledge, be cowardly at this time?
Taking a deep breath, Xu Fang, who had calmed down, also began to recall the Chinese civilization.
Primitive Age, Stone Age......
Stone tools, stone tools!
That's right, this is it!
Thinking of this, Xu Fang's heart was excited! With an idea of development, he did not slack off, and after quickly eating the meat in his hand, he got up and began to search for a suitable stone.
"Xu Fang, what are you looking for?" Lina asked as she looked at Xu Fang, who was suddenly convulsed.
"You eat first, I'll find something!" Xu Fang replied with a reply, and then continued to look for what he wanted.
In the Stone Age, there were a lot of good things at that time. For example, stone axes, stone hoes, stone knives, shovels and even stone tables and stone beds, although these things are not as good as metal tools, compared with manual operations, productivity will undoubtedly increase a lot!
And Xu Fang is going to make a few basic tools such as hoes, axes, and shovels this time.
There are not a few stones here, and it didn't take long for Xu Fang to find a few stones suitable for hoes and axes. After finding it, Xu Fang returned to the place where he came, and after taking a stone with a shape similar to a hoe, he took a stone that was more handy, and began to chisel it into the shape of a hoe little by little.
Lina and a few people also came over, looking at Xu Fang curiously, not knowing what he was going to do.
They hadn't seen what Xu Fang was going to do, and they couldn't imagine it at all, so they could only wait for Xu Fang to make it and show them it again, so that they could grasp what it was.
Xu Fang's strength was very strong, and his strength was ingenious enough, and it didn't take long for the prototype of a hoe to gradually appear.