Chapter 33: A Rainy Day
The heavy rain wet the freshly paved tile roof, down the tile ditch, and smashed on the wooden steps in front of the door, like pearls scattered in a piece. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
Thor looked at the gloomy sky, frowned, and then stretched out again, sighing a little helplessly.
Although it was a hurry, it may have taken several days to deal with the dragon whales, and finally it was not possible to complete the construction of all the houses before the next heavy rain came.
About three-quarters of the houses on the cliff corners have been built, and there are still a dozen small mud houses that have not been built, and the fastest progress is only about to lay the roof tiles, and the slow progress is only just painting a few walls.
It was hot and rainy in the Wild Corner, and Thor knew that the next rain would come sooner or later, but he didn't expect it to be much earlier than Morey and the others expected.
Sighing, Thor also calmed down a trace of unwillingness in his heart, it is difficult to say that things in the world are perfect, although there may be many unfinished houses to be rebuilt after the rain, but the dragon whale that "picked up" is enough to make up for such a loss, why should he not be satisfied.
"It's boring on a rainy day—" Bertha grumbled as she sat on the doorframe a little above the ground, her legs resting on the board.
Due to the rainy climate at the cliff corner, Thor ordered the height of the earthen house to be raised by a section, and while the door frame was raised, many layers of earth were also used to tile the house, so that the whole house was a cut above the ground out of thin air.
Then he took a whim to pick up a wooden board in front of the door, which not only expanded the space of the house, but also did not have to stay in a small mud house that was a little stuffy every day.
Ever since he made this table, Saul's favorite thing to do is lie on the wooden planks and gaze at the blue sky, which is a comfort he has never had in his life.
However, it is the only one who can use manpower to build an external wooden platform for himself, and Thor is not less nagged by Diana and Morey for this.
"If you're bored, go inside the house and help—you're lazy and don't blush, Bertha?" said Thor, pressing the little girl's head, feigning seriousness.
"But Brother Sol, aren't you lazy too?" Bertha asked pretending to be innocent, but the corners of her mouth unconsciously showed a knowing smile.
"Uh......" Thor was speechless, Bertha had been getting lazier and lazier lately, spending time with him every day, lazy.
Criticize her, and the girl will use Sol as a shield, and every time she will confidently say things like "Brother Sol is not xxx" and "Brother Sol is also xxx".
For this reason, Morey and Diana nagged Saul to set an example for him, but with little success, Saul himself didn't know why every time he saw everyone busy, he unconsciously wanted to be lazy.
"Maybe that's the privilege of the higher-ups. "Self-deprecating, as the entire tribe of Noam, laziness is now regarded by him as his greatest privilege.
The upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, and Thor can't educate Bertha, so he has no choice but to let her go, and there is a beautiful little Lori around him every day, Thor still feels very happy.
Now that the tribe has enough food and there are no foreign enemies to worry about for the time being, Thor's life is naturally very comfortable, and he spits a few mouthfuls under the eaves and inhales the fresh air in the rain, and Thor's brain feels refreshed.
Rubbed Little Lori's head again, and said with a smile: "Then I'm going back to the house to study now, so you can be the laziest person in the whole clan~"
"Hmph, I'll know what Grandpa Morey taught me a long time ago. Bertha looked up proudly, as if to say praise me, praise me, praise me quickly, and look at Thor with her spare eyes.
"Haha, I really can't help you. With another handful of the girl's head, Thor turned and went into the house.
"Why do you always touch people's heads, they won't grow tall!" Jumping up a few times desperately, Bertha pouted angrily, like a little female cat that has been provoked.
There were quite a few people sitting in the room, in several piles, and when they saw Sol coming in, everyone got up and bent down to salute, but Sol stopped them.
Even if he can't go out to work on a rainy day, Thor still arranges quite a lot of indoor activities, or indoor labor.
A handful of polished wooden bow tires were piled up in the corner, and there were many pieces of wood split in half waiting to be polished, and since Thor handed over the bow making technology to the people, he arranged for manual production, although it was inefficient at first, and often scrapped wood, but over time, each person was now able to make at least one bow tire per day.
In addition to polishing the bow tire, the baleen obtained from the dragon whale have also been processed, and the clansmen use fire to dry the whiskers slightly, straighten them, pass through the small holes that have been opened early on both sides of the bow, and tie them up to make a bowstring, so that a hard bow is completed.
With a bow, there must be arrows, and the teeth of the dragon whale are sharpened into sharp arrows, and Thor has people take out the swim bladder that catches the sea fish, put it in a jar and boil it, and boil it into a jar of sticky fish maw glue.
A small hole is cut in the middle of the arrow cluster made of teeth, poured into the fish bladder glue, and then inserted into the shaft of the arrow, and the predecessor of an arrow is ready.
However, Thor currently does not have any animal feathers that can be used to make tail feathers, so he can only wait for the rain to pass before hunting, and the main task of the current clan is to make the precursors of bows and arrows.
According to Thor's estimates, more than 400 baleen can be sifted out to make more than 300 strong bows, and the teeth of the dragon whale are enough for him to make nearly a thousand long arrows.
This couldn't help but make Thor excited again, three hundred bows to the entire tribe of combat effectiveness is by no means a star and a half, the tribe now has more than one hundred and twenty warriors, all of them are strong and strong, and their arm strength is amazing.
In the past, they could only use their axes and spears to fight the enemy in close combat, and it was even more difficult to hunt, and once they alarmed the prey, it almost meant that the hunt was a failure, because they could not catch up with the four-legged animal.
But if you have a ranged weapon, the way you hunt and fight will be greatly changed, and it will be a qualitative leap, and Thor can't look forward to it.
After glancing around, the clansmen polished the bow tires, the strings were made, and the sticky arrows were sticky and arrows, everything was in order.
In addition to the big house of Thor who is working like this, there are people who are sheltered from the rain working in other small houses, and from time to time people will come to this house to get materials, cover them with dragon whale skins and transport them away, but they are not afraid of being wet by the rain.
Seeing that everyone at work was busy, Thor came to the crowd on the other side of the room and sat down at the front.
Most of them were grim-faced, scratching their ears and cheeks huddled together, and from time to time they looked longingly at their fellow workers beside them, as if it were more uncomfortable for them to sit here.
With the exception of Tula, the studious boy, most of the others were listless, like frosted eggplants.
This is exactly another important activity "learning" that Saul has arranged on a rainy day.