Although it can't be said that with people, there is a qiē, but since Lin brought back more than 30 people, the change in the homeland is still very big. The nine small wild boars brought back by the wild boar have all grown into semi-large pigs. The young silkworms in the silkworm house will soon form cocoons. The paddy fields have more than tripled to nearly eight acres of land. The key is that there are not enough rice seeds, otherwise it will be even bigger. Soybeans also have more than three acres. In addition, they also planted millet brought by Lin and them.

Xiao Yiran has to make rounds almost every day, and the rapid changes in her home bring her endless joy. It's just that every time he finally comes to the construction site of Tulou, the joy from the change of his home in Xiao Yiran's heart will be gone. Stones, how can you get enough stones? Xiao Yiran was very troubled by this matter. It's not that she didn't think about how the Egyptians built the pyramids, but she didn't want her few people to pay for their lives to build the tulou.

There are no shortcuts to transporting stones. Xiao Yiran thought about it for a long time, but still came up with a solution. With thick sticks, a scooter was made. Although I hailed a taxi, I didn't have wheels. The tools of this era still can't make wheels. Xiao Yiran just tied two smooth tree trunks to the left and right sides of the bottom of the tablet, and arranged a few more tree trunks horizontally on top of it, and a simple scooter was ready. Rolling a slightly larger stone to the top, someone in front of you pulls it, and someone in the back pushes it, so that not only can you transport the stones that could not be carried by people before, but the speed of transportation is several times faster.

Soon, the walls on all four sides of the basement floor were leveled, and it was time to lay the first floor. The timber has been prepared, and under Xiao Yiran's personal demonstration, it didn't take two days for the first floor to be completed. When all the clansmen entered the basement floor to visit, their mouths opened wide in surprise. They had never seen such a large, artificially constructed house. In shock, they rushed to Xiao Yiran together, knelt on the ground, and bowed to Xiao Yiran with five bodies. This kind of ritual is only used when people kneel down to worship the gods. Now, Xiao Yiran's status in the hearts of the clan is completely equal, and even faintly exceeds the position of the gods.

"Ann, Lin, let everyone get up. As long as we work together, there will be not only food, but also prey, and houses in the future, and many more things that you have not seen. ”

Xiao Yiran didn't need to say anything else. In this era, people will not cheat and play tricks, no matter what they do, as long as they are told, they do not need any supervision, and everyone will do their best.

After the completion of the first floor, Xiao Yiran did not let them rest and continued the construction of the second floor. When the stone wall reached a height of about a meter above the ground, Xiao Yiran asked them to stop. First, even with a flatbed block, transporting stones is still a very difficult task, and furthermore, it is necessary to build a frame to continue to use stones for more than one meter, and these people have never had similar experience, which will inevitably cause danger. All, Xiao Yiran asked them to stop first, she wanted to think about whether she could use adobe instead of stone.

Xiao Yiran remembers that when he was a child, he saw some very old houses at his grandmother's house in the countryside. They were all built of adobe, and the roofs were also covered with straw. From some of the mottled earthen walls, you can see that after being washed by the rain, a lot of straw will be exposed in the adobe. At that time, Xiao Yiran once asked his uncle:

"Uncle, how can there be grass in the wall?"

"It was added when I was making adobe."

"Why do you want to add grass to adobe?"

"In order to make the adobe more acquainted, have you ever seen the cement floor slabs used by people in the city?"

"Yes, there is a construction site in front of our community, and I always pass by there when I get out of school, and there are a lot of cement floor slabs."

"Is there steel bars in the cement floor slab?"

"Yes."

"Grass in the adobe is the same as adding steel bars to the cement floor."

Yes, adobe instead of stone. After Xiao Yiran made a decision, he called Lin over. First, he drew a mold for making adobe on the ground, and explained it to Lin little by little until Lin understood.

"Go ahead, first do what I said, make the mold, make a few more, and come to me when it's done."

After most of the day's work, Lin came to Xiao Yiran with five adobe molds. After Xiao Yiran checked them one by one, he was very satisfied. Lin actually learned to use mortise and tenon, the boxy adobe mold, the four corners are connected with mortise and tenon joints, which is really good.

"Lin, arrange for five people to dig the soil on the other side of the shallow pool, one person to carry the straw over, and two people to fetch water. I'll be over in a moment. ”

When Lin left, Xiao Yiran called An over.

"Ann, call all the capable women, take these molds, and go to Qiantan, there is something to do."

When Xiao Yiran arrived, the soil, straw, and personnel were all ready. Xiao Yiran first took out a part of the soil, added an appropriate amount of straw and water, and let the forest belt people live evenly, and then put the grass mud into the adobe mold to smooth it out, and gently lifted the mold, and a boxy wet adobe was completed.

"Lin, Ann, have you learned?"

The two looked at Xiao Yiran in awe and nodded vigorously.

"Learn to do it, men and mud, women make billets. Ann was in charge of counting, and about 5,000 adobes were needed. ”

"How much is five thousand?"

Xiao Yiran forgot that he only learned a hundred.

"It's fifty hundred, you know?"

After seeing An think about it for a while, he nodded, and Xiao Yiran turned around and left.

A few days later, all the 5,000 adobes were dried, and the construction of the tulou was accelerated. In less than half a month, the second floor was completed, and it took more than a month for the third floor to be completed along with the conical roof. Siu Yat-ran deliberately asked Lin to take people to cover the circular outer wall of the tulou with a layer of thatch, in order to prevent rainwater from soaking the adobe wall.

The completion of the tulou made the clansmen even more in awe of Xiao Yiran, those who were originally sent by the eagle, snake and tiger clans to study, so far, no one has proposed to return to the original clan.

Xiao Yiran thought to himself, people in this era are not selfless, but they just don't have the opportunity to show themselves. In their own tribe, they have enough food and prey, have the best living conditions, and in the future they will have clothes to wear. Who would want to go back to their old people?

On the tenth day after the completion of the tulou, Xiao Yiran moved in with the women. The basement was temporarily used as a storage room, and rice, barbecue, soybeans, salt, etc. were all placed in it. Xiao Yiran took An and the two girls to live on the top floor, except for the two old people who stayed in the silkworm room, the other eleven women lived on the second floor. The men still live in a hut near the shallow pool.

"Lin, when the rice in the field is harvested, and the seedlings are planted, you can take them to a place outside the fence to build your permanent dwelling. Let's build a one-story house out of adobe and stone, and build more in case someone comes later. ”