Mu Tong looked back at the small hill and the straight cliff behind the hill. On that cliff, Mu Tong even found a lot of holes.

Some of these openings are on the ground where the small hillside is connected to the cut wall, and some are a few meters above the ground, and the highest is more than ten meters above the ground. There is a certain distance between each cave and the opening, and there are at least dozens of holes on visual inspection.

With so many holes, it shouldn't be natural. What's the use of digging so many holes?

Mu Tong threw this question to Ah Yu, and Ah Yu said: "These holes are where everyone lives in the coldest winter every year.

It turns out that the winters here are very cold, and if you live in a grass hut, where can you withstand the biting cold? Therefore, in the winter, every family will go to live in the cave dug in this cliff, and when the spring flowers bloom, they will move out and live in a thatched hut.

"Where's the hole in your house?" The holes here are not indiscriminate, and each house can only enter the hole dug by each house. The family members are all dead, and the ownerless cave must be agreed by the tribe before people can live there.

"Here." Ah Yu took Mu Tong to his cave, which was about four or five meters above the ground.

Mu Tong looked at the upper left and a few higher holes, and asked suspiciously, "Who are those?" Is the entrance so high, is it easy to get in and out? ”

Ah Yu smiled, pointed to the highest cave and said, "That's the cave of Ajie's family, and his family is two brothers, young and strong, so the hole dug is very high." "As for the inconvenience of entering and exiting, of course it is convenient.

The Chishui tribe, regardless of men, women and children, are all good at climbing trees and rocks, even the father of the Jucao family with a broken leg can climb the hole of his house more than four meters high, but he can't carry things. However, now that there are baskets and other things, it is much easier to carry them into the cave.

What's more, on the seemingly straight cliff, there are also rattan that is very strong and tough even if it withers in winter, and it is easier to climb the hole in this cliff.

And in winter, because the weather is too cold, the old, weak, sick and disabled will always stay in the hole, only young and middle-aged, will occasionally go out, there is no inconvenient to say.

The caves of the Chishui tribe are not dug randomly. Between each house, regardless of the height of the hole, the horizontal straight line distance must be more than 10 meters, otherwise, if the hole of the two houses is generally high, it will not look good when it is dug into someone else's house.

Generally, when people in the tribe dig a hole, if there are two adjacent ones, they will not be at the same height, which is also better to avoid the situation of digging the hole.

Mu Tong followed Ah Yu and climbed into his cave.

The entrance to the cave is not large, it is a similar rectangular hole about one meter wide and two meters high. There is also a thick wooden plank about the same height next to it, which is placed diagonally on one side, presumably for winter wind.

The further you go in, the more space you have. After a passage about two meters long, a square hall appeared inside. There are two rooms on the left and right sides of the hall, and there is also one at the back, which is said to be a place to store food.

The first room on the left side of the hall is the kitchen, which has a simple stove, a large water tank, and some presumably unused firewood. There are a few small holes in the kitchen near the outside, and light comes in from there, so you can see it clearly when you are cooking and cleaning up ingredients during the day.

The second room on the left is also a place to store items, which can be food or firewood. After all, the kitchen is not big, and the firewood that can be stored can't be burned for a winter.

The two rooms on the right, one is the bedroom of the two brothers, and the other is the bedroom of their father and mother. Looking at the room of his father and mother, Ah Yu's eyes darkened: before the winter of last year, his father and mother were gone, and the two bedrooms became one for him and one for his brother.

All the rooms in the cave add up to about 100 square meters. On the wall of each room there is a small stone platform with holes for placing torches.

The torches of the Chishui tribe are made of animal oil and applied to the tied straw handles. That grass is a kind of rattan grass, which is very resistant to burning when oiled, and is also the only lighting tool of the Chishui tribe.

Mu Tong has always wanted to make some candles to come out, but he has never found time. Indoor lighting, candles are much safer and more fuel-efficient than torches.

When she was done with this, she probably had to think of making candles, and paper for convenience, and she had to make them sooner. Although it is now used in the tribe for convenience, it is a very soft and hygroscopic leaf. But in winter, it is said that this kind of leaf is gone, even if you save this kind of leaf in advance, let it go for a long time, the leaf will become dry, no longer soft and hygroscopic, if you use it to wipe your ass again, I am afraid that your ass will be honorably injured.

To Mu Tong's regret, there is no toilet in this cave.

In the thatched hut, there is a stone gong bucket in the house, and it is convenient for the people of the tribe to put it in their own gong bucket day and night, and then when the amount is about the same, it will be mentioned to the depths of the woods outside the tribe, and a pit will be dug and buried. Therefore, the Chishui tribe is still a primitive tribe that pays more attention to hygiene, and will not defecate anywhere, of course, it is impossible to go to the wild woods.

Mu Tong naturally wouldn't use such a stone gong bucket, she had several magic weapons that she had refined for her family, and she had refined a lot at that time, and one person did not finish sending them out, plus Zuo Xiaojun's one, she still had three stocks in her earrings. What she used herself, of course, was a special magic weapon Gong bucket.

This kind of bucket can independently convert urine and urine into water and air, and only needs to drain water regularly, without any peculiar smell, and with automatic cleaning, which is much cleaner and more convenient than modern toilets. Because the barrel is engraved with a magic circle, and it is also inlaid with a spirit stone, even this spirit stone can make it work for a hundred years without strike.

The two brothers of Ayu, of course, still use the previous Shigong bucket. The daily cleaning work was completed by Ayu early in the morning. Ayu loves cleanliness very much, especially in front of Mu Tong. He never put the bucket in Mu Tong's room, and every time it was convenient, he went to Dorjee's room.

If you put a bucket in a cave without a toilet, the smell of the whole cave will definitely not be good. Mu Tong frowned, if you want to use this cave, you have to find a way to solve the problem of urinating. Otherwise, when the time comes, the two brothers will also be given a special magic weapon Gong bucket?

Anyway, everyone is nested in the cave and doesn't go out in winter, and probably no one will come to her house to see the two brothers' Gong bucket, right?

The whole cave can be seen that it was not completed at once, and the carvings on the wall of the cave should be dug little by little every year. After asking Ah Yu, sure enough, such a big cave in his house took almost three years to dig to this scale.

After looking at the cave and standing at the mouth of the cave to observe the surrounding situation, Mu Tong's mind gradually emerged with a preliminary idea of a house: to build a wooden house on stilts in front of this cave, and then build a sky corridor on stilts to connect the wooden house with the cave. In this way, whether it is winter, spring, summer or autumn, you can easily enter and exit the wooden house and cave.

The cave is warm in winter and cool in summer, and can be used as a food storage room in summer and winter, just to make full use of the space.

As for the specific graphics of the wooden house, after explaining to Xiaoqiang in the evening, let him draw a drawing of the wooden house architecture.