Chapter Fifty-Six: Rows of Trees, Mud, and Walls.
These piles are nailed down about every half a meter, and at the corners of the wall, they are more and more densely nailed.
After about eight days of continuous work, a row of wooden piles about thirty or forty centimeters above the ground was found on top of the excavated foundation in the westernmost part.
It is somewhat similar to the steel bars that rise on the foundations of later generations.
The stakes are uneven, and there is no way to do it, after all, there are no axes, saws, and knives to break these woods, and it is already rare to have a similar size that is enough, and it is too embarrassing to keep the size uniform.
However, the wooden stakes nailed to the ground have uniform specifications, and they must be at least forty centimeters, because the bottom of these stumps was marked by Han Cheng and his underage students at forty centimeters.
The stump was nailed, and the next thing to do was to weave the wooden rafts, and then fight the wall with the mud.
The branches used to weave the wooden rafts have been enough for the minors of the tribe.
Because the branches needed to weave the rafts didn't need to be too thick, they were able to break them off fallen trees by their abilities.
The weaving of wooden rafts is relatively simple, you only need to arrange the branches of the right thickness and relatively straight on the ground, and then use more flexible rattan to weave and fix them horizontally.
It's a bit like weaving a bamboo mat.
Of course, the technique is not exactly the same, and this wooden raft is much rougher than the bamboo mat.
Among the adults in the tribe, the most skillful hand is lame, because his legs are inconvenient, and he cannot go hunting and do heavy work like the rest of the people, and he does not want to be an idler, so he puts a lot of effort into his hands.
To use a not-so-good analogy, this is similar to the fact that a blind person's sense of hearing and touch is much better than usual.
The preparation of wooden platoons, lame is the most important cadre.
Han Cheng hadn't done this before, but he had only seen it, knew some general methods, and after telling the lame, the two of them began to study everything.
The technology of this thing is not complicated, but it only took a day to produce results.
However, this thing is different from weaving a fish cage, because these things are much harder than ropes, and they don't have a certain amount of strength, so it's very difficult to weave it, at least the current Han Chengcheng can't.
After researching and determining the weaving method, Han Chengcheng called two more skillful hands to learn the weaving of wooden rows with lameness......
The wooden rafts, which are three meters long and more than half a meter wide, are erected horizontally on both sides of the foundation at the southern corner, facing each other.
Between the two wooden rafts, there are two stumps about half a meter long, with some uncleaned branches on them.
The two stumps are one at the other, to avoid the two wooden rows coming together.
The two wooden rafts were evenly tied with four rattans, and one end was blocked vertically with a wooden raft half a meter wide and one meter long, and the same rattan was tied strongly, so that the rectangular model was ready.
The next step is to pour the reconciled mud into it.
He mud is also particular, and the viscosity of a wall like simple mud casting may not be enough, so when he was making mud, Han Cheng added some rope grass that was cut into half a meter long, and some other grasses that were not as tough as rope grass, but still not tough, and even sprinkled a handful of salt into it.
Rope grass plays the same role in the mud as thin steel bars, which can connect the mud to a greater extent.
As for the salt......
Han Cheng really didn't know what role it would play in it, but he remembered that he had seen it put it inside when he saw other people's live mud pots before.
Since it is put inside, it must have its meaning, for this wall Han Cheng is very important, salt is not particularly rich for the current tribe, but it is more difficult to build the wall.
In order not to let this thing, which had taken so much effort to produce, have any regrettable flaws, Han Cheng sprinkled the salt in without hesitation.
The control of the wall is also inseparable from the division of labor and cooperation.
Some people are responsible for carrying water, some people are responsible for digging soil and mud, some people are responsible for getting the living mud into the space enclosed by wooden rows, some people are responsible for flattening the mud, and then after accumulating a certain thickness, they begin to smash the mud with a large and thin stake to make it stronger and condense into one.
Of course, the mud should not be too thin, but only need to be damp and mixed with grass and salt to stir vigorously for a while, and then you can fill the gaps between the animal skins and the clay pots that have been burned out of the wooden rows.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
It is an extremely laborious task to make the wet soil porcelain, and it is done by powerful adult men such as the senior brother and the second senior brother.
The muscles in the elder brother's arm bulged, and then suddenly stretched out, and a muffled 'bang' sounded.
The muscles in his arms bulged again, and the stake in his hand rose with it, and a mark the size of a bowl appeared on the wet mud.
This mark is at least half a centimeter lower than anywhere else!
Sweat slid down from him, fell to the ground, and fell into eight petals.
The beauty of labor and hard work are intertwined to form a picture called life.
There may be casual success in this world, but there are really not many such successes.
The vast majority of success is the result of great efforts, after great hardship and tempering, the flowers that bloom with blood, sweat and perhaps tears.
The wall, which was about nine meters long and half a meter high, was finally built, and this section of the wall also included a corner.
Han Cheng didn't rush to let people remove the wooden rafts, but then put another layer of wooden rafts on top, or according to the previous operation......
Because of the 30-centimeter-deep foundation, after three layers of wood were laid down in succession, the wall of this section was only about 1.20 meters above the ground.
This time it can only be so high, and if it is higher, you will need to build a shelf.
The rattan that bound the wooden rafts was broken by the elder brothers with stone knives, and then they used a stick to pry a few times on the edges, and the wooden rafts that were glued to the earthen wall had already fallen.
After seeing the wall, Han Cheng's somewhat apprehensive heart became calm, although the surface of the wall was not smooth, but it was very good overall, there were no cracks, and there was no looseness.
Although they are made of clay, they have reached a thickness of half a meter, and the tenacity of the grass in the soil and the vigorous beating of the elder brother and others have made them qualitatively changed.
After this tempering, they are no longer the loose mass of soil that they were kneaded before!
The senior brother followed Han Cheng's example, stretched out his hand to touch and push on this earthen wall.
At first, he was worried that he would knock down the thing made of earth, but he didn't use much force.
It was just a tentative force, and after seeing that the earthen wall was fine, it gradually increased the force.
In the end, the senior brother was blushing and his neck was thick, and he couldn't help the earthen wall.
He looked at the earthen wall, and then at Han Cheng, his eyes were bright, the wall that the god son said, it really did not disappoint!