Chapter 149: Happiness and Sorrow

Han Cheng is now like the old lady who guards the chicken butt in the future, and runs to the chicken pen when he has nothing to do.

However, there are some differences, those old ladies are guarding the chicken butt and hoping to exchange eggs for some needles, threads, matches, salt, and other things to subsidize the family, while Han Cheng is purely for food.

By now, Han Cheng thoroughly understood the mood of Wu who often ran to the edge of the rabbit circle.

Maybe the last few days are the egg-laying period of this female pheasant, or maybe the eggs she lays have been taken away by the ferocious little monkeys, so I want to lay more for the sake of hatching, anyway, the eggs have not stopped for the past few days.

This made Han Cheng happy.

After recovering from the initial fright, the bald-tailed old rooster also accomplished good things with the female pheasant with half of her ass exposed.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the fact that there are no other hens in the hen coop, otherwise why would this guy close his eyes?

Just when the Qingque tribe was immersed in the joy of easily obtaining prey, a troublesome thing quietly came.

It's not another tribe calling, it's the first house that is about to be completed.

From the excavation of the foundation to the current tile, it is basically smooth, and it seems that the tiles on the roof are about to be laid, but at this time, something went wrong, and a detailed problem that Han Cheng had never considered before appeared, and it became an obstacle.

After the unremitting efforts of the elder brother and others, the tiles on the house have been laid, and a row of tiles have been buckled horizontally on the ridge, and the whole house can basically be said to be completed until now, and the rest is only some detail problems.

It was at this time that the problem arose, that is, the roof leaning against the gables on the east and west sides.

According to the practice of later generations, two or three layers of tiles were fastened here and edged with lime or cement.

This is what Han Cheng didn't take into account.

The rest of the place can be replaced with mud, which acts as a binder, but not here.

Because this is the roof, the place that receives the wind and rain, and then replaces it with mud, but it is not responsible for the house.

After a few rains, the mud will be washed away by the rain, and in the process, the rain will seep in through these cracks, and the house will leak.

The most important thing is that the rain leaks from the east and west gables, and the gables are made of mud, and the roof is supported by wooden beams rather than steel bars......

After careful calculation in this way, the problem of small details has become a big problem related to the overall situation.

Han Cheng scratched his scalp, how could there be such a trouble all of a sudden!

I don't have any plans to burn cement or ash yet.

After thinking hard about thinking about what good way to solve this matter, Han Cheng had no choice but to ask the senior brother and them to stop, not to close the edge first, but to build a kang in the room on the east side, according to the method he taught.

The earth kang is such an artifact for wintering, of course Han Cheng wants to make it.

And he, with some people, centered on the tribe to find traces of limestone.

The reason why Han Cheng didn't mention lime and cement before, is that the productivity of the tribe is limited now, and the most important thing is that burning these things requires a high temperature, and ordinary firewood is probably not competent, so it is necessary to burn charcoal first, and then use it to burn lime.

If possible, bellows will also need to be manufactured......

Bellows, for the current Qingque tribe, it is really difficult to make it.

And Han Cheng also didn't know much about charcoal burning, only knowing that it seemed to kill the burning wood, and then somehow it turned into carbon.

Han Cheng deeply hated his previous life, he dedicated most of his free time to those old wets in the island country, and he didn't need to watch more primitive survival videos and knowledge, otherwise, he would be able to live a more comfortable life now, so that he would not be stumped by things like charcoal and lime bellows......

Han Cheng's worries about charcoal and bellows became superfluous.

I don't know if it's because God no longer favors Han Cheng, a traverser, he, accompanied by adults in the tribe, spent ten days turning around the tribe within a radius of nearly ten miles, and found no trace of limestone.

Looking at the roof that was almost intact, Han Cheng's heart was stuffed, he looked uncomfortable without obsessive-compulsive disorder, if he was replaced by a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder, he would not collapse......

The earthen kang in the room had already been built, one meter eight long and one meter five wide, compared to the bed that Han Cheng had slept in the inner cave before, less than one meter wide, and made of hay, this earthen kang did not know how much higher.

When the time comes, Han Cheng can completely roll and turn his heels on this.

The earthen kang leans against the easternmost gable, and as early as when the house was being built, Han Chengcheng had people leave a hole about fifteen centimeters in diameter there.

The cave is about one meter and a half above the ground.

This is a reserved smoke hole.

After the kang is built, adobe mud and other things are used to build a hollow passage along the hole left behind the kang against the wall, and the smoke is discharged from the hole to the outside.

In this way, there will be no smoke in the room when the time comes.

In the west room, there is a soil kang of the same specification, which is Han Cheng's kang, and this one in the east is for witches to sleep.

The reason why it was arranged like this was because there were such rules in Han Cheng's hometown in later generations.

When you live in the same house as your elders, the east wing is the place where the elders live, and the west wing is the residence of the juniors.

If the house is located on the west side of the east, then the wing room on the north side is respected.

Wu is a person that Han Cheng respects, and he is also old, so Han Cheng wants him to live in the East Wing, which is a way to show his respect for him, and it is also a kind of remembrance of Han Cheng for future generations that he will never go back to.

After searching for two more days, there was still no trace of the limestone, and it was raining again, looking at the large area of the upper part of the western gable wall that was soaked wet, Han Cheng had to bow his head to reality, and decided not to think about the limestone for the time being.

I first closed this side with mud and made the gap.

It's a big deal to fix it logistically.

Thinking like this, although I am a little unwilling in my heart, it is more of a kind of relaxation.

Sure enough, there is nothing difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to let go......

"Knock, knock, knock,"

The elder brothers were holding tools for ramming the wall and smashing the floor of the newly repaired room with great force.

The soil in the room should be tamped, so that it is not easy to float the soil in the future, and it is not easy to have the embarrassing thing of arching grass on the ground in the room.

It's raining now, and there's nothing to do outside, so it's a good time to ram the floor in a room where the rain can't get wet.

After the ground was tamped next to each other, Han Cheng asked people to bring a large amount of dry firewood, and the two kangs were burned, and a fire was also lit in the middle room, which could speed up the removal of moisture in the room.