Chapter 696: Different Ways of Building and Farming

The tribe that migrated to a new place, after a short break, quickly began to get busy.

The strong men of the tribe, carrying stone axes in their hands, cut down trees that did not grow very tall near the stream.

The stone axes in their hands are not the same as those of most tribes.

Their stone axes were not tied to wooden sticks with ropes, and they were also different from the stone axes of the Qingque tribe that punched holes in the stone axes and then wore wooden handles after Han Cheng arrived.

Their stone axe first cut an oval hole at one end of the wooden handle, and then smashed the polished stone axe into it, with the small head on the top and the wider blade on the bottom, so that the stone could be firmly combined with the wooden handle.

And the stone axe will only become strong with a single slash, and will not loosen......

The trees were cut down and dragged by them to a relatively gentle slope about four or five hundred meters from the creek.

These are good things to use as building materials.

While the strong men were cutting down the trees, the women and children were not idle.

Some of them were looking around for hay that had grown taller and had not spoiled after a winter, while some of them were breaking off the branches of the trees that had been cut down and dragged back by the strong men.

Not all the able-bodied people were cutting down the trees, but some were digging the earth along the gentle slope with their tools along the circle drawn by the priestess on the ground.

They don't do this kind of thing less, so it seems that they have a way to do it.

When it was difficult to dig down to a certain depth, some people brought water from the creek in clay pots made by the priestesses and poured them into these pits.

The diggers went to the side and dug the rest of the round pits, waiting for the water in the previous pits to seep down almost completely, and then returning to continue digging.

After the pit in the center was dug up, someone began to use the branches that had been broken before and began to insert them along the edge of the pit, leaving only one place facing south where no branches were inserted, and this was where the door was located.

After planting the branches, the people continued to use clay pots to fetch water and reconcile the soil excavated during the previous digging pits.

Then he made a large piece of it with his hands and piled it up on both sides of the branch, and gradually, a circle of mud walls was piled up.

And because there are branches in it, which act as something like steel bar, the wall made of mud is still very strong.

The wall of mud piled up to the position of the person's chest, and then stopped.

Then some people put five or six wooden sticks tied together on top of the round mud wall.

The sticks were not tied side by side in a bundle, but only one end.

When placed on a round mud wall, it resembles an open umbrella bone.

After this was done, women began to take the hay they had collected and tie it in circles, and when the 'umbrella bones' were covered with a dense layer of grass, a house half underground and half above ground was built.

Compared with the Qingque tribe digging the foundation, then using stones to lay the foundation, then ramming earth into a wall, then erecting wooden beams, rafters, laying fences, mud, and finally thatching houses, the houses built by this tribe are much simpler and faster.

Of course, their houses are far inferior to the houses of the Qingque tribe in terms of spaciousness and brightness.

After four such houses were built in a row, the tribe shifted the focus of their work to clearing the fields.

This is because it is autumn but the weather is still cold, especially at night, so it is necessary to build some houses to live in.

Of course, these four round houses are not enough for the people of the tribe, but they are barely enough to accommodate minors and some people who are not very well-shaped.

It's just that it's a little crowded when I sleep at night.

The people of this tribe are also very experienced in how to cultivate the fields.

They chose a relatively sunny day, cleared a gap in the surrounding dead yellow grass and trees, and then set a fire while the new grass sprouts had just grown......

The warm sunlight was scattered and shining on the earth, and this place, which had been barren before, gradually became different after having such a group of people.

The old priestess, holding a digging tool made of twigs in one hand, walked barefoot in the ash-covered ground.

She played with her waist and dug a hole in the ash-covered earth with the simple tools in her hand, and then with the other hand she took three grains of that gray-brown fruit from the clay pot beside her and placed them in the small pit, and stepped on them with her bare feet.

There are a lot of people around her who are doing these things, and this way of cultivating the land without having to plough the land too much can save them a lot of time.

While they were doing these things, the men who had cleared the land, a large part of them, led by the chief, went out hunting.

In all this time, they had not had much to eat, and they had relied on the gray-brown fruit they had stored to satisfy their hunger, and they had consumed much of it.

Now that another batch is planted, there will be fewer of these fruits, and it's time to find food.

The remaining young and strong people began to build houses there, after all, it is not a good thing to live in a place without shelter for a long time.

Of course, before they could continue to build their houses, they had built a cattle pen with sticks, which were rare things for their tribe!

The emergence of copper plough deer ploughing has greatly liberated the productivity of the Qingque tribe, especially when this farming method is used on cooked land, the speed is even faster.

It was precisely because of this that Han Cheng dared to let the people of the trade team go out when the spring ploughing was halfway through.

Not to go to trade and loot the surrounding tribes, but to let the people of the trade team bring back some stones.

These stones are in fact limestone.

It had been a long time since limestone had been found in the tribe, but Han Cheng had never let the tribe's people transport it back on a large scale, nor did he burn the lime.

On the one hand, it is not easy to transport stones over long distances, and another reason is that there are not many places where lime is used in the tribe, and when it is useful, the soil and cement made of plant ash can be improvised.

But now it is not possible, with the successful construction of the fence, after the spring ploughing, soon there are many houses to be built, which uses a lot of lime.

(There is a make-up change at 10 p.m.)