Volume 1 First Advent Primal Chapter 22 Incarnate as a Carpenter
The rice and compressed dry food in the bag are the last bit of food from the previous era in this primitive era, although they cannot satisfy the appetite, but they are good memories of their previous lives, as well as the person, the thing, and the family.
After feeding the sheep and the cutie, Ding Qi quickly skinned the ocelot, and after a simple nitrate of the beautiful fur with plant ash, he propped it up on a wooden board to dry. The ocelot's meat was processed by Ding Qi using a simple smoking method - smoking to see if he could learn how to preserve the meat.
For the next week, Tinch's life was very regular, and every day he would go around the traps in the forest to harvest some prey, and the excess meat would be smoked. Then collect grass for the sheep, collect goat's milk and feed it to the cutie. The little cutie is also very interested in her own cheap wet nurse, and she can get along peacefully with the lamb, and even sometimes rolls and plays on the grass with the lamb. The relationship between them quickly warmed up, which made Ding Qi wonder if the little cutie was really born to the ewe, and even agreed that the little cutie could suck the goat's milk directly with her mouth instead of Ding Qi to milk the goat.
In seven days, there is a sufficient supply of milk, and the little cutie has grown to 35 centimeters long, 20 centimeters tall, and weighs about 5 kilograms.
The rest of the time, Tinch is used to make some carpenter's tools. What are the tools? Chisels and planers, which will be used together with Tinch's axe and hand saw, to make some durable and sturdy furniture.
So where do the materials for making chisels and planers come from? The chisel comes from the guardrail in the trunk of an off-road pickup truck, and the planer knife is made of shock-absorbing steel plates.
Ding Qi first made a semicircular hacksaw bow out of pine wood and the hacksaw blade in his backpack, and the ends of the saw blade were stuck in the holes made in the pine wood with bamboo cones, which was very strong. He then removed a tubular guardrail from the trunk of the SUV with the help of a wrench in the vehicle's toolbox, and then sawed down two 20-centimeter-long steel pipes with a hacksaw.
One end of the steel pipe is put into the fire, and after repeated hammering, it is processed into two chisels with a head width of five centimeters and two centimeters respectively, and two hardwood sticks are inserted into the other end of the chisel, and a simple carpenter's tool chisel is made.
Then lying under the off-road vehicle, it took half a day to cut off two ten-centimeter-long steel plates from the shock-absorbing steel plates of the off-road vehicle, and spent another two days to make two planers with the help of the file on the multi-functional Swiss Army knife. There are chisels and planers, plus axes and saws, and some simple furniture can be made. Some people say that Ding Qi is not a carpenter, but this is not difficult for him, and it is still the same sentence, haven't you ever seen a pig run if you haven't eaten pork?
Sleeping on the moisture-proof mat, Ding Qi still felt more uncomfortable, and he was not comfortable sleeping on the bed. Therefore, at the first time when the chisel was made, five or six trees were cut down with an axe, and sawed into relatively regular wood according to different sizes, which were four bed legs, two bed frames, and five wooden strips. Use a chisel to chisel equidistant mortises on the side of each bed frame, and then chisel out the tenons and tenons of the legs under the two ends of the bed frame, and use a saw to see the two ends of the five wooden strips and the top of the bed legs to the size corresponding to the mortise.
Then, the two ends of the five wooden strips were inserted into the mortise corresponding to the bed frame, and then the four legs were also attached, and the last bed was made with a width of 1.5 meters, a length of 2 meters, a height of 50 centimeters, and five rows of horizontal logs in the middle.
But this is just a basic framework, and then Ding Qi saws a thick bamboo cut back into a two-meter-long bamboo tube, and then uses a mountain opener to split the bamboo tube into five-centimeter-wide bamboo boards, and then ties the bamboo planks side by side to the five horizontal logs of the wooden bed, and the spacing between the bamboo planks is only half a centimeter.
The bed was ready. It is now possible to put up a moisture-proof mat and sleep in a sleeping bag. However, looking at such a simple bed, Ding Qi was still a little dissatisfied, and he pondered that he needed to catch more fur animals, such as rabbits, wolves, leopards, etc. Unfortunately, the lynx skin is only one leopard cat skin and one rabbit skin at hand, and there are two rabbits that have not been skinned.
In addition, the current season is probably May and June in the previous society, which can be judged by the birth and growth time of the lynx and lambs. Ding Qi needs to prepare some thick fur in advance to deal with the arrival of winter, the winter in the primitive society does not know how cold it is, but it is always wrong to deal with the worst in advance.
For example, the state of the Mohe River in Heilongjiang in winter can be used as a reference for the current era. Then wolf skins, fox skins, bear skins, etc., which have warm properties, will be his future hunting goals, provided that he follows the principle of survivalism: do not expose himself to dangerous environments.
After lying on the bed and feeling it for a while, Ding Qi got up and took out a long-handled shovel placed on the off-road vehicle, dug a drainage ditch along the perimeter of the house, and built a low wall half a meter high at the back of the house near the hillside, which was built diagonally from the bamboo forest to the side of the creek to block and direct the rainwater flowing down from the mountain.
In the past two days, Ding Qi felt that the humidity in the air was a little high, and it was very likely that there would be a rain, so he had to prepare in advance to avoid panic. What do you say about that line?
"Be careful! Thunder, rain to collect clothes! ”
It is enough to see the panic state of people when it rains, especially those who are not prepared.
In the past seven days, Tinch's wound has recovered well, leaving only a small scar on his shoulder. He also used some of the scattered time, with the help of a hacksaw and a file on the multi-purpose saber, to cut off a rectangle of flat space behind the handles of the two auxiliary fuel tanks, one for the kettle and the other as a storage bucket, so that he would not have to go back to the stream to get water, and his life would be greatly convenient.
Ding Qi cut one of the two cut steel plates into two rectangular steel bars, and then made them into two sharp blades with the help of the steel file on the multi-functional saber, and drilled two holes on the right side of the blade, and stuck a bamboo stick in front of a wooden handle, and a sickle was made.
Ding Qi was also too tired to make two scythes in a row, but he was also very satisfied with the speed and convenience of mowing the grass, which was indeed much easier to use than the mountain knife. I was excited for a while, and cut a lot of grass for the two sheep. But these two sickles also have a disadvantage, that is, they have to change the bamboo skewers frequently, but compared to its advantages, this disadvantage is also acceptable, the two sickles are used alternately, and it will not affect the speed of mowing.
However, seeing this large pile of grass, it is also a hassle to carry and store. Therefore, Ding Qi hit the idea of bamboo again. He came back from cutting more than a dozen bamboos, and used the evening time to first break bamboo slices, bamboo strips, and roast bamboo slices, and then made a bamboo back basket according to the appearance of his memory, which looked very lame and ugly, but it was very strong and durable. With two thin rattan straps, it is just right to carry on your body. In the future, he doesn't have to worry about going out for a walk, and he can't bring back more useful things, and the efficiency of the work per unit time has also improved a lot.
Then he built a rain-proof bamboo hut next to the sheepfold, and the roof of the shed was made of the leaves of a plant by the river at the bottom of the hillside, the leaves were wide and thick, and they were spread in three layers. Under the shed, a simple bamboo frame was set up, half a meter high from the ground, so as not to prevent the grass stored in it from getting damp and moldy, and the sheep would have diarrhea when they ate it.
Since there are bamboo sheds to store grass, there are also rain shelters to store fuels such as wood and weeds. Ding Qi built a wooden shed next to the left side of the wooden house, built with a mortise and tenon structure, which was much stronger than the bamboo shed, low on the left and high on the right, and was also covered with the leaves of that plant to protect it from rain.
The firewood chopped by Ding Qi with his axe is placed under this wooden shed to dry in the shade, and some dry wood is also placed in the wooden house for daily fire use.
The busy process time always flies quickly, especially for Ding Qi, the full day by day gives him a sense of returning to the trance of modern society: the same work and rest time, the same busyness, the same harvest and happiness, but the content of the work is very different from before.
Now he has become a hunter and shepherd in the mountains and forests, busy hunting, picking, mowing grass, and smoking animal meat, and has no leisure for a moment; In his spare time, he will also hold the little cutie, sit on the rock, look at the scenery in the distance, say a few words that the lynx baby does not understand, and tell himself that he is still a modern person, but there is no electric light, mobile phone, computer, TV, books, etc., and he is completely adapted to the life in the mountains.