With the help of Niu Dashi, the two quickly cleaned up the yard, and Chen Jiang also began to make a fire to cook, and soon a fresh smell of millet spread in the yard.

Because I said it on the road yesterday, so when the rice was cooked, Uncle Ma and several young adults in the village came over one after another with their own firewood knives, axes and other tools, and when a group of people gathered around the jar of boiling fat intestines or squatted or stood to eat, Ma Erbo also walked in with a firewood knife.

"Second uncle, come in and eat!" Chen Xu hurriedly stood up and said hello.

"I've already eaten, why don't you call me to repair the house!" Ma Erbo waved his hand and reproached a little angrily.

"You have a lot of things going on at home, isn't Erxi still good?" Chen Xu hurriedly explained with a smile.

"The second baby was already able to go to the ground yesterday, and yesterday your mother also sent the second baby a liver and waist and kidney, after eating some last night, it is much better today, and you don't notify me of such a big thing as your family repairing the house, you look down on your second uncle, right?"

Well, if you want to help Chen Xu so domineeringly, I really don't know how to refuse, but one more person is more strength, so I can only apologize happily and express a warm welcome.

After eating, a group of people rested for a while and went up the mountain with tools, and Chen Xu also took the bronze handsaw that was sharpened last night and went to the mountain with him.

It is not difficult to cut down trees in the mountains, but it is difficult to get the cut trees down the mountain.

More than a dozen thigh-thick trees fell horizontally in the mountains and forests with dense thorns and ancient vines, and it was a little difficult to walk just an inch, let alone carry hundreds of catties of wood down the mountain.

Therefore, to repair the house, Chen Xu had to ask someone to help.

In the village, he could not pay for his salary, but he still had to take care of the food, so yesterday he bought two stones of grain in the town and brought it back.

There are a lot of dilapidated thatched houses in the village, but those who really dare to repair the house are not, and now the harvested grain is not enough to eat after paying taxes, and it is even more not enough to ask someone to help.

However, yesterday, he picked up a cheap boar and got a big snake and gave Chen Xu great confidence.

He had to repair the house before the wheat harvest, but he had to build three huts, which would seem very rudimentary to later generations, and it would be completed in a few days.

With the sound of knives and axes, there was soon a crackling sound of branches breaking and breaking on the hillside, and the trunk of the cut branches fell on the hillside, Chen Xu used a saw to saw it into the length of the wood according to the size of the room he designed, and then the two villagers lifted the wood and carried the branches down the mountain.

The role of the branch is very important, not only to support the walk, to prevent the foot from slipping and falling, but also to support the wood on the shoulder when you can't carry it for a while.

There are many people and great strength, more than ten felled trees have all been brought down the mountain in half a day, and the long and short logs sawn into are piled up on a wasteland on the side of the yard, which was originally the family's vegetable garden, but unfortunately since Chen Hu has never returned, the two old parents have passed away one after another, and Chen Jiang's family has not had any extra experience to serve vegetables, and it has been abandoned for two or three years.

And this time, Chen Xu was going to build the house on the vegetable garden, and the old house he decided to change into a toilet and a pigsty and a chicken pen.

There are five things every day in life, that is, eating, drinking, and sleeping.

After crossing over, eating, drinking, and sleeping can be reluctantly accepted, but the made Chen Xu full of grievances and helplessness.

The toilet doesn't have it, after all, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and it can be solved anywhere, but the last step of wiping his ass makes him completely unbearable, with sticks and leaves, or weeds and stones, safety will not be discussed, and it is all tears, the first time I shit, I wiped my hands, and the second time I wiped it with a few leaves, and then the chrysanthemum burned hotly for half a night.

So this time to repair the house, Chen Xu vowed to repair the toilet well, and then find something safe and non-toxic to use as straw paper.

There is no need to think about toilet paper in this era, even if he knows the method of making paper, he will never be able to make clean and hygienic straw paper without ten or twenty years, not to mention that in this era when writing is still using bamboo bark and animal skin, this kind of thing wiping his butt with paper will let Qin Shi Huang know that he will not hesitate to chop him.

In the process of a group of people carrying wood, Niu Dashi also used a firewood knife to chop many wooden sticks one or two meters long and the thickness of his arm and countless green vines the thickness of his thumb, and after tying them up on the mountain, he and Chen Xu slowly carried them home.

There are a few more women in the yard, Niu Dashi's mother Niu Tian, Erxi Niang Maqiu, and two Chen Xu don't know their names.

Because women at this time generally only have a surname without a name, and men only have a surname without a surname, and after a woman marries her husband's family, she will add her husband's name in front of her surname, and then directly call her a certain family, sometimes called a certain woman, such as Meng Jiangnu, and before getting married, she generally adds a woman and Ji directly after the surname, such as Zhao Ji, the mother of Qin Shi Huang, and Yu Ji, the woman of Xiang Yu, and the remote mountainous places are not so exquisite, and the names are all strange, there is no serious title, as long as it can be distinguished.

Together with Chen Jiang, five women were cleaning wild vegetables and preparing dinner, a large clay pot was placed on a stone stove in Xinlei to cook the backbone of wild boars, and the boiling soup exuded a strong fragrance, and there was another stone stove next to the fire that was also cooking a large pot of millet porridge.

Although this way of eating was so crude that it was unacceptable in Chen Xu's opinion, all the people who worked expressed serious satisfaction, and they were full of energy, and they were still working overtime to start cutting off the bark after carrying all the trees on the mountain down the mountain.

Chen Xu cut pine trees on the mountain, this kind of wood grows fast, and is rich in oil, it is not easy to rot and not easy to grow insects after peeling and drying, it is a high-quality wood for building a house, after cutting off the bark and drying for three or five days, the foundation of the house is almost finished, and you can directly start to build the main frame of the thatched house.

There are a few more five, six, seven or eight year-old children in the yard, both men and women, Niu Dashi's younger brother is also among them, and even Erxi, who is still a little vain in walking, is also there, and a group of half-grown children who are going to elementary school in the future are crowded in a corner of the yard at this time to watch the five little wild boar cubs, shouting and feeding with wild vegetables in their hands.

Taking advantage of the fact that it was still early and the meal was not ready, Chen Xu and Niu Dashi began to build a pigsty.

First, use an axe to cut seven or eight calf-thick wooden stakes, roughly calculate the area, then lay the wooden stakes, and then tie the long wooden sticks cut back to the wooden stakes with green rattan as a frame, so that they can circle out an open space of about 20 square meters by the yard, and then sharpen the lower part of the short wooden sticks and drive them into the ground one by one at a distance of less than three inches, and then tie them firmly to the frame with green vines.

The amount of work in the pigsty is not large, but it is more cumbersome.