Chapter 78: The Housing Plan
Luo Fatzi helped Xu Qiang to the campfire, let him lie on the two wolf skin mats that he had just laid, and took out the raincoat to cover Xu Qiang.
Xu Qiang looked up at the shack, turned his head and said to Luo Fatzi:
"Fatty, I felt it when I was walking around just now, and I can still walk around, and it is estimated that I can walk normally in about a week. This shack is okay for emergencies, but it can't be used as a place for us to live for a long time, we need to build a real house. ”
Now the two are still sleeping in their respective tents, the space is small, and the shack space is large, but the four walls are ventilated, and the effect of the roof from the rain is also poor, some time ago the rain also exposed two places, the skeleton of the house is made of bamboo, and the sturdiness is also worrying, so it is very necessary to build a wooden or stone house. The brick house is not without consideration, the main thing is that the amount of work in the brick house is really a bit large, and it is not considered for the time being.
"Well, that's what I thought too. Now that we've got rid of this wolf pack, we don't have to worry about safety for the time being, and we can get rid of our arms and eat enough meat. I will do what you say. ”
Luo Fatzi disinfected Xu Qiang's right leg with hydrogen peroxide and applied iodine phor, and then checked the wounds in other parts of Xu Qiang's body.
Hearing Luo Fatzi say this, Xu Qiang couldn't smile bitterly, so he could only say his thoughts:
"Let's build a civil structure house, the walls are made of civil wood, the outside is made of pine wood, the middle is filled with soil and compacted, the roof is made of wooden planks into a slope, and the top is covered with soil and weeds, so that the house is warm in winter and cool in summer, just like the houses built in the countryside in the past, strong and durable. When this house is completed, the two of us will consider burning bricks to build a fire kang, although I don't know what kind of cold it can be in the winter here, but if there is a fire kang, I believe this winter will not be sad. ”
"Okay, just do it, I'll listen to you."
In the next seven days, while Xu Qiang was recuperating from his injuries, he and Luo Fatzi had their own division of labor. Xu Qiang first made a semicircular hacksaw bow out of pine wood and the hacksaw blade in his backpack, then removed the last guardrail on the trunk of the off-road vehicle, and then sawed off two 20-centimeter-long steel pipes with a hacksaw, put one end into the fire, and processed it into a chisel with a head width of five centimeters and two centimeters respectively, and inserted two pieces of sharpened wooden sticks at the other end, and a simple carpenter's tool chisel was made.
Then lying under the off-road vehicle, it took two days to cut off two ten-centimeter-long steel plates from the shock-absorbing steel plates of the off-road vehicle, and it took another three days to make two planers into two planers with the help of files on the multi-functional Swiss Army knife. There are chisels and planers, plus axes and saws, and the beautiful furniture can be made in the future. Some people say that they are not carpenters, so it is difficult for them, or the same sentence, haven't you ever seen a pig run if you haven't eaten pork?
And Luo Fatzi began to skin the wolf again. However, before peeling the skin, they first made three fishing cages out of bamboo, put them in the stream next to them to catch silverfish, and used the caught silverfish to make soup and drink, so as to speed up the recovery of their bodies and the healing of their wounds. The effect of the first fishing was very good, using the wolf's internal organs as bait, and he caught twenty or thirty catties of silver-threaded fish, which he couldn't eat all at once, and he couldn't throw it away, so Luo Fatzi had to make a big fish cage and fix it in the water to store the silver-threaded fish he caught. The fish soup and venison were mended every day, and the wounds of the two recovered quickly, especially the wound on Xu Qiang's right leg recovered very well, and both of them felt fat in a few days.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the sun is appearing more and more often, Luo Fatzi took advantage of the wolf meat to rot and peel off some basically intact wolf skins, especially the skin of the head wolf was carefully peeled, and a total of twenty-five wolf skins were obtained, which took up most of his time. As for the wolf meat, except for twenty wolf hind legs cut off for smoking, all the rest were thrown into a pit washed out by the water next to the bamboo forest, and covered with a thick layer of loess, so as to prevent the carrion from attracting some scavenging animals.
Seven days later, with a large amount of nutritional supplementation, Xu Qiang's body recovered very quickly, and he could already walk slowly, but he couldn't have too much weight, and I believe that he would be able to return to his previous state after a while. And Luo Fatzi has gained a lot of weight, and he no longer has the appearance of being skinny and malnourished before, and in his own words, he is developing towards his former self. And in these seven days, Luo Fatzi took advantage of the break to level out a piece of open space of two or three square meters, sprinkled some pepper seeds, watered, fertilized, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, there is no sign of cooling, I believe it will sprout soon, and the rest is waiting and harvesting.
The housing project has officially begun.
After cutting down a large amount of timber in seven days and then pulling it back to the camp in an off-road vehicle, they had to fill in the zigzag trap. After arriving at this camp, the role of the off-road vehicle became less and less, and as the fuel was used up, it would completely lose power, so Xu Qiang decided to make full use of its surplus value, do more hard work, and wait for the foundation of the house to be built, and use it to pull stones and dirt until the gasoline ran out.
The sketch of the house had already been prepared, and the plan was to build a wooden house 12 meters long, 5 meters wide and 2 meters 5 to 3 meters high, located in the middle of the camp near the back fence, sitting north and facing south, with three rooms.
First, the cut tree is sawn into a length of three to three and a half meters according to the sketch, and then the wood is sawn from the middle and processed into D-shaped planks, each with a thickness of about 10 centimeters. After these preparations were completed, the two dug out a foundation 1 meter deep and 60 centimeters wide according to the requirements of the sketch, and the foundation was first tamped with thick wooden piles, and then paved with a layer of crushed stones pulled back from the mountain by off-road vehicles to strengthen the firmness of the foundation, and the whole took three days to strengthen the foundation.
The foundation of the ground was good, Xu Qiang and the two began to fill in the two-layer wooden wall, this work took two days to complete, mainly the doors and windows of the house were more laborious to build, it took an extra day, for which the two also used chisels. But compared to the later filling work, it can only be regarded as a small project. Because it was a huge amount of work to fill in the two layers of wooden walls at the back, and they had to climb up and down, it took the two of them eight days to complete the work. Keep filling, tamping, filling and tamping until the construction of the wall is completed according to the plan.