Chapter 186: The Rain Passes and the Sky Clears
The pouring rain showed signs of abating in the second half of the night, and the tribe was covered with mud, almost a patch of water.
The next morning, the sky was still overcast, and the small fish were dripping.
Wang Lang, who didn't sleep well last night, opened his bloodshot eyes and hurriedly checked the situation of the granary, if the granary was soaked in water, then the loss of grain would bring heavy disasters to the tribe.
Wang Lang hurried to the granary, and saw that only a few places were drenched by the rain, and most of them were very dry, and his hanging heart couldn't help but let go.
As long as the food is fine, other things can be remade even if they are damaged.
Wang Lang, who breathed a sigh of relief, walked out of the tribe and checked the situation of the river embankment.
Although the heavy rain last night caused the river to rise, the water level did not reach a very terrifying level, and the embankment more than three meters high stopped the rising water.
Although the river is spreading upstream, it is too far away from here to affect the farmland.
On the other side, the grassland, which is not protected by the river embankment, is soaked like a lake by the overflowing river water.
"It's good that we built the levee, or we would have been flooded by now." Lin Huo stood on the embankment and said with some fear.
Wang Lang nodded and said, "When the rain stops, the river embankment must be reinforced, and if possible, bricks must also be used." ”
"It's time to reinforce, such a big levee was almost washed away, if the river was bigger, the levee would be finished." Lin Huo said.
Wang Lang looked at the embankment under his feet, regretting in his heart and rejoicing at the same time, this simple embankment made of mud and wood could block this flood, which was really a blessing in misfortune.
There are few stones in this grassland, and it is extremely difficult to use stones to reinforce it, even if Wang Lang wants to burn some simple cement, he doesn't know where to find raw materials.
Building a levee with bricks is a very difficult task in terms of the tribe's productivity today, and the amount of bricks needed for a mile-long embankment can be said to be astronomical.
But after last night's fear, Wang Lang felt that no matter how difficult it was, it was necessary to build this embankment, even if it took a long time.
The light rain was dripping, and the cold weather forced people to stop all their work and huddle by the fire, waiting for the rain to clear.
On the surface of the swelling river, there are occasional swollen corpses floating by, and these rotting corpses have seriously polluted the water source, and the river will not be a source of water for people for a short time.
Although Wang Lang asked people to take out all the containers in the tribe before the rain, the stored rainwater can only maintain the operation of the tribe for three or four days, and if it is used as drinking water and does not make rice or the like, it can last for two more days.
As for the drinking water for the livestock, Wang Lang could only boil the river water and feed it to the livestock.
Although this is not safe, the resistance of wild beasts is generally much stronger than that of humans, so in order not to make those livestock die of thirst, Wang Lang can only gamble.
Three days later, the rainy days finally ended, the sky cleared, and the effects of the rainstorm gradually subsided when the sun returned to the earth.
The water level of the river is lowered little by little, and the turbid river water exudes a burst of stench, which makes people consciously stay away from this place to cool off in this hot weather.
The sun bakes the air after the rain and the corn planting resumes when the soil in the fields dries out.
The existence of the embankment protects the dozen acres, the seeds planted, the rainwater watering, so that people have to save a lot of work, at least after planting, there is no need to water again for a long time.
Straw sandals on muddy ground quickly become covered with a thick layer of mud, and people have to work barefoot in the fields when they are unable to walk.
The fields were busy, and the construction of the wall was still in an orderly manner, and for the first time the wall was built with bricks, Wang Lang could only come to supervise it in person.
In order to ensure the strength of the fence, it is necessary to ensure that the wall cannot be tilted when it is built.
A brick and a handful of mud, in the absence of professional tools, people can only carry out the construction of their homes with their bare hands.
The fence was raised little by little, and people stepped on barely solid scaffolding, piling up this ugly and unsightly wall.
If you look at the quality of modern buildings, such a wall building technology is not even a tofu slag project, but in this era, it represents civilization and the birth of a city.
In the vast grassland, human beings used their wisdom and dexterous hands to build this miracle of their own, and the birth of the city protected the tribesmen from the threat of the beasts of this wild world.
Under the sunset, the people working in the fields returned to the tribe with brisk steps on their shoulders, looking at the clansmen who were talking and laughing, Wang Lang couldn't help but smile, the original promise to the clansmen has now been fulfilled, the sunrise and sunset and rest, he has brought this mode of life to this world, even if the human beings in this world develop rapidly, this kind of life will continue for thousands of years.
In the wild, people gathered around the fire to eat cooked salted meat, enjoying the tranquility of the night, since there was corn, Wang Lang has not eaten only barbecue like this for a long time.
The scene in front of him reminded him of the small cave where he had lived alone for a year when he first came to this world, and the simple walls had allowed him to live in this world for a year.
At night, Wang He slept quietly on a dry straw mat, and in the darkness a man and a woman mingled together, working hard for the arrival of a new life, and the clansmen who had a house and a woman were much more diligent than ever in creating the next generation.
Time flies, after a week of hard work, about fifty acres of land has been sown, looking at the fields that are connected together, people can't bear to blink their eyes, even if the dust is blind, just rub it gently with their hands, but they are reluctant to turn their heads away, as if everything in front of them will disappear in a blink of an eye.
"You say, we have planted so much corn this time, how much food will we have to harvest in the future!" A man said to his companion with emotion.
"I don't know, there should be a lot of them, when General Lin found us, we shouldn't have run, how good it would be to come here honestly, and we could avoid a lot of beatings." The man said regretfully.
"Alas, I don't know, what we were afraid of at the beginning, if the tribe could find us earlier, those tribesmen would not be us...
Before the man could finish speaking, he was interrupted by his companion beside him: "Don't mention this matter, we can't help it, if we don't do that, we won't be able to live, let's forget about those things in the future, the tribe is very disgusted with this matter." ”
The two fell silent, kept silent, and buried the past forever.