Chapter 041: Thatched House
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Wang Hao singled out the strongest men and women in the village and went to build houses, which was what the tribesmen were most looking forward to at the moment. The patriarch selected dozens of people from the rest of the people to go to the salt lake to carry the salt stones. In the end, he found that the defense force was worried, so he asked Wang Hao for a few strong archers as guards.
An adobe house needs to be moulded, and the time required to build an adobe house can be as short as one or two months or as long as half a year. The people didn't have that much time to wait, and it was imperative that they could stay in a sheltered room tonight.
Otherwise, these sturdy men are fine, but those pregnant women and children will definitely not be able to stand it for a long time.
Divide some people and let them follow Wang Hu to the forest to cut wood. Their targets were giant trees that were almost hugging each other.
Wang Hao, on the other hand, took a small number of ingenious clansmen to find trees that were about two or three meters tall, as thick as a child's arm, and full of toughness.
Such trees are often banyan or poplar trees that have not yet grown. The small trees were cut back by Wang Hao and them, and this kind of small trees is much more convenient to cut with an axe than with a saw.
When the four hundred trees were cut down, Wang Hao led the clansmen to stop the axe.
On the ground that was leveled out by the women of the clan, Wang Hao found fifty stones and put them there. The distance between each stone is about three meters five, and a total of five rows of ten stones are placed.
The clansmen didn't understand what Wang Hao was trying to do, so they all observed carefully and didn't dare to express their opinions.
Then Wang Hao found a wooden stick about 1.5 meters long, and then drew a circle with a radius of 1.5 meters centered on the first stone. Eventually, eight small trees were inserted into the periphery of the circle in equal parts. Each tree is half a meter deep when it is inserted into the ground.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Hao pulled the treetops of the small tree to the middle and tied the eight treetops together with rattan. At this point, a simple thatched hut skeleton came out.
Under Wang Hao's orders, the grass cut by the women yesterday was carried over by bundles one by one. After a day of exposure, these slender thatches have turned slightly yellow. It's extra comfortable to hold in your arms.
The thatch is bent from the center and then hung on rattan, which is covered with thatch, like a rope full of noodles. Then, the rattans were tied between the small trees that were planted in the ground.
The clansmen followed Wang Hao's example, and soon, the originally empty trunk had an extra layer of yellow-green, yellow-green round coat, leaving only a skylight on the top and a half-person-high door in the south-facing direction.
Then, Wang Hao used branches and thatch to weave a semi-circular thatched roof, and hung it on the top of the thatched house with a wooden stick, so that a green thatched house took shape.
Wang Hao spread a thick layer of thatched grass that had been dried in the thatched house, and then he lay down in the haystack, stretched out comfortably, rolled twice, and had the feeling of sleeping on a soft sofa.
Looking at this thatched hut that looked like a shell fruit half-buckled to the ground, the tribesmen talked a lot. It turns out that this is a house, and it looks very comfortable, but it is not very strong, and if a strong wind blows, it may blow the house down.
Looking at Wang Hao lying comfortably in the haystack, the clansmen also wanted to sleep comfortably like Wang Hao at night. They rushed to make some unfinished thatched huts.
The method of making a thatched house is not difficult, and it can even be said to be very simple. Even if you just read it once, the people have learned.
By the time it was time for lunch, the skeletons of the remaining forty-nine thatched huts had been erected by the clansmen.
The patriarch took advantage of the time to eat, and came to see the thatched house, and after lying down and trying it for a while, the patriarch came out with a smile, and he told the tribesmen that it was very comfortable.
Hearing the patriarch's words, the clansmen cheered. In the great wilderness, if you don't live in a cave, you will freeze at night, and when it rains, you will be drenched in the rain. And now, Wang Hao made a thing called a house with trees and thatch on the plain, which can allow everyone to live in it at night to keep warm, and hide in it to avoid the rain on rainy days.
After lunch, the spirited tribesmen began to drape the thatched huts with thatched grass to protect them from the wind and rain.
Under the pretext of drinking water, Wang Hu ran back from the forest three times. Since the pottery bowl was fired, Wang Hao stipulated that no one was allowed to drink raw water in the future. Although I don't understand the purpose of Wang Hao's order, the clansmen still did what Wang Hao said out of trust in Wang Hao.
Wang Hu didn't come back to drink water to be lazy, he was just curious about the progress of the thatched house. For such a hut, he had long wanted to lie down and try what it was like. Wang Hao knew his curiosity very well, but if he didn't mention letting him try, the anxious Wang Hu could only stare at him in a hurry.
Wang Hu and the others once again let Wang Hao see the work efficiency of primitive people.
Twenty men cut down a hundred huge trees in one day and transported them to the side of the village. The branches of the tree were cut off by the axe, and only the neat trunks were laid out in a pile.
By the time it was time for dinner, fifty thatched huts had finally taken shape. Wang Hao took a shovel and led his people to dig a drainage ditch around the thatched house that led directly to the river.
A thatched hut that appears on the plain is abrupt and unsightly. However, when the whole five rows of fifty thatched huts appeared neatly on the plain, the picture was shocking.
A clansman who had built the hut himself squeezed his hand. He was a little unconvinced that these rows of extraordinary-looking buildings were his own. At this moment, he felt as if his hand had the ability to change the Great Wilderness, and his heart was full of excitement and excitement. Today, I can build 50 thatched huts in the wilderness, so tomorrow, can I build more thatched huts? In the future, will I be able to build the entire wilderness with this kind of grass hut that can block the wind and rain? At that time, no matter where I went, I would not be caught in the rain.
One by one, the clansmen went into the thatched huts and rolled happily on the soft haystacks or animal skins, which they found much more comfortable than the stone slabs they had slept on.
The excitement on the faces of the people jumped on their faces, and they knew that they were going to live in such a dreamlike house tonight.
At this moment, Wang Hao, the initiator of these thatched houses, squatted next to the pot, scooped half a bowl of fish soup with a pottery bowl, and then sandwiched a few pieces of fish meat, and ran to the side to eat dinner.
If you are not interested in the thatched house, except for Wang Hao, I am afraid that there are only hairballs and a few little wolves left.
Maoqiu held a pottery bowl that was almost the size of it, and knocked on Wang Hao's foot, obviously very dissatisfied with the fact that Wang Hao actually forgot it during the meal.
The little wolves had eaten the internal organs of the fish, but when they smelled the aroma of boiled fish, they still gathered around Wang Hao's feet and sprinkled Jiaojiao to get a piece or two of fish.
Two pieces of fish meat were sandwiched into the big bowl for the hairball, and Wang Hao pinched its face and left it alone. Several little wolves looked at the food in the hairball bowl greedily, although their mouths were drooling, but none of them dared to go up and grab food from the hairball mouth.
The tribesmen finally recovered from the shock of the thatched hut and came back to eat happily one by one. As everyone knows, their turtle behavior has already been despised by Wang Hao several times.
If it weren't for the fact that we didn't have the time to build adobe houses and the technology to build wooden houses, who would want to live in such a simple thatched house.