Chapter 106: Rain Before the Flood
Although the weather is getting hotter and hotter now, Wang Hao is still frozen by the rain when he rushes out of the hut. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Returning to the thatched hut and putting on a hat made of thatch, Wang Hao went out again.
I wanted to call Wang Hu to go to see the foundation together, but listening to the fierce wheezing sound coming from his thatched hut, Wang Hao rolled his eyes and went out alone.
The leg injury is not healed, I tossed all night last night, and now I come again early in the morning, and I am in good spirits.
Last night, everyone was tired until midnight, and now most of them have not gotten up, only Wang Lung and a few cooks yawned and cooked under the canteen.
Saying hello to Wang Long, with the help of the night watchman, Wang Hao opened the gate of the village. The giants outside the village slept soundly, not caring at all that they were soaking in the muddy rain.
The rain was not heavy, it should have started to fall when the sky was about to dawn, and the surface layer of the compacted lime had initially condensed, and Wang Hao found that there was no water seepage after checking the circle.
However, in a few low-lying places, water has begun to accumulate.
After writing down all these places, Wang Hao decided to bring someone to dig a few drainage ditches when everyone got up later.
The people of the Great Wilderness are far more sensitive to food than Wang Hao imagined. Even if it rains, it can't wash away the rich aroma of meat.
As soon as the food was cooked, everyone got up with their sleepy eyes rubbed.
The hairball has been waiting in the dining shed for a long time holding the small pottery bowl that belongs to it. Since the last time he went to sleep, Wang Hao stuffed the meat under his head as a pillow in his sleep for a night, and he didn't want to sleep with Wang Hao anymore. For this reason, Wang Hao also specially built a small thatched hut for it in the village.
The inside of the hut that belongs to the furball is stuffed with beautiful feathers and smooth small stones.
During the meal, looking at the limping Wang Hu yawning with big dark circles under his eyes, Wang Hao and the others couldn't help but laugh again.
Wang Hu, who married two years later than his peers, is really very and thirsty.
After breakfast, Wang Hao asked Wang Hu to take out some wild ginger pieces from the hut, and after cooking, everyone drank a bowl, ginger soup can drive away the cold and prevent colds.
Then he ordered Wang Zhu to take some of the men to dig a drainage ditch on the other side of the foundation.
And he himself led people to repair the leaky huts.
The hut is very easy to build, and the skilled clansmen can build several in a day without the help of others.
Although it is very comfortable to live in a hut when the weather is nice, when it rains, a lot of problems come out.
First and foremost is the problem of water leakage, with at least five out of 10 huts leaking. Only by re-covering the weak areas that leak with a thick layer of thatch will the rain stop.
If it was a brick house, this would not have happened.
After inspecting the brick house where the eight-bull crossbow was stored, Wang Hao found that there were also some water leaks. Although it has the triple protection of wood bark and thatch, after all, Wang Hao is not a professional builder, and some places are still not good.
If you can follow the traces of the wild boar king and find the asphalt, Wang Hao believes that the house will not have to be afraid of water leakage in the future.
The summer flood lasts for a long time, sometimes for a month or two. But it doesn't mean that it will rain every day for the past two months, it's just that there is plenty of rain during this time.
After lunch, Wang Hao finished repairing all the leaky thatched huts, and the first rain after Xia Xun came finally stopped.
Although the rain was not heavy, the water level of the river behind the village rose somewhat. The inexperienced Wang Cun people didn't know to drag the bamboo raft on the beach back in advance, and when Wang Hao and the others went to check, they found that two bamboo rafts had been washed away.
Rain is not all trouble, at least some benefits.
After the foundation was laid, it was necessary to apply water to prevent the lime from cracking, and this rain saved the tribe a lot of work. In the absence of water pipes, you can only rely on manpower to apply water, and the factory is so far away from the river, it will be a tiring thing to apply water.
Moreover, after the rain, Wang Hao was surprised to find that on the wooden walls around the village, clusters of white mushrooms suddenly appeared, and after identification, these are edible fresh mushrooms.
The weaker women and children carried bamboo baskets to pick these delicious delicacies, while the stronger ones took bamboo baskets to pick sweet fruits in the Black Forest.
Normally, sweet fruit picking is a very dangerous thing. Because not only do you have to guard against the fierce beasts lurking in the dense forest, but you also have to pay attention to the poisonous snakes that blend in with the environment at the foot of the trees.
However, the woods near the village were scared away by the giants that were ravaged by giants.
And those poisonous insects and poisonous snakes, there are ten clansmen wearing black armor and holding iron swords to open the way in front, and there is nothing to be afraid of.
The bright red sweet fruit, washed by the rain, looks very delicate. The lower ones can be reached by the tribesmen by pulling on the branches. However, the higher ones are more troublesome.
Usually, the high places require skilled tribesmen to climb on the branches to pick, and every year, people step on the trees or are bitten by poisonous snakes lurking on the branches.
This year, however, Wang Hao tied a long bamboo pole under the sickle, and then weaved some pocket-like bags out of tender grass to tie them to the bamboo poles.
At this time, the tribesmen did not need to go up to the tree themselves, they only needed to cut off the sweet fruits at the top of the tree with a sickle, and naturally another person would carry a straw bag to follow underneath.
This not only greatly speeds up the progress of picking sweet fruits, but also makes the picking of sweet fruits safer.
Every fruit tree is precious in the wilderness, and no one will harm these trees that can provide food. Even the giants deliberately avoided those fruit trees when they pulled them up.
In a black forest near the village, only a dozen or so fruit trees remained.
The rest of the trees, all under the work of the giant's human tree puller, were piled up in the open space near the brick kiln.
Half of the people were assigned to deal with the trees. Wood as straight as a pine tree is carefully cut off from its branches, leaving logs piled together, and this wood can be used in the future to build a house or make other things.
The unsightly, crooked-looking ones were sawn into sections, and when they were slightly dried, they were burned into charcoal for future brick and lime burning.
Although Qiancun has a large number of coal mines, because of the long distance, before there is no new mode of transportation, the coal that is exchanged can only be used to refine the more important iron ore and copper ore.
Others are building houses under the leadership of these clansmen who have worked as bricklayers in Wang Village. In fact, building such a simple brick house is really a very simple thing. As long as you take care of these things horizontally and vertically, even a novice can build a sturdy house.
Specially selected Gu Mu, who is very rigorous, to be the supervisor, Wang Hao believes that the factory will be able to build a boxy building.
The only thing that worries Wang Hao is that the foundation has just been laid last night, and whether the house built in this way will have an impact on the future service life.
But after all, let the future things come later, according to Wang Long's observation, the white cloud in the sky, if the wind direction remains unchanged, will turn into dark clouds in two days at most, and at that time, the second rain after the summer flood will definitely come, and the next time, it will definitely not be like today's pre-flood rain only for half a day.