Chapter 44: The Meaning of the Cave

Wang Chuan wanted to spread a warm kang in the cave. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 infoIn this way, the fires in the cave can be reduced to a minimum in winter, and the trouble of fireworks can be kept away. The uneven caves can be used to the maximum, allowing everyone to have more space to move or sleep. Everyone can live warmly and comfortably all winter.

In addition to the ondol, it is also necessary to replace the fence at the entrance of the cave with a mud brick wall. The fence is still a little leaky, and it's easy to catch fire, and it's not strong, and if there are any other beasts attacking, this thing is useless except to block your vision.

In addition, Wang Chuan planned to set aside a piece of land around the cave and plan it into a village. Eighty or ninety is okay to be crammed into a cave in winter, but I'm afraid that I'm going to get sick in summer.

Now it is a bit impossible to build a house and move it out to live, but you can first plan the location of houses, farmland, roads, workshops, etc., and then build the thatched houses, iron houses, firewood houses, and sundries rooms that are currently used first.

Thatched huts can collect manure. There are many people striking iron now, and the waste cave is not big enough, so it can only be carried out in the cold wind, and it has to be interrupted when the weather changes, how can this work? The firewood room utility room can put some inconsequential things in the cave outside, so that the cave space is larger.

If the weather is suitable, the entire planned area can be fenced off. A fence is not as good as a wall, but it can also ward off a lot of wild beasts. If enough thorns are placed on the fence, it is not a problem to create a suitable space for children in the fence.

Now is the age of fierce birds, and the trees in the village still need to be preserved, but all the trees planned on the farmland roads or houses can be removed, and even the roots can be dug up to feed the baby elephants.

After the planning is done, what needs to be done now is to build caves, workshops and functional houses. To repair the warm kang, you need to use fire bricks, and you have to dig a kiln. Carefully calculated, the amount of work is not small.

It will be stronger and more durable with fire bricks, but you can't fire that much at a time, so you can only use mud bricks as much as possible. Wang Chuan planned to build all kinds of houses with mud bricks, the walls of the caves were also made of mud bricks, and the warm pits were made of mud bricks and topped with fire bricks. If there is a surplus of fire bricks, consider other uses.

Better tools make good work. These shovels, hoes, and axes are indispensable, otherwise you have to get them in the Year of the Monkey. Before the plan began, Wang Chuan first asked a small group of people to dig caves. Let the people of Bihu concentrate on making shovels, hoes, and axes.

This time, with the lesson of the last kiln digging, Wang Chuan deliberately checked the location of the kiln selected by the terrain. The excavated soil is piled up on the spot, and the kiln is dug to make bricks on the spot.

In the few days since Wang Chuan left, several other newcomers with leg and foot injuries have gradually become hands-on to hit iron, and Wang Chuan, the spearhead who has been beaten, can also be used. Now let them make shovels and hoes, as long as there is someone next to them to point out, there is no problem.

A few days later, the tools were built, and the vigorous construction began. The people of the tribe only kept a minimum number of people going out, and the others turned into construction workers under Wang Chuan's command and began to transform the earth.

First, let the floor where the house was built and a large area in front of the cave be leveled. Then dig a pit near the cave where the thatched pit is to be dug and the soil can be used as a manure pit. The mud bricks are placed on the flat ground to dry, so that there is no uneven side and the wall is crooked.

When the mud is in the pit and mud, the mud is dug loose and the water is released, and the main thing is to step on it. Wang Chuan saw that the baby elephant was curious, so he drove it down to help. As a result, the scene got out of control in an instant, and almost all the children went into the mud puddle and played with the mud with the baby elephant like crazy. Ling pinched his clean dress beside him, and he also looked envious. In the end, the children and the baby elephants were driven up, and like mud monkeys, the water of the creek was muddy. Of course, one meal of rattan per person is indispensable.

After the mud bricks were done, Wang Chuan first built the firewood house, the utility room, and the iron room. The tribe has some experience in building a stronghold, and there is no need for Wang Chuan to guide them one by one when this house is built. And there are masters and apprentices, and there are many people who can get started. The utility room and firewood room are small houses with doors and windows, the size is no more than 10 square meters, and the roof is not leaking. Now the mushrooms by the river are dry and yellow and not rotten, and the roof is just right, and it is still spread with five or six layers of grass and soil, and there is no possibility of water leakage within three or five years.

The blacksmith is the larger of these buildings. Wang Chuan built it five meters high and forty square meters wide. There are two doors and four windows, and there are also three stoves with chimneys inside. There are also two small rooms built next to it, where charcoal ore and other things are placed.

The only thing that makes people feel dissatisfied is that Wang Chuan built the iron-striking house in the downstream position of the creek, dozens of meters away from the cave.

After these houses were built, they were greeted not only by firewood tools, but by people from the tribe. Those who have never seen a mud brick house have long wanted to experience the "cave" built out of thin air in the base, but now that they are here, they are crowded in it and are reluctant to come out. Even a highly respected person like my mother is the same.

Wang Chuan had already asked them to move out and live for a few days to facilitate the construction of caves. Now it is just convenient for Wang Chuan to do the work of laying the warm kang in the cave.

For the warm kang in the cave, Wang Chuan adopts the design of a curved passage and a long strip. According to the topography of the cave, he laid a fireworks passage from the kitchen at the entrance of the cave, circled the cave and returned to the mouth of the cave, and discharged the fireworks from several high chimneys. On top of the fireworks tunnel is a flat and long kang bed. Several such kang beds have been built, some straight and some curved. The number of places where you can sleep has increased a lot compared to before.

In addition to the walkway, Wang Chuan also reserved a fire pond of twenty or thirty square meters in the gap between the kang and the pit, which is generally only used for lighting and lighting, but it is more convenient for everyone to gather here.

The floor of the cave is also paved with mud and fire bricks, and the original cave is completely invisible.

The entrance to the cave is still located in the kitchen and a toilet. Wang Chuan removed all the stoves made of stones, and all the stoves were made of fire bricks, on which were placed uniform clay pots, and connected to the warm pits. The toilet replaced the fence with mud bricks, and a section of pottery pipe fired behind Wang Chuan was connected to the location of the pit.

The fence at the entrance of the cave was removed and the mouth of the cave was built with mud bricks. Here Wang Chuan left two doors and a few small windows to facilitate access to ventilation and lighting.

On the day the cave was completed, it was snowing lightly. When Wang Chuan was working in the cave, he deliberately did not let unrelated people from the tribe wait to watch. The cave builders didn't know how to describe the current appearance of the cave, and after their various exaggerations, the tribesmen had long been curious about what the cave looked like now.

When Wang Chuan announced that the cave had been renovated, the tribesmen rushed in, and many people stood on the spot. Wang Chuan used the method of iron nails to open the stones, and removed several particularly abrupt rocks in the cave. This makes the cave look a lot more empty, and at first glance it feels unrecognizable.

Ling said proudly: "The fire man has long said that stones can be broken with iron nails. ā€

The fire on the stove in the cave was very hot, and although there were only two illuminated torches in the cave, the whole cave did not feel cold. Reach out and touch the kang bed covered with dry lichen, it is even warmer.

Some adults also noticed that there were also many screens made of low fences on the ondol. They quickly figured out the purpose of these things from the layout of the newcomer's cave room, and soon their hearts warmed up.

The most surprising thing was the flat floor. Usually there is no lack of diaphragm on the unevenness on the ground, but now after laying this floor, no matter how you step on it, you are not afraid of being diaphragm. The kids just jumped around on it and had a lot of fun.

Likes the new and hates the old, or it has already been. When the tribesmen saw the newly renovated cave, they immediately abandoned the mud-brick houses outside and happily moved back to the cave.

Bihu looked back and forth at the cave, and finally understood what Wang Chuan meant by the cave. After this kind of construction, it is a cave suitable for people, and it was a cave for monkeys before.