Chapter 45: Cutting down trees and building houses

The cave continues to about two miles inward, the cave walls on both sides begin to gradually narrow again, the height of the Yanlu Cave is more than ten meters, there are high and low up and down, there are many places in the middle of the animal backbone feces and debris; Explore half a mile again, the front is six or seven meters wide and ten meters high with a big hole, so far the whole length of the cave behind is more than three miles, enter the second hole, the cave inside is basically similar to the back cave, but the total length is only more than two miles, and then it is five or six meters wide and high about ten meters of the big hole, the cave wall on both sides of the inner gradually becomes about ten meters wide, more humid than the front hole, after entering half a mile, the ground begins to slope down more than half a mile, there is an underground river three or four meters wide, the direction of the water flow is the reedy sand river, the water flow is not very smooth, the river water is cold and biting, The whole cave is a three-string gourd-shaped natural large karst cave, with a total length of nearly eight miles. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the meal, Mengqi began to arrange everything, first sent Mengheng to take the guards and dogs to the mountain pass leading to Xinshengtun to garrison the defense, and then sent Menggong to take five of his own guards and dogs to the bottom of the ditch to defend at the intersection, and other wood masons and blacksmiths all went to the woods in the middle of the cave mouth and the Weisha River, and cut down trees to build log houses.

The outer wall of the log house is made of thick logs, the inner wall is made of thick wooden boards and wallpaper, the paper lattice windows and wooden tables, stools and cabinets are complete, and two or three rooms and one kitchen are all built with wooden piles, and each log house is separated by 8 meters vertically and horizontally; First, build two rows of more than 30 single-courtyard log houses in each row, and build a full-house craftsman, casual workers and boatmen;

The rest of the people on the slow slopes, along with the wooden boats and boatmen, were responsible for transporting the tools, iron items, and drinking water needed to the masonry blacksmiths. After transporting all the people who are okay, they all go to help, dream of supervising and coordinating on the spot, the craftsmen are divided into multiple groups to cooperate with each other, piling piles, building walls and walls, this place is at the foot of the mountain, the house foundation basically does not need to be laid, and a little piling construction can directly build a log wall.

I dreamed of watching the walls take shape and log houses built everywhere, and sighed in my heart, there are still many people with great strength, and at this rate, ten and eight courtyards can be built by the end of the night. Just cutting down trees in the woods, cutting trees and building houses at the same time, dozens of people working together is not happy. However, the newly built house can not be inhabited, the new logs and new planks are a little damp, and they need to be air-dried for a day or two.

At night, everyone went back to the slow slope, built a house during the day, and it took only three and a half days to build two rows of more than 70 single-courtyard large log houses, and let the craftsmen work casually at the bottom of the ravine, and began to cut trees and build houses at the foot of the mountain on both sides of the ravine, and each side also built three rows of small single-courtyard log houses of the same size and distance, each row of more than 10 courtyard houses, a total of more than 90 places in six rows, and other people who have nothing to do with the wooden houses that have been built pasted paper lattice windows and wallpaper.

It is estimated that it will take about four days for all the log houses to be built, and the two small steamers have already returned yesterday with bricks and tiles, and the bricks and tiles are unloaded to the slow slope, and the grain is transported to the second cave by horse-drawn carts, and then they also come to help cut down trees and build houses.

Mengqi told the second brother Mengheng and Menggong in advance, after the craftsmen and casual workers built all the courtyard houses, they began to build the village wall leading to the Xinshengtun mountain pass, the two sides of the wall are connected with the mountain walls on both sides to form a whole, and the wall is built with a double layer of thick logs nearly three meters long, and the earth and stone at the foot of the mountain are added in the middle, the wall is about half a meter thick, the wall head is set up with high and low wall multi-shot outlets, and the inner wall is erected under the stepped two-layer defensive wooden frame, the upper width and the lower narrow paved thick wooden planks are fixed, and two thick log gates are installed two meters wide each, which are opened during the day and closed at night when they are built and used.

After the mountain pass village wall was built, Meng Gong took a small group of craftsmen and casual workers to build the same village wall on the mountain pass path at the bottom of the ravine; The second righteous brother Menghuan took other carpenter casual workers, at the top of the V-shaped ravine, the right side of the cave mouth gave way to the cave entrance, piled to build a single-layer two-meter-five high log partition wall, and also connected with the mountain wall on both sides and opened two log doors, one is close to the entrance of the cave, and the other is close to the village wall in the direction of Xinshengtun, dividing the village into two parts, the ravine is a separate area, outside the ravine to the side of the Weisha River, including the cave mouth is another separate area, this side is the living area of craftsmen and boatmen, and the ravine is for hunters. Orphan Residence and Guardian Residence Training Area.

In this way, there is a closed separate training area of nearly five miles in the ravine, and there is also a craftsman's living area more than one mile wide and more than five miles long outside the ravine, and it is also close to the Weisha River, and the village wall in the direction of Xinshengtun is also here, so it is very convenient to travel by water.

After the explanation, Mengqi went to find the two blacksmiths, and assigned them two masons and a few boatmen, and went to the right side of the cave mouth more than ten meters to build a small iron-making blacksmith furnace, and several boatmen temporarily worked as small workers for them, transporting materials, river sand, iron tools, etc.

I dreamed of returning to the slow slope, and when I saw the freak Daqi, we chatted again, and knew the unique means and methods of raising and training eagles of the freak Daqi.

Daqi trains grasshopper eagles to set up twine nets from putting live bird bait on the mountain, and then begins to wait for the wild grasshopper eagle to hook, sometimes waiting for a long time or a day, so it is also called squatting eagle; After he lured and caught the wild grasshopper eagle, he first fixed the eagle on the eagle skeleton he made with other dead eagle bones, and did not let the grasshopper eagle sleep for a few days, so as to slowly wear out the original wildness of the grasshopper eagle, so this is also called "boiling eagle".

After that, he made a special bone whistle with the middle limb bones of other dead eagles, before feeding this grasshopper hawk every time he fed food, he had to blow the bone whistle first, and then he gave the eagle a bird or bird meat in his hand to eat, which is called "over the fist", there must be a bird or meat in the hand when the fist is passed, and must not be empty-handed, and must be given to the eagle to eat, if there is no time to give the eagle to eat, the eagle will think that it is deceived and will not believe it, and then blow the bone whistle to call the eagle to take food and eat, and the eagle will hesitate and not come. In the future, as long as it is before feeding, you must continue to whistle the eagle to make it a fixed habit, and then run the rope.

"Running rope" is to tie the grasshopper eagle claw with twine balls, and gradually put the line to blow the bone whistle over the fist, and let the farther and farther it is to develop the whistle that is, to form a habit of listening to the shouting, so that the grasshopper eagle will go there. After the beginning of the eagle "with a shaft, strangle the waist", the grasshopper eagle has a large amount of small food, strong hunger resistance, can not eat for many days after eating once, reduce food to control the grasshopper eagle fat, the bird meat fed to the grasshopper eagle tied to the twine ball, blow the bone whistle to let the grasshopper eagle to take the food, the grasshopper eagle eats the bird meat tied with twine, hanging in the body can not be digested, several times with the shaft to strangle the waist, the grasshopper eagle has already been hungry and scraped, but the muscles are strong, this is to let the grasshopper eagle "travel lightly", and then you can fly into the sky, search for birds in the sky, and quickly catch back......