Chapter 506: Mountains and Rivers
After having iron ore and coal, the next step is to burn bricks and iron, and to burn bricks, you need clay, because the lemur tribe where Su San is now located is in the sandy and muddy land zone and there is no pure clay, so he has to go to the nearby surrounding areas to find it, left and right......
Three days later, I finally found a relatively pure clay in the northeast more than ten miles of road, and I planned to dig some of the clay here and transport it back to make adobe bricks with a back basket.
How can there be a cave to live in, building a grass and wood house needs a lot of wood and hay, which has to go to the forest to cut down, to carry, to build, not to mention that there is no glass, the window is not easy to get, if it is a hole, it is much simpler, only need to dig down the soil with a basket to transport it out, it is too convenient, and living in the cave is also "warm in winter and cool in summer", not afraid of wind and rain, not afraid of snow and ice, not afraid of mountain fire, there are many benefits.
However, there are two things that are not good about living in a cave, one is that the light is not good; Second, it is relatively humid.
In order to solve the problem of "bad light", Su San thought that he could take the "cave" method, don't dig too deep, just ten meters, but must dig wide and high, five or six meters wide and three meters high, and dig a window on the left and right sides of the door of the hole, so as to ensure that the hole is full of light.
On a rainy day or when it is cold, build a stove in the cave and burn coal or charcoal to evaporate the damp air in the cave.
In addition, Su San also found yellow, yellow, white and white limestone nearby, which can be used to burn quicklime and brush the walls, so that after the four walls of the cave and the roof of the cave are painted with a layer of quicklime, the cave will definitely look brighter and cleaner.
Thinking of this, Su San couldn't help but be overjoyed, eager to try, he felt that he should go back and persuade the queen to move the entire tribe here, dig caves here, settle down and live, so that the lemurs, which are still pure animals, can become "primitive humans" and live a "happy life" of primitive humans.
Yes, just do it, Su San immediately ran away, and told his thoughts to the lemur queen "Tang Xin", and also encouraged his "three-inch tongue" to persuade her that it is good to live in a "cave" here, and even prolong her life, if you feel unaccustomed, you can move back to live, anyway, this place is very close to the original residence of the tribe, only less than half a day's journey.
When the queen "Tang Xin" heard this, she was very moved, and she was about to come to see Su San, but Su San said that it was okay to come and see, but the "cave" had not been built for the time being, so please be calm and wait patiently for a few months, which made the queen have a feeling of "suddenly soaring through the clouds and fog, and falling into the deep valley all of a sudden", and rolled her eyes at Su San very dissatisfied, and it was not easy to scold him, who called himself not to hear clearly, and he was so anxious.
Su San pretended not to see the Queen's "fluctuating" emotions and continued to ask the Queen for labor, saying that in order to ensure the smooth completion of the project, he now needed about 200 monkeys to work for him.
In order to live a "good life" like Su San said, the queen frowned without frowning, and agreed, just like that, Su San took these two hundred monkeys, carrying coal and iron ore in a basket, to the place with good clay, and began his plan of "building a large number of buildings".
Suddenly, he thought that he had forgotten a very important thing, that is, to live in a "cave" like primitive humans, he needed to have a nearby place with a water source, in other words, he now needed to find a good place for the queen to "nestle by the mountains and rivers", as a new "home" for the future monkey tribe, and not just find a place to dig a hole to live, after all, monkeys are also animals, and they need to drink water just like people.
After thinking about this, Su San immediately ordered the lemur who carried the ore to put the back basket on the ground along with the ore in the back basket, leaving about twenty monkeys to guard things, and then formed six reconnaissance teams, each team composed of twenty monkeys, scattered in all directions, to look for water sources nearby, and when there was news, they came back immediately to report.
Su San himself led the remaining sixty monkeys to hunt nearby, prepare food for everyone, and after everyone triumphed, hold a "barbecue event" to treat everyone.
At dusk, two of the six reconnaissance teams that went to find the water source found the water source, one water source was more than thirty miles from here in the southeast, and the other water source was more than forty miles away from this place in the northeast, the former did not have very pure clay, while the latter had very pure clay, but the latter was occupied by a group of seventy or eighty capuchin monkey tribes.
It seems that tomorrow we will go to a place more than 40 miles to the north-east to make a careful investigation, and first see if we can settle the question of territorial disputes by peaceful means.
Early the next morning, Su San left fifty lemurs to take care of the iron ore and coal ore that was not easy to collect, and took the remaining one hundred and fifty lemurs to the ideal place where he fell in love with "mountains and rivers", and when he was about to approach the destination, he happened to pass by a forest, and happened to find that the trees in this forest were tall and straight, with few branches and very straight branches, and there were not many leaves, which were very suitable for making wooden sticks, used as a weapon in your hand in case of emergency.
Subsequently, Su San led this army of lemurs composed of wooden sticks to the edge of a large waterhole (or 'small lake'), but unexpectedly, they were greeted by a group of capuchin monkeys with pebbles in their hands, but the other party was all standing on the other side of the big waterhole, and Su San and they were on the side of the big waterhole.
Since Su San and the others are just a flat land overgrown with trees and weeds, while behind the other party is a big mountain, and this mountain happens to be rich in clay, which is very suitable for digging holes at the foot of the mountain or on the slope, that is to say, even if Su San and they occupy this side of this big pool, it is meaningless, and they must attack the other side.
It seems that the group of capuchin monkeys on the other side of the waterhole have regarded Su San and them as unwelcome "invaders", if they swim over directly, the other party may attack the lemurs led by Su San before they have time to go ashore, which will definitely cause large casualties to Su San and them.
Thinking of this, Su San secretly had a plan in his heart, so he immediately ordered the whole army to retreat for five miles, until both sides could not see each other, and then stopped completely.
Then, camp on the spot, station the troops, pick wild fruits on the spot to satisfy their hunger, do not hunt, do not light fires for barbecue, and do not let the enemy detect their movements.
After eating the wild fruit, in addition to leaving the three lemurs to stand guard, Su San forcibly asked the rest of the lemurs to rest and sleep on the spot, and after recuperating their spirits, they prepared to lead their subordinates to bypass the side of the waterhole after dark and sneak attack the capuchin monkey's nest.