Chapter Twenty-Three: Camps, Houses, and Earthen Kangs
Yingyi spent some thought and time to find a place, which is a relatively empty flat land on a nearby mountain, not far from Heishui, and there is a small fruit forest nearby.
Ying Yi saw that the brute dragon and blue star had not come back yet, so he took a large army and went there to prepare first.
Looking at the surrounding clearing, there were still a lot of weeds growing there, and Ying Yi first asked Uncle Lao Shan to collect the blades and feet of those silver-backed centipedes that were issued to the young and middle-aged people in the crowd on the road. Uncle Lao Shan collected all of them according to Yingyi's instructions, and there were more than ten left, and there were many gaps on them.
Yingyi asked Uncle Lao Shan to distribute them to the elderly and children with weak mobility, and asked them to harvest all these yellowed weeds and put them aside. And let them take turns resting, taking care of the babies by the way.
"Uncle Shan, give me a handle, give me a handle, and I will also help everyone. Xiao Ling'er and a few children shouted unrelentingly beside Uncle Shan. Now Xiao Ling'er, who treats people kindly, not only plays with the previous children, but the new children are also quickly attracted to her, and she is deeply loved by the blue stars in the team, becoming a veritable child king in the team.
Uncle Lao Shan took one to her and gently instructed her to be careful not to cut herself and hurt others. The little girl kept nodding, and after taking it, she took a few friends and went to work seriously.
The brute dragon and Lan Xing also came back at this time, and told Ying Yi that he and Lan Xing had all reconnoitred around here, and there were only some ordinary fierce beasts, and no miscellaneous beasts and other special dangers were found.
He asked the brute dragon to lead most of the young adults to cut down trees in the mountains and forests, and asked the old mountain uncle to cut down the trees and build a simple camp fence on this vacant land. Then arrange for the Blue Star to be sentry around here.
After arranging everyone, Ying Yi took a dozen young men who looked more clever on the road and walked towards a remote place.
Before Ying Yi led everyone here, he thought that the current fight in the Great Wilderness was a wooden house, which was relatively easy to build, but the ice season was coming, this kind of house was not resistant to cold, and with their current material reserves, they could not lead everyone through the entire ice season.
Yingyi thought of adobe bricks, whose real name is clay bricks, also known as sintered bricks, which are made of clay (including shale, gangue and other powders) as the main raw material, and are made of mud treatment, molding, drying and roasting, with solid and hollow differences. And what Yingyi wants to lead everyone to do is solid clay bricks.
Found a place not far from the camp, Ying Yi began to command everyone to work, first under the arrangement of Ying Yi, made some simple wooden tools for everyone, and then asked everyone to pack up some dry firewood, Ying Yi sighed in his heart, I don't know if there is coal in this wilderness, if there is coal, dry firewood, the burning temperature, far from enough. However, Yingyi has no choice but to increase the amount of dry firewood. However, Yingyi just wanted to burn some simple adobe bricks and make some adobe kang at this time. So that they can survive the winter.
Everyone began to get busy, looking hot, looking at this scene, everyone showed a happy smile on their faces, they were about to have their own home.
Yingyi's eyes looked at the people who were busy like ants, and sighed slightly in his heart.
"What a waste to be done!"
However, they had to build the fence outside the houses and the tribe's camp in the shortest possible time, which was almost impossible under normal times, but these were things they had to accomplish.
"Brother, brother, Uncle Lao Shan asked us to bring you water to drink, come brother, this is for you to drink. ”
Xiao Ling'er and a few little guys held water in their hands, and the little girl quickly found Ying Yi in the crowd and handed him the water in her hand. The little ones also handed the water in their hands to the people present.
Ying Yi stretched out his hand to take the water from the little girl's hand, at this time he and everyone were all muddy, this is after several failures, Ying Yi led everyone to reallocate the raw materials for firing adobe bricks, this is the only way for them to live.
The little girl watched Ying Yi take a sip of water, and got busy again, and she was unwilling to get involved, Ying Yi didn't want her to become a mud monkey, so she sent her a few words, and the little girl also knew that he was very busy now, so she left sensibly.
Time is constantly flowing, everyone spends every day in full swing, and the venue is getting bigger and bigger.
Fifteen days later.
First of all, there is an additional fence surrounded by dense tree stumps around the site, which is the result of a group of men working day and night under the leadership of the brute dragon.
There are also several large simple wooden houses, which were first built for everyone to live in under the instructions of Ying Yi, and there are some small wooden houses under construction next to the large wooden houses.
At this time, Ying Yi was discussing with the brute dragon, Uncle Lao Shan, and a sturdy young man, it was about to enter the ice season, and the house was almost built, that is, the adobe bricks had not yet been fired, but the time was not enough, Ying Yi decided to arrange sacrifices immediately after the house was built, and it was time for the tribe to be established.
"In the past few days, you have worked hard with brute teeth to build all the houses early, Uncle Shan, I also want to trouble you to let the big guy harvest more and dry the thatch. Ying Yi instructed.
"Okay, big brother, I and I will work hard every day. ”
"Wu, I'll step up a little bit with Brother Manlong, big guy"
"Young Witch, I will. ”
Manlong, Uncle Laoshan, a sturdy boy is also a brute, this is a teenager found by Manlong in the team, he works hard, and he also has a handful of strength, of course, much worse than Manlong and Win. is very compatible with the brute dragon, and Ying Yi also gave him a name called brute fang. Usually when the brute dragon wants to leave, he is letting him lead everyone to work.
Now that Ying Yi is in the team, the three old men who were with him all the way before call him Shaowu. The people who joined later called him Wu and wanted to be a dragon, and Xiao Ling'er called him eldest brother and elder brother......
"Alas, alas, the adobe has not worked out yet. Ying Yi sighed in his heart, if the adobe can be successful, then everyone's ability to survive this ice season will be greatly improved.
"Wu, Wu, we succeeded, we succeeded!" an old man ran over excitedly with something and danced at Ying Yi.
"Really?Mu Lao, the adobe bricks have been fired, right?" Ying Yi looked at the old man in front of him at this time, and asked with some excitement. The old man in front of him is called Mu, he is the patriarch of the scattered tribe that the barbarian dragon met before, Ying Yi generally calls him Mu Lao, and he gave Ying Yi a lot of help in the process of firing adobe bricks, and he was the person in charge of firing adobe bricks when Win Yi was not there.
"Really, Wu, look" Mu Lao handed the thing he was holding in his hand to Ying Yi to see, it was a rectangular clod of soil that looked like there was a little dry on the surface, and Ying Yi reached out and took it.
"Well, it's a little heavy, and it looks very rough, how is the quality of Mu Lao?" asked Ying Yi.
"Wu, you can try," Mu Lao replied from the side.
Yingyi smashed the adobe brick in his hand to the ground, but it was not broken, and then it was broken four or five times. Ying Yi and everyone on the side laughed happily at this time, and everyone understood the importance of adobe. Ying Yi laughed.
"Haha, it's really hard for you, it's good to do this. ”
"There, there, everybody's been busy lately. Mu Lao waved his hand and said to Yingyi.
"Well, how about the yield of this adobe brick?" Ying Yi hurriedly asked Mu Lao Dao. This is very important, you must know that they don't have much time left, and everyone is also looking at Mu Lao.
"Wu, we have mastered the method of firing adobe bricks, there should be no big problem, but the consumption of firewood is very large. Mu Lao thought for a while and said.
"That's good, Chai, I'll let the brute dragon solve it for you. Ying Yi breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and the brute dragon also agreed on the side. Ying Yi instructed on the side, let Mu Lao and them produce a batch of adobe bricks first, he will use it tomorrow, Mu Lao agreed with a smile, and then said goodbye and left.
The next day, someone came to move the adobe bricks produced by Mu Lao, Xiao Ling'er and other little guys had never seen such a novelty, and then volunteered to join the team of moving bricks.
Yingyi found a room, chose a place, and began to pile up the soil pit, because it really could not find a good binder, only the semi-finished clay in the process of firing the adobe bricks could be used, and it took a while for a while to appear in the room.
At this time, in the room, Manlong, Uncle Laoshan, Mu Lao, Manya and others all wanted to come and see what kind of kang that Yingyi said could survive the ice season? For a while, everyone in the house looked at the kang in front of them curiously.
Yingyi put the cover and found someone to bring a lot of thatch and dry firewood. After the thatch is laid, the dry firewood is put into the earthen kang and lit...... Everyone looked at Yingyi's busy figure curiously.
After preparing everything, Ying Yi lay down, well, it was hot, and Ying Yi stood up happily.
"Haha, haha, we succeeded, we succeeded" Ying Yi shouted happily. Everyone looked at the excited Ying Yi, and then looked at the soil kang behind Ying Yi, as if they had been scratched by a cat's paws.
The little girl was the most clever, her eyes turned around, she ran to the side of the kang, climbed up, and learned to lie down like winning.
"Well, it's so warm, my back is hot," the little girl shouted excitedly running beside Yingyi.
"With this, Xiao Ling'er will not be cold in the ice season. Ying Yi touched Xiao Ling'er's head and said.
Looking at everyone's eager eyes, Ying Yi smiled, got out of the way, and walked out.
"Well, the weather is so nice today!"