Chapter 18 Housing Success
After the test, the results were unexpectedly good, as long as you stand on it without falling and stand firm, this scaffold will not fall down by itself, Cheng Ran and Li Yuxin stood on it during the test, and found that the overall structure is still very stable.
It was already very late to finish the scaffolding, and the main time was to cut down the trees, and the fixed time was very short.
When they got up the next morning, the two of them began to build the house, after all, they were always frightened to live in the shelter every day, and then they worked hard until near dusk, and finally built under the triangular structure, if it were not for the problems of the beams of the windows and doors, the progress would have been a few points faster.
Cheng Ran couldn't find a suitable wood for a while, so he could only cut down three trees temporarily, and then divide them into six pieces, with a length of about one meter and two and a thickness of about ten centimeters.
At the same time as Cheng Ran cut down the trees, he also found six trees that looked relatively straight, and at the same time cut them down and trimmed them, these six trees were all about five meters high, Cheng Ran only left a distance of about three meters, and then trimmed the six trunks until the trunks were cut to almost the same diameter. In order to minimize the error, they all made marks from the first place, and it took Cheng Ran an afternoon to process these six trunks.
In the evening, after dinner, the two of them hurriedly fell asleep, the work intensity of the day was too high, and the physical strength was more consumed than before.
The next morning, after a short period of dawn, Cheng Ran quietly got up, crept outside, and was relieved to see Li Yuxin, who was still asleep.
Cheng Ran began to build it secretly, and last night he couldn't help but feel distressed when he saw Li Yuxin's white and tender hands being red and swollen by the bricks.
With the help of scaffolding and Li Yuxin's halfway in, the work on the two triangles did not take long, and in less than three hours, the two of them built the walls on both sides, and all that was left was to put the beams on top and then cover them with tiles.
Since there were no tools to lift, the two had to put the beam on the scaffolding first, and then to the bottom of the beam, and finally the two sat on the triangular walls on both sides, moving up little by little.
These six beams tossed the two of them enough, tossing back and forth six times for almost three and a half hours, the two felt that they had never done such a tiring job in their lives, and after putting these six beams, the two of them lay on the ground and did not move to rest.
After the two rested for an hour, they began to prepare the work of laying tiles, and since there were no nails, Cheng Ran could only use the hemp rope prepared in advance to be dried and braided with rattan skin.
He picked up a tile and a straight branch with a diameter of five centimeters, and put a bundle of hemp rope around the neck of a stone axe around his waist, and went up to start the work of building a scaffold.
First, put the branches and tiles on the beam to measure, find a suitable position, and then use a stone axe to cut out the mark, after the tiles are placed, start to trim the branches, cut out a little groove at the bottom of the position in contact with the beam, and cut out a gap in the place where it is in contact with the hemp rope, so as to prevent the hemp rope from lifting the tiles and leaking, in order to prevent the tiles from slipping off naturally, the place of the eaves at the bottom is connected with a small wooden stick.
It was fixed section by section, and it took three hours to fix it unconsciously, Cheng Ran felt that there was still some time to start the last step of the roof work to lay tiles, Cheng Ran first paved from the two sides of the semicircle towards the house, and began the second paving after paving one side, this side was a semicircle to the roof paving, so that after paving the two sides, the work of connecting the part was started, first using dry weeds to lay inside, and then pouring some clay slurry on it to play some role in supporting and fixing.
The whole house is about three meters long, the width and height are about two meters five, facing the sea left a door and window, and a window is placed in the back, after doing this, it is already dark, and there is no way to do the doors and windows, so I can only keep it for tomorrow to do it, and the house is basically completed, so I am not in a hurry to do it.
Looking at the basically completed house, the two couldn't help but laugh happily, this was the first nest for the two on the island.
After dinner, the two of them were excited for a while, and neither of them fell asleep.
Li Yuxin smiled lightly and said, "Look at you, but you are becoming more and more like a wild man." ”
"What do you call it, I'm okay." Cheng Ran continued to talk and said self-deprecatingly: "You see me with an unkempt beard, I guess if I let people who have just arrived on the island see me, maybe they think that I am a native living on this island." ”
It's been almost a month since the two of them came to this island, and in this month, Mileage Ran didn't care much about his image at all, the key is that it's useless for him to think about it, he doesn't even have the blade of a basic razor, and cutting his hair and shaving his beard is a luxury for Cheng Ran.
The hair has also grown like a bird's nest, not to mention the beard, and the whole body is tanned and swarthy, Cheng Ran is right, this image is just like the natives living on the island.
In contrast, Li Yuxin's situation is much better, women don't grow beards in the first place, so she doesn't have the trouble of shaving at all, the most important trouble comes from her long hair, because she can't care and maintain it as often as before, coupled with the lack of various nutrients in the island life, the hair becomes dry and the ends of the hair begin to split ends.
As for the skin, Li Yuxin has been sick some time ago, according to Cheng Ran's requirements, she has basically stayed in the shelter all the time, and she is protected by clothes, compared to Cheng Ran, she has been kept very white.
After Cheng Ran said this, Li Yuxin noticed this problem, so she held her chin with one hand, and involuntarily looked back and forth on Cheng Ran's body.
Cheng Ran, who was looked at unnaturally, suddenly covered his chest with his hands and asked nervously, "Hey...... What do you want. ”
Li Yuxin couldn't hold back for a while, burst out laughing, and said sarcastically: "What are you doing with your chest, do you have it." He puffed up his chest as he spoke.