Volume 2: The Loose World Chapter 106: Re-examination (8) Building a House and Going Out

Half a day later, two young men who had just reached adulthood, one carrying an elk half the size of his head, rushed back to the tribe, and the warriors of the tribe all carried prey, wild beasts, fierce beasts, and three brute bighorn deer.

Yeyang also carried the colorful tiger, the big tiger was originally lurking around the deer, and saw the tribe besieging the deer, ready to snatch the tribe's prey, but he was discovered in time, holding a spear and piercing the belly.

One person and one tiger fought for a long time, and finally because of excessive blood loss, the big tiger could not dodge in time, and he smashed the skull and became his prey.

The gathering team also rushed back at this time, there was no fruit to pick in the growing season, the basket was full of plant roots, and there were also a few dried fruits remaining on the branches, and the two teams met by the stream and returned to the tribe together.

In the next few days, the gathering team and the hunting team went out early and returned late, all preparing for the sacrifice, and successively attacked a dozen brute beasts, and the leader joined forces with several flesh and blood warriors, and even hunted a fierce mammoth.

Soon it was time for the sacrifice, and the leader took the fierce mammoth, the barbarian big-horned deer, the saber-toothed tiger, the four-toothed dolphin, and so on, and placed them around the tree, and poured the collected animal blood on the trunk of the tree.

In addition to these, the sacrifices included clay jars, clay pots, clay bowls, clay pots, boiled water and salt, clothes, hats, gloves, new weapons such as leather armor and shields, as well as herbs, spices, and collected food.

A bonfire was lit under the tree, around which the clansmen performed primitive dances and worshiped the tree, and six adult men came out in a row, and the leader painted patterns on their faces with the blood of the beast mixed with the sap of plants.

In front of the tree, their names were read aloud, and several people offered their fruits, a few dead prey, a few basket plant rhizomes, and worshiped the tree again, and the clansmen cheered.

The others left, but Yeyang was left behind, and the leader took out a variety of utensils and tools he had made, and some of the clansmen handed him a fiber cloth coat, draped it over his body, held his hand, and shouted, "Fire!

"Fire, fire!" The clansmen shouted, their faces red, the leader smiled and patted him on the shoulder, he instantly understood, from today on, he was also the top of the tribe, and he held the authority of the tribe.

After the simple sacrifice, the tribesmen disposed of the prey on the spot, began to bake and boil under the tree, and Yeyang took the fire, lit the pyre in front of him, put a slightly concave pottery plate, poured the ointment in the jar, and fried the meat.

Looking at the happy scene of the tribe and the lush trees not far away, in a trance, he felt that something seemed to be waking up quietly in the depths of his body, and the tender grass at his feet broke through the soil......

The raw materials and utensils for building houses have already been prepared almost, the clay, gravel and lime of Sanhe soil have found a source, and there are marble mines in the mountains behind the tribe, which are usually raw materials for weapons and can be used to lay foundations.

Taking advantage of the cold season, the wood for the roof and the beams was fine, so they cut a lot in the surrounding jungle and piled them up on a hill, and built a brick kiln and tile kiln for refining terracotta tiles and green bricks, and prepared nearly 10,000 bricks and tiles.

He also hurried to make the wheelbarrows, flat poles, and baskets for transportation, and taught them to the special craftsmen he had trained, so that they could imitate them in batches.

The only remaining problem is that there are not enough people, the tribe has more than 200 people, excluding the old people and young children, even if you add the teenagers, there are only 130 people, the hunting team needs people, the gathering team needs people, and the tools need people.

Guarding the tribe needs people, taking care of children needs people, fishing needs people, idle manpower, no more than twenty people, transporting, carrying, passing, building, these people are obviously not enough, I don't know if it is built well.

For this reason, Yeyang discussed with the leader for a long time, explained to him the various advantages of the house, the various inconveniences of the cave, looked at the children who were fighting, and looked at the pregnant woman with a big belly, and finally nodded in agreement.

The hunting team was cut to twenty people, leaving only the elite warriors, and the gathering team was cut to thirty people, guarded by four warriors, leaving many inefficient people in the tribe and handing them over to the night sun.

In the eyes of the tribesmen, hunting and gathering must be more interesting than building houses, and they are not willing to stay in the tribe, so there is no way, the leader can only hold a competition, let the tribesmen compete for the results of hunting, and the few people will stay.

The gathering captain also followed the study, eliminated those with low gathering ability, and competed in the growing season and dry season every year, such a tradition is the prototype of spring hunting and autumn hunting, which gradually became grand with the evolution of time.

In the gentle mountainside, the land has been leveled to make several platforms, and the soldiers have carried boulders to smash the ground firmly to ensure that it will not collapse.

Since you want to build it by hand, you will naturally build the best, save yourself from changing it in the future, waste manpower, build the foundation with limestone, pile it with large green bricks, build a frame with wood, and cap it with green tiles at the top.

In the middle, it is joined with triple soil, and it is prepared to build four collective dormitories first, one is 20 zhang long, 10 zhang wide, and 2 zhang high, and the main beam in the middle is the highest, gradually inclined to both sides, so as to facilitate rich rainfall and drainage.

In a large house, twenty compartments were divided, ten in each row on the left and right, each two zhang wide and four zhang long, and the rest of the place in the middle was used as a passage, one can live five people, and one house can live a hundred people.

The walls on the outermost four sides are expected to be three feet thick, and the walls of the house in the middle can be slightly thinner, about one foot or so, and there are large windows on both sides of the passage, and there are doors inside the compartments, and only windows on the outside.

Descending from the cave and the tree, there are two platforms on the left and right, which are the planned residential buildings, four houses, and two compartments at the very edge, which are used as toilets on one side and bathrooms on the other.

A large manure tank was dug on both sides, and the middle two rooms were not inhabited, ready to be used as a room, the house was huge, the planning was complicated, and the manpower needed was also very large, and the manpower was not enough, so it could only be made up in time.

Primitive people did not have the concept of a house, Yeyang had to explain it in great detail, sometimes the same thing, repeated four or five times to understand, at the beginning of staring all the time, hand in hand teaching, it really took a lot of effort.

As the main builder of the house, although the hunting strength passed, the leader did not let him follow, and concentrated on the construction of the house, and the construction of the first house was basically presided over by himself, and he had no time to do other things.

It took eight months to lay the foundation, build the frame, fill the materials, and seal the roof, and stayed in the tribe to guide them, and from spring to autumn, they had to stop their work and start to store food for the winter.

Trapped in the tribe for almost a year, Yeyang finally ushered in the opportunity to go out, followed the team to hunt a few times, and also followed the gathering team to guard, every time he went out and came back, he could always bring some novelties.

There are Panax notoginseng that dissolves blood stasis and stops bleeding, Coptis chinensis that clears heat and detoxifies, Dadala which can relieve heatstroke, Banlan root that can cure wind and cold, Atractylodes macrocephalus that can stabilize the fetus and replenish blood, purslane that can reduce inflammation, croton that helps excretion, and Pueraria lobata that treats diarrhea......

There are also many edible plants that expand the tribe's collection: crisp and sweet sweet potatoes, sugarcane, and starchy peanuts are all transplanted by him to the medicine garden on the top of the mountain, where they are carefully cultivated.

On top of that, during a hunt, he stumbled upon a birch forest with thick, tight bark and waterproof, which could be used to make wooden barrels, sew shoe soles, and even record writing.

In the birch forest, he found a few mutated lacquer trees, which could be used to protect bows and arrows, and reminded him of the horns of the ox that he had been so busy forgetting after he bought them, and thought that when the time was over, he would definitely make bows and arrows.

In the cold winter, everything was frozen in ice, and the moist Sanhe soil was quickly frozen into ice by the cold, and the houses could not be built, and Yeyang, who had nothing to do, began to make boots and buckets and handed them over to the craftsmen of the tribe.

And use birch bark to draw and carve the topographic map of the tribe, and at the same time, teach a small amount of relatively simple words to the tribesmen, not asking them how much they can understand, but just for the future development, to make the corresponding paving.

In the primitive society, there are not enough defense tools, the bow and arrow have absolute power, can improve the combat ability of the tribe the fastest, a superb bow, inseparable from six kinds of materials: dry, horn, tendon, glue, silk, lacquer.

The best dry wood is Tuomu, followed by sandalwood, but the tribe has not found it for the time being, so it can only be cut with bamboo and wood, and the bamboo with straight and thick walls is cut down, and the horns are the two pairs of horns exchanged at the trade fair last year.

In order to find good quality tendons, when he was hunting, he specially hunted the four-horned antelope that was good at running and jumping.

The silk really didn't find it, but you can use plant fibers, barely use it, and the lacquer tree that he just found was written down on the map, and it can be used at any time, and the quality of the lacquer is quite good.

Analyze the dry wood in winter, boil the corners in the spring, treat the tendons in the summer, and then use glue, lacquer, and silk to combine the dry, horns, and tendons in the autumn, fix the bow body in the cold season, and check whether the paint lines are peeled off when it is frozen in the middle of winter.

It is easier to manage in winter, easier to make the horns flexible in spring, not disordered in summer, strong and tight in autumn, and no longer deformed when the string is fixed in the cold season in winter.

During the birth season, Yeyang went to the Fire Tribe again, mainly because last year he agreed with the tribe that traded horns, and this year he needed more horns to exchange, and no cattle were found around the tribe, so he could only rely on the fair.

Today's sacrifice, five more people have reached adulthood, Yeyang feels that the strength in the depths of his body has shown signs of growth, the hunting of the birth season has made up for the emptiness, and most of the clansmen have begun to build houses again.

It took three months for the corners to be smoothed and polished, and the interior was divided and built, and the house was really completed, the walls were painted with hydrated lime, and the doors and windows, stoves, and beds of the compartments were basically completed, just waiting for time to settle.