Chapter 208 Building a House

Lorist was about to build a house for the winter, and in the morning he was about to go to the mountain barbarian boy named Ah Shu, who had already come by himself, and brought two magic sheepskins and a small bag of dried meat.

Ah Shu said apologetically, he didn't have any other possessions, and these two things were all he could take, hoping to help Lorist and Reddy survive the long winter.

Lorist thanked Ah Shu first, and then asked, he is going to build a house, after all, if he relies on this shack, he will freeze to death, I wonder if Ah Shu can help him borrow some tools?

Building a house? Ah Shu said very strangely, now that winter is only about 20 days away, is there any time? I think it took dozens of people more than two months to build the broken wooden house where the old man of the hunchback mountain lived, can you just do it?

Loris nodded, smiled and said, Don't forget, I'm the golden professor of architecture at Dawn College, and if I can't, no one will.

The mountain barbarians are relatively straightforward, so Ah Shu easily believed Lorlist's words. He nodded and said, "Okay, I'll ask the mountain master, and if she agrees, I'll bring you the tools."

Ah Shu came quickly, and he was happy to tell Lorist that the mountain lord had agreed to their request to build a house, but he would not send anyone to help them except to provide tools, but Ah Shu volunteered to take on the task of supervising them.

Lorist looked at the so-called tools for building a house that Ah Shu had brought, except for axes, shovels, hoes, and two rusty saws of different sizes, the rest of the sickles, rakes, and iron forks could only be regarded as farm tools. However, I heard Ah Shu say that the mountain barbarians do not have the habit of farming. The most I usually do is take care of the climbing vines that grow kudzu roots. These tools are all left over from a long time ago. Except for the one time he used to build the broken wooden house when he was a child, he usually threw it in the corner of the warehouse and no one paid attention to it.

If Lorlist's internal strength and Reddy's fighting spirit were still there, it would be easy to build a house that could survive the winter. However, now Lorist and Reddy can only be regarded as two strong ordinary people, and Lorlist's saber has also been lost, so now they can only make do with these broken tools.

Today is the first day, Lorist and Reddy lifted the broken shack together, and then drew a three-meter by five-meter square around the pit of the shack. The two began to dig in the soil. Ah Shu looked straight at it in a daze, he stopped Lorist and said, building such a big house, the space inside is so big, it will be very cold and not warm in winter, and the smaller the house, the warmer it will be......

Lorist smiled and said, no, the bigger the house he built, the warmer it is, and he will know when he builds it.

Ah Shu will be skeptical.

The next day, Lorist asked Ah Shu where there was clay, and in the morning he and Reddy picked up a lot of clay from the beach of a small river below the mountain, and in the afternoon mixed the clay with the dirt dug up yesterday. Mixed with strong tenacious vines and withered grass roots, he began to make mud bricks.

On the third and fourth days, Lorist and Reddy cut down more than fifty trees twenty or thirty centimeters wide in the distant woods under Ah Shu's supervision, and Ah Shu helped a lot in them. He got four pack horses to pull the felled trees into the stockade, which would have taken Lorist and Reddy two or three days to move on their own.

On the fifth and sixth days, Lorist and Reddy sawed the trees in half, and the barbarians in the stockade, young and old, gathered around to watch the excitement and discuss what kind of house the two stupid slaves were going to build.

On the seventh day, Lorist and Reddy set up the mud bricks, which were almost dry, around the large pit that had been dug up, and the mud bricks were glued with clay mortar between them. Then Lorist sharpened the trunks of the trees cut in half, and stuck them against the mud brick wall along the walls of the pit, and smashed the smooth side inwards into the ground below the pit, and soon filled the pit in a circle, and now from the inside of the pit it was all flat wooden walls, except for the entrance and exit holes, there were not even a single window.

Ah Shu was very strange and asked Lorist, why is there a layer of wooden wall inside the mud wall?

Lorist and Reddy were pouring clay into the cracks between tree trunks and mud-brick walls. He replied to Ah Shu that if there is only one layer of mud brick wall, it will freeze when winter comes, and the house will not be able to keep the heat.

Ah Shu nodded as if he didn't understand, and asked the second question, why is the top of the wall not flat, but the highest two sides in the middle slanted down?

Lorist drew a glybon directly on the ground and told Ah Shu that the roof should be so pointed that it would not be crushed by the heavy snow, so the walls also followed the roof.

Ah Shu then understood.

On the eighth to tenth days, Lorist was working on the roof, and the roofs on both sides were directly inclined to the ground, and from the side it was a triangular shape standing on the ground, and there was an empty piece in the middle of the front, which was sunk into the doorway in and out.

On the eleventh day, Lorist began to build the fire pit and the stove, the flue was pre-buried, but the problem with the fire pit was that there was no pit board on it, and the plank could not be laid directly, so he had to get something to separate the fire from the plank.

Lorist dismantled his robe, removing six thin pieces of steel from his chest, back, and shoulders, which were armor plates that increased the robe's defense. Lorist took two pieces of armor steel and asked Ah Shu to invite a Wule of the eight rings of the power of the mountain spirit, which is equivalent to a two-star swordsman with fighting spirit, and asked him to sharpen three bluestone slabs with a sword that are one meter long and eighty wide and one inch thick, and lay them on the fire pit, and then lay a long wooden board on top of it.

Lorist exchanged two pieces of armor steel for sixty catties of kudzu root and half a fan of mutton through Ah Shu, as well as a large clay pot. Because the old man of the hunchback mountain gave him a month's grain, the bag of mountain kudzu root was about to be eaten.

The last two pieces of armor were given to Ah Shu by Lorist to thank him for his help during this time. Ah Shu didn't want to go, and got a dagger for Lorist as a gift in return.

Lorist was busy for the next few days, making doors, sewing leather coats for Reddy, getting plenty of charcoal, carving two wooden bowls and spoons, and most importantly, getting food for the winter, and salt.

After Lorist's house was built, Ah Shu already respected Lorist as a celestial. He didn't expect it to be like this for ten days. What started out as a broken shack has become such a comfortable house as it is now. Especially the fire pit that took up half the room. He never thought he could start a fire under his bed. And he was amazed at how warm the whole house had become.

During the time when the house was being built, Lorist had already learned about the mountain barbarian tribe to which the Snow Mountain Lord belonged through Ah Shu's mouth. Ah Shu said that this mountain barbarian tribe was originally called the Nubike tribe, and Ah Shu and the lord of Baixue Mountain turned out to be from the Habi Baba tribe. A few years ago, the leader of the Habi Baba tribe went to Mount Smoore to participate in the twelve-year Kupavisen Festival, or the festival of the mountain gods, and was named the strong bassen, or regional ruler of the region, at the Bavis conference.

Upon his return, the leader of Habi Baba called himself Qiangbasen, and led his tribal warriors to conquer the other seven mountain barbarian tribes in this mountainous area. And the Nubiko tribe is also one of them. However, after the subjugation of the Nubiko tribe, Qiangbasen did not merge it into the Habibaba tribe like the other six tribes, but sent his favorite youngest daughter over as the leader of the Nubiko tribe, and divided this mountain range and the surrounding area into the territory of this mountain barbarian tribe, and also named his youngest daughter the lord of the White Snow Mountain, so the Nubiko tribe was also renamed the White Snow Tribe.

Ah Shu has been the playmate of the Lord of the White Snow Mountain since he was a child, so when the Lord of the White Snow Mountain came to this tribe, he also followed him as a guard entourage. Ah Shu told Lorist that there were now more than 1,300 people in the White Snow Tribe, and Lorist thought it was strange that he didn't see so many at all. During this time, he only saw the old men, women and children of the mountain barbarian tribe going out to collect wild fruits and vegetables, as well as chopping firewood, except for the more than 100 male mountain barbarians in the horse team who came back from the barbarian plains last time. I didn't see any other mountain barbarian men.

Ah Shu said that it was not strange, because about 400 people from the tribe of Wule and other male mountain barbarians had gone out to fight with the strong basen of the Habi Baba tribe. A year ago, Habi Baba's strong basen had a conflict with the strong basen of the mountain barbarian tribe in the adjacent area, and both wanted to annex each other's tribes and territories, so they went to war. The White Snow tribe also sent four hundred male mountain barbarians to follow them to fight, and they will return when the first snow falls this year.

Lorist suddenly realized, no wonder the vigorous development and construction of the family territory in the past two years, but not much harassment and invasion by the mountain barbarian tribes, only the year before the two mountains at the junction of the military village was besieged by a thousand mountain barbarians, but was rushed to the police by the archery battalion of Chosk and the garrison squadron of Pachko on both sides of the attack, and then there was no alarm of large-scale attacks by the mountain barbarians. In a hurry, the mountain barbarians changed the target of attack. At this moment, he really hoped that these mountain barbarian tribes would fight each other for a long time.

One of the funniest things that made Lorist feel funny was that Ah Shu told him that he didn't look at the barbarian girl of the White Snow Mountain, Golden-crowned Mountain, who said that Lorist was her first Flatland slave with status, in fact, it was the first time she had caught a Flatlander, and she didn't know what to do with Lorist and them now.

It wasn't that there were no slaves before, like the shack where Lorist and Reddy are staying now was used for slaves. But those slaves were mountain barbarians, and they stayed here for two or three months to gather and hunt together like everyone else, and then they quickly integrated into the tribe and became a member of the tribe.

And now Lorist and Reddy are both so-called flatlanders, and they can't be slaves like those mountain barbarian slaves who can integrate into the tribe after a while, except for the return of the Habi Baba Strongbasen army, the Snow Mountain Lord is ready to take Lorist and them to her Abba to show off, and they don't know what to do with Lorlist.

Moreover, winter is coming, and everyone of the Snow Tribe will enter the big cave to nest in winter, and as a flatland slave, it is impossible to enter the cave. Because of this, the Snow Mountain Lord was resigned to the fact that Lorist and the others were going to build a house, as long as they didn't run away. In fact, with Lorist and Reddy's bones, escaping is indeed a dead end.

If Lorist and Reddy weren't slaves, that Ah Shu would have been eager to move in with them. He told Lorist that the cave was actually a large karst cave with a large underground river. But for more than three months, the whole tribe was nested inside, and at first they couldn't feel it, but after more than a month, the smell inside was not to mention how bad it was.

Although the cave is a large cave with a small hole, and there are several ventilation holes, the stench excreted by more than 1,000 people and those horses and livestock will gradually spread to the entire cave, and the people who come out after winter are all stinky. Don't look at the hunchbacked mountain barbarian old man, who was not allowed to enter the cave because of his disability, he could only stay outside in a broken wooden house, responsible for guarding the slaves. I don't know how many people in the cave envy him.

Ah Shu pointed to the tattered shacks in the village and said. You see. Except for this shack area where slaves lived, the rest of the village was not much better than here, and it was better in summer and autumn, but when it rained in winter and spring, there was no way to stay in the cave. He hoped that after the winter, the Lord of the White Snow Mountain would give an order for Lorist to help the people in the tribe live in such a good house......

Lorist said that he would be excused, and as soon as Gonelli replied, he would return to the family territory, but he was not interested in staying here for a few years to help you build a house. But there was still a smile on his face. Ask Ah Shu how he can get enough food and salt for the winter.

Ah Shu said that you are slaves, so the tribe can't distribute the public reserve grain to you, and it is already very reluctant to give that bag of kudzu root a month, and you have to rely on yourself if you want more food. The best thing to do is to hunt, and the prey you catch is your own. As for the salt, there is a saltwater lake on the other side of the mountain, and there are a lot of salt blocks by the lake, and in two days the tribe will send a horse team to go there, and I will ask someone to get you a large one.

It turns out that being a slave is self-reliant, but what Lorist didn't expect was that being a slave of the mountain barbarians was much happier than being a lord of the lord. He became a slave of the barbarians, and the prey he caught was his own. At least half of the prey captured by the lords of the lord goes to the lord, and some are three-quarters. Four out of five. It's like if you kill a wild boar, and finally the lord comes to collect the tax, and you carry a pig's head home at most.

I wonder how many people will come running and crying and shouting to be slaves of the mountain barbarians as soon as such a thing comes out...... Lorist shook his head, shaking out all the ridiculous thoughts that had come to his mind. To be a slave is to have the consciousness of a slave, and he is a so-called flatland person, and it is impossible to be too far away, and it is impossible to hold a weapon. The big prey in this neighborhood is long gone, and all I can catch is small animals like hares and pheasants.

You don't need a weapon to catch hares and pheasants, and Lorist can put them in a trap, which is also a practical survival trick learned as a mercenary. Dozens of sets were made out of thin vines and cut strips of parchment, arranged overnight under the bushes and in the grass, and by the next day they had a good harvest, catching three pheasants and four hares. Winter is coming, and all these prey are fat, and Lorist is very happy, and according to today's harvest, the winter grain reserve will soon be available.

I exchanged a pheasant and a hare with the hunchbacked mountain barbarian old man for a bag of about fifty catties of mountain kudzu, exchanged two hares for a magic sheepskin, gave Ah Shu a pheasant, cooked a pheasant at night, and smoked the rest of the hare to make winter food.

After one night I went to see the covers again, and caught two pheasants and three night rabbits, this time with a pheasant and a hare in exchange for a wooden bucket of water, and soon the daily necessities in the small house were also ready.

Ah Shu was surprised, so Lorist taught him how to put on the sleeve step by step. It's just that what I didn't expect was that Ah Shu learned to play the sleeve, and all the mountain savage children learned the skill of the sleeve. Two days later, when Lorist went to inspect the place where the nest was built, he found that all the bushes and grasses were densely packed with covers, which was simply frustrating, and how could those pheasants and hares still settle down?

Looking at Ah Shu's innocent look, Lorist was angry. With pheasants and hares gone, Lorist made his mind to the creek below the mountain.

The mountain barbarians rarely eat river fish, one is that they have no nets, the second is that they can't fish, the third is that there are many river fish spines, and the fourth is that they only use spears and guns to pierce fish, or to tie big fish, but they rarely succeed.

Lorist didn't have a net or fishing gear, but that didn't stop him from using his brain. It took a day for Reddy to dig a big hole in the river beach and dig a deep ditch to connect with the river. The next day, a long wooden raft was woven into a small river with branches, and then the raft was turned around to drive the fish in the river into the big pit, and finally the small ditch was blocked and the water in the big pit was drained, and as a result, more than a hundred fish were caught at once, including about 20 large fish half a meter long.

The harvest was very good, and one night Lorist was ready to make persistent efforts, and was pulling the wooden raft in the creek with Reddy, when he saw the barbarian girl of the Golden Crown Mountain, the lord of the White Snow Mountain, come to the creek with a group of followers, and said to the two of them, "Come up, and I will take you to see my Abba." ”

...... (To be continued.) )