Paving a road, like building a house, is not easy.

First of all, the bottom layer should be treated before paving, and the ground should not be soft and wet.

Fortunately, the weather has been good recently, and the loess surface is very dry, so there is no need to do hardening treatments such as drainage and drainage, so Ye Xi just sent someone to beat the road surface again to confirm that there are no small holes under the ground, and the paved road surface will not collapse in the future.

Then Ye Xi sent people to bring a large amount of gravel and spread it evenly on the road.

He wanted to build a few main cement roads, and the cement could not come into direct contact with the dirt, so it had to be leveled with gravel first. Fortunately, the mountains behind Xicheng were full of gravel, so this step was very easy to complete, and it only took half a day to transport all the gravel and pave it.

After laying the gravel, the next step is to pour the cement.

In order to make the finished cement pavement smooth, Ye Xi used stone slabs on the edge of the pavement to install molds, and isolated them in blocks, with an area of about 20 square meters, so that the cement was poured in turn.

At this time, the cement was still as soft and collapsed as thin mud, and the lumps were bulging one by one, Ye Xi asked everyone to use long wooden strips to push the cement to the side, and finally, the ground became as smooth as the water surface.

The day after the first section of the concrete road was poured and hardened, it rained lightly for two days in a row.

Ye Xi is not worried, but happy, because he knows that it is not harmful to sprinkle more water on the cement road that has just been poured, which can prevent cracks on the cement road and improve the life of the cement road.

The cement is mainly used to pave several sections of the main road in Xicheng, and after the main road is repaired, Ye Xi plans to lay stone bricks in other places.

When it rained lightly in those two days, Ye Xi led everyone to mine and polish the stone, and after the rain stopped on the third day, first evenly spread a layer of lime cushion mixed with cooked lime and clay on the road surface, after leveling, mix the cement mortar, pave the mortar, and finally use the polished stone bricks to pave the cement pavement.

The stone bricks used to pave the road are no longer bluestone, but a rock from the mountains behind Xicheng.

This rock is light gray in color, with a faint, natural texture like ice cracks, and it is natural and beautiful when paved on the ground, without losing its quaint atmosphere.

Its texture is not as smooth as that of bluestone, and it is slightly rough, but this is an advantage, so that you will not slip even if you step barefoot on the floor tiles on rainy days in the future.

The paving process is slow.

As winter approached, there were fewer and fewer sunny days, and it rained for two out of three days, so work was often suspended.

After the ground around the stone houses in Xicheng was poured with cement and paved with stone bricks, it was already a month later, and the temperature at this time dropped to about three or four degrees, and everyone was wearing thick animal skin clothing.

Taking advantage of the last bit of time before the arrival of winter, Ye Xi led people into the mountains to shovel the turf again.

He planned to pave all the ground around the stone houses in Xicheng, that is, in the residential area, with stone bricks, while the rest of Xicheng would be covered with turf and turned into green space.

The turf is carefully selected by Ye Xi in the forest, the grass is so soft that lying on it feels like lying on a flannel, and it grows slowly, which saves a lot of time for mowing the grass.

Shoveling turf and planting turf is a novelty for everyone.

For the first time, everyone knew that the grass in the wild was cut off with the skin and covered with bare soil, and it didn't take long for the grass to be tightly connected to the soil, and it was the same as the natural growth.

When the last piece of turf in Xicheng was finished, the cold rain poured down.

......

Crunch.

The heavy green mulberry stone gate was pushed open.

Ye Xi was dressed in a white suit made of nine craftsmen and wore a hat on his head, said hello to the soldiers guarding the door, and went down the steps barefoot.

It was dark and dreary, and the rain kept falling on the floor tiles, and then flowing down the drainage ditch reserved for the floor tiles, like a stream, into the lake.

Ye Xi once thought of erecting pipes underground and building a drainage system.

To erect a pipeline, you first have to make the pipeline. Although there is no plastic in this world, and there is a lack of materials such as metal, stone pipes are barely usable.

It is certainly impossible to manually dig out a hollow stone pipe several meters long, but you can use a chisel to chisel out short sections of 20 centimeters long and then use cement to splice them together one by one.

So it's a bit cumbersome and time-consuming, but technically possible.

But after thinking about it again, Ye Xi still gave up this idea.

Underground pipes are mainly used to drain waste domestic water and excrement.

The main source of waste domestic water is washing and washing. Washing clothes can be washed in the river, there is no laundry detergent here, there is no pollution of the water source, there is no waste of water, and things like bathing and washing your face will not cause pollution.

Of course, if you dislike the lake water if it is not clean, you can dig a well to drink the well water, it doesn't matter.

As for excrement...... In fact, primitive people are still accustomed to being in the wilderness, and only recently, under Ye Xi's advocacy, have they awkwardly tried to use the newly built public aqua toilets.

Originally, Ye Xi planned to compost and water the land with feces and other excrement, but he was afraid that there would be a burst of smell in the city, plus the land here had not been developed, and there were long pigs, and the fertility was definitely enough, so he canceled this idea.

He remembered that he had heard of a beetle called the Pusher Worm in the Jiugong Tribe.

This kind of insect comes from the Chao tribe, very fond of eating, and eats a large amount, reproduces quickly, and can be as big as a palm in adulthood, and the people of the Jiugong tribe use it to dispose of excrement, and when they grow up, they are all thrown into the river to feed the fish and feed the water monster.

So Ye Xi thought about going to work next year and bringing in this worm.

There is no moat in Xicheng, there is only a star lake, there are not many fish in it, Ye Xi is thinking about raising some chickens, birds, etc., and feed them the feces pushing insects, if they don't like to eat, they will feed all the insects and willow trees.

Anyway, the insect willow tree does not refuse, and any insect can be eaten, so there is no waste at all.

In fact, no matter how much you say, the most important reason is ...... They don't have time, it's too time-consuming to erect the pipeline, at least two months, and they don't have the conditions at all.

To sum up, in the end, Ye Xi gave up the matter of erecting underground pipelines to treat sewage.

Bang la blah.

The heavy rain washed away the floor tiles spotlessly, and a shallow layer of rain just submerged the instep of his feet, stepping on the cold ground, Ye Xi slowly walked towards Xinghu.

Two huge white turtles crawled slowly through the rain.

On their backs sat dozens of white tortoise warriors, each holding a number of lively river fish hanging from straw ropes.

"Lord Xiwu!"

The white tortoise warriors jumped off the turtle's back to say hello.

Ye Xi raised his hat and looked at them and smiled slightly: "It looks like a good harvest today." ”

A thin and honest-looking white turtle warrior grinned: "It's better to harvest more yesterday! Don't you see, in addition to these small fish yesterday, we also caught three small aquatic dinosaurs, dozens of red snails with delicious flesh, and a gray hook fish that is six meters long, and they can't carry it!"

"It's a pity that it's cold now, and the fish are swimming to the bottom of the water, so it's hard to catch. ”

Ye Xi comforted: "It's a lot, Xinghu is a lot more lively because of you." ”

There was a small river five or six miles away from Xicheng, and when the city stopped working because of the rain, Ye Xi asked the White Turtle Tribe and the Tushan people to take turns to take the two giant white turtles to fish there.

These fish are not eaten, and they are all raised in the Star Lake, so that everyone can have one more food source in winter.

Ye Xi and the white turtle warriors walked to the Star Lake.

Two giant white turtles slowly dived into the clear water, and a group of small white turtles swam happily towards them with small black bean eyes, and then swam towards the center of the lake in clusters.

Ye Xi and the others squatted on the shore of the lake, stepping on the icy water, untying the straw ropes tied to the mouths of the big fish together, and putting them into the lake water of Qing Lingling.