Chapter 48: How can I still eat watermelon?
This waterfall is not big, the bowl mouth is thick, and it falls from the cliff wall dozens of zhang high, like a white chain.
The cliff face is full of purple and red wildflowers, like a huge flower curtain.
Below, a clear pool of more than ten square meters reflects the blue sky and white clouds, which is beautiful.
Xu Jingluo was fascinated by such a beautiful scenery and did not come back to his senses for a long time.
Zhao Zhengping and Feng Ze'an had already rushed to the waterhole to pick up the water and drank it, shouting excitedly.
"Fresh water, fresh water, it's fresh water, it's too cool and delicious!"
The waterfall falls high, and the splash stirs up a mist, which is indeed cool, and the stinky sweat on the body is gone.
Xu Jingluo raised his hand to cover the sun and looked around.
"There's fresh water here, the terrain is high, and the north faces south, so the light is excellent."
"The east side is against the cliff wall, and in front of it is the endless sea, with a wide view and beautiful scenery."
"At that time, the wall encloses the north and west sides, and a small village is formed, which is not only beautiful but also extremely safe."
Xu Jingluo said, the prototype of a small fishing village had been formed in his mind.
On the edge of the cliff waterfall, a small fishing village of about 20 households, with dried fish drying in the yard, a vegetable field planted behind the house, and a large green rice field in the distance......
This is what they will strive for in the future, although there is nothing at the moment, but it will not be difficult for them, and everything will be fine!
After imagining the future, Xu Jingluo was full of energy.
"The construction site of the village is set here, it's still early, let's clean up this piece first, let's do it."
"Yes." The young men did what they said, and they went into battle with scythes and knives, chopping and cutting, and began to clean up the homestead where the village was built.
Soon, all the flat land of about one acre near the cliff was cleared.
After the clean-up, there is no obstruction, and the view is more and more open, and the beach and sea surface can be seen at a glance, which is refreshing.
At this time, smoke rose from the beach, a fire broke out, and the women began to make lunch.
The boys were so energetic that they cut all the roads leading to the beach.
After all this work, everyone gathered on the beach and prepared for lunch.
A few large plantain leaves, topped with coconut plantain durian, a tropical fruit that young people eat.
The elderly and children drank porridge with bird eggs, although they could only eat half full, but when they first came here, they only had this condition.
After lunch, the children got tired of playing and took a nap under the shade of the tree.
Zhang and Mama Cao took Runtian and Yi Bao to lie quietly on the banana leaves, blowing the comfortable sea breeze and listening to the waves, and slept very peacefully.
At this time, the men discussed looking for wood again, Xu Jingluo hurriedly walked over to stop them, looked at the wood collected by everyone in the morning and shook his head.
"These timbers can be used to make fences, but not houses."
This pile of wood, like the wood used in shipbuilding, is hollow rotten wood that cannot withstand the wind and rain.
Xu Jingluo got up, walked to the coconut grove on the side, and slapped twice on a coconut tree.
"If you want a house to last three years, you have to use this kind of hardwood."
"This wood is really good, but we only have six firewood knives, and we can't cut it down." Feng Yongsheng walked to the coconut tree with a slight hunchback, holding the coconut tree and shaking his head helplessly.
Xu Jingluo kicked the coconut tree with his foot, pondered for a while and said:
"It's too much trouble to chop, so I'll have to think of another way."
As he spoke, he looked down at the roots of the tree.
"This kind of tree has no taproot, only fibrous roots, and it stands to reason that if you have enough strength, you can break or knock it down."
Thinking like this, Xu Jingluo went to the side and took a rope over, and then took a firewood knife to cut a circle in the middle and bottom of the coconut tree to tie the rope firmly.
This rope is a climbing rope she bought in the space mall, and it can withstand a very large amount of tension.
"Let's try it and see if we can pull this coconut tree down or break it."
Men have strength, try it.
Before long, a dozen men began to pull the rope and start to exert force, and the coconut tree was quickly bent, and then there was a clatter, and the trunk broke directly from the place where it had been cut around.
"This, that's too easy, isn't it?"
The big guy looked at the coconut tree that had fallen to the ground, his face full of surprise.
"At this rate, the materials for building the house will be ready in a few days, so you don't have to worry about it at all."
"Isn't it? There is nothing else on the beach, there are large coconut groves everywhere. ”
Feng Yongsheng put his hands behind his back and nodded happily.
"Great, great, Miss Xu just has a lot of ideas, and she has solved a big problem."
"However, everyone should pay attention to safety, do not let the children into the coconut grove, and when the tree falls, you must quickly dodge so as not to be scratched by the trunk."
Xu Jingluo took advantage of Feng Yongsheng's nagging efforts and secretly bought ten climbing ropes for backup.
She analyzed it while handing the rope to the men.
"Twenty-four families can afford twenty-four houses, and each house needs a hundred logs, right? It would take 2,400 pieces of wood to build all the houses. ”
"It should be easy for a hundred laborers to be divided into ten groups, and each group should collect twenty sticks of wood a day, so that it will only take twelve days to gather all the wood."
"When the materials are all collected and some of the wood moisture is almost dry, you can start the house."
"Hmm." Feng Yongsheng nodded straightly, "It's really good to plan in an orderly manner, but there are two issues that need to be considered at the moment, one is the problem of food, and the other is the problem of accommodation." ”
"If you have food, the rice grain can last for four or five days, and the wild fruits in the vicinity will definitely be picked in a few days.
"The second is the accommodation problem, it's okay if it doesn't rain, but it's definitely not okay to sleep outside if it rains. These two are problems that need to be solved urgently! ”
Xu Jingluo propped her chin and fell into contemplation, she was also worried, there was so much rice and flour oil in the warehouse, there was no reason to take it out, and it was useless at the critical moment, so what was the use of this portable warehouse?
With nothing to do, Liu Tianwen and a few other friends came over at a glance.
"Owner, Miss Xu, we were digging bird eggs on the tree, and suddenly we saw a capsized boat floating down on the other side of the river, I don't know if there is any way to drag it ashore."
"Big ship? There must be supplies on it, so take a look. ”
The men ran excitedly towards the mangrove forest, and the others hurriedly followed.
After passing through the mangrove forest, I saw a capsized big ship, floating and slowly drifting towards the sea.
"Quick, tie the boat with a rope and don't let it drift into the sea." A man shouted.
With the cry, more than a dozen men with good water qualities went into the water, and in a short time they tied several ropes to the boat, and after they were fastened, they swam ashore with ropes.
The ship was upside down and floating, or it would not have been possible to float here.
They dragged the rope to the shore with all their might, but soon they ran aground there, and could not be dragged anyway.