The next day, the soreness in the arms eased a little, and he was still digging today, and he had no complaints about it.

Since his cousin made pottery, the life of the tribe has changed almost every day, with salt today, bows and arrows tomorrow, and it is said that in the near future, the prey will be kept in captivity near the tribe and can be slaughtered at any time, and the hunting party will no longer have to run around every day to find prey.

Camelina was in charge of digging the earth with the bones, and the girl next to him was named Sophora Hua, the daughter of a tribal priest who had fled from the north. She was using her small hands to pick up the clods of soil into the bamboo basket and wiped a handful of sweat from her forehead, and the fine crumbs of dirt stuck to the sweat on her forehead.

Breakfast is a soup made of a grilled fish and a bowl of vegetable leaves, which the people have become accustomed to, but the people of licorice and locust flowers are quite shocked, this is a fish per person! The productivity of this morning seems to be higher than yesterday.

She saw that her cousin was leading a group of people in the clearing, four people in a circle, and nearly half of the people were standing in the not very large clearing.

The women in groups of four poured earth from the bamboo baskets into the gaps between the two wooden walls, while the men tamped them with waist-thick logs.

Two or three groups of people worked on each wall at the same time, and people moved back and forth between the earthen wall and the mound of earth, very quickly, and the mound of earth, which was as high as one person, soon reached a waist-high position.

He quickened the movement of his hands, and the bones in his hands were swung into spinning windmills, and spoonfuls of dirt turned from the ground into the new home of his people.

Gu Guo supervised the progress of the crowd's rammed earth, and he was also the first time he had come into contact with the method of plate construction, and he was now witnessing its birth after having seen the rural earthen house.

At first, when the earthen wall reached a height of one meter, he found that the top wall had begun to tilt outward, so he made a plumb with stones tied to the bottom, and only after measuring it did he realize that the topmost earthen wall had been tilted outward by five centimeters.

This wall had to be torn down and rebuilt, so Gu Guo made three more plumb weights and handed them to the four clansmen in charge of ramming the earth, and asked them to use the lead weights to measure the degree of deflection of the wall on each floor.

With the help of rudimentary scaffolding and wooden ladders, the tribesmen finally rammed the earthen wall to a height of two meters at noon, which was enough for primitive people with an average height of less than one meter six to walk around straight.

Under Gu Guo's command, the south wall was further raised to a height of about half a meter, which was used to make a sloping roof.

The physical exertion of rammed earth was huge, Gu Guo took more than a hundred people to sit on the ground to rest, and licorice led people to carry a basket of tubers and wild boar on their backs, and appeared in the direction of the Tao River.

"It's time to eat!"

With the shout of licorice, the crowd stood up either dazed or excited, and they could not imagine that they could eat food at noon, who were accustomed to two meals a day.

At this time, more than 200 people in the tribe are far from being able to enjoy three meals a day, and Chinese food is not a main meal, you can eat big fish and meat, but the tubers of some plants, the taste is not very good, and even a little bitter, but it is enough to supplement the energy consumed in the morning.

Camelina and Acacia sat on the edge of the pit, and the two of them held a tuber that had been roasted by the fire, and the fist-sized tuber was eaten into the stomach in three or two bites, and his right hand was still waving the bone.

According to the distribution of the ancient country, he and Huaihua belong to the excavation logistics group, and there are more people in the logging logistics group than them, and they haven't used those long logs much until now, and half of the soil they excavated has been consumed.

She felt that if she continued like this, her excavation team would not be able to supply the progress of the construction team in less than two days.

After gnawing the last bite of tuber, he called out to the acacia flower, got up and went to Gu Guo to discuss the number of people in the team.

"Goo, we're digging up the earth as fast as they can consume." Camelina said.

Huaihua beside him nodded and said: "When we dig one basket of soil, they can ram two baskets of soil, and when the sun goes down tomorrow at the earliest, the people who build the house will have no soil to use." ”

Huaihua is responsible for transporting soil, and she sees the speed of the construction team's consumption of earthwork, and her estimation of soil consumption is clearer than that of camelina.

Gu Guo nodded, and when the four walls were halfway through, he noticed that the production speed of the soil could not keep up with the consumption rate, but at that time, his mind was all on the sloping earthen wall, and now that he had a mouthful, he needed to redistribute the personnel.

He turned his head and asked Huaihua, "How many people do you want?" ”

The girl, who still had dirt on her forehead, snapped her fingers, thought for a while and said, "Eight more." ”

"Okay, I'll go to the logging team and arrange for someone to come over, you wait."

With the increase in the number of people, the supply and demand of soil in the afternoon tended to be balanced, and the roofing of the first room was successfully completed.

Arm-thick timber is densely laid across the roof to form a slope, covered with a layer of bark, pasted with mud mixed with grass stems, and finally covered with a thick layer of half-man-high weeds. This weed is ubiquitous on the plains, and it is more than enough to roof hundreds of houses.

Three layers of rainproof, as long as it is not a typhoon, the rain will flow down the slope.

As for the production of the door frame, the ancient mortise and tenon structure is adopted, although only the stone tools are used as cutting tools, but it is still a very simple thing to dig two holes in the wood, in an afternoon, Gu Guo made two door frames with wood, as long as the wooden pillar on one side of the door is stuffed into the upper and lower holes of the door frame, the wooden door can be opened and closed.

The sun was setting in the west, and time was always flying in the midst of labor, and the mud on the walls of the house was not yet completely dry, and the fragrance of humus peculiar to the earth was exuded.

Gu Guo proposed that the clansmen who had kept vigil the night before could sleep in the house tonight, which attracted everyone's applause.

Yu was the one who kept vigil the night before, and when he learned that Gu Guo had exchanged a bow for a stone at the party, he thought it was incredible. It wasn't until today, lying in a house covered with hay, the cold wind of late autumn blocked by the rammed earth wall during the day, that he understood the wisdom of his ancestors in Gu Guo's mouth.

In the vast plains, the first sanctuary beyond the natural cave was born.

This room was smashed out by Yu Bai and his tribesmen, he witnessed the whole process of the house from scratch, if everyone could sleep in a house that blocks the wind and rain, what kind of scene would it be?

In the dream, room after room rose to the shouting of the people, people lived in the house, not afraid of wind and rain, no need for natural hiding caves, those yellow-haired people could no longer knock on the rammed earth walls.