The bird feather ape-man seemed to be quite excited, and he exchanged with Chen Xu in a strange language mixed with Mandarin and ape-man, talking about some interesting things in the hunting team.

After the previous basic education, he was able to perfectly express the ape-man language, and he was able to clearly control the current language and numbers, so to speak, in the entire Vulcan tribe, except for Chen Xu, the Toba ape-man had the most control over this knowledge.

Therefore, while serving as the captain of an ordinary hunting team, the Toba Ape Man also serves as the head of the more than 100 Vulcan messengers, which can be said to be the largest magic stick.

He is specifically responsible for learning knowledge from Chen Xu and gradually expanding it to the entire Vulcan tribe.

In addition, compiling Chen Xu's legend and publicizing the majesty of the great fire god was also one of his main tasks.

Talking about some anecdotes in the hunting team, the bird feather ape man carefully answered some of Chen Xu's questions about recent developments, but there always seemed to be a sense of excitement in his expression, but he didn't seem to find a chance to speak for a while, and he didn't know how to say it.

Chen Xu saw the expression of the Toba Ape Man in his eyes, and naturally knew that his subordinate was a little absent-minded, so he hastily asked a few words about the envoy and the hunting team, and then stopped and waited for the Toba Ape Man to tell the things in his heart.

But before the Toba ape-man could speak, a few shouts came from not far away, and the two of them looked at each other, only to see that the old ape-man was leading several ape-men, striding over covered in mud, and his expression seemed to be quite excited.

Before he could come forward, the old ape-man cried out loudly, "Great Vulcan, under your teaching, according to your will, that mud house has finally been built, and I was looking for you to come and have a look, but I didn't expect to meet it here, this is really a coincidence, uh, Toba is also there!?"

It wasn't until he walked to Chen Xu's side that the excited old ape-man noticed the bird-feather ape-man on the side, greeted him casually, and then excitedly talked to Chen Xu again.

Seeing this scene, the Toba ape-man, who had already spoken to his lips, had to hold back the words in his stomach again, helplessly, not to mention Chen Xu's interested appearance at this time, just to say that the identity of the old ape-man alone was not something he could afford to provoke.

As the first minister of the dragon who followed Chen Xu, the status of the old ape-man of the valley tribe was extraordinary, and he controlled many things in the tribe, including the pottery refining method, which was regarded as the biggest secret of the Vulcan tribe.

In addition, the creation of longbows, sharp arrows, bamboo spears, wooden spears and elite stone weapons in the tribe is also under the control of the old apeman, Chen Xu has great trust in this intelligent old ape, and the rights given by him are also very large, and the old ape man has no close people, so he is also quite upright, and his popularity and majesty in the tribe are quite strong.

Not only that, in the development of the tribe, such as building houses, improving campfires, and burning paper and charcoal, all kinds of things related to the direction of civilization development are all in charge of the old ape-man, even if he is not personally in control, he is also the person in charge of the plan, and other ape-man leaders may be involved, but they are just deputies.

The old ape-man is like a parent official in the Vulcan tribe, with more power than several other small leaders, and has been completely solidified in the rich tribal life, and has been recognized by the Vulcan tribesmen, except for Chen Xu, no one can shake his position.

Therefore, the Toba ape-man did not dare to interrupt his speech, and besides, the matter of the house, if it was really discussed, was much more important than the matter he wanted to report, so he could only temporarily suppress the excitement in his heart and concentrate on listening to the lecture.

"Oh!?"

After listening to the old ape-man's story, Chen Xu's eyes couldn't help but light up slightly, and he asked with some surprise, "You really finished the construction of the earthen wall?"

At this moment, he also completely forgot about the Toba ape-man.

From the perspective of Chinese history, the construction of houses is very important to primitive people, as can be seen from the fact that there is a Chao family that can leave a name.

With a house, the apes do not have to sleep in the open, and their life expectancy and health can be greatly improved.

Nowadays, although after a few months of construction, there are more wooden houses in the tribe, but the construction of wooden houses is not only a waste of wood, but also extremely time-consuming.

Not only that, but the sturdy surname of the wooden house is even more questionable, so to speak, the surname price ratio is not very high.

According to Chen Xu's instructions, after seventy or eighty pure wooden houses were built in the tribe, this kind of building was stopped, and then, like the previous Lei animal taming circle, the basic frame was directly made of wood, and then laid on top with meadows, so it became a simple tent.

As for the meadow, it is natural to use sharp stone tools to cut off the long roots of Artemisia grass, and then neatly weave them up, and tie them up in circles with vines, and finally after it is completely formed, it is similar to the meadow on the greenhouse in later generations.

With a basic wooden frame, combined with a meadow, many simple settlements can be formed.

In this way, the more than 1,800 ape-men in the tribe soon had a place to stay, and they would not sleep in the jungle at night, which could be regarded as a complete completion of the transition from the woods to the flatland.

As time passed, the summer gradually faded, and Chen Xu had to worry about the coming winter.

Like a wooden house, if you fill it with a lot of hay, the warmth effect is good, but those tents covered with meadows are not, so the problem of the house is put on the table.

In this case, Chen Xu brought the idea of the earthen house to this era according to the memories of later generations, and handed it over to the old ape-man to deal with, he just said a little about the concept of the previous earthen house, that is, first use water and mud, and then chop the thatch, and mix it into the muddy water.

Then a few stones were carried and built into the base of the room in the open space, and all that was left to do was to spread the mud horizontally on the stones, and gradually pile them up to a height of two or three meters, and then build some solid branches to form the basic beam structure.

When the outside mud house is completely dry, you can cover the roof with thick thatch, use people to step on it, and then spread the original meadow to form a wide and comfortable earth house.

Of course, these are just Chen Xu's words on paper, and he didn't expect the old ape-man to be able to build this earthen house quickly, but what he didn't expect was that the old ape-man's speed was so fast, and in less than a month, he had turned the blueprint he drew into a fact.

Following the old ape-man to the outer area of the tribe, far away, three earthen walls of about two meters appeared in front of Chen Xu's eyes.

When he got closer, Chen Xu found that the soil of the earthen wall seemed to have completely condensed and become quite solid.

Around the earthen wall, there was also a puddle of muddy water used to mix mud, and several ape-men were trying to add many different additives to it, including sawdust, sand grains, etc., some of which even Chen Xu had never seen.

"Well, yes, in the future, we will build it on this scale, and we must build enough earthen houses for the people of the tribe before winter comes. ”

After a few turns, Chen Xu found that after adding a lot of unknown things, the soil layer condensed, but it became much stronger than the original.

Even if it does not reach the hardness of the legendary glutinous rice wall, which is comparable to concrete, it can be compared to ordinary clods of earth.

It is believed that as long as the scale of construction is not very large, such a structure can fully withstand the surrounding gravity, such a small earthen house, with a suitable design, can fully accommodate six or seven ape-men to live.

Moreover, as long as the ingredients are learned, every ape can do it themselves, and it is easy to promote it, so the efficiency is greatly improved.

After a few words of praise from the old apeman, Chen Xu ordered the old apeman to continue to improve this addition formula, and when he was sure that the room was really strong, he passed it on to more apemen, and instructed them to build their own rooms, and finally, they carried out the topping work in a unified manner.

At this time, an ape man on the side handed over a pottery bowl, which was filled with boiled water, and now, due to the increasing number of pottery, basically everyone in the Vulcan tribe can drink boiled water.

After a period of development, the process of firing pottery has also improved slightly, from the original flat kiln to the shaft kiln, after a few kiln bricks were burned out, the kiln room is completely perfected, now the entire Vulcan tribe, there are more than ten places where the kiln is burned, and the pottery burned out can be used by ordinary people.

Therefore, at Chen Xu's request, everyone must drink boiled water as a last resort.

After taking a sip, Chen Xu held the pottery bowl, but his eyes suddenly lit up, and he remembered the kiln bricks that framed the kiln room, and it seemed that if enough kiln bricks could be fired, then the construction of this house could be developed by leaps and bounds.

However, in terms of the current pottery burning ability of the Vulcan tribe, if they want to fire enough kiln bricks to build a house, they still have no strength, and now their main firing utensils are still ordinary living utensils.

After thinking about it for a while, Chen Xu called the old ape man who had returned to labor and gave him a careful order, asking him to start firing some pottery bricks while firing pottery, and to store them properly, without blindly firing pottery.

Although he did not understand the intention of the great Vulcan God's move, the old ape-man quickly agreed, and immediately devoted himself to the great cause of building a house.

It is not surprising that God, after creating man, could not resist the wonderful feeling of creating something unknown with his own hands, even an uncivilized man like the old ape-man, and it is no wonder that God, after creating man, could not help but begin to create the world until he himself died.

After understanding the unexpected joy that the old ape man brought to him, Chen Xu explained and gave a long-term development direction, only to see the still excited expression of the bird feather ape man around him, and then he remembered that it seemed that the person in front of him still had something to report to him.

(To be continued)