When Yao Xiaoqing was young in his previous life, the villagers in the village used stones to build houses and lay foundations.

She still had some impressions in her head, and now that she had oyster ash, she was completely sure that she would be able to build the stone wall.

"I think as long as the stone is straightened and not crooked, there will be no problem."

Yaohu nodded, "You go to rest early, Father and Dashi talk to them, and then practice arrows with them for a while." ”

Yao Xiaoqing suddenly remembered something, "Father, let's go to the foot of the mountain for a few rope sets, and it would be good to be able to put on a few pheasants and hares!" ”

Yaohu thought for a moment, "Is that the one you taught me last time?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing smiled: "Yes, there is a rope in the cave, and you can look at the sleeve." ”

Yaohu nodded, "Okay, you go to sleep, and I'll take Dashi and them down later." ”

Yao Xiaoqing nodded and went to wash up and sleep.

Yaohu took Da Shi Mufeng to the foot of the mountain, told Yao Xiaoqing's words to Da Shu, and then went to the foot of the mountain to put the rope noose.

A few people came back and practiced arrows for a while before they fell asleep.

The next day, as soon as the sky was white, Yaohu got up and arranged for manpower.

Ah Shui was on duty on the mountain, and Mu Ba, Mu Feng, Bi, and Bull went into the mountain to hunt.

Taro and Asu stayed behind to help on the construction site, and the other women went out to collect food, and everyone set off after eating the food.

Ah Worm and Ah Shui carried buckets to the river and put away the fish pots, and the two large wooden barrels were filled with fish, river shrimp and eels.

The two happily put down the two fish cages that they had made up overnight into the river, and happily carried the fish and shrimp back.

The people on the hill got up one after another, ate their food, took their weapons and tools, and went their separate ways.

Yaohu took the mountain and the big stone down the mountain to check the trap and found that the leopard and the big tree had left.

Dashi said to Yaohu: "Chief, they will go back with the peach and be found by the fire beaver and will kill them." ”

Yaohu smiled: "Don't worry, these two people are cunning!" They wouldn't let Peach go back to the tribe with them. ”

"Hmm!" Oishi nodded, "When we went to look for you, Shigeru and Dashu were sent out to hunt by the fire beavers, otherwise Shigeru would have come with us." He'd been closer to us before, and if he stayed there, the beaver would have tormented him. ”

"The heart of the beaver is thinner than the tip of a pine needle, and he can't tolerate others treating me better than him, and it is inevitable that they will stay there and be tossed by him." Yaohu said lightly.

"Phew!" Shan took a sip, "The good tribe was made like this by the fire beavers, and there is the big Eminem who is even more powerful than the one in the mountain." ”

The three of them arrived at the trap, checked two and found no prey, and walked to the trap set under the bamboo forest and still did not find anything.

Several people walked back disappointed, and Yaohu remembered that he hadn't looked at the rope sleeve yet. The three of them hurriedly walked towards the foot of the mountain, and found that some pheasants and some hares were on the ropes, and they found them all the way back, and harvested more than a dozen pheasants and hares.

A few people happily carried the hare back, and Dashi smiled: "It's still Xiaoqing's method, and I caught so many without effort." ”

Yaohu nodded, "Go to the edge of the pond tonight, there must be a lot of small things there." ”

The three of them went back to put down the wild things, and went to the kiln with spears and bulls, and saw Yao Xiaoqing with Ah Tu and Taro loading the earth bricks into the kiln.

"Xiaoqing, go and see, how do you want to build the stone?" Yaohu said.

Yao Xiaoqing saw a few people carrying baskets, and nothing else was prepared, so he thought for a while and said, "Father, you take Uncle Dashi and they first pick up the oyster ash to the open space at the foot of the mountain, go back and use wood to cut a few small wooden shovels like spatulas, and carry a few buckets down to carry water and mortar." ”

Yaohu looked at her puzzled, "What are you doing with the little wooden shovel?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing pointed to the oyster ash, "After the oyster ash and sand and gravel are reconciled, they are put into a wooden barrel, and they have to be shoveled up with a wooden shovel and poured on top of the stones." Father, a wooden spatula is a little bigger and longer than a spatula. ”

Yaohu nodded, "Father, I'll go." ”

When Yao Xiaoqing filled the kiln, Yao Hu came with ash shovels and buckets.

Yaohu took a wooden shovel that was not much bigger than a spatula and handed it to her, "Xiaoqing, look at it, how is this little shovel made?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing smiled after seeing it: "Yes, you think it's good to take advantage of it." ”

Yaohu looked at the wooden shovel and laughed, "What else are we going to do?" ”

"You carry a few loads of oyster ash to the open field, and pick up the uneven stones from the pile, and hew the big smooth stones into rough stones, so that the stones are too smooth and the mortar is not well cohesed."

"Okay." Yaohu led people to pick up the oyster ash to the foundation, picked up the stone chisel and "clanged" to do it.

Taro and Asu washed the fish and shrimp, dried them in a dustpan, took a stone hoe down the mountain and said to Yao Xiaoqing: "Qingwu, we are here." ”

"You go to the pond and fetch water and mortar."

"Hey!" After the two of them got down, they took the bucket and left.

Yao Xiaoqing looked at the distance from the pond to this side and felt that it was too wasteful of manpower. After thinking about it for a while, I asked Ah Worm to cut two bamboos, open up the bamboo joints, and draw a stream of water down from the mountain, and start to make mortar. A shovel of oyster ash and three shovels of sand and gravel are mixed well, and then water is added and mixed well.

Yao Xiaoqing looked at the stones and recalled the scene when the stone wall was built in the village. Command Yaohu to lay a layer of mortar at the bottom of the foundation pit, and then put the foundation stone on it.

The bottom layer of the cornerstone is placed with large stones, and then built with small pieces of stones, the large gaps between the stones are filled with mortar, and the embedded gravel is filled with a wooden hammer.

Everyone listened carefully to Yao Xiaoqing's command, and at first Yao Hu and they were clumsy, not knowing how big and small stones were matched. There are also some scrambling, sometimes filling too much mortar into the gaps in the stones, and then too little. The stone was carried up and tossed back and forth, and the foundation stone of less than one meter took about an hour for the four of them to be laid, and they didn't even know how to catch and scrape the mortar when it overflowed.

After two hours of masmanship, Yao Xiaoqing found that everyone's hands and feet were gradually neat. I know how to mix some of them like shovel mouths, some like axe blades, and long strips of stone with those large and small stones.

The worm and the bull went to the south to dig the foundation, and the roots and the soil were by the stone pile, and they chiseled off the excess water chestnuts on the rough stones.

Taro and Asu delivered mortar to Yaohu and them, and everyone found a way to do things. The foundation was laid much faster, and by noon the foundation of the northern wall had been laid a tenth of it.

Yao Xiaoqing estimated that the rest should be able to be built by dark. After today's masonry, they should move faster. In this way, it would have taken two months to build the wall.

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At dusk the next day, the big tree and the leopard tied the peach to a tree some distance from the tribe. The two hid outside, waited until late at night, and sneaked back to the tribe.