Chapter Fifty-Eight: Preparations for Winter
After breakfast, continue to cut down trees.
The matter of asking the wolf to watch the house can be put on hold for the time being, after all, there are not many prey now, and it is more important to establish a warehouse.
While cutting down trees, I picked up some squirrel food to feed the chickens.
I heard that squirrels in some places will not want to hang themselves when they find that their food has been stolen.
Xu Mo didn't know if the squirrels here wanted to open it, but he really hadn't eaten roast squirrels for a long time, and he was still quite nostalgic.
Cutting down trees was a very tedious task, and it took him two days to gather the required timber under his deliberate grinding.
Early in the morning of the third day, Xu Mo officially started to build the warehouse.
With the experience of building wooden houses, the construction of warehouses will be much smoother.
Digging pits, burying piles, erecting wood, chiseling grooves, bulging, splicing, everything is carried out in an orderly manner.
The warehouse is not a shelter for replication, not only is it one size smaller, but it should also be simplified where it should be simplified.
In short, it can meet the three requirements of sturdy, rainproof and moisture-proof.
Two days later, the warehouse frame was basically formed.
In fact, it is not much different from the frame of the wooden house, except that he has placed several more beams on the roof for hanging bacon.
After the top is covered, it can be put into use.
The top combination is still the bottom of the large leaves, and the moss is pressed, which is the easiest and most convenient thing in the construction process.
Before the sun set, Xu Mo had completely built the warehouse.
It's time to harvest the bacon and settle into their new home.
By the time he took the dried bacon and sausages back to the warehouse, it was already getting dark.
Xu Mo, who had been busy for several days, decided to treat himself.
During this time, he ate wolf bacon, and he was really tired.
Now there are 5 lame grouse, 2 lame rabbits in the pen, and the extra ones are the trap harvest of the past few days.
There are just two snakes left, slaughter two more grouse, and simply come to the pot of dragon and phoenix soup.
Peel the snake, wash and cut into sections, blanch the cleaned grouse, then moisten the pan with deer oil and fry the snake meat dry.
After frying, add water, boil the water and put in the steamed grouse to simmer.
When out of the pan, season with a pinch of salt and pepper.
The soup is generally boiled for a longer time, the more fragrant it is, and the dragon and phoenix soup must be boiled for at least three hours before the ingredients can be stewed.
Xu Mo waited for the time when the soup was good, and returned to the wooden house to study the next plan.
The wooden house was devoid of the densely packed bacon, and it was a lot empty, and it looked a little deserted.
Also, the space of ten square meters is not big, but it is not small, and it seems a little simple to put a straw bed alone.
Looks like it's time to build some furniture.
But before that, there is something more important.
Xu Mo walked around the room a few times and fell in love with the corner of the inner room.
This location is the furthest from the bed, perfect for a fireplace.
He measured the size and went out for soup.
A pot of delicious dragon and phoenix soup not only replenished his physical strength, but also swept away his exhaustion.
Although he is not sleepy now, there is really no entertainment in the wilderness for him to enjoy.
As soon as it gets dark, except to go out and die, he goes back to his room and sleeps.
Xu Mo has been very busy in the past two days, so he didn't have time to go out to die, so he went back to sleep early.
The next day, it was dreary, and it seemed to be raining.
It should not be dried today, and it should be rotten.
Xu Mo woke up early and lay on the bed trying to mess up.
But after a long time, he sat up on the bed.
No way, diligent.
He went out on a trip, as a matter of routine.
When he returned, he brought a rabbit and a slaughtered fish.
He threw the rabbit into the enclosure and the fish in the soup.
Eat and drink to your heart's content and go to the shore of the lake in search of clay.
It's best to have this thing for a fireplace, and you can use dirt to do it without this thing, and it will play a role in reinforcement anyway.
His luck had been good, and after searching for a short time, he found grayish-white dirt that appeared to be clay in the muddy field by the lake.
Xu Mo pinched it with his hand, and was very satisfied with the digging directly.
The dug clay was piled up at the door of the shelter, and then he turned and went to the lake to carry the stones.
The stone requirements for building a fireplace are relatively high, and flat stone is the best, followed by ashlar.
Both beaches are available, but it takes time to find a pendulum.
By the time the required materials were ready, half of the day had passed.
To put it bluntly, building a fireplace is to build a better stove in the corner, which is not technical.
The only difficulty is the problem of smoke exhaust, after all, the house is so big, if it is smoky, it will not be able to live in it.
For this reason, he specially dug a large hole in the inner wall and used it to shoot cigarettes.
Xu Mo first moved the stones and clay into the house and began to build the stove.
Rub clay on both ends of one stone, then press it with another stone to stack it up to half a meter high.
The size of the stove is set according to the box pot, and it does not use many stones.
In less than an hour, a boxy stove was built.
The bottom of the cooktop leads to the outside through a reserved wall hole, which is the smoke and ash exhaust channel.
The passage must be made of flat stone, and it must be tight and dense, otherwise the flames can easily ignite the wooden shelter.
Xu Mo didn't want to be roasted on fire in winter, and he would be cremated while roasting, so this step was extra careful.
Place flat stones on the ground of the wall holes, put ashlars on both sides, and then put flat stones on top, and fix the links with clay.
In this way, the sturdy stone chimney took shape little by little in his hands.
When it was fully built, it was just noon.
Xu Mo decided to test the water with the newly built fireplace for lunch, and after setting up the pot, he collected the dead branches and stuffed them into the stove hole below.
The fire is lit, and the flame jumps and rises.
In the crackling sound of burning branches, puffs of cooking smoke wafted along the passage and smelled outside the house.
Xu Mo deliberately checked the hole in the lower wall, but found no flames coming out, so he put his heart back in his stomach.
Lunch is very simple, salt boiled wolf bacon, the purpose is not to eat, but to try.
Boiling and boiling, the temperature in the wooden house began to rise.
This is where the heat is absorbed and dissipated.
It's a very good heating measure in the winter, so forget it now.
Xu Mo walked out of the house, stretched his arms and stretched his waist.
Now that the fireplace has been built, there is only one last thing left.
Build a tent and store dry firewood to prepare for the bitter cold of winter.
After eating, he began to build the tent.
The canopy needs to meet the two conditions of moisture and rain.
In order to save trouble, he directly planned the huge rock in the camp as a place to store firewood, and only needed to erect a few wooden stakes around the rocks and build a roof on them to protect them from the rain.
This can also be regarded as making full use of existing resources to achieve twice the result with half the effort.
In one afternoon, the huge rock turned into a rudimentary canopy.
When all the plans were realized, Xu Mo's mood was completely soothed and relaxed.
Whether it's a storm or a cold wind, for him, it's just a different kind of scenery.
Xu Mo, who had no worries, suddenly wanted to be rotten.