Chapter 25 Plan for a rainy day

After completing the psychological construction, Quan Hao thought about the previous psychological fluctuations, and he blushed a little. It's really not worth mentioning. In the final analysis, he still doesn't have a mature traverser mentality. The heart is still the mediocre little clerk.

Because of the rain, Quan Hao was wet. As a last resort, he went back to the waterhole and took a new bath, washing all the clothes on his body. The pool of water that was only up to the waist before is now up to the chest, which shows that this rain is really heavy.

The clothes were still wet on the body, because in the woods you had to watch out for scratches from the branches. Quan Hao chopped two new firewoods, and he was worried that the firewood in the camp would not be able to light up after being blistered. Both of these were selected by him and were less waterlogged. On the way back, he simply ran. Because he has a little cold in the early symptoms, it must be the sequelae of being drenched in the rain. Colds must be nip in the bud. He didn't bring many medicines, all of them were anti-inflammatory, pain-relieving, sterilizing, first-aid medicines, etc., and there were no special cold medicines at all. It's dangerous to get sick on a desert island, there is no one to take care of you here, and if you have to endure minor illnesses, you can only fend for yourself. Fortunately, colds caused by colds can be dealt with by other means other than medicine, that is, jogging, sweating, resting more, drinking more hot water and other local methods. Quan Hao did the same, and he quickly broke out in a sweat when he ran like this. Coupled with the sun shining overhead, the wet clothes dried quickly. The whole body is warm, and the signs of a cold are not serious.

The camp was a mess. The embers of the bonfire pulled a long line, staining the beach dozens of meters to the sea. It's like someone bored and drew a word on the beach. The firewood that had been folded and piled together was washed to pieces, and the farthest drift was 100 meters away. Quan Hao had to pick them up one by one and put them wet and exposed to the sun. The fluttering banana leaves are even more unbearable, some have been half-buried in the sand, and some have simply disappeared. Most likely, it was washed into the sea. Fortunately, Quan Hao didn't bring his backpack with him because of the cumbersome expedition, and pressed it on a stack of banana leaves in the best condition, so that the previous efforts were not wasted.

Because of his psychological preparation, Quan Hao was not too disappointed. Simple tidying up, useful stays, useless abandonment, and soon the camp was put in order. However, it is obviously not a good idea to leave the hard-collected supplies in the open air. So he dug a cellar next to the camp. The beach is full of sand, and it is not difficult to dig a hole, but it is difficult to save the hole so that it is not buried by the fine sand that flows easily. Quan Hao's method was to plant tree branches around the cellar. The branches are finger-thick, but they are very densely inserted. And it's two rows, with a five-centimeter gap in between. Each branch is guaranteed to be one and a half meters long, and at least half of it goes deep into the ground. Although the sand is extremely unstable, the depth of seventy or eighty centimeters is enough to keep the branches stable. This alone is obviously not enough, and if you want to keep the quicksand out, you need to stuff the filling between the two rows of branches. It's easy to do, there are a lot of palm-sized shells on the beach, just pick it up. In addition to sandproofing, it is also waterproof. In order to waterproof, Quan Hao not only raised the four sides of the cellar, dug a full ten diversion grooves on both sides, and built a small dam directly above. The foundation stone of the dam is made of stones carried down from the hills, and the mud and sand are wrapped in banana leaves, and the outer side is made of seaweed to make simple sandbags piled on both sides. In this way, the water from above will be blocked by the dam and can only flow into the diversion trough from both sides, and will not enter the cellar. The cellar also has a lid, which is just banana leaves at first, but when it rains, the leaves are easily damaged by the rain and always leak. Later, a few simple wooden frames were added, and the leaves were thickly spread.

Although a lot of work has been done, in fact, this cellar, which is nearly two and a half meters long horizontally, one and a half meters longitudinally, and 70 centimeters deep, is still an out-and-out tofu residue project. And from time to time it will seep water, and the bottom is often wet. This is a problem that Quan Hao cannot solve. Fortunately, the seepage water would only soak into the bottom of the cellar, and most of the space could still be used to meet his minimum requirements.

The cellar took him more than ten days to complete on and off. Because Quan Hao had more important work during this period, he decided to make himself a shed to shelter from the rain no matter what.

Quan Hao first found four well-grown branches in the woods that were more than two meters long and more than ten centimeters in diameter. and a number of slightly shorter, similarly thick branches. He pulled out the only cable he had. The rope is only five meters long, which is too thick for binding, and the length is not enough. Quan Hao split the rope into three strands, and it was strong enough after trying. So he tied two long and two short thick branches together to form a rectangular wooden frame. He tied the other two long branches horizontally to the wooden frame in a two-third-third proportion, and measured the strength of the wooden frame, and felt that it would be usable. So the banana leaves were spread on top of each other, and it was spread three layers all the way. Finally, it is compacted and tied with a short wooden stick. One end of the short wooden stick is deliberately tied by Quan Hao, which is convenient for replacing the blades in the future.

Such a simple straw shed roof is completed, and four brackets are needed next. Two of them, Quan Hao, selected two palm trees with a distance of two meters and five, and tied the two feet of the roof to a position of one meter and five meters high on the trees. The trunk of the palm tree has many burr-like bumps, and it is difficult to fall off when the rope is tied to it. The other two brackets still had to use branches, so Quan Hao had to run into the forest again and break two two-meter-long branches. Nail a sharpened end into the ground, leaving only a pole just over a meter long. Tie the other two feet of the shed to it, and you're done.

said that it was a grass shed, but in fact, this thing made by Quan Hao has a cover and no bottom, and it is ventilated everywhere, and it is pitiful. But with this thing, he finally didn't have to open his eyes to see the stars in the sky. Later, he painted the gourd to make another roof, which was placed opposite to the beginning to form the style of the pavilion, and the grass shed was finally overlooked. He deliberately did this on his own so that rainwater would not be stored when it rained. If the rain is too heavy, the outside of the roof can be lowered further to minimise the area exposed to rainwater.

Compared with the rain, Quan Hao felt that the wind was more terrifying. In the event of a force seven or eight wind, this fragile roof has almost no resistance, let alone a hurricane or typhoon. But when that time comes, it's wiser to worry about your own life than about the shed. While the bare North Peninsula is home to a large number of trees, it doesn't mean that the chances of it being hit by a storm are high, or that the storm level isn't strong, it's never a bad idea to be prepared.

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