From wilderness to palace

Chapter 16 Just Work!

Liu Yaozu, who felt that the wood should be enough, piled up all the wood that had been chopped or picked up next to the shelter, and began to build the shelter formally.The front is supported by two pillars, and the back is supported by a specially selected back cliff.

Considering that the shelter needs to be waterproof, Liu Yaozu deliberately lowered the height of the pillars in front of the shelter, so that the rainwater falling on the shelter can flow to the ground in front of the shelter, and the higher stone cliff can also achieve a certain windproof effect.

There is a stone cliff, which means that the shelter only needs to be built on three sides.Using the cut wood, Liu Yaozu began to build the wooden walls on both sides.In order to ensure windproof and heat preservation, the superimposed wood was deliberately leveled with an axe.

Two of the retaining wall pillars were directly driven into the ground against the stone cliff, and the other end was close to the front pillars.There is no need to consider the issue of leaving windows. Liu Yaozu only needs to saw the same size and length of wood, and they can easily stack them.

When the wood was stacked to a certain height, Liu Yaozu borrowed the rattan found in the forest to tie the two ends of the posts tightly together and tighten them.Pushing the superimposed wooden wall, he found that the wooden wall was still very strong.

"Not bad! The speed of building a shelter like this is still very high. It's just the gap left by the overlapping of wood. I'll find some moss to plug it in later. In that case, the shelter's heat preservation effect should be better."

Considering the large temperature difference between day and night in the mountains, Liu Yaozu hopes to build a shelter with a certain thermal insulation effect.People hiding inside don't have to worry about freezing to death due to too low temperatures at night.

After repairing one wooden wall, Liu Yaozu started to build the other wooden wall in the same way.After all the wooden walls on both sides were built, only the front of the shelter remained empty, waiting for Liu Yaozu to close it.

After thinking about it on the spot, Liu Yaozu immediately said: "Build the wooden bed first, and then we can work better later."

Compared with building the last wooden wall, Liu Yaozu felt that the wooden bed and the roof should be placed in front of the house.Only when these are built and the front wooden wall is built, can a door be kept to facilitate the entry into the wooden house from the back.

As for the lack of sunlight entering the wooden house, Liu Yaozu thought that he would make two double-glazed windows next time he had a chance.When there is a chance to enter the mountain again, two windows are installed in the shelter to increase the visibility inside the wooden house.

Even in order to avoid being unable to cook outdoors in rainy days, a simple stove should be built inside the wooden house, and a smoke outlet should be reserved.Only in this way, even if it is snowing to live in this shelter, it will not feel too cold.

Wanting to know what to do next, Liu Yaozu also said with emotion: "Some things look easy, but when you do it yourself, you find that it is far from being as simple as you imagined. This is still a simple shelter. If you build a wooden house, it may be even more complicated." trouble."

There are many things, only by trying them yourself can you understand how difficult or easy they are to do.After finding the miscellaneous wood piles that had been specially chopped down and also had branches, and sharpened their tails, Liu Yaozu quickly built a wooden bed frame in the shelter.

After the frame was formed, I took out the iron nails that I didn't carry much, and fixed the frame completely, so as to avoid sleeping in the middle of the night and suddenly falling into bed.Then saw a straight log of equal size with a length of about one meter, and flatten its two sides again.

Although the cut surface is not as smooth as the machine, Liu Yaozu is still very satisfied.For an ordinary person, it would be difficult to whittle these round wooden sticks to his level with just an axe.

"Not bad! It seems that I have almost mastered my carpentry skills when renovating the old house before!"

To praise myself, all the flattened wooden sticks were also neatly placed on the wooden bed frame that was built.After the last wooden stick is arranged and fixed, a solid and firm wooden bed is completely declared complete.

Looking up at the slightly vacant roof, Liu Yaozu also said directly: "The only thing left to do is to build the roof first."

After measuring the length of the roof frame, Liu Yaozu worked like a tiger again, laying the sawed wood on the front and rear brackets.Important roof beams were nailed directly to the beams and columns with iron nails.

After stepping on the roof frame and trying it out, Liu Yaozu felt that the shelter was built very firmly.Looking at the shelter gradually taking shape, Liu Yaozu also smiled and said: "The shelter made of solid wood looks quite comfortable!"

Considering that the roof needs to be protected from rain, there is no bark available in the pine forest at the moment.Fortunately, when entering the mountain, Liu Yaozu prepared a rather large rainproof cloth, which is very suitable for use as a roof.

It's not suitable, maybe it's still a roof made of rainproof cloth, I'm afraid it won't last long.If there is a chance next time, Liu Yaozu will bundle the tarpaulin on his back, maybe the rainproof effect will be better, and the service life will be longer.

"Just use it for the time being! Wait until the next time you enter the mountain, and then make a good repair. Don't worry!"

In order to ensure that the rainproof cloth can avoid the sun exposure as much as possible, Liu Yaozu used small and straight miscellaneous wood to arrange the entire roof neatly, and then covered it with rainproof cloth.Finally, some pine branches were cut down and laid on the tarpaulin.

In this way, even if there is sun exposure, the pine branches covering the roof can also block the sun, so that the rainproof cloth does not have to worry about the risk of rupture for a short time.If there is a hole in the roof, then the shelter might rain heavily outside and light rain inside!

The shelter was successfully capped, leaving only the front wall to be built.Reserving a door for entry and exit, Liu Yaozu, who laid a pillar, began to cut wooden sticks and then stacked wooden sticks until they reached the required height of the wooden door.

What Liu Yaozu had to do was to use a longer piece of wood and place it across the wooden wall.There is a gap in the entire wooden wall, and it can be seen at a glance that it is left for the wooden door.The next thing to do is to fill in the top.

When the last chipped piece of wood is successfully stuffed into the top of the wooden wall, the wooden piles on both sides are tied and tightened. Three wooden walls and one stone wall, plus a successfully capped roof, complete the construction of a solid wood shelter.

Walking around the shelter, Liu Yaozu came to the top of the rocky cliff. In order to avoid muddy water rushing into the shelter in rainy days, he dug ditches directly at the raised position, and lifted all the soil from the trench into the raised position.

In this way, people who sleep in the wooden house don't have to worry about sleeping until midnight, and snakes and insects sneak into the wooden house from above the stone cliff.Even the rainwater washed down from above will flow down the hills on the left and right sides of the wooden house along the dug ditches.

After finishing these tasks, Liu Yaozu ran into the pine forest and looked at the remaining wooden doors that had not yet been built, digging out a lot of moss that can be seen everywhere in the forest.The moss was stuffed in along the gaps in the wooden wall.The job was tedious, but he didn't feel tired at all.

Even in the process of blocking these gaps, Liu Yaozu thought for a while and said: "If there is clay, use clay to paste the wall outside the wooden wall. Maybe the effect of wind and insect protection will be better. However, the amount of work will be larger."

Liu Yaozu, who could only give up this approach for the time being, still concentrated on plugging the gaps in the wooden wall.After the gaps in the three wooden walls were tightly sealed, Liu Yaoyang walked into the wooden house and found that the temperature inside was somewhat different.

Lay all the hay cut from the pine forest on the wooden bed, and then take out the waterproof pad and sleeping bag from the backpack.After making the bed, Liu Yaozu deliberately lay on it and tried it out, and found that the softness was just right.

"Put some straw on it, and it will be much more comfortable to sleep on."

After a busy afternoon, Liu Yaozu successfully built the shelter before the sun went down.All that's left to do is start building the wooden door and have dinner.He had never spent a night in the mountains before, and he was looking forward to what his first night would be like.

Although the living conditions in the shelter are far less convenient than at home.But in Liu Yaozu's opinion, living in a wooden house built by himself should be safer than sleeping in a camping tent, right?

(End of this chapter)