From wilderness to palace

Chapter 42 Shelter No. [-]
After the rain, the air in the jungle was particularly fresh. Liu Yaozu, who woke up early in the morning as usual, could still feel a bit of coolness when he stepped out of the temporary tent.Walking in the jungle, I can't tell whether the water droplets on the grass blades are dew or rain.

Taking a few deep breaths of fresh air, Liu Yaozu, who stretched his muscles and bones, began to practice body exercises again.After practicing persistently for this period of time, he finally realized the benefits of body training and practiced harder.

He was still an apprentice, so he experienced so many benefits. When he entered the primary stage, he believed that his physical fitness would make another qualitative leap.Maybe you can't become a so-called martial arts master, but it must be easier to go into the mountains later!
"Come on! Try to advance to the elementary level as soon as possible, so that you will be more confident in entering the mountains in winter."

Thinking of going to the mountains in winter, without a good body, it is easy to have accidents.If he develops his physique, he will have more confidence and certainty when he enters the mountains in winter, so he won't worry about getting in but not being able to get out.

After the routine exercise in the morning, he felt the soreness from his muscles, and Liu Yaozu gradually got used to this physical change.Return to the temporary tent to finish washing, put on clean clothes, and start another day's work.

Considering that he didn't come to build a shelter at all yesterday, his main job today is to prepare for building a shelter.Try to complete the construction of this No. [-] shelter within one day.

Breakfast was relatively simple, and when the sun finally jumped into the sky, Liu Yaozu also carried an ax and a saw and began to collect wood all over the mountain.After a while, a large pile of spare wood was piled up near the temporary tent.

Looking up at the sky, Liu Yaozu murmured: "If it's daytime, it shouldn't rain anymore, right?"

The spot where the makeshift tent stood was also where he had decided yesterday to serve as a shelter.To start building the shelter today, this temporary tent will naturally be dismantled.Compared with this simple tent, the wooden shelter is more stable and safe.

After packing up the personal belongings in the tent and removing the rainproof cloth for spare, Liu Yaozu, who started to lay the foundation, did not plan to build a shelter that was too big this time, but planned to build a wooden house on a slope, enough for one person to live in.

With the help of the engineering shovel he carried, he first dug four holes for planting wooden piles.After the hole was dug, Liu Yaozu buried the four uprights whose bottoms had been baked with fire directly into the dug hole, and then fixed the four uprights firmly.

After placing the pillars, Liu Yaozu began to select the beams again, and erected the frame of the shelter first.Compared with Shelter No. [-] and No. [-], Shelter No. [-] seemed a bit independent and empty, and there was nothing to rely on around.

Borrow the iron nails you carry to nail the two straight and two inclined beams.Looking at the shelter that had just taken shape, Liu Yaozu pushed it carefully, and found that the frame was still very strong, so he said with satisfaction: "The wooden wall can be spliced ​​together!"

In the first two shelters, the wooden walls were placed horizontally.But this time, Liu Yaozu decided to install the wooden wall straight.Considering the slope on both sides of the shelter, the lengths of the spliced ​​wood must be different, and they need to be adjusted and fixed slowly.

Fortunately, enough wood was prepared. First, the tallest wooden wall of the shelter was arranged neatly, and then two slender pieces of wood were cut, and an 'X' shape was fixed on the wooden wall to ensure that the wooden wall and the frame were firmly connected. Together.

As for the gaps in the wooden walls, Liu Yaozu felt that it would not be too late to fix them in the afternoon, so he had to erect the other three wooden walls first.With the inclined wooden walls on the left and right sides being installed one by one, the shape of the shelter basically came out.

Keeping the shortest side of the front, Liu Yaozu found some miscellaneous wood, and began to enter the shelter to make a wooden bed for himself to rest.As for hay, there is no rush to mow it in the afternoon.

After making the wooden bed for rest, Liu Yaozu did not forget to make a few shelves inside.Put the backpacks and items that were packed earlier into the wooden house again, and then continue to build the wooden wall and roof on the front.

The roof used to keep out the wind and rain is still built with rainproof cloth.In the afternoon he would cut some hay, weave it into straw mats, and lay them on the roof.In this case, the service life of the roof rain cloth will be longer.

If the cabin will leak in the future, consider replacing the tarpaulin with linoleum.Anyway, this kind of waterproof material is also sold in the town.The only thing to do is to carry the materials from the bottom of the mountain into the mountain.

"Don't worry, there will be a lot of time to go into the mountains in the future. These temporary shelters built now will definitely be repaired in the future."

In Liu Yaozu's view, the temporary shelter near the mountain will not last long.And what he really wants to do is to build more temporary shelters in the near mountain area to serve as a transit point for going deep into the mountains in the future.

With these temporary shelters acting as transfer stations, Liu Yaozu can find shelters with different styles to rest after traveling every day.If the situation is unclear the next day, you can't worry about falling into the mountains and having nowhere to hide.

Summer and autumn are fine, but if it is spring and winter, sleeping in the wilderness jungle at night, the low temperature at night alone may make people unable to wake up.If you sleep in a shelter that can protect you from wind and rain, there will naturally be no such worries.

After making the wooden wall on the front, he deliberately reserved a wooden door. Using the miscellaneous wood that was felled, Liu Yaozu quickly made a wooden ladder.He has built wooden ladders in the two shelters before.

Join the four wooden walls of the shelter, perhaps without the need for a wooden ladder.But the work of laying the roof would be extremely inconvenient without a wooden ladder.After measuring the length of the inclined plane, Liu Yaozu began to select wood and saw it off.

When the wood is almost sawn, use the wooden ladder to transport all the wood to the roof.Considering that the eaves need to be retained on the front to facilitate rainwater to fall without getting the wooden house wet, the length of the saw must exceed the width of the wooden house.

Lay the wood from one side, nail the sawn wood neatly on the roof of the wooden house, then fold the tarpaulin used last night into two layers, and spread it evenly on the wooden roof, the entire shelter It was also announced that the construction was roughly completed.

In order to prevent the rain-proof cloth laid on the roof from being lifted by the mountain wind, wood was found and cut into thin slices, and then the rain-proof cloth and the roof were firmly fixed with small iron nails.When it rains, the rain will also pour down along the rain cloth.

After fixing the rainproof cloth, Liu Yaozu was also very satisfied when looking at the basically completed No. [-] Shelter: "It's a little small, but if you really want to hide from the rain, it's no problem to hide five or six people inside."

Seeing that it was past lunch time, Liu Yaozu did not go into the jungle to search for wild mushrooms, but simply cooked the meat he brought for lunch.After eating, there was no time to rest and continue to set off.

In the jungle, large quantities of long, thin hay are cut and woven into straw mats, which are piled on the roof and fixed.The shelter covered with straw mats looks similar to a thatched house from a distance, but the wooden house should be stronger than the thatched house.

"There should be more hay stored in the house. If there are villagers who want to stay here overnight, the straw mat can also play a certain role in keeping warm without bedding. If you put more hay, it will be more comfortable to sleep on the wooden bed! "

Liu Yaozu didn't waste the extra hay, weaving it into straw mats and laying them on the made wooden bed.Then lay the waterproof mat on the back of the mountain, put the sleeping bag on the waterproof mat, and a bed full of vegetation is completed.

Thinking of sleeping directly on the ground last night, I felt somewhat uncomfortable.Now that I have this wooden bed covered with hay, I believe that when I rest tonight, I should be more comfortable than yesterday.Even in the wild, Liu Yaozu didn't want to wrong himself too much.

Lying on the newly made wooden bed and resting for a while, Liu Yaozu got up again and began to look for moss to fill the gaps in the wooden wall.If you don't fill the gaps in the wooden walls and sleep at night, the shelter will feel drafty!
(End of this chapter)