Orcs through the age

Chapter 16 The Settled Home

When I was bored in the cave, I also spun thread with the flax and ramie I collected, and made two simple looms with two warp threads, two weft threads and one heddle each more than two meters long. A piece of cloth, because there is no cloth, so I spun cotton and woven the cloth. I made two knee-length summer shirts for Luo Lei and myself for the linen and ramie cloth. Scattered made himself a vest and a pair of knee-length shorts.Cotton made two sets of underwear and panties.

Luo Lei didn't wear underwear and underwear, and I didn't want him to see me wear them, so I had to help him wear them.When wearing underwear, I wanted him to stuff his thing into his underwear. I explained it over and over again, but this shameless guy insisted that he couldn't, and when I was so angry, I couldn't help it. Just ignore him, you can only stuff him in.Sure enough, the people here are all big, and someone doesn't know whether it is average or talented, and it makes me a little hot, especially compared to my little cucumber, I sweat.This person is really not human.Someone even smiled and asked me if I was okay?good what good? !Do you think I'm primitive?I am a time-traveler, no matter how good you are, you are not as good as I am!This thread reminds me of an ad. (Don't doubt, it's that xxx treasure, he likes me, XD)

In this way, more than half a month later, the outside began to thaw, and the sound of running water and rain came. The males in the clan can go out to hunt, but everyone will not move to the campsite for the time being, because the next There is still a month or so of rainy season. After the rainy season, everyone will move back. After all, a dry environment is more beneficial to the human body.

Not only was the food stored in the family uneaten in winter, but there was still some leftovers. Of course, I also had a lot left in my own reserves.So even if spring comes, everyone is not in a hurry, and with traps and fishing, the prey in the clan can not only feed the whole clan every day, but also have more, so the clan leader began to organize the males to build according to my idea. house.

In the morning, everyone will go hunting, or harvest prey in traps, and in the afternoon, everyone will collect wood for processing.Although it rains sometimes, no one is lazy.In order to keep everyone out of the cold, I will also cook a big pot of salt ginger soup for everyone in the tent. No way, I have no way to make sugar. In the past, the sugar made by our company was made from beet and sugarcane. I am here No beets yet, no sugarcane in sight.Everyone was very happy to be able to drink a bowl of ginger soup at the door as soon as they came back. From time to time, they would express their envy for Luo Lei, so I just listened and pretended not to hear.

I saw the terrace where the tribe is located from the mountain. It is about a semicircle with a radius of 400 meters. The area is not small, but the tribe only uses a small part of the original space, and most of them are trees. What's more, it remains the same. Although the open space has become larger after everyone has settled here and felled trees in the past few years, there is still a lot of space on the terrace.

I chose the place where the middle of the platform is toward the creek and near the foot of the mountain, but it is still a bit out of the original fence range of the tribe.In fact, if everyone builds a house in the future, the original fence area of ​​the tribe will be too small. My goal is to install fences made of sharpened wooden piles around the entire terrace, which will expand the area on the one hand. On the one hand, the slope between the platform and the plain can also be used as a natural protection. Generally speaking, those bison don't climb up the slope very much. If someone comes from the plain, it is easier to find it standing on the edge of the platform. .

Now the tribe basically agrees with my idea, and I also told them that if every household builds a house in the future, the scope of the tribe must be expanded, so everyone agrees, but in order to protect my house, I also decided to install a fence around my house. Later, my house became the only house with a fence in the family for more than ten years, and it was also the largest house in the family. After that, the record of the larger house was also renovated by me. house created.

Because there are many uncut trees on the platform, I first asked everyone to cut down the trees that are not at the foot of the mountain on the platform. The big trees will be kept to make houses, and the small ones will be processed to make some cabinets. , tables, storage shelves and furniture such as beds.It is very strange for everyone to see those.

What I want to build is a very simple wooden house, so the method is relatively simple. First, bury those pine logs with different heights of more than ten meters into the soil to make pillars, and place a large stone around them for stability. I filled the gaps between the blocks with some loess mixed with sand, hay, grass roots and the like, and then buried a layer of soil on top, and then pressed a layer of stones about one meter high on top of the soil. , the middle of the stone is still filled with a mixture of soil, sand and grass roots. The reason for this trouble is that I am afraid of bugs and snakes, especially in this kind of place where there is no serum and no medical treatment, so I would rather do more Some preparations.

After laying the foundation, the logs of different lengths are put up along the pillars, using the buttonhole method, and keyholes are made in some logs, and then other logs are inserted into the keyholes, and then used The animal hide is tied tightly, as long as there are no termites and no fire, it should be no problem to use it for more than ten years.

The floor is also built with logs first, leaving a place for the firepit in the middle, and then a layer of planks is laid on it for walking.The roof is sloped. In order to prevent water leakage, I nailed a layer of bamboo tubes split in half along the gap under the roof paved with round wood. A layer of wooden boards were nailed in the direction, which is not only beautiful, but also can prevent water leakage to a certain extent.

I think in modern times, a house like mine can’t be built, it’s a waste of materials, but in this primitive society where there are few people and many trees, this big tree is not afraid of me being wasted.Of course, I also told my tribe that although we are not afraid of the lack of wood now, it only takes one day to cut a tree, but it takes decades to grow a tree. Trees, if they can be used, can be used directly on the spot. Even if they can be used as pillars of the house, if they can not be cut down, don't cut them down.If you cut down a tree on a mountain, be sure to check that there must be at least one tree among the three nearby trees. If there are already two stumps next to a tree, no matter how good the wood is, you must not cut it down again. If two trees are cut down, at least one small tree must be planted within a year within the original area, preferably of the same species. If you only know how to plunder but don’t know how to repay, the gods will be angry one day.Perhaps because of the belief in the gods here, everyone thought that I was the messenger of the gods in their hearts, and they all agreed. Later, this became one of the regulations of the tribe.

A total of five rooms were made in the house. The middle one in the front row is a hall and kitchen with an area of ​​about 80 square meters, using twelve pillars with a diameter of half a meter.In the middle there is a large firepit where four clay pots can be placed for cooking. The firepit is hewn out of a huge stone, about forty centimeters deep, and the edge is tightly fastened to the vacancy of the firepit made of stone slabs. There are more than 20 centimeters of edges around and above to prevent sparks from escaping onto the wooden floor and causing fires. The whole is a huge stone basin.Of course, there are also racks for hanging clay pots and bacon on it, and if such a large firepit is not needed, you can put two stones with buckles in the firepit to divide the big firepit into four small ones. Firepit.

I originally wanted to use the firepit as a separate room, but considering that it is too cold in winter, it is more practical to sit in the hall. When it is too cold in winter, I can move the bed to sleep by the firepit in the hall.Two houses of more than 30 square meters were built on each side of the front, and I planned to live in one for Luo Lei and one for myself.Because Luo Lei now likes to touch me more and more, and even a few times I was forced to feel his passion, so continuing to sleep together will only make the situation worse.And he also protested to me that he would be embarrassed when I touched him before, and he wouldn't let me touch him, but I like to touch him; now he lets me touch him, but I don't touch him.

Feeling faintly shocked by these facts, I have already made up my mind not to touch him or let him touch me.In my opinion, it is too unrealistic to talk about love with primitive people, especially with men in primitive society. Thinking about what will happen next, I have a feeling of "...", and I can't overwhelm him. Not interested at all.So I planned to sleep in a separate bed with him to keep him calm, so I also made a bed in each of the two rooms.

Because the wood used as pillars is generally relatively high, in addition to the five meters buried in the ground, the one meter on the ground used as a platform, and the four meters on the first floor of the house, the highest is more than three meters, and the shortest is [-] meters. The attic is about one meter long, and the attic is used as a warehouse for storing items. I even secretly made up my mind that I must store all the attics full of harvest this winter.

Behind the hall is a corridor about three meters wide and nine meters long, which can go to the backyard.There is also a room of about 30 square meters behind each of the two bedrooms. It is initially planned to be a work room and tool room for Luo Lei and me. After all, my pile of things also takes up a lot of space.If you need space in the future whether you are doing more and more things or storing.

Behind the house about ten meters away, I designed a row of wooden sheds to raise cattle, sheep, wild boars and so on.There is a toilet between the pig pen and the cow pen. I really can't bear the feeling that the cesspool is right under my feet, so I dug a small ditch in the toilet to flow to the back of the house. There is a small ditch behind the entire row of wooden sheds After washing the cowsheds and pigpens, the excrement can be discharged into the cesspool behind the wooden shed along the small ditch.The cesspool was dug relatively low, and the first cesspool was also dug relatively shallow. I plan to fill this shallow cesspool and grow vegetables on it after it has been used for a while.Of course, the reserved vegetable field is also very wide, extending all the way to the foot of the mountain.

There are more than ten meters between the house and the wooden shed, which are temporarily empty. I plan to wait until everyone settles down, and Luo Lei will slowly build a row of chicken and duck sheds on the side near the cattle pen. Chicken and duck sheds Next to it, build a small wooden shed for pounding and stone milling—if millet and oil residue are pounded in the house, it will be too demolished.

On the opposite side near the pigsty is a row of goose sheds and rabbit cages. At that time, these sheds will form a concave shape in the backyard, and the place near the house in the middle of the concave shape will be used as a reserved vegetable field. For the vegetables to eat, the two sides of the house are also planned to be vegetable fields, and I can find what to grow here when I see it.There is a pond at the entrance of the house near the rising sun, which draws water from the creek to bend in it. I plan to get some fish to raise it, and leave a few big trees at the entrance on the other side for use. For shade, there is a fence made of sharpened wooden stakes around the house, so you don't have to worry about safety in the yard.

The entire yard plus the vegetable field behind it has about four acres of land. Of course, the vegetable field is still vacant.This is also one of the benefits of the primitive society. There are many people and less land, and you can occupy as much as you want.In the spring, I also found some pyrethrum on the grassland, and transplanted dozens of them around the house, and about [-] of them survived. I plan to find out if there are any seeds, and try to plant a circle around the house. Good-looking and practical.

I used the revolving door with hinges and wooden bolts as in the past for the door, which is relatively simple. The window is the ancient hanging type that can be supported by wooden sticks. During the day, the wooden sticks are used to Holds the window open and can be used as a window latch at night.

Because Luo Lei is about two meters high, in order to take care of him, the door of our house is about three meters high, and the floor height of the house is about four meters high, which is not very accurate. I measured the size with my own hands, and then Carved on a wooden stick, it can only be said roughly.

I actually saw some tung trees last year, but I didn’t think about it that much at the time. Now all the wood is just logs. I thought I would collect some tung trees this year and get some tung oil to brush the wood. But now You can only think about it first.

It took more than a month to build the whole house, including the fence.On the day it was built, more than 90 people from the whole family paid their respects outside the yard for a long time.The high priest lamented that he had never thought that there was such a thing in the world, and this was probably the life of a god.I laughed in my heart, I don't know how the life of the gods is like, at least a rich peasant in the Song and Ming Dynasties could live much better than this.As for the red-haired people in the United States who occupy the land and have a lower and lower birth rate, they can be regarded as living in paradise since the Civil War.

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