Orcs through the age

Ah Yuan gave birth before we started building the house.

I have never faced childbirth directly, so even here, I was supposed to guard Ah Yuan, but I couldn't do it at all. In the end, I could only ask Ah Man and Ah Lin to help, and I chose Go outside and boil water.

Although everyone laughed and said in private, I am inexperienced, so I am very scared.But it is not.

But everyone gave me an excuse, and I don't want to say anything more.

Ah Yuan is very strong. Although there is no pharmacist here, and no one else can help him, he directs Ah Man and Ah Lin by himself, and finally gave birth to his child - a cute little female.

In terms of population ratio, I am very happy that his family has a small female. After all, we have more small males here, but for Ah Yuan who is single, I still think it is more suitable for him to have a small male. After all, in the future We settled down, and there was always someone to help him with the work.

But looking at Ah Yuan's happy face, I am also happy for him. Maybe for him, a little female who is not easy to remind him of another person is the best.

Ah Yuan asked me to name his child. Ah Yuan said, at that time, if we did not take him in, he would not know where to go, and he would not know if he was swallowed by other beasts, even if we There is nothing now, and he is also very grateful to us, and to me for letting him be the pharmacist in the clan, and to me for letting him do less work so that he can give birth to his child with peace of mind.

I was a little embarrassed by what he said. After thinking for a long time, I finally thought of a name - An Xin.I did not follow the naming rules here for this little female.

I have already thought about it. In the future, our clansmen must have a surname, a history, and remember what their ancestors have experienced. Then, everyone should have their own unique name, although the name with two characters in the future is also very likely. Repeat, but at least it is better than what everyone calls Ah.

Now everyone still trusts me very much. I said that everyone should have a surname, and everyone admits this.

I explained to Ah Yuan that An wanted us to settle down here and live and work in peace and contentment.The new statement shows that we are a new tribe, and everyone is born here, and Anxin is our first newborn here.

Ah Yuan listened to my words, thanked me for naming this child, and followed Luo Lei's default custom, allowing this child to be named under my name.

Let me think about it. With Ah Yuan's current status, even though he has a child with him, it is good to have someone to rely on. Besides, Luo Lei can be regarded as his elder brother. Will it be bullied?

Not long after the A Yuan incident, we rushed to collect the available grain, and did a good job of storing it one by one. The next step was to build our house for the winter.

The layout of the brick and tile house I made this time is similar to the house I made last time. There is also one hall and four houses. In order to save time, this time, I still ask everyone to reserve the land for use. Don’t be in a hurry We have made a livestock pen, but we have built another large livestock pen in the downwind of the edge of the tribe to keep all our current animals so that they will not be difficult to survive the winter.

During the three months of preparation, we have sun-dried and dried enough wooden pillars painted with raw lacquer, and bricks and tiles have also been fired in three kilns in turn for twelve kilns, which should be enough for us to build thirteen or four. The house is gone, and in fact we don’t need so much. Those single people like to live together and can take turns cooking. Hongda and the others plan to live with Canaan’s family temporarily.Actually counting, our ten houses are enough.

However, in order to avoid any special circumstances, I still prepared enough bricks and that kind of cement.Even if you don't need so much at once, it's better than less.

After digging the ground and burying the required wooden piles in the ground, we started to build the foundation with bricks and cement along the wooden piles.

In this regard, Luo Lei is better than me after listening to what I said. Sometimes I feel that I am probably a spiritual leader, responsible for guiding the general direction.They do most things better than me.Luo Lei also has experience in making wooden houses. After drawing inferences from one instance, he can be regarded as a skillful craftsman of this era in building houses.

When laying the foundation wall, we use a layer of parallel bricks, and the upper layer is side exposed bricks, and then the parallel bricks and side exposed bricks alternate with each other, and the joints of the upper and lower brick layers are staggered. The most important thing is that the burnt cement is mixed with sand and built along the wooden piles. The bonding effect is surprisingly good, and it is estimated that it is not much worse than our cement poured foundation.

When building the wall, we used the cross-laying brick method. On the first floor, three rows of two bricks were laid side by side, and then an outcropping brick was built; the upper layer was placed in the middle of the three rows The outcropping bricks, and then fill the gaps in the middle with the bricks, and each layer goes up like this. The bricks built by this bricklaying method are beautiful.It looks like there is a neat pattern in the middle.

Secondly, because of my request, our bricks are thicker than the usual [-]cm long bricks, so in the end each wall is almost [-]cm thick, which is much thicker than our ordinary walls.I asked Hongda, Luo Lei and Luo Na, who have strong hands, to try to beat the wall hard. Except for the pain in their hands, there were almost no other major injuries.

The split timbers are interlocked on top of the piles to form a roof, just like the last time we built a wooden house.The wooden roof is covered with tiles and cement, and the tiles are painted with cement so that they are not easy to leak, and at the same time, they are not easy to be blown away by the wind. Unless it is a hurricane that can knock off the entire roof, our roof will not There are problems, and in order to prevent the rain and snow here from exceeding expectations, the angle of our roof is also more inclined, which is quite Russian.

Originally, I also wanted to use cement to pour the roof, but there is really not that much cement to be fired, and there is no steel bar to make bones, so in the end we had to fill the gaps with cement concrete on the wooden blocks that make the roof, and then put it on top The bricks and tiles are covered.

Although it is a lot more troublesome than modern craftsmanship, it is more expensive than sturdiness.Moreover, the wood inside is not easy to get wet after we paint it. I also asked the children who ran around trying to help to collect a lot of tung oil seeds nearby, and planned to use it to paint the furniture.

Although furniture can also be painted with raw lacquer, and raw lacquer is easier to obtain than tung oil, even the simplest method of making pure tung oil requires frying tung oil seeds first, and then pressing the oil.Even if we have the experience of pressing rapeseed oil, we need to make tools first, and now, none of us have time to make this tool or do this kind of thing.However, compared to the fact that some people are prone to allergies to paint, and it will be sticky when it is wet, and the furniture is often used indoors, I still prefer to use tung oil to paint furniture.

However, the most important task now is to prepare the main body of the house first, and then prepare the necessary furniture to prepare for the winter.For painting or something, you can do it slowly while waiting for the furniture to be used.

While firing bricks, I also tried to fire a batch of pottery.

Although there is the picture given by Gunan, it is too difficult for me to knead pottery by hand. My hands let me fix those tools. Let me sit down and knead pottery patiently. Just spare me.

I did it for a while, and I disliked that the clay was too soft, then I disliked that the tools were not easy to use, and then I disliked the fact that this matter was not interesting, and finally threw this matter to Luo Lei very smoothly.

As impatient as I am, there is also Canaan who is tired of sitting for a while, so Canaan excused that he was going to hunt, and I excused that I was going to prepare things for the kiln, leaving Luo Lei alone there pitifully Try to make a clay pot bit by bit with the method of building clay strips.

Later, I saw that Luo Lei was really struggling, so I managed to make a pottery wheel chassis that could be stepped on by feet, let him try it, and recommended Rona, Xiaoshui, Aman and Alin as students, and finally Solved the problem of only one person doing this.

Originally, I wanted Ye Jia and the others to try, but except for Luo Na and Xiao Shui, the other children seemed to have no such patience, and A Rui and A Que were too young. Yuan looked at Ah Xing and An Xin at Ah Yuan's house, but I still didn't let them come over, and it wouldn't be too late to try again when they were older.

But even so, Luo Lei still likes to pull me to sit next to him and watch him make those pottery. Even if I tell him to do things by himself, as long as he can move to his side, he will let me do it with him. I don't know if this means that I am more motivated when I look at him?However, to be honest, whether it is handmade or wheel-made, making pottery requires too much patience.

The pottery they make in Gunan is not glazed, and pottery pots always look rough.

Raleigh used to give me a thin kaolin knives stone knives that were good for cutting meat.

Now that there is kaolin, I also tried to use plant ash and some quartz stone powder, feldspar and kaolin powder, etc. to mix all the materials I can think of, and apply it on the half-dried pottery embryos that Luo Lei has made and has been sun-dried.

Luo Lei almost helplessly looked at me as if I didn’t help, and made him mess up. While brushing the pottery one by one with a brush, he also drew a symbol on one pottery like the symbol that Luo Lei had painted on his bowl before. Luo Lei's big head is on it, and it is stipulated that this will belong to our family in the future.

Canaan almost couldn't laugh or cry when he saw it on the side, and he almost laughed when he saw it. I wanted to put Luo Lei in dire straits.Not only did I not help, but I also did some incomprehensible things there, and I didn't tell them why. He wanted to send me away with an excuse, but how could he understand my great cause?So I gave him a disdainful look, and continued to ravage the fruits of Luo Lei's labor. Anyway, Luo Lei just sat there and watched me do anything wrong, and I'm actually good at drawing, especially hand-painted comics, although I haven't drawn for many years Well, Luo Lei's big head is still painted with charm, at least everyone knows that it is Luo Lei.

I also burned pottery bowls for several children. Aque’s painted a chickadee on it, and Ari’s painted a flying phoenix bird. No one had seen that kind before. I told them that it was a bird flying in the sky. This is an auspicious bird, while Ah Xing's is a legendary blue bird.

I drew a cute little bear for Rona, and Ye Jia said, the bear I drew is much cuter than the flame bear.I shrugged, of course, it was a cute little bear holding a honey jar.

Ye Jia was supposed to draw a small snake, but I still drew a flying dragon. Although it is not exactly the same as his head, but the appearance of a dragon makes me feel more at ease. Ye Jia because of this painting The more cute, did not say anything.Xiaoshui drew a small river, but the wood gray one was very difficult to draw, so I had to draw a tree.The other children also painted according to their wishes.The little ones were very happy, and even Aque surrounded me, asking me to teach him how to draw in the future.

I drew a horizontal plane for Anxin, on which is the rising sun, no matter where it is, the sun means life and light, and the rising sun means new life.

Ah Yuan seemed to like this very much. After it was finished, he carefully put it away for An Xin, saying that he would use it when he grew up.

This is nothing to me, but it may be an important thing for those who come here, especially for these children in the future, there are not many opportunities for you to show great kindness, but daily life Xiaohui has many.

When firing pottery, everyone was a bit novel. After all, it was something that everyone had to pay a lot of money for in the past. Later, it was no longer necessary to change. Firing pottery is also a matter of the clan, and they are not willing to teach others easily.

Of course, I will not teach others what recipe to use, especially my glaze recipe, which is even more confidential.

I still find it very interesting to see everyone walking around the pottery in such a novel way.It should be said that the people who followed us all have kind and pure hearts in nature.

The pottery has also been fired for a few days. In the past few days, we have laid the wooden piles of twelve houses one after another on the basis of the piles that we started before. Beams, and then build the roof on the basis of the beams.

On the day when the pottery kiln was opened, everyone was also waiting for the pottery to be distributed. These pottery were still fired in their own tribe, so they couldn't help but look forward to it even more.

While looking at everyone's expectant faces, I smiled and directed the male to open the kiln.

When I was the first to touch a smooth surface, my hands were shaking!

Spoiler: Luo Lei ([-])

Ah Mo said, when Luo Lie was getting married, I just nodded.

I know what Ah Mo means, he is reminding me that I have to find a companion too.

I also know that at my age, if I don't find another one, it will indeed become a trouble for the clan.

No matter how capable I am, can I guarantee that there will be no problems for the rest of my life?Half of my face has been ruined in the hunt, so the females are afraid of me, and the tribe probably no longer support me as the patriarch, at least those females who turn their heads in fright when they see my scars will not.What should I do if I get hurt or something in the future?If I don't even have children, will the tribe have no more griffins?

But, who can I find to be my mate among these females who turn their heads when they see my scars?

Luo Lie's partner is the child of Father Lorraine who rescued him when he was a child, a female Arnold who looks thin and small, and is as timid as others.Lorraine's father passed away shortly after saving Luo Lie from under the teeth of the gnawing rhinoceros. He and his grandmother have been living with difficulty on the limited supplies of the clan.

There are not much fewer people eating than hunting in the clan, so the supply of each family is not much, and it is only enough to eat.However, Abba said before that even if we squeezed through our teeth, we must repay Abba Lorraine's kindness.Therefore, our family has been giving them some food.I've delivered food to him and his grandma many times in the past, so I probably remember what kind of kid this was.I also remember the way he ran away screaming and almost fell when he saw my scar for the first time, and I also remember the way he secretly looked at Luo Lie but was afraid of being discovered by Luo Lie.

It's just that I didn't expect that Abba and the high priest would discuss how to match Luo Lie and A Nuo's friend A Xing.

I also know that the lively and generous Ah Xing is indeed more likely to take on the responsibility of a future patriarch's partner than the timid Ar Nuo who is always timid, barely talks to people, but to be honest, I don't know. I agree with this approach.

If everyone could see A Nuo secretly looking at Luo Lie, they shouldn't have such thoughts.Especially now, A Nuo's Ah Mo has also passed away, and he has spent several years guarding the tent left by his father and Ah Mo alone, living alone, just waiting to get married with Luo Lie, at this time, like this How sad would it make the kid?

But I can't say anything, after all, this is Luo Lie and Anuo's own business, and it is also for the clan.According to the words of the high priest, this is the decision of the gods.Although I don't know why the gods still take care of such things, I still secretly hope that Luo Lie will not do this.

Seeing A Nuo quietly watching Luo Lie and A Xing together, I feel a little sad, this silly boy, does he think he can do anything just by looking at him?Did he think Luo Lie would turn his head when he watched?Why not be brave?Why don't you go up there?It's just that I can't say anything, I can only walk away quietly.

Maybe it's sympathy, or guilt in my heart. I also secretly added some of my own food to A Nuo when I helped my father deliver food. Some have more strength, can think about things better when they are full, and become stronger.

When I watched him struggling to wipe the very precious clay pot left by his father to him and his mother by the stream, I couldn't help but carry it for him.

He looked at me with red and swollen eyes, and suddenly smiled slightly: "Thank you, and thank you for the extra meat you give me every day. You will definitely have a good partner."

Later, I didn't know why he said this to me, because he jumped into the river.When none of us noticed, he ran out of the tribe and walked into the river by himself.

When he was rescued, the high priest shook his head.I couldn't believe it, but the animal skin lying on it turned out to be a fresh life, and it was someone who would say thank you to me!But now...

Luo Lie stood aside, with his head bowed, and his father gave Luo Lie a fist, and asked him to lock him into a confinement hole.I just found out that A Xing had a child. Luo Lie told A Nuo about it and asked A Nuo to agree to divorce.

If he hadn't been imprisoned in the confinement hole, I would have wanted to beat him up too, for such a big man, this is the style of doing things!

But looking at A Nuo who has almost lost his breath on the animal skin, I feel pitiful again. They are still young, why do they have to ask for trouble like this?According to the family rules, if A Nuo didn't forgive Luo Lie, he would never get out of the confinement hole for the rest of his life, and how would A Xing, who has a child, live?Do they do things almost without thinking?What should we do with this matter?Do you want to change the family rules?

But what is amazing is that when we were all helpless, I heard another piece of news - Arnold has breath!

Although it has nothing to do with me directly, I don't know why, but I also feel relieved.

Then it was Ah Mo's idea, Ah Mo said, Luo Lie and Ah Xing's matter can no longer be regretted, but we should also be responsible for A Nuo, and I can't find a partner, if A Nuo agrees, why not, I will Get married with Arnold.

Although I know what kind of character Arnold is, and I don’t know if he will agree. To be honest, Arnold is not a good partner, but I still agree. As long as Arnold agrees, I will make preparations .

In my opinion, Arnold will not agree, because I know that he likes Luo Lie, really likes, that kind of obsessive eyes, for his crying sadness, for his courage to walk into the river, should I like it.Although he didn't know why, and he didn't know why he liked Luo Lie, but that look shouldn't be wrong.I also remember the first time he saw my face running away, the last time he thanked me weakly, and firmly said that I would have a good partner. For some reason, I felt that if I had to take care of him for the rest of my life, he would If you are willing to give me a child, I agree.

It's just that I didn't expect that the A Nuo who agreed to marry me was no longer the A Nuo before.

Although he also accepted the meat I gave him and didn't go out very much, I also noticed that he seemed to have got a pile of wood at home and was doing something with the set of tools left by Father Lorraine.And a few times I passed by and saw him coming out of the tent, I was no longer so scared, but more of a kind of inquiry.I heard Ah Mo chanting that he even tried to build a beehive by himself!

I thought, maybe Arnold really thought about it, and he was a little happy in his heart.

But I didn't expect this kid to run out again in the name of carrying salt!

I was a little worried, but I couldn't show anything.I don't want people to say that I already have something with Arnold. This is not a good thing for him to jump into the river. I have more sympathy and pity for him, and I have no other feelings. As for him, he has more feelings for me. I guess it's gratitude, maybe that gratitude is not much, I can't let others say anything.But I'm still a little worried, this kid didn't know where he went, and even our hunting team came back, and he hasn't come back yet!

When it was time to share the food, Arnold finally came back!With abundant prey - seven or eight catties of salt, a root we have seen in one animal skin bag, a plant we don't know in another animal skin bag, three pheasants tied together And a hare, and two little boars he was leading!

Of course, the females of the tribe have also gone out, but their route is the road that we have already cut, leading to the salt cave, and the cave leading to the back mountain for winter.Females also harvest, but they are all wild vegetables and fruits. It is too difficult for females to catch pheasants flying in the sky, rabbits running on the ground and wild boars that run scary.Not to mention females, even males are not easy.Although for males, the reason why they cannot catch pheasants and hares is that they are too small and nimble to catch, and it is difficult to catch wild boars because in the mountains and forests, it is very difficult for one person to deal with a wild boar without animalization. easy.

Although Arnold caught a young wild boar that was not weaned, and he said he was lucky, in fact, I don’t think anyone has this kind of luck, and he can easily catch two young wild boars. Thin little female.

The clansmen were all surprised.me too.

After some deliberation, the patriarch finally decided to give him all his prey, but give him half of the meat. Although according to the clan rules, all the harvest of the female belongs to himself, but his harvest is so amazing that he can almost eat it. Comparable to a male's harvest.So everyone can accept this decision. After all, who wouldn't be happy if they could eat more?What's more, he actually gained more than anyone else.It's just that everyone never expected a female to have such a harvest, so they never thought about letting the female do this too.

Seeing him carrying those things and stumbling forward, almost subconsciously, I stepped forward and took the things in his hand.

When he looked back at me, his eyes shone in the light of the setting sun, a little like the golden light of his father after he turned into a beast. It was really beautiful.And he was no longer afraid of me. Instead, he handed me all the things in his hand without any politeness, and he took the pheasants and hares by himself, and let me send him back graciously.

The tribe saw that I was going to send him back, of course they laughed.It's just that his natural attitude prevented others from showing any malicious attitude.Besides, he was soon to be my partner, and it didn't really matter much to think about it.Instead, everyone just said some jokes.

When he said that he wanted to raise wild boars, I was already very surprised. I still remember the scene where a little wild boar in the clan ran around, and he was too scared to hide in the tent, but now he actually said that he wanted to raise wild boars!Still so firmly said that it will be able to raise well.

Just looking at his determined expression, I don't have much to say, I just plan to help him get a few strong wooden stakes to tie up the little wild boar.

Then, I heard Arnold's attention which surprised me even more. He said, it's better to get a few wooden stakes around a tree and tie the little wild pig to it so that he can't run away no matter what.

He said that when he ate with me, I was no longer as surprised as I could describe, and my heart was surging!That cowardly Arnold who ran away when he saw me actually asked me to have dinner together!

But in fact, the food he cooks is delicious.Although he was clumsy with making a fire with flint, the pheasant soup he cooked with what he called ginger was delicious, not fishy, ​​nor greasy; the meat he roasted with honey was sweet and tender, and he The roasted rabbit was just on fire, and the meat was tender and delicious.He also gave me the root of the plant he brought back. After roasting in the fire, this plant he called sweet potato tasted sweet and soft, and had a very strange delicacy. Ah Mo, who has been in food for ten years, is full of praise.

By the way, he also invited Ah Mo to dinner. Before, he didn't say hello to anyone. This time, when he saw Ah Mo coming to ask me to go back to eat, he warmly invited Ah Mo to sit down and eat together.

Listening to Ah Mo talking about some past events with him, I didn't say anything, so that A Nuo could hear him, and I let him talk about some things that didn't need to be mentioned, so I just stared at Ah Mo and let A Nuo hear them. He doesn't go on.

After eating, I accidentally ate very full, really full, fuller than I have ever eaten before, so that I had to go on patrol to digest food afterwards.After eating a roast rabbit, a few catties of roast meat, and sweet potato and pheasant soup, how can you not feel full?I was really satisfied with what I ate, as if I ate so full in my memory when Luo Lie was not born as a child.

Ah Mo not only enjoyed eating at his house, but also loved what he made of what he said was a wooden bowl, and said he wanted to take it home to show to Dad.

Hearing what he said, Arnold gave him a few sweet potatoes and half a can of pheasant meat, which made me a little jealous.However, when Ah Mo was trying to get the bowl he gave me, I stopped Ah Mo in time.

While helping him to add some firewood for the fire by the firepit, lest he would have to be clumsy for a long time before the fire goes out, and at the same time, when he was holding the bowl I used, I grabbed it and carved my own symbol, and then looked at him Reluctantly, he said give me the bowl.