Wolf King

The less people know about the field, the more blindly optimistic and overconfident they are. Xiao Yun soon found that he had also stepped into this blind spot—when he dug the foundation and was about to enter the next process, he realized... Digging the mud at the bottom of the river is not an easy task.

In autumn, the water surface of the river is shallow and the water flows slowly, but Nat is a river after all, a river with a width of 20 meters in autumn when the water is shallow.

Standing on the bank of the river, carrying a self-made load, staring blankly at the water surface for a few minutes, realizing that he was still too naive, Xiao Yun sang a song in his head: the autumn wind blows, the autumn water flows... …

Stiffly turning his head to look at the bull's horn, Xiao Yun tried not to distort his face too much: "Well...we need a lot of mud, mud that has been soaked in water, are there any dry ponds or relatively shallow swamps around here? some type of?"

Niujiao thought about it seriously, nodded, and then led Xiao Yun to the south of the tribe for about an hour, and saw irregularly distributed swamps and water pools among the wild grass...

The big paw of the bull's horn stretched out again to hold Xiao Yun's shoulder, and said seriously, "You can't go over."

Xiao Yun turned his head and left, Nima picked mud to irrigate the foundation from such a far away place, why not dig the soil by himself!

After wasting a little time, building a house started from self-reliance again, still digging soil near the mud brick building on the river bank, carrying buckets of water and mud, mixing them with grass and reeds...

After a busy day, the foundation of the long mud-brick house was probably finished. The next day Xiao Yun checked the hardness of the foundation, and felt that it would be better to wait until it was completely dry before starting construction, so he continued to drag the horns to make bricks— —Considering the setback of getting thin mud, he can’t expect to find thin stone slabs on the grassland to replace cement slabs, so he has to prepare wider mud bricks in advance to replace cement slabs in the big project of heating the kang inside the house.

The mud bricks used to build the house Xiao Yun made are slightly shorter than the elbow, palm-width, and fist-thick. The mud bricks used to build the kang surface cannot be of this size. Again, using his junior high school student-level knowledge of numbers After writing and drawing for half a day, considering the hardness and load-bearing capacity of the mud brick, Xiao Yun did not increase the length of the new mud brick mold, but only increased the width and thickness by about one-third each.

As a southerner, Xiao Yun has never seen a heated kang in real life, but in modern society there is a magical mobile app called Douyin. When he was bored, Xiao Yun not only watched the truck driver Kan Dashan and the crew on the Yellow River on Douyin. Fishing, and I have seen a master mason in the Northeast live broadcast a heated kang... This kind of redundant and boring knowledge is not good enough for talking in modern society, but it will be of great use in this evil alien world.

The new batch of mud bricks were air-dried, and the foundation was completely dry, and the construction of the house could start. Xiao Yun also had to start to worry about the problem of soil and cement.

In the video of the Australian brother, this Internet celebrity who plays hardcore crafts uses snail shells mixed with clay instead of soil cement, but grasslands are not jungles, and Xiao Yun has no place to find so many snail shells, so he still only He could find a way with the existing materials. This time, Xiao Yun had to use the mud from the swamp south of the tribe.

It is absolutely impossible to convince the ox horns, but it is very simple to convince the patriarch. Xiao Yun found the patriarch and mentioned that the mud brick house needs to get enough fine mud from the swamp as the mud brick adhesive. One, together with the horns, belonged to Xiao Yun.

Leading three adult clansmen, each with a pair of hand-carried loads, came to the edge of the swamp in the south of the tribe. Xiao Yun searched for a place where the water level receded for a long time, and selected a place where the silt was so fine that he couldn't hold it with his hands. The place where the clansman picked up the mud back to the tribe.

Needless to say about the labor capacity of the Snow Werewolf, Xiao Yun walked two round trips, which is estimated to be at least twenty miles away. If you don't deepen the depth of hand-carried loads... Don't even think about making a cart, Xiao Yun doesn't have the skill to make wheels by hand.

Swamp silt mixed with yellow clay and then mixed with cut straw and reed stalks. This kind of adhesive is definitely not as good as cement, but it is better than nothing—Xiao Yun also knows that earthen cement cannot be separated from lime, the problem is that he I have nowhere to look, anyway, I don’t expect the mud brick house to last for many years, and it doesn’t need too strong corrosion resistance, so let’s just let it go…

Building walls, this technical job is completely impossible to rely on horns, which can't even dig the foundation. At this time, the women in the clan showed their talents-with the help of straw hanging stones as auxiliary lines, Wool and the two adult snow werewolf females assigned to Xiao Yun by the patriarch were able to build a relatively straight wall, and they also noticed the fun of playing a game in the process of building the wall, and they never got tired of it.

The mud-brick house designed by Xiao Yun is long and 12 meters long and [-] meters wide. Considering that more clansmen can keep warm in heavy snow days, the kang area in the house should occupy half of the house. The mouth of the smoke is outside the house; the kang surface made of bricks is not as strong as the one-piece cement board, but it is still the same sentence, Xiao Yun does not expect this thing to last for many years anyway...

After two days of work, the four walls with the gate, smoke vent, top ventilation window, and beam slant were completed. The brilliant (... correct) artificial creation caused quite a stir among the clansmen, although Xiao Yun repeatedly emphasized that Don't touch the wall until it's dry, there are still countless clansmen taking advantage of him not paying attention and secretly poking their fingers at the mud brick wall...

The mud-brick house could not be erected yet, and the bean sprouts that had been buried in the bean sprout pit for five or six days could be eaten. When Xiao Yun lifted the cover of the animal skin and reed, even the patriarch couldn’t help but ran out to watch the excitement .

Anyone who has experience in grocery shopping knows that bean sprouts with a length of six to eight centimeters are the most tender and crispy, but Xiao Yun has no real bean sprouts after all. ...But this is not important. After many days of wild vegetable collection, the wild vegetables near the tribe have been greatly reduced. The newly grown bean sprouts can supplement the demand for wild vegetables. For the snow werewolves, this is enough.

Hundreds of kilograms of bean sprouts were taken out of the bean sprout pit, and the patriarch confirmed with Xiao Yun five times that he only dumped half a bag of black beans into the pit before, and the look in his eyes was like looking at his first love, which made Xiao Yun look like a fool goosebumps—it’s not that the patriarch is too ugly, the snow werewolves who can’t live to old age are still young and middle-aged before they play with their bodies. If body odor and hygiene problems are ignored, the patriarch is actually pretty good looking Okay; the crux of the problem is that Xiao Yun couldn't tell the male and female snow werewolves at all since the original owner didn't have them in his memory... If the two adult snow werewolf females under his command were cleaned up, they would be handsome guys If they hadn't reported their families, Xiao Yun would definitely not know whether they were male or female.

The bean sprouts are known as the poor man’s companion. They are cheap and delicious. Divide [-] catties of bean sprouts into four pots and boil them in the meat-cooked soup. Add a little salt. The boiled bean sprouts are better than wild vegetables and won praise from all snowwolves that day. ——Of course, wild vegetables were added to the boiled bean sprouts, and Xiao Yun forced to add plantain and purslane to the wild vegetables, both of which can prevent dysentery and diarrhea. Now, no matter whether they are old or not, and whether they eat well or not, they have to be forced to eat.

After eating a meal of bean sprouts, without Xiao Yun's persuasion from the patriarch, he offered to dig another bean sprout pit, and discussed the storage time and daily consumption of bean sprouts (the snow werewolf pays attention to dinner and eats it casually during the day, Xiao Yun thinks this is on the grassland In the long winter, the Snow Werewolf found that it is not easy to fight against the habit of cold nights without eating enough), the two discussed adding only one next to the original bean sprout pit on the river bank, and using it alternately - daily consumption of [-] to [-] catties In the case of bean sprouts, it doesn’t make sense to increase too much. If you soak too much bean sprouts, you can only waste them. There is no market on the grassland for you to sell bean sprouts.

As for the strange phenomenon that Xiao Yun, a cub, can discuss and decide important matters in the clan with the patriarch... The other snow werewolves didn't envy this string at all. Use it, when can it be used... There is no one.

Compared with the rough nerves of the Snow Werewolf, Thrall's reaction was greater. Of course, when Xiao Yun entered Thrall's tent for the night, this guy didn't even dare to look in Xiao Yun's direction, and he avoided Xiao Yun when he entered and exited, as if Xiao Yun His body was covered with poison, as if a touch could kill him.

During the two days of waiting for the mud brick wall to dry, Xiao Yun led Niujiao and two adult snow werewolf females to replenish black beans in the original bean sprout pit and dig a new bean sprout pit. Accompanied by an adult snow werewolf, Xiao Yun went to the primitive forest to the west of the tribe again—his reason was to find materials for the roof, and this matter must be done now. As for the other things... well, it is incidental.

But... even if he was accompanied by three adult snow werewolves, he was still not allowed to enter the forest, and could only wander around the periphery of the forest...

Thinking about the dangers of the primeval jungle, Xiao Yun didn't bother to argue anymore. Anyway, there is hope to find new treasures in the area where the bird flies. He will wait for two years at most before he becomes an adult before exploring further.

Not to mention, birds are indeed the main contributors to the spread of species in the primitive environment. Just wandering around the periphery of the forest for more than half an hour, Xiao Yun was pleasantly surprised to find Mao Li — a small shelled fruit wrapped in a needle-shaped sphere , the husk is quite hard, Xiao Yun, who didn't recognize the chestnut tree, only discovered it when he stepped on the chestnut ball that fell to the ground.

Xiao Yun remembered that Mao Li grew in the south, and he didn't know what kind of large birds brought the seeds of Mao Li to the grasslands and jungles in the cold temperate zone. Birds also like to eat this stuff, and most of the seeds hanging on the branches Eaten by birds, the ones that fell to the ground are still there.

The Snow Werewolf also knew that Mao Li could be eaten, but they probably felt that Mao Li was too troublesome to eat. When Xiao Yun asked them to pick it up, they were a little bit less interested... Except for horns, they didn't pick anything as long as it was delicious.

After picking up about four or five catties of chestnuts, I came across a pine tree again. Needless to say, I packed everything that could be packed from the pine cones hanging on the tree and falling on the ground.

After picking up the pine cone, Xiao Yun also encountered a few wild fruit trees that Xiao Yun didn't know, and he became more interested in this snow werewolf. Unfortunately, juicy wild fruit is the staple food of birds, and [-]% to [-]% of the wild fruit hanging on the branches All that remains are empty shells.

What surprised Xiao Yun the most was finding wild garlic... This thing is also very common on the earth, and its wild range is extremely wide. It is called scallion in ancient Chinese sayings, and bitter garlic in southerners. It has a special bitter taste and garlic aroma. Traditional Chinese medicine Think of it as a warming and tonic medicine. In Xiao Yun's hometown, he likes to use bitter garlic in cold salads and stir-fries, and use it as a condiment.Deodorizing, seasoning, warming and nourishing, let Xiao Yun see that the appointment cannot be let go.

After collecting wild garlic, luck seems to be almost used up, or maybe there are countless delicious things around this forest, but Xiao Yun doesn't know it...

For example, after going around for an afternoon, after harvesting four to fifty catties of various wild fruits and garlic, the group of people chopped up the required wood and returned to the tribe. On the way, Niujiao saw a family of wild boars wandering on the grassland, chasing after them happily... ...However, the wild boar also found a few snow werewolves early in the morning, and ran so fast early that the horns did not catch up.

After waiting patiently for two days, the swamp mud-based adhesive did not disappoint, and the solidified mud brick wall was quite strong... As long as the Snow Werewolf does not change back into a wolf-shaped brute force, Xiao Yun felt that it would be impossible to use it for a few years. question.

Xiao Yun was not in a hurry to fix the roof, firstly, the recovered wood needed to be dried, and secondly, the heated kang built with a larger air-permeable surface could be dried faster.

This day, Xiao Yun asked Niujiao and the others to pick up the mud from the swamp to prepare the kang. The patriarch, who had always guarded the cattle and sheep, did not go to the grassland for the first time, and insisted on staying to help. ...Let the patriarch move the bricks.Lou Kuang, made of rattan and straw, was fine picking mud, but picking mud bricks was enough. To bring the bricks back from the river bank, he had to run back and forth with his hands in his arms.

There are two kinds of mud bricks used for the kang, one is the normal size, and the other is the wider and thicker size. Xiao Yun roughly marked out the position of the kang on the mud floor of the house, and first built a large stove-this is for him. The difficulty is not high. It is not uncommon to see big stoves in the countryside when he lived in the uncle's house in the countryside. This thing has almost no technical content. In addition to requiring strength, it is as difficult as making handmade toys.

The large stove and the heated kang are integrated. The large stove is built on the left side of the house. There is a smoke-through opening at the connection between the stove body and the heated kang, and the hot smoke from the large stove is introduced into the heated kang. This is the heating principle of the heated kang. The heated kang is for people to sit on, so there is a requirement for strength. In the heated kang, bricks of ordinary specifications are used to build the flue, so that the heat transfer on the kang surface can be more uniform, and the pressure on the kang surface can also be dispersed.

Xiao Yun built the square, square, and hollow stove by himself, and he could ask a few female tribesmen to help when building the flue inside the kang.

The so-called flue is a design that builds a channel inside the kang, so that the hot smoke from the large stove can rotate around the inside of the kang, transfer the heat to the surface of the kang, and then discharge it from the smoke exhaust port. In simple terms, it is Build an extremely simple mud brick maze inside the heated kang, with the entrance and exit being one road... A skill that ancient Chinese farmers who don't know mathematics, physics and chemistry can learn.

Because what Xiao Yun wants to do is similar to the heated kang of Datongpu, he can't use the back-shaped flue, he can only choose the straight hole type, that is, the four parallel flues simultaneously transmit heat and then send the flue gas out of the house; Compared with the back-shaped kang, the hole-shaped kang consumes more heat energy and is not so energy-saving, but anyway, this Datong-style kang is originally shared by the tribe and does not belong to the family.

After building the flue, a layer of sloped loess and a layer of crushed stones of different sizes should be laid on the inside of the kang. And let the hot air flowing in the flue pass to the surface of the kang to provide heat as much as possible. Among them, paving gravel also has a function of maintaining heat.

It’s okay to say that it’s fine, but it’s not too troublesome. The construction of the inside of the kang is over, and the next step is to pave the surface of the kang with special wide mud bricks...

Lay the kang surface, and then seal the surface with swamp mud version of soil cement to ensure that there is no smoke leakage in the house...

It took Xiao Yun and his five helpers a whole afternoon to make the kang similar to Datongpu, and after waiting for two more days for the surface of the kang to dry, Xiao Yun tried to burn a large stove and check the heat transfer performance of the kang.

The hot flue gas in the large stove enters the inside of the heated kang and passes through the straight-hole flue. During the flow of the flue gas, part of the heat energy is absorbed by the crushed stones, part of it is transmitted to the surface of the kang, and part of it goes out along the outlet leading to the outside. The smoke mouth is lost, and the waste of the straight-hole kang is wasted on it, and the heat energy cannot be retained as effectively as possible, but this is enough-the fire in the big stove has been burning for about 10 minutes, and Xiao Yun lightly pressed the button on the kang surface. Hands feel warm.

"Sure, sure!" Xiao Yun swung his fist vigorously, his hard work for so many days was finally not in vain.

Then, he saw the fleece outside the house rushing in with a panicked face, gesticulating incoherently towards the outside.

Xiao Yun followed Wool out of the house and took a look... Well, the smoke outside the house scared not only Wool, but even Sal, who had been hiding in the tent, was startled, and half of his head was exposed to poke his head over there... What the hell, He forgot to build an upward chimney at the vent.