After I crossed the interstellar space, I survived in the wilderness and engaged in infrastructure c

Chapter 112: The New Home
Lunch is still stir-fried bacon with wild vegetables and stewed meat with wild vegetables. Recently, eating meat every day has made the five of them a little angry.

"Su Meng, I think it's time to expand our diet, I'm tired of pork." Bo Jing swallowed the bacon in his mouth with a painful face.

"That's right, I want to eat seafood." Su Xiang thought of the taste of coconut crab, his eyes lit up, and he quickly agreed.

After all, Zhang Lin still cared about his image as Shidi, and just silently followed: "Add one."

Su Meng just felt speechless, she looked at Du Jiayue again, and she happened to meet Du Jiayue's expectant eyes.

"Okay, if we finish building the roof today and it doesn't rain tomorrow, let's go to the beach again."

After saying this, Su Meng felt a little familiar, as if she had said the same thing not long ago?Shouldn't this be considered a flag?
After lunch, because the clay has not been dried yet, the third layer of thatch can only be laid after the clay is completely dry, so Su Meng, Su Xiang, Zhang Lin, and Bo Jing started to install doors and windows for the earthen house. Du Jia Yue started to clean the soil house again.

Fiery sunlight shines in through the door and windows, making the room not so dark inside.

The corner of Su Meng's mouth hooked, this is their new home.

She is satisfied.

The next step is to install the doors and install the windows.

The gate is made of wrist-thin logs tied together with ropes, and the manufacturing method is the same as that of the round wooden table.

It's just that the two ends of the wooden stick on one side of the gate are slightly longer, which is used to fix it.

After installing the doors and windows, Su Meng pondered for a while, and felt that there were still too many things to do, and for some reason, she always had a strange sense of urgency in her heart.

This feeling also appeared not long ago, and then it rained heavily for three days.

Could it be that something bad is going to happen on the island?

Shaking his head, Su Meng suppressed this idea for the time being. The most important thing at present is to build a good house. The road has to be walked step by step, and the fat man also eats it bite by bite.

Then, Su Meng took the engineering shovel and brought Su Xiang, Zhang Lin, and Bo Jing to the stone wall with the hole reserved. Teach them how to make a chimney.

If you want to build a fireplace in an earthen house, you must do a good job of exhausting the smoke, otherwise the whole house will be full of smoke, and it will cause carbon monoxide poisoning.

In this case, smoke exhaust is particularly important, and making a chimney is undoubtedly the best choice.

In order to solve this problem, she has already reserved a place at the beginning of building the earthen house. What she needs to do now is to trim the reserved hole, and then build a corresponding chimney outside the hole.

What she was going to build was a straight chimney, the simplest kind.

The smoke outlet of the straight chimney exhausts the smoke directly above, that is, directly from the roof. Although this method exhausts the smoke smoothly and draws more from the fireplace, it also has a disadvantage, that is, if it rains, the rainwater will directly down the chimney.

The solution to this is also very simple, just add a rain cover above the chimney.

Chimneys are easy to build, and stone and clay are readily available, so it doesn't take too much time.

After more than an hour, the chimney was finally built, although it still looked a little wet.

"Very good, then we should build the fireplace." Su Meng nodded with satisfaction. As long as Su Xiang, Zhang Lin, and Bai Jing have learned these skills, she will be able to relax a lot in the future.

When the four of them came to the shelter, Du Jiayue was cleaning the ground and walls with a broom.

The production of the broom is actually very simple, that is, to surround the wooden sticks with thatch, and then tie them with ropes to fix them, so that the simple version of the broom is ready.

Su Meng withdrew her gaze, came to the hole in the stone wall, raised her eyes to look out, and could only see the not yet dry inner wall of the chimney.

On the ground corresponding to the hole, there is still a pothole, below which is buried gravel before laying the foundation.

Su Xiang, Zhang Lin, and Bo Jing spread a layer of clay on the gravel, and then began to pile up the fireplace with stones.

This fireplace is a bit like the one in Europe. If you burn a fire here, the fire will spread along the laid pipes, and then the whole earthen house will be warm, and you can cook on it.

After making the fireplace, Su Meng breathed a sigh of relief, and went to help Du Jiayue clean up before she had time to rest.

As for the follow-up, we have to wait for the fireplace to dry before testing, that is, burning wood in the fireplace.

If it goes well, according to theoretical knowledge, the hot flame will heat the air to form hot air. Using the principle that the hot air rises and the smoke is lighter than the air, the dense smoke generated will be discharged from the top outlet of the chimney by the hot air. Fresh cold air from outside is drawn in from the entrance.

This not only increases the oxygen needed for the wood to burn and makes the fire more vigorous, but the heat generated also dries the clay in the pipes, allowing the chimney to stabilize in a very short time.

And over time, the clay in the chimney will be burned into a semi-pottery shape.

It was dusk at this time, and the clay on the roof had already dried out. Su Xiang, Zhang Lin, and Bo Jing climbed onto the roof again, and started the last process - laying dry thatch.

Hurrying quickly, the five people finally built and cleaned the earthen house when the sky darkened.

"Boom—"

A muffled thunder suddenly sounded in the sky, and then a huge lightning flashed across the sky again, illuminating most of the island like daytime.

"Hurry up, the bed and the round wooden table haven't been moved into the earthen house yet." Su Meng only felt a little headache, but was very excited. It had been 21 days since she landed on the island, and she was finally going to live in a decent house. This is simply a milestone.

"I think we need a wooden shelf." Zhang Lin pointed to the clay pots piled up on the ground with a serious expression: "This is too messy and takes up space."

Du Jiayue nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, and echoed repeatedly: "Yes, yes, and some clay pots contain food, it's better to lift them off the ground, otherwise there will be many ants, centipedes and other insects crawling in, and susceptible to moisture."

"Okay, I'll teach you how to make wooden frames tonight." Su Meng agreed with this suggestion very much, and took advantage of the opportunity to arrange the work plan for the evening.

The coolie trio: ...I would have known it earlier so I wouldn't have said it.

After working for a while, the five people finally arranged the limited furniture such as the bamboo bed, the round wooden table, and the pottery chamber pot.

Considering the cold temperature at night, Su Meng and five people also spread a layer of dry thatch on the bed, then a layer of mats woven from bark, and finally put sleeping bags and insect repellent powder.

(End of this chapter)