Mountain Wild Clouds

Chapter 36 Making bamboo shoots and salty, suspended structure
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It is not difficult to make salty bamboo shoots. Slice the bamboo shoots, throw them in a pot and cook them, then take them out, filter the water and put them in a jar, put a layer of salt in it, compact it, and seal it.

Although he has clay pots, it is impossible to seal them.Therefore, he chose to use a bamboo tube instead, and then only need to apply a layer of wet mud on the joint of the bamboo tube cover.

Thinking of salty bamboo shoots, Yun Buliu realized that he missed white rice very much. He hadn't eaten white rice for a long time.

When he used to eat salted bamboo shoots in his hometown, his favorite was to pour homemade red yeast rice wine on the salted bamboo shoots, add some lard, sprinkle some salt and monosodium glutamate, and steam it just like that.

Thinking of that tempting taste, he missed white rice even more.

But thinking that there might not be white rice in this world, he felt a sense of loss.

Peel the bamboo shoots, use a bone knife to peel off the muddy bottom, and place them on the deerskin to cut into pieces.

Cut into slices and cook in clay pots.

After cooking ten bamboo shoots, seven tubes of bamboo shoots have been produced.

Yun Buliu felt that he would not be able to finish eating so much in a year.

So he didn't plan to cook the remaining bamboo shoots, and kept them as vegetables. Anyway, if he didn't peel off the skins of the bamboo shoots, he could store them for a few more days.

After exercising the next day, he continued planting bamboo stakes.

After another two days, he finally planted those bamboo stakes.

In order to make these bamboo stakes more stable, he spent another day, using some thin bamboo with bamboo tails and grass vines, to connect these bamboo stakes with triangles.

Among the 25 bamboo columns, the four at the four corners and the first two main columns planted in the middle are more than ten meters high, and the other 23 are about two meters above the ground.

After these bamboo stakes were laid, Yun Buliu was not in a hurry to lay the first floor of bamboo rafts.

He never knew how to build a bamboo house before. These are all tricks he came up with, and he built them silently with a plan he thought was feasible.

In his opinion, building the sling floor is not the most difficult thing, the real difficulty is how to build the first and second floors.The bottom of the first floor is the stilt floor. It doesn't matter how many reinforced bamboo columns there are below, and it will not have any impact.But on the second floor, there needs to be enough space for activities.

If there are too many pillars, it will be very inconvenient for people to move around inside.

But if there are fewer bamboo pillars, the degree of stability must not be enough.

How to ensure that under the premise of sufficient stability, minimize the number of supporting bamboo columns and ensure the maximum room for movement is what he needs to think about.

In the evening, he soaked the freshly collected tea leaves in a newly fired earthenware cup, and lit the fragrant wood powder scraped from the incense sticks with the fired incense burner.

For a moment, the unknown scent of fragrant wood permeated the cave.

This fragrance is somewhat similar to sandalwood, but it is much lighter than sandalwood, and I don't know if it is because the amount he used is relatively small.

The firing of the pottery was completed the morning before yesterday. Two pottery cups, one incense burner for incense powder, one clay pot, one pot, and one lid were successfully fired.

Lighting an incense burner is a small bowl with a cover, and poking a few holes in the cover. It is simple and crude but practical.

Today, those tea leaves were also dried, and he put them into the dried bamboo tubes, and he collected four bamboo tubes.If you save some soaking, it should be no problem to soak for a year or two.

Sitting on the rattan chair, smelling the fragrance, stroking the little white snake and the little fur ball, he fell into deep thought.

He didn't graduate from the Department of Architecture, so he didn't know much about architecture, but he also saw some mechanical structure diagrams when surfing the Internet.

In the end, he chose to use the elasticity of bamboo to design a suspended structure.

After thinking about it, he let go of the little white snake and the little hairball, took a sip of the tea, and felt refreshed. The warm tea bloomed in his taste buds with a slightly bitter taste.

But at the end, there is a hint of sweet aftertaste, which is endless aftertaste.

It may also be the reason why he basically ate meat for such a long time!He always felt that this was the best tea he had ever had so far.

After drinking the tea, he stood up, covered the little fur ball with a rabbit skin, then lay down on the kang with the little white snake in his arms, and soon fell into a dream.

He is used to finding the little white snake coiled on his body every morning when he wakes up. If he doesn't find it when he wakes up one day, he might be even more surprised!
Therefore, he no longer carried it back to its nest.

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After breakfast the next day, Yun Buliu planted six bamboo pillars again.

These six bamboo columns are planted next to the longest six bamboo columns, but they are much shorter than the six longest ones, because they are used to support the bamboo beams on the second floor, and they all bend inward.

After planting, tie their bases together for reinforcement.

After the six bamboo pillars were planted, he fixed five bamboo pillars horizontally on the five rows of bamboo pillars as the bottom beam.It is also very simple to fix these bamboos used as bottom beams. Insert small wooden sticks into the bamboo piles, and then use the hard mud left by firing pottery pots to fix the small wooden sticks.

The burnt hard mud will not carry insect eggs, so that the bamboo will not be damaged by insects prematurely.

Then use a rope to measure the specific distance, and use wild boar tusks to punch holes in these bamboo beams.

The size of the hole is consistent with the size of the small wooden stick, so that after the small wooden stick is inserted into the hole of the bamboo beam, it will not shake easily.

After the bamboo beams are erected, thin bamboo strips are used to bind the bamboo beams for reinforcement.

After these bamboo beams were erected, he buckled the bamboo beams that had been cut in half on top of these bamboo beams, and spread them densely, and each piece was bound and reinforced with bamboo strips.

Then lay a layer of bamboo slices horizontally on top.These bamboo pieces are all fixed on several bamboo strips with bamboo nails, making them a whole like a bamboo raft and will not move easily.

This tedious project took him more than ten days.In more than half a month, he built a solid bamboo platform, which can be regarded as a remarkable achievement for him.

Stepping on the bamboo platform, he shook it and found that the bamboo platform was not moving at all.

Yun Buliu is very satisfied with his masterpiece.

Then, he began to think about erecting beams for the second floor of the bamboo building.

He planned to make the first floor of the bamboo building a height of about four meters, then measured the length with a rope, and marked it on the four corner posts and the two main posts.

He chose the side next to the cave as the gate, and the back as an open-air bamboo platform. There was no main pillar in the middle of the main entrance, so he first used two three-meter-long bamboos as gateposts.

First put a beam on it, tie it to the diagonal corner post with bamboo strips, and then use two door posts to support the beam, and do the same on the opposite balcony.

Afterwards, a bamboo beam was erected between the main post and the first door post, and the curved bamboo post tied to the corner post was used as the top post to stand in the middle of the beam.

He used this suspended design concept to make the first floor seem to be able to support the second floor without support columns.

Looking from bottom to top, it looks like a hexagon inside a quadrilateral.

Using this principle, he kept shrinking the hexagon until it reached a height of about four meters, and then erected a beam between the main column and the corner column.

Then, just like the first layer, the bamboo split in half is used to spread the first layer, and then the bamboo rafts are used to spread another layer.In this way, the erection of the second floor is completed.

On the second floor, it is relatively simple. A beam is erected between several main columns and corner columns, and then bamboo split in half is used as tiles, and these 'bamboo tiles' are fixed with bamboo strips.

Then, he used several bamboo sticks under the beams for reinforcement.

After nearly two months, he finally finished the frame of the bamboo building.

Next, he just needs to continue making bamboo rafts and seal the four sides of the bamboo building as walls.

(End of this chapter)