Going through ancient farming to engage in infrastructure construction

Chapter 25 25 Shenmu tribe, build a fence

Yao Xiaoqing looked at the prey and said with a smile: "Today's harvest is not bad! Why did you come back so late, father has been worried about you all the time."

Mu Feng looked at her, and said with some anxiety: "We came back a long time ago, but we found two people following us on the way, we hid in the woods for a while, and came back after getting rid of those two."

He smiled and said to the worried Yun Amu: "Mum, we are fine."

Yun Amu looked around and nodded with a smile, "It's good that you're fine, you're hungry!" They entered the cave together.

Standing at the entrance of the cave, Yaohu was relieved to see the three of them come back. Mufeng told Yaohu about meeting the man with the wooden charm totem.

"They are from the Shenmu tribe. It seems that they live near that valley. I told you not to go there yesterday. Why did you go again?"

"We went hunting in the northern forest this time, and I don't know why they followed us?" Mu Feng looked at Yaohu and said aggrievedly.

Yaohu patted the three of them, and said to Mufeng, "I thought you went to the same place yesterday."

Uncle Shui looked at Yaohu worriedly, "Boss, what should we do now?"

Dashi clenched his fists and looked at Yaohu, "Boss, we are almost done, if they dare to come, we will fight with him."

Everyone said in unison: "Yes, don't be afraid of them, fight with them."

Yaohu raised his hand to stop everyone's shouting, and said to them: "I tell you, if the Shenmu tribe really wants to fight us, we can't beat them."

Yaohu paused and looked at them.

"What we have to do now is to avoid them and store up the food while winter is still far away. Now let's surround the entrance of the cave as Xiaoqing said, and practice archery as Xiaoqing said. Do more The wooden arrows are kept, and when the Shenmu tribe finds us, we will not be afraid of them, and we will fight them when the time comes."

After hearing this, Dashi and the others realized that what Yaohu said was correct, and replied loudly: "Yes, leader."

Yaohu looked at Yao Xiaoqing, "Xiaoqing, the wood has been cut back, what should I do? You teach us."

Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said: "Father, everyone has been tired all day, let's fill up our stomachs first, and then build the fence."

Yaohu felt the same way, "Okay, let's fill our stomachs first."

Everyone went in three or two times to fill their stomachs, and lit two bonfires on the platform outside the cave.Yao Xiaoqing said to Yaohu: "Father, you and Uncle Shui make tools, while Mu Feng and Uncle Dashi dig holes."

Yao Hu and Mu Feng nodded, "Okay, teach us."

Yao Xiaoqing nodded, and reserved a courtyard gate about 1.2 meters wide on the gentle slope on the side of the platform facing the river.Let Mufeng and the others dig a deep pit every half step, until they reach the bottom of the cliff.

Mufeng and Dashi picked up stone axes, stone knives and wooden shovels and got busy.

Yao Xiaoqing asked Shui Bo and Chong to make two wooden hammers out of wood.Jiao Yaohu and Dashi made a herringbone wooden ladder with wood and vines.

When people are united, Mount Tai moves.Finish the tools here, Mufeng and the others dug a deep pit on one side.

Yao Xiaoqing asked Mu Feng, Zhu and Xiong Niu to make stakes, while the others continued to dig holes.

Mu Feng and Xiong Niu set up a log and inserted it into the deep pit. The pig climbed up the wooden ladder and beat the log into the deep pit with a wooden hammer until the log stopped moving down.

After Mufeng and the others had finished laying the first stake, Yao Xiaoqing shook it vigorously, and did not find any looseness at the bottom of the stake, so they continued to drive the stake.

After Mufeng and the others laid the stakes on the south platform, Yao Xiaoqing led Yaohu and Shuibo to split the moso bamboo, sandwiched the stakes with bamboo slices and tied the bamboo slices with vines for reinforcement.

Then use vines to connect and fix the wooden piles one by one.From the bottom to the top, a bamboo piece and a few vines are reinforced every one meter, and the southern fence is considered complete.

Everyone did what Yao Xiaoqing said, and no one doubted her words, because they believed that she was a person protected by the gods.

After the wooden stakes on both sides are fixed, it is time to arrive at the door.

Doors are much more troublesome. There are no nails, hinges, or tools for making mortise and tenon joints.

Yao Xiaoqing thought for a while, and asked Yaohu to pick out a few straight pieces of wood.

Take out two and ask him to saw more than two meters high, draw a mark with charcoal, use an engineer shovel to saw a convex square tenon on the top, and then saw a piece of wood more than one meter long to make a beam.

After drawing the position of the hawk's eye, Yaohu chiseled two hawk's eyes with a stone knife, tried to install it twice, and polished it twice before installing it successfully.

Then two large logs were sawed, a round hole was dug in the middle, one piece was buried in a deep pit and tamped firmly, and the top was fixed to the top beam with mortise and tenon.

Yao Xiaoqing asked Mu Feng and Zhu to erect the door frame, put it in the position of the gate, inserted it into the deep hole, knocked and tamped it, and tied the wooden stake and the door frame with vines, and then aligned the log with the round hole on the beam. Logs on the top, installed under the door frame.

Everyone looked at the door frame in surprise and made a sound of wonder.

When the door frame is ready, pick out small logs of uniform thickness, leave one with a slightly longer section, and saw the others into the same length, and put them side by side at the door.

Split the moso bamboo to clamp the wood, fix it with vines and bamboo strips, tie a piece of bamboo every foot, and a door is ready.Then saw two pieces of wood to make the door bar, and you're done after installing it.

Yao Xiaoqing asked Yaohu and Mufeng to erect the door, put the long log into the log with the round hole dug, closed the door and found that there was a gap less than two fingers wide on both sides.

Yao Xiaoqing stood in the yard, looking at the finished door and yard, showing a bit of complacency and a bitter yet excited smile.

Yaohu opened and closed the door, Mufeng went up and pulled the switch again, and everyone went up and opened and closed the door again.

Everyone looked at Yao Xiaoqing's eyes burning with admiration.Everyone stood in the yard, their eyes were red but they were tireless. They looked at the yard they had never seen before with a smile on their faces, and they all looked at Yao Xiaoqing and laughed loudly at the same time.

Yao Xiaoqing was a little overwhelmed by their star-like eyes, a little excited and a little proud...

"Xiao Qing, you are too powerful." Mu Feng yelled loudly, and the pig and the bull lifted her up, threw her into the air and caught her again.

"Ah!...Ah!..." The sudden weightlessness made Yao Xiaoqing scream, startled the golden retriever out of the cave, grinned fiercely at Mufeng and the others, and rushed towards them with open paws.

"Don't move the golden retriever, be good!" Yao Xiaoqing hurriedly called to stop it, "Golden retriever, sister is fine, sister is playing with them."

Mu Feng and the others quickly put her on the ground to appease the golden retriever.

I don't know who first sang and danced around the bonfire.

Mufeng pulled Yaohu and Yao Xiaoqing, and they jumped up hand in hand.Shan Amu and Yun Amu hummed an unknown ballad, and everyone sang along, with a low and desolate voice.

Yao Xiaoqing stepped forward and held the golden retriever in a circle.The golden retriever was pulled foolishly and stumbled, and then simply hung on her body.

The pig pulled the bull and compared it to wrestling, bursts of laughter and applause rang out in the yard.

(End of this chapter)