Going through ancient farming to engage in infrastructure construction

When Yao Xiaoqing was young in his previous life, the villagers in the village used stones to build houses and lay foundations.

She still has some impressions in her mind, and now that she has oyster ash, she is quite sure that she can finish the stone wall.

"I think as long as the stones are laid straight and not skewed, there will be no problem."

Yaohu nodded, "You go to rest early, Father and Dashi talk to them, and practice archery with them for a while."

Yao Xiaoqing suddenly thought of something, "Father, let's go to the foot of the mountain and get some nooses. It would be great if we could put some pheasants and hares on!"

Yaohu thought for a while, "Is it the one you taught me last time?"

Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile: "Yes, there is a rope in the cave, just look at it and make it work."

Yaohu nodded, "Okay, you go to sleep, I'll take Dashi and the others there later."

Yao Xiaoqing nodded and went to wash and sleep.

Yaohu took Da Shi Mu Feng to the foot of the mountain, told Da Shu what Yao Xiaoqing had said, and then went to the foot of the mountain to put the noose.

They came back and practiced arrows for a while before falling asleep separately.

The next day, as soon as the sky became clear, Yaohu got up and arranged for the manpower.

Ah Shui went up to guard the mountain, and Muba, Mufeng, Zhu and Xiongniu went into the mountain to hunt.

Yuzi and Asu stayed behind to help on the construction site, while the other women went out to collect food as usual, and everyone set off after eating the food.

Ah Chong and Ah Shui carried the buckets to the river to put away the fish cages, and the two large wooden barrels were filled with fish, river prawns, and eels.

The two happily put down the two fish cages that they had woven overnight into the river, and walked back excitedly carrying the fish and shrimp.

People on the mountain got up one after another, ate food, took weapons and tools and left separately.

Yaohu took the mountain and the big stone down the mountain to check the trap, and found that the leopard and the tree had left.

Dashi said to Yaohu: "Boss, they will bring the peach back, if they are found by the fire fox, they will kill them."

Yaohu smiled and said, "Don't worry, these two people are cunning! They won't let Tao go back to the tribe with them."

"Yeah!" Dashi nodded, "When we were looking for you, Mao and Dashu were sent out by Fire Fox to hunt, otherwise Mao would have come with us. He used to be closer to us, If he stays there, Fire Fox will definitely torment him."

"Fire Fox's heart is thinner than the tip of a pine needle. He can't tolerate others treating me better than him. It's inevitable that they will be tossed by him if they stay there." Yaohu said flatly.

"Bah!" Shan spat, "A good tribe was made like this by the fire raccoon, and Big Am is even more powerful than that of Xishan."

The three of them arrived at the traps, checked both of them, but found no prey, and went to the traps set under the bamboo forest, but there was still no harvest.

A few people walked back in disappointment, Yaohu remembered that he hadn't checked the noose he had put down.The three of them hurried to the foot of the mountain, and found that some of the nooses had caught pheasants, and some had caught hares. They searched all the way back and harvested a dozen pheasants and hares.

Several people walked back cheerfully carrying the hares, Dashi smiled and said: "It's better to use Xiaoqing's method, I caught so many without much effort."

Yaohu nodded, "Go to the pond tonight and get a few, there must be a lot of little things there."

The three of them went back to put down the wild things, and went to the kiln with spears and oxen. They saw Yao Xiaoqing, Ah Tu, and Yuzi loading those clay bricks into the kiln.

"Xiaoqing, go and have a look, how to build stones?" Yaohu said.

Yao Xiaoqing carried baskets when he saw a few people, and didn't prepare anything else, so he thought for a while and said, "Father, take Uncle Dashi and the others to pick the oyster ashes to the open space at the foot of the mountain, and then go back and peel some of them with wood. A small wooden shovel like a spatula, and a few buckets must be carried down to carry the water for the mortar.”

Yaohu looked at her puzzled, "What is the use of a small wooden shovel?"

Yao Xiaoqing pointed to the oyster ash, "After mixing the oyster ash and gravel, put it into a wooden bucket, and use a wooden shovel to lift it up and pour it on top of the stone. Father, the wooden shovel should be bigger and longer than the pot spatula."

Yaohu nodded, "Father is going now."

When Yao Xiaoqing filled the kiln, Yaohu and the others came with ash shovels and buckets.

Yaohu held a wooden shovel not much larger than a spatula, and handed it to her, "Xiaoqing, take a look, how does this small shovel do?"

Yao Xiaoqing smiled after seeing it: "Yes, you can take advantage of it."

Yaohu looked at the wooden shovel and laughed, "What else are we going to do?"

"You take a few loads of oyster ash to the open space, pick out the uneven stones in the pile of stones, and chisel the smooth big stones into rough stones, so as to avoid the stones being too smooth and the adhesion of the mortar not good."

"Okay." Yaohu led his men to pick up the oyster ashes to the foundation, picked up the stone chisel and began to work with a clanging sound.

Yuzi and Asu washed the fish and shrimp, dried them in the dustpan, and went down the mountain with a stone hoe and said to Yao Xiaoqing, "Qing Wu, we are here."

"You go to the pond to fetch water and mortar."

"Hey!" After the two agreed, they carried the bucket and left.

Yao Xiaoqing looked at the distance from the pond to here, and felt that it was a waste of manpower.After thinking for a while, he asked Ah Chong to chop two bamboos, break through the bamboo joints, draw a stream of water down from the mountain, and start mixing with mortar.Mix one shovel of oyster ash and three shovels of gravel, then add water and mix well.

Yao Xiaoqing looked at the stones and recalled the scene when the stone walls were built in the village.Instruct Yao and Hu to spread a layer of mortar on the bottom of the foundation pit, and then put the foundation stone on it.

The large stones placed on the foundation stone of the bottom layer are then built with small stones, and the places with large gaps between the stones are filled with mortar, and the embedded crushed stones are filled with wooden hammers and beaten tightly.

Everyone listened carefully to Yao Xiaoqing's instructions. At the beginning, Yaohu and the others were clumsy and didn't know how to match large and small stones.There is still some fuss, filling the gaps between the stones with too much mortar for a while, and too little for a while.The stone was carried up and down and tossed back and forth. It took four people about an hour to build the foundation stone less than one meter long, and they didn't even know how to catch the mortar when it overflowed.

After building for two hours, Yao Xiaoqing found that everyone's hands and feet became more and more neat.I know how to match some of those shaped like the mouth of a shovel, some like the blade of an axe, and long stones with those large and small stones.

A Chong and Xiong Niu went to the south to dig the foundation, while Gen and A Tu were at the edge of the stone pile, chiseling off the excessive water chestnuts on the rough stone.

Yuzi and Asu delivered mortar to Yaohu and the others, and everyone found a way to do things.The progress of laying the foundation has been much faster. Just before noon, the foundation of the wall to the north has been laid one-tenth of the way.

Yao Xiaoqing estimated that the rest should be able to be built by dark.After finishing building today, their movements should be faster.According to this calculation, it will take two months to build the wall.

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At dusk the next day, Dashu and Leopard tied Tao to a tree some distance away from the tribe.The two hid outside, waited until late at night, and sneaked back to the tribe.