Going through ancient farming to engage in infrastructure construction

Turning around, I found a thin bamboo joint that was not much thicker than chopsticks. I cut it into inches and cut a hole in one end. I cut a section of brown rope wick and tried to pass it through the bamboo tube. I pulled it in and found that Nodding in satisfaction after being a little tight, he pulled out the wick and put it aside.

He dug out a piece of clay for firing clay pots, pinched a few oil lamps, and put them aside.I picked a lump of clay and pasted it on the bamboo tube, leaving a hole, inserted it into the oil lamp, dipped it in water to smooth the inside of the oil lamp, brought it to the fire pit where the clay pot was fired, and put it in for firing.

I went out and looked at the soaked brown rope in the jar, and found that it had penetrated. I took a piece out with chopsticks, put it on the edge of the jar, lit the wick of the brown rope, and the wick ignited. The only bad thing was that it gave off a little black smoke.

Yuzi stared at the resin lamp with wide eyes, "Hua, come and see, the fire lit by Qing Wu."

After Hua came over to look at it, she asked in confusion, "Xiaoqing, what is this for?"

Yao Xiaoqing looked at them and said with a smile: "This is called an oil lamp. When we move into the house, we won't have to light a bonfire."

The two nodded and gave a thumbs up, "Xiao Qing, you are really capable."

Yao Xiaoqing blew out the oil lamp and sighed secretly, I don't want to be so capable.When I came to this barren land, I refused to do it for the sake of living a life of ruthlessness and blood, and did not work hard to create better conditions, so how could I live a slightly more comfortable life.

Yao Xiaoqing finished the oil lamp and went to the foot of the mountain, and said to Yaohu: "Father, you caught wolves in Qiushan last time. Why did Yan Yu from the Dawu tribe bring people here to hunt?"

Yaohu frowned and said: "There are many tribes on the hillside, and the more people hunt, the less prey there will be. The big tribes have more warriors, so they take people to hunt far away."

Yao Xiaoqing thinks that if things go on like this, sooner or later there will be a day when no prey can be caught, so he has to raise it by himself as soon as possible.

"Father, did you tell Brother to hunt docile beasts and come back to raise them?"

"I've already told Mu Feng and the others. Today, Ah Shui and A Lin are by the river and brought back a dozen half-sized wild ducks. Why don't you go and see how they raise them?"

"Okay." Yao Xiaoqing went to the bamboo shed, took out the scissors, and went down the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, Ah Shui pointed to the wild ducks covered with baskets and said, "Xiaoqing, the wild ducks have been caught, and I dare not let them out for fear that they will fly away."

Yao Xiaoqing raised the scissors, "Cut off the wings, and they won't be able to fly."

"Oh! I'll grab it out, and you can cut it."

Yao Xiaoqing cut off all the wild duck's wings, put the feathers into baskets, and made wooden arrow feathers.

"Uncle Shui, bring the wild ducks to the ditch, make a few nests for them in the open space, then cut some bamboo back, surround them, and feed the wild ducks inside."

"Okay," Shui Bo asked again after thinking about it, "It's locked there, so what do they eat?"

Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile: "There are many small fish and screws in the ditch outside the wall. If you fish some and put them in a wooden basin, they will eat them naturally. Oh! Remember to break the screws and feed them!"

Ah Shui nodded with a smile, "Okay, if you give it something to eat, it shouldn't run away!"

Yao Xiaoqing shook his head, "That's not necessarily the case. It's best to cover the fence with a net, just like the pumpkin shed in the yard. It will prevent it from growing feathers and flying away again."

"I see. I'll cover them with a basket first, and then put them away after the enclosure is complete."

The next day, Ah Shui took a few roots and spent half a day to surround a large section of the ditch near the wall by the river with bamboo poles, cover it with a fence, and build a duck for those wild ducks. shed.

Yao Xiaoqing took out the burnt oil lamp from the fire pit, wiped off the dust, melted the resin in the jar, poured it into the lamp, cut a section about one foot long, and soaked the oily brown rope wick, and put it on. Use the pottery tube to put the excess in the lamp, and light the wick.

The oil lamp was on, and it was quite bright when it was brought into the cave.

Looking at the oil lamp in his hand, Yao Xiaoqing was a little proud, but also a little sour.

He handed over the shape of the oil lamp to Hua and asked her to continue firing.

The goats and wild boars were still missing, and Mufeng and the others carried rocks home every day.In the newly built house at the foot of the mountain, half of the house's rock salt has been installed.

Yaohu took the big stones and installed the newly built wooden doors on the three new houses.

After Yao Xiaoqing asked them to level the house, he went to the river to carry a flat boulder back, and rammed and compacted the room.

Then use mortar to smooth the stone walls, and harden the mortar on the floor of each room. Finally, paint the walls with oyster ash. Have to brighten up.

On the kang are straw mats woven with cattail grass and rattan boxes woven with rattan.There is also a shelf made of bamboo beside the Kang bed, and curtains made of reed poles are hung on the windows.

The courtyard dam under the eaves of the corridor and at the entrance was also leveled with stones, and a layer of mortar was also used.There is an open space near the wall outside the courtyard dam, which is used to grow wild garlic, leeks and some side dishes.

There are three main rooms, three east and west rooms. In the stairwell at the corner of the west room, and in the corner room, there are toilets and bathrooms, and two windows are left behind.

A water tank was placed at the door of the toilet, and a wooden scoop was used to flush the toilet.

The latrine is dug behind the house, and the sewage is discharged from the earthen pipe buried in the ground.

In the corner of the east chamber, there is a two-hole stove built with red bricks, which is used for burning fire wall and hot water.

Everyone smirked and walked around every house, and then went to the yard, looking at the two houses that looked like inside and outside, with expressions on their faces that were richer than Grandma Liu's expression when she entered the Grand View Garden.

Yao Xiaoqing told Shan'am to dig the beautiful flowers they saw outside and plant them in front of and behind the house.

A few people just nodded cheerfully.

Standing in the courtyard dam and looking at the yard, she seemed to have traveled back to the old house in the 80s.

Thinking of her elderly parents at home, Yao Xiaoqing felt sore and unbearable, looked up at the sky, and forced back the tears in her eyes.

Yaohu and Mufeng walked to her side, comforting softly, "Xiaoqing, your mother and brother will see that we live well."

Yao Xiaoqing sniffed, nodded and said, "Yes, they are watching us!"

Mu Feng looked at her with a smile, "Xiao Qing, which room do you like, brother let you choose."

Yao Xiaoqing pointed to the room on the right hand side of the main room, "Let's just go there!"

The father and son nodded together, "OK."

Yaohu turned around and said loudly to the people in the yard: "Everyone move down, squeeze together first, and we will redistribute after the houses are all built."

Dozens of people responded in unison: "Yes, leader."

Yaohu's family of three moved into the first courtyard at the foot of the mountain, and Yaohu and Yao Xiaoqing lived in the main house.

Mufeng lived in the east wing, and the remaining two rooms, one was full of bacon hanging on the wooden rack, the jars under the wooden rack were filled with dried meat, and the other was filled with rock salt which was more than half of the house.