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Chapter 102 Drilling wood to make fire
It was past 10 o'clock in the Solomon Islands time, and it was close to noon. The sun began to become hot, and the air was filled with high temperature, which made people feel a little breathless.

The waves still beat on the beach, bringing out snow-white waves. This is a tidal phenomenon, which is called "tide" during the day and "tide" at night.Everyone knows that tides are caused by the sun and the moon, mainly due to the gravitational pull of the moon.

Ye Yan dragged a long tree trunk. The side branches at both ends of the tree were cut off, leaving only the bare trunk. He walked around in the dense forest before transporting the last tree. It was originally neat and tidy. On the sandy beach, there were many footprints, two big and one small, the big one belonged to Ye Yan and Luo An, and the small one belonged to Mo Qing.

Ye Yan threw the tree trunk on the ground casually, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, looking at the beautiful scenery in the bay was a little funny.It has been two days since I came to this island. On the empty beach, there is now a bonfire burning slowly. Farther away, two small trees are being built on two leaning trees. The shelter is made of materials from the island, so that people will not have too much sense of disobedience.

Farther away, Ye Yan glanced at the small pit by the sea, where the hermit crabs were moving, and across the undulating blue sea, Ye Yan's gaze lingered in the naturally formed inverted U-shaped stone gate, like a picture frame , framing the meandering sky outside and the sea, the sun pours down and spreads to the horizon, the sea and sky are the same color, a natural picture.

Ye Yan took a deep breath, for a moment he actually wanted to live here forever, he couldn't help sighing, and said: "Here, everything seems to be very comfortable, if you can watch the sunrise and sunset here with your lover, you will definitely It's a wonderful thing..."

"what……"

Ye Yan shook his head and stood up abruptly. He had appreciated enough and adjusted his mood. It was time to continue working. You must have enough sense of crisis in the wild. If you have a shelter, you have to work hard to find food. With food you Make sure you have water, but you have all of the above, and you're trying to light a fire to get you through the night.

In short, to survive in the wild, you can't stop for a moment.Loneliness will gradually occupy and erode your heart. In the end, you may suffer from depression, or you may go crazy alone and die on this island.

Time here feels very slow, and the sense of time is very weak. If a person wanders here alone for a long time, that feeling will make people despair.

Picking up the knife, he went to the pile of fresh trees and squatted down. Ye Yan stretched out his arms and gestured to determine where to divide the trees: "The distance between the arms of a person is from the left middle finger to the right. The distance between the middle fingers is about equal to your height, and my height is about 182 cm, so I have to cut more than this distance."

On the basis of the distance between the two arms, Ye Yan added about half a meter more. Although it does not need to be so high, this takes into account that the wooden pile must go deep into the ground to ensure its stability, and to ensure that a floor is built to ensure that it can stay away from water when there is water. ground, keep it dry, and keep bugs out.

Because it is rainy here all year round, the roof of the house needs to be built in a triangular shape, sloping to both sides, so as to ensure that rainwater can stay along the sides instead of flowing into the house.So Ye Yan cut two sections of trunks about 2 meters long, and prepared to use them to support the roof.

Next is the pillars at the four corners of the house.

With a sharp knife, this matter progressed very quickly. Within 10 minutes, Ye Yan divided the trees. As the corner backbone of the house, Ye Yan also chose thicker trees and divided them into four wooden pillars of about 180 centimeters. , as the four corners.The house was bigger because there were two people in it, so Ye Yan cut two 5-meter-long tree trunks as horizontal frames.

Ye Yan has long been hesitant about the location of the house. He has long set his sights on a coconut tree not far from his current residence, which is slanted at 60 degrees and is almost on the water. There is a relatively open place there without so much vegetation. Can squeeze into this cabin.

Ye Yan sharpened the bottom of the pillar to make it easier to insert into the ground, and then dragged the logs to the open space.

This place is also very strange, the dense trees seem to be fragmented here, leaving a slightly empty land, and it is here that Mo Qing digs the soil.

There are only some herbaceous plants in the open space, such as calla lily, with huge leaves and abundant rhizomes, similar to the sweet taro in southern China, which tastes very good.But the difference is that alocasia is inedible and poisonous, and it must be cooked for a long time to detoxify. If it is eaten by mistake, the throat will itch.

Ye Yan was at the side, and used a wooden stick to dig out a narrow and deep hole, about 20 centimeters in length, and then suddenly smashed the wooden pillar in, filled it with soil and tamped it down.

……

After about half an hour of construction, Ye Yan cleaned up some surrounding plants, and finally completed the frame of the wooden house.

Six thick wooden pillars stand upright, and four shorter sticks draw a rectangle on the ground, about 4 meters wide and [-] meters long.Then a long backbone was inserted on the two sides with a smaller distance to support the ridge of the house.

And the tops of these thick wooden pillars were penetrated by Ye Yan from the middle, and a small opening was cut out. At that time, as long as the tree trunk was inserted into this opening, the skeletons could be firmly linked together.

Then, on the two slightly longer sides, Ye Yan inserted two 5-meter wooden pillars into the hole and connected them with two short wooden pillars. He made sure that they would not loosen. The space was enough for two people to rest, but it might still be difficult for them to move around. Inconvenience.

"Actually, this is a relatively simple one. Our Chinese ancestors, those skilled craftsmen, were also the top carpenters in the world. They could connect all kinds of wood together without hitting a nail, and it was as stable as a mountain."

Ye Yan took a deep breath, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and looked at the results of his hard work for more than an hour, and couldn't help smiling with relief: "Although it is relatively simple, it is in the field conditions. It is extremely luxurious, a seaside villa, 360-degree view of the open-air view of the sea with no dead ends, its own automatic inverter air conditioner, which brings you fresh sea breeze, and now you buy it with a small island back garden, pre-order as soon as possible.”

"66666!"

"It's so true, I almost believed it."

"Well said, I decided not to pay a penny."

"It's a nice house, but I decided not to buy it."

……

Let’s expand this later, otherwise the project will be too huge.

However, Ye Yan was very enthusiastic. He used the remaining wood, cut it to a suitable length, tied it with ropes, and used it as a roof frame. It was similar to a fishbone structure. Only one on each side was needed, and the rest was in the roof. The skeleton is tied horizontally in the middle, and there is also one on the left and right, so that they are mutually stressed and more stable.

Ye Yan squinted his eyes and looked at the sky above his head, seeing the clouds passing by, but fortunately, there was no sign of rain.The sun is very hot and it is not suitable to continue working.

"Mo Qing, let's go back and have dinner."

Ye Yan looked at Mo Qing's slightly reddened skin and felt distressed, but Mo Qing just wiped his sweat and smiled.

Went to the beach to wash their hands, and returned to the shade of a tree. The two breathed a sigh of relief. There is no shortage of food on the island, but the weather is a bit unbearable, but this is not enough for Ye Yan and Mo Qing. What is it, it has long been baptized by high temperature, and the temperature here is about 30 degrees, which is nothing.

Ye Yan looked for a piece of dead wood and the brown coconut husk fibers on the ground, which were the best kindling.

Although there was a burning fire next to it, it did not prevent Ye Yan from demonstrating the skills of making fire to the audience.

Ye Yan squatted on the ground, used a knife to smooth a piece of wood, and said: "The wood used to make fire should be softer, so that it is easier to drill the fire debris. And the kindling should be fluffy, so that it is easier to start the fire."

"Then cut out a circular hole on it, it doesn't need to be too deep, cut a piece of wood, cut off the protrusion, so as not to stick your hands. In this way, you can align one end with the hole, then insert it, and keep rubbing friction……"

"Bah, I'm going to call the police on the porn anchor!"

"Tsk tsk, that's the smell, City Lord Ye still belongs to City Lord Ye."

"Super management, someone here is involved in pornography."

"Damn, I was caught off guard. Didn't I say that the front was going straight? Why did I turn suddenly, and my brakes were smashed, and the steering wheel was torn off."

"There's nothing wrong with it. To make fire by drilling wood is to use friction to create heat."

……

Ye Yan processed the required objects, pointed the wooden stick at the hole, and then added a little sand.Although Ye Yan said it lightly, in fact he was just talking on paper. Who would have nothing to do like primitive people drilling wood to make fire?
So Ye Yan failed in his clumsy rotating wooden stick for the first time. After adjusting, Ye Yan took a deep breath and tried hard to recall the videos he had watched. After a long time of deliberation, Ye Yan opened his eyes and prepared for the first Second try.

Put the wooden stick straight, put your hands parallel to the top of the wooden stick, then rub it back and forth quickly, and gradually move down. The trick to making fire from wood is to be fast, not brute force.

This was a very hard job. Fortunately, Ye Yan was talented and had previous experience. After more than half an hour of hard work, he finally succeeded. There was already a layer of black embers on the wooden base.

Ye Yan smiled, wiped off his sweat, his hands were a little worn out, he carefully picked up the piece of wood, and gently poured the embers into the prepared tinder: "Look, but it's slightly gasping. smoke, and the shards are black, they are probably ready for use, but be careful, they are fragile, and don't get snuffed out by the wind or your sweat."

Pour all the embers into it, then hold the tinder with both hands, and blow gently until the tinder smokes and is ignited, Ye Yan's drilling for fire is considered successful.

"6666!"

"6666666!"

"City Lord Ye is really strong."

"I can give full marks for this wave."

(End of this chapter)