I am a primitive

Because of this experience, when building the wall, under Han Cheng's guidance, it did not start from the section of the mountain wall where the tribe's cave is located in the north, but from the southernmost corner first.

Once the corners are laid, a wall can be extended to the north and east.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The chubby second senior brother held a stone, and in a fit of rage he nailed a tree stump more than one meter long and thick into the excavated foundation.

The stakes were sunk into the ground to a depth of about forty centimeters.

Without a hammer, it would be much more strenuous to hold a stone and smash a stake on the ground. In order to speed up the process and ease the difficulty of everyone's work, Han Cheng began to use his ingenuity.

He first ordered to find that kind of extra-strong wooden stick, and make one end as sharp as possible, which is conducive to getting into the soil.

There is another requirement for such tree sticks, that is, they are much thinner than those that will be driven into the ground as stakes.

After a batch of such sticks, which can be called "branches", is produced, the work can start.

Before formally nailing tree stumps to the excavated foundation, people first use this kind of 'drill' to smash down at the selected location. After hitting a certain level, shake the drill back and forth, pull out the drill, and then put it back into the hole. Then hit it.

This is to prevent the nail from being too deep and unable to be pulled out in time.

Repeat this until the 35-centimeter mark on the drill is level with the ground, and the work is not complete until the drill is pulled out.

Because the wood sticks used as 'drills' are hard, with sharper and thinner heads, it is much easier to nail them to the ground than those with thick arms.

After the drill bit is pulled out, a hole will be left in place, and the person in charge of nailing the pile who has been prepared for a long time will pick up a pile and place it on the hole that was nailed out, and smash it down with a stone.

Because a hole has already been nailed out in advance, it takes too much effort to smash it like this.

Moreover, because the original holes were thin, the piles now are thick, so after the piles are smashed down, there will be no loosening or instability.

Chapter 56 Rows of trees, blending mud, and beating walls.

These piles will be nailed down about every half meter, and more and denser nails will be nailed at the corner of the wall.

After this work was carried out for about eight consecutive days, a row of wooden piles about [-] to [-] centimeters above the ground appeared on the westernmost excavated foundation.

It is somewhat similar to the steel bars standing on the foundation of later generations.

The piles appear to be uneven. There is no way to do this. After all, there are no axes, saws, hatchets, etc. that can break these logs. It is very difficult to have a similar size that is enough, and the size remains uniform. But it is too difficult to be human.

However, the wooden stakes nailed into the ground have uniform specifications, at least [-] centimeters, because the bottoms of these tree stumps were marked at [-] centimeters by Han Cheng and his underage students.

After the stumps were nailed, the next thing to do was to weave wooden rafts, and then beat the wall with mud.

The branches used to weave the rafts have been enough by the minors in the tribe.

Since the branches needed to make the raft need not be too thick, they were able to break them off the fallen trees entirely by their ability.

The weaving of wooden rafts is relatively simple. You only need to arrange straight branches of appropriate thickness on the ground, and then use relatively flexible rattan to weave and fix them horizontally.

It's a bit like weaving bamboo mats.

Of course, the techniques are not exactly the same, and this wooden raft is much rougher than the bamboo mat.

Among the adults in the tribe, the one with the most dexterous hands is lame, because his legs and feet are not convenient, and he can't go hunting and doing heavy work like the others. He doesn't want to be an idler, so he puts a lot of effort into his hands.

To use a not-so-good example, this is the same reason that blind people's sense of hearing and touch are much better than normal.

In the preparation of rafts, lameness is the most important go-getter.

Han Cheng hadn't done this before, he just saw it and knew some general methods, and after telling Lie, the two began to study everything.

The technology of this thing is not complicated, but it only took a day, and the results have already come out.

But this thing is different from weaving fish cages, because things like tree vines are much harder than ropes, and without a certain amount of strength, it is very difficult to weave them, at least the current Han Cheng can't do it.

After researching and determining the weaving method, Han Chengcheng called two more skillful hands to learn how to weave wooden rafts...

The wooden rafts, which are three meters long and half a meter wide, are erected horizontally on both sides of the foundation at the corner of the south wall, facing each other.

In the middle of the two wooden rafts, there are two stumps about half a meter long, and there are some branches that have not been cleaned on the stumps.

The two stumps are one at each end, this is to prevent the two rafts from coming together.

The two wooden rafts were tied evenly by four rattans, and one end was blocked vertically with a wooden raft half a meter wide and one meter long, and also tied firmly with rattan, so that a rectangular parallelepiped model was completed.

The next step is to pour the reconciled mud into it.

The mixing of mud is also very particular. The wall viscosity of simple mud casting may not be enough, so when mixing the mud, Han Cheng added some rope grass cut into half a meter, and other things that were not as strong as rope grass, but Other grasses that are still not small in toughness went in, and even sprinkled a handful of salt in it.

Rope grass etc. play the same role in the mud as thin steel bars, and can connect the mud to a greater extent.

As for the salt...

Han Cheng really didn't know what role it would play in it, but he remembered that he used to let it go in when he saw someone's live mud pot table.

Since it was put inside, it must have its meaning. Han Cheng attached great importance to this wall. Salt is not particularly rich for the current tribe, but it is more difficult to build the wall.

In order to prevent any regrettable flaws in this thing that took so much effort to manufacture, Han Cheng sprinkled salt into it without hesitation.

The beating of the wall is also inseparable from the division of labor and cooperation.

Someone is responsible for carrying water, someone is responsible for digging soil and mud, someone is responsible for moving the live mud into the space surrounded by wooden rafts, and someone is responsible for spreading the mud, and then after accumulating a certain thickness, start to use the head The big thin wooden stakes smashed the mud hard, making them more solid and condensed into one.

Of course, these muds cannot be made too thin. You only need to make the raised soil moist, mix it with grass and salt and stir vigorously for a while, then you can use animal skins, and previously burnt earthen jars to fill the wood. The gaps created by the rows are filled.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Placing the wet earth on top of the porcelain is an extremely laborious job, and it is done by powerful adult men like the senior and second senior brothers.

The muscles on the elder brother's arm swelled, and then stretched out suddenly, followed by a muffled 'dong' sound.

The muscles on the arm swelled up again, and the wooden stake in his hand rose accordingly, and a mark the size of a bowl appeared on the wet mud.

This mark is at least half a centimeter lower than other places!

Sweat slipped from his body, fell to the ground, and broke into eight petals.

The beauty of labor and hard work are intertwined to form a picture called life.

There may be random success in this world, but there are really not many such successes.

The vast majority of success is the result of great efforts, after a lot of hard work and tempering, the flowers that have just bloomed with blood, sweat and perhaps tears.

This section of the wall, which is about nine meters long and half a meter high, has finally been built. This section of the wall also includes a corner.