[Ting Yu] Abandoned in the wild

14. Building plan

Lue Shang and Mike were both very interested in Chen Ting's plan to make hunting weapons, and they dreamed about these things when they went to bed at night, tossing and turning excitedly.Woke up early the next day, had a quick meal and rushed to Chen Ting's house, looking forward to making a few more slingshots for self-defense today.But Chen Ting led them towards the mountains, as if there was something else going on.

"Stop making slingshots today?" Mike couldn't help asking curiously.

Chen Ting nodded and said, "I will do it, but the materials prepared at home are enough. I want to make some weapons with a longer range, and I plan to get some bamboo." Familiar with the road to the mountains.

Although Lueshang and Mike were considered natives of this land compared to Chen Ting, they had never been to this mountain not far from the tribe.From their ancestors, they all thought that hunting in the forest on the plain was much safer than hunting in the forest with steep terrain and dense vegetation, so they all told their descendants not to hunt in the mountains, especially in summer and autumn when wild beasts appeared on the mountain. In this season, even the foot of the mountain cannot be approached.

However, Lue Shang and Mike are very adventurous people, otherwise they would not have formed a hunting team alone with the former Ting, and would not be with the tribe at all.Before Ah Ting's accident, they also discussed going up the mountain to explore, but they were delayed by that incident in the end.Now after a long time, the body and soul have changed, and they were really led into this mountain that they didn't understand in life for the first time.

"I didn't expect that there are so many good things in this mountain." Mike looked around and sighed.

In the past, occasionally in the spring, some bold men would come here to find some delicious fruits for their partners to eat, but it was really the first time that they had walked so far into the depths of the mountain.

Chen Ting nodded and said, "Actually, the food here is more abundant than that at the bottom of the mountain. It's just that the beasts here are elusive, so you really need to be more careful." He has the experience of living in the wild from modern studies, and he has great knowledge in preventing and avoiding beasts. Naturally, they have more experience than these people from the barbaric era.

"But you seem to know how to go." Lueshang watched the thick wooden stick in his hand beating on the ground, whether it was picking up plants and passing it around the path, obviously it had been passed countless times up.

"Well, here is what I want." Chen Ting nodded frankly.

Not long after, he brought people to the riverside at the foot of the mountain where he had been studying clay before. There happened to be a dense bamboo forest nearby. At this time, many dead bamboos were blooming in spring.He walked over and picked for a long time, and finally selected three bamboos that were dead but still tough. He held the roots with a thick stick, and with the strength of Lueshang and Mike, they broke the bamboos directly from the roots.

"Can these be the long-range weapons you mentioned?" Mike fiddled with the dead bamboo in his hand, puzzled.

"Yeah." Chen Ting nodded, and took advantage of the nearby river to process the bamboo briefly. After taking it home, he only needs to dry it in the sun before proceeding to the next step of baking and bending.

"What is this?" Lueshang had been studying the stone tower above the red soil, and found that there were many burnt pottery bowls inside.

Chen Ting glanced at it and said, "Some time ago, I accidentally discovered that the soil here seems to be different from the ones we usually see. The viscosity is very high, and it can be kneaded into various shapes at will. The house at home is very leaky. , I am worried that Xiyu and Azhan will not be able to stand it in winter, and I am planning to build a new one."

"Rebuild the house?" Both Lueshang and Mike were startled and looked at him in disbelief.

"How are you going to cover it?"

Chen Ting packed up the bamboo and put it aside, walked to the stone pagoda and picked up a branch to draw on the ground.He followed some of the architectural concepts of building stone houses today, but also incorporated more advanced architectural concepts such as beams and pillars, and drew two flat-roofed houses connected in the middle.

"During this period of time, I found that the yellow palm leaves on the thatched hut where Ning Zhiyuan and the others lived seemed to play a very good role in keeping warm and preventing wind, so I planned to add thick palm bark and leaves on the roof, and then In this small house, a place for cooking is built with small chiseled stones, and together with the large room inside, a bed is built by the way, with mattresses made of palm bark and animal skins. , so that you don’t have to sleep on the ground in winter, and as long as the stove outside is burning, the hot air can enter the bed inside through the channel covered, so it won’t be cold in winter.”

"Ah Ting." Lue Shang, who was getting more and more excited as he listened to him, yelled loudly, and patted Chen Ting vigorously, "Why are you so smart, you, this injury seems to have enlightened you." He was happy Rubbing his hands together, he looked at the house pattern drawn by Chen Ting on the ground, "If this house can be built, there will be no more dead people in the tribe in winter. Those children born in winter, weak females... At this point, his voice paused, and then he quickly covered it up with a laugh.

Mike was also very happy, picked up a pool of clay from the ground, and found that they were indeed much better than the clay on the ordinary ground.

"Sandwiching these among the stones can also make the house stronger, so you don't have to worry about the death of strong winds, heavy rains or blizzards in the future." Mike said with a smile.

Chen Ting nodded, and said, "You're right. The design of the beams is the most important reason for the house to bear more weight." Having said that, he paused for a moment, and sighed in embarrassment. Pursing her lips, "It's just that there is another idea that seems difficult to realize."

"What is it?" Both Lueshang and Mike were a little eager to try because of Ah Ting's idea, and their interest in building a house was immediately aroused.

"Before I saw Xiyu knitting shoes, it happened to be raining, but he didn't want to go back to the house, because the light in the room was not good on cloudy days, he couldn't see clearly, but he wanted to make it quickly, so he just Squatting at the door of the house and pulling up the animal skin curtain to weave shoes there.” He couldn’t say how the idea of ​​his window came about, so he had to borrow Xiyu’s handicrafts as an introduction, “I was thinking at the time, if there was a The square space is vacated to make a wooden frame supported up and down, so it can let the light in, so you don’t have to squat in the yard to do things all the time during the day.” Then, he drew the simplest one on the ground. crucifix windows.

"Isn't that good?" Mike asked puzzled.

Chen Ting shook his head, "It doesn't make any sense to just make such a frame. I want to have something that can cover this frame, which can transmit light and block insects, mosquitoes and flies in summer."

The door can be made of wood, it's not a problem at all, only the screen on the window, Chen Ting tried his best to find a suitable substitute in this barbaric era.

"It can transmit light..." Lueshang stroked his chin and thought.

"It can also keep out bugs and flies..." Mike was also lost in thought.

Suddenly, the two people were taken aback, then they clapped each other's hands and said, "We know there is something."

"..." Chen Ting looked at the two of them.

Lue Shang stood up triumphantly, and said with a smile: "In the forest at the other end of the tribe, there is a huge spider with a snow-white color and ten legs. It is completely different from the ordinary small spiders. But it is not Hurt people passing by, unless it actively attacks it, otherwise it ignores it. What it does every day is to weave a very strong and very fine net. In winter, it will wrap itself in that kind of thing, Then it hibernates until it breaks out of its cocoon again in the spring of the following year. And the nets it usually weaves are hung in the woods. After you were injured, Mike and I passed by the woods to go hunting. We touched it with our own hands, and it was soft and soft. Not sticky, very strong."

cobweb?Chen Ting had some doubts about this thing.

"Is it really possible?" He asked confirmingly.

Lue Shang and Mike looked at each other, and said with a smile: "You will come to see it with us tomorrow and you will know. If you think it is not suitable, we will look for it again."

Chen Ting thought about it, and also felt that this method was the most feasible, and nodded immediately, "Okay, then we will gather in front of your house in the tribe tomorrow morning."

"no problem."

The three of them smiled and gave each other a high-five. They were all happy because of the progress of building the house today.