新石器时代

After N rounds of thorough communication and consultation, Ji Huaifeng finally understood what Gu Xiaolu meant.

Gu Xiaolu thinks that a house is a place to sleep, so each bedroom only needs to fit a bed and dig a firepit.In addition, the new house does not need to build interior walls, it is enough to weave a bamboo mat to separate the living room, kitchen and bedroom.

Gu Xiaolu estimated optimistically that it would take them at most ten days to build it.

Ji Huaifeng's face was full of black lines: "Dig a firepit in the bedroom, and then use bamboo mats to separate it - don't you think it's easy to catch fire?"

Gu Xiaolu continued to spread his hands: "The fire pit can be dug on the side next to the stone wall." After speaking, he added: "Isn't that what I did before?"

Ji Huaifeng squinted: "Yes, your house burned down very quickly."

At this moment, Gu Xiaolu suddenly became clear again: "The group of people who didn't want you to stay must have deliberately set the fire on fire—so, let's build it as I said."

Ji Huaifeng threw away the branch used to draw the sketch: "Forget it, you can build it yourself, you can build it however you want, I won't do it!"

——He imagined that Gu Xiaolu would definitely not be able to cover it by himself.Just let him toss about it, and when he finds it totally impossible for him to build the house, he'll come back and beg himself.

Unexpectedly, Gu Xiaolu erased the sketch he had just drawn with one foot: "It's up to you. I won't build it anymore. I'll go find a cave to sleep in. If the entrance of the cave is blocked, it will be a good house!"

A helpless voice came in: "There is no cave near here that can live in. If there is, it's not your turn to live in it."

It was Luo Guang who spoke.His leg was scraped and healed by Ji Huaifeng, and now the wound has healed a bit, and he can get out of bed for a walk while leaning on crutches.

Gu Xiaolu turned back: "What 'you'? I'm talking about me, there should be a rocky corner where a person can lie down and sleep, right?"

Luo Guang smiled: "Since you are willing to live in a corner where only one person can lie down, why can't you share a room with Ji Huaifeng? Then again, don't you just live in the same room now?" Is it?"

Gu Xiaolu opened his mouth wide: "Uh"

Ji Huaifeng gave Luo Guang a grateful smile.

Luo Guang went on to say, "Actually, you have another way."

After a while, both Gu Xiaolu and Ji Huaifeng rolled up their sleeves, clenched their fists, ready to go.

"Listen! You only have one chance! The one who loses must obey the opponent's decision unconditionally, and cannot go back on his word!"

Ji Huaifeng and Gu Xiaolu stared at each other and nodded viciously.

"preparation--"

They each opened up their postures, stepped down from their horses, and stepped on a small hole in the mud with their feet; their fists were raised high, ready to punch out at any time.

"GO!"

Luo Guang shouted, and they threw their fists at each other at the same time!

"Ji Huaifeng wins." Luo Guang said expressionlessly.

Gu Xiaolu looked at the "cloth" stretched out by himself, then at the "scissors" stretched out by Ji Huaifeng, and said nothing.

"You can build it however you like, but don't expect me to contribute."

Ji Huaifeng excitedly picked up the hoe and went.

Luo Guang smiled: "He really treats you well."

Although Gu Xiaolu likes to take advantage of others, he doesn't like to take advantage of Ji Huaifeng.Although I was sulking for a long time because the house could not be built according to my own ideas, I finally ran to the house to have a look.When I ran there, I saw that Ji Huaifeng was not digging the foundation, but was weaving straw ropes.

It is very difficult to weave a piece of grass less than a foot long into a rope, and his craftsmanship is obviously not as good as Gu Xiaolu's.He made the rope loose, and when a section fell off, he took other grass and connected it again.

That scene really made Gu Xiaolu's ass hurt.

"Aren't you going to dig the foundation?"

"Yeah, I'm getting ready."

"Don't tell me you're going to weave a rope and use it to dig foundations—"

"I thought about digging with a shovel, but then I realized I couldn't do it without a rope."

"Then what's the use of this rope? Tie your hair and hang it up lest you dig and fall asleep?"

Ji Huaifeng: ""

Gu Xiaolu strode over: "Get out of the way!"

Ji Huaifeng watched Gu Xiaolu's hands flying up and down, and a strong straw rope soon appeared under his nose.Gu Xiaolu threw the rope to him: "Now can we talk about what this rope is for?"

"According to the principles of geometry, a piece of land with the same perimeter has the largest area when its perimeter is circular."

"Uh"

Gu Xiaolu never imagined that Ji Huaifeng would use this to design their house.

"You plan to make it round?"

"That's right! So I need a rope. This end is fixed here—" he said, inserting a small wooden stick in the middle of the house, and then tied one end of the straw rope to the small wooden stick. "Then, Straighten the rope and walk around it—" He pulled the straw rope with one hand, grabbed a handful of grass ash they burned with the other hand, and sprinkled it on the ground as he walked: "This will draw a circle."

Gu Xiaolu crossed his arms and watched him walk around while pulling the straw rope.Sure enough, a circle appeared on the ground.

"And!" Ji Huaifeng patted the remaining grass ash on his hands, "The circular structure is stronger than the square one!"

"But have you ever thought that it would be very inconvenient to live in a round house? Think about it, if the bed is square and placed against the wall inside, there will be an extra space in the middle-wouldn't that be Is it wasted? What's the use of the extra space?"

Ji Huaifeng said contemptuously: "Then make the bed round on one side, so that you can cough and cough while sleeping." He didn't know what he thought of, and immediately changed the subject: "Anyway, it's a little bit more space inside! "

Gu Xiaolu sat down on his ass: "Forget it, you can do whatever you like, I don't care if I say so. Humph, I don't believe you can make a flower—"

Ji Huaifeng threw away his arms and started digging the foundation along the circle he had drawn.

Gu Xiaolu stayed there for a while, feeling a little bored, and asked: "What about after the foundation is dug? Should the wall be built with stones? Now there is no cement, only soil. Have you looked for clay?"

Ji Huaifeng smiled: "If you want to work, you can weave baskets. Make a few more, the more the better."

Gu Xiaolu was puzzled: "Sell it?"

Ji Huaifeng smiled without saying a word.Gu Xiaolu patted his ass and left.

Two days later, Gu Xiaolu threw a few bamboo baskets in front of Ji Huaifeng.Ji Huaifeng has already dug out the ditch for the foundation - besides the largest perfectly circular ditch, there are several small circles beside it; About the size of a large chunk.He glanced at Gu Xiaolu's hand: "What happened?"

On the hands that were fine two days ago, there were some thin scars for some reason.

Gu Xiaolu pointed to the bamboo basket: "It was cut from bamboo."

In the past, he used boiled vines for weaving baskets and baskets, but there was no such vines near Niuniu Village.He had no choice but to borrow a knife and go up the mountain to cut bamboo, and broke the bamboo into bamboo strips to weave.Rattan is round and soft, bamboo strips are harder and have sharp edges.Gu Xiaolu didn't even have a glove, and after weaving a few baskets, his hands had already been cut.

Ji Huaifeng felt distressed, and ran over: "Show me—why don't you be more careful?"

Gu Xiaolu deliberately said in a sarcastic tone: "You think your hands are pretty?"

Ji Huaifeng smiled and lowered his head.

He smashed rocks for the past two days, and the small and sharp gravel flew out to his hands, his hands were only uglier than Gu Xiaolu's.

"Okay. We'll be fine when the house is built."

Gu Xiaolu had nothing to do, so he went over to measure the size of the foundation.Ji Huaifeng said: "The rope is estimated to be four meters long, and the diameter of the big circle is about eight meters, which is big enough."

Looking at Gu Xiaolu, he still seemed dissatisfied, and said, "Anyway, let's build it first, and it will be very convenient if we want to expand in the future—in fact, there is no need to expand, anyway, ahem, there will be no more people in the family."

Gu Xiaolu thought about it carefully for a long time, and then asked him: "Why not? Who knows that I won't bring a sworn brother back someday?"

"Uh"

Ji Huaifeng wiped his sweat silently.At first, he thought that what Gu Xiaolu was going to say was "Who knows I won't give birth someday" - sin, sin.

"Of course, if you can give birth to one yourself, it will be a benefit to all mankind." Gu Xiaolu shook his hair, and went to the foot of the mountain to move stones by himself.

Ji Huaifeng decided to keep silent until dark.

The next day was spent by Gu Xiaolu and Ji Huaifeng alternately moving and smashing stones.At noon, Luo Liang borrowed another hammer for them, and their efficiency in smashing rocks was much higher.It's not too tiring to move and smash for a while.Gu Xiaolu calculated the amount of gravel needed based on the length and thickness of the wall and the height of the two of them, and then looked at the crushed gravel that had already been smashed, and found that it was almost the same.

Ji Huaifeng then ran to Liang Tian to discuss renting staff.

Now Lu Fei and the others are still working part-time in Liang Tian in name, so he couldn't call them directly to help, so he said he would rent them for a day.The price paid was all the dried meat left by him and Gu Xiaolu - they didn't have much left.

Liang Tian was very happy, and after moving the jerky, he pulled the brigade over.

When Lu Fei heard that he was helping Ji Huaifeng build a house, he was very excited; but because he has not disclosed that he was Ji Huaifeng's younger brother, he had to pretend to be reluctant.So Liang Tian kicked his ass: "Now you eat my food, drink my food and sleep with me, don't you feel happy to ask you to do some work?!"

Lu Fei took it out of context, and only grasped the three words in it and asked very seriously: "The village chief who slept with you, can I really sleep with you?"

"roll----"

Liang Tian kicked him out, and Lu Fei hurriedly led his younger brothers to go straight to Ji Huaifeng and Gu Xiaolu's house.

Ji Huaifeng asked Lu Fei to divide the fourteen people under his command into three groups: the first group of six would go to a depression downstream of the creek in the middle of the valley to dig clay and carry it back; Trees were chopped, bamboos were mowed for later use; the third group was the remaining three—and together with Lu Fei, they stayed to build walls with them.

After the clay was brought back, Ji Huaifeng asked a younger brother to mix the clay into a paste with water for later use.They started to build from the foundation, and after it was laid on the ground, Ji Huaifeng asked them to leave a half-foot-long hole every two or three meters.After building it to a place about [-] centimeters higher than the ground, the upper wall will be seven or eight centimeters thinner than the foundation.The extra width of the foundation was left inside, Ji Huaifeng said: "In this way we can build wood on it as a floor."

The younger brothers wondered together: "What are you doing? Why don't you just spread it on the ground?"