Hand over the jade seal first [Infrastructure]

Although Xiao Zirong has a headache, his character has always been that soldiers come to cover up water and earth.

He directly asked: "How much money do we have now? How long can we last with the amount of food? Can the food be used as food seeds? And where are we now?"

Although he asked a series of questions, Liu Cainiang was very happy, and quickly said in detail: "There is not much money, only ten pennies, and only two stones of grain. I am afraid it is not good enough to make grain seeds. We are now in Beiyanzhou, Liang Northeast of the county."

Xiao Zirong immediately searched for place names such as Beiyanzhou and Liangxiang County in his mind, and couldn't help being stunned for a moment after searching, deeply feeling that there is no unparalleled road.

The place where they are now will be Rizhao in later generations. Xiao Zirong doesn't know much about Rizhao, but from the map, he knows that one thing is the best, that is, there is a sea!

Since there is a sea, many things can be easily solved.

Xiao Zirong breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The place we are in is not bad. The grain and dried vegetables should be enough for us to eat for a while. If it doesn't work, we can eat wild vegetables first, or we can set up some traps to catch some wild game, and then we can eat them." If not, I can still catch the sea.”

The most important thing now is that they don't even have a place to live, so don't worry about anything else, first get some shelter from the wind and rain, and then consider other things.

Liu Cainiang said with some embarrassment: "But building a house...it may be really difficult."

Xiao Zirong shook his head and said: "Don't worry, it's not difficult, but we will definitely not build a house very well at the beginning. I visited this area before, and the house we are building now is best in a remote place. Build a better house if you have the spare power.”

Seeing his clear thinking, Liu Cainiang smiled and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

Xiao Zirong stood up and said, "Okay, there are still some relics left here. I took a look, and the northeast side should be the original servant's room or stable. We will temporarily build the house there."

Naturally, Liu Cainiang didn't have any objections, and she even breathed a sigh of relief. She had always been invincible before, but she was afraid that if she collapsed, those little ladies might not be able to hold on. Before, Xiao Zirong had always been more distant from them. Everyone is emotionally broken, what should he do if he feels annoyed and walks away?

Now no matter what the reason is, Xiao Zirong is willing to take care of them, Liu Cainiang is sincerely grateful, and at the same time feels a little guilty.

A good young man, gentle and gentle, who looks like he is familiar with poetry and books. His family has carefully cultivated him. If he goes out with his face, he can make a fortune, but now he stays here to suffer.

Thinking of this, Liu Cainiang felt that she needed to make everyone more obedient, so as not to upset Xiao Langjun.

But in fact, where do those little ladies need her to tell them?

As Liu Cainiang said before, Xiao Zirong was their savior in the first place, and she was very capable. When the bandit village was burned down, they did feel a sense of relief from the sea of ​​suffering, but now they are confused again. I don’t know How can I live if I can't go home.

It is naturally the best to have someone lead them now.

Xiao Zirong took Liu Cainiang all the way to the place he liked. The weeds here have been almost removed, and the rammed earth foundation has been laid firmly, so he said: "Go back and dig some mud. Let's make mud bricks and build a few buildings first." Simple house."

mud brick?

Liu Cainiang was stunned for a moment, she had never heard of this thing, and the houses in the bandit village were also made of wood, so she found it difficult to build a house, mainly because they currently had no tools to cut down trees.

After Xiao Zirong finished speaking, he got up to look for suitable soil. After all, not all soil can make mud bricks, or it can be used but it is not so easy to use. It is best to choose more sticky soil.

However, probably due to the proximity to the sea, the soil here obviously has a relatively high salinity content, which means that it is not fertile enough, so it may indeed not be suitable for farming.

The surrounding soil was similar, and in the end he couldn't choose anything, so he had to get some soil nearby.

All the soil was piled up in an open space, then mixed with water to make mud, and then shaped into square bricks with a wooden model. This method was discovered by him watching a video of survival in the wild.

It's just that the mud bricks should not be too large or they will crack easily after drying.

If it is in the north, these mud bricks can be dried directly, but it is not possible here. The humidity here is higher than that in some areas in the north, and it is summer, so they can only be dried by fire.

Xiao Zirong simply asked someone to dig a hearth, lit a fire in the middle, and then spread the mud bricks in rows on the surrounding soil walls to dry a little bit.

This is a relatively long process, and it will take a long time. Now they have less than 100 people in total. He wants to build a collective dormitory first, with a room with bunk beds for eight people. This kind of environment seems to him already It sucks.

It's just Liu Cainiang's words that dispelled his thoughts: "Just find a place to shelter from the wind and rain. We are lucky that it hasn't rained these days, but no one can tell which cloud has rain."

Xiao Zirong heard the same thing, they are short of food and medicine, and everyone's clothes... are relatively tattered.

Now the most well-dressed of all the people is Xiao Zirong, this young gentleman is outrageous.

Xiao Zirong could only give up those things and build a house first. There is no need to have a lot of things, just a place to lie down and sleep.

In the end, every house has a Datong shop is Xiao Zirong's last stubbornness.

It's not that he has to sleep in bed because he can't bear hardships, but sleeping on the ground is cold and wet. It's okay for a short time, but it's easy to get sick after a long time. These people really can't get sick now, especially the wind and cold. of.

Liu Cainiang was originally in a hurry to fix the house so that they could cultivate the land, but now they have less food to eat, so what would they eat if they didn't cultivate the land?

Xiao Zirong has been thinking about how to build a house these days, because there is no need to build tall buildings or special requirements, so it is easier, the only difficult thing is probably how to deal with the roof.

Eventually he decided to make mud tiles and use bamboo as beams.

This is definitely not very strong, but the problem now is that there is no other way, bamboo can still be cut by stone tools, trees... just forget it.

Moreover, bamboo is easier to shape, just bake it once.

As a result, when he was busy making plans, he saw that Liu Cainiang was busy for a long time and couldn't come up with an idea. Finally, he couldn't help but ran to Liu Cainiang and said, "Don't worry, I know these things in my heart. The main thing is to find the right bamboo for the beams.”

Liu Cainiang was slightly taken aback: "You...do you know how to farm?"

Xiao Zirong paused, of course he doesn't know how to farm, but even if he has no experience, he still has a wealth of theoretical knowledge to support him, and he can avoid many detours, so he said: "I know a little less, and it's useless for you to worry now, What we have is old grain, how do we make grain?"

In fact, it is not impossible to make old grains, but no one knows whether the germs inside will be destroyed, because the flower growers have full points in the talent of farming, and since they have arable land, they have started to specialize in cultivating grain seeds. It can be said that grain There are still some differences with grain types.

Liu Cainiang asked: "Do you want to go to the county to buy?"

They are the closest to Liangxiang County, but their identities are not visible, and they have no household registration, and the little money they have... How much can they buy?

Xiao Zirong nodded and said: "We lack too many things, we have to go to the county, don't worry about this, just follow what I said."

He knew that even if they didn't go to the county, they could actually survive here, but that would only be to keep alive, not to die, and the premise of this was not to get sick.

Of course, Xiao Zirong can't go on living like this, the cheats in his head are so powerful, and then he lives in a ravine where he is neither human nor ghost, so why not go back to school to bind the local spirits!

Liu Cainiang was very disturbed at the thought of contacting the outside world, but Xiao Zirong's calm expression somewhat comforted her, and she took a deep breath and said, "Okay, what are you doing now?"

Xiao Zirong said: "The first thing we need to do now is to chop bamboo with great strength, and burn tiles for the rest."

Liu Cainiang was stunned when she heard this: "Burn...burning tiles? Do you still want to burn tiles?"

We must know that those who can live in tile-roofed houses these days are already a group of people who have a good life. They are not much better now if they don’t say they are poor and white. Do they actually want to live in tile-roofed houses?

Seeing her expression, Xiao Zirong knew she had misunderstood something, waved his hand and said, "It's not such a delicate tile, it's just a mud tile, or what else can we put on it to protect us from the wind and rain?"

Liu Cainiang was curious, so she pointed out some young ladies who were strong and strong enough to chop bamboos. After the bamboos were chopped back, Xiao Zirong selected the thickest batch to support the four corners of the selected house. Some bamboo is used as support in the middle.

This is what he found from the book when he was worried that there was no steel bar and the house was not strong enough. Bamboo itself is flexible enough and easy to get, so it can be used to build a house temporarily instead of steel bars.

As for the remaining thinner bamboo, he chose the longest one to be used as the top beam, and tied two bamboos crosswise to the bamboo on both sides as a substitute for steel bars, and the beam was placed on it like this .

It's easy to say, but it's actually very difficult to do. First of all, they don't have scaffolding. If it's too high, they can't get it up. Instead, they built two bamboo ladders, but Xiao Zirong was worried about the bamboo ladders. It is not safe to be too high, so we can only make it shorter.

After all, the group of them are novices in building houses, and even he only has theoretical knowledge, so don't take risks and make the house shorter.

So in the end, the house was a head taller than the tallest lady, but it wasn't too short. You must know that the tallest lady among these ladies was estimated to be close to 1.8 meters by visual inspection.

Some of the remaining bamboos were split from it, and then bent over a fire while roasting, and finally bent into a shape of equilateral sharp corners and placed on the top beam to support the tiles.

Everyone builds houses during the day and bakes bamboo at night. Although they are very busy, they can be regarded as enjoyable.

But as soon as they built the roof and started to build the walls, the weather began to become erratic. At first, there were only sporadic light rains, but after several days without the sun, Xiao Zirong wrinkled Mei approached Liu Cainiang: "The plan is not as fast as the change, I even forgot about entering Mei."

Liu Cainiang patted her forehead: "If you don't tell me, I will forget, what should I do now?"

Xiao Zirong said: "It's too late to burn the tiles, let's use the leaves first, pick up some big leaves and use thin bamboo branches to wear them, and then put them on the roof to keep out the rain."

Xiao Zirong wanted to sigh while talking, he had done all the plans well before, and because he could find a solution every time he encountered any difficulties in what he was doing now, those little ladies were more and more convinced by him , He basically listens to everything, which saves a lot of things.

Xiao Zirong is actually not good at interpersonal relationships, especially since he has been a spirit bound for so many years, he can see people every day but can't communicate with them, and his social skills have deteriorated over time, so if he is asked to intrigue with others, he promises to run away immediately .

It’s good now, and it also gave him more confidence in the future. As a result, he never expected to ignore the climate. Choose the most convenient and hassle-free way, and then adjust the plan a little bit.

Liu Cainiang also felt that the plum blossom was coming soon, and she was a little anxious seeing that the house was not yet built. At this time, she couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief when she heard Xiao Zirong say this, and she quickly said: "Okay, I'll call someone right now."

It is definitely easier to use leaves to make a roof than to use tiles. The placement method is basically the same as that of tiles. Leaves are strung together one by one, and then overlapped and arranged one by one. A layer of bark for protection.

The house reserved windows according to Xiao Zirong's intention, but now the only thing they can use to cover the windows is the straw curtains made by little ladies.

And some of these straw curtains were prepared for Xiao Zirong.

Those little ladies forcibly used these straw curtains to separate a single room for Xiao Zirong in the house.

Xiao Zirong: Thank you so much!

In fact, those little ladies don't mind much, generally married women have a large scale, and although Xiao Zirong is very powerful, but because he has not been able to keep up with nutrition in the past few years, he is not tall, obviously 14 But he looks about the same as the eleven or twelve-year-old Xiao Langjun.

Many women treated him as a child and didn't mind at all. On the contrary, Xiao Zirong himself cared more, so he, as the minority, gave him preferential treatment in a single room.

The bed in the house is a bamboo bed, which is easy to get, and a better bed will be discussed later.

Then there is the kitchen. The kitchen needs a pot and a stove. The stove is relatively easy. When they built the house before, they built a stove outside. As for the pot...they only have some pottery products, which are made of bricks. I got it by hand when I was in the room, so I can cook it, stir-fry... oh... yes, there is no cooking these days.

However, after entering the plum season, everything can only be kept simple, because the humidity is too high, and the matter of building a house needs to be considered in the long run, which is convenient for Xiao Zirong to make more detailed plans.

It's a pity that there is no pen and paper, so Xiao Zirong had to get a half-dried clay tablet to write and draw on.

Now their food, clothing, housing and transportation are very problematic here, and food and clothing must be obtained from the outside world, and if they want to get them from the outside world, they must have money or things.

And he had searched his mind about the people's livelihood in this period before, because this period was too turbulent, so the records in this area were very messy, and there were even doubts in some places.

But what is certain is that Xiao Daocheng did not mint money in order to reduce the inflation that occurred during the Liu and Song Dynasties after the establishment of the Qi State, which led to the fact that money is expensive and things are cheap in today's market.

To put it simply, money is very valuable, but I don't know how valuable money can be and what things it can buy.

First of all, in terms of food, you need to have grains, vegetables and meat. Among them, grains and vegetables are okay, but for meat, the best choice is actually chicken.

Because the same feed is fed, the conversion rate of chicken is the highest, and it is also the most economical.

And eggs can be provided, so be sure to buy some chickens to keep.

Xiao Zirong turned his head to look at Liu Cainiang while he was writing. When he was writing with a branch, Liu Cainiang was also sitting on the side watching. Not only that, the voices of other young ladies also became softer.

The people of this land have been in awe of knowledge for many years.

Xiao Zirong asked, "Do you know how to raise chickens?"

Liu Cainiang was stunned for a moment, unable to react for a while, she hesitated before saying: "Someone raised it in the village, what's the matter?"

Xiao Zirong told her about her plan, Liu Cainiang was stunned for a while, and said a little embarrassedly: "Xiao Lang is careful, I didn't think of these, and there are other things..."

Xiao Zirong didn't hide it from her, and explained the plan to her bit by bit, leaning over to point to the blackboard writing on the clay board and said: "I took a look, and there are some lands around this house, not many , but it’s enough for us, we’ll plant three things first, rice, flax, and some side vegetables, well, if you don’t like the difficulty of growing side vegetables, you can plant one that is easy to get like radishes first.”

As he said, it was a pity that there were no potatoes at this time. If there were potatoes, they would be able to save some energy. Potatoes can be used as a reserve and can be eaten as a vegetable.

Liu Cainiang said with some embarrassment: "You don't need to show me Xiao Lang, I... I can't read."

Xiao Zirong was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that Liu Cainiang could not read, after all Liu Cainiang was Liu Song's princess.

But think about it, Liu Song happened more than 20 years ago. At that time, Liu Cainiang might not have learned a few words, and then it was a long time of wandering, and even if she learned it, she probably forgot it.

He said helplessly, "Okay, I finally know what to do when I can't go out during the rainy season."

He also felt that it was too exhausting for them to stay in the house when it was raining outside, and the most important thing was that doing nothing like this would easily cause conflicts among many people.

Don't look at everyone working together when fleeing, but after settling down, it is easy to cause friction, not to mention that these people may not really have a good relationship in the village.

It wasn't that he was gloomy, it rained for six consecutive days after entering the plum blossom season, these young ladies had already had more than a dozen quarrels, big and small, all of which were small things, and the quarrels were not too serious, But many conflicts are accumulated little by little, and it may not be certain after a long time.

Xiao Zirong did some research and found that the rainy season usually lasts for almost two months. Although it doesn’t rain all the time, it rains six days out of seven. If things go on like this, I’m afraid that when the rainy season is over, their gang will also be disbanded. up.

He also didn't expect that he would have to take care of these things besides taking care of everyone's basic necessities of life. He had a headache for a while, and even began to think about whether it would be better to go back to Jiankang.

But this idea was thrown out after wandering around in his mind. Although he didn't need to worry about these trivial matters in Jiankang, what he worried about at that time was his own life.

Even if it is a little troublesome now, at least personal safety can be guaranteed.

So, recently, he has been thinking about finding some things for these little ladies within his ability to consume their energy, but now he doesn't have to worry anymore, he has a solution.

Liu Cainiang was a little surprised: "What are you doing?"

Xiao Zirong said: "Teach you how to read."

Not to mention Liu Cainiang, even the other little ladies who were listening to them with their ears upright looked at Xiao Zirong in astonishment: "What? Literacy?"