A group of people took advantage of the night to march forward with torches. The weather in early spring was still cold, and everyone was dressed warmly, so it wasn't that hard to bear.

Man Niu pulled the wooden cart to open the way ahead, the wooden cart behind him was not too heavy for Daman and Xiaoman, what was annoying was Qing Shui who kept nagging beside their ears.

Qing Shui took the tender grass that Su Yao gave him, and fed it to the big and small man from time to time, and then stalked the big and small man's ears and horns. Under Su Yao's pressure, the big and small man had to accept the throw Feed and pet.

It was like this for the whole night, the size and man finally lost his temper after being tortured, he reluctantly licked Qing Shui's hand to express his approval for him.

The long dragon gathered by the torches meanders forward on the plain, deterring the beasts hiding in the dark from approaching.At ten o'clock in the morning, the team of collecting black mud fruits returned to the tribe, and everyone began to get busy.

According to Su Yao's plan, before building a house, the foundation must be laid first, and the foundation of the entire tribe's house will be repaired in these days, so the task is very large.

Under the leadership of the priest and Chu Shan, the people in the tribe began to level the foundation. A big stone was tied under the T-shaped wooden hammer, and one or two people lifted it high and smashed it on the foundation. Soil to avoid deformation and collapse of the foundation due to too much weight after the house is built.

A group of twenty people, each with a piece of foundation, poured water prepared in advance into the compacted soil layer after a busy day. This step is to further compact the bottom soil layer by utilizing the characteristics of water seeping into the soil layer and sinking.

The foundation poured with water begins to dry for two to three days, and the people in this group then tamp the next foundation, and so on, until all the foundations are tamped, and everyone goes back to tamp the submerged foundation. foundation.

The combination of water flow and manual tamping for three times will make the foundation stable and not easy to lose its shape. Building a brick and wood house on such a foundation, if nothing happens, it will be no problem to live for a hundred years.

The tribe was busy in full swing, and Su Yao also seized the time in the cave to study the mortar used for brick walls.

The texture of black mud fruit is almost the same as that of glutinous rice paste. After smashing black mud fruit and adding a small amount of yellow clay and insect repellent and sterilizing medicinal powder, it becomes a suitable mortar.

In fact, according to ancient records, the mortar for building walls is made of glutinous rice slurry and slaked lime, but Su Yao did not find traces of limestone around the Huangping tribe. This yellow clay is not much less viscous than slaked lime, and it is also very strong.

After various ratio tests and weathering comparisons, Su Yao finally determined the ratio of the mortar to achieve the dual purpose of saving black mud and firmness.

Seven days passed, and the tribe began a mighty upsurge of building houses.

Wooden carts and wheelbarrows transport a large amount of bricks to each laid foundation, and the mortar made of black mud fruit is packed in huge wooden barrels waiting to be used.

As early as the past few nights, Zhongli led the people in the tribe to practice wall-building techniques, including the simple rivet structure making and the method of erecting beams and laying rafters.

The slaves picked long, straight and thick logs from the mountains and transported them to the tribe. The brick-and-wood houses don’t need too much wood. Only large logs are used as beams, and thinner logs are used as brackets to fix the tiles.

It's just that the newly cut wood needs to be fired with firewood, and the moisture in the dried wood is sprinkled with insect repellent drugs to reduce the weight of the wood and prevent insects and ants from eating the wood.

A fire was set up in the big field, and after being baked and dried in the shade, the thick wood became the beams of the roof, and other wrist-thick logs were also neatly arranged in the big field.

The design of the house is a common small courtyard style, with a yard in the middle. The rooms are ample, enough for a family of ten or so, and the people live in a spacious way.

Throughout the cold winter, no one in the tribe suffered from illness and infection. Everyone attributed the reason to the cleanliness of the toilets. They paid a lot of attention to the construction of toilets. Almost every household built toilets according to Su Yao's design.

Thousands of people were busy together, so the efficiency of the work was naturally very good. The craftsmen who built the walls applied a layer of black mud on the green bricks, and then built the green bricks neatly and beautifully.

"This brick wall is solid, and it can't be knocked down." Dashansuya and the others joked while working: "Master God Envoy said, each of us has a house like this, I'm so happy gone."

"That's right, there are several houses in the family, and the children don't have to share a room with us when they grow up." "The slaves can live farther away, which will save trouble."

The discussants who talked about it were obviously very satisfied with the house under construction.

The black mud dries quickly, and the glued blue brick wall is stronger than the cement red brick wall that Su Yao has seen in modern times. It seems that more black mud trees will be planted in the future.

From time to time, people in the tribe use wooden carts to push black mud or blue bricks to transport everywhere. In just a few days, houses of blue bricks and tiles are erected, neatly located in the plains, and people in the tribe are dreaming. Always grinning.

After more than half a month, when the spring rain season in the Great Wilderness Mountains was approaching, the people of the Huangping tribe finally built the big tiled house of green bricks that they had been thinking about.

The floor of the house is paved with wide but slightly thinner blue bricks, and there is a large yard in the middle of the courtyard, which is suitable for growing vegetables and fruit trees.

The windows are made of wooden frames and thin cotton cloth. It is very cool to open the windows in summer, but in winter the cold air cannot penetrate at all with animal skin curtains hung inside.

In order to solve the problem of heating in winter, Su Yao specially asked the people in the tribe to build an earthen kang at home, and added firewood twice in the morning and evening.

There are two reasons for burning the kang. On the one hand, burning the kang can make the newly built house get rid of moisture as soon as possible, making it comfortable to live in; can be remedied in time.

The house is still under construction, and the shoots of sweet potatoes and ground roots that have been bred long ago have grown to more than a foot long, and it is time to transplant them into the ground.

So the people in the tribe were divided into two groups. One group continued to burn bricks and pick black mud fruits to build houses, while the other group was mostly women, bringing the old, weak and children of the tribe to plant sweet potato seedlings and ground roots on the plain. .

Before planting sweet potatoes and ground roots, one must first dig long ridges in the ground, and then press out a small soil nest in the center of the ridges, insert the tender seedlings of sweet potatoes and ground roots, and plant them.

The leaves and vines of sweet potatoes and ground roots are very dense, so when planting, keep a wider distance to prevent the vines from fighting each other and grabbing nutrients in the soil when they grow up. In the end, the two nests of sweet potatoes will not grow well.

The eight or nine-year-old children of the Huangping tribe are already sensible. When the adults are planting sweet potato seedlings in the field, they will take a long-handled wooden spoon to water the planted sweet potato vines and help as much as possible.

Speaking of which, planting sweet potatoes is simpler than planting potatoes. The process of turning seeds and moving seeds to the ground is omitted, which can save two labors.Within a few days, the sweet potato seedlings on the plain were all green and covered a large area.

After all the sweet potato seedlings and ground root seedlings were planted, the houses in the tribe were almost built. In addition to the houses for every household, the tribe also built schools, medical centers, welfare homes, slave dormitories and training facilities. field.

According to the planning and design of Su Yao's blueprints, every street is patchwork. This is just a miniature of Su Yao's overall plan and a preliminary trial layout.

"Boom, boom, boom" the dull cowhide drum sounded three times in the arena, and all the people of the Huangping tribe gathered together to wait for the news that they had been looking forward to for a long time.

"The rainy season is coming, and the envoy of God will lead everyone to move to the newly built house." The old priest's voice was obviously excited: "There are numbers on the door of the house, and each family will send a person to draw the number. No. Which one to live in."

According to everyone's contribution to the tribe, the warriors in the tribe were the first to be drawn; then the original villagers in the tribe, and then the residents converted from slaves.

The old, weak, sick, disabled and orphans were arranged to live in orphanages, while the slaves owned by the tribe were uniformly arranged in slave dormitories.

After choosing a good house, the relocation activities in the tribe started in full swing. Everyone wrapped all their belongings in huge animal skins and walked to the new house.

The street paved with large blocks of blue bricks looked very clean and smooth. Everyone walked on the street with a lot of caution. On both sides of the street were neat wooden doors and half-person-high fences.

The purpose of Su Yao's design of this wall is not to prevent thieves, but to increase the safety of the tribe.

When the spring warms up, there will be more animals moving around, and the fences are protected from all-pervasive snakes, rats and ants and wolves who like to sneak attacks at night.

The scariest thing is the snake, its greasy scales and icy touch give people goosebumps.

On the edge of the field, Su Yao received water from the mountain and built a two-meter-high water platform to store water. After the water platform is full, it will flow along the four outlet holes to a gradually downward stage like steps. The sink is convenient for the villagers to get water for daily use.

Bamboo tubes are used to lay out water pipes at the bottom of the sink, and the inexhaustible water will eventually flow outside.

The house of the priest and Su Yao was naturally located in the best location. The difference from the others is that there is a huge yard in the house of the two of them, which was specially reserved by Su Yao for planting herbs.

After the people in the tribe happily moved to the newly built houses, the rainy season in the Dahuang Mountains came. The sky was full of rain all day long, and even the temperature that had finally recovered had dropped a lot.

Everyone lit up a hot kang, and the whole family stayed together to warm the kang, and it was so lively that they didn't feel too cold.

The priest looked at Su Yao who was teaching Su Ya and others how to prepare the medicine, and couldn't help but feel relieved: "Master God Envoy's understanding of witch medicine has surpassed mine, so I will feel relieved in the future."

Su Ya smiled at the priest. If there is no accident, she will take over the priest's class in the future.

Although it was raining, the training of the soldiers led by Zhongli did not fail at all, and the slogans in the training ground were loud.The medical team led by Su Ya is also taking the time to absorb knowledge.

In other places in the Great Wilderness Mountains, they were sallow and emaciated due to lack of food in the cold winter, and the coldness and hunger of the continuous spring rain made them unable to persist and contract the plague.

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