Ancient Eden Chapter 46:

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Li Mang listened very carefully and would ask questions repeatedly when he encountered problems that he did not understand well. Mu Qing saw that he was very interested, and his own interest was aroused. He excitedly took the white stone and borrowed a torch to draw the improved blueprint for him on the wall of the cave.

"Our housing is built higher off the ground to prevent moisture. Bugs and snakes will not easily get in. Even if it rains heavily and there is water, it will not be flooded. For the sake of stability, it is best to dig a pit underneath. It's called a foundation. Wooden piles are laid and tamped down, and then the house is built. The house is paved with bamboo or wood beams, and the walls are made of bricks. This way it will be warmer in the winter... Why do we need a foundation? Think about it, big trees have deep roots. The deeper you go into the ground, the less likely it will fall. The same goes for houses. Well, here are the stairs. The stairs are similar to the ladders you usually use to climb up. It allows us to go up to the floor of our house. The stairs are just a corridor in front of us. You can tilt out a balcony... The balcony can be used to dry things. The edge of the corridor is used as a main room, and a rattan mat is spread in the middle. The children can crawl and play here in the future. Next to it is the bedroom. The bedroom is the room where we sleep and rest, and we can separate a few When the child is born and grows up, he will also have a room by himself... By the way, we'd better build a fire pit outside the house. It's clean and safe. I usually light a fire there and cook for you. Eat, so that we can connect a fire wall to our house, so that it will be warm in winter. We will also build a large bamboo fence outside and plant flowers and trees in front of and behind the house..."

Mu Qing kept talking, and while she was beaming, Li Mang behind her listened carefully at first, interjecting one or two words from time to time, but gradually became a little absent-minded, and just stared at her without saying a word. Wu Zi studied how to make his house a house that not only retained the advantages of the Dai bamboo house, but also kept warm in the cold winter. Mu Qing didn't hear a word from him for a long time, and couldn't help but look sideways, only to find that his eyes were staring at him. She showed her animal skin tube top and her chest remained motionless.

Not only her lower abdomen and waist were bulging, but her chest was also the same. It turned out that the little cutie couldn't wear it for a long time. She had no choice but to make two soft and thin animal skins, hoping to support her increasingly bulging chest. The weather is nice and it’s not too hot, so you don’t have to worry about ventilation issues for the time being. At this time, seeing Li Mang staring at him like this, with a greedy look, he remembered that it had been a long time since he agreed to his request. Now that it has been more than five months, there should be no problem. With a thought in his heart, he turned around and raised his finger at him.

Li Mang immediately leaned towards her. Then she put her arms around his neck and blew into his ear. Hearing his own ear and swallowing, he let go and said with a smile: "Do you want me?"

When she saw Li Mang's eyes lit up, she quickly said: "Didn't you mean that... it's not good for the child..."

"Be gentle... Do you know what gentleness is? Just don't be too brutal and don't press my belly. The most important thing is to make me feel comfortable and comfortable... Then it doesn't matter..."

Mu Qing looked at him and said seriously, but in his heart he was already laughing so much that he cried out. She bet that Li Mang would believe it, and then she could enjoy the meal he provided for pregnant women.

Li Mang was stunned for a moment, then he picked her up with a smile and walked towards the couch, nodding repeatedly as he walked: "Yeah, I must not be barbaric, I must make you very comfortable... ”

When Mu Qing got up the next day, he could already smell the smell of Limang boiled goat milk in his nose. He had recently learned to milk a cow. Thinking of how careful he was last night, he stopped from time to time to ask her if she was feeling well. When he arrived, he was covered in sweat, no more than when he was fighting so hard, so he couldn't help but lie down on the couch and laugh.

After Li Mang had breakfast with her, he immediately packed up his things and went outside, leaving Xiao Hei to accompany Mu Qing. In fact, he didn't have a good idea of ​​Mu Qing's description last night, because he didn't hear what she said at all. But since she showed such interest, he would naturally do what she wanted. And based on previous experiences, often some of her ideas that he thought were weird in the end turned out to be pretty good. So in addition to hunting these days, he has been busy cutting down trees and bamboos, and then dragging them back on rafts like he did last time to transport tigers.

A stone ax is needed to cut down trees and bamboo. When Mu Qing first came here, he always suspected that stone axes could be used to chop down trees. It was not until later that she witnessed the process of polishing and refining stone axes by Limang people, that she was surprised by the effort required to produce a stone axe. The stone they chose was a hard rock on the stream bed. Mu Qing guessed that it should be lava, which is hard and dense. Use a hand-length stone hammer to hit the boulders on the ground hard and knock them out from above to use as rough boulders. You can also light a fire around the boulders to cause the rocks to expand and crack to produce suitable boulders. Then they continuously beat both sides of the rough stone, and finally the semi-finished product has uneven outlines. The next step is rough beating. The maker uses a stone hammer to gently hit the edge of the rough blank to break out flat and thin stone flakes from both sides. After this process, the stone ax becomes thin, narrow and well-proportioned. During this process, they hold several stone hammers of different sizes, shapes and hardnesses for different needs in the making process. Fine beating is a process after making a stone axe. The stone ax needs to be sharpened carefully and carefully to form a two-sided triangular sharp-edged stone ax or a chisel-shaped ax with one side vertical and one side closed. The former is used for felling trees, and the latter is used for processing and shaping. timber.

Mu Qing estimated that completing these three processes will produce at least several hundred pieces of scraps larger than 2 centimeters long. This does not include many small or even granular chips, and a certain rate will be scrapped. After the crafting is completed, grinding and handling are required to complete the entire stone ax production process. The grindstone used for grinding is a fine-grained sandstone block found in the river valley, and the stone ax is repeatedly ground on it. After grinding, the stone ax is placed on a T-shaped tree trunk or thick branch to make a wooden handle. Even the work of fixing the ax is very particular. The ax head pad is padded with slices of shaved wood and scraped bark to help eliminate vibrations during use. Then use split cane to tie the axe, wood chips and bark tightly together. A well-sharpened ax blade can often be used for hours on end, and once dull, it can easily be resharpened on a whetstone.

It is not easy to make a good stone axe, so people in the clan who are good at this are respected by everyone. Limang is one of them. Despite this, the material of the tool determines that it lags behind after all. When he needs to cut down a large number of trees and bamboos like now, it will be very hard. He has never mentioned this to her, but Mu Qing always feels sorry in his heart, wondering if he will be able to find copper and tin mines here in the future. If one day, when he has a metal ax or knife, it should be easier to do these things. But she thought it was very slim, because she didn't even know how to find mineral veins.

Limang has been busy for seven or eight days, and finally they finally piled enough bamboo and wood in the valley. Next came the burning of bricks, which took no less effort than chopping bamboo wood. About half a month later, they were finally able to start work. The two of them walked around the valley in a large circle, and finally decided to build a house on a sunny flat not far from the waterfall. The area was open, the soil was dense, the sunlight was sufficient, and it was close to the water source, so it was very suitable.

According to Mu Qing's idea, the bottom floor of the house is hollow like a bamboo house to prevent flooding and insect snakes during the rainy season. The foundations of Dai bamboo houses are somewhat special. Generally, a stone foundation is placed on the ground, and 24 pieces of bamboo or wood are used to directly top the ashlar stones, and the beams are tied seven or eight feet above the ground to build the house. But she was afraid that it would not be safe, so she asked Li Mang to dig the foundation of the pit and lay large wooden piles higher than the ground along the wall of the pit. The soil was refilled and compacted.

The walls of the ancient bamboo building are surrounded by bamboo rafts or bamboo strips. It is naturally cool in summer, but here, it is definitely unable to withstand the severe cold winter, so copying it will not work. So they started stacking up along the foundation brick wall that was raised above the ground.

The adhesive between the bricks, Mu Qing and Li Mang also took a lot of thought. When I built the fire wall last winter, I used clay and rosin to mix and bind it. This time, I added an extra thing, which Li Mang once said once when he was a child, it would stick to people's skin when he picked it up and stepped on it. fruit. It is early summer now, and although the fruit has not yet grown, the stickiness of the plant is very strong after being mashed. It is evenly mixed with clay and rosin. Although it cannot be compared with modern cement, it is different from the clay and glutinous rice juice used to build bricks and stone walls in ancient times. , it is not inferior at all.

Three months later, their house was completed. Seeing that she and Li Mang were slowly building this house through fumbling, Mu Qing ignored her eight-month-old belly and hugged Li Mang's neck and jumped to kiss his cheek, which frightened Li Mang into hurriedly squatting down. He stopped and let her kiss her enough.

Her man is really hardworking and meritorious.

The house is not big, but it is enough for them to live in, and it is completely arranged according to Mu Qing's original layout. Going up the stairs on the east side, the floor is paved with split bamboo and flattened on the horizontal and vertical beams. The roof is covered with semicircular hollowed out bamboo tubes facing downwards and tightly covered. The lower layer of bamboo tubes are laid at the joints between the upper bamboo tubes and placed upward. , just like the placement of tiles, it can completely catch the rainwater flowing down the sloped roof, and then cover it with a layer of thatch and palmetto woven top. In winter they could cover the roof with animal skins and lay the floors instead. The pillars in the house are all made of thick bamboo, and the room dividers inside are also made of bamboo. The four brick walls are first smoothed with clay, and then covered with large braided bamboo or rattan fences, so that the house looks much cleaner. Next to the house is a roofed fire pit, from which the fire wall extends up into the house for winter heating. A water channel connected by a central bamboo pipe is built directly from the waterfall to the edge of the fire pond. When water is needed, just pull out the plug at the end, so that Muqing has a steady stream of running water. Li Mang even took it upon herself to change the bamboo fence she originally imagined into a wide and high wall, on the grounds that she would be safer if he didn't come home. Although Mu Qing felt that it was a bit embarrassing, he had to admit that what he said made sense. Then they dug a big hole and used the extra bricks to build a squat hut. In addition to plant ash, they would have a stable source of fertilizer for growing crops and vegetables.

The hot season of the year has arrived. On this day they moved from the cave to a small building. Mu Qing and Xiao Hei were very happy. Xiao Hei pushed the turtle shell to the corner of the main room by the window, and then defined his own territory. It was very nostalgic and found that the turtle shell could no longer accommodate its body, but it persisted and insisted on squeezing inside. But when it gets older, Mu Qing plans to move it to live on the ground floor to prevent its weight from crushing the floor. Although Li Mang seemed very happy, Mu Qing discovered that he seemed a little unaccustomed to living in a house with such a structure. He tossed and turned for the first few nights and couldn't sleep. She had no choice but to comfort him in every possible way. After more than half a month, she slowly got used to it.

They harvested the first season of millet. Li Mang made a stone sickle and harvested the crops. Then they collected two cane baskets full of millet. The yield is actually not high, but Mu Qing is very happy. She thinks that when she gets more planting experience in the future, the harvest will gradually increase. Considering that the warm weather here will last for a long time, they left part of it to eat, and they planted the rest again. This time the planting area doubled, and Mu Qing hoped to harvest the second crop. Then the potato roots began to swell, and some even arched out of the ground to expose the soil. After Mu Qing dug out the soil on the ridge and dug out bunches of potato roots, he was pleasantly surprised to find that probably due to the fertile soil, the grown potato roots were not only larger in size than the wild ones before, but also had fewer entrances. It turns out to be astringent. She was greatly encouraged and, like millet, took advantage of the long warm and humid summer to plant a second season.

As the delivery date approaches, Mu Qing slowly becomes a little uneasy. She had prepared herself a mat of boiled and sun-dried hay early. There was only one shirt that I couldn't bear to wear myself for a long time. I washed it and put it away, ready to wear it after the child was born. The shirt is already too floppy to look good, but it is probably the best thing to wrap a newborn baby in.

No matter how many times she told herself that she was not afraid of pain, she would be fine. Not all women here gave birth like this, and they didn’t even have scissors that could cut off the umbilical cord neatly. But when she thought that she would soon go through that kind of scene, she still endured it. There will be a sense of fear, and sometimes I will be so anxious that I can't even sleep in the middle of the night.

Li Mang was obviously influenced by her. He simply stopped going out to hunt these days. He just watched her nervously, watching her holding the mountain birds in front of the fence with her belly full and counting the number of people inside. Tried it over and over again, but each time the result was different. So she turned back to Li Mang and complained that the pheasants inside were running around so happily that she couldn't count them, and she didn't know if one of them escaped one day.

Mu Qing felt that if she continued like this, she might not be fine, but Li Mang might be tortured to death by her before the child came out. So she began to control her emotions. She stopped nagging in front of him and just kept walking in circles in the valley, hoping that she would be able to give birth smoothly.

At night, Mu Qing lay there, closing his eyes and smelling the smell of the coconut meat that Limang had just used to smoke on the floor of the building. It had a light medicinal fragrance, which was very comfortable, but the mosquito repellent effect was very good. good.

Li Mang remained motionless beside her. When she thought he had fallen asleep, he suddenly turned over and held her face in his hands, letting in the moonlight through the window and kissing her forehead.

Mu Qing looked at him with some confusion.

"Let me go find Naduo."

He was silent for a while and finally spoke.

At this moment, Mu Qing felt that a flower bloomed in his heart. He actually said what she had thought about before, but always felt unable to speak.

The author has something to say: By the time I write this article, I have written it as a complete farming... ⊙﹏⊙Khan

I would like to inform everyone that the outline has been slightly modified later. Shorter than originally expected. Originally there was still half of it, but now it is estimated that one-third is left.

Thank you for your support along the way.

Come out, all the overlords. . Hoho