Chapter 696: Different house construction and farming methods

The tribe that moved to a new place quickly became busy after a short break.
The strong men in the tribe, carrying a stone axe in their hands, cut down trees that are not very tall near the stream.
The stone axes in their hands are not the same as those of most tribes.
Their stone axes are not tied to wooden sticks with ropes. After Han Cheng arrived, the stone axes of the Qingque tribe that punched holes in the stone axes and then pierced them with wooden handles were also different.
Their stone axe is to first cut out an oval hole at one end of the wooden handle, and then smash the polished stone axe in, with the small head on top and the wider blade on the bottom, so that the stone can be firmly attached to the wooden handle. Firmly combined,
Moreover, the stone axe will only become stronger with one slash, and will not loosen...
These felled trees were dragged by them to a relatively gentle about four to five hundred meters from the stream.
These are good things used as building materials.
While these strong people were cutting down trees, the women and children were not idle.
Some of them are looking for taller hay that hasn't been damaged after a winter, and some of them break the branches of the trees that were cut down and dragged back by the strong men one by one and put them together. .
Not all strong people are cutting down trees, and some people are on this gentle slope, with tools in their hands, digging the dirt along the circle drawn by the priestess on the ground.
They don't do such things less, so it seems very effective to do it.
After digging down to a certain depth, it was not easy to dig, some people used clay pots made by the priestess to bring water from the stream and pour it into these pits.
The digger went to one side but dug the other round pits, and waited for the water in the pits to seep down almost before returning to continue digging.
After the round pit in the center was dug, some people started to use the broken branches along the edge of the pit, leaving only a place facing the south without branches. This is the location of the door.
After inserting the branches, people continue to draw water with clay pots to reconcile the soil excavated during the digging.
Then he made a large piece by hand and piled it on both sides of the inserted branches, and gradually, a mud wall was piled up.
And because there are branches in it that act as something similar to steel bars, the walls stacked with mud like this are still very strong.
After the mud wall piled up on the person's chest, it stopped.
Then some people put five or six tied wooden sticks on top of the circular mud wall.
These tree sticks are not tied together side by side, tied into a bundle, but only tied at one end.
After being placed on a circular mud wall, it is like an open umbrella bone.
After finishing these, women began to take the hay collected before and tied them in circles. When these'umbrella bones' were covered with a dense layer of grass, one half was underground and half was on the ground. The house will be built.
Compared with the Qingque tribe by digging the foundation, then laying the foundation with stones, then ramming the soil to form a wall, then erecting wooden beams, putting on rafters, paving fences, putting mud on, and finally putting on a thatched house, the house built by this tribe It's much simpler and faster.
Of course, their house is far inferior to the Qingque tribe in terms of spaciousness and brightness.
After building four such houses in a row, the talents of this tribe shifted the focus of their work to reclaiming the land.
This is because although it is autumn at this time, the weather is still very cold, especially at night, so it is necessary to build some houses to live in.
Of course, these four round houses are not enough for people in the tribe, but they barely accommodate minors and some people who are not very good.
It was a bit crowded when sleeping at night.
The people of this tribe are also very experienced in how to cultivate the fields.
They chose a relatively sunny day, cleared out a gap in the surrounding yellow grass and trees, and then put a fire on when new grass buds were just emerging...
The warm sun was shining down, shining on the earth, this place that was still barren before, with such a group of people, gradually became different.
Female priests of a few years old, holding a digging tool made of branches in one hand, walked barefoot on the ashes-filled ground.
Playing with her waist, she used a simple tool in her hand to dig a hole in the ashes of the ground, and then with the other hand, she picked up three gray-brown fruits from the clay pot beside her and placed them in this small In the pit, step on it with bare feet.
Around her, there are many people doing these things. This way of farming without much plowing the land can save them a lot of time.
While they were doing these things, a large part of the men who cleared the land went hunting around under the leadership of the leader.
Since this period of time, they have not been able to obtain food, relying on the gray-brown fruit stored to satisfy their hunger, which has consumed a lot of this fruit.
Now that another batch is planted, there will be fewer fruits of this kind, and it is time to find food.
The rest of the young and strong people began to build houses there. After all, living in a place without shelter from wind and rain for a long time is not a good thing.
Of course, before continuing to build houses, they used wooden sticks to build a cattle pen. After all, these things are rare things for their tribe!
The emergence of copper plough and deer farming ~EbookFREE.me~ has greatly liberated the productivity of the Qingque tribe, especially when this farming method is used on the cultivated land, the speed is even worse.
It is precisely because of this that Han Cheng dared to let the trade team members go out when the spring ploughing was halfway through.
It is not for trading and searching the surrounding tribes, but for the people of the trade team to transport some stones back.
These stones are actually limestone.
Limestone has been found in the tribe for a long time, but Han Cheng has never sent the tribe people back and forth on a large scale, nor has he burnt lime.
This is because it is not easy to transport stones over long distances. Another reason is that there are not too many places where lime is used in the tribe. When it is useful, the use of soil and cement made of plant ash will pass.
But it is not done now. With the successful construction of the wall and the end of spring plowing, many houses and these things will not be built soon, and a lot of lime will be used.
(It will be updated at ten in the evening)