Chapter 149 Extreme Joy Begets Sadness

Han Cheng is now the same as the old lady who guarded the chicken buttocks in the later generations, and ran to the chicken coop when he was free.

However, there are some differences. Those old ladies guarding the chicken buttocks are hoping to exchange eggs for some needles, threads, matches and salt to subsidize the family, while Han Cheng is purely for food.

Now, although Han Cheng completely understands the mood of Wu who often runs to the edge of the rabbit circle.

Maybe the last few days are the egg-laying period of this pheasant, or maybe all the eggs it laid were taken away by the ferocious little monkey, so I just wanted to lay more for hatching. Anyway, the eggs have not stopped in the past few days. Pass.

This made Han Cheng very happy.

After recovering from the initial scare, the old rooster with the bald tail also had a good time with the half-baring hen.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the fact that there are no other hens in the coop. Otherwise, why would this guy close his eyes?

As the saying goes, extreme joy begets sorrow, and things must be reversed when extremes are the opposite. Just when the Qingque tribe was immersed in the joy of easily obtaining prey, a trouble came quietly.

It's not that other tribes are calling, but the first house that is about to be completed.

From the excavation of the foundation to the laying of the tiles, everything has basically gone smoothly. Seeing that the tiles on the roof are about to be laid, something went wrong at this time, and a detailed problem that Han Cheng had never considered before appeared. It has become a stumbling block.

After the unremitting efforts of the senior brother and others, the tiles on the house have been laid, and a row of tiles has been fastened horizontally on the roof ridge. The whole house is basically completed now, and the rest are only some details. question.

The problem also appeared at this time, that is, the roof leaning against the gables on the east and west sides.

According to the practice of later generations, two or three layers of tiles should be buckled upside down here, and lime or cement should be used as seam trim.

This is what Han Cheng didn't consider.

In other places, mud can be used instead, as a glue, but not here.

Because this is the roof, where it is exposed to wind and rain, and then replace it with soil, it is irresponsible for the house.

After a few rains, the mud that made the seams will be washed away by the rain, and in the process, rainwater will seep in along these gaps, and the house will leak.

The most important thing is that the place where the rain leaks is still the east and west gables, and the gables are made of mud, and the roof is supported by wooden beams and not steel bars...

After careful calculation in this way, the problem of small details has become a big problem related to the overall situation.

Han Cheng scratched his head, how could there be such a trouble all of a sudden!

I have no plans to burn cement or lime.

After thinking hard and failing to think of any good way to solve this matter, Han Cheng had no choice but to ask the elder brother and the others to stop, not to close the door, but to stay in the room on the east side according to the method he taught. Build earth kang.

Han Cheng, of course, wanted to make such an artifact for the winter, the Tukang.

And he took some people to look for traces of limestone centered on the tribe.

The reason why Han Cheng didn't mention things like lime and cement before is that the tribe's productivity is limited now. The most important thing is that burning these things requires a very high temperature. Ordinary firewood may not be able to do it. You need to burn out the charcoal first, and then Then use it to burn lime.

If possible, a bellows needs to be manufactured...

For the current Qingque tribe, it is really difficult to manufacture the bellows.

Moreover, Han Cheng didn't know much about burning charcoal. He only knew that it seemed to extinguish the burning wood, and then it turned into carbon somehow.

Han Cheng deeply hated that in his previous life, he devoted most of his free time to those old wet people in the island country. It was useless to watch more primitive survival videos and knowledge.

Otherwise, I can live a more comfortable life now, and I won't be troubled by things like charcoal and lime bellows...

Han Cheng's worries about charcoal and bellows were unnecessary.

I don’t know if it’s because God no longer cares about Han Cheng, a time traveler. Accompanied by the adults in the tribe, he spent ten days looking around the tribe’s radius of nearly ten miles, but he didn’t find anything. Limestone trails.

Looking at the roof that was almost intact, Han Cheng felt overwhelmed. He who does not have OCD would feel uncomfortable looking at it. If it were someone with OCD, he would have to collapse...

The earth kang in the room has been built, with a length of 1.8 meters and a width of 1.5 meters. Compared with the bed made of hay, which was less than one meter wide and made of hay, Han Cheng slept in the inner cave before. Know how much higher it is.

When the time comes, Han Cheng can roll and somersault on it.

The kang is leaning against the easternmost gable wall. When the house was built, Han Cheng had someone leave a hole there with a diameter of about 15 centimeters.

The hole is about one meter two from the ground.

This is the reserved smoke hole.

After the kang is built, use adobe mud and other things to build a hollow passage against the wall along the hole left behind the kang to discharge the smoke from the hole to the outside.

In this way, there will be no smoke in the kang room when the time comes.

In the west room, there is an earthen kang of the same specification, which is Han Cheng's kang, and the one in the east room is for witches to sleep.

The reason for this arrangement is because this is the rule in Han Cheng's hometown in later generations.

When living in the same house as the elders, the east wing is the respect, where the elders live, and the west wing lives in the younger generation.

If the house is facing west and east, then the wing room on the north side is respected.

Wu is a person that Han Cheng respects, and he is also old. All Han Cheng wants him to live in the East Wing. This is a way to express his respect for him, and it is also a way that Han Cheng will never go back. , A memory of later generations.

After another two days of searching, there was still no trace of limestone, and it started to rain again. Seeing the large wet area on the western gable wall, Han Cheng had no choice but to bow his head to reality and decided not to think about limestone for the time being.

First use mud to collect this side and make the gap.

The big deal is to repair it later.

Thinking of it this way, although I feel a little unwilling, it is more of a kind of relief.

Sure enough, nothing is difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to let go...

"Boom, boom, boom,"

The elder brother and the others held the tools for ramming the wall and smashed the ground in the newly repaired room.

The soil in the room needs to be tamped, so that it is not easy to float the soil in the future, and it is not easy to have embarrassing things like grass protruding from the ground in the room.

It's raining now, and there's no way to do things outside. It's a good time to ram the ground in a room that can't be rained.

After the ground was compacted, Han Cheng asked someone to bring a large amount of dry firewood. Both kangs were burned, and a fire was lit in the middle one, which could expedite the removal of moisture in the room.