Traveling through ancient times: Savages are hungry for food

Early the next morning.

Except for the elderly and children.

All the tribesmen gathered in the tribal square.

Ru, Yu and others had already prepared minced meat paste and pumpkin and radish pancakes.

Everyone ate the crispy and tender pumpkin and radish pancakes with the fragrant and hot minced meat paste.

Lei Ze arranged today's work for everyone.

Sang Tian had consulted Wu, Lei, and Lan last night.

Bamboo houses can be built much faster than earthen houses.

Plus, the weather is no longer cold now. Summer is coming soon. It's perfect for living in a bamboo house.

However, it is still too cold to live here in winter and it is not warm enough.

So the mud house still needs to be built, but it can be built a little later.

Let’s hurry up and build the bamboo house so that they can have a place to live alone.

So Lei divided half of the tribe to continue building mud houses, and the other half followed Sang to build bamboo houses.

After breakfast.

The tribesmen who were assigned to build bamboo houses first went to the bamboo forest to cut bamboo.

Some of the tribesmen cut the bamboo, some transported it, and some stayed at the site that had been measured and followed Sang Tian to learn how to build bamboo houses.

In fact, with the experience of building a mud house, building a bamboo house is much simpler.

Sang Tian taught everyone to choose bamboo that is well-grown, insect-free, and of suitable diameter.

Generally, bamboo with a diameter of 8-12 cm can be used for the main structure, and bamboo with a diameter of 3-6 cm can be used for the wall and roof covering parts.

The hemp rope, bull string and bamboo nails are all ready.

Lienniu string is actually the tendon of a yak. ​​It is very flexible, but crucially, extremely strong. It can be used in place of wire to build bamboo houses.

Hemp rope and iron wire are used to tie the bamboo together, and bamboo nails are used for fixing.

It is still best to choose a place with flat terrain, good drainage, ventilation and suitable lighting. Avoid building in low-lying areas prone to water accumulation or wind vents.

Because bamboo houses are not very moisture-proof, the bamboo house drawing drawn by Sang Tian is a modified version of stilt house.

A platform about one meter high is built below using wooden piles or something like that, and the bamboo house is built on this platform.

The platform can be made larger and surrounded by a fence, turning it into an open-air balcony where you can grow some flowers, sit down to drink tea, and bask in the sun.

It is also very convenient to hang clothes and dry goods.

The large and small edges have been tied with thin lines for marking.

While the tribesmen were cutting bamboo,

The females and the children simply cleaned up the debris, stones, etc. in the venue and leveled the ground.

If you encounter a relatively soft ground, you can compact it first, or lay a layer of sand and gravel to increase the stability of the ground.

Afterwards, a steady stream of bamboo was brought back, and the bamboo leaves and other things on it had been cleaned away, leaving only smooth and flat bamboo poles.

Now we start to build the bamboo house.

first step.

Following the marked outline, cut thick bamboo of appropriate length to serve as the horizontal and vertical beams of the basic frame.

This also includes the base piles and platforms that form the structure of the stilt bamboo house.

With previous experience in building earth houses.

Building bamboo houses is now a piece of cake for the tribesmen.

As soon as I saw the drawings drawn by Sang Tian, ​​I knew the structure of the basic framework and started working on it right away.

More than a dozen bamboo houses were being built at the same time.

Among the tribesmen who build every bamboo house, there is an expert in building earth houses.

Similarly, there are also new members who have just joined Tianlang and know nothing.

This will help them integrate into the tribe faster.

The process of building the most basic framework was relatively fast, but we also encountered many difficulties.

For example, when using bamboo nails to fix things, a section of the bamboo is often split by the force of the nails, and new bamboo has to be replaced.

However, after everyone got the hang of it, it was obviously faster and more efficient.

There's no problem with accuracy either.

So, during these three hours.

The tribesmen were busy using hemp ropes or bull strings to tie the joints of the bamboo firmly to ensure the stability of the frame.

The cross-binding method is used, first wrap it around the intersection several times, then tighten and tie it.

Bamboo nails are driven into the four corners and key joints of the frame to further strengthen it.

Of course, the four corners of the frame are fixed to the ground with wooden stakes, after all, it is a stilt bamboo house.

In addition to these four corners, in order to ensure sturdiness, there are strong and sturdy wooden piles every few meters within the entire outline to support the entire bamboo house.

Next, we need to determine the position of the column.

Select bamboo of appropriate length as the pillars and install them vertically in the marked positions.

Use hemp rope or wire to tie the columns to the foundation frame firmly. Make sure the columns are perpendicular to the ground.

Once the pillars are built, the platform can be built.

Then, an entire platform was nailed neatly and tightly onto these wooden stakes.

These two steps are not difficult and the tribesmen can get started quickly.

It was completed in four hours.

At this moment, the entire framework of the bamboo house has been completely constructed.

Next, we have to start weaving the wall.

In fact, it is possible to use split bamboo directly to make the walls of a bamboo house. However, this will eventually leave some gaps and it will not be a tight fit.

Moreover, the wall will have a very obvious curvature, which affects the appearance.

Weaving: Choose thinner bamboo as the weaving material. Start from one side of the column and pass the bamboo horizontally through the column in a zigzag shape.

At this moment, it is horizontal weaving.

During the weaving process, the bamboo should be kept tightly arranged, and hemp rope or iron wire should be used to fix the woven bamboo to the pillars at certain intervals.

This is when vertical weaving comes into play.

On the woven horizontal bamboo, vertical bamboo is added every half a meter or so for reinforcement and also fixed with hemp rope or wire.

This step is like building the wall of an earthen house.

It requires sufficient meticulousness, patience and energy.

It is also the most time-consuming step.

However, what Tianlang lacks the least now is people.

Everyone is busy and serious.

If there are any inappropriate places, the tribesmen who are good at building houses will point them out.

When they came to places they didn't know, Sang Tian would tell them about it.

However, it would be bad if Sang Tian really got involved.

She's just a college girl, she doesn't know anything.

She only has theories in her mind. Can she actually put the details into practice?

We just started knitting.

Lin, He and other children came over to call everyone to have lunch.

How time flies so fast, and before I knew it it was already noon.

Everyone put down their work and went to the river to wash their hands one after another.

Then we went to eat under the bamboo shed in the square.

The dishes are as good as always.

Spicy diced rabbit, braised chicken legs, crispy duck with taro paste, stir-fried lettuce, coriander beef, cabbage and mutton rolls, and a pot of scallion and radish egg drop soup.

We also roasted a lot of taro, yam and corn.

Including golden, soft, sweet pumpkin and chestnut cake.

This meal has everything, including desserts, staple foods, meat and vegetables, and soups!

The mung beans have already been soaked.

I plan to cook jasmine mung bean soup for everyone in the afternoon.

The work was really tiring and everyone ate voraciously.

His mouth was full of food, but he kept praising the delicious food.