"Follow me." Qiao Yu led everyone to the pile of wood and pointed at a piece of wood. "Do you see this kind of wood? Everyone, pick it out and carry it to the edge of the cliff."

She turned around and ordered, "Yan, take the team to pick vines." She raised the vines in her hand and said, "We want this kind."

Qiao Yu didn't know wood, and didn't understand the properties of different types of wood. But during the time everyone was cutting wood, she'd weighed it, checked its density, and compared it with several common types of wood, and she had a general understanding of what they were like.

The dense, heavy wood could be used for beams, doors, windows, and furniture. She planned to use the lighter wood, similar to paulownia, for the raft.

Everyone worked quickly and soon prepared the wood and vines that Qiao Yu wanted, and built a raft under Qiao Yu's command.

The people of the sixth team were making a raft, and Qiao Yu didn't rest either, cutting two wooden poles that were handy.

"Yu, how do we use this thing?" Everyone looked at the rafts they had made, and they were very curious and eager to give it a try.

Qiao Yu coldly refused: "Don't even think about it. The ice in the river hasn't melted yet, so we can't try the raft yet. Come on, let's build a house first. In ten days or half a month, the river should be navigable."

When everyone heard this, they didn't bother to test the raft anymore. They were also very interested in the house, after all, they had made the beams, doors and windows.

Everyone moved to the building site. Seeing that the adobe had dried, Qiao Yu called over the team leader and group leader, along with four members of a group that had recently achieved excellent results, and directed them to dig the foundation, install doors and windows, build walls, and raise beams.

When the woven straw mats were piled up on the roof layer by layer, a courtyard house consisting of three main rooms, two side rooms in the east and west, a kitchen and a storage room in the back was completed.

Qiao Yu planned to build a courtyard like this for every family, regardless of their size. In those days, mortality was high, with few living to the age of fifty, and child mortality was also high. Families with four generations or more than a dozen people living together were unlikely. Most families consisted of four or five people. A courtyard like this was perfectly adequate for living.

We will make other arrangements when the population increases in the future.

"Your group worked the best recently, so we will build a house for you first. Next, we will build three more courtyards like this next to each other, one for each of you four." Qiao Yu said.

Looking at the square courtyard, the spacious and bright house, and touching the thick walls, the four men were so excited that their eyes turned red.

Especially the two people from the Stone Tribe, they thought they would have to wait until everyone in the Valley Tribe had a house before they could build their own. Or maybe they would just not build them a house and let them live in the same small wooden house they were living in now. After all, they were captives and not officially members of the Valley Tribe.

But now, according to Yu, their house was actually built in the front, ahead of those team leaders and group leaders. The two of them felt extremely complicated, excited, grateful, fortunate, and excited... mixed together, making them burst into tears.

"I said, as long as you work honestly and diligently and have no ulterior motives, I will not treat you unfairly." Qiao Yu took the opportunity to say.

All the people of the Stone Tribe nodded vigorously.

Although Yu said that it would take two years to observe them, they performed well in these two years and were officially incorporated into the Valley Tribe.

But now Yu has proved with her actions that as long as they do their job well, she actually treats them as the same people as the valley tribesmen, without excluding them, discriminating against them, or even exploiting or enslaving them.

At this time, the hearts of the people of the Stone Tribe finally settled down completely, and they vowed to work harder in the future to let Yu see their loyalty.

Qiao Yu allocated residential land to each team. Basically, Team One lived on the first floor, Team Two lived on the second floor, and so on up one level. The team leader would also live on the first floor with the team members.

The topmost and most central part is her residence, which she would build taller and more magnificent to show her status.

The floor below her is where Man, Liushui and the four elders live, and the house regulations are better than those of ordinary people.

As for Huo and Qinglang, Lu and Yan, each of them has a house, and how they arrange and live there is up to them to decide.

He led the team leaders and group leaders to build another courtyard. After making sure that they all knew how to build houses, Qiao Yu instructed them to build the courtyards for the leader, assistant officer, elders and the sixth team first.

When the members of Team Six heard that their yard was to be built by everyone, they asked, "Yu, what are we going to do then?"

"We're going to make a lot of rafts."

"Let's go, let's go." Everyone excitedly put down the bricks in their hands and followed Qiao Yu to where the raft was.

Anyway, they had already built the house, and now their interest had shifted to the raft.

The group carried the raft and carefully walked down the path to the bottom of the cliff. Sure enough, they saw only a few broken ice left on the river, and the large chunks of ice were gone.

"I'll do it, you just stand on the shore and watch." Qiao Yu said.

This group of people were all landlubbers, and it was still cold in spring. If they fell into the river, it would be terrible. When they were still some distance away from the river bank, she stopped everyone and carried the huge raft to the river by herself.

Even though everyone knew that Qiao Yu was extremely strong, they were still stunned to see the skinny girl carrying such a large raft.

After putting the raft into the water, Qiao Yu jumped on it and pushed the raft with a pole. The raft left the shore and floated in the river.

After paddling the raft upstream for a while and then letting it drift downstream, Qiao Yu finally stopped at the shore where everyone was standing. He smiled and said to everyone, "Very good, very successful."

"Yu, can we try sitting on it?" several people asked.

"Come up." Qiao Yu was just about to test the carrying capacity of the raft.

So everyone got on the raft one by one. Qiao Yu paid attention to the raft's draft. Seeing that more than a dozen people had gotten on the raft and half of the raft's wood was still floating on the water, he was very satisfied with the raft's carrying capacity.

After everyone got used to the boat, they paddled the raft under Qiao Yu's guidance. After having enough fun, they went ashore.

Next, everyone made rafts at the rate of one per day. According to Qiao Yu's request, they made fences on the rafts with vines, and removed the large bunk bed in the cabin and placed it on the rafts.

Qiao Yu also did not rest. He made several wooden cages and installed them on four rafts to transport livestock.

After more than a month, Qiao Yu called a halt: "The number is enough, you can go back and pick up people."

She glanced around at everyone. "You built this raft, and you know it better than anyone else in the tribe. After each raft was built, everyone went to the river to test it out, and everyone is very skilled at paddling. Now, each of you will choose three companions to paddle back to the tribe to pick up the people. Do you have any objections?"