Chapter 121 Rammed Earth (1)

The kitchen was located in the open space on the west side outside the cave.

Just build a shed, clear the weeds and gravel on the ground, and then tamp it down with stones.

A stone door was placed here before, with a simple partition in the space, and it is located downwind, so any bad smell can be naturally dissipated.

After determining the location, the two worked together to clear the planned space. Xia Tian found a hard stone with a flat bottom and planned to tamp the soil.

It is impossible to lay floor tiles under the current conditions. If we use this loose mud floor directly, and this is a place for cooking and eating, dust will fly everywhere when we walk. It will probably be full of flies and mosquitoes in a short time, not to mention the grass growing everywhere.

Therefore, rammed earth is necessary.

"Si Ye, do you know how to tamp the earth?" she asked as she tied vines to the rocks. "Do me a favor and level the ground."

Rammed earth is a traditional and ancient construction technique.

When reinforced concrete structures and even brick and tile structures were not very popular, the foundations and floors of people's houses, public roads, dams and city walls... were all compacted earth.

Soil can be seen everywhere, and mud land is "down to earth". Houses made of mud land are warm in winter and cool in summer, making them very suitable for human habitation.

But the disadvantages are also obvious.

For example, the surface is easily dusty and weeds may grow if you are not careful, making it difficult to maintain. Hence, the “rammed earth” technology was born.

The so-called rammed earth is actually to use a hard plane to repeatedly hit the surface of the soil, so that the originally loose soil is compacted and the surface is smooth and flat.

In some special cases, mortar, sand and gravel will be added to increase the stability of the soil and reduce the organic matter content in it. The microbial community cannot reproduce, thus creating the inorganic state of concrete in disguise.

In the 21st century, no matter how tall a building is, it is inseparable from the process of rammed earth.

It’s just that for the sake of cost and efficiency, a tamping machine is used.

Si Ye had seen this before when he was in Dongfang City. The orcs who were building the Beast City used tools similar to the one in the girl's hand to level the ground for the Beast City.

What he didn't expect was that Xia Tian actually knew this. He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, "You even know this. What kind of life did you lead in the tribe before?"

In Si Ye's cognition, the status of females has always been very high.

Moreover, the more remote and smaller the tribe, the more precious females are.

Because for them, population development is the top priority, so they will protect females at all costs and exploit their reproductive value.

Even if Xia Tian was later driven out of the tribe because she was infertile, how could she have had so much time to learn these things before that?

It hasn't been long since he was kicked out of the tribe, so he probably hasn't had the chance to learn from anyone.

Fishing, making fire, building shelters, making all kinds of crafts, and now even building infrastructure...

Although the audience in the live broadcast room did not know what "rammed earth" was, they intuitively thought it was a project similar to building a house, which directly overturned their perception of females.

[Hahaha, the male lead really said what I was thinking]

[Yes, yes, a normal female shouldn't have so many skills, right?]

[I'm also curious about the heroine's setting. At first I thought she was amazing, but later I wondered how much hardship she had to endure to learn it.]

(End of this chapter)