Chapter 47 Building a House (2)

"What should we do next?" Ha Gang asked Xu Que, who was planning the construction of the house.

"Could you carry that pillar over there for me first? Once you've carried it over, can you bury it directly in the ground, leaving only about a meter above the surface? That's about the width!" Xu Que said, gesturing with his hands.

Ha Gang and Ping Yao each carried two pillars and arrived at Xu Que's location.

"So you're saying you're going to drive it straight into the ground from this spot, right?"

"We're not burying it all in the ground! We need to leave about a meter of it on top, so it can be waterproofed and moisture-proof," Xu Que said to Ha Gang and Ping Yao.

"Okay! I understand!" Ha Gang and Ping Yao sped up!

A few minutes later, all the moisture-proofing materials at the bottom of the wooden house were in place, and it was time to finish building the house!

Ha Gang first handed Xu Que a piece of wood to be used to surround the four walls!

Following the mortise and tenon structure, Xu Que quickly fitted one piece after another!

Ha Gang and Ping Yao moved all the timbers for the wall to Xu Que at the fastest speed they had ever done.

Xu Que worked much faster than Ha Gang and Ping Yao on this mortise and tenon structure. In no time, the walls surrounding the rows of pure wooden houses in the Black Deer Tribe were completed!

After watching from behind Xu Que for a while, the other members of the Black Deer tribe were eager to try it out.

"Anyone who thinks they can do it is welcome to come up and give it a try! Many hands make light work!" Xu Que said, making room for everyone.

Four or five eager members of the Black Deer tribe stood in Xu Que's position, imitating his every move as they built the wooden wall!

Before long, the walls surrounding the rows of wooden houses in front of the Black Deer Tribe cave were completed!

Xu Que climbed up the wall and hung the roof purlins one by one on the roof beams using mortise and tenon joints. Then, he fixed a three-centimeter-thick wooden board on the purlins using mortise and tenon joints. On the wooden board, he laid a layer of cowhide with fur on it, and then laid a layer of thatch on top of the cowhide to prevent it from weathering prematurely.

Xu Que was just about to give some pointers to the young people from the tribe around him when, in the blink of an eye, they had almost finished tidying up the roof!

"You guys learn way too fast! I've noticed you're all much smarter than me! You learn things really quickly! And you're all so smug, thinking modern brains are more developed than primitive brains! But it turns out we're all pretty much the same!"

After Xu Que and the tribe members installed the round wooden door that had been prepared earlier, the entire all-wood house was basically completed.

Hou couldn't wait to run over and check it out: "Wow! This is our room, right? It's so great! I love it!" Hou touched the wood, and then lay down on the wooden floor and pretended to snore!

Xu Que pulled her up: "We need to put a bed here so we can sleep! This is the bathroom, and I'm going to install a shower here!"

"Wow! That's great! That's great! Brother Xu Que, can we stay here tonight? I'm really tired of living in the cave! It's just a little regrettable that we can't stay today!" Hou Ba gently rested her head on Xu Que's shoulder, pouting and acting cute.

Another group of about a thousand primitive people arrived at the open space outside the cave of the Black Deer Tribe.

After some questioning, Chief Hua and the deputy chief of the tribe learned that these members of the primitive tribe had the same reasons as the previous groups of members who came to the Black Deer tribe. It seemed that the Black Goose tribe chief and Bahan had been repeatedly deceiving and extorting these small tribes, truly refusing to admit their mistakes until they were driven to desperation! People like Bahan from the Black Deer tribe only showed some restraint when dealt with by the elders of the Primitive Barter Conference! Otherwise, this vicious cycle would continue indefinitely!

“Our caves are very crowded right now! How far or near is your tribe from ours? If it's far, you'll have to make do with staying here! If it's relatively close to our tribe, you can choose to eat here and then go back to your own caves in your tribe!”

“Our tribe is very far from yours! It takes eight hours to walk there! So we’re all planning to squeeze into your caves!”

"Alright! Please follow me!" The Black Deer tribe chief led the more than a thousand members who had come to join them toward the cave.

Xu Que's two saber-toothed tigers followed closely behind Hou before finally finding him at the wooden house.

The two little guys caught him and started licking him frantically. Xu Que called out their names, gesturing with his hands to see if they had forgotten what he had taught them yesterday!

Xu Que called out to them and then gestured, and the two little guys excitedly ran towards him!

He quickly pulled out their favorite beef chunks from his pocket as a reward!

Taking advantage of the fact that it wasn't lunchtime yet, Xu Que took out various tools from the system warehouse and cut out several large planks from a crooked log! Using the multi-functional power drill in his hand, he carved a lot of flowers on the planks!

After the tabletop carving was completed, the four legs of the table were made using mortise and tenon joints.

Xu Que sat down at the table shortly afterward.

After finishing the table, Xu Que didn't feel tired at all. While he was still interested, he made five or six stools in one go.

While Xu Que was engrossed in making tables and stools, the other primitive people in the tribe were not idle either.

Following Xu Que's original method, they built rows of wooden houses on the open ground of the Black Deer tribe, exactly the same as the first ones Xu Que had built.

Xu Que exclaimed, "The learning and imitation abilities of these primitive people are truly remarkable!"

Led by Hua, the elders of the Black Deer tribe were busy cooking meat in a large iron pot!

This time, instead of beef or wild donkey meat, they cooked a water anaconda with a waist circumference of about one meter.

This large snake was dragged up from a pool by Ha Gang and Ping Yao when they went into the primeval forest to log. Luckily, no one was injured!

Although this snake was sixteen or seventeen meters long, it wouldn't even be enough to fill the teeth of more than 20,000 hungry primitive people!

Under Hua's direction, the tribe members threw several large chunks of chopped beef from cows into the big iron pot!

After the beef and snake meat are cooked, you can eat whichever you like, according to your own preference!

After Xu Que scooped up a large piece of beef, he carried their specially made large wooden basin and went with Hou to the table in the newly built all-wood house to start eating.

Hou sat on the wooden stool made by Xu Que for the first time, repeatedly experiencing and observing the difference between it and the stone stool: "This wooden stool feels much better to sit on than the stone stool!"