The next step is to cut down poplar trees, continuously cutting down suitable timber, and then peeling the bark and cutting out a flat surface.

Next, use a plane to flatten the cut surface. After flattening, use a specially broken wooden stick to fix the thickness of all the wood, and use a chalk line made of hemp thread to shoot out a straight line.

I didn't have any ink, so I used diluted mud instead, and the ink line was a simple version made of bamboo tube.

I continued chopping the wood with the axe until I reached the straight ink line that had popped out, and then I used the plane to smooth and flatten the surface of the wood.

This project is quite large, because the warehouse I built takes up almost half of the tree canopy, so I need dozens of logs, each about the thickness of a bowl.

It took me more than ten days to finish modifying all the timber. The next task was also not easy; I needed to transport the timber piece by piece to the pillars above.

Fortunately, I had made the pulleys for the lifting system in advance, so I could pull six logs to the treetop, which is ten meters above the tree, at once.

I started working on these uneven surfaces that I had found.

First, I need to place the wood on the pillars, and then mark the corresponding places on the wood according to the position of the pillars.

The upper parts of these pillars have already been chopped into squares with an axe, so all I need to do is draw squares on the wood and then carve out square indentations of the same depth in the wood to perfectly fit the pillars below.

To ensure greater precision in the depth of the wood, I specifically carved a mark on the chisel so that the depth of each indentation would be the same.

This step took three days to complete, and my warehouse floor was finally finished, presenting an irregular hexagonal shape.

Looking at the floor I worked so hard to build, I felt a good sense of accomplishment, but I was incredibly tired. This was probably the most tiring period I've experienced in the few months since I came here.

However, this hard work is worthwhile, as this place can become my second largest warehouse besides the shed.

Moreover, the security level of the goods inside was several levels higher than that of the sheds on the ground. In the following days, I was busy building the walls of the warehouse.

I cut out tenons for the two-meter-long pillars, then chiseled out corresponding notches in the wood on the ground, and then hammered the pillars into place.

After installing the uprights, I leveled all the columns to ensure they were all the same height. Next, I cut tenons into the columns, and then carved corresponding grooves into the crossbeams to fit them onto the columns.

The basic structure of the warehouse has now been completed. It has been built into an octagonal frame based on the irregular hexagonal shape of the ground, making full use of all the ground area.

I plan to build the top like a round Mongolian yurt, so that the snow can slide down quickly when it snows.

I split a whole bamboo stalk into strips, connected them to form a spiraling cone structure, and then used vertical bamboo strips inside the spiral cone to reinforce the overall structural strength.

Next comes the long process of weaving bamboo strips. Here I used the widest bamboo strips, which made the weaving process much faster.

The entire process of weaving this dome was completed on the wooden ground of the tree. Next, a ring of gold sheets, from large to small, were layered upwards like fish scales.

Where there is a connection, bamboo nails are driven into the top of the lower gold sheet, and then the upper gold sheet is used to cover the place where bamboo nails were driven in.

Cover all the gold sheets one by one in this way, and finally use a piece of gold to make a cone-shaped top and stick it on with pine resin.

To make the top lighter, I made the gold sheet as thin as possible. But even so, the final top was still so heavy that I couldn't help but laugh and cry.

I dare say this top must weigh at least 150 pounds, so much so that I had to use several bamboo poles to support it before I could slowly move it to the right position.

I split the extra meter or so of bamboo strips reserved at the top into thick bamboo strips and firmly fixed them to the crossbeams of the pillars. That completes the roof.

The rest of the work became relatively simple; I just needed to use a lot of bamboo to weave around the eight pillars like weaving a fence.

To enhance the waterproof and heat-insulating effect, I incorporated a large amount of thatch into the weaving process, so that even in heavy rain, it can effectively block rainwater from entering.

After completing several major projects, I breathed a long sigh of relief. Finally, I can feel a little more at ease; with a warehouse, this winter won't be too difficult.

Looking at the time, more than a month has passed since I started this project.

Now, under Top's meticulous care every day, my chicks eat plenty of meat and fish at every meal, and occasionally I also feed them some bitter lettuce leaves.

They have grown much bigger now, and their feathers have all grown in. Some of the male pheasants have begun to grow bright, colorful feathers, which are quite beautiful.

As November arrived, I felt the weather was noticeably colder than before, especially in the mornings and evenings.

Even though I was wearing a leopard-skin raincoat, my arms and calves still felt a bit cold and I got goosebumps.

I also have a beaver pelt, but these pelts are all raw and are now as hard as a rock.

So I decided to make myself a set of warm clothes before it snows, since I can't stay in my treehouse forever until spring arrives.

I have seen hunters in the village tan sheepskin before. Tanning this stuff requires a pressing tool, a toothed scissor-shaped tool.

This wasn't difficult to make. I used poplar wood, along with chisels and drills, and spent a whole day making it.

Tanned leather is generally divided into four parts.

Pre-treatment of fur, stretching and drying, smoking and tanning, and fat-fixing.

These four stages are inseparable and organically linked in the leather production process.

The tanning process is the production process that transforms raw hides into naked hides suitable for tanning.

The first step is to scrape off all the excess fat and meat scraps from the raw hides. My raw hides, whether leopard or jackal, have become hard and stiff after so long.

So I need to soften the raw hide again, which requires some diluted wood ash water.

Wood ash water is weakly alkaline and can accelerate the softening of leather, making it an essential raw material for leather processing.

In order to process suitable leather, apart from the leopard skin used to pad the bed, the remaining leather, including the leopard skin raincoat I was wearing, was soaked in wood ash water.