Chapter 249 Primitive Beast World Cubs 24

The first brick was taken out; it was still warm, and its color had turned dark red. It was very solid and incredibly hard to the touch.

She tapped the brick hard, and it made a clear, ringing sound, indicating that it was stronger than she had imagined!

"Success! Sweetie, our bricks are fired!"

Shen Ci happily picked up a brick. Generally speaking, the first brick taken out is good, and the ones after that are usually good as well, since they are all fired in the same kiln.

Cang Ye picked up a heavy red brick, grinned, and said, "This is all mud I made myself. Making mud harder than stone, that's godhood!"

Only a legendary, high and mighty god could conjure up such magic and create so many strange things!

To harden the soil, to turn silt into salt, to make food delicious! Who but the gods could do that?

These red bricks are heavy and hard, like stones, though of course, they are lighter than when they were first made into mud.

One by one, they took out the red bricks inside. They were red like the color of flames and smelled of earth.

Fortunately, the process of moving it home wasn't too tiring; all I had to do was put it in a basket and carry it back.

Physical labor is just too tiring!

After bringing everything home, the next step is to prepare for building the house.

Since these red bricks are already packed in the basket for easy carrying, there's no need to empty them out, saving us the trouble of carrying them up and down.

The red bricks in the basket were piled up into a small mountain, and the foundation in front of the house had been leveled and cleaned up. The real challenge has now begun!

She is going to build a house in this primitive society with her bare hands!

Shen Ci's plan was to build the new house right next to the cave entrance, with the cave entrance serving as the inner room and the new house as the outer room and main activity area.

In this way, the living space can be expanded, and the advantages of the cave being warm in winter and cool in summer can be taken advantage of. Then, a door can be added at the entrance of the cave so that even if danger is encountered, there is a place to hide.

This directly eliminates the cost, manpower, and time required to build another room.

Besides laying the foundation, the first thing to do when building a house is to build the walls.

Shen Ci first used mud to build the wall along the drawn lines, and she deliberately combined one wall of the new house with the rock wall of the cave.

When they reached the cave entrance, they built the brick wall along the edge of the entrance, thus turning the cave entrance into the doorway of the new house.

In this way, one can directly enter the cave from the new house, and the cave will not be exposed.

"Sweetie, look, now we have two rooms. It's bright outside and cool inside, warm in winter and cool in summer."

As Shen Ci applied the mud, he spoke, and Cang Ye nodded excitedly, helping to hand over bricks and mud. He didn't understand, but he was happy to have work to do every day.

Born with the divine body for bricklaying.

The bricklaying process was slow, and although Shen Ci was a novice, she did it very carefully.

To be honest, she had only seen others build houses, but she had never tried it herself. She was just imagining things based on theoretical experience, groping her way in the dark.

Building a house requires a level, which is a straight piece of wood with a weight suspended in the middle, as well as a plumb line, all of which she made herself in a simplified version.

These two tools can be used to check the level and verticality of the wall to prevent it from becoming crooked during construction. Sometimes, the angle of the human eye is different, so it is not always noticeable.

When the wall was built to a height of one person, it was necessary to leave space for doors and windows. Since Shen Ci didn't have hinges, she had to find another way to replace them.

She selected two exceptionally thick, straight logs that were taller than the doorway as the left and right pillars of the door frame.

When building the walls on both sides of the doorway, she first used mortar to firmly fix the two pillars into the wall, and then erected a thick horizontal beam above the pillars.

The key point is that she carefully carved out two shallow grooves, one above the other, with a stone knife and chisel on the inner edge of the right pillar to serve as the support for the door hinge.

The window frame is relatively simple; it is made of four pieces of wood in a square shape and directly installed in the reserved window opening.

Fortunately, the house she wanted to build was small and only required three walls, which greatly reduced the amount of work.

Shen Ci selected some straight wooden sticks of uniform thickness. She first used two long wooden sticks as the top and bottom horizontal bars of the door.

Then use thinner wooden sticks as vertical supports, arranged closely together.

Without nails, they used flexible, wet bark fibers as ropes, binding the vertical and horizontal sections together in a crisscross pattern to create a sturdy raft.

This step alone exhausted her. Since coming into this world, the muscles in her arms have become much more defined.

I work like crazy every day, and eat a lot of meat, so I gain weight and build muscle at the same time.

The most crucial step is making the door hinges.

She selected a slightly protruding vertical bar at each of the top and bottom ends of the right side of the wooden door, and used a stone knife to grind the ends of them into relatively rounded protrusions as the original pivot heads.

"Come on, sweetie, help Mommy hold on."

Together, Shen Ci and Cang Ye carefully aligned the protruding hinges on the right side of the wooden door with the grooves pre-dug on the door frame pillars and inserted them into the grooves.

In this way, a primitive wooden door that can be opened and closed normally is made by rotating the wooden protrusion in the groove!

Although it's a bit stiff when switching on and off and makes a creaking sound, it's very sturdy and works, which is the most important thing.

Being able to open and close the door normally is more important than anything else. This is a completely original, handcrafted door, equivalent to a wooden door with mortise and tenon joints.

Then start building the wall!

After the walls are built to the top, the next step is to put up the beam, which requires some skill and strength.

Shen Ci first built triangular gables on the top of the shorter side walls of the house on both sides.

Then, with Cangye's help, the two of them worked together to lift the heaviest beams and place them on the gable and front and back walls, securing them firmly with wooden wedges and mud.

The wolf cubs are already as strong as an adult; this is a racial advantage, something they are born with.

After the roof beams were in place, Shen Ci laid the slender rafters, which he had cut down when he went out, vertically on the roof beams one after another to form the framework of the roof.

Fortunately, this place has an inexhaustible supply of raw materials; there is plenty of wood, and it is easy to find wood of all sizes.

"Okay, the last step is to put a hat on the house as a roof to keep out the wind and rain, so that rain won't fall into the house."

Shen Ci pointed to the rafter frame and said.

For the roof material, she chose the most readily available thatch to make the most primitive thatched hut. If she were to use planks, it would be better to use nails, otherwise they would all be blown away by a strong wind.

They collected large quantities of dry thatch and broad leaves, and laid them thickly, layer upon layer, on the rafters until almost no gaps could be seen from underneath.

In the process, some pounded yellow clay is also used as an adhesive to ensure that it will not leak and is strong enough.