"I can't explain it clearly right now." Jiang Xue scratched her head. "Are you afraid of the cold?"
"Afraid."
"Are you afraid of the rain?"
"Don't worry. It's fun to get caught in the rain."
"Then in winter—oh, I mean the cold season, do you like getting caught in the rain in the cold season?"
"Cold season?" Xiaohua blinked. "I don't like it. It's too cold."
"That's right. You're afraid of the cold, and so are the pigs. We cut grass to keep them warm. We also use the grass to build a shed for the pigs to protect them from the sun and rain. We also need to take care of their three meals a day so that they don't die."
Xiaohua seemed to understand what was said, but she started cutting the grass without any hesitation.
It took the four of them half a day to cut a large area of grass, which they carried back to the tribe in several batches.
In the afternoon, the preparatory work was completed and construction of the pigpen officially began.
Building three walls is really a technical job.
Jiang Xue had only seen others do it before, but when it came to actually doing it herself, she really couldn't do it.
Fortunately, the people in the tribe have strong learning and comprehension abilities. She just demonstrated and they rushed to build the wall.
There is strength in numbers. By the evening, a stone wall about one and a half meters high was built with the concerted efforts of everyone. Jiang Xue also made a fence gate with wood and rattan.
Once the fence gate was installed, thick thatch was also laid into the pigpen. Jiang Xue then remembered that she also had to make a feeding trough for the piglets.
It was too late to do it now, so she simply asked someone to dig a hole next to the door of the pigpen, tamp it down with wooden sticks, and lay a few stone slabs on it, and the trough was ready.
The baby pigs moved into their new home right away.
"Everyone has worked hard today. We still have some finishing work to do tomorrow," Jiang Xue said. "Tomorrow we also need to go cut some thatch to build a roof."
This is the final finishing work and cannot be sloppy.
The next day, the first thing Jiang Xue did after getting up was to go to the pigpen to sign in. Mu Feng, Xiao Hua and others also got up early. They were all very curious about the pigpen that was suddenly built in the tribe. They stood in front of the pigpen and watched the piglets in the pigpen digging in the thatch and mud. They looked very comfortable.
Jiang Xue looked at it for a while and said to Mu Feng, "Mu Feng, I think the branches in the tribe are not enough. You can take people to the mountain to cut down a few larger and longer trees. They should be at least as long as the pigpen. If you can't find suitable trees, bamboo will also work."
Bamboo is relatively lighter and more flexible. It mainly depends on whether they recognize it or whether it is called this name.
Mu Feng nodded. They didn't cut down many trees yesterday. Jiang Xue used some small ones to make fence gates for the pigpen, and there were two or three big ones that were erected in the pigpen as pillars.
Although he didn't know what Jiang Xue wanted to do, he trusted her unconditionally and immediately arranged for people to cut down the trees.
He followed Jiang Xue and went to cut grass with her.
There is no other way. Currently, there are no conditions to make tiles, so we can only use thatch to cover the roof.
Today's task is much easier than yesterday's. I just need to cover the roof of the pigpen.
Unlike yesterday, they were exhausted after a whole day of mixing mud, moving stones and clearing the site, and finally they had to cut down trees, cut grass and build walls. They were all exhausted.
Xiaohua saw the two of them pick up stone knives and walk out, so she followed them.
The three of them worked efficiently and soon cut a large area of grass. After carrying all the thatch back to the tribe, Jiang Xue saw the tribesmen coming back carrying bamboos. She roughly counted them and found that there were as many as twenty or thirty bamboos!
Jiang Xue was a little surprised. She had been here for so long and had never seen them use bamboo. She had thought there were no such thick bamboos nearby. Who knew they would give her such a big surprise as soon as they turned around?
So many bamboos were certainly enough to build a roof, and there were still some left over, so she asked people to place the bamboos above the pigpen to make the frame of the roof.
The roof's frame was a slope, not the typical gabled roof, and it was tied with rattan. Jiang Xue had originally wanted to demonstrate how to thatch the roof, layer by layer, starting from the bottom and reinforcing it with the extremely flexible rattan, but Mu Feng wouldn't let her. So, Jiang Xue directed the work from below while Mu Feng and a few of his tribesmen worked on the roof. It took until the thatch was nearly half a meter thick before it was considered complete.
Looking at the pigpen that suddenly appeared, Jiang Xue felt indescribable satisfaction in her heart.
The sudden appearance of such an amazing work had a very shocking impact on the Snake Tribe.
In the morning, the top of the pigpen was bare, but now there was a roof, which amazed them.
"Sister Axue, this looks so beautiful. I want to live in it." Xiaohua looked at the pigpen with shining eyes and said to Jiang Xue.
Jiang Xue smiled and said, "Don't worry, when the conditions are ripe in the future, we can also use this method to build a house for ourselves."
The speaker may not have meant it, but the listener took it to heart. Mu Feng jumped down from the roof and looked at her eagerly: "Axue, what did you just say? Can we live in a house like this?"
Jiang Xue nodded. "Yes, a house built like this is more comfortable to live in than a cave. But now we are about to enter the cold season, and we need to store a lot of food. So we have to put the house thing on hold for now. After the cold season is over, we can think of ways to build more houses."
If it weren't for the fact that it's impossible to build a house by yourself, Jiang Xue would have wanted to build a shack and live here by herself.
There was always a strange smell in the cave. What was even worse was that the entire tribe of fifty or sixty people, young and old, were all crowded into one cave. Fortunately, the cave was big enough to accommodate hundreds of people without any problem.
However, their sex life is so casual that live reality shows can be heard almost every night.
Jiang Xue went from being shocked to being numb. Even when she first came, Ashan once tried to sneak into her bed under the cover of night, but she kicked him away.
"Okay, then it's settled!" Mu Feng nodded vigorously. "Then the first room will be yours."
Jiang Xue smiled but didn't continue his words. She pointed to the empty space next to the pigpen and said, "I'm planning to build a toilet here soon."
Not only are the people of the Snake Tribe too casual in their sex lives, they are also too unhygienic.
Every time I go to the toilet, I do it right there. It is no exaggeration to say that I do it wherever I go.
The urine was fine, as it was basically absorbed by the soil. However, she had seen the disgusting excrement more than once during the time she went outside to cut the thatch on the lawn.
Toilets must be built, and if suitable vegetables and grains are found for planting in the future, farmyard manure will be the best thing.
"Okay, tell me how to build it, and I'll find someone to do it later."
Building a toilet does not require any other considerations than building a pigpen. The toilet only needs to ensure people's privacy, but men and women must still be separated.
Given that there are so many people in the tribe, one or two squat toilets in the built toilets are obviously not enough, and at least five should be considered.
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