"Sizzle, sizzle"
Tietou held the upper and middle part of the thatch with his left hand, and the stone sickle in his right hand moved accordingly.
The blade of the stone sickle hooked the root of the thatch, and as he exerted force with his right hand and pulled back, the thatch was cut through by the stone sickle.
The cut thatch did not fall to the ground but was held in his left hand.
After cutting the grass, Tietou did not stop, but moved his left hand holding the thatch in a small semicircle in front of his body. He controlled the original thatch in his hand with only his thumb and index finger, and used the remaining three fingers to grab new thatch. The stone sickle in his right hand also moved accordingly.
He kept repeating this action until he could no longer hold the reed in his left hand. Then Tietou stopped and placed the handful of reed in his hand on a pile of thatch not far away.
Under the thatch pile, there is a rope woven with hair grass placed horizontally. When the thatch pile reaches a certain amount, it will be tied up and transported to the tribe.
Compared with other thatches, this pile of thatch looks much cleaner and neater, and is stacked very neatly, unlike the ones made by others, which are rough and messy.
This is Tietou's masterpiece.
Tietou is working with great enthusiasm now, not only because he is most skilled in using the 'stone sickle', a new tool made by the Son of God, and he can harvest the thatch the fastest and most neatly, but also another important reason is Ruhua, who is tying up piles of thatch and transporting them to the tribe not far away.
After a long period of rest, Ruhua's stomach has completely healed. After the examination, Shen Zi agreed to let them live together ten days ago.
The adults in the tribe would hum little songs at night and do things that often made Tietou, an adult without a spouse, envious and unable to sleep for half the night. Now that he also has a spouse, naturally he has to pick up a gun and mount a horse.
It's a pity that Tietou only has a general idea about this matter. Although he is anxious, he has no idea how to do it.
Fortunately, Ruhua was experienced. She turned her back to him and gently supported him with her hand, then pressed his butt with her backhand, and the door to a new world opened.
At that moment, Tietou, who had never thought about flying, felt like a bird flying in the sky. All the impatience in his heart disappeared, leaving only a wonderful feeling that he had never felt before.
When he came back to his senses from this beauty, he found that Heiwa, who was near where he was resting, was smiling at him in the light of the not-too-bright fire.
It was a very strange smile, so strange that Tietou didn't understand what it meant.
However, his doubts did not last long, because after Heiwa smiled at him again, he reached out and patted Zhuang next to him.
Zhuang climbed up and lay on the ground like a flower, and then Heiwa began to move.
After a while, Zhuang began to hum a rough song in his loud voice.
Looking at Heiwa who was shaking his body and turning his head to smile at him, Tietou, who had never thought about this matter before, suddenly understood what Heiwa meant in just a short moment.
Tietou's face suddenly became hot and he felt uncomfortable for no reason.
It was Ruhua who rescued him from this situation.
This considerate primitive woman once again leads Tietou, whose self-esteem is hurt, to explore a new world.
And soon he started humming a song.
The song made Tietou feel more energetic. He raised his head, imitating Heiwa's behavior. He shook his head vigorously and turned his head to smile at Heiwa in a counterattack...
From that night on, every night the two pairs would compete with each other as if they were performing opposite operas, with their voices getting louder and louder, like pigs being slaughtered.
It was not until Han Cheng, who could no longer bear it, came out of the inner cave angrily and kicked the other man twice on the buttocks that this primitive dispute of arrogance finally came to an end...
While Tietou and others were harvesting thatch on the hill and transporting it back, the eldest brother and others who stayed behind were also busy.
They were still mixing mud and applying it to the edge of the deer pen, but this time the mud was not applied to the fence on top of the deer pen, but to the woven wooden fence under the ceiling.
Compared with pasting the ceiling, there is actually a big difference.
First of all, the mud must be thick, at least five centimeters. Secondly, the grille on the ceiling is only pasted on the top, but here, both the inside and the outside are pasted.
The eldest brother, who had transformed from an excellent hunter into an excellent mason, took the kneaded mud from the leather bag with both hands, rolled it into a mud strip roughly ten centimeters long, five centimeters wide and high, and then piled it forcefully on the mud wall below.
And press it hard on the wooden wall in the middle to make it stick more firmly to the wooden wall.
Han Cheng watched from the side, put his hand on the hardened mud that he had piled up earlier, pressed it, and shook it a few times, feeling even satisfied.
First, use wooden pillars and wooden strips to weave a "wooden wall", and then paste a thick layer of mud on both sides of the wooden wall to completely seal the wooden wall in the mud. This method can indeed be used to make mud walls.
And because there are wooden stakes and strips inside that can be called "bones and muscles", such a wall is stronger than a simple mud wall.
The 'wooden walls' of the deer pen with a roof were all sealed with mud, and after the final step on the ceiling - laying the thatch, a real house was built.
In this way, when it is cloudy, rainy and cold, Mr. Deer and his harem can stay in here. When the weather is clear and the temperature rises, they can move to a larger deer pen without a roof to ventilate and bask in the sun.
After a certain amount of thatch was collected, under the command and guidance of Han Cheng, the eldest brother, Shang and others began to lay the thatch on the mud-covered ceiling.
The thatch should be laid thicker so that it can better block wind and rain and withstand years of wind and rain.
And when laying the thatch, it should be laid horizontally in rows.
After the bottom row is laid, some mud needs to be pressed on the top to fix them.
Then lay the top row.
The upper row needs to cover the areas where the lower row is pressed down with mud, leaving no trace.
With rows of bedding pavements on top, the entire ceiling becomes one.
The top layer of thatch needs to be fixed well, because if they are not fixed properly, the entire ceiling will be greatly affected.
Han Cheng also thought of a solution. He would tie them to the fence below with ropes, then place two wooden bars horizontally on top, and put stones on top of the wooden bars. In this way, there would be no need to worry even if there was a strong wind.
At this point, the deer pen that had been under construction since winter was finally officially completed.
(For those who are interested in posting the wall stickers, you can go to Station B and search for the Australian guy’s videos, which are much more intuitive than what I can describe in words)