Han Cheng was directing people to install windows.
Nowadays, there are no things like electric hammers and expansion screws. If you want doors and windows to be strong, you need to install them when building the house.
The bottom of the window is not high, only one meter and two meters from the ground. This is the size Han Cheng chose after some thought and comparison. After all, the people of the Qingque tribe are generally short, so the windows do not need to be too high.
The front wall stopped after reaching a height of 1.2 meters.
He waited until he had fixed the two windows before continuing.
Installing windows is actually easy.
Bo and another person placed the somewhat loose window on the front wall that was already covered with wooden rafts. Han Cheng checked whether it was straight from a distance, and then gave an order. The eldest brother who was ready at the side went down with a few bags of mud and pressed down the two ends of the wooden frame under the window that had been deliberately left longer.
After the wooden windows were fixed in place, bags of wet soil began to be poured between the wooden rafts. As the amount of soil increased and the loose soil was compacted, the wooden windows were firmly built into the wall.
There is another point that needs to be noted. Due to the inconvenience of tools, wooden frames are not added on the left and right sides of the finished windows. In order to prevent the soil from squeezing in and blocking the windows when the walls on both sides of the windows are tamped, it is necessary to place several wooden pillars that are split in half from the middle vertically on the left and right sides close to the wooden windows in advance.
The round surface faces the mud wall and the flat surface faces the inside of the window.
In this way, it can not only block the mud from coming in, but also increase the aesthetics, making the wooden window look like it has all four frames complete.
The same goes for doors, which need to be prepared in advance. However, do not install the door leaves at this time. Just build the door frame and the wall together. The door leaves are not very connected to the door frame. It will not be too late to make and install the door leaves after the house is built.
After the foundation and the one-meter-high stone wall below were completed, the simple rammed earth wall was built quickly and was "flattened" in just a few days.
The so-called flat stack means that the wall has reached the predetermined height.
The wall is not too high, only two meters and one centimeter high. Han Cheng is not building a large brick and tile house, so this height is already acceptable.
Although the house built this time is very different from the deer pen, there are still many similarities.
The eldest brother and the others looked at the deer pen, then at the house, and felt that the next thing the Son of God would do was to continue raising the front wall, and then use wooden beams, rafters, and fences to make a roof that sloped toward the back, just like the deer pen.
As the great son of God of the Qingque tribe who does not believe in God, how could Han Cheng let them guess his tricks?
Instead of continuing to raise the front wall, he raised the 'gables' on both sides.
The main reason why the side wall is called a gable is that it has a triangle on it, which looks more like an abstract mountain.
During this process, the tape measure and ruler Han Cheng had made earlier came in handy.
After all, four "roof mountains" need to be built in a row, and it would be troublesome to build them at similar heights without a ruler.
After Han Cheng told them what would happen next, those people from the Qingque tribe who had made prior guesses once again felt the wisdom and unfathomable nature of the Son of God.
Then, under the guidance of the Son of God, he began to build the "house mountain"
The triangular 'roof mountain' is more difficult to build than a straight wall, but it is not insurmountable. Under the command of Han Cheng and the hard work of the eldest brother and others, four 'roof mountains' of the same height and roughly similar shape gradually emerged.
Although it is called a triangle, it is actually not quite complete. It consists mainly of two small platforms, 30 cm long, on the two upper sides.
These two small platforms divide the edge evenly into three sections.
Apart from this small platform, the top of the triangle is also flat, and is also a small platform of 30 centimeters.
These small platforms are certainly not intentionally built to destroy the beauty of the "roof mountain", but are used to place wooden beams in preparation for the next step.
The people of the Qingque tribe are now putting wooden beams on the roof. The beams are burned and then slightly repaired with stone axes and stone knives.
Except for the beam on the roof ridge, which has to be straight, it is okay for the other beams to be slightly curved, which reduces the difficulty a lot.
"One, two!"
"One, two!"
The eldest senior brother shouted the slogan he learned from the Son of God, stood on the rack, and pulled the rope in his hand with the third senior brother.
The other end of the rope was tied to the bottom of a beam.
The beams were erected in the west wall, resting on racks along the edge of the west wall.
As the three eldest brothers exerted their strength, the end of the beam that was against the ground began to leave the ground. Shang, who was on the shelf on the inside of the west wall, held the wooden beam against the shelf with his hand to prevent it from tipping over.
Because the wooden beam is to be placed on the gable, its length is wider than the room. In addition, half a meter wide frames are now erected on both sides of the house, which further shortens the width of the room.
As the eldest brothers and others pulled, one end of the wooden beam gradually rose and became straight, and then it went under the shelf. If no one thought of a way, it would not be able to be pulled up by force.
At this time, Shang and another person who were standing on the other side took action. They held one end of the wooden beam leaning against the shelf and began to pull it towards them. As they moved, the other end of the wooden beam came out from under the shelf under the feet of the eldest brother and others.
With the joint efforts of people on both sides, the pulled wooden beams were placed on a small platform reserved in advance on the gable.
Because the two ends of the wooden beam are of different thicknesses, they need to be adjusted after they are erected, by placing some small stone pieces, pottery pieces, etc. under the thin end.
One is to adjust the height and make the wooden beams flat, and the other is to increase their firmness.
Because the beams were too long to be easily climbed up, and those that were long enough were hard to find, so these beams were cut into pieces, and a total of fifteen beams were needed for the three houses.
In addition to the platforms on the easternmost and westernmost walls, two wooden beams need to be placed on the platforms of the two middle gables.
In order to prevent the wooden beam on the side from falling off the platform, they need to be tied together firmly with ropes.
Another thing that needs attention is that the wooden beams on the east and west exterior walls are not directly aligned with the outside of the exterior walls, but are ten centimeters inside.
When the house is built, the holes are filled with mud so that the wooden beams cannot be seen from the outside. This protects the wooden beams from wind and sun, and prevents them from rotting and growing mushrooms.
After the wooden beams are built, just like when making the deer pen, the next step is to tie the rafters on it and then lay the fence.
The work on the fence was not done by Lame, as he was almost overwhelmed, but by two not very strong women in the tribe.
Fortunately, making a fence was not that complicated. They had seen Bo make it many times before, and now with Bo teaching them step by step, they had learned how to make it, and the fence they made was not bad.