The Green Bird Tribe was filled with joy because of the arrival of this group of deer, but at the same time there were some worries in their hearts.

Ordinary people in the tribe do not have this kind of worry, but it only exists among the three giants of the Qingque tribe - Han Cheng, Wu, and the eldest brother.

Their concerns come from the Pig Tribe.

Now, ten days have passed since the Pig Tribe's visit. There is no way that he remembered it wrong, because the witch, who was very concerned about this matter, had already drawn ten lines on a pottery board.

The food that the eldest brother gave them was only enough for them to eat for five or six days at most. According to calculations, they should have arrived three days ago at the latest. In fact, up to now, Han Cheng and his friends have not seen any trace of the Pig Tribe.

This made the people who were planning to incorporate the Pig Tribe into the Green Bird Tribe very anxious.

Could it be that the people of the Pig Tribe caught prey? Or did they find food in other tribes?

There were so many things that could happen, and Han Cheng and the others could only wait anxiously.

As for going to the Pig Tribe to take a look, forget it. It is very dangerous to spend the night in the wild, especially in the winter. If there is no other way, not many tribes are willing to spend the night in the wild.

While waiting for the Pig Tribe, the people of the Green Bird Tribe were not idle either. They had their own things to do, which was to continue building the deer pen under the leadership of the Son of God Han Cheng.

Han Cheng's original idea was to build a roof over the entire deer pen, but after thinking about it carefully, he abandoned this idea.

Firstly, the lighting is not good, and secondly, the amount of work required is too large and too troublesome.

After much deliberation, Han Cheng decided to adopt a compromise solution, which was to cover one-fifth of the deer pen with a roof and leave the rest open to the air.

In this way, when the weather is good, the deer can stroll and bask in the sun on the open-air side. When the weather is bad, they can return to the covered side to avoid rain and snow. Even on rainy days, they can have a dry place to rest.

This is not a difficult thing.

The first thing to do is to draw a north-south straight line ten meters away from the east end of the deer pen. A wall will be built here to divide the deer pen into two parts.

After the line was drawn, the method used to build the deer pen was used to dig a pit every one meter on this line, and then plant pillars in the pit. This time the pillars were thicker, about the thickness of a bowl.

Moreover, this row of pillars is more than one meter higher than the edge. This is done to create a slope to facilitate drainage of the roof that will be built later.

After the pillars were erected, they began to weave with branches, but this time the weaving was higher than before, weaving from the ground all the way to the top.

Because the goal is to build a wall that can shelter from wind and rain, such weaving is very necessary.

However, the woven branches this time were not as dense as before. This was because later, Han Cheng would have people paste mud on both sides of the woven fence, so there was no need to weave it as densely.

Of course, not all pillars need to be woven with branches. If they were, there would be no way to enter or exit.

At the southern end, Han Cheng deliberately left three gaps for the deer to enter and exit the two places.

The part about 1.6 meters above the ground is where we start to weave with branches.

At the top of this row of pillars, there is a horizontal pillar, which can be called a beam.

Doing this can make the columns more solid and also prepare for the placement of rafters later.

Because there are no "I"-shaped "nails", it is a bit troublesome to fix the wooden beams. They can only be tied with tough rattan and tied as tightly as possible.

This is already a high-altitude operation for the Qingque tribe.

However, as early as when the wall was being built, under Han Cheng's guidance, they had built many wooden frames for standing on. Of course, Han Cheng was reluctant to destroy these frames, so aren't they being used now?

The distance between the western wall (let's call it a wall for now) and the originally built wall on the east is ten meters. The span is too large, and it will be difficult to put up the rafters in the future.

One reason is that it is difficult to find branches of suitable thickness and length of ten meters to make rafters, and another reason is that the gaps are too large and not strong, so when the time comes to build the roof, it is easy to fall off. In other words, the roof is easy to collapse.

So Han Chenggong planted two more rows of pillars inside and placed a horizontal beam on each of them. In this way, the original distance of ten meters was turned into three distances of more than three meters by these two horizontal beams.

Of course, the pillars supporting these two beams do not need to be spaced so closely together as before. It would be sufficient to erect one every three meters and connect them in a row from north to south.

A beam was also built across the easternmost wall at the edge of the deer enclosure.

After these four beams are erected, it is time to start tying the rafters between the four beams.

Standard rafters are made by breaking wood into planks.

This way, it is lighter, saves wood, and because the specifications are the same, it is more beautiful.

The Qingque tribe at this time obviously did not have such ability, but fortunately there was enough wood. Under Han Cheng's arrangement, the people in the tribe got a lot of tree sticks as thick as baby arms, and then tied one every thirty centimeters on the beam, connecting from top to bottom.

Considering that the earth wall would be wet when it rained obliquely, Han Cheng deliberately left both ends of the rafters 30 centimeters outward when tying the rafters.

In this way, when the time comes, after the roof is built, it can prevent water from the eaves from hitting the wall and also block some slanting rain.

After the rafters are tied up, what needs to be made is something called a "fence". This is what Han Cheng's hometown was called in later generations, and he doesn't even know its official name.

The specific method is to first place a log with a diameter of five centimeters and a length of more than four meters in the air, and then tie a stick with a little finger thickness and a length of more than two meters on the log.

Tie three ropes on the tree stick, at both ends and in the middle.

There are also some requirements for the ropes. Two ropes need to be tied at one time.

It takes quite a bit of rope to weave the fence, so wrap the extra rope around stones of the right size, leaving about half a meter for later use, and wrap the rest around and tie it to the stone to prevent it from coming loose.

After the remaining half meter of rope is used up, untie it and loosen the remaining half meter of rope to continue using.

Stones with ropes were hung on both sides of the overhead logs, one on the left and one on the right.

Then place a tree branch as thin as a little finger or thinner than a little finger on the first tree stick, and swap the positions of the six ropes with stones on them one by one, that is, swap the one on the left to the right, and the one on the right to the left side of the beam. In this way, this tree branch is tied.

Then put another one on top and repeat this action. When enough tree branches are added, the fence is ready.

(I made this when I was a kid. It’s very simple, but my ability to express myself is not good, so it would take a long paragraph to express it. I’ll just briefly mention it here.

I was very conflicted when writing the section about building the deer pen, because I have had more contact with thatched houses and tiled houses. When I was writing, I wanted to write down the general process, but I was worried that readers would not like to read this, so it was very difficult...)