Chapter 368: Building a Earthen Kang (2)
The main purpose of building a kang is to effectively resist the severe cold during the cold season.
In the beast world, orcs with normal genes can have both beast and human forms, so they can use their beast-like bodies to keep warm when it is cold. Some can even go into hibernation directly, which to a certain extent can ensure that they can successfully survive the cold season.
However, females and children, because they do not have the ability to transform into animal form, can only maintain their human form and do not have the instinct to stay warm like animals.
Families with the means can use animal skins and snuggle up with their own males to keep warm, but some cannot survive this every year.
However, families in more difficult situations do not even have basic food to fill their stomachs, let alone extra clothes to keep warm.
This indicates that for a tribe like theirs, which is mainly composed of orcs, there is basically no way for them to transform into beast form.
Even though they can still maintain their normal lives, when the situation really gets to that extreme, they can only use human forms to fight against the outside world, and this alone has exhausted all their material reserves.
If we could have a kang now to artificially increase the heat source indoors, and given that the cave already has good thermal insulation properties, I believe we would be able to get through the cold season smoothly.
"The earthen kang you mentioned is really good. If every family can have one, then we will have nothing to worry about during the cold season!" someone asked nearby.
The suggestion of building a kang is indeed a good one, and everyone agrees with it.
So the question is, how do we make this magical tool that helps everyone get through the cold season?
"If we light a fire in the house and put animal skins on the bed, what if it accidentally catches fire?"
"We need to use firewood as fuel, right? Do we need to prepare a lot of firewood?"
"And the flames are so hot, how can anyone sleep on them? I think they'd dry out."
Not only the people of the Orc Tribe had many questions, the audience in the live broadcast room also found that the content of the live broadcast had returned to its familiar flavor.
These are all things I have never heard of!
What amazing idea did Xia Xia come up with? A kang (earthen bed)... so they light a fire inside and then sleep on it???
[This is outrageous. How could anyone handle this? After all, it's a real flame, not a simulated thermostat.]
[No matter what, let's look forward to it. Xia Xia never lets me down! ]
The Chinese people had already thought of the problems raised by everyone, and naturally solved them perfectly.
"Don't worry, I'll show you once and you'll know how to do it." Xia Tian found the stone slabs and soil that had been prepared early in the morning to build a kang, and demonstrated the principles of using the kang in the open space in front of the cave.
"Actually, the process is not difficult. The first thing is to build a platform suitable for everyone to sleep on. My suggestion is to build it directly with stone slabs, like this."
Xia Tian built the stone slabs into a rectangular shape like building blocks, with a hollow bottom to store firewood for heating.
Xia Tian worked on it while Si Ye helped her. She explained, "You can use stone blocks, or mix soil and gravel. The most important thing in this step is to ensure the stability of the surface. We'll be sleeping on it, and if it's not stable, it's easy to have accidents while we sleep."
(End of this chapter)
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