Chapter 155: Wind Blows Rice Waves (Please vote and subscribe)
You Fu led people to the east bank of the stream. The tribesmen of the Han tribe were also doing their own jobs. Luo Chong came to the construction site alone. Today is the last day of building the wall, which is the critical moment for the ridge of the house.
In architecture, all buildings with sloping roofs have a hard indicator. The minimum slope of the roof cannot be less than 15 degrees. Otherwise, no matter how good the waterproof structure is, it is not conducive to the drainage of the roof.
According to the known conditions, the span of the house is 4 meters, and the ridge is in the middle. If the slope is at least 15 degrees, according to the internal angle of the triangle and 180 degrees, the angle of the ridge is 150, of course, this is the minimum.
Using the formula to calculate, the ridge height is about 60 cm, but Luo Chong directly set it at 80 cm, and the finished product is about 20 degrees, which is safer.
It took half a morning to build all the walls to a height of three meters. Now we can build the ridge. Find the middle point of the four walls from east to west, and then start laying bricks. The number of bricks in each layer decreases towards the middle, gradually closing in to form an isosceles obtuse triangle.
In fact, the bricks of the ridge are only built to a height of 60 centimeters. After all, there is still room for the height of the beams. The wood for the beams has long been prepared by the logging team. They are all 20-centimeter-thick pine trees, which are peeled and dried.
The beech and ash in the forest are not suitable. The beech is not straight enough. Luo Chong is reluctant to cut the ash, and he has to keep it to collect insect wax. The oak is used to make furniture, and the fir is used to build ships and weapons. Only the long and straight pine is suitable.
Luo Chong guided everyone to build the ridges of four small houses. It was already noon. The beams could not be put up when the ridges were just completed. They had to wait for them to dry. Therefore, Luo Chong split the original 20-person construction team into four groups, each with 7 newly joined savages, 12 people in a group, and started to build four houses at the same time.
Let's start with the foundation. The old people will lead the newcomers, and the remaining few who have not been arranged will continue to dig the foundation trench. The lines are all drawn, and they just need to learn to dig.
After arranging them, Luo Chong summoned a dozen women from the gathering team and two carpentry apprentices to prepare for the beams.
Ladders are needed to put up the beams. In the past, there was no work that required climbing up and down in the Han tribe, and Luo Chong did not take out the magical thing of the ladder. Now is the time.
Looking at the two young men of the Jing clan who had been working as carpenters for half a month, Luo Chong asked, "You have been here for so long, have you learned how to saw wood?"
"Leader, I have learned."
"Then can you dig, chisel and insert?"
The two looked at each other and said, "We can do a little bit. We can make big ones, but we can't do small ones. We don't know how to read a ruler yet. We can only ask Master Lin Mutong to draw the size before we can do it."
"Well, it's almost done. Just the two of you. What I want to make is a ladder. Two long wooden sticks and a row of short wooden sticks in the middle. Just punch holes and insert them directly. It's very simple."
Luo Chong said, holding a pile of man-eating tree spikes left over from making arrows and gesturing to them, and then giving them data, such as the width of the bottom and the narrowness of the top, the length of each wooden stick, and the distance between them. They all gave fixed values. It was impossible for them to calculate it by themselves.
The materials for the ladder are scraps. The flat wood and short wooden sticks that have been sawed off are very suitable. The total quantity is temporarily set at 10. If it is not enough, we will place additional orders later.
After arranging the work of making ladders, he asked the women from the collection team to tie grass bundles. This thing is laid on the beams of the house. You can just use hay and straw ropes as materials. Tie the hay into a grass column with a diameter of 10 cm, tie it up with straw ropes or directly with a piece of straw, tie it tightly, and then put the rope end into the grass column. If it is not long enough, take another bunch of grass to continue, and tie it until it is about four or five meters long.
In order to make it easier for them to work, Luo Chong took a shovel and dug two lines for them on the ground. The distance in between was five meters. From one end to the other end was considered a line. The requirements were that the thickness should be uniform and the speed should be fast, but there was nothing else.
Luo Chong demonstrated the specific steps to them, and then asked 10 people to tie the grass bundles, and found dozens of women from the collection team to collect hay. It didn't matter if it was fresh, just let it dry first.
After finishing all these, it was already afternoon. Luo Chong, who had nothing to do, ran to the rice field to take a look. It had been almost 50 days since sowing. The rice seedlings that were still sluggish when transplanting had safely passed the greening period and stood upright again.
Of course, there were some that died because of unqualified transplanting. Those were removed when weeding, and they were still a minority. Now all the surviving rice seedlings have turned green and entered the tillering stage.
The tillering stage is the process of differentiating multiple secondary stems from one main stem. These differentiated stems will grow a rice ear, that is, there are as many rice ears as there are stems. This is a process directly related to the yield, but Luo Chong has no experience. He can only keep the rice field watered and weed regularly. He doesn't know anything else.
After the tillering stage comes the jointing and heading stage, during which the rice seedlings will grow rapidly and a rice ear will grow out of each stalk.
The next stage is the flowering stage, during which the grown rice ears will bloom for about a week, and then the filling and fruiting stage after the flowers fall. After the rice flowers wither, the rice ears will quickly absorb nutrients and water to become larger. This period is also when the rice grains are formed, and a large amount of water is needed. It takes about 500 kilograms of water to grow one kilogram of rice, so water is indispensable, otherwise the rice grains will be shriveled.
The gentle spring sunshine shines on the earth, and a breeze blows, raising layers of waves in the knee-high rice fields. A young man with a golden crown on his head strolls by the canal in the field. The fresh smell of the soil seems to cleanse people's souls and makes people feel relaxed and happy.
If others say that Luo Chong is bored and has nothing better to do, then they can only blame themselves for not having seen the gray jungle of reinforced concrete and the noise of exhaust smoke. This is not a state of mind that primitive people can understand. They have lived on the land full of vegetation since childhood, so they cannot understand Luo Chong's thoughts.
"Luo Chong--"
Just as Luo Chong was walking by the canal, a call came from the direction of the residence. It was Xiaodie's call. She was the only one in the tribe who dared to call Luo Chong by his name.
"I'm here, wait for me, I'll be right there."
"Xiaodie, what's wrong?"
When Luo Chong returned to the fence, he was immediately stopped by Xiaodie.
"I have sheared the wool of five alpacas these days. I don't want to shear it anymore. Let others shear it. They always spit at me.
Now I want to weave cloth. Didn't you say that the wool of the alpacas needs to be washed? Tell me how to wash it. I think the wool is enough to weave a piece of cloth. Teach me quickly." Xiaodie asked, shaking Luo Chong's arm.
"Well, you can't tie their mouths first, idiot, okay, I'll tell you how to wash it, but are you still going to weave like before?" Luo Chong suddenly asked Xiaodie.
"Then how to weave? Oh, you haven't told me how you weave."
(End of this chapter)
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