"A wooden house? Will that work? Won't it leak air and water? Won't it be very cold in winter?" Lin Xia asked with a worried look.
“Yeah, wouldn’t a wooden house be flimsy?” Su Guodong also thought it was unreliable. “If we’re going to build a wooden house, we might as well build an adobe house. We lived in those when we were kids!”
Both elders felt that a wooden house was impractical.
Su Tang shook her head and said:
“Dad, there’s no shortage of wood here, but the plants here have tangled roots, and digging soil and firing mud bricks takes a lot of time. Besides… does anyone in our family know how to do it?”
Su Tang's thought-provoking question left Su Guodong speechless for a moment.
It seems like no one in their family knows how to do this.
"Can anyone live in that wooden house?" he muttered to himself.
Su Shiwei stepped forward and said, "Mom and Dad, Tangtang is right. A wooden house is the best choice right now. As long as there is enough time, a wooden house can be built to be more sturdy and robust than other houses. Don't forget, this is the wisdom passed down from our ancestors."
After hearing what Su Shiwei said, the two elders felt more at ease.
My eldest son is a professional at building houses!
"Okay, since the boss has said so, let's build a wooden house to live in!" Lin Xia quickly made the decision.
Su Guodong naturally had no objection; his say in the family was only slightly better than that of the unreliable second brother.
"However, there are only a few of us here, and we are short-handed, so the construction of the wooden house will take a long time." Su Shiwei gave them a heads-up in advance.
Since it's a house to live in long-term, it can't be made haphazardly; it has to be built properly and shouldn't require repairs after only a few days.
"It's alright, we have a thatched hut to stay in for now anyway," Su Tang said, supporting Su Shiwei.
“Okay, eldest, you know this stuff, so you’ll be in charge of building the wooden house. Your dad and I will help you out.” Lin Xia nodded. Since her daughter didn’t mind, she had no objections either.
“Mom, I’ll help too,” Su Tang said, raising her hand.
Her main concern was that she didn't want to be home alone taking care of those furry little pups.
"This is men's work. What are you two doing getting involved? There are still cubs at home. You two should stay home and take care of the cubs and clean the house. Otherwise, wild animals will come and carry the cubs away."
Su Guodong was unusually assertive, and his tone left no room for negotiation.
Building houses is hard work, and he couldn't bear to let his wife and daughter get tired, so he preferred to do more himself.
Lin Xia thought it made sense.
In the past, there have been many cases of children being carried off by wolves in rural areas. Moreover, this place is in the middle of nowhere, and she was worried about leaving Tangtang alone at home.
After thinking about it, I agreed.
After identifying the next opportunity, Su Guodong and his son Su Shiwei quickly got to work.
The first step in building a house is to choose a site. Their thatched hut was at the foot of the mountain. There were plenty of open and flat areas nearby, but they were all overgrown with weeds and shrubs, and even a few big trees, which needed to be cleared away first.
After Su Shiwei's professional assessment, the final location for building the wooden house was chosen to be on the south side, about 100 meters away from the thatched hut.
It's a sunny spot with plenty of natural light, and it even has some shade in the summer afternoons. It's the perfect place to build a log cabin in the area, and it's close to the thatched hut; you can see it just by looking up.
After selecting the location, Su Shiwei began designing the house structure, while Su Guodong cleared the land to prepare for building the wooden house.
While the two on the other side were busy at work, Su Tang and her daughter Lin Xia were not idle either.
Since Xiao Fu wasn't around at the moment, Su Tang and Lin Xia started figuring out how to keep track of time.
Su Tang now relies on harvesting crops from the farm to make a living. The apples ripen every hour, and since she doesn't have a watch, a phone, or an alarm clock, it's easy for her to miss the picking time.
Although the farm has a countdown timer, it won't remind her unless she goes inside.
For example, while I was sleeping last night, I could have grown dozens of apples.
Although their family couldn't possibly eat that much fruit, collecting it allowed them to exchange it for other things with the orcs of the Gray Wolf tribe, and also to make dried fruit jams and other things, enriching their diet.
In short, you can't be idle.
Good days don't come to lazy people.
"If I had known we were going to time travel, I would have gone to learn how people in ancient times told the time..."
Lin Xia sighed.
The mother and daughter racked their brains but couldn't come up with a good idea.
"In ancient times..." Su Tang suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "Mom, in ancient times, besides looking at the sky, people had other ways to tell time. We can make an hourglass!"
"How could I not have thought of that? My daughter is so smart." Lin Xia said with a kind smile.
Su Tang is a woman of action, and she immediately began working on making the hourglass.
There was plenty of sand by the river. She dug up a pile, wrapped it in leaves, and brought it back. Using the leaves, she spread the sand out on the ground to dry.
Since there were no containers available, Su Tang could only find a large, thick leaf in the forest, carve three holes in the corners, thread vines through it, and hang it on the tree trunk.
Lin Xia wove a large basket out of vines and made a support frame out of wooden sticks to hold it in place so that it wouldn't sag.
The basket is lined with leaves and placed under the hanging leaves to catch the dregs.
The sun was strong and scorching during the day, and by the time the two of them finished doing this, the sand had dried out.
Pour sand into the hanging leaves, and finally poke a small hole under the leaves.
Fine sand leaked down and went right into the basket, making a soft "shush-shush-shush" sound that was quite soothing.
Just then, the apples on the farm ripened, and Su Tang felt it was time to pick the apples, plant new ones, and synchronize with the hourglass.
If there isn't enough sand, add more sand. After an hour, when the apples on the farm are ripe again, take the sand out of the basket separately. That's the amount of sand for one hour.
The mother and daughter tried several times, and their timing was generally accurate.
Su Tang was delighted, at least this way she could make full use of her daytime hours.
As for the middle of the night, as hardworking as you are, you still need to balance work and rest. Just sleep soundly at night!
Around noon, Su Tang went to the farm again and picked apples for the fourth time.
As usual, she took out an apple to plant as a seed. When she arrived at the warehouse, the shelf in the corner where the apples were placed displayed the number thirty-six, but there were only ten apples on the shelf.
Another strange thing was discovered.
It seems that not all the apples on the shelf will be displayed; you can only see a maximum of ten. The actual number depends on the number of words on the shelf.
Su Tang was about to take some apples out for her family to eat for lunch when she suddenly noticed two small yellow characters next to the string of numbers.
"sell."
She leaned closer to look and read out the two words.
"What do you mean? Can the things on the shelves be sold?" As soon as this thought crossed Su Tang's mind, she immediately tried to press her index finger on the two words "and".
The next second, a row of large black characters appeared in front of her.
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