Looking at the huge and neat complex structure in front of me, the architectural pattern like a maze, everyone did not feel tired at all. Instead, they became more and more excited day by day. A group of foreign helpers also had a sense of happiness with honor.

Because this huge artificial building was built in their hands with the simplest stone, mud and wood.

Say it is mysterious, but not mysterious.

Building materials are commonplace, but they only change the shape after simple processing.

But this seemingly simple creation is something they can't imagine at all.

Especially for the boom built of wood, it is possible to easily lift the heavy mud bricks to a very high position by just two people working together.

When this incredible tool was first made, it shocked all the primitive people to the point of being confused.

But it seems that this kind of invention is always so simple for Xu Chen.

Faced with any difficulties encountered in construction, he was always able to come up with solutions easily.

And these complex and brain-burning creations seem to be happier for Xu Chen than training the little wolf and beating a group of monkeys.

He always looked calm and composed, incompatible with his age.

He must have received guidance from the gods.

Although the great witch rejected his witch's identity at the witch's convention, this idea became clearer and clearer in the minds of a group of foreign workers, and the awe in his heart had slowly penetrated into the bone marrow, reaching an indelible level.

December is already the coldest winter.

The temperature during the day was already below zero, and there were light snowstorms twice during this period.

This temperature is not felt when I work all day long, but sleeping in the cold cave and grass nest, I feel it is extremely obvious.

Fortunately, the Ba people have enough animal skin this year, with thick animal skin covering their nests and thick animal skins when sleeping. Men and women can also wear warm and thick animal skin clothes. Under Xu Chen's guidance, women not only learned to make animal skin socks, but also learned to make animal skin hats.

Wrapped in fully armed skin, the Ba people have spent the warmest winter ever this year.

And as this busy winter is about to end, they have also ushered in the most lively moment since the birth of the tribe.

Putting on beams is the most important step in building a house.

Complete this step marks the completion of the new house.

Twenty-four main beams of houses that were more than four meters long were carried by a group of hired workers from the woods at the foot of the mountain to the construction site.

In order to celebrate this great moment, Xu Chen asked her mother to take out her inheritance staff, put brand new feathers in her hair, and hang her inheritance necklaces with various animal teeth and shells. He led all the tribesmen to hold a grand celebration and interaction around the new house, lit a bonfire, offered food, and solemnly and lively praying to the unknown gods to bless the smooth completion of the mansion.

Although he was once an atheist with a formal science education.

But after traveling through time, he was uncertain.

In addition, in order to increase one's reputation and prestige, it is natural to use some gods' power to create some gimmicks.

For this group of primitive people, they were barbaric and simple, with the simplest desire to survive, such as eating, drinking, defecation, sleeping, and passing on the family line. However, as wisdom continues to increase, their awe of heaven and earth nature becomes increasingly serious.

Because Xu Chen had so many unexplained phenomena and behaviors that occurred on him, all of them could be attributed to the guidance of the gods. Therefore, expressing his gratitude for guiding the construction of a house in the name of the gods is also a simple and straightforward way for Xu Chen to transfer the conflicts.

If you don’t decide anything, you will ask the gods, nothing can’t be solved by a blessing conference.

Xu Chen wanted to use such an event to conceal all his innovations and inventions, but he did not come out of thin air.

And primitive humans are most likely to accept and never doubt this explanation.

After a lively and grand sacrifice prayer, a large group of Ba men who had repainted brand new pigments lifted the thick beams one by one with ropes and placed them steadily as Xu Chen told him.

After the main beams of all houses are installed in place, the other side beams are gradually lifted.

Because high-altitude operations are more dangerous, the process does not progress quickly, but fortunately, there are enough manpower and after three days, all the beams will be hoisted.

The next step is to tie the purlins. This job is relatively easy and safe. Dozens of men work together and tie the wooden sticks, which are thick, thin, long and short, densely packed on the beams of the house at about twenty centimeters, forming a herringbone grid with wide front and narrow back.

It took another three days to tie the purlins.

After completing this step, we did not rush to cover the thatch immediately. Instead, all men and women mobilized to start cleaning up mud and stone garbage inside and outside the courtyard, clean up drainage ditches, level the site, apply lime and mud to the inner and outer walls, lay clay lime inside the house flat with wooden pestle and stone slabs, and at the same time, we stepped up the production and installation of doors and windows.

This is a completely closed courtyard. Not all rooms will be equipped with doors except for opening the door. However, in order to block the cold wind, a simple door curtain will be made with animal skins or straw curtains.

The same is true for windows. There are no windows on the outside of the courtyard, and all the windows face the inside of the courtyard. Moreover, the windows are not big, two feet wide and two feet high, just a hole left by a few bricks.

This is for the safety of the house and also due to the limitations of conditions.

The mud bricks are heavy and not strong, and the bearing capacity is not strong. In addition, the beams are made of undried wood. They will inevitably deform over time, so they cannot be left too large. In order to support the beams to be stable enough, the sides of the windows and door frames are specially made of stone and cottage bricks.

Don’t go into the window with a few pieces of wood as thick as eggs to make window lattices. Then, weave some straw curtains with straw to hang them to prevent the wind.

Although there are many doors and windows, it is very simple to deal with. There is basically nothing to do. There is only not a single straw curtain. You can only wait until the roof is covered.

Therefore, the so-called installation of doors and windows is actually just like a kiln factory, using wooden sticks and rattans to create a door.

After doing this, I started to repair beds and simple tables and chairs in all the dormitories with stone mud bricks.

Because there are no handy metal tools to make wood furniture, the same method can only be used in the kiln factory for the time being.

After all, living and living in a house still requires some furniture for sitting and lying down to be more convenient.

The largest interior decoration scale is the fire pit and kitchen where you can have dinner and cook.

This is a row of huge rooms with a width of ten meters and depth of three meters. The semi-open shanty town structure is facing the front door and the atrium. The exterior wall is completely closed and the inner wall is about two meters high. The brick walls supporting the beams are several intermittently connected together. For safety, the roof is more than one meter taller than other houses around it. The purpose is to prevent the flames of the fire pit from igniting the thatch on the roof.

Of course, just increasing the risk of fire cannot be completely avoided. Therefore, the ceiling must be densely packed with wooden sticks on the beams above the fire pit and stove, and a layer of mud is applied. In this way, even if the overheated fireworks rise, the ceiling will be smoked first. The wood is isolated from the mud, and the chance of being ignited is much smaller than that of the dry thatch.

In addition, the stove has been specially improved, which is very different from the simple and low stove on the top of the mountain. Mud bricks were used to build a large fire stove common in rural areas. There are eight stove holes in a row, and a chimney is built with ceramic bricks and extending out of the roof.

Water and fire are ruthless. No matter in any era, fire is an irresistible danger to mankind. Therefore, under limited conditions, Xu Chen strives to be the safest.

In addition, the Ba people have limited manpower, so this large mansion will have to live in at least a few decades. The more reliable the infrastructure, the better, and the more careful the safety measures you have to do.

In the busy and busy situation, it was the end of December. After all the work was slowly over, the entire mansion had a new feeling, the inside and outside were clean and flat, the ditches were smooth, the bedrooms, fire pits, and pergolas were basically complete

The layout of the entire compound is a standard rectangle, with the main entrance facing the valley entrance, and the gate in the middle is the gate.

There are four houses on each side of the gate.

There are six houses in each of the east and west rows.

There are a row of houses at the foot of the mountain, in the middle of which is connected to the fire pit and the kitchen, with three houses on each side.

In addition to the fire pit and kitchen for dinner, the sizes and specifications of other rooms are almost the same. In addition, there is also a lane in the middle of the two rows of houses in the east and west, and each has reserved a lane to build toilets and pergolas, which also facilitates the expansion of the side yards on both sides in the future.

After all the interior decoration work was completed, a large number of poisonous wide leaves and bundles of thatch prepared in advance were moved to the roof bundles and covered with bundles of rattan and wooden sticks densely packed layer by layer.
Chapter completed!