Living alone in the wilderness: you call this survival?

Chapter 59 Preparations Before Winter
After breakfast, continue to cut trees.

The matter of asking the wolf to look after the house can be temporarily put on hold. After all, there are not many prey now, so it is more important to build a warehouse.

While cutting down trees, I picked up some squirrels' food reserves to feed the chickens.

I heard that squirrels in some places will hang themselves if they find that their food storage has been stolen.

Xu Mo didn't know if the squirrels here would like to eat them, but it was true that he hadn't eaten roast squirrels for a long time, and he was still very nostalgic.

Cutting down trees is a very boring job, and it took him two full days to gather the required wood under his deliberate work.

Early in the morning of the third day, Xu Mo officially started to build the warehouse.

With the experience of building wooden houses, the construction of the warehouse will be much smoother.

Digging, burying piles, erecting wood, cutting grooves and protrusions, splicing, everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.

The warehouse is not a duplication shelter, not only one size smaller, but also the place that needs to be simplified.

In short, it is enough to meet the three requirements of firmness, rain protection, and moisture resistance.

Two days later, the framework of the warehouse was basically formed.

In fact, it is not much different from the frame of the wooden house, except that he put several extra beams on the roof, which are specially used to hang bacon.

After the top is covered, it can be put into use.

The top cover combination is still the big leaf on the bottom, and the moss is pressed down. This is the easiest and most convenient thing in the construction process.

Xu Mo had already finished building the warehouse before the sun set.

It's time for the bacon to be harvested, and it's time for them to move into their new home.

By the time he took the bacon and sausages back to the warehouse, it was getting dark.

Xu Mo, who had been busy for several days, decided to reward himself well.

During this period of time, all he ate was wolf bacon, and he was really tired.

Now there are 5 lame partridges and [-] lame rabbits in the pen, and the rest are the harvest of traps in the past few days.

There are just two snakes left, so kill two more grouse, let's simply cook dragon and phoenix soup.

Peel the snake, wash it and cut it into sections, blanch it with the cleaned grouse, then moisten the pan with deer oil, and fry the snake meat dry.

After decocting, add water, put the steamed grouse into the stew after the water boils.

When it comes out of the pan, season with a little salt and pepper.

Generally, the longer the soup is stewed, the more fragrant it will be. Longfeng soup needs to be stewed for at least three hours to bring out the deliciousness of the ingredients.

Xu Mo waited for the soup to heal, and returned to the wooden house to study the next step.

Without the densely packed bacon in the wooden house, it suddenly became quite empty, looking a little deserted.

That's right, the space of ten square meters is not big or small, and it seems a bit crude to put a grass bed alone.

Looks like it's time to build some furniture.

But before that, there are more important things.

Xu Mo walked around the room a few times, and spotted the corner of the back room.

This location is the furthest from the bed, perfect for a fireplace.

He took his measurements and went out for soup.

A pot of delicious dragon and phoenix soup not only supplemented his physical strength, but also wiped away his fatigue.

Although he is not sleepy now, there are really no entertainment items for him in the wilderness.

When it gets dark, apart from going out to die, I just go back to my room to sleep.

Xu Mo was very busy these two days, so he didn't have time to go out and die, so he went back to sleep early.

The next day, the sky was cloudy, and it seemed to be raining.

It is not suitable to dry today, but to put it rotten.

Xu Mo woke up early, laying on the bed trying to make a mess.

But it didn't take long before he propped himself up on the bed and sat up.

No way, be diligent.

He went out for a trip, routine.

When he came back, he brought a rabbit and a slaughtered fish.

The rabbit was thrown into the pen by him, and the fish was boiled by him.

After eating and drinking, go to the lake shore to find clay.

It is best to have this thing for making a fireplace. If you don’t have this thing, you can use soil to make up for it. Anyway, it will play a role of reinforcement.

His luck has been very good. After searching for it for a short time, he found grayish-white soil that was suspected to be clay in the muddy field by the lake.

Xu Mo squeezed it with his hand, and he started to dig directly very satisfied.

The excavated clay was piled at the door of the shelter, and then turned to carry stones by the lake.

The stone requirements for building a fireplace are relatively high, flat stone is the best, followed by ashlar.

There are both types of lake beaches, but it takes time to find them.

By the time the required materials are collected, half of the day is over.

To put it bluntly, building a fireplace is to build a better hearth in the corner, which is not technical.

The only difficulty is the smoke exhaust problem. After all, the house is so big, if it is smoky, it will be impossible to live in.

For this reason, he dug a big hole in the inner wall specially for shooting cigarettes.

Xu Mo first moved the stones and clay into the house and began to build the stove.

Apply clay to both ends of a stone, and then press it with another stone, so that it can be stacked to a height of half a meter.

The size of the stove is set according to the box pot, and not many stones are used.

In less than an hour, a square stove was built.

The bottom of the cooktop leads to the outside through the reserved wall hole, which is the smoke exhaust channel and the ash exhaust channel.

The passage must be built with flat stones, and it must be tight and dense, otherwise the flames that burst out can easily ignite the wooden structure of the shelter.

Xu Mo didn't want to be cremated after being roasted by a fire in winter, so he paid extra attention to this step.

Put flat stones on the ground of the wall hole, put square stones on both sides, and put flat stones on the top, and fix the joints with clay.

In this way, the sturdy and durable stone chimney was formed bit by bit in his hands.

When it was fully built, it happened to be noon.

Xu Mo decided to test the water with the newly built fireplace for lunch. After setting up the pot, he collected dead branches and stuffed them into the stove hole below.

Light it up, and the flame jumps up.

Amidst the crackling sound of dead branches burning, puffs of cooking smoke wafted along the aisle outside the house.

Xu Mo deliberately checked the hole in the wall, but found no flames, so he put his heart back in his stomach.

Lunch is very simple, boiled wolf bacon with salt, the purpose is not to eat, but to try.

Cooking and cooking, the temperature in the wooden house began to rise.

Stone absorbs heat and dissipates heat, which is the source of heat.

This is a very good heating measure in winter, so forget it now.

Xu Mo walked out of the house, stretched his arms and stretched his waist.

Now that the fireplace is also built, there is only one last thing left for now.

Build a tent, store dry firewood, and prepare for harsh winters in extremely cold places.

After eating, he started to build the tent.

The tent needs to meet the two conditions of moisture-proof and rain-proof.

In order to save trouble, he directly planned the huge rock in the camp as a place to store firewood. He only needed to erect a few wooden stakes around the rock and build a roof on top to prevent the rain.

This is also considered to make full use of existing resources to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

In one afternoon, the huge rock becomes a crude tent.

When all the plans were realized, Xu Mo's mood was completely relieved and relaxed.

Whether it's a violent storm or snow and cold wind, to him, it's just a different scenery.

Xu Mo, who no longer had to worry about the future, suddenly wanted to show off.

(End of this chapter)