Elven settlers

Chapter 189 Building a Canopy
After leaving the wooly sheep to play and exercise in the temporary training ground, Rock took the elves back to the camp and began to make today's breakfast.

Abo blamed them for not having any idea of ​​staying and playing together. They had no novelty feeling about this crude training ground because they were well-informed.

Chenglong wanted to stay here and watch for a while, but when he saw that everyone had gone back, he immediately jumped up and followed.

Start fires, boil water, and process ingredients.

In the busy life of reclamation, Rock often can't cook meals too delicately, and cooking and roasting are his most common cooking methods.

I don't know if I'm going to Sunshine Town soon, and now Rock's mind is full of all kinds of delicacies in Sunshine Town, and this ordinary breakfast has become a bit unpalatable.

It's a pity that there is no room for picky eaters in the wilderness. Every piece of food is extremely precious. In the end, Rock and the elves ate up all the breakfast.

Rock is going to set up a few camp beds and the canopy over the toolbox this morning, so that he doesn't have to worry about rainstorms damaging the contents after he leaves.

At the same time, the canopy can also avoid the embarrassment of being unable to sleep on the bed in rainy days.

In addition to building a canopy, Rock is also planning to make a camping bed for Chenglong, which he promised last night.

The main building materials are the oak he felled with the geranium just now, and the boiled birch bark he had accumulated before.

Before starting to build, Rock had to deal with the wood that had just been felled.

Rock expects the canopies and camp beds to last another year before construction begins on the house next year.

So this time he handled it more carefully. Not only did he peel off the skin of all the branches, but he also asked Helujia to dry all the wood.

Rock's elves each have their own special skills. Geranium is good at cutting and transporting, and Arbor is good at carrying and digging.

And Hei Lujia is good at baking work, whether it is burning charcoal or drying wood, it is familiar with it.

Chenglong looked at Hei Lujia who was spitting out flames and working seriously, and finally showed admiration in his eyes, which made Hei Lujia very proud.

Although it is still concentrating on roasting the wood on the surface, the fast wagging tail still reveals its mood at this time.

When the outer skin of these oaks is just peeled off, the wood inside is gray-yellow. With the slow baking of the black Luga flame, the color gradually becomes darker, and the grain of the wood becomes more and more obvious, and finally it is baked into a burnt yellow color. .

At this point, these oak logs are almost usable. Although they are not as good as the ones that Rock specially collected for building houses, those that use air-dried wood, but it is enough to persist for a year.

After dealing with the oak, Rock was going to make Chenglong his camping bed first.

As a water-type elf, Chenglong doesn't have to worry about the moisture on the ground, and its body structure is not suitable for a bed that is too high.

Therefore, the bed designed by Rock for Chenglong is a shape similar to a sleeping platform.

He cut off a forty centimeter long section from the thickest oak trunk, and asked Heluga to burn one end to about twenty centimeters.

Then, with a chainsaw, he lightly cut the section of the trunk at the other end.

After cutting out the criss-cross and different depths of notches, Rock used a hammer and chisel to knock off the large and small pieces of wood divided by the notches, and finally smoothed the uneven stubble.

This end of the whole block of oak becomes a concave surface with a deep center and a shallow edge.Kind of like a tub, but not as deep.

Rock dug a [-]cm deep round pit on the ground, buried the carbonized end of the wood into the ground, and pressed it tightly with soil.Then a thick layer of spruce needles was laid on the concave surface, and a layer of birch bark was laid on it, and this bed for riding a dragon was completed.

The edge of the bed is only [-] centimeters from the ground, and Chenglong can easily jump on it.And considering that Chenglong will grow up in size in the future, the bed can also be spliced ​​directly around the bed in the same way.

In addition, solid logs are used as the base, which can easily support Chenglong's adult weight.

"Boom~"

The first time Rock made the bed, Chenglong, who had been watching from the sidelines on top of Arbor, couldn't wait to jump on it, rolling around on it, feeling so comfortable that he didn't want to get off.

"Ha ha"

Rock looked at Chenglong's current appearance, which was exactly the same as when Abo blamed them for getting his own bed.

In the end, he carved a pattern that looked like a swirl of water and the ears of a dragon on the oak at the base of the bed, as a symbol of riding a dragon, declaring that the bed was completely completed.

Next, Rock will start building the canopy, which is actually not difficult.

First dig a pit at the planned location, then carbonize the bottom of the pillars, and then bury them.

The length of the pillars is two high and two low, just enough to form a sloping roof.

Rock saw a bayonet at the top of each pillar, just enough to fit two beams up and down.

Then he nailed some rafters vertically between each beam as brackets for fixing the purlins, and the frame of the whole canopy was basically completed.

The next job is to put on the "tiles". The tile surface material that Rock currently chooses is the birch bark he has been collecting before.

Birch bark itself has good waterproof and corrosion resistance. After being boiled, it has a certain degree of flexibility and will not be damaged too easily. It is very suitable for use as a roof for a temporary canopy.

Rock's birch bark is basically a rectangle with a length of [-] centimeters and a width of [-] centimeters.

He nailed holes in each corner of the long side of each birch bark, and then tied the whole bark to a thin wooden strip with thin leather cords.

The birch barks on the wooden strips are not tied side by side, but pressed one by one. The bark on the left has an area of ​​about [-] centimeters covering the bark on the right.

Such layers of wooden strips bound with birch bark constitute a purlin.

The purlins are also tied with leather ropes from bottom to top to the previously nailed rafters.

About half of the birch bark on each purlin covers the next purlin.In addition, if the bark on the lower purlin is stacked from left to right, then the bark on the upper purlin is stacked from right to left.

In this way, one layer of birch bark is covered, and the thickness of birch bark per unit area can almost reach six layers, which can very tightly block the erosion of rainwater.

Moreover, the leather rope will tighten after being exposed to water, so that the birch bark will be fixed more firmly.

Rock looked at the several solid canopies after the completion, and felt that even if there was another heavy rainstorm, he would not be afraid now.

(End of this chapter)