Elven settlers

Chapter 67 The Worm Box
"Well, not only do we need to produce honey as soon as possible, but we also need to open up a vegetable garden. Next time we go to Sunshine Town to replenish supplies, we can buy some vegetable seeds."

Rock used a knife to cut the barbecue into small strips, and mechanically put it into his mouth. Now he actually wants to eat vegetables.

"Chappa!"

"Yeah!"

Abo monster and bay leaf on the side nodded in agreement repeatedly. Dai Rubi didn't understand why they didn't want to eat such a delicious barbecue. He sniffed the barbecue in front of him and narrowed his eyes contentedly. He lowered his head and started to eat.

"Haha, you bastard, next time you go to Sunshine Town, I'll take you to the heart of fast swimming."

After eating a few more mouthfuls, Rock gave the barbecue in his hand to the curious speaker cricket and Master Yuan.

These days, Rock has become acquainted with these neighbors who live in the oak forest. Unexpectedly, after receiving Rock's barbecue, the speakers gave him a lot of dried fruit.

Rock didn't recognize the type of dried fruit. It tasted sour and sweet. After eating it, he wanted honey even more.

The next day he came to the tree orchard early and checked around. All the tree and fruit seedlings were growing vigorously.Leaving the bay leaves to water, Rock took the tools and walked towards the wood that had been dried yesterday.

When he set off from Sunshine Town, Rock mainly carried various tools, including woodworking related items.

A workbench was simply nailed with two pieces of wooden stakes. Rock asked Arbo to put a piece of wood on it, and drew vertical lines with an ink line on it, with a width of five centimeters at an equal interval. He picked up the saw and began to divide it. board.

The worm box that Rock was going to make was a square wooden box with a side length of [-] centimeters, and there was no board on one side of the wooden box.

Fifty such wooden boxes can be made from a single piece of basswood, and he only needs to use two pieces of wood to make a hundred.

The reason why it is called a worm box instead of a beehive is that Rock wants to catch unicorns instead of big needles.

In the wild, big needles are often in groups, very territorial, and will attack any invading enemy.So it's hard to catch, let alone domesticate them for honey.

And if you start raising from unicorns, you will not attack the beekeeper, so basically all bee farms start from unicorns.

Of course, if the strength of the beekeeper is too poor, after a long time, there will still be situations where they cannot suppress the large needle-point group, and they will be attacked by the group when collecting honey.

Rock knew how to tame wild unicorns and how to build bee farms from Old Joseph.

They had made a bet, and the bet was Old Joseph's method of making mead.After the opponent lost, he not only told Rock the secret recipe, but also the method of collecting big needles and sharp honey.

When the wood was half opened, the bay leaf after watering came over.Seeing that Rock was sawing wood, he excitedly wanted to help.

"Then you can open this piece of wood. I will draw a line for you later, and I will cut along the ink line later."

After Rock drew the line on another log, he gave it to the bay leaf to play with.

It was his first time doing woodworking, so he wasn't necessarily better than a bay leaf.

Now that land reclamation has begun, carpentry is a must-have skill.Rock wanted to take the opportunity of building a worm box to practice his craft, so instead of using nails, he chose a mortise and tenon structure.

He used the simple and reliable dovetail, a trapezoidal tenon with a wide end and a narrow base.

First use a ruler and pencil to draw lines on the sides of the two boards, and then use a hand saw and chisel to make tenons.

After the tenons were made, Rock put the two planks together at right angles and tapped them with a hammer.The wooden boards were slowly combined, and Rock felt very strong when he pulled it.

So the rest of the boards were treated in the same way. It took the whole morning for Rock, who was a carpenter for the first time, to complete a worm box.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, but with the first successful experience, Rock's carpentry work went much smoother, and one wooden box after another was made by him.

In order to speed up, he has mastered a certain degree of proficiency and directly stacked three boards together to saw when tenoning.

The planted fruit seedlings have all grown to the height of Rock's calf, and he has successfully made more than 60 worm boxes.

The rest of the plank Rock is going to make a sledge to transport these worm boxes.

Although the worm box is not heavy, it is still a bit troublesome to carry.

He was planning to introduce species from the Viridian Forest in the west, so he needed a vehicle that could transport a large number of wooden boxes at once.

The reason why he doesn't make cars is because he currently doesn't have the technology to make wheels and axles.

Rock chose a piece of wood with the most uniform thickness, and sawed the round trunk in half from the middle.

With the round side facing down and the plane facing up, the rails used as sledges are placed side by side, and several wooden beams are fixed horizontally on it, and finally a car body is built with wooden boards on the top.

The truck body is 1.6 meters long and [-] meters wide, and there are exactly [-] worm boxes on one floor, and there are erected wooden poles around it as fixed posts.

Rock stacked sixty worm boxes in three layers and put them on the truck, then tied them tightly with ropes.Then let the bay leaf be dragged in front, and he and Arbor pushed behind and drove for a short distance for testing.

He found that the structure was very stable, but as the two slide rails scooped up more and more soil at the front end of the journey, they slowly piled up and produced a lot of resistance.

Clenching his chin and thinking for a moment, Rock cut the front end of the slide rail into an upwardly curved boat shape, and tested it again and found that it was much better.

After the sledge was ready, Rock set off with the worm box early the next morning.

Bayleaf put on the saddle bag, and the hook on the saddle bag was attached to the tow rope of the sledge.

Arbor is behind the sledge with his head on to provide most of the power, and Rock holds the handle on the rear of the car with both hands to control the direction.

Encouraged by the honey, the sledges flew across the grass, and it took them only an hour to reach the forest on the west side of the territory.

The reason why Rock wants to introduce species in the Viridian Forest is because the number of insect Pokémon here is the largest in the entire Kanto area.

With a huge population base, it is easy to find excellent individuals.

With excellent water sources and excellent nectar sources, he does not want to waste such good natural conditions, so he also wants to select excellent individuals as much as possible in the selection of bee colonies.

The quality of the honey produced in this way must be very good, for which Rock felt that it was worth the extra effort.

Leaving the bay leaves to guard the sledges at the edge of the forest, Rock carried a worm box, Arbor, and Deluby into the forest.

Deruby, who has a keen sense of smell, is a good helper in finding wild elves, and Rock needs the help of Arbor to screen out excellent unicorns.

After walking for a short distance, De Ruby seemed to have discovered something.

It suddenly barked quickly, turned its head to signal Rock and Arbo to follow, and then ran in one direction.

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(End of this chapter)