doomsday survival

Chapter 22 Building a House
The next day, although the rain was not heavy, it was continuous.Seeing the reluctance on Xiaomeng Xiaowei's face, Shi Jian didn't put away the tent, and said that he needed a place to rest when he was tired.

The bonfire had already been extinguished, so Shi Jian didn't go to start a fire, and simply ate some fruit to fill his stomach.Started the day's work in the rain.

Since Shi Jian was wearing a jacket, he was not afraid of getting wet, so he went to deal with the red pine poles first.

Shi Jian left a length of ten centimeters at both ends of the red pine pole, and then cut a gap one-third deep at the top and bottom.It is very troublesome to cut. Try to make the gaps at both ends of each trunk about the same size, with a width of about ten centimeters, so as to ensure that another trunk can be placed.

The tools didn't fit my hand, and the workload was heavy. By noon, I had just finished half of the work.

The rain didn't stop at noon, but Shi Jian didn't want to eat any more fruit, so he went to the stream to catch some fish.Because of the rain, the water in the stream has risen a bit. Shi Jian has checked the source, but he is not worried about natural disasters such as mountain torrents and mudslides.

Shi Jian went to the woods to find some dry dead branches, put the thick branches on a stone, and then put the small branches, and lit a bonfire with birch bark.Then the caught fish was grilled.

After eating, take out two of the remaining fish and feed them to Xiaomeng and Serena, and cover the rest with a picnic pot and save them for dinner.

After another busy afternoon, I finally finished processing the red pine poles.Wait until tomorrow as long as the rain is not heavy, the wooden house can be built.

In the evening, he exchanged feelings with Xiaomeng Xiaowei in the tent again, and Shi Jian felt that he was not far away from domesticating them.Now even Serena let Shi Jian scratch its belly, completely trusting him.

The next day, the rain that had been raining for two days and one night finally stopped.This is good news for Shi Jian who wants to build a wooden house.

Shi Jian plans to build the outline of the wooden house today, and then plaster the walls and roof tomorrow.

In order to make the wooden house stronger, Shi Jian spared no effort to dig out a square ditch on the ground with a pickaxe, using this as a foundation.Although it was only half a meter deep, Shi Jian felt that it should be enough.

Put the red pine poles into the foundation first, and connect them with the gaps made before, and then lay another layer.Because the trunk is generally tapered, each level is oriented in the opposite direction to the previous level, minimizing the gaps between the two.

In this way, it was laid layer by layer to form a wooden wall.The upper and lower joints are clamped to each other, making the wooden wall very strong.When it was half a meter above the ground, Shi Jian deliberately pushed it a few times, but the wooden wall didn't move at all, and it didn't look like it was falling apart.

The sturdiness of the wooden wall made Shi Jian's worried heart completely relieved.Shi Jian accelerated the speed of covering the bedding, and of course he did not forget to leave a place for the door in the leeward direction.

The tree trunks on the side of the door have been cut off in advance, trying to be as long as possible.When the height of the door was right, Shi Jian found two tree trunks prepared in advance and put them on both sides of the door as the door frame.After that, the whole tree trunk is still used to cover the wooden wall.

At the beginning, Shi Jian could directly lay the tree trunks on top of the tree trunks. When the height increased, Shi Jian had to make a ladder with ropes and tree trunks to continue working.

The whole day's hard work was not in vain. At night, Shi Jian had put up all the beams of the house.

The front of the wooden house is higher than the back because the rainwater should flow down the roof naturally.After the tree trunks used for the wooden walls on the left and right sides are higher than the rear wall, the length of each floor is reduced by a certain amount to facilitate the laying of beams.The beams, like the wooden walls, are fastened to the tree trunks on the wooden walls by bayonets.

On the fourth day, as soon as Shi Jian got up, he ran down the stream and brought a pot of water with a stainless steel pot.Shi Jian dug some soil in the forest, because there was no shovel, Shi Jian had to use a pickaxe to loosen the soil, then carried it into a leather basket made of birch bark, and dragged it to the construction site.

Shi Jian dilutes the soil with water, and then mixes it with some chopped wood residues, and it becomes the mud for plastering the wall.Use this mud to fill the gaps between the logs. When the gaps are large, Shi Jian needs to find some young branches to plug them first, and then mix the mud and weeds to fill them.

This was the biggest workload. Shi Jian had to dig the soil and carry water from the stream at the same time. Shi Jian was so busy that he hit the back of his head and worked for three days before he finished plastering the wooden wall.

But compared with going up the roof, the work of wooden walls is much easier.

In order to make the roof not too heavy, Shi Jian just put up wooden beams horizontally.Then take the wooden stick and put it on the beam at an angle, and then cover it with soil and turf.Finally, Shi Jian used thin willow sticks to go through the small holes drilled in the birch bark, and inserted them into the still wet soil.Moreover, not one piece of birch bark, but dozens of sheets are stacked on the roof like tiles.These trivial tasks plus high-altitude operations tossed Shi Jian to death.

However, on the tenth day, Shi Jian's log house was finally built.

The entire wooden house is about five meters long and wide, three meters high at the front, and two meters three at the back. The roof is covered with layers of birch bark, and it looks white from a distance.Surrounded by green trees, it looks like a country house with a strong rural taste.Of course, Shi Jian's technique of plastering the wall is really bad, the whole wall is full of potholes, and there are weeds and branches protruding from the soil from time to time, but in Shi Jian's words, this highlights the post-modern naturalism style even more.

In the room, Shi Jian purposely covered the wall with large sheets of white birch bark. These tasks took Shi Jian a day's work.However, because of the existence of birch bark, although there is only one door, the incoming light is diffused by the birch bark, so that the room will not be too dark.

The door has not yet been finished, but because it is facing the leeward side, it does not matter for the time being.

There are also vents on the roof, and a fire can be lit inside the house, just be careful not to overheat the fire, or the house will be set on fire.

Shi Jian looked at the house and felt very satisfied. He planned to build a wooden bed and a stove with adobe next, so this would be like a home.

Xiaomeng and Serena wandered around the house, trying to climb the wall, but Shi Jian stopped them.

These days, Xiaomeng, Serena and Shi Jian are getting closer and closer.When Shi Jian was building a house, the two little fellows followed him, contrary to the lynx's habit of lurking at night.

In Shi Jian's view, this is not far from domestication, and sometimes he issues some orders to them.Although Shi Jian only had experience in raising dogs, Xiaomeng and Xiaowei were really smart. In just a few days, they could basically understand Shi Jian's meaning, and most of the time they listened to Shi Jian's words.

These two little guys who lost their mothers at a young age already regard Shi Jian, who often feeds and cares for them, as their mother, but they don't know what Shi Jian will think when he knows that he is treated as a female by them.

In the next two days, Shi Jian made a bed according to the method of building a tree house. After the soil on the bed dries, Shi Jian can no longer sleep on the ground.

While the stone was waiting for the bed to dry, he went to the lower reaches of the stream, mixed mud and hay together, put them into a frame made of turf, and made some brick-like adobes.After the adobe was dried, Shi Jian carried it up the mountain in batches, and built a small stove according to the diagram.

Lighting the fire, Shi Jian lay on the bed, with a trap of rabbit fur under his body, and two lynxes the size of domestic cats lying on his body. After drinking a sip of boiled water, he felt that he finally looked like a human being. .

　Next week, categories will be strongly promoted, looking for various assists!
　　
　
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