Jiufeng's other lair is actually not far from Shizhu's lair, it is in a natural cave under the cliff facing south of Shizhu.
The opening of this cave is not small enough for Jiufeng to spread his wings and fly in directly.
As soon as you enter the cave, you can see it is about the size of a football field, with a height of more than three to four meters. From the entrance of the cave, there is a huge bird's nest that looks like a saucer. Jiufeng stepped on it and squatted down. Just right.
Going further in, Yan Mo never looked inside, not because he was not curious, but because it was too dark inside, even in the daytime, it was still dark. He tried to walk to the edge where the light could reach, and he could feel the inside. There is still space, but this kind of cave opened on the cliff wall is not a professional explorer and has professional modern tools, so it is very risky to enter it.
Even well-equipped professional explorers can't guarantee 100% safety when entering this unknown cave. Even in the modern age of his original world, there are many unexplored caves on the earth, not to mention the caves he has in hand at this time. Not even a torch for lighting.
Yan Mo stood for a while, but didn't feel any obvious opposite wind blowing from the depths of the cave, so either there is no other exit from this cave, or the space inside this cave is very winding, even if there are other exits, the wind cannot pass through Come.
However, since Jiufeng built a nest here, he can be sure that there must be no snakes and rats in this cave.
For this reason, Yan Mo sleeps peacefully here at night, except for being tossed about by the lice on his body and the fleas in the grass nest.
The cave exploration was temporarily abandoned. In order to develop to the periphery as soon as possible, and to survive the coming winter, Yan Mo and the other three started a long-term running-in process with the human-faced bird Jiufeng to test the bottom line and advance.
"In order to prevent you from freezing to death at night, we must first find you a place to live." Yan Mo folded his arms and shrank his head, shaking and shaking earnestly.
Since the heavy rain, the weather has been getting colder every day. In less than three days, the temperature has dropped by at least 20 degrees.
It’s okay to have sunshine during the day, but it’s useless to wear animal fur clothes, and the cold air goes straight to the bones. At night, he didn't dare to get out from under Jiufeng's bird's wings, as long as he thought of him sleeping under the warm wings, Yuan Zhan and Meng could only hug each other wrapped in animal skins to barely keep from freezing. death, he would sympathize with them, really!
Yuan Zhan is already used to this kind of weather. From psychological to physical, the soldiers living in this land dare to fight barebacked outside even in snowy weather, so he and Meng can still carry it during the day.
"We can tan animal skins and set up tents in sheltered places." Yuan Zhan, who was fetching stones and planning to sharpen a stone axe, said calmly.
"Are you sure you two can survive the whole winter in a thin tent?" Yan Mo doubted. In his memory, the Yanshan tribe would enter the caves in Yanshan in winter, and no one would live in tents outside.
"I can't." With a crying sound, he jumped down a few steps from the small rocky mountain.
In the past three days, they managed to expand their footprints here under Jiu Feng's tight marking.
Yan Mo felt very happy, because there was a forest next to the stone mountain, and they had stones and wood today, so they would definitely be able to light a fire.
"Then let Jiufeng take us into that cave too." Yuan Zhan said knowing that there was no hope.
"You also saw that I discussed it with it. I think it should understand what I mean, but it is obviously unwilling." Yan Mo spread his hands and sniffed.
Yuan Zhan and Meng also knew that it was impossible. All beasts and birds were very exclusive to their own territory, especially their nests. Now that Jiufeng could let them live near its nests, it was already a very miraculous thing.
"What do you see on it?" Yuan Zhan asked fiercely.
Meng replied a little more seriously: "There are no threatening animals or people nearby, I think we can set up a tent on the lee of this rocky mountain, but the fur is not enough, so we can only get a small one for now, and the winter Not a good season for tanning furs."
"Small ones are fine, first there is a place to keep out the wind. Later, we will look around to see if there are ready-made caves suitable for living or soil slopes that can be dug." When Yuan Zhan was making a stone axe, the surface looked like It didn't take much effort, but sweat oozed from his forehead.
Yan Mo felt strange, and took a second look, but this look made him have deeper doubts in his eyes.
He just saw with his own eyes that Yuan Zhan randomly picked up a stone from the mountain. The shape of the stone was about two feet square. When he saw this stone, he had no idea what Yuan Zhan planned to make.
But it's only been a long time, and he can already see the shape of a long-handled stone ax from the stone. But he didn't hear the strong beating sound at all, nor did he see Yuan Zhan's grinding movements.
No, Yuan Zhan began to sharpen it. He took the other parts of the stone he got from that stone and rubbed the edge of the stone ax vigorously. But the problem is that he neither used other stones to hit the stone in his hand, nor used other stones to grind the stone in his hand.
So, how did the stone get rid of the extra stones and become the shape of a stone ax without a sound
In other words, he seems to have never seen Yuan Zhan make stone products before, and the stone products in that "home" are only necessary. If Yuan Zhan could handle hard stone more easily in some way he hadn't seen yet, why didn't he add more stonework to his home
Yuan Zhan, who is sensitive to sight, raised his head.
Yan Mo didn't have time to look back, so he had to make an expression as if he was about to ask him: "By the way, I will ask you a question first, wood or stone, which one do you think is better?"
Meng paused before answering, "...Of course it's ordinary wood."
Yuan Zhan paused longer than Meng, but what he said was: "It's all the same."
Startled, she looked at him.
"How could it be the same?" Yan Mo found that Yuan Zhan seemed to be revealing an important secret, and immediately seized the opportunity to say, "You can chop trees with a stone knife, but can you also chop rocks with branches?"
"I have a solution." Yuan Zhan replied vaguely.
Yan Mo didn't intend to let him go just like that, and asked pressingly, "You mean you have a way to deal with those stones, just as easy as cutting trees with a stone knife?"
Yuan Zhan hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
Scratching his head violently, he let out a silent sigh. Forget it, it's good to say it, anyway, they are all so far away from the tribe.
Yan Mo looked into Yuan Zhan's eyes and somehow thought of the stone mountain occupied by the Yuanji tribe. Didn't the tribe occupy that stone mountain simply because they needed it and found it useful
Yan Mo suddenly felt that this ordinary primitive tribe had become mysterious.
Is it true that Yuan Zhan is not the only one in that tribe who has some way of dealing with hard rocks more easily? Then why haven't there been buildings built with stones in their places of residence
Because there is no such awareness? Because you haven't thought about it at all? Or is it because you don't know how to make the first step and what to make it
To put it bluntly, what these natives lack in his opinion is not ability at all, but the concept of new things, but as long as you light up their imagination and give them a little hint, maybe they can develop rapidly by themselves.
"I'm from the Xiyang tribe." Yuan Zhan said suddenly.
"Huh?" Yan Mo came out of his own thoughts.
Meng added: "Xirang tribe, descendants of the legendary God of the Earth."
"So?" Yan Moqiu explained in detail.
"So I can make the stone listen to me a little bit." Yuan Zhan Commander rushed to get more stones.
Yan Mo's heart trembled, and at the same time, his curiosity rose rapidly. The last time he saw Priest Qiu Shi's long-distance observation, he wanted to dissect the other party's brain. Who would have thought that Yuan Zhan, who slept in the same bed with him, was actually a real person? , secretly hiding such an important secret.
Someone's eyes were full of crazy desires to study that he didn't even know, and he asked incessantly: "How do you make the stone listen to you? What can you do with the stone? Why didn't you Didn't you mention that you have such an ability? I didn't see you using it on the road, why?"
Yuan Zhan refused to answer, and wanted to say, but was kicked by him and could only hold back.
Yan Mo decided to avoid Yuan Zhan later, and asked Meng Meng to clarify.
"You don't need to know these things, all you need to know is that I can fix stones more easily than others." Yuan Zhan stood up, inserted the quickly polished stone ax into his waist, looked down at the young man and said, "Tell me, What do you want stone and wood for? I suppose you don't use them for weapons."
Yan Mo twisted his nose and murmured: "If I had known that you still had such skills, I would have nothing to worry about. Doesn't Meng also have any special means or abilities?"
"He doesn't have any special abilities now, at most he can run faster." Yuan Zhan regretted exposing this matter to the little slave so quickly. For some reason, he always felt that the little slave looked at him terribly, like a mad bear who had been hungry for a winter saw honey, but instead of wanting to eat him, he wanted to cut him up!
Yan Mo took a deep breath to calm down his slightly excited mood, and pointed to the stone mountain, "Now that Jiufeng is hunting for us, we can spare all our time and energy to get a place to live, for example, use the stones here to build a A house, with a fire in a stone house, is much warmer and safer than a tent."
"house?"
"A building like a tent, but bigger, stronger, and more usable."
"You can do it?"
Yan Mo spit out two words: "No."
Yuan Zhan, who just became interested in stone houses, "..."
"But I can draw, I can draw, you can look at it, I can give pointers, I probably remember some key points of building a house." Yan Mo squatted on the ground, and simply drew the shape of a house with branches, "I wanted to It is too difficult to build a stone house, so it is better to build a simple wooden house first, but since you have the ability to fix stones, let's try to see if we can make a house that can live in before the snow falls."
Yuan Zhan and Meng squatted on the ground to study the appearance of the stone house on the ground together, the more they looked at it, the more fascinated they became.
Yan Mo's fine brushwork is good, but he doesn't know the artistic conception of painting, he only practiced his painting skills to the point where he can be realistic with his memory.
He drew a square stone house that he had seen when traveling, and drew an ancient city pool around it, enclosing the stone house.
"Is this the house you're talking about living in?" Meng Meng's eyes lit up, looking at Yan Mo, as if wishing that he could blow out the house right away.
"My God! It turns out that in addition to natural caves, stones can also be used to create a square cave. Zhan, why didn't we think of it before? Also, do you think that the temples in the three cities look like this?"
"Maybe, maybe it's more magnificent than this." Yan Mo resisted the urge to draw another picture of the appearance of the real temple. Because of the simple appearance of this boxy stone house, it was easy for Meng He Yuanzhan to accept it, but not for him. How skeptical, but what about painting a temple? It will inevitably attract the surprise and suspicion of the two, so it is unnecessary.
Suddenly ignoring unfamiliar words, now they can automatically ignore some words spoken by the young man, and just treat them as secret words passed down by the priests of the Yanshan tribe.
"Xiao Mo, have you ever seen such a house?" asked fiercely.
"No, the priests of our clan once showed me the paintings, and I wrote them down."
lie! Yuan Zhan didn't bother to expose the young man's lies, so he just curled his lips.
But Meng believed it, and looked at Yuan Zhan enviously, "Why did I find Xiao Mo for you? If I had known, I would have gone out with you that day! Ahhh! I regret it so much!"
When Yuan Zhan didn't hear the scream of jealousy, he was already thinking about how to build the house through this painting. He was especially interested in that city. As a soldier, he could understand what the circle of walls represented with just one glance.
Yan Mo asked Yuan Zhan: "Can you make such a square stone?"
"Yes." Yuan Zhan didn't say that it would take him a lot of strength, so many stones... I hope he can get them all out before the snow falls.
Yan Mo asked casually again: "Can you hollow out a huge rock?"
Yuan Zhan shook his head, "I can't do it yet."
That is what can be done in the future. Yan Mo decided to let this man live for a while longer, this is such a good mason, no one can miss him.
Looking at the pattern, Yuan Zhan asked, "Isn't it easy to collapse when the stones are piled up one by one?"
"So you need to lay a foundation before building a house." Yan Mo explained what laying a foundation means.
Both Yuan Zhan and Er Meng understood, "I just need to dig a hole first, right? And the deeper the better, right?"
"Should..." Yan Mo was not sure, "If the house we are building is not high and the ground is relatively hard, we only need to bury the big rocks on the first floor in the soil and bury them all in a circle according to the house type. The surrounding soil is tamped down, about... that's fine."
This paragraph was happily skipped, and Meng quickly asked the second question: "How do stones stick together?"
"A binder is needed, mix lime, sand, grass ash, or volcanic ash with water, let me think about what else, it seems that clay will work too?" Yan Mo smiled wryly after saying this, "It's terrible, this is a big Question, how do you get the glue? Do you know of anything that is so sticky that it can hold two rocks together, and it can weather the wind and rain?"
Meng and Yuan Zhan thought for a long time, then shook their heads together.
Yan Mo felt a little frustrated, but also had a feeling that it was as expected. Building a house was not so easy, "Let's try to build a house with wood. At least that can be fixed with a mortise and tenon structure."
So Yan Mo explained what the mortise and tenon structure is.
After listening to Yuan Zhan, he shaved his face and said, "Maybe I can try to make the concave-convex structure you mentioned on the stone." Although this will be very difficult for him who is only second-level now, he can't do it now. Looking forward to what the house on the pattern will look like when it actually appears.
"That's great!" Yan Mo finally looked at Yuan Zhan a little more pleasing to the eye - just want this kind of subjective initiative!
"However... How do you get the stones on the roof so that it doesn't slip?"
"Uh, we can build a flat roof first, no, no, no, it's better to have a triangular one, I'm afraid the roof will be crushed by the heavy snow." Yan Mo thought hard about some knowledge about architecture that he had read back then, "Here we need a large beam , and there are many auxiliary beams, which need thick, long and straight wood, and use them to parallel the stone wall, and then... "
The explanation went on step by step. Yan Mo, who only knew a little about building a house, finally felt that the house must have been built before the snow fell.
However, he did not expect that Yuan Zhan and Meng would have such great enthusiasm for building a house.
Jiufeng circled them for several days, but he didn't understand what they were doing at all.
Those stones can't be eaten, why are they holding those stones and knocking and beating every day
Yan Mo, who was completely useless in making stones, was driven to tan animal skins, which were the animal skins that Jiu Feng had brought back from hunting in the past few days.
Yan Mo sat by the stream and used stones to scrape the remaining flesh and fat from the animal hides, soaked his hands in the cold stream from time to time, and recited the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic while trembling—he suddenly had a kind of cabbage and sold matches The little girl's double sense of miserable possession!
Jiu Feng slowly walked to Yan Mo's side, staring at him seriously.
Yan Mo turned his head and looked up at Big Bird, "Why? My face is blooming?"
"Gulu Gulu." Aren't you cold? Why are you still playing with water in such a cold day
Yan Mo, "...ahh!"
"Gulu Gulu!" What is this? do it again!
"Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah!" Yan Mo sneezed three times in succession, and proudly announced that he had caught a cold.
ten days!
During these ten days, the three of them suffered a great deal of wear and tear, especially Yuan Zhan, who was in a strange state of excitement and extreme fatigue.
He knew it was not good to consume like this, but no temporary caves were found nearby, and the crude animal hides that had barely been dried in the sun hadn't even been tanned. One could imagine how cold the tents made of such things would be at night.
house! house!
He must build the house this winter!
Yuan Zhan found that it was not difficult for him to make a stone level at the beginning, and it was not difficult to make a regular groove. , the beginning is difficult.
It was especially difficult because he needed to get all the grooves and ridges almost the same.
In order to see the effect earlier, he decided to adjust the stones while building. Fortunately, after doing it later, he gradually became better at it, and his speed became much faster.
The foundation pit was dug violently, and after he dug it, he took Yan Mo to the woods to find a suitable beam.
Yan Mo said that the freshly cut wet trees still need to be processed before they can be turned into girders, but this time there is no time, so he can only make do with it, and wait for the next spring to get some girders out in a serious way—in fact, he himself doesn’t know what girders are. How to prepare it, I only know that it needs to be dewormed, roasted, and sun-dried.
Jiu Feng had been watching the excitement, but when he found out that Yuan Zhan had made the stones almost the same size, he became interested for some reason, and even spit out the wind blade at the unfinished large rock, intending to use it The wind blade cuts the same thing.
"Puff puff puff!" After trying a dozen times, Jiu Feng mastered the trick, and soon used the wind blade to cut out rectangular stones that were about the same size as Yuan Zhan's.
For this reason, it shouted excitedly, "Jie!" While flying, it summoned the little Twolegs to see its achievements.
When Yan Mo appeared, it immediately brought people to the stone, grunting braggingly.
Yan Mo stood on tiptoe and touched the bird's head that was automatically hanging down, while turning his head to Yuan Zhan, who was fighting hard with the stone, and said, "If I were you, I'd make a pile of stones and let it have enough fun."
Yuan Zhan smiled sinisterly and humbly accepted the suggestion.
From then on, Jiu Feng gained an extra trick to play, and Yuan Zhan gained a coolie.
The biggest winner, Yan Mo, looked at more and more stones and lit a fire for everyone.
Yuan Zhan opened his mouth, waiting for the slave Yan Mo to feed him meat, and stared at him with fierce eyes - didn't you feed me like this before? Why did it work before but not now
For the sake of the other party's hard work, Yan Mo stuffed him with a mouthful of undercooked meat.
Meng came over to express that he wanted it too, and was shot back by Yuan Zhan. Cry loudly!
"Jie!" What is that? ! Why are you playing with fire on my territory again!
A pile of fire enraged Jiu Feng, who was doing coolies happily.
"Jie Jie!" No fire is allowed anywhere I am! You can't even eat barbecue! Exterminate! Exterminate immediately! "puff!"
Yan Mo, who was about to open his mouth to bite the meat, jumped up when the sparks jumped out, and roared angrily: "Brother Bird, the sky is dry and things are dry, be careful of the prairie fire!"
When the first snow fell, there were four more stone walls on the open space at the leeward side of the mountain. The stone walls had been built very high, and the left and right walls were built in a triangular shape at the top, so that the beams could be directly erected. go up.
A thick and straight log was leaned against a stone wall. The wood had not yet dried out, and only the branches, leaves and bark had been removed, but they couldn't wait any longer. Yuan Zhan and Meng climbed up the wall. The log stood where it should be.