People say that the spring rain is as thin as cotton, but the spring rain here is like a thunderstorm in summer, and Ramon told him before that there is not much rain here in summer.
The sky was gloomy and gloomy, and the pouring rain blocked people's sight.
Fortunately, no one went out to hunt today. A small tribe of more than 60 people had fewer workers and fewer people to eat. Basically, the frequency of hunting was only once every ten days, and the prey they hunted was enough to feed everyone. If you want to be lazy, you can get enough rations by ambush in the moat.
All the people working outside have returned to the tent, except those who are responsible for patrolling and defending.
Yan Mo wiped off the rainwater and looked up at the inner city wall. Now the city wall has been gradually supplemented and improved. There are no longer tall and thick walls, but battlements, crenels, wall observation holes, tactical turrets and watchtowers have all appeared.
The construction of the turrets and city towers basically relied on Yuan Zhan, and he only drew a rough picture from memory.
Yuan Zhan felt that the turrets and towers he drew were too beautiful, cumbersome to build, and not very practical. Later, he tossed out the current tactical turrets based on his drawings.
Yan Mo had seen this unattractive tactical turret before in China, but he had forgotten that it was the kind of building that was squarely connected to the city wall, high in height, with observation holes on the wall, and battlements on the top of the wall.
The city tower is an enlarged turret. Because it has the function of looking out, it is planned to have three floors. However, Yuan Zhan was stumped when he was building a partition, and he is studying the problem of the force on the floor. Both Yan Mo and Meng suggested that he use wood as a partition, but he got stuck on the question of why he couldn't use stone slabs.
"Send me to the west city tower." Yan Mo ordered the two guards. They came back from the east gate facing Qingyuan Lake, and to get to the west gate, they had to go straight through the entire inner city.
If he was not mistaken, Yuan Zhan should be worrying about what to do with the suspension bridge in the tower at this time. Building the city wall is not difficult for Yuan Zhan, but when it comes to every detail, it worries everyone.
Yan Mo didn't ask the primitive people a problem at all, letting them overcome their guilt. Anyway, he gave his opinion and a rough drawing. As for how to make it, it's up to them to make troubles. Besides, he didn't say that he should make it simpler. Now he is obsessed with making the city stronger and more functional. It wasn't him who came more and more.
There was no suspension bridge before, so Yuan Zhan directly left a dirt road on the river surface of the north, west, and south gates for easy walking.
When I went up the city wall, I met patrolling warriors, and I was sure that Yuan Zhan was indeed in the half-built city tower.
"Why are you here?" Yuan Zhan who was talking to Meng raised his head.
"It's raining heavily." Yan Mo signaled the guards to put him down and go to the side to have a good rest.
The guard saluted and retreated to the corner to sit and rest.
Seeing that Yan Mo had something to say, Yuan Zhan motioned to the other side to continue thinking about how to build the suspension bridge, and then turned to Yan Mo, "Is there something wrong?"
He nodded fiercely to Yan Mo, and walked away with the slate.
"Yes, it's a big deal." Yan Mo rubbed his forehead, "Don't do anything about the city gate for now, just keep it open."
"why?"
"Heavy rain, melting snow, if the four city gates are closed, our inner city will be flooded, even if we are on a high ground." Yan Mo moaned, "Sorry, I forgot to add a sewer when planning. Damn it! How could I forget such an important thing!" In the cities of his original world, it happened more than once that the city turned into an ocean because of too much rain and the sewers were not smooth, and he even encountered it himself.
"sewer?"
Yan Mo motioned to him a slate and charcoal pencils, these two things can be found everywhere for the convenience of communication.
When Yuan Zhan was talking to Meng just now, he was using a few stone slabs. Seeing that he wanted to use it, he picked one up and put it on his lap, and wiped the charcoal drawing on it with fur.
Yan Mo grabbed a charcoal pencil and explained while drawing a picture on the slate: "The sewer is the underground water network, buried under the city, leaving a large number of access holes on the ground, connected to all houses, roads, etc., our daily living water, rain and snow Rainwater from the sky can flow into the ground through the sewer, and then flow into... Qingyuan Lake through the underground water network."
Yan Mo thought of a question again, would putting the outlet of his sewer in Qingyuan Lake anger the mermaid clan? Fortunately, there is no polluting sewage now, but in the future...
One by one, problems everywhere! Why is it so difficult to build a city? He really wanted to let go!
Yuan Zhan also frowned when he looked at the picture drawn by Yan Mo, "It would be great if you said it earlier, the foundation of the city wall has been built, and if you want to dig a hole under the city wall, you have to dig very deep."
"The main pipeline can go under the city gate, and the embankment of the moat may have to be raised by another two meters. Ramon said that the rain is so heavy that the surface of Qingyuan Lake will expand."
Yuan Zhan's eyelids twitched, Yan Mo was bothered by these trivial matters, and he was even more troubled, but when no one was available, they could only handle it all. Manpower, they really desperately need manpower who can work obediently!
"To get these sewers, the ground in the inner city has to be dug up."
"Yes, and the sewer must be built wide and strong like a house, and it must be well sealed. It is troublesome to build a circular shape. We have a small population, and the main purpose is to prevent rainwater. It can also be built in a square shape."
"Wait!" Yuan Zhan seemed to have caught something, and after concentrating on it for a while, he was catching a thought that had just flashed through his mind.
"Underground, wide passages, all over the city, leading to the outside..." Yuan Zhan's eyes gradually brightened.
"Yes." Yan Mo answered casually first, but after seeing Yuan Zhan's expression, he seemed to understand something, and gradually, the two showed the same expression.
"True!" Yan Mo shouted excitedly.
Yuan Zhan didn't find the right words, but he obviously thought the same as Yan Mo.
Clenching his fists to suppress his excitement, Yuan Zhan said in a low voice: "The sewer can not only flow water, but also allow people to leave. When necessary, you can go out of the city to attack the enemy's back, or you can escape."
Yuan Zhan didn't think there was anything to be ashamed about running away. They couldn't beat the wild beasts and ran away too often. This time it didn't work, so they can come again next time. The man took two steps back and forth in place, his thoughts were spinning, the sewers gave him a lot of inspiration, he couldn't help but think a lot.
When he came back, Yan Mo waved and said in a low voice: "In addition to the sewers on the surface, it's better to build one or two hidden passages that only you and I know."
"Ok?"
"Prevention before it happens, it is better to be prepared than to be unprepared."
Yuan Zhan didn't understand the first half of the sentence, but he understood the second half. He didn't think of this because his selfishness was not so serious. The education he received in the original tribe was to consider the whole tribe, so he also habitually thinks everything from the perspective of benefit to the whole and the collective. But Yan Mo opened more than one new door to his thinking that was about to be finalized.
"It would be great if there were more people with the same ability as me." Yuan Zhan didn't reject Yan Mo's proposal, he just had a headache again because of the lack of manpower.
Yan Mo said very unconscionably: "Take it as training ability, those who are capable will work harder. In addition, the sewer does not need to lay wall bricks, you can directly use mixed soil to build the wall, just like the foundation of the city wall you made, if the effect Well, our city roads can do the same in the future.”
Yuan Zhan clenched his fist, he really wanted to punch someone!
"You think of a way for the suspension bridge!"
"Huh? I'm only responsible for giving ideas and opinions. I'm already busy enough!"
"Are you busy and I am not busy? How many things do I have to do? City walls, river embankments, sewers, and building houses. After finishing all these tasks, I have to go to the salt lake to build the sun-drying ponds you mentioned, and the outer city wall has no shadow at all. , I didn’t have time to get the urn city you mentioned, and the house we live in hasn’t been built yet.”
"I told you last time that I need a house alone."
Yuan Zhan didn't hear it, "You are in charge of the suspension bridge. If you give him a year of thinking about it, he may not be able to solve it."
"I've already drawn the picture..." Yan Mo still wanted to struggle, he was really busy, communicating with the mermaid tribe, teaching students, seeing a doctor for everyone, pointing everyone out to find useful animals and plants, and sometimes having to solve problems that happened in the tribe. some small disputes...
And many things he wants to do have not yet started, such as communicating with the dwarves, he has already made plans, but he has no time to carry them out. He also wandered around the islands in the lake, taught everyone how to raise poultry, raise livestock, explore the forest, etc. Oh, he also wanted to take time to go back and see Jiu Feng and the man-eating bees. He was not worried about man-eating bees, but he was worried about Jiu Feng.
Yuan Zhan stared at him.
Yan Mo raised his hand to express his surrender, "I regret it. We shouldn't build such a big city when there are so few people. We should just build a few houses and build a fence! You say your ability is really not good No more, it gave me hope, but I can't conjure up a city with a wave of my hand, or a river with a stomp of my foot, tsk."
Yuan Zhan raised his fist. If he hadn't touched the silence and made him involuntarily bless him, he would have punched him now.
But no matter how angry they were, and no matter how busy the two were, they still had to do what they had to do.
Yan Mo took over the task of researching and building the suspension bridge, and Yuan Zhan turned his head to build the river embankment. The sewer is not in a hurry. There are at least four gate holes to let the water in the city flow out, but the embankment of the inner moat is not raised. The rain, the melting snow in the surrounding area, and the water flowing out of the inner city will definitely flood the river.
When Yuan Zhan went to work on the embankment, Yan Mo immediately ordered all the residents in the city to disperse and gather in the turret on the city wall. The meeting hall has not been built yet, otherwise it would be the best place to shelter from the rain.
The Awu people didn't know what happened. When they heard that they were asked to go to the city wall, they thought that an enemy was coming, so they grabbed their weapons first. It wasn't until Wu Chen and others explained that they knew that the priest said that there would be heavy rain in the next few days, that the tribe would probably be flooded, and that the tents would also accumulate water, so everyone was asked to take shelter in the turret on the city wall.
The Awu people have multiplied in this land for a hundred years, and naturally they are well aware of how much rain will be during this period. In the past, they used to avoid the upwind place and hide in tents to endure it. Now they have a stronger and more resistant You can live in the turret of the city wall without sleeping on the wet ground.
And after they built the house, according to the description of the house by the priest, they didn't even need to reach the city wall. Thinking about the beautiful life in the future, the Awu people who used to be very sad at this period can now look at the heavy rain outside and smile.
On the third day of the heavy rain, all the snow and ice on the grassland melted, and many depressions became ponds or swamps.
Although the four gates of the inner city of the Jiuyuan Tribe were open, there was still a fist-deep accumulation of water, and the foundations of some construction sites were completely submerged by the water.
The gray-green dwarfs also disappeared. I don't know if they hid back in the forest or in other safe and rain-proof places.
During these three days, Yuan Zhan was miserable.
Rainwater will affect the condensation degree of the mixed soil. If the mixed soil cannot be dried, it will be easily washed away by large water bubbles.
Yuan Zhan tried his best to drain the water from the mixed soil. It used to be easier for him to drain the water in the soil in dry weather, but in this heavy rainy day, as soon as he drained the water from one side, the other side was watered again. It is too transparent, which makes him have to rework constantly, and he has to force himself to speed up the speed of getting water out of the soil.
In three days, according to his original speed, if he only raised the embankment of the inner moat by two meters, he could complete at least one-third of it with all his strength, but now, he has not even completed one-tenth of it.
Perhaps the only good thing is that he seems to have found the trick to get rid of the water in the soil, and now he has to practice how to get rid of it more quickly and on a larger scale.
Yan Mo was worried that a large number of people in the tribe would suffer from cold and sickness, so he reluctantly provided some herbs to make angelica mutton soup for everyone to drink.
It would have been nice to have ginger. Yan Mo thought of it more than once.
On the fifth day, Yan Mo brainstormed and asked Meng, Wu Chen and others to use their brains together. They finally came up with a specific method of making the suspension bridge. The method was very simple, and no one, including Yan Mo, had learned the relevant knowledge. Can only rely on pictures to speculate and explore.
And Yan Mo didn't observe the suspension bridge carefully, and the pictures he drew only had a rough shape, and he didn't know how to subdivide it into various functional parts.
"Try to make a model first." Yan Mo looked at the subdivided production steps of the suspension bridge on the stone slab, and decided.
"My lord!" someone shouted standing outside the door in a coir raincoat.
Yan Mo raised his head and motioned for the other party to come in.
The warrior in charge shook his head, "My lord, the leader asked me to tell you that the group of dwarves has appeared."
"Oh?" Yan Mo subconsciously looked outside the observation hole, where it was still raining heavily.
"They ran to the outer wall of the city and stood there. The leader said that there were adults and children."
Child? Yan Mo immediately understood what Yuan Zhan meant by sending someone to send a message. He wanted to try to communicate with the dwarves, because no one would bring children to war.
"Ding Ning, Ding Fei, you two take me to the outer city wall."
"Yes." The two guards immediately put on their coir raincoats and came forward to carry his chair.
Wu Chen hurriedly handed the coir raincoat hanging on the wall to Yan Mo.
On the dirt wall of the outer city, Dede sat down on the ground, "I'm exhausted, I finally escaped!"
Grid kicked him, "Stand up quickly, Elder Cha Cha is staring at you."
Dede hesitated and said: "Let him stare, I won't get up if I stare to death."
The elders of the dwarves looked at most of the clansmen who were lying on the ground, and shook their heads.
The patriarch Lang Lang, who was surrounded by several dwarves, smiled, "Forget it, they have worked very hard to protect the clan and escape here."
"But this is the territory of those giants. Show them how tired we are, and they will definitely come to attack us."
"Elder Chacha, Gege and the others have been here for nearly a month. Those giants discovered them on the first day, but they didn't attack us, nor did they drive us away. Even Gege and the others preyed on the giants' territory They didn't show any hostility to their prey, I think it's a kind and peaceful tribe."
"Kindness?" Elder Chacha obviously had a different opinion. He pointed to the tall and majestic city in the distance, and said excitedly: "Master Patriarch, look at that... I don't even know how to describe it, it's like a mountain! A mountain!" A mountain built by humans!"
"It seems that the humans in this tribe are full of wisdom. They may be as smart as us. This makes me hopeful to chat with them. Their language may be as rich as ours." Lang Lang smiled. He had also seen that city a long time ago, and admired its majesty and height.
Elder Chacha almost jumped up, "Patriarch! Look clearly! They are not only smart, those... that mountain, even if I have never seen it before, I know it is used to defend and attack the enemy! There is no such a big river! Didn’t you hear Gege say that there is a kind of big fish like a human in this river? And those big fish can use forks!”
"So maybe these giants usually live in water? It's like we live underground in the forest." Lang Lang blinked.
"That's not the point!" Elder Cha Cha almost screamed, "Patriarch, I swear, these giants and those big fish are definitely not as friendly as you think, we have to take up arms instead of fooling around Stand on this dirt hill!"
"Oh, my Elder Chacha, have you forgotten what we are here for?" Lang Lang sighed, "We are here to discuss with the giants here, let them temporarily accept us to live for a while, until the water god spends his time. This period of sadness. In fact, I have always felt that the water god must have lost his most beloved person at this time in the past, otherwise he would not cry a lot at this time every year. In fact, I really want to comfort him. Every year he When we cry, we have to move to the tree, which is really inconvenient."
"Patriarch!" Elder Chacha yelled and jumped up violently, "Oh, why why why! Other tribes are so normal, why is it that only our Momo tribe is like this from the patriarch to all the tribes... I want to kill you!"
Elder Cha Cha pulled out a sharpened wooden knife and stabbed at Lang Lang.
Lang Lang yelled and jumped away, "Elder Chacha, calm down! Please calm down!"
Dede chuckled, "Look, Elder Chacha has gone crazy again."
Grid also sighed, "Yeah, he has always been the most abnormal person in our Momo tribe. I think he should go to the Lolo tribe. Those belligerent guys will definitely like him."
"Forget it, the Lolo tribe won't welcome him, he eats too much!"
"Dede..."
"Huh?" Dede wiped off the rain on his face and looked up at his companion.
Gege squatted down beside him, and said sadly: "Beifei and the others led the other half of the tribe to find the Luoluo tribe to seek asylum. Do you think the Luoluo tribe will accept them?"
"definitely will."
"why?"
"Beifei is so beautiful! And half of that half is the cutest girl in our clan." Dede poked the mud on the ground with his fingers in frustration.
"Then do you think the Lolo tribe will drive away those easy-to-kill little monsters?"
This time Dede was silent for a long time, "... I don't know, I only know that even if the Lolo tribe drives away those monsters, we will not be able to go back to our original home. The Lolo tribe will definitely occupy our homeland. I have been coveting our territory for a long time."
"Oh!" Grid hugged his head, "Why is this happening? Where did those monsters come from? There are so many foods in the forest, why do they insist on eating us?"
"Maybe it's because we're smarter and more beautiful? Gege!" Dede yelled suddenly, "Look, those giants are coming out of their dens!"