Chen Qi looked at the current sky, it was dark, even the moon was hidden in the clouds, and the nearby weeds could only be vaguely seen. "It's so dark now, will it be inconvenient for you to go back to the tribe later?" Chen Qi was a little worried, after all, they were so late because they were doing things for themselves.
After tasting Chen Qi's cooking skills, although Ali didn't act as eager as Carlo, but he was full of anticipation for the pheasant buried under the fire, and even moved a little closer to sit by the fire, wanting to smell it He couldn't smell the pheasant, and of course he couldn't smell anything except the smoke from the charcoal fire. Hearing Chen Qi's question, Ali raised his head and said with a puzzled face: "It's inconvenient? Why is it inconvenient? We have three The girls are together."
"I mean it's too dark, the road may be difficult to walk." Chen Qi explained, and after thinking about it, he suggested, "How about I make some torches for you?"
"Torch? What's that? Alright, let's do it." Carlo raised his hands high, and he was a little used to Chen Qi's thinking that he would always agree with everything he said.
Chen Qi went back to the house and picked up a pile of materials that had been stored before, a dozen wooden sticks as long as an arm, and a few pine logs covered with turpentine, which were specially left when he saw the fire when he was usually burning. It would be such a waste to just throw the pine logs into the fire and burn them like that.
Chen Qi picked up a wooden stick, measured its approximate length, tied it tightly around the confirmed position with a root hair thread, and then picked up the sword corner knife to cut the front end of the wooden stick into a cross. Shape, break off a little turpentine and put it in the gap, ask Aze to help get a lot of firewood that is thick as a finger, tightly cross the firewood into the gap of the wooden stick, and then sprinkle a little rosin on top, Then continue to stuff a layer of firewood, and repeat this until the gaps are completely filled with firewood. Chen Qing uses the root hair thread to tie the sticks filled with firewood in a circle, probably five or six sticks. After threading the root hairs, Chen Qi also poured a little chicken fat boiled on the front of the wooden stick, and a simple torch was done.
Several people looked at Chen Qinong curiously. Chen Qi put the completed torch into the fire and lit it, and handed it to Carlo next to him, "Here." He needed to see how long the first fire would last.
Carlo excitedly held up the torch and looked left and right. He didn't expect that the wood would not be extinguished as soon as it was taken away from the fire like other single sticks.
The brightness of the torch is not bad, at least things two or three meters around can be seen clearly, and with the eyesight of females, they can roughly see things with a little light, even in a moonless night. I can do activities outside. A Li and A Zhang looked at each other, A Zhang asked: "Chen Qi, why did you add that pine resin to the stick?"
"Pine resin can prolong the burning time of the torch." Chen Qi has already picked up the second wooden stick and started making the second torch. At the speed of the girls, it will take seven or eight minutes at most from here to the tribe. Because it only took about ten minutes to slow down at night, Chen Qi planned to give one to each of them. Even if the torches could only burn for a few minutes, they would be able to survive in the tribe if they were used in rotation.
A Li picked up a wooden stick to play with, looked at Chen Qi who was busy with his work, and asked: "Chen Qi, can I also learn to do it?"
Chen Qi didn't raise his head, and said casually: "Okay, this is very simple, you just follow my example and do it."
Ali nodded, and imitated Chen Qi's example and cut a cross at the front end of the wooden stick. As a result, except for Carlo who excitedly took Ake to explore the nearby darkness with the lit torch, the others followed Chen Qiwei to make torches in front of the fire.
There were only a dozen sticks in total, and they were finished by a few people in a short while. At this time, Carlo also came back with a torch that was about to go out, and his face was full of surprise. This is so powerful that it burned for a long time."
Because there is no accurate time calculation equipment, Chen Qi can only make a rough estimate. It will take more than half an hour from the moment the torch is lit to when it is about to go out, or within an hour. Chen Qi was quite satisfied with the result. With a torch that could burn for such a long time, it would be more convenient to go out at night.
Chen Qi saw that the time was almost up, so he picked up a wooden stick and began to pull the extinguished fire, A Ze also hurried to help, when the others saw that Chen Qi was finally about to dig out the buried pheasants, they all started Surround me.
The cattail leaf wrapping the pheasant has changed color and is still steaming. Chen used the sword corner knife to cut off the tied root hairs, and slowly picked the cattail leaf to reveal the golden chicken inside, exuding a tempting fragrance .
Chen Qi cut some chicken, put it in cattail leaves and handed it to everyone, "Taste it." After speaking, he twisted a piece of chicken with his hands and put it in his mouth. The taste was different, although it was simply sprinkled with a little salt, it was surprisingly good. It can be said that this was the best dish Chen Qi had eaten since he came here, except of course the roasted sweet potatoes before.
"Okay, delicious." Carlo swallowed the chicken two or three times, and looked at Chen Qi eagerly, "Chen Qi, do we have to cut up the rest of the chicken like this?" He really wanted to tear it up like eating barbecue. Take the next big piece of meat and eat it.
Several other people also stared at Chen Qi in unison. Although they have learned to use chopsticks now, it is obviously much more refreshing to hold the meat directly in their hands like when eating barbecue than to eat it like this.
The corners of Chen Qi's mouth twitched when he was watched, and he waved his hand, "You can eat whatever you like."
Several people cheered, and quickly took apart the other cattail leaves wrapped with pheasants. Only Aze, as before, slowly cut up a large cattail leaf and handed it to Chen Qi, and then he ate it himself .
Although the four beggar chickens are big, the orcs are also very fast, and they were dealt with in a short time, because they drank a lot of chicken blood soup before, and no one could drink the big pottery chicken soup left in the end. , Ake helped Carlo rub his overfed stomach, Chen Qi also ate a little too much today, and he didn't want to move at all after eating, Aze led the other two to do the aftermath work silently.
After the things were almost packed, the four of them went back to the tribe with torches. In the dark, the light of the fire can always travel far. Chen Qi can see the two fading light spots that are particularly conspicuous in the night. Far.
The next day, A Ke and A Zhang came after hunting. It was almost noon when they came. Chen Qi and A Ze had already checked all the traps around them, and harvested a few hares and pheasants. Relying on these traps can solve their food problem, and Aze doesn't need to go out to hunt them to have surplus.
"What's wrong with you?" Chen Qi looked at the obvious scratches on the faces of A Ke and A Zhang with a strange expression.
Ali coughed lightly, took off the animal skin backpack on his back and handed it to Chen Qi, "A lot of birds came near the Chishui River today, and we caught a lot of them. You take these feathers first, and take advantage of crossing the river these two days." If there are more poultry, we will catch more."
Chen Qi opened the backpack, and it was stuffed with colorful feathers, which were still wet with moisture. Chen Qi reached out and touched it, and there was temperature, it seemed that it had just been peeled off not long ago. Chen Qi's head was full of black lines, the tragic situation of the two people in love was accidentally scratched by catching birds, he thought it was the result of too intense exercise at night. Chen Qi stuck out his tongue in his heart a little guilty.
Today's main task is to assume a good frame for the roof. The roof is designed with a flat center and sloping sides, using slender sword keels. A hole for the sword keel was left on the wall yesterday. Now it is only necessary to place the sword keel Put it in the mouth of the pit and then pour the pectin sand inside.
Chen Qi was worried that the still-dry walls would not be able to support the weight of the roof, so the stone slabs on the roof planned to wait until the walls were completely dry before removing them.
Then there is the bathroom. Chen Qi dug a septic tank by the ditch not far from the house, and used one of the houses to make a toilet. The pipes are made of bamboo, which is thick and hard here. Half, cut off all the obstacles at the bamboo joints inside the bamboo. I was worried that the bamboo would rot after a long time. I also coated the inside and outside of the bamboo. After the gum was dry, I buried the bamboo in the dug In the pipeline, I tried it, and the water output effect is not bad. Although it is a little crude, at least it solves the sanitation problem of Chen Qida in winter.
Chen Qi also built a fire pit in the hall of the house. He originally planned to build it in the room, but he was worried that if there were too many things piled up in the room, there would be problems with lighting the fire, so after much consideration, he built the fire pit in the hall.
The tunnel in the fire pit is connected to the stove, yes, Chen Qi also built the stove in the hall, there are only four rooms, one for Chen Qi, one for A Ze, one for the bathroom, and the remaining one needs to be stacked more and more There are too many sundries, and there is really no place to make another kitchen. And the hall is big enough, although this design is a little different, but it is easy to use.
Due to the limited material, the chimney is also made of bamboo, and the smoke from the stove will pass through the tunnel of the fire pit and then be discharged out of the house through the chimney, so there is no concern that the bamboo chimney will be burned by the fire.
After everything is finished, the house is basically completed. The rest is to wait for the walls to dry and then lay the slate on the roof and the slate on the ground, and then install the windows to complete.
The next day is the moonless day, and after the moonless day, we will go to the lion and wolf tribe's meeting. The dried meat that was marinated before is almost done, and it can be stored in clay pots at this time. Because both of them need to leave for a week, Chen Qi worried that if there is too much meat in the house for such a long time, it will attract the attention of other predators, so he planned to ask Aze to suspend hunting, anyway, the food for these two days Relying on those traps is far enough.
Aze also asked Ake to come to the trap here to collect prey every day. It would be better if the two came back a week later and found a pile of animal carcasses that had been dead for a long time. Not to mention wasting, it is very distressing to have so much food rotting in front of them. of.