Aze stayed at home for the past two days and took the initiative to take over the cooking work. Now there are basically only two people eating at home. Chen Qi also made a low table and put it next to the fire as a dining table. Put it away, very convenient.
Aze put the finished dishes on the table. Today, he steamed a few sweet potatoes as the staple food, and then fried a piece of meat with cabbage and fried meat pie. There are not many dishes, but the portion is very large. After finishing everything, Chen Qi was standing by the window in a daze, Aze tightened the chopsticks in his hand, "Chen Qi, it's time to eat."
Chen Qi came back to his senses, and waved to A Ze, signaling him to come over.
Aze set his chopsticks and walked over, "What's wrong?"
Chen Qi smiled and pointed out the window. The snow in the yard was cleared yesterday, and the reddish-brown ground without weeds mixed with white snowflakes looked messy. Every time after clearing the snow, the animal skin boots would be dirty. It's covered in mud, and you need to change your shoes to enter the house, which is very troublesome. "Ah Ze, do you want to pave a stone road in the yard?"
"Stone road?"
"Well, it is to lay stone slabs on the ground so that you don't have to step on the mud all the time." Chen Qi explained: "I remember that there were still a lot of stone slabs left when Azhang and the others built their house before, so lay those stone slabs Should be enough to pave a path to the ground."
A Ze never objected to Chen Qiti's opinion, he nodded slightly, "Okay."
Chen Qi did it when he thought of it, and ran to say hello to Azhang and Carlo after eating. Everyone had nothing to do, and when they heard that Chen Qi wanted to build a stone road, they all came out to help.
Chen Qi simply divided the approximate area of the road. This is a road that connects the front of the three houses and then leads to the main entrance in front of the wall. Because the stone slabs are directly laid on the ground, there is no need for glue.
The leftover stone slabs that were used before were piled up by the wall of Azhang’s utility room. There was a huge pile, and a few females could lift several stone slabs by themselves. Chen Qi stood on both sides of the planned road and directed the others How to pave the slabs.
Chen Qi has a little obsessive-compulsive disorder. Since he wants to pave the road, he wants to pave it as nicely as possible. Some stone slabs that are too big have to be cut off by Aze. He must make the road the same size. After such a toss, the road is not The road is too long and several people even made it for a whole day.
Ah Jing was worried that the little wolf cub would get dirty if he ran outside. Now in winter, the little wolf cub is too young to take a bath, so he can only stand by holding the little wolf cub and watching other people busy.
The flagstone road is still a little loose after it is paved, and it takes a while to get firm after walking. Satisfied, Chen Qi walked back and forth on it a few times, so that he wouldn't get muddy on his shoes when he visited next door in the future.
The only lighting tools in this world are fires. Chen Qi made torches before, but now that there are occasional snowstorms, torches are not very useful in winter. Chen Qi thought about it and decided to make a lamp.
He tied a rectangular wooden shelf with root hair thread, the base was a wooden board, and cloth was sewn around it. Looking at the white cloth lamp, he felt a little unlucky, and he dyed the cloth with red fruit dye again, and it was finished. Afterwards, he asked Aze to make a simple bone bowl, and he went to Ali's house to bring some cocoon thread, and melted a piece of grease that was iced outside the house.
Knead the cocoon thread into a rope as thick as a little finger. After the oil melts, put it in a ceramic bowl. Soak the wick made of cocoon thread in the oil. After soaking for about half an hour, remove the wick and put it on the fire. Dry side by side. Chen Qi found a small piece of cork, opened a hole in the middle of the cork, inserted the wick into it, then poured a little water into the bone bowl and then added oil, and carefully put the bone bowl filled with two-thirds of the oil. Put it into a wooden shelf with cloth sewn around it, and then put the wick into it. The wick is very long, and it circles around the bottom of the bowl. It is supported by cork and will not sink into the oil. Chen used a wooden stick to ignite it in the fire. Lighted a little fire to light the wick. The transparency of the cloth is not very good, and the lighting is very dim.
"Aze, help me make a lamppost." Looking at this simple oil lamp, Chen Qi couldn't put it down, and quickly asked Aze for help.
The lamppost is only about half a meter high. It is buried on the side of the newly built stone road at the entrance, and there are two wooden boards on it, one as a base and the other as a cover. In order to block the snowflakes, Chen Qi put the lamp on this lamppost. Can illuminate a small area under the pillar.
Chen Qi asked Aze to make six such lampposts, one on each side of the road in front of each house, and put this kind of simple oil lamp on them all. The surrounding ice wall is nearly four meters away, and Chen Qi is not afraid that the light will be transmitted to them. Go outside to provoke some terrible creatures.
A Li looked at the reddish oil lamp on the red cloth shelf in amazement, "Chen Qi, are these also your customs?"
Chen Qi coughed lightly, and winked at A Li, who quickly changed the subject, praising the oil lamp as quite useful, making it easier to go out in the future.
After A Li gradually lost the ability to transform into animal fur, his eyesight also dropped a lot. At night, as long as the moonlight is a little weaker, he can't see things. The so-called oil lamp made by Chen Qi may not be useful for normal females, but for them For the injured females and males, it is an extra option for them to travel at night. If this kind of oil lamp can be fully lit in the tribe, then even if the females are not around, other people will not need to go out at night. Just stay at home.
After the road was paved, Carlo and Ake went back to the room. At this moment, Chen Qi had been working outside for a long time on the lamp post, but they didn't come out. Chen Qi was worried about what kind of sports they were doing, and he was too embarrassed to pull them out to watch the lights at night. . Ah Jing was still young, and after feeding the little wolf cubs, he nestled on the bed and fell asleep.
After turning on all the lights, Ali saw that the other party was finished, so he leaned into Chen Qi's ear and asked in a low voice: "I've already finished the clothes you asked me to make, do you want to try them on first?" ? If there is a problem, I will modify it."
Chen Qi nodded, turned to Azhang and said, "Azhang, aren't you curious about how to make this kind of oil lamp? Azhe has already done it for me just now, let him teach you."
After Chen Qi finished speaking, he found an excuse to go into the house with A Li, but was pulled by A Ze, "It's already late tonight, and Uncle A Zhang is also tired, I can teach him tomorrow."
Chen Qi looked at A Zhang suspiciously, and the corner of A Zhang's mouth twitched. He lived with A Li, so he naturally knew what Chen Qi and A Li were doing secretly, so he stepped forward and said to A Ze: "It's okay, this thing is not very serious. Is it simple? I'll just learn it tonight."
Aze paused, slowly let go of Chen Qi's sleeve, pursed his lips and stopped talking.
Chen Qi was eager to see the finished product, but didn't notice that A Ze was in a bad mood, so he smiled gratefully at A Zhang and left with A Li.
After the heavy animal skin curtain was lowered, Azhang patted Aze on the head, and said with a smile: "Are you worried about Chen Qi being abducted by your ghostly look? I don't even think about how old your Uncle A Li is." Now, and if Chen Qi has any crooked ideas, I can let him into the house?"
Aze's face was tense, his eyes were fixed on the thick animal skin curtain, and he stood quietly for a long time before turning around and walking back, "Let's go, I'll teach you how to make an oil lamp."
A Zhang secretly sighed in his heart, at first he thought Chen Qi's plan was good, so he helped him hide it from A Ze, now seeing A Ze's expression, don't you just think about it and get into a dead end, right? It seems that it is necessary to remind Chen Qi not to go too far, and he can continue to work on the plan or something.
A Ze was already asleep when Chen Qi came back, this was the first time Chen Qi saw A Ze fall asleep early without waiting for him. Although the distance between the several houses was very close, Chen Qigang still felt cold when he came back from the outside. He threw a few sticks of firewood into the fire to keep the fire alive until his body was warmed by the fire before he took off his animal skin clothes and climbed onto the bed.
Aze had previously replaced the animal skin quilt they had built with a quilt big enough to cover two grown men. He asked A Li to sew it secretly, and tonight the other party actually replaced the quilt for one person. .
Remembering what Azhang said about himself just now, Chen Qi stopped lifting the quilt, "Azhang, are you angry?"
A Ze turned his back to Chen Qi, Chen Qi couldn't see the other's expression, and didn't know if he was really asleep or fake. Chen Qi climbed onto the bed, propped half of his body on top of A Ze, felt the familiar breath approaching, A Ze's eyelashes moved unconsciously. Chen Qi smiled lightly, got out of bed and went to Aze's room to find out the big quilt that was replaced by the bed, warmed the big quilt by the fire, and then put the two quilts on the kang bed that were only big enough for one person replace.
Aze let Chen Ji move, his body stiffened and he continued to pretend to be asleep.
After Chen Qi was done, he got under the bed, this time he didn't hold A Ze's hand, but put his hand on A Ze's thin waist, where the lines were tight and the hand felt good, Chen Qi couldn't help but dawdle After eating a handful of tofu a few times, he felt that Aze's body was getting stiffer and stiffer, and he almost pretended that he could not sleep before stopping.
Chen Qi chuckled contentedly, leaned his head against Aze's neck, and almost hugged Aze halfway into his arms, the warm breath made Aze's neck itch. "I'm sorry to have misunderstood you."
Hearing Chen Qi's words, Aze's body moved.
"Originally, I wanted to give you a surprise after finishing everything. I didn't expect that I would fail the first time I did this kind of thing." Chen Qi remembered that a colleague used to show his heart downstairs in the company in order to propose to his girlfriend. shaped candles, and holding a lot of red roses, he blocked the door and told the girl to marry him loudly when people were coming and going after get off work. The girl smiled and agreed.
Unexpectedly, he wanted to do this kind of behavior, but he was stillborn. His ideal proposal scene should be on a sunny day, with a good meal, half-kneeling in front of the other party with the ring in hand, and asking him if he wants to marry him. Don't marry him, not when the two are lying in bed and each other is still angry like this.
However, Chen Qi didn't like A Ze's misunderstanding. He did those things without telling the other party just to make the other party happy.
After thinking it over, Chen Qi became a little nervous. He sat up halfway up, corrected the expression on his face, and then asked seriously: "Ah Ze, do you want to be a partner with me? We will be a couple for the rest of our lives. ?”