The seven people rummaged through the ruins of the town all morning, and returned to the manor in the afternoon with the various metal iron tools and farm tools they found.
As soon as they returned to the manor, they started repeating the work again.
All the nearby trees that were crushed and hit had to be dragged back to the manor to dry, and some of the thicker and straighter branches needed to be sharpened to make them into horse-barriers to serve as the manor's walls.
Juma is a wooden movable obstacle and a kind of obstacle equipment. In the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, there was an early form of Juma, which consisted of cross-fixing wooden pillars into a frame, with blades and thorns inlaid on the frame. At that time, it was used to block doors and prevent pedestrians from passing through. Later, it was used in battles to prevent and delay the movement of enemy troops and horses, and to kill and injure the enemy.
Shaped as crossed wooden piles, the stable triangular structure will make creatures that want to collide with the horse stop before they can.
Most of the larger tree branches were made into Juma, which could only barely block the main entrance of the original manor. If you want to use Juma to cover the entire perimeter of the manor, a lot of wood would be needed.
After lunch, it was another busy afternoon.
After repairing the hoe, Xiang En polished the hoe with a grindstone and happily ran to hoe the ground.
He knocked the broken stones of the circular flower bed into similar sizes, surrounded a square field of about twenty square meters with the stones, and then planted some of the unknown seeds that Naka found in the town. See what grows out in the end.
Those corn kernels and wheat seeds will be divided into a large field for planting. You can watch the food grow in the ground. Just thinking about it makes Xiang En feel a sense of accomplishment and joy.
Three days have passed in such a peaceful life. During these three days, the work content of the seven people was basically the same, including logging, farming, making horses, and making totems.
In three days, Xiang En carved a forbidden vine totem and placed it in the middle of the experimental field to prevent unsightly things from destroying the vegetables in the field.
The laying of barricades is also proceeding in an orderly manner. The movable roadblocks have replaced the collapsed wall at the gate of the manor and serve as simple fortifications.
Afterwards, when Xiang En saw that enough wood had been piled up, he asked others to join in the work of reclaiming farmland.
Seven people plowed six acres of land, and there were plenty of corn seeds and wheat seeds. Xiang En was left with one acre of land, and the remaining three acres were wheat and two acres corn.
Two days after planting, they started building canals.
Xiang En planned to divert some of the water from a stream flowing into a small lake behind the manor to use it as a water source for watering crops in the manor.
This method is much better than running to the small lake to fetch water every day, or using well water.
Besides, Xiang En also saw that there were quite a lot of corpses soaking in the lake, but Xiang En didn't dare to touch them anyway.
After drawing the route, the work of digging the ditch was directly handed over to Naka and the others. Xiang En and Andrea chopped wood together to prepare an oversized taboo vine totem.
This is a big project because the totem Xiang En wants to make is eight meters high and the base is ten meters in diameter.
On the first day of making the totem, it took a whole day to process dozens of tree stumps, chop them into polygons, and piece them together to form a circular base about one and a half meters high. Subsequent modifications took three more. Genius meets the criteria.
Then came the carvings of the hollow vine balls that made people’s scalp numb just by looking at them. The carving of these vines took longer.
Because the wood is straight, but the vines twist like noodles, he uses modular splicing when carving, which requires him to carefully carve every part.
A rough calculation showed that Xiang En needed to polish at least two hundred curved wooden parts to complete the combination of the giant forbidden vines.
This terrifying workload makes people feel headache just thinking about it.
If the bending angle of each piece of wood is slightly inappropriate, it may need to be remade. If it is done wrong or backward, it will have to be remade.
The construction period of the giant forbidden vine was extended indefinitely. It was not until Naka and the others finished digging the ditch three days later that Xiang En had not yet processed all the components.
After the ditch was dug, Xiang En still had to arrange new work for Naka and the others.
The new job is to find ant nests and turn them into coatings to make drains smooth and waterproof.
When he dug an ant nest for the first time, Xiang En watched with a torch, worried that the ants would also become infected.
But he worried too much. Basically all the ants were dead, which made him discover a problem that had been ignored.
Insects seem to have disappeared in nature...
This is a very serious problem. A sudden missing piece of the food chain may cause a series of chain reactions.
But then Xiang En thought about it again. Most of the creatures in the world have turned into zombies. Why does he still care about whether the food chain is complete
As soon as he thought of this, Xiang En felt relieved and continued to carve his own totem. At worst, artificial pollination would happen.
After the ant nest was destroyed, Xiang En hadn't finished the totem yet. He felt that his project would take at least two weeks.
As time passed, the basic work was slowly completed, the canal was completed, and the stream purified by the flow of the mountains flowed from the edge of the manor, circled around the manor, and then merged into the stream again.
With the moisture of the stream, the crops in the fields also grow green shoots.
Although farming is a technical job, life has its own way of survival. They only need manual intervention to make it grow better, and they do not need to pay attention to it all the time.
Looking at the food growing in the fields, Naka and others, who have been busy for half a month, have hope for life, and their eyes shine with hope.
What is even more gratifying is the mice in the basement. Many of the artificially paired female mice are pregnant. One of the female mice that was already pregnant gave birth to six mice that are as big as fingers.
Maybe they will be able to eat fresh meat soon!
Busy time often passes quickly. The construction process of the giant forbidden vine was much longer than Xiang En thought. It took him a full month to carve out every detail of the totem.
After meeting the carrying standards of the forbidden vine totem, he drained all the magic power from his body and temporarily used the magic surge skill to barely successfully complete the elemental shaping of the totem. In addition, he also obtained skills to improve his proficiency. Several skill points.
The giant totem, which is eight meters high and ten meters wide, is finally completed. All traces of splicing have disappeared. The whole thing has turned into a dark green color under the influence of magic, and the aura it exudes seems to be integrated with nature.
Xiang En did not activate the totem immediately. He asked Naka and others to clean out the center of the house where a big hole had been knocked out, and prepare to put the vines on the basement. This is called safety!
After the two-day period of weakness ended, Naka and the others also cleared out the ruins.
Xiang En asked several people to work together to move the totem into the center of the two still strong building ruins, and then injected a little magic power to activate the totem.
Recently, I have been reading novels written by others, mostly Naruto fan fiction. After reading all the good fan fiction, I feel the urge to write my own. This impulse is the driving force behind writing.
I'm a little tired today, I'll take a day off, so I'll just update it for the time being.
(End of chapter)