Lorist was going to build a house for the winter, and was going to find that mountain barbarian attendant named Ashu in the morning. Ashu had already come by himself, bringing two pieces of magic sheepskin and a small bag of dried meat.
Ah Shu regretfully said that he didn't have any other property, and these two things were all he could get out, hoping to help Lorist and Reddy survive the long winter.
Lorist thanked Ah Shu first, and then asked, he was going to build a house. After all, if he relied on this shack, he would surely freeze to death. I wonder if Ah Shu could borrow some tools for him
Build a house? Ah Shu said very strangely, winter is only twenty days away now, is there enough time? I think it took more than two months for dozens of people to build the dilapidated wooden house where the hunchbacked mountain man lived. Can you do it with just the two of you
Lorist nodded, and said with a smile, don't forget that I am the Gold Professor of Architecture at Dawn College, if I can't do it, no one else can.
The mountain barbarians are relatively straightforward, so Ah Shu easily believed Lorist's big words. He nodded and said, that's fine, I'll ask the owner of the mountain, if she agrees, I'll bring you the tools.
Ashu left and came quickly, he happily told Lorist that the mountain owner agreed to their request to build a house, but he would not send anyone to help them except for providing tools, but Ashu volunteered to take the responsibility. Supervise their tasks.
Lorist looked at the so-called house-building tools brought by Ah Shu. Except for axes, shovels, hoes, and two rusty saws of different sizes, the rest of the sickles, rakes, and iron forks could only be regarded as agricultural tools. But I heard from A Shu that the mountain barbarians don't have the habit of farming. They usually just take care of the climbing vines that grow kudzu roots. These tools are left long ago, except for the one time he used to build the broken wooden house when he was a child. , Usually thrown in the corner of the warehouse and ignored.
If Lorist's internal strength and Reddy's vindictiveness were still there, it would be easy to build a house that could survive the winter. But now Lorist and Reddy can only be regarded as two strong ordinary people, and Lorist's saber is also lost, so now he can only make do with these broken tools.
Today counted as the first day, Lorist and Reddy tore down the dilapidated shack together, then drew a three-meter by five-meter square with the pit in the shack as the center, and the two began digging. Ah Shu stared in a daze, he stopped Lorist and said, building such a big house with such a large space inside would be very cold and not warm in winter, the smaller the house, the warmer it is...
Lorist smiled and said, no, the bigger the house he built, the warmer it would be, and you'll know when it's built.
Ah Shu is skeptical.
The next day, Lorist asked Ashu where the clay was. In the morning, he and Reddy picked a lot of clay from the beach of a small river under the mountain. In the afternoon, they mixed the clay with the soil dug out yesterday, and mixed it with toughness. Strong thin vines and dead grass roots start making mud bricks.
On the third and fourth days, Lorist and Reddy felled more than fifty trees with a width of 20 to 30 centimeters in the woods far away under the supervision of Ashu. Ashu helped him a lot. They got four pack horses to pull all the cut trees to the stockade, otherwise it would have taken two or three days for Lorist and Reddy to move them alone.
On the fifth and sixth days, Lorist and Reddy sawed the trees in half, and the mountain barbarians in the village, old and young, gathered around to watch the excitement, discussing the two stupid slaves who were about to build a tree. what kind of house.
On the seventh day, Lorist and Reddy arranged the almost dry mud bricks around the big pit dug out, and glued the mud bricks with clay slurry. Then Lorist sharpened the ends of the tree trunks that were cut in half, and stuck the mud brick wall along the wall of the pit, and smashed the smooth side into the ground under the pit, quickly surrounding the big pit, and now From the inside of the pit, it can be seen that there are flat wooden walls all around, and there are not even any windows except for the door openings for entry and exit.
Ah Shu was very surprised, and asked Lorist why there was a wooden wall inside the mud wall
Lorist and Reddy were pouring clay slurry into the gaps between tree trunks and mud brick walls. He replied to A Shu that if there was only one layer of mud brick wall, it would freeze in winter and the inside of the house would not be able to keep the heat. Adding a wooden wall inside would prevent the heat from escaping. This is called double-layer insulation.
Ah Shu nodded half-understanding, and asked the second question, why the top of the wall is not flat, but the highest two sides in the middle are slanted down
Lorist directly drew a human character on the ground and told Ah Shu that the roof must be pointed like this so that it will not be crushed by the heavy snow, so the walls also follow the roof.
Only then did Ah Shu understand.
From the eighth to the tenth day, Lorist was working on the roof. The roofs on both sides slanted directly to the ground. From the side, it looked like a triangle standing on the ground. There was a piece of space in the middle of the front, and the sunken part was the entrance and exit.
On the eleventh day, Lorist started to build the fire pit and stove, and the flue was pre-buried. However, the problem with the fire pit was that there was no plank on it, so we couldn’t lay wooden planks directly, so we needed something to separate the fire from the planks. .
Lorist removed his robe, and removed six thin steel pieces from his chest, back and shoulders, these were the armor steel pieces that increased the defense of the robe. Lorist took two pieces of armor steel and asked Ah Shu to invite Wule, who has eight rings of mountain spirit power, which is equivalent to a swordsman with two stars of fighting spirit and silver, and asked him to cut three pieces of them with his sword light Ten wide and one inch thick bluestone slabs are laid on the fire pit, and long wooden planks are laid on it to complete.
Lorist then exchanged two pieces of armored steel through Ah Shu for sixty catties of kudzu roots, half a leaf of mutton, and a large crock. Because the bag of kudzu root that the hunchbacked mountain savage old man said was a month's food was almost finished.
The last two pieces of armor steel were given to Ah Shu by Lorist, thanking him for his help during this time. Ah Shu felt sorry, and got a dagger for Lorist as a gift.
In the next few days, Lorist was very busy. He was going to make the door, sew leather clothes for Reddy, get enough charcoal, carve two wooden bowls and wooden spoons, and most importantly, get food for the winter. And salt.
After Lorist's house was built, Ah Shu respected Lorist as a heavenly being. He didn't expect that in just ten days, the dilapidated shack would become such a comfortable house now. Especially the fire pit that took up half of the room, he never thought that he could light a fire under the bed, and he was amazed at how warm the whole house became.
During the period of building the house, Lorist had already learned about the mountain barbarian tribe to which Snow White Mountain Lord belonged through Ah Shu's mouth. A Shu said that this Shanman tribe was originally called the Nubike tribe, and that A Shu and Bai Xueshan were originally from the Habibaba tribe. A few years ago, the leader of the Habibaba tribe went to Small Megan Mountain to participate in the twelfth annual Kupawissen Festival, which is also the celebration of the mountain god. Regional leadership.
After returning, the leader of Habibaba called himself Jambasan, and led the tribal warriors to conquer the other seven mountain tribes in this mountainous area, and the Nubike tribe was one of them. However, after the Nubiko tribe surrendered, Jambassen did not merge it into the Habibaba tribe like the other six tribes. Instead, he sent his favorite youngest daughter as the leader of the Nubiko tribe, and He divided this mountain and the surrounding area into the territory of the mountain barbarian tribe, and named his youngest daughter the Lord of Snow White. Therefore, the Nubike tribe also changed its name to the Snow White tribe.
Ah Shu has been Snow White's playmate since he was a child, so when Snow White came to this tribe, he also followed him as a guard. A Shu told Lorist that there are more than 1,300 people in the Baixue tribe now. Lorist felt it was strange that he didn't see so many at all. During this period of time, he only saw old men, women and children of the mountain barbarians. They went out to collect wild fruits and vegetables and cut firewood. Except for the more than one hundred male mountain man in the horse team that came back from the barbaric land last time, they didn't see other mountain man men.
Ah Shu said it was not surprising, because Ule and about 400 other men in the tribe went out to fight with Jambassen of the Habibaba tribe. A year ago, Habiba Baba Jambasen had a conflict with Jambasen of the mountain barbarian tribe in the adjacent area. Both wanted to annex each other's tribe and territory, so they started a war. The Baixue tribe also sent 400 mountain men to follow them to fight, and they will return when the first snow falls this year.
Lorist suddenly realized, no wonder the vigorous development and construction in the family territory in the past two years has not been harassed and invaded by the mountain barbarians. In the siege, Josk's bow cavalry battalion and Pachiko's garrison squadron were attacked by Josk's cavalry battalion and Pachiko's garrison squadron when they heard the police arrived. Later, there was no more warning of a large-scale attack by the mountain barbarians. To catch up with the situation is that the mountain barbarians have changed their attack targets. At this moment, he really hoped that the fight between these mountain barbarian tribes would last forever.
One of the things that made Lorist feel the funniest was that Ah Shu told him, don’t look at the barbarian girl from the Golden Crown Mountain, the lord of Snow White Mountain, who said that Lorist was her first slave from the plains with status. It was the first time she had caught the Flatlanders, and now she didn't know what to do with Lorist and the others.
It's not that there were no slaves in the past, and the shanty area where Lorist and Reddy are now staying is for slaves. But those slaves were all mountain barbarians. They stayed here for two or three months to gather and hunt together with others, and then quickly integrated into the tribe and became a member of the tribe.
But now Lorist and Reddy are so-called people from the flatlands, and it is impossible for them to be integrated into the tribe after a period of time like those slaves of the mountain barbarians after being slaves, except for the habiba Jambasson to lead the army After returning, Snow White was going to take Lorist and the others to show off to her father, but she didn't know what to do with Lorist and the others.
And winter is coming, everyone in the Snow White tribe will enter the big cave to nest in the winter, but as slaves of the flatlanders, it is impossible to enter the cave. It was also because of this that the snow-white mountain lord allowed Lorist and the others to build a house, as long as they didn't run away. In fact, with the bodies of Lorist and Reddy, it is indeed a dead end to escape.
If Lorist and Reddy weren't slaves, that tree would have wished to move in and live together. He told Lorist that the cave was actually a large cave with a large underground river inside. But for more than three months, the whole tribe lived in it, and they couldn't feel it at first, but after more than a month, the smell inside was not so bad.
Although there are large holes surrounded by small holes in the cave, and several ventilation holes have been opened, the stench excreted by thousands of people and those horses and livestock will gradually permeate the entire cave, and the people who come out after winter are all smelly. of. Don't look at the hunchbacked mountain barbarian old man who can't enter the cave because of his disability and can only stay in the dilapidated wooden house outside, taking care of the slaves. I don't know how many people in the cave envy him.
Ashu pointed to the dilapidated shacks in the village and said, Look, apart from the shacks where the slaves live, the shacks in the rest of the village are not much better than here. Summer and autumn are better, and winter and spring rain. At that time, there was no way to stay alone, so I could only hide in the cave again. He hoped that after the winter, Snow White Mountain Lord would order Lorist to help all the people in the tribe to live in such a nice house...
Lorist thought it was okay, and he would go back to the family territory as soon as Ge Neli replied, but he was not interested in staying here for a few years to help you build a house. But still with a smile on his face, he asked Ah Shu how he could get enough grain and salt for the winter.
Ashu said that you are slaves, so the tribe cannot distribute the common food reserves to you. It is already very reluctant to give such a bag of kudzu root a month. If you want more food, you have to rely on yourself. The best way is to hunt, and the prey caught is your own. As for the salt, there is a saltwater lake beyond the mountain. There are a lot of salt blocks by the lake. The tribe will send a horse team there in two days. I will ask someone to get you a large piece.
It turns out that being a slave requires self-reliance, but what Lorist didn't expect was that being a slave of a barbarian was much happier than being a subject of a lord. The prey captured by the slaves who became mountain barbarians belonged to themselves, and at least half of the prey captured by the lords belonged to the lord, and some harsher ones were three quarters or four fifths. It's like you killed a wild boar, and when the lord came to collect taxes, at most you would go home with a pig's head on your back.
I don't know how many people will come crying and shouting to be the slaves of the mountain barbarians once such things spread out... Lorist shook his head and threw out all these absurd thoughts in his mind. To be a slave, you must have the consciousness of a slave. You are a so-called flatlander, and it is impossible to stay too far away, and it is impossible to hold a weapon. The large prey around here have long since disappeared, and the only things I can catch are small animals such as hares and pheasants.
You don't need a weapon to catch hares and pheasants. Lorist can play tricks. This is also a practical survival skill that he learned when he was a mercenary. Dozens of covers were made with thin vines and cut sheepskin strips, and they were arranged under the bushes and in the grass overnight. After checking the next day, the harvest was good, and three pheasants and four hares were caught. Winter is coming, these prey are all plump, Lorist is very happy, according to today's harvest, the stored winter grain will soon be available.
I exchanged a pheasant, a hare, and the hunchbacked old man for a bag of about 50 catties of kudzu root, and exchanged two hares for a piece of magic sheepskin, and gave Ah Shu a pheasant, and cooked it again at night. I bought a pheasant, and the remaining hare was smoked and dried for winter food.
After one night, I went to look at those sets again, and caught two pheasants and three night rabbits. This time, I exchanged one pheasant and one hare for a wooden barrel to hold water, and soon the daily necessities in the small house also disappeared. ready.
Ah Shu was very surprised, so Lorist taught him how to play tricks. What I didn't expect was that when Ah Shu learned how to play tricks, he waited for all the wild and barbaric children to learn the skill of playing tricks. Two days later, when Lorist went to check the nesting place, he found that all the bushes and grass were densely packed with nests. It was crazy, how could those pheasants and hares settle down
Seeing Ah Shu's innocent face, Lorist was furious. Without the pheasants and hares, Lorist set his mind on the small river below the mountains.
The mountain barbarians seldom eat river fish. First, they have no nets; second, they cannot fish;
Lorist had neither a net nor fishing equipment, but this did not prevent him from using his brain. It took Reddy a day to dig a big hole in the river beach, and then dug a deep ditch to connect with the small river. On the second day, weave a long wooden raft with branches and insert it into the small river, then turn the raft around to drive the fish in the river to the big pit, and finally block the small ditch to dry up the water spoon in the big pit, and the result will be I caught over a hundred fish, including twenty big fish half a meter long.
The harvest was very good. After one night, Lorist was ready to make persistent efforts. He was pulling the wooden raft with Reddy in the small river, when he saw the barbarian girl from the Golden Crown Mountain, the lord of Snow White Mountain, bring a group of followers to the small river, and said to the two of them: : "Come up, I will take you to meet my Abba."
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