Yang Fan took care of these Jurchen savage chiefs in the East China Sea and returned to the villa and wooden house humming a song.
He found that Xiao Niangpi and Lin Yueru were not at home. Only Busia and her two little sisters were working diligently. She rolled up her sleeves, raised the wooden-handled fire ax that was taller than herself, and slashed at the tree stumps.
Yang Fan was also convinced. This little girl was really good at work and would never be idle for a moment.
Yang Fan felt very ashamed and ashamed every time he saw her. I am a person with no work in my eyes. I didn't even bother to pick up the oil bottle when it fell over. He was surprised to find that there was so much work to do at home.
Because the fireplace was to be lit, Busia asked the two girls to hold on to a large tree root more than one meter thick. She swung the fire ax and slashed. The wood chips were flying.
The roots are particularly resistant to burning, but digging is laborious. In addition, chopping firewood is laborious.
Most people can't afford to burn this thing. That’s just Mr. Yang. Because it is resistant to burning, if you throw chopped tree roots into the fireplace, it can burn until tomorrow. There is no need to get up in the middle of the night to add firewood, and it generates more heat than wood.
The servants have modern hacksaws with special-shaped teeth that have been transported back in time. Cutting down trees quickly makes it a great tool for setting up camp. Engineers were called in to deal with the last remaining tree roots.
Engineers and soldiers are all great men, and they have been too comfortable recently. Because except for the one time they were used in the siege of Manila, they had been idle until they were almost bored.
Uncle Donkey Dan decided to pull them out and dig tree roots for him.
The engineer platoon received the order and came to the lumberyard to take a look. More than two hundred huge tree roots. Densely arranged on the hillside. According to the master's order, these trees were cut down for firewood.
Wang Erhu was the platoon leader, and his heart ached when he looked at it. Such good wood actually burned on fire.
His hometown is a small tree as thick as a bowl, and it is not cheap. If you can't be a beam, you can still be a purlin. They are all good materials for building houses. This is not a bad idea. Large trees with a diameter at breast height of more than one meter are cut down and burned.
These soldiers are really spendthrift. But looking around, except for such a big tree, there are no small trees around. It seems that there is no way to avoid ruining the family. There are no small trees here. This is all virgin forest.
"Seat down, you see it's freezing cold. The ground is as frozen as concrete. This work is not easy." Zhang Changshun, the leader of the first group, said worriedly.
"That's right, here in Nu'er Gandusi, when winter comes, the ground is covered with light frost and the ground is sealed tightly by the severe cold. Even if you bite it with your teeth, you can't chew it." Deputy Pai Liucheng said while chewing the flower seeds.
"Damn it, it's too much. Just shoot through the holes and blow it up with explosives. I'll blow up the roots of the tree." Wang Erhu said angrily.
There's no way to dig it, it's because we're too busy. Find something to do. It must have been the gang of tree cutters who were jealous of me and went to the group seat to inject the maggots.
After a while, a rumbling explosion sounded. A huge plume of smoke rose from this large tree stump. Even the savage leaders wandering around the city were startled by the thunder in this winter.
"Hahaha, we are still very good at our craftsmanship." Wang Erhu looked at a huge tree root that had turned upside down and fell to the ground with great satisfaction. The stumps of these trees are now facing downwards, and the densely packed roots are facing the sky like tree trunks that have lost all their leaves.
The engineer platoon finished the job in an hour and delivered more than 200 tree roots to the master's yard. It shocked a group of people. These bastards are really good at playing with explosives.
Yang Fan walked behind them and watched the three little girls chopping firewood with interest. It has to be said that the children of poor people become masters early, and the children of these savages also mature very early. Everyone has fierce eyes and a lot of strength.
"You can't chop it like this. You have to chop it along the wood grain." Yang Fan looked at it for a while and couldn't help but said. I found that they could only use brute force, but the effect was not good.
"As the saying goes, if you don't follow the pattern when chopping firewood, you will die from exhaustion." Yang Fan said with his hands behind his back.
"Ah, sir, you are back." Busia happily put down the big fire ax and said.
"Well, I just got home. Where are the ladies? Why didn't you see them?" Yang Fan asked.
"My wife and my second wife got up early to hunt bears. They said they wanted to eat bear paws at night. They took Tuya and the others there. They could find the hibernating den of the brown bears. The three of us were left to look after the house. Master, you can eat. Are you done? I'm going to cook."
Yang Fan shook his head helplessly. Yesterday he even said coquettishly that he would freeze to death. I ran out to play today.
Yang Fan was busy these days and couldn't take care of them, so he left them alone. They all sound like twenty-year-old kids. Even though they have given birth to children. But the girl's heart has not changed and she is still playful. When I think about it, I haven’t taken them on a trip for a long time. It won’t be a disappointment.
"I've eaten and I'm not hungry. Give me the ax and I'll show you how to chop firewood. Haven't you ever chopped firewood at home?" Yang Fan asked strangely.
"Master, we are too poor to buy iron tools. We can only pick up the dung of reindeer and bison, dry it and store it for firewood in the winter. We only have stone axes made of obsidian, which can chop small shrubs and the like." Bushi Ya said with her little face raised.
Yang Fan saw that her little face was covered with frostbite, and there was ointment on it, which was the medicine given by Lin Yueru. I couldn't help but sigh in my heart. No matter how unfortunate he was to be born in the Ming Dynasty, he would still be ten times happier than the children of these savages.
Some people are in heaven as soon as they are born. And some people spend their lives fighting wild beasts.
Yang Fan took the fire ax and slashed it down along the lines of the tree stump.
In one fell swoop, the tree stump, which was one meter in diameter and seventy centimeters thick, was chopped down until a big crack opened. Unfortunately, the ax got stuck halfway.
Yang Fan also has two swords, and he has never chopped firewood. In future generations, there will be trees for you to chop.
Even if you plant a tree in your yard, you will go to jail if you cut it down without approval.
Yang Fan failed to pretend to be 13 and felt a little embarrassed. He became so angry that he simply threw away the wooden handle of the axe. , holding both ends of the crack with both hands. With a roar, all the muscles in his body rose.
"Ah! Ah! Ah!" Yang Fan's face was ferocious, and he tried hard to break off his arms. The tree stump made a heart-wrenching sound and was broken into two pieces with a click.
"Wow, the master is so powerful." The little girls were dumbfounded. The most powerful warrior in the tribe was not as powerful as the old man. He actually broke open such a tough tree stump with his bare hands.
"Wow, sir, how did you do that?" A familiar voice came from behind.
Yang Fan threw away the tree stump, turned around, and saw Xiao Niangpi and Lin Yueru coming back.
Behind them, a group of servants and local savages were dragging a huge brown bear on a sledge. The bear's paws have been chopped off. On the sledge at the back, there was a sledge full of wolf pup skins.
Yang Fan sighed. Last time in Mongolia, these two girls were obsessed with digging out the wolf's den. Make a wolf cub fur coat. This time, my wish finally came true. There are probably thousands of wolf cub skins on this sledge.
However, it looked like it was an old leather piece. It should have been bought from a leather goods shop in the city and had been processed for several months. In this case, there is no need to worry about rabies and plague. As long as you don't go into the wolf's hole, that's fine.
"Master, how about we eat bear paws tonight? The last time you made bear paws for us was a year ago." The little girl hugged Yang Fan's arm and started acting coquettishly.
Last time she and Lin Yueru hunted a big black bear. The honey-roasted bear paws that Yang Fan made for them were so delicious that they kept arguing and wanted to eat it.
