He really wants to take a hot bath, but the current fresh water resources need to be purchased. Although the price of fresh water is not too expensive for him, it depends on what he is doing.
If you just buy it for daily drinking water, it is naturally not expensive.
Twenty kilograms of water, drink it sparingly, you can drink it for at least ten days, but if you want to take a bath, where can you get these twenty kilograms of water?
I just washed my hair and used a lot of fresh water.
Xu Shiying thought about it. Taking a bath with salt water would make the body stickier, but by filtering it, it might not be enough to drink, but taking a bath shouldn't be a big problem.
After wiping his hair, Xu Shiying walked out of the cabin and dragged a few pieces of wood. The wood was not long, only about three or four meters.
At this stage, there is only one wooden bucket that was given as a gift when purchasing fresh water, but for bathing, there is still a shortage of a wooden bucket. The bottom of these trees can be paste with mud, and a wooden bucket can be made simply.
When the cold wave comes, you can take a hot bath in the cabin. Otherwise, if you take a bath outside, won't you freeze yourself?
Even if you wash in the house, there is no bucket and the bath water will be everywhere. It will not be comfortable to sleep at night, right?
In fact, bamboo is much better for making barrels than wood, but the bamboo in his yard plays a protective role, so one less bamboo is used.
It will be more cost-effective to wait until spring when the flowers bloom and new bamboo grows to consider making bamboo barrels.
In fact, when it comes to making a wooden barrel, he can ask Bai Zhong to make one for him, so that he doesn't have to waste his time, and the barrel will be made better than him.
But he didn't want to rely on Bai Zhong for everything. If one day Bai Zhong stopped cooperating, or the relationship between the two was no longer close, at some point, when he needed these items, he could only stare.
It's not a bad thing to do more and do more now.
He was making a wooden barrel, and Xiaoqi, his mother, and his tribe were running happily in the yard. At this moment, it was ordinary, but with a little warmth.
Tonight, he prioritized making the barrels. Tomorrow, when he went to the Yanyan River, he needed a container to hold water. Although mineral water bottles could also be filled with water, they were only filled with too little at one time, and mineral water bottles were often used for cooking.
Xu Shiying let out a breath and started chopping wood with a stone ax, preparing to separate a section without cracks.
"Bang bang bang..."
Click left, click right, and chop diagonally in a 'V' shape, which makes it easier to cut through wide wood. Otherwise, the closer you get to the depth of the wood, the harder it will be.
At the same time, he must also be careful not to use too much force suddenly when pulling out the stone ax, otherwise, the stone ax will be scrapped immediately.
In fact, he really considered the whole sturdy cutting tool, but there was no one for sale, or the tool was missing a tooth, missing a handle, etc., and it was not easy to use at all, and it was not as good as the stone ax in his hand.
Xu Shiying chopped in a very rhythmic manner. Cutting wood more than 30 centimeters thick was relatively laborious and time-consuming.
It takes about five minutes to chop one side. After chopping one side, turn to the other side and continue chopping, and use the stone ax to lightly knock the remaining center position.
"Crack, click, click..."
Xu Shiying controlled the rhythm so that every time he exerted force, he could do it just right. After nearly forty minutes of exertion, the wood was finally cut off, and the other side was split open with a sound.
He put the wood chips that he cut down in one place and accumulated them. After all the barrels were made, these wood chips could be used to spread the wood chips in their nests so that the ground would not be so wet.
At the same time, some of these sawdust are slightly larger, which can be used to hide and avoid, increase the sense of security, and can also be used to grind teeth at leisure.
Yes, although agouti looks different from ordinary rats, their living habits are similar to ordinary rats, including the habit of digging holes and grinding teeth.
For example, even though Xu Shiying built a wooden house for them, they still couldn't help but dig holes in the ground, even Xiaoqi's mother did the same.
Xu Shiying said nothing when he saw this. After all, they have their own way of life. If he tried to stop them, he might not strengthen the race, but destroy it.
These wood chips take up space in the fireplace and are not resistant to burning. It is better to let the agouti grind their teeth.
"Bang bang bang..."
Another ten minutes later.
"Done."
Xu Shiying shook his sore wrist, hammered his back, and looked at the wood that was only half a meter long in front of him.
Next, we need to deal with two hundred uneven sections. Both sides must be smoothed, otherwise it cannot be placed upright. If it is filled with water, it will spill out due to the unstable standing.
"Bang bang bang..."
Xu Shiying slowly whittled away one knife after another, and inexplicably created a sense of rhythm. Xiao Qi actually pulled his mother and danced around the campfire.
Good guy, this guy is using himself as his accompanist.
However, with Xiao Qi's 'trouble', the process of making barrels was not so boring and seemed a little more interesting.
Maybe it was because the power of the green halo had weakened, or maybe it was because the weather was too cold and the wild beasts came out to look for food at night. Xu Shiying could hear all kinds of strange calls, and these calls were far and near. When you get close, he seems to be screaming strangely in your ears, making his scalp tingle.
Generally speaking, animals have relatively sensitive senses of smell and hearing, but he saw that Xiao Qi, his mother, and his tribe didn't react at all. Could it be that he was the only one who heard these strange sounds, and they didn't hear them?
He raised his head and glanced at the earthen grave, where there seemed to be a strange green light. He quickly lowered his head and said silently in his heart, Jade Emperor Tathagata Buddha Guanyin Bodhisattva Teacher Cang, bless and bless!
Twenty minutes later, the wood was almost chipped by Xu Shiying. Several pieces of wood were put together and looked like a barrel.
The next step is to make the bottom of the barrel.
Being closer to the campfire will make him feel warm, but at the same time, the fire serves as light, and the flames will jump with the flow of air, making people's eyes easily tired.
Xu Shiying rubbed his eyes, wiped his face with water, and continued to work hard.
He found a dozen relatively slender wooden sticks, simply whittled them, then fixed them with rattan sticks and tied them up, and then smeared them with a layer of mud.
Use your hands to spread the mud evenly.
In fact, it will be better to use a knife or engineer shovel to drill a hole in a base log as the bottom of the barrel.
Today's tools are limited, so we can only make one like this first.
When the materials are complete in the future, we can make other ones.
It took him a lot of time to tie the bottom, and it took half an hour for the bottom to work. Looking at the wooden barrel in front of him, he wiped his forehead with a bright smile on his face.
Xu Shiying reached out and added a few more pieces of wood to the campfire.
