After the family had lunch, everyone in Wang Yiyi's family, except Wang Yiyi, continued to dig cassava.
When Wang Yiyi saw that her uncle had prepared a place to put the wood, she took her cousin away with her. Everyone climbed up the hillside in the other direction, and after a while they fell into the woods. There were several semi-dry trees and a few fully dry trees in the woods. These trees didn't look very small. It's almost the size of a bowl.
Wang Rui and his cousin Wang Wei started cutting down the trees directly. Wang Yiyi couldn't help much, so she went to pick up the pine needles by herself. This thing is not only a good fire starting material, but can also be used to lay it in a cave to prevent moisture.
Of course, just making these preparations is not enough, because these small pine trees cannot be burned for a few days at all. What they have brought back now is the firewood used for cooking and heating in the past few days.
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Uncle Wang here is really busy. He is mixing mud and hay over and over again, and then applying it to the wooden door that is continuously woven with small strips and made with thicker sticks. In order to live in this cave Not bad, he even had to prepare something to lower down from above to block Feng.
So Mrs. Wang started weaving straw mats directly. The grass prepared by Wang Yiyi was not enough, so she went to cut a bunch of straw mats by herself.
On the other side, Wang Yiyi and her father were working in full swing. Huge cassava was dug out one after another. The two brothers kept carrying these cassava back. They did not carry them back, but placed them directly in the hot spring where Gulu was bubbling. Next to her, Wang Yiyi, her irresponsible old lady, started to clean it, hoping to take advantage of the heat and sunshine these days to dry the cassava slices directly into dried cassava. This makes it easy to store and put away, and it won't breed insects.
Another reason is that dried cassava does not take up much space, and the cave is not very big, only about 120 square meters. In the future, we will not only have to divide an area to park horses and donkeys, but also divide an area to store grain. In addition, , the firewood just placed outside is definitely not enough for them to burn, and they must prepare some inside the cave.
The old man didn't say anything after seeing the cave and what they were doing. He just told everyone to hurry up and make cassava. It would be dug in about two days. In order to speed up, even the youngest child was dragged away. Cassava.
Of course, you can't expect him to do much work, but as long as he has something to do, he won't make trouble.
Everyone worked enthusiastically for four or five days, and Wang Yiyi and her two cousins were finally almost 1/3 of the way through wood-cutting.
They had filled up the firewood shed outside, and even got a lot of pine needles. They spread a thick layer directly on the sleeping area, and then spread a straw mat on top.
There are still a lot of vacant places inside. In addition to the place where my family sleeps, there is also a place where dried cassava, cassava chips and grains are placed. The old man used wood and mud to make a shape similar to an oval, which is just right. There is only one thing covered. You can see clearly by turning your feet back a little and moving forward a little.
The food was hidden, and then the horses and donkeys ate. Because the old man was not worried about this kind of weather, he obviously felt that the temperature drop was not normal. It was not like a normal temperature drop at all.
The old man directly asked everyone to cut down trees in the afternoon. Except for the old lady and the youngest child, Wang Yiyi, Wang Cuihua and her two brothers were assigned to cut the grass. Fortunately, there was grass everywhere in the canyon, but it only took about two days. A lot of grass has been cut. Use straw to make ropes and tie them directly into a bundle. There are almost 100 people in a bundle.
In order to be prepared, they tied up about 50 more bundles of straw, which one person could barely wrap up, and piled them directly into a straw nest. Because there was a protruding place under the cave, I just trimmed the protruding place, put up a big log, and tied the horse and donkey to it.
There is a difference between the places in the house that need to be broken and the places that are not broken. For the places that need to be broken, some wooden strips are cut directly to remove all the cement. Then a layer of wooden strips is used to squat down, and then the pine needles are piled on top. , then lay out a straw mat and then a mattress. This is better in normal times, let alone when fleeing famine.
After Wang Yiyi and the others had cut all the places where wood could be placed in the cave and cut them to about the same size, and stacked them completely, they specially made a small hall around the place where the fire was used for cooking to ensure that sparks would not be contaminated. Go somewhere else and start a fire.
These were all proposed by the old man. Wang Yiyi also collected some medicinal materials while working. These medicinal materials are used to remove cold. Among them, he dug about two hundred kilograms of wild ginger.
With two days to go before the cold wave, the temperature was already almost 10 degrees. Wang Yiyi felt very panicked. She knew that the cold wave was coming. She didn't know if she could survive this cold wave, so she put on her own clothes. The thick coat she bought for herself before went out to chop wood again. This time she chopped live wood. She cut a lot of it and piled it directly on the platform at the entrance of the cave.
The old man seemed to have noticed her thoughts, and directly called everyone to chop firewood. He chopped a lot of firewood and piled it in front of the door. There was only a way to go down and up at the door, and he piled it with mud strips. I built a huge water tank that can hold almost 0.5 tons of water.
This project was done by the old man himself. He went to the woods to do some repairs. He mixed some white liquid and some transparent liquid after he came back and applied them to the inside and outside of the mud, so that it would stop leaking.
It's a very magical thing. Wang Yiyi has never seen it, but when she was visiting the valley, she found wild nightshades. Most of them were mature. She directly pulled out the nightshade seedlings and threw away all the green ones, leaving only The purple and black ones are back.
While visiting the valley, she accidentally discovered a nest of rabbits. A few young people guarded a hole and filled six big rabbits with smoke. Later, they picked up two more small rabbits.
The other few rabbits may have inhaled too much smoke and died immediately after they came out. The six rabbits were put into a bed by the old man.
In order to prepare food for the two little rabbits, they went out to find some green grass, which looked quite fresh, and put it out for the little rabbits to eat.
After Wang Yiyi saw these completed projects, she had to say with emotion that the ancient people had a lot of wisdom, and the people's wisdom is always infinite.
Moreover, she had also watched this kind of huge project in modern short videos. It would take someone one and a half months to complete it, but their family relied on their absolute numerical advantage to complete it in only half a month.
