In the next few days, Xu Chen focused on trimming the cave.

The next day, I went down the mountain to inspect the kiln factory, guided several kiln workers to make pottery, and arranged for Mother Ba to soak the collected bark into the puddle by the river.

This numb-like plant mainly grows near the entrance of the valley, so the main collection task is a group of men.

They move very quickly, and they can make several large bundles every day. At the same time, they also collect a lot of seeds of this plant. Xu Chen asked someone to dry them and store them first, and prepare to plant them on the bank of the river after spring.

Since we learned that several nearby tribes will have two group exchange activities every year, Xu Chen has a feeling that time is out of the question.

Food, clothing, housing and use are the four basic needs of human survival

The measure of the quality of life lies in the amount of supplies.

At present, due to climate reasons and the vast land and sparse population, the food is relatively abundant. As long as you work hard to hunt and gather, this small primitive tribe can basically ensure the stability of food, so it becomes an urgent need to dress and keep warm.

Especially as winter is approaching, there is a greater demand for dressing and keeping warm.

Building walls can increase safety and shelter from wind and rain, but if you really want to spend the winter safely, clothes are even more important.

The animal skin accumulated by the tribe is far less than everyone uses, so cloth becomes the best choice.

The birth of cloth can almost be seen as the most important symbol of human beings moving from wilderness to civilization.

Because of cloth, humans' demand for hunting wild animals has greatly decreased.

In addition to carnivorous and salt supplements provided by wild beasts to primitive humans, they mainly aim to obtain animal skins.

When animal skins are no longer essentials, people seek safer food sources, such as animal husbandry and cultivation.

Therefore, learning to weave is also an important task to push the tribe down the mountain.

With Bu, Xu Chen can be used to exchange more useful items with other tribes and obtain more useful information.

For example, where there is salt, where there is copper, iron ore, etc.

By the time the metal is smelted, these primitive human tribes will truly begin to become the leader in nature.

The stone walls are growing and growing every day.

In just a few days, the cave, which was like a crack, was completely sealed by a stone wall, leaving only a small door to enter and exit.

After the wall is built, the fire pit is renovated.

In order to facilitate eating and cooking, Xu Chen planned to build a circle of stone tables around the fire pit and lay tiles on it, so that it can not only roast the fire but also put food on it, which is equivalent to a collective dining table.

In addition, at the location near the mountain wall of the fire pond, a row of fire stoves are built, and the stove is also covered with tiles, which is much more convenient to boil water and cook.

The most important thing is that this will save a lot of firewood.

At present, there are only simple stone swords and stone axes, and it is impossible to chop firewood specifically. Only in this way can we maintain fire and barbecue food.

But winter is getting closer and closer, and the demand for wood will become greater and greater.

Maintaining fire is usually made of large amounts of wood, so that the charcoal fire will not be extinguished. However, when grilling food every day, in order to obtain enough firepower, a lot of firewood will be added, and the food will only be wasted after it is roasted.

But if it is changed to a fire stove, you will use as much firewood as you need. After the food is cooked, the remaining firewood and charcoal will be thrown into the fire pit to maintain the fire.

In order not to waste the remaining firepower of maintaining the fire seeds in the fire pit, several special fire holes can be designed on the fire pit. You do not need to boil water on the stove to ensure that you have hot water to drink all day.

Although Xu Chen has not learned these things specifically, he has seen many things in the countryside, and he just needs to make a simple transformation.

Not to mention whether it is easy to use, at least after doing this, the living environment will undergo a huge improvement.

Therefore, in the next few days, Xu Chen began to carry out large-scale transformation of the fire pit.

Although this transformation has some impact on making food and eating for the time being, everyone is very supportive.

Especially a group of women who are responsible for cooking are very much looking forward to the scene that Xu Chen simply described.

In the busy life, the fire pit is also undergoing tremendous changes day by day.

In the past, the large and small smoked black lacquered stone slabs were replaced by a neat stone wall half a meter high.

The fire pit has also changed from a messy circle with an irregular diameter of more than two meters to a square rectangle with a length of three meters and a width of two meters.

On the side of the cave wall, there are a row of four fire stoves connected to the fire pit.

In order to make full use of the fire pit, he continued to improve the design while renovating it, and reserved some places for fixing wood around the fire pit. In the future, he planned to install a wooden rack above the fire pit, which can be used for bacon, barbecue, and hooks and hang a pottery pot to cook food.

Ancient cooking utensils, such as hanging pots, are the crystallization of wisdom of the people.

Because as long as there is a fire in the fire pit, the food in the hanging pot can be continuously heated.

Kill the chicken in the morning, put it in a hanging pot and simmer it slowly, and it will be stewed soft and strongly fragrant at night.

Although as living standards continue to improve, the living habits of rural areas are also undergoing tremendous changes, and stoves are also being updated rapidly, in the Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Chongqing areas, many mountainous rural areas still retain traditional living habits.

In winter, they will hang bacon on the fire pit to smoke and roast.

They will cook rice and stew in a hanging pot.

Nowadays, a group of primitive people are also bacon, but there is no hanging pot.

Xu Chen's invention will not have a cognitive impact on them, and it will only take a small step at most.

While rectifying the fire pit and building the stove, Xu Chen also took the time to go down the mountain several times and guided the kiln workers to start firing the second batch of pottery.

The second batch of pottery was not large in number, only about twenty pieces, but they were all large utensils.

In order not to waste the kiln fire, he also filled a lot of limestone and also fired a batch of cottage tiles.

In this way, this fire kiln is obviously not enough.

Therefore, he had to let several kiln workers take the time to dig a larger kiln next to them.

While Xu Chen was busy, his leaves were spinning constantly every day.

This original hand-made spindle is extremely inefficient.

Although she didn't get much hemp for the first time, it would not take a day or two to spin it. Therefore, she could only change her job and become a slightly resentful textile girl. She sat alone on the stone and kept spinning it, then pouted and looked at Xu Chen and Gu, holding the two of them busy and joking.

Originally, she could also help with building a wall.

But Xu Chen told her that spinning thread is more important than building walls.

Although she was a little sad, she was still satisfied with Xu Chen's arrangement and completed this task that no one in the tribe could participate in.

The puddles by the river at the foot of the mountain were already full of bark collected by men.

Although it seems that the bark is enough, Xu Chen is still not satisfied and requires that the more he collects, the better.

Therefore, the water puddles slowly piled up several large piles.

The tribe members gradually knew that after collecting this kind of bark, they were used to spin a thin rope called a thread, but they didn't know what he wanted to make so many thin lines.

However, as Xu Chen's prestige in the tribe became higher and higher, no one questioned his words, but he carried out them very seriously.

Now, people in the tribe come to ask him the first time if they have anything to do, instead of asking for advice from Muba.

Of course, Moba had no objection.

Because Xu Chen's arrangements are often more thoughtful than her, and the division of labor is more appropriate.

The kiln fires are rolling at the foot of the mountain every day, and the second kiln pottery has been burned for five or six days. Xu Chen's transformation of the fire pit stove on the mountain has also been completed, leaving only the paving and appearance treatment.

However, his work was not over, but began to build a granary in the cave.

The large amount of dried fruits, oats, wild fruits, rhizomes and other wintering food collected are piled up in the cave at will. They are simply surrounded by stones, and some large dried leaves are placed inside.

This way, the food is preserved is too simple. Gecko, centipede, ants, spiders crawl around all day, and there are also many mice, and there are even occasional sheddings where snakes can be found.

How long can it be stored for a while? It is not clean and hygienic first.

The granary project is not smaller than the renovation of a fire pit, but the structure is much simpler. You only need to build a few stone cellars with stone walls.

However, when he started building the granary, Xu Chen realized that there was something wrong with the order of his planning. Because the stone wall outside blocked it, it was very troublesome to get the stones and mud in. Gu Heju could only run back and forth.

Fortunately, the two savage boys were simple and simple enough.

Otherwise, he, a small contractor, would definitely be beaten out of shit.

In order to cooperate with Xu Chen to build the granary, a group of women cooperated to move all the food that had been dried and placed away. Fortunately, there are enough vine baskets at present, so there are not too much time.

Three more days passed in a blink of an eye.

With the help of the labor force, Xu Chen built a row of stone cellars in the cave one after another.

These stone cellars are not big, each about one cubic cube.

However, it is not ready to be used immediately because it is still wet. In addition, he also wanted to wait until the lime is cooked, and then smooth it with lime clay. He also had to brush a layer of lime mortar before drying it.

Therefore, while building a stone cellar, he notified the kiln workers and the men who collected the bark to bring a basket of clay on the mountain every day. After a few days, a large amount of clay was gradually added in front of the cave.
Chapter completed!