On the same day, Ah Liang and they came back from hunting, and in front of everyone, the number of prey was much less than yesterday.

From more than 300 to less than 200.

Although this is a situation that has been guessed in advance, the thief still vaguely feels a little uncomfortable.

This is very simple to understand, it is equivalent to getting a perfect score on the first exam and only passing the second time.

This sense of loss is something that everyone has.

"Patriarch, under this situation, I think I will be able to catch about a hundred prey tomorrow. Ah Liang said softly.

Ah Zheng sighed: "Dispatched so many clansmen, just caught the prey of the previous and hunting department for a day." ”

Ji Thief looked back at Ah Zheng: "Of the so many prey caught before, more than eighty percent of them are dead, can they be all living creatures?"

Usma said: "Patriarch, I think that so many prey in our tribe should be enough to build a house for everyone to live in." ”

Ji Thief nodded: "So, tomorrow, all the clansmen will return to their posts, Usma will not be in a hurry to rest later, let's discuss how to deal with the problem of mortise and tenon." ”

Usma nodded.

He gave some simple orders, and after they had eaten, they all rested.

Only the thief and Usma discussed until the next day near the morning, in the first half of the night, the thief has been explaining the role and function of the mortise and tenon to Usma, and in the second half of the night, Usma, who has some understanding of the mortise and tenon joint, can put forward his own opinions.

In the end, the answer was to draw marks on wood and then carve them out of sharp stone chips, making the simplest and most rudimentary mortise and tenon joints.

Although the methods of the two of them were primitive, they didn't have a trick, so they couldn't wait until the copper smelting came out and the nails were made before they started building a house.

Let's not talk about when it will be built, but the thief wants to make these coppers into weapons and equip the clansmen to deal with the Qingfeng tribe that will come in a year.

Yawning, Ji Thief just felt sleepy, and he said to Usma: "If there is nothing else to do, let's go and get busy first, and I'll rest for a while." ”

Usma looked at the sky that was about to glow, nodded, and turned away respectfully.

The thief lay down in a hide, and fell asleep on the grass where hoarfrost had begun to fall.

Tushan, who had been sitting with his eyes open all night, saw the thief sleeping, took a piece of animal skin and gently covered the thief, and then stayed aside to guard.

This night, the thief slept until the afternoon, and when he woke up, the tribe had already begun to get busy.

Usma and the engineering staff were carving the imprint on the tree they had previously obtained, and everyone was practicing the art of mortise and tenon on the tree.

The thief yawned and walked over: "Usma, these woods haven't been processed by the bark yet, and even if the mortise and tenon joints are out, they can't build a house." ”

Usma, who has not rested since the farewell of the thief, smiled: "Isn't that the gate of the tribe gone, I just want to re-erect the gate, and by the way, let the clansmen practice the mortise and tenon technique that you taught me, the patriarch." ”

Ji Thief nodded: "Yes, this work attitude, if the tribe selects a model pacesetter, it will be absolutely necessary." ”

While speaking, the thief stayed and squatted in place, if Usma did anything wrong, or something he didn't understand, the thief would point it out to him and explain, and the two of them worked together to overcome the difficulties.

It was about evening, and the six tribes brought in the first trees.

It was really as they promised, most of the oak and pine trees they fell, and each tribe did not say much, on average about thirty logs, and the six tribes combined, that was one hundred and eighty.

There are many thieves who dare not say, but these woods, five or six houses are built, and it is still no problem.

You must know that the span of each log is about ten meters, and when placed horizontally, it can be used as the wall of two houses.

The idea of the thief is that the house to be built is not located alone in the valley.

In this case, not to mention the land occupation, it is also a waste of materials.

Therefore, the thief planned to build four rooms and four rooms, so he arranged them into a field shape.

In this way, the wood required for the four walls is directly saved, and the top and bottom of the house can also be directly breathed down, and the four houses share the same roof.

In addition, a triangular roof for drainage is put on the roof, so that if it rains, there will be no water accumulation on the roof.

Well, in addition to that, each house can be prepared with two beds for the clan to rest, a table, and such simple furniture.

As for the technical problem of how to make the bottom of the house hang, Ji Thief already has a solution.

First of all, four main beams are erected at the four corners of the house, and next to the main beam, a wooden stake about 50 centimeters above the ground can be erected.

If you are worried about the quality problem, you can lay two rows of trees in a horizontal and vertical shape as the bottom, although it is said that there is some suspicion of waste in doing so, but do not do tofu slag engineering, it is the ethics of Ji Thief.

As for the question of whether the short stump would be too high, the thief was also well thought out.

This height is just right.

First, the height of 50 centimeters will not flood the house due to the accumulation of water due to rain.

Second, if it is higher, it can be convenient for the clansmen to drill in and repair if there is a problem with the house.

In addition, in response to the problem of rain and wind protection, the thief also has considerations, each tree in the construction of the house, must be polished, polished and painted and other processes, after the construction, but also with a kind of similar to the size of a fan of leaves mixed clay arrangement, the second rainproof process.

In addition to these, the most important thing is the wooden stakes that support the weight of the house.

The idea was that each field-shaped house was supported by thirteen wooden stakes, one at each corner of the house, and another at the bottom of each house.

In addition, the interior of the house should not be fixed with a cross shape to prevent the house from collapsing.

Ji Thief went through his plan in his heart, and as soon as he told Usma, the latter looked at Ji Thief with a sad face at that time: "Patriarch, if you calculate according to your situation, every four houses will need about a hundred trees, I am afraid that there are so many, our prey is not enough." ”

"A hundred roots is a hundred roots, and the main thing is that the people live safely. Moreover, I didn't find out how much the manufacture of four rooms and four rooms is more than a single room, if I did this, I am afraid that a house would cost more than forty trees, but now it is converted into a house, only twenty-five are needed for each house?"

Usma was stunned, yes.

Ji Thief followed: "The tribe now has nearly six hundred people, and such a field-shaped house can accommodate eight people, so we only need to build a maximum of seventy-five such houses." ”

Usma raised his head and calculated: "Our prey now is about 1,200, according to the calculation you said, patriarch, our prey is not enough at all." ”

Ji Thief looked at Usma speechlessly: "If you don't say that there is no Ah Zheng Intelligence, among those prey, there are dozens of cattle that can be exchanged for ten pieces of wood, and there are hundreds of wild boars." Besides, we don't just rely on these prey, we will use it outward, and there will be prey in the account. ”

Usma looked at the thief suspiciously: "Patriarch, what you said about the income is the harvest of Ah Liang's hunting department? That's too little." ”

Ji Thief sighed: "Can the spear thrower be taken out and sold? Can the flying stone rope be taken out and sold? Let's help those six tribes to domesticate the clansmen, does collecting one prey from them every day count as an account?"

Seeing that Usma was still a little sluggish, the thief said: "Imagine that the Lin tribe has eighty male clansmen in each of their six tribes, do you need eighty pairs of spear throwers and flying stone ropes, we don't want more, a pair of spear throwers, ask them two prey, and the flying stone rope is simpler, so we want them to have one prey." Four hundred and eighty clansmen, that is, more than 1,400 prey, plus the rent to help them train the clansmen, it is equivalent to saying that these prey are pulled out and slipped around, it is still ours, and there are more. Look at what we've gained, what we've lost, and we've bought back a house that can shelter all the people from the wind and rain with some cheap spear throwers. Don't tell me that the engineering department still can't make a spear thrower, I was able to make 20 pairs in six days by myself, and it should be easier for us to do it. I won't talk about this account, I will calculate it myself. ”