I became an old man in my leisure time

"Hmm?" Bai Suqing narrowed her eyes, a touch of green flashing in them.

Gu Ke felt a chill on his back, and dared not joke anymore: "I mean to build you a bamboo house to shelter you from the wind and rain, and then put the small oven there, so you won't be cold."

Bai Suqing couldn't help but be moved when she heard it.

She didn't like the hustle and bustle, and she didn't feel comfortable living with other maids in the workshop.

But Gu Ke only had a small hut, which was also not quiet.

Before, everyone couldn't even get enough food, and they were only one step away from starving to death, so no one wanted to think about the house.

Now that Miss Qin and the others have moved into the workshop, Bai Suqing couldn't help it when Gu Ke said it again.

In just a moment, she made up her mind: "Okay, let's start now."

Standing up, she glanced at Xiaoman: "It's really not right to let Xiaoman live with you all the time."

Xiaoman: ? ? ? What the hell does this have to do with me? It's so comfortable to sleep in the small hut.

Unfortunately, among the three people present, she was the only one who had no decision-making power.

So Gu Ke immediately went to the purple bamboo forest and chopped down the tallest and largest bamboo poles.

Anyway, bamboo reproduction depends on the bamboo whips underground, which has little to do with the bamboo poles above. Cutting them all can provide nutrients to the new bamboo and make it grow faster.

Gu Ke has high damage. He can cut stones like mud with a small hatchet. He can cut bamboo naturally and it can be done in a cup of tea.

Bai Suqing showed the strength of a fifth-turn master at will. With a grab and a shot, the Bi Hai Jin flew with the long bamboo pole to the stone platform of the warehouse more than 20 meters away.

Xiaoman went to the warehouse alone to count the iron wire vine.

Iron wire vine is generally used as the raw material for ropes and lines. It is the least used one among many raw materials, but it grows fast.

When harvesting in the field, everyone will cut some to leave space for the new vines, so there are a lot of iron wire vines in stock, and they don’t need to be cut now.

Xiaoman, a forest expert, was asked to provide advice on building a bamboo house.

Her hometown was small and dangerous, and the villagers were poor, so many people built bamboo houses, which were easy and convenient to live in.

Gu Ke and Bai Suqing listened and made changes, and soon changed the construction plan she proposed beyond recognition.

The little girl's face was puffed up, with a full expression of "I'm unhappy if you don't listen to me."

It was still Gu Ke who explained: "I have no objection to repairing the house you and Sister Bai live in. But this bamboo house is only for temporary transition and will not be lived in for too long. We will do it properly when it is officially built."

"With this experience, we will prepare the materials and build a new one, all according to your instructions, how about it?"

Xiaoman listened, and her anger was gone, and she became active again.

After unifying the opinions, the three of them started immediately.

Gu Ke removed all the bamboo branches and leaves on the bamboo poles, and Xiaoman and Bai Suqing used iron wire rattan to tie the bamboo poles vertically and side by side, and tied them to the upper and lower horizontal bamboo poles.

The thick tail is flat, and the head on top is ignored for now.

After tying, trim the uneven bamboo pole heads to get six bamboo walls with a width of two meters.

The rectangular side is the back wall of the bamboo house, and the smaller and more square two pieces are the front wall, leaving a two-meter-wide gate in the middle.

There is an extra triangular piece on the top, like the two pieces of the spire are the left and right walls.

Stand them up and surround them, tie them tightly to the four thick bamboo poles at the corner edges, and the wall of the bamboo house is completed.

Then choose the longest bamboo pole head that has been cut down and tie them into rows, stagger the gray thatch one by one, stack them from the tip to the thicker bottom, and fix them on the bamboo poles with iron wire rattan.

Set up a bamboo pole between the two spire of the left and right bamboo walls as the main ridge of the bamboo house.

Two bamboo rafts stacked with thatch are tilted more than 60 degrees, placed on the main ridge and the front and back walls, and tied and fixed.

Bai Suqing jumped onto the roof and laid a strip of gray thatch on the gap between the two roofs, and the main body of the bamboo house was completed.

At this moment, it still leaked on all sides, so the three of them had to tie gray thatch on the outer wall.

However, the wall only blocked the wind, unlike the roof, which needed to block the rain, so it didn't need to be so delicate.

A bunch of gray thatch was strung together with wire from iron wire rattan to make a strip door curtain, which was hung around the outer wall in two layers, one circle above and one circle below. The lower circle pressed the tail of the upper circle of thatch curtain, completely covering the large number of fine gaps between the bamboo poles, and basically no air would leak.

Gu Ke used a small hatchet to cut two windows on the left and right front walls, tied the cut bamboo tubes, and hung them on the windows.

As long as the lower edge was supported by a small bamboo pole, it would be two minimalist versions of the scissor windows.

With the spacious door, the lighting and ventilation in the temporary bamboo house would not be bad, but it would be much colder than the small thatched house, which was the problem of the small oven.

The small oven was just over a foot high, and he carried it as if it weighed nothing. He followed the oven to cook and boil water, and it didn't matter which side he was in, the small thatched house or the new bamboo house.

The three of them brought over the straw mats that Xiaoman and Bai Suqing usually sat on, the bamboo cups, bluestone bowls, and purple bamboo chopsticks for eating and drinking, and other odds and ends. It was only noon.

Gu Ke wiped the sweat from his forehead and couldn't help but sigh: "It's so convenient to practice martial arts and do work."

Bai Suqing turned a deaf ear to such a weird remark because he had said it too many times.

From childhood to adulthood, from officials to sects, and then to the Great Wu Dynasty, she had never heard anyone say such an outrageous thing.

People who practice martial arts wouldn't do it, because most of them think that after practicing well, they will be able to get ahead and have no worries about food and drink.

People who have never practiced martial arts wouldn't do it, because they also think that martial arts practitioners want to eat delicious food and drink spicy food, without having to do rough work.

There were rumors in the world that a certain sect's young master was a charming and suave person who took great pleasure in snuggling up against red flowers and greenery, or that a certain sect's wealthy family entertained guests with banquets every three days and had wine pools and meat forests, but he was not interested in them.

Well, this is purely something I’ve heard too much in my previous life.

In reality, Wang is trying to start a business with hundreds of millions of dollars, Ma is asking young people to set a small goal, in the movie, a young man is asked to buy a house in seconds and blow it into ruins, and Mr. Wei buys a bank for gay friends’ mortgage loans.

In contrast, Miss Qin and Bai Suqing occasionally talked about the arrogance of the court and Jianghu bosses, which was simply a show of wealth by the rich.

Of course, the jokes about showing off one's wealth that were widely circulated in previous lives were widely circulated because they suited modern people's tastes.

Like that old joke, two old farmers talked about the enjoyment of being an emperor, which is making white flour steamed buns and digging the ground with gold hoes every day, because this is in line with their perceptions.

Bai Suqing's confusion also comes from this.

For a pragmatic person like Gu Ke, martial arts is more like a "production tool" to him.

Putting aside the martial arts feelings of my youth, the most important thing about practicing martial arts is of course its practical effects.

Besides, what's the use of living, drinking, and pretending to get slapped in the face in this valley?

Fortunately, Bai Suqing had gradually gotten used to it and didn't bother with all the unreasonable things about him. She casually took the purple leaf tea cooling in the big bamboo tube and poured him a big bowl: "Thank you for your hard work today."