The Caveman Made Me Awesome

Paving a road is as difficult as building a house.

First of all, the ground floor should be treated before paving, and the ground should not be soft and wet.

Fortunately, the weather has been good recently, and the loess ground is very dry, so there is no need to do drainage and other hardening treatments, so Ye Xi just sent someone to beat the road surface to make sure that there are no small holes under the ground, so that the paved road will not collapse in the future.

Then Ye Xi sent people to bring in a large amount of gravel and spread them evenly on the road.

He wanted to build some cement main roads first, and the cement cannot be in direct contact with the soil, so it had to be leveled with sand and gravel first. Fortunately, the mountains behind Xicheng are full of sand and gravel, so this step was easy to complete. All the staff mobilized, and it only took half a day to transport all the gravel and pave it.

After paving the gravel, the next step is to pour the cement.

In order to make the finished cement pavement even, Ye Xi molded it with stone slabs on the edge of the pavement, and separated them into blocks. The entire area of ​​the pavement was about 20 square meters, and poured cement one by one.

At this time, the cement was still as soft as mud, and bulged in lumps. Ye Xi asked everyone to use long wooden sticks to push the cement aside. Finally, the ground became as smooth as water.

The second day after the first section of cement road was poured and hardened, it rained for two consecutive days.

Ye Xi is not worried but happy, because he knows that it is not harmful to sprinkle more water on the concrete road that has just been poured. This can prevent the concrete road from cracking and increase the life of the cement road.

The cement is mainly used to pave several sections of the main road in Xicheng. After the main road is repaired, Ye Xi plans to lay stone bricks in other places.

During those two days when it was raining lightly, Ye Xi led everyone to mine and polish the stones. After the rain stopped on the third day, spread a layer of lime soil mixed with slaked lime and clay evenly on the road surface. , mix the cement mortar, spread the mortar, and finally pave the cement pavement with polished stone bricks.

The stone bricks used to pave the road are no longer bluestone, but a kind of rock produced in the mountains behind Xicheng.

This kind of rock is light gray in color and has a light, natural texture like ice cracks. It is natural and beautiful when laid on the ground, without losing the simplicity.

Its texture is not as smooth as Qingyan, and it is slightly rough, but this is an advantage, so that it will not slip even if you step on the floor tiles on rainy days with bare feet.

The paving process is slow.

As winter approaches, there are fewer and fewer sunny days, and it rains two out of three days, so work is often suspended.

It was already a month after the ground around the Xicheng stone house complex had been poured with cement and paved with stone bricks. At this time, the temperature had dropped to about three or four degrees, and everyone was wearing thick animal fur clothes.

Taking advantage of the last moment before winter, Ye Xi led people into the mountains to shovel grass.

He plans to pave the ground around the stone houses in Xicheng, that is, the residential area, with stone bricks, while the rest of Xicheng will be covered with turf to turn it into a green space.

The turf was carefully selected by Ye Xi in the forest. The grass is very soft, and it feels like lying on flannelette when lying on it. Moreover, it grows slowly, which saves a lot of time in mowing the grass.

Shoveling sod and planting sod is a new thing for everyone.

Everyone knew for the first time that the grass in the wild was cut off and covered with bare soil. After a while, the grass was tightly connected with the soil, just like the one that grew naturally.

When the last piece of turf in Xicheng was paved, the cold rain poured down.

...

There was a crunch.

The heavy mulberry door was pushed open.

Ye Xi was dressed in white clothes specially made by Jiugong and a bamboo hat. He greeted the soldiers guarding the gate and went down the steps barefoot.

It was dark and heavy, and the rainwater kept hitting the floor tiles, and then flowed into the lake like a stream along the drainage ditch reserved on the floor tiles.

Ye Xi once thought of erecting pipes underground to build a drainage system.

To erect a pipeline, the pipeline must first be manufactured. Although this world has no plastic and lacks materials such as metal, stone pipes are barely usable.

It is definitely impossible to manually dig a few meters long hollow stone pipe, but you can use a chisel to cut out short pipes with a length of 20 centimeters, and then use cement to splice them one by one.

So although it is troublesome and time-consuming, it is technically feasible.

But after thinking about it again and again, Ye Xi gave up this idea.

Underground pipes are mainly used to discharge waste domestic water and excrement.

Discarded domestic water mainly comes from washing and washing. You can wash your clothes in the river. There is no washing powder here, so the water source will not be polluted, and there will be no waste water, and things like bathing and washing your face will not cause pollution.

Of course, if you feel that the lake water is not clean after use, you can dig wells to drink well water, which doesn't matter.

As for excrement... In fact, primitive people are still accustomed to using the outdoor toilet. Recently, under Ye Xi's suggestion, they awkwardly tried to use the newly built public dry toilet.

Originally, Ye Xi planned to use excrement such as manure to compost the land, but he was afraid that the city would smell bad, and the land here had not been developed, and there were long beetles, so the fertility was definitely enough, so he canceled it. thought.

He remembered that he had heard of a beetle called the poop bug in the Jiugong tribe.

This kind of bug comes from the Chao tribe. It likes to eat excrement very much. It eats a lot and reproduces quickly. It can be as big as a palm when it is an adult. People in the Jiugong tribe use it to dispose of excrement. When they grow up, they throw them all into the river. Go here to feed the fish and water monsters.

So Ye Xi thought about going to work in the coming year and bringing in this shit-pushing bug.

There is no moat in Xicheng, only a star lake, and there are not many fish in it. Ye Xi plans to raise some chickens, birds, etc., and feed them shit bugs.

Anyway, the chrysanthemum willow tree does not reject anyone who comes, and can eat any kind of worm, so there is no waste at all.

In fact, no matter how much they say, the most important reason is...they don't have time, it's too time-consuming to set up the pipeline, at least two months, they don't have the conditions at all.

To sum up, in the end Ye Xi gave up the matter of erecting underground pipelines to treat sewage.

Crash.

The heavy rain washed away the floor tiles spotlessly, and the shallow layer of rainwater just covered the insteps of his feet. Stepping on the cold ground, Ye Xi walked slowly towards Xinghu Lake.

Two giant white tortoises crawled slowly through the rain.

Dozens of white tortoise warriors sit on their backs, and each warrior holds many lively river fish suspended by straw ropes.

"Master Xiwu!"

The white turtle fighters jumped off the back of the turtle to say hello.

Ye Xi raised his bamboo hat, looked at them and smiled slightly: "It looks like a good harvest today."

A skinny white turtle warrior with a simple and honest face grinned and said: "Yesterday, I harvested more! Didn't you see that in addition to these small fishes, we also caught three small aquatic monsters yesterday, dozens of them There are red snails with delicious meat, and a gray hooked fish with a length of six meters, you can't even carry them!"

"It's a pity that it's cold now, and the fish are all going to the bottom of the water, so it's hard to catch."

Ye Xi comforted: "It's quite a lot, Xinghu is much more lively thanks to you."

Five or six miles away from Xicheng, there is a small river that is not deep and not shallow. When the city stopped working because of rain, Ye Xi asked the people from the Baigui tribe and the people from Tushan to take two giant white turtles there in turn. fishing.

These fish are caught and not eaten, and they are all raised in Xinghu Lake, so that everyone can have another source of food in winter.

Ye Xi and the white turtle warriors walked to the edge of Xinghu Lake.

Two giant white tortoises slowly dived into the clear water of the lake, and a group of little white tortoises with their small eyes opened happily swam towards them, and then surrounded them and swam towards the center of the lake.

Ye Xi and the others squatted on the shore of the lake, stepping on the icy lake water, untied the straw ropes tied around the big fish's mouths, and put them into the clear lake water.