Building a house is a relatively large project, especially building a stone house or a wooden house. It takes a lot of time just to move stones or cut down trees.

Jiang Xuan didn't plan to spend so much time, he planned to build a bamboo house according to local conditions.

Bamboo is usually tall, straight, lightweight, sturdy and durable, making it very suitable for building houses.

The only problem is how to cut it down.

Bamboo is very hard, and it is not easy to get it down without iron tools.

But this is not a problem for Jiang Xuan. He has seen someone burn bamboo with torch. This method saves time and effort.

Jiang Xuan said to Gou Nieng: "Pile all the bamboo leaves and branches around the surrounding area to the roots of the bamboo, and then light the fire to burn the bamboo. But be careful not to light the entire bamboo forest."

Uncared nodded: "Don't worry, we will be careful."

"Okay, let's start, each person is responsible for a fire."

Jiang Xuan chose a larger flat ground in the bamboo forest, and then gathered the thick bamboo leaves and dead bamboos on the ground at the root of a bamboo.

Chishao took a burning bamboo from the fire in the bamboo shed and lit the bamboo leaves and dried bamboos accumulated by Jiang Xuan.

"Crack crackle..."

The flames soon started to burn. Under the scorching heat of the bamboo, a large amount of oil and water vapor oozed out soon, making a "hissing" sound.

Chishao squatted beside Jiang Xuan, and also collected dry bamboo and bamboo leaves, burned a bamboo tree. She looked at Jiang Xuan from time to time.

She found that this younger brother seemed to have become different from before and could always come up with some strange solutions.

Maybe the tribe was destroyed, which stimulated him and allowed him to grow.

Chishao didn't think too much about it, and it was also a good thing that Jiang Xuan grew up.

Bamboo is hollow and flammable, and even if it is raw, it can be burned quickly.

After Jiang Xuan burned the two bamboos, he moved the fire to the root of the bamboo next to him and continued to burn.

“Swishy…”

Jiang Xuan struggled to hold the burnt bamboo and pulled it down.

The bamboo forest is very dense, and the branches and leaves are intertwined between the bamboo. It takes a lot of effort to pull it down.

"I'll do it."

Chishao walked over, took the bamboo from Jiang Xuan's arms, pulled down the two bamboos, and pulled them to the open space outside the bamboo forest.

In this regard, Jiang Xuan could only sigh again: The women of the primitive tribe were too fierce.

With the efforts of the five people, they spent half a day burning down dozens of adjacent bamboo trees and making a clearing of open space in the bamboo forest.

This open space is rectangular, about six or seven meters long and about four or five meters wide, and the surrounding bamboo grows very densely.

In the middle of the open space, Jiang Xuan deliberately left three rows of straight bamboos, which were used to serve as pillars for the bamboo house.

If you rely on digging a hole and erecting a column by yourself, you may not be able to stand firm without any manual tools.

There are no problems with living bamboos, they are deeply rooted and quite stable.

After the bamboo house is built, you only need to burn off the skin at the roots of the living bamboo and it will naturally die.

There were still many raised bamboo stakes on the ground, and Jiang Xuan asked everyone to continue burning them until they were burned down and the ground became flat.

Next, we will start building a bamboo house.

Jiang Xuan’s idea was very simple. He left living bamboos as pillars in the middle and around the bamboo house, where columns were needed.

Then, he just needs to remove the branches and leaves of the burnt bamboo and burn it to the required length.

Use these live bamboos as pillars, and tie the beams required for the roof to the pillars with rattan.

Then use burnt bamboo to lay a triangular roof to facilitate drainage.

After building the roof, you need to climb onto the roof, use stones, cut off the excess parts of the living bamboo with a stone knife or a stone axe, and burn the roots and skin.

Finally, cover the roof with bark, tied hay, etc., and then perfect the walls and doors on all sides.

Making a bamboo house in this way is not only strong, but also saves a lot of time and effort.

The work of building a bamboo house began immediately after clearing the open space.

During the construction of the bamboo house, Chishao would take some time every day to enter the depths of the bamboo forest, or lay out some hunting traps in the forests on both sides of the stone mountain.

No one has ever been here before, and there are a lot of prey. Red peony can harvest some prey every day, such as muntjac, deer, pheasant, bamboo chicken, mountain rat, etc.

With enough meat, the five people were full of energy and spent a full ten days to complete the construction of the bamboo house!

"Finally built!"

Jiang Xuan stood in the bamboo house built by himself, for some reason, and felt a feeling of tears filling his eyes.

A house is not just a place to eat and sleep, it can also make people feel at ease. Without a house, you always don’t know where you will go tomorrow, like a rootless duckweed.

"From now, this is our home!" Jiang Xuan pointed to the bamboo house and announced the matter to everyone.

Chishao, Uncaria and others were also excited. With a house, they could sleep peacefully at night without having to watch every day, and they were worried and scared.

However, the bamboo house is empty and furniture needs to be made to fill it.

First of all, we are making a few beds. Jiang Xuan doesn't want to sleep on the cold and wet ground all the time.

The material for making the bed is of course bamboo.

Jiang Xuan led people to burn dozens of bamboos in front of the bamboo house again, which not only could clear a clearing of open space in front of the door, but the bamboos that were knocked down could also be used to make various furniture.

He burned the bamboos to similar lengths, and then tied them into bamboo rows with rattans. This was a simple bed.

Then, Jiang Xuan found a few very thick bamboos and tied them horizontally under the bed board so that the bed board could be suspended in the air and left the cold and wet ground.

With the efforts of the five, they made five such beds, each of whom could have one.

This made them very happy, especially Chishao, who was a girl after all, and she did not want to sleep next to others except Jiang Xuan.

After so many days, a large amount of wood ash and bamboo charcoal were burned. Jiang Xuan sprinkled a large amount of wood ash and bamboo charcoal in the bamboo house where he wanted to put it on the bed, which could prevent insects and dehumidify.

He then moved five single beds into the bamboo house.

Because the space inside the bamboo house is limited, the bamboo beds that the four teenagers sleep on are placed on the left side of the bamboo house, side by side, while the beds of the red peony are placed separately on the right side of the bamboo house.

Jiang Xuan and others found a large amount of hay to spread on the bed. A thick layer of bamboo leaves was spread on the hay, and a layer of soft moss was spread on the bamboo leaves, so that it would be much more comfortable when sleeping and would not hurt people.

Finally, Jiang Xuan used a large amount of bamboo as a screen to make a partitioned single room for Chishao so that she could have a separate room to sleep.

This made Chishao very happy. Who doesn’t want to have an independent space?

After getting the bed, Jiang Xuan and others brought a pile of relatively flat stones from the stream and formed a fire pit in the middle of the house. After igniting the fire pit, this brand new bamboo house became popular and fireworks.

As for other furniture, including pots, pans, etc., it will be left to be slowly added and improved in the future.

After all this, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At night, Jiang Xuan lay on the bamboo bed, looking sideways at the closed door and the burning flames in the fire pit, feeling peace of mind for the first time.

It will definitely get better and better in the future. With this idea, Jiang Xuan fell asleep with a smile on his face.
Chapter completed!