Xie Yi saw Ketu and Gesang standing together from a distance, eating barbecue, and walked over.

"Xie Yi, I agree to what you said." Gesang immediately smiled when he saw Xie Yi, "However, I have one condition..."

"No condition, Gesang." Xie Yi called unceremoniously. Cut off his words, "What I said last time is all."

Gosang stared at him for a while, compromised, "Well, when will we start making weapons?"

"After you send the stones dug in the past two days over , and some other things to prepare." The

Red Earth tribe has indeed been digging stones for the past two days, but Gosang and the tribe have tried various methods, but they can't turn the stones into bronze weapons, so they can only agree to Xie Yi proposal.

"Okay." Gosang also hoped that the sooner the better.

After several days of concerted efforts, the Kasa people have dug a long and deep trench behind the place where they live, buried sharp ground thorns in it, and covered it with a layer of dead branches and weeds. Then sprinkle it with dirt, and it will look the same as the surroundings.

The trees in the woods by the river were almost cut down, but the most difficult thing was to clean the roots. Xie Yi was not in a hurry, after all, there was nothing suitable to plant in this season.

Whether it's for the secrecy of the weapon process or for the coal-fired furnace, before smelting the copper ore, Xie Yi decided to build a few mud houses first.

He doesn't know anything about the structure of houses, but rural people don't pay attention to this when they build their own houses. They plan how many houses to build on the homestead, sprinkle white and gray lines, and then dig the foundation directly.

Xie Yi didn't dare to build a house that was too big, for fear that if it collapsed, these people would not dare to live in the house in the future. He used branches to draw a dozen or so flat places on the ground, and then asked people to dig a foundation on it. This place must not be sloppy, Xie Yi specially asked them to move stones and build it up with fine mud mixed with water.

He asked people to dig the fine yellow mud from the riverside, cut the withered grass that had been sun-dried a few days ago into pieces and mixed the ground yellow mud evenly, and then added water to make it good.

There are two ways to build a mud house. One is to directly build a square frame with wooden boards and fill it with good clay and tamp it down. This method is not easy for Xie Yi.

The other is to make a rectangular parallelepiped mold, put clay in it and tamp it down, and it will be a clay brick when it is poured out. After it dries, you can build them up piece by piece with clay.

Xie Yi didn't have anything in his hands, and the method of nailing the mold with wooden boards would not work, so he found a few pieces of wood of similar thickness, hollowed out a cuboid inside with a knife, poured clay, and tamped it with flat stones. Pour it out again.

There is no problem in digging the mold, but there is a problem when the clay is tamped and poured out. The force they use is too small, and the mud bricks will not come out anyway. If the force is too strong, most of the mud bricks that come out will be broken.

Xie Yi studied for a long time with a headache, and finally found a makeshift method. He dug two grooves in one section of the mold, chipped a wooden plank, poured clay and tamped it down, and then pulled out the wooden plank, so that the mud bricks could come out easily.

After the mold is made, other things will be much easier to do. Xie Yi asked them to make the mud bricks and put them in a cool place to dry.

The people of the Red Earth tribe have not been idle these days, they expanded the entrance and exit of the cave to a size that allows people to freely enter and exit, sealed the other entrances according to Xie Yi's request, and then began to dig stones from the cave to carry them out.

Of course, it is impossible for the Yunshui tribe to be unaware of such a big move by them, but since the last time they had dinner in the Kasa tribe, Ban Yue has taken her tribe to live in peace, and no one has set foot in the territory of the Kasa tribe.

After discussing with Xie Yi, Ke Tu and Xie Yi still sent someone to give them some prey from time to time, and observe and find out what they usually do.

When the bricks are dry, the house can be built.

Xie Yi made some thick wooden strips of the same length, selected hard wood to make wooden nails, nailed these wooden strips into windows, and covered them when they built the house to a similar height.

As for the roof, a frame was built of wood, first covered with a layer of thin branches, and then glued to it with thin hay and mud.

After the first house was built, the clan members were very happy, even if there was nothing in it, they would take turns to sit in it for a while.

"Xie Yi, this..."

"The house." Xie saw that Wu Si couldn't remember, so he took up his words.

"That's right, the house," Wu Si smiled and touched the mud bricks on it, "With this house, do you think we don't need to find a cave to live in if it rains?"

"Xie Yi said, not only when it rains Go live in a cave, you don't need to go to a cave in winter, you can live in a house directly." Compared with Wu Si, Ke Tu was much calmer.

"Well, but before winter comes, it's best to build a heated kang, so that the house will be very warm." Xie Yi also thought of what he said, building the house was just his own thinking, he had never seen such a thing as a heated kang, I won't do it anymore.

However, the water that was thrown out when he said it, let alone facing a group of curious people, Ke Tu immediately grasped the point, "Huokang, how do we do it?"

"Uh, I don't know either," All roads lead to Rome, isn't it just a winter, so it's not a big problem, "Otherwise, we'll make more charcoal, and it's the same for burning in winter."

"Well, then I'll tell Baiyan to make more." Ketu seconded without principle.

With the first one successful in building a house, the rest will be much easier. The women and children in the clan will come to make mud bricks and move hay if they have nothing to do. They have already started to prepare materials for the house they live in.

At this time, Baiyan also took a few people to find a place to burn charcoal in the back mountain. Fortunately, he had done this job last time. A hole was opened for charcoal.

After the house was built, Gosang also came over to take a look. Although the house was not as bright as the outside, it was indeed warmer than standing outside. He decided to build this kind of house for all the clansmen after he made the bronze weapons.

Xie Yi was also very happy to see him. There are a few things that are easier for a person like him who can make pottery.

"I want to make a furnace, with a fire on the bottom and copper ore on top. After the copper in the stone is burned out, there will be a groove to let the copper water flow out," Xie Yilian gestured to explain his request. Then he asked Gosang, "Can you make it?"

"It sounds a bit like the hole we dug for pottery." Gosang was not sure when he heard it, "I'll let the people make it."

Wait for the clumsy stove When it was ready, they began to burn the first furnace of copper ore.

The people of the Kasa tribe and the red earth tribe gathered together, watching with a little nervousness and excitement that the crushed copper ore was put into the furnace, and Wu Si ignited the firewood under the stove with the torch in his hand.

Xie Yi originally wanted to put charcoal directly into the furnace, so that the copper water flowing out could be used directly, but he was not sure whether the stones in the first furnace could successfully burn copper, so he planned to wait until the next time. put.

There are several molds behind Gesang at this time, and Xie Yi specially asked him to make hollow clay molds according to the appearance of weapons such as stone spears and daggers, and left a small hole somewhere above.

It is not an easy task to burn the stones, but the patience of this group of enthusiastic people is good. Anyway, a lot of firewood was saved by cutting down trees some time ago, and all that is needed is to add firewood to another person after a while.

Now the weather has started to get hotter, and the house is burning all the time. People gradually feel the heat, but they don't want to go out, so they take off their clothes until they only have an animal skin skirt hanging around their waists.

Xie Yi's coat when he first arrived was turned into pieces of rags and scattered all over the place, now he took off his clothes and stood there with his upper body naked, wearing a pair of trousers from the original world.

Although Xie Yi looked thin, his muscles were tight after taking off his clothes, and his figure still looked good. Coupled with that distinctive dress, all eyes in the room were immediately attracted.

Gosang happened to be standing diagonally behind him, so he couldn't take his eyes off him.

He pursued Xie Yi as his partner at first because of Xie Yi's strange ideas and things he made. During the cooperation between the two races over Tongtian Mountain, he would occasionally think of Xie Yi when he was sleeping at night, but later , I don't know what's going on, but I want to go to the Kasa tribe to meet him every day.

Ketu noticed it almost immediately, and pulled Xie Yi out of the house with a cold face, and returned to the tent.

"Hey, why are you pulling me back?" Xie Yi certainly felt that other people's eyes were on him, but primitive society always dressed like this, he just thought it was the clothes he was wearing that aroused everyone's curiosity.

"I don't like people looking at you." Ke Tu pulled out a thin fur coat and put it on again for Xie Yi, "That guy Gosang is there too."

Xie Yi stretched out his hand to poke Ke Tu j□j's chest , "Didn't you wear clothes too, and I didn't say anything, what are you going to do when it's hot in summer, let me wear animal fur clothes to die of heat?"

Ke Tu didn't expect to be so far away, he looked at Xie Yi The clothes don't speak anymore.

"Okay, let's go back and see if the copper has been made." Xie Yi didn't want to wander around shirtless, so he went back with the silent Ke Tu in that dress. It's a big deal, wait until the copper is made before going in, anyway, people are next to each other inside, and it's uncomfortable to stay there.

Gesang watched Ketu pull Xie Yi out, and actually felt a little, some unknown feeling in his heart. He pressed his chest, wondering if he was sick.