Published at 9th of February 2020 10:12:37 PM
Chapter 55
ch 55 – Building A New House (3)
At the end of the day, what did a three-year-old child know? Of course he learned that from some adult . Gu Ming was so angry he was about to snatch the bun back . Outside the room, the clan leader and the elders all heard it clearly and they shook their head nonstop . Gu Xiao took a look at the short and stubby child and his snicker grew colder .
The next day, the reconstruction of Gu Xiao’s house commenced . This is the down time for farming so every free labor in the village came to help out .
The house was being rebuilt above the site of where his old house was abandoned . Gu Xiao’s house was quite a bit of distance from the village, located half way up the mountain . Even though the wall had already crumbled, but the stones used in the original wall could easily be repurposes, which saved a lot of labors to acquire new stones . Once there were stones, the rest was easy . With the amount of manpower, the stone wall surrounding the courtyard was built in a day . (show me the houses that they live in!)
As for the structures on the inside, the base that was dug in the past was still there . With stones as the base, then with a rectangle shaped wooden mold, clay and straws were poured inside of it before hammering compact with a wooden baton . Lastly, it was the beams and layering straws on top of the roof .
Gu Xiao was generous in person and well rounded, and the food was delicious . Main food was mixed flour steamed buns and the side dish was always stewed vegetables with some sort of meat, either fatty meat or pheasants or wild rabbit . Never mind anything else, there were no shortages of volunteers to help out with that kind of meals .
Picture: mixed flour steamed buns
Source: meishichina . com
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The weather was nice for a few days in a row, the crude form of the three main rooms were done quickly . In addition to the three main rooms, they’d also need a kitchen and a storage unit for miscellaneous items and firewood . In the backyard there needed to be a stable for the horse to stay warm . Under the persistent request of Gu Ming, some space was segmented out for a pigpen; he said he wanted to trap a piglet in the spring time to keep .
In the last couple of weeks, everybody was way busy with the building of the house; even Gu Ming and his few buddies would join in and help from time to time . Finally there were nobody watching over Gu Ye like a hawk and she felt like a little birdie that was finally released and happily into the woods she went .
The woods around the village were relatively safe, but also well-travelled by all the villagers . It was almost impossible to find anything of value . Excitedly, Gu Ye looked at the farther and deeper parts of the mountain .
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This one day, she carried the back basket with her and took off without even telling anyone . Her destination was the big mountain behind their new house . After crossing two hill tops, the windy little path disappeared altogether . Waving the hatchet, she travelled along the path of thick bushes, occasionally startling a baby pheasant who’d fly out of the bushes .
Before she went into the mountain, she sprinkled some beast-repelling powder onto herself . She had invented these powder at the very beginning of the beginning of the apocalypse . It worked wonders at hiding from and keeping away the low level beasts .
Thinking about her previous live when the mutation had first started, all the once docile house pets turned into fatal enemies of humans . Docile cats turned into beasts more vicious than ferocious tigers; the once loyal canines turned abruptly into vicious beasts that hunted their masters… . Never mind about all the animals in zoos or circuses! Humans had fallen from the top of the food chain into preys in no time .
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And she was just a stupid at a medical school when they discovered her amazing talent in alchemy . In order to stay alive, the first drug she developed was exactly this beast-repelling powder . The smell from these powder was enough to drive away the vicious beasts . It was exactly because she has these powder that she was able to avoid the mutated pets, the farm animals in the countryside, and finally being picked up by Icy Face…
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