0p0 Chapter 36: Meeting the Patriarch and Talking about Building a House
Chapter 36: Meeting the Patriarch and Talking about Building a House
"Yes, when I became an adult, the clan leader asked me to choose more than three beast husbands..." Ye Qiqi was a little unable to say it.
Alas, I picked four of them on impulse and then lived a mediocre life.
"That's good, four is not enough." One must also have a good ability to accept.
After all, for the coming-of-age ceremony for the young females in their tribe, they will not stop until at least eight are chosen.
Mermaids can give birth to their offspring in human form, so childbirth among the mermaids is not difficult.
Even if they have intercourse with orcs from other tribes, most of the offspring are mermaids.
Therefore, the imbalance in the gender ratio of the mermaids is not very serious, and they mainly select orcs from other races.
Young females are always greedy and want to have one of everything.
Few people from our own tribe chose this.
Some young females are afraid that they cannot withstand beastly husbands above the orange level, so they dare not touch them.
Therefore, there are at least ten red-level mermaids in the mermaid tribe who have not found a partner.
Time also counts as one.
Ye Qiqi couldn't imagine that if ten beastmen came at the same time, it would take almost a year to wait for an appointment...
Ye Qiqi felt that if he collected it slowly, it wouldn't be that scary.
Seeing that the little female didn't say anything, Shi Ye also shut up.
When he arrived at the chief's house, he stood in front of the beast cave.
"Welcome to join our tribe." The chief looked at Shi Ye with a smile.
The reason why the tribe leader asked the young female to pick up Shi Ye was because the scouts told him that the mermaids who came this time were on the verge of losing control.
It is definitely better for the little female to go than for me to go.
The little female is beautiful and kind-hearted. Which male wouldn’t be moved by her?
"Yeah." Tokiya responded coldly.
He is still angry now. This clan leader doesn't value him at all!
"Qiqi, if it's okay, just take him back first. If you need anything, just come to me." The patriarch looked at Ye Qiqi in a flattering manner.
"It's true." Ye Qiqi blinked and thought about it. She decided to build the wooden house before the rainy season.
"Just tell me, we will do whatever we can do!"
"That's right, I want the orcs in the tribe to help me build a house." Ye Qiqi felt that anyone who didn't want free labor was a fool.
Besides, the rainy season is only half a month away, and she must build the house within this half month.
I originally wanted to build a wooden house, but then I thought that a wooden house might not be able to withstand the rains that last for almost two months during the rainy season. A red brick house would be more reassuring, but without a reinforced concrete foundation, it wouldn't work.
Building a mud house would probably be difficult.
When Ye Qiqi thought about the rainy season and the wet cave, she felt uncomfortable all over. What should she do?
Now there is a shortage of materials.
Although she had the soil to make blue bricks or red bricks, she roughly knew how to make a kiln, but she didn't have the materials.
How can I build a house for myself?
In modern times, Ye Qiqi not only likes to cook delicious food, but also likes to explore the wisdom of ancient people.
She was very curious about how the ancient people built the Great Wall and kept it standing without cement and steel bars?
One is to build the city with rammed earth.
Rammed earth is a building material formed by mixing red mud, coarse sand and lime blocks and compacting them together.
One is to build houses with blue bricks, using glutinous rice and lime as a mixture to act as an adhesive to build the house.
Ye Qiqi doesn't have any of these things now.
Another method is to mix yellow mud with dried straw to make bricks, stack them up to form a house, which is also the easiest to build.
But can it survive the two-month rainy season?
After thinking about it, if you want to build a house, you can try to burn green bricks or red bricks now, and then look for materials to build the house in the spring.
But how to survive the cold winter?
This cave is obviously not the best place to spend the winter.
There is still half a month left...
What can I do by myself?
But there are more than 300 orcs in the tribe, there must be a way, right?
These are all pristine forests that have almost never been developed. The tribe is located on the hillside under the cliff, and most of the orcs dig holes in the cliff as their living place.
However, the cliffs are often ravaged by wind and snow in winter, and many females are frozen to death. It would be best if they could build a house.
However, I am only a novice and building a house is a long and arduous task.
The first and most important thing is limestone. Loess can be seen everywhere on some small hillsides at the bottom of the cliff, so there is no need to worry.
After the limestone is found, it needs to be fired, which is impossible to complete within these fifteen days at least.
The rainy season is followed by the windy season.
There are five seasons in the Orc Continent: spring, summer, rainy season, windy season, and winter.
Maybe I should go out with Lu Yu to look for limestone first, the kind that is whitish or bluish-gray.
This kind of stone can be burned into quicklime, and the subsequent clay ratio and so on require a certain amount of time to mix, and I don’t know the specific ratio.
But Ye Qiqi believes that experiments lead to the truth.
Nothing can be achieved overnight.
The most important thing now is manpower.
The patriarch promised that it would not matter even if it was postponed for two months.
"Build a house?" The village chief didn't quite understand.
Even though Ye Qiqi thought so much, it only took a moment.
"Yes, the beast cave is a stone cave dug out from the cliff. It is cold in winter and not warm enough. The survival rate of females is greatly reduced. I have some unrealistic ideas in my mind. I wonder if the patriarch can send people to support me?" Ye Qiqi said very bluntly.
For these things, the more people there are, the better. And once the tribe members learn these methods, there will only be benefits and no harm.
But Ye Qiqi still had to think of some excuses.
How do I know this? I need a reasonable explanation.
After all, these things have never appeared in the Orc Continent.
"Do you know how to build a house?" The patriarch's eyes lit up and he looked at Ye Qiqi excitedly.
Of course he knew that the stone cave was not suitable for females to rest and recuperate, but he had no choice. There were also rumors in the Beast God Continent that gibbons were very good at building tree houses.
However, not everyone can move freely in trees, which creates a shortcoming that other tribes cannot learn from.
They were timid and afraid to step out of their tribe.
So everyone can only watch with envy, but cannot ask them to help build the tree house.
"I don't know if it will succeed, because they are built with mud. I'm afraid it will collapse before the rainy season. Then everyone will be busy..." Ye Qiqi said tentatively.
If that doesn’t work, try building a house with rammed earth first and see how it works.
She believed that the sun in the animal world was only good enough to dry the house out for half a month.
"Try! We must try!" The chief was so excited. If there was a way to build a house, even though it wouldn't survive the rainy season, if the house was built before winter, would the little females be able to survive safely?
There is no ventilation in the cave in summer and it is windy in winter. Even the male patriarch feels tortured sometimes, let alone the delicate females?
Ye Qiqi gave him so many surprises!