Chapter 2 My Town Center
"Bang"
"boom……"
Li Xu struggled to twist the key for a long time, but the lock had been embroidered to death, and the key was a little twisted and deformed, but it still couldn't be opened.
"I can't even get along with me if I break a ball. I'm so unlucky that I can even get stuck in my teeth when I drink cold water."
Li Xu was depressed and simply kicked the door directly without caring about the lock.
Before he could use much force, the two door panels fell backwards and smashed to the ground, breaking into several pieces.
If it weren't for the door lock, these two door panels would have been disbanded long ago.
Li Xu was stunned for a moment, waved his hand and opened the dust raised from the door, and turned around and walked in with the ox cart.
The yard is very large, and there are at least fifty or sixty acres of land surrounded by walls.
According to the description on the land deed, the village and the surrounding 500 acres of land belong to the Li family, even the nameless hill behind it.
Well, they all belong to Li Xu now, the newly promoted landlord Li Xu.
But the landlord Li Xu looked at the wild grass and flowers half a person tall in the yard, and stood there for a long time, but he didn't know where to start.
After thinking about it, Li Xu turned around and led the ox cart to the front of the broken thatched huts, moved all the food and things on the ox cart to the eaves, and untied the old ox to let it eat grass freely in the yard.
“Moo…”
The old buffalo screamed comfortably, lowered his head and chewed on the grass.
Li Xu laughed and scolded: "This is your paradise, but it is my suffering. It is really the so-called honey of yours and my arsenic".
The old ox was busy eating grass and ignored him.
Li Xu turned around and walked into the largest room in the middle. Looking through the roof, a star was flipping at him and flashing.
I went to the other houses and looked at them. They were all adobe houses and thatched roofs. Only one of them was considered intact on the roof. The stars could be seen from the others.
Those rooms where you can see the stars are even covered with weeds that are beyond your feet.
The room is empty and there is nothing, and there is naturally no need to think about furniture.
Li Xu seriously suspected that the guy who used this farm to pay off his debts was temporarily determined to build a few thatched huts here, and surrounded the wall and turned into a so-called farm. His landlord father was completely fooled.
There were some logs piled up in that intact house, which seemed to be not completely decayed. It should be the wood left when these houses were built.
Li Xu scratched his head, thought for a while, and decided to use these to build a bed for himself first, so he couldn't sleep on the ground.
The things he brought also include some tools, axes, saws, hammers, etc., which are very complete.
Chen wanted to make him self-reliant, so he would not be stingy with this tool to teach people how to fish.
Li Xu walked into the room where the things were placed, and when he ran away with an axe and a saw, a mechanical sound suddenly sounded out of thin air in his mind:
"It is detected that the nearby terrain is suitable for building a town center, please find wood as soon as possible to build a town center according to the drawings."
After saying this voice, before Li Xu could react, a simple architectural drawing appeared in Li Xu's mind.
this?
Town center?
Li Xu was confused for a moment, and suddenly there was a bang in his mind and he understood.
The game he played before time traveling was "Age of Empires 3", which was his favorite game in the past two years. Every time he was depressed, he would play it and then he would feel much more comfortable.
So, is this town center indeed the town center of Empire 3?
Li Xu thought about it and carefully observed the architectural drawings in his mind. He could actually view them from multiple dimensions, including floor plans, three-dimensional pictures, and even the finished renderings.
Looking at the renderings, there are two-story small buildings with flying eaves and tilted corners, and a big bell hanging on the second floor, which is exactly the same as the town center in the game.
Is this actually my capital to gain a foothold in this troubled times?
Li Xu was both surprised and happy. When he thought of the various muskets and cannons in Empire 3, the exciting scene of various guns and cannons roaring and pushing flat in his mind instantly, he was in a state of great excitement.
But he was not excited for too long because he thought of a problem. Although the renderings in the center of the town are inconspicuous and not surprising, for a carpenter like himself, it is almost impossible to build the renderings.
It's barely OK to ask him to build a doghouse or a chicken coop, but building a two-story building is obviously much beyond his ability.
Fortunately, he saw a line of explanation on the drawing in his mind, which roughly means that as long as the main framework of the town center meets the requirements of the system, the system can be activated.
This made Li Xu feel relieved. If he just set up a framework, he could barely do it.
Li Xu's personality always does it just by saying that. Seeing that it was getting dark, he simply made a torch and inserted it into the open space next to him.
He has to build overnight and activate the system as soon as possible so that his safety can be guaranteed as soon as possible.
Li Xu lifted up his robe and tucked it in his belt, rolled up his sleeves, and Li Xu started working, first moving the wood out of the house, and then saw it into wooden pillars of varying lengths.
After the first step was completed, we used an axe and a chisel to barely carve a rough mortise and tenon on the wooden pillars.
This step was the most troublesome. Even though he only needed to build a shelf that leaked from all sides, did not need to lay the foundation, nor did he need to have a strong stance, it also took him halfway through the night.
When it was almost dawn, all the preparations were finally completed and the main building was started.
He chose an open space in the middle of the village and planned to build a town center here.
After all, we must consider other construction land after the system is activated, so the surrounding open space is reserved.
First, he used a hoe to dig four pits on the ground, and planted the four pillars in a square shape and stood them up. After ramming them with soil, he then used mortise and tenon to build a beam on it.
After the first floor is completed, a small attic with a pointed top is built on it, and of course you only need to build a frame.
Because this step is a high place work, although Li Xu is 1.8 meters tall, he still makes a simple scaffolding by himself.
When the sun jumped out from the top of Xiaoqingshan Mountain, Li Xu finally completed the work.
Li Xu still felt a little accomplished when he jumped off the scaffolding and looked at the thing that was crooked in front of him, even a carpenter apprentice who had just started sneered at him.
After all, this is the first time I have built a house with my own hands when I was a human being in two lives.
Well, if the pile of wooden shelves in front of me could be called a house.
However, he was still very nervous inside. He didn't know if the pile of things in front of him could pass the system acceptance. If it didn't work, he would have done it in vain this night.
He had already made up his mind and if he couldn't do it, he would go out and find a carpenter to help. At worst, he could spend some money.
But now that it is so messy outside, it is hard to say whether you can find a carpenter.
Fortunately, the system did not make him nervous for too long, and soon the mechanical sound rang again: "The system detected that the attachment had a building that met the requirements of the main framework of the town center, and the system activation program began to start."
Li Xu was overjoyed and stared at his work hard, unable to bear to blink.
It was very abrupt, a cloud of fog came out of thin air, and it became thicker and thicker, and soon the pile of wooden shelves were submerged in it.
Li Xu soon couldn't see anything, and could only see a thick, almost substantial mist rolling and undulating in front of his eyes.
Why did this become a fairy-tale style?
Seeing this scene, Li Xu was a little confused.
Although there is nothing to see, Li Xu can hear the jingling sounds constantly coming from the fog, as well as the sound of sawing wood, etc., as if there are many craftsmen working inside.
This is unscientific, Li Xu frowned and thought.
But when I thought about it, I had traveled through time, and it would be a bit funny to talk about whether it was scientific or not.
Besides, can systemic things be called unscientific?
No matter how unscientific it is, it must be scientific.
Well, I am indeed a good comrade who believes in science, and it should be the time to witness the miracle of science soon.
I don’t know how long it took, but Li Xu suddenly heard a bell ringing from the fog, which scared him a little and hurriedly cheered up and stared at him.
As the bell rang, the thick mist began to gradually dissipate and fade, and finally completely disappeared.
Looking at the building in front of him with a height of three-story building equivalent to his previous life, but only two floors above and below, with eaves and corners, red walls and yellow tiles, and a bell tower on the second floor, with a large golden bell hanging on it. The entire building area is at least 1,000 square meters, Li Xu was amazed.
I can't tell the appearance of my previous works at all. I can't say that they don't look like my works at all, but it can also be said that they have nothing to do with them.
It's like a pig turning into a dragon, it's really...
Well, it's very scientific, the science in the system.
If the building in front of me had not shown the four words "town center" in his eyes, Li Xu would not dare to admit that this was the finished product from the pile of wooden shelves he had just built.
It's exactly the same as the renderings.
He was so amazed that he couldn't close his legs. No, when he couldn't close his ears, another bell rang.
"when……"
With the afterglow of the bell, figures emerged from the gates in the center of the town, and each person either held, lifted, or held wooden boxes of different sizes.
Putting the wooden boxes in his hand on the open space at the door, the people returned to the center of the town, and soon after, they sent out a batch of boxes again.
This is three times and it finally ends.
Then, the people opened the wooden boxes and began to sort out the supplies.
After a while, the materials were sorted out and sent back to the center of the town and placed in different warehouses in different categories.
Finally, all these talents stood in front of Li Xu and saluted in unison: "Xiaomin and others will meet the lord."
Li Xu understood that these people should be the initial human resources provided by the system, so he suppressed the excitement in his heart and looked at them one by one.
The total number is sixty, forty strong men and twenty healthy women.
They are all wearing cloth clothes, men are short trousers, and women are trousers, hairpins and skirts. Although they look different, they are all energetic and upright, and none of them affect the appearance of the city.
Chapter completed!