Chapter 466: Shipbuilding

Su Ming woke up in the morning and was surprised when he saw the bamboo rats locked in the iron cage. At first glance, he looked like a mouse, but after watching for a long time, he felt that this guy was a little different from those mice, at least in some places.

Yesterday, Su Ming heard that they were going to the mountains to catch bamboo rats. At that time, he thought that bamboo rats were mountain rats. In Su Ming's impression, there seemed to be no such rats in the bamboo forest, and he was also curious about what they could bring back when they went out tonight.

Now when I saw the bamboo rats in the iron cage, I couldn't help but praise them. When I saw these bamboo rats, Su Ming then remembered these things called bamboo rats. He had seen them before, but he thought they were just rats.

Unexpectedly, this was not a rat but a bamboo rat. Although it was similar to a rat, its color changed a lot, and it was a little more timid and scared than a mouse.

When I saw these bamboo rats, I remembered that I occasionally saw bamboo rats dead in the grass in the bamboo forest. I had an impression that these nocturnal animals could only see bamboo rats coming out of the cave in the bamboo forest during the day, so most people in the village should not recognize this bamboo rat. Not to mention how the bamboo rats were caught in the bamboo forest.

Zhang Niu smiled and explained how to catch this bamboo rat in the bamboo forest last night, which made Su Ming, who was standing by, amazed. These bamboo rats were actually stronger than mice, and they should be similar to those mice in the mountains.

After listening, Su Ming became interested in these bamboo rats surrounding him. If it weren't for the kitchen calling for dinner, he would have probably stayed outside for a while and took a good look at these bamboo rats.

The babies and the little sisters came in the kitchen, followed by a group of puppies, and the puppies who followed saw these bamboo rats by the well outside.

The kitchen did not follow, but ran over to see the bamboo rats. A group of puppies suddenly blew the iron cage and kept shouting. The bamboo rats inside had seen such an attitude, and they all formed a ball, even closing their eyes.

When the puppy around outside saw it, he whimpered for a while and rushed into the kitchen with his short tail. It was better to have something delicious inside than to be outside.

Zhang Niu, who patted his stomach, came out of the kitchen and saw a ball of bamboo rats. It seemed that he was scared by the puppy just now, so he hid together and closed his eyes.

How to deal with these bamboo rats specifically? Xu Tian and the others said at the dinner table, and all the things to pay attention to were mentioned. Speaking of which, it was the first time that Liangshan saw this animal similar to a rat.

How to deal with some places is really different. For example, it is a carp. Every time you have to pull out the fish tendons inside, you can put them in the pot instead of not pumping the fish tendons and put them down at the same time.

The same is true for this bamboo rat now. Some places have not been dealt with properly by then, so I am really worried. Fortunately, these bamboo rats do not have the above problems.

Although there was no problem, Zhang Niu still planned to leave one person here. With the first experience, there was no need for anyone to stand here next time. They knew it in their hearts, at least Liangshan must know how to do it.

Today, Zhang Niu is going to take Xu Tian and the others to Kaixin Valley. The place is now in full swing, but some places have not been built yet, and now he takes them over to see it.

They have only been here for a few days and have never been to the place in Happy Valley, so they took advantage of the morning to check it out and have some other things to ask them for help.

A group of people walked towards the Happy Valley in a vast way.

Xu Tian and the others knew that when you enter this cement road, it was the Happy Valley that the rice bucket often mentioned. There were many migratory birds living there, and the scenery was quite good.

As we walked over, we saw the towering Dinghu Peak, the open space in front of us, and the pairs of stone mountains. Those were all stones dug from clearing the mountain stream.

I don’t know how long this mountain stream has existed. In the narrow place behind it, the stones reached an astonishing number, and they were piled up there layer by layer, and even the excavator took a lot of time.

Here we need to clean the water outlet smoothly and continue to dig downwards, at least we must form a gully, with both sides towering and the middle like those canals. In this way, no matter how big the mountains and rivers are, it can still be handled here.

Now that one-third of the workload has not yet arrived, there are piles of stones everywhere, and people who don’t know the truth think this is a special battlefield for digging.

After taking a look, Zhang Niu quickly took them into the Happy Valley. In the pine forest near the Happy Valley, everyone saw migratory birds flying in the air, some of which were standing on the pine trees here.

Now there is no quiet start to work now, and these migratory birds are flying everywhere.

Xu Tian was extremely shocked by such a place. Even in their mountains, it was quite difficult to find a place where migratory birds often gather. But now he saw migratory birds above the Happy Valley.

This is a happy thing, and Xu Tian and the others can shout out some of the migratory birds, and even if they have any characteristics, it is not difficult for them.

I have seen too many birds in the mountains. Now the migratory birds here are like a hodgepodge. When they walk into the Happy Valley, they know why there are so many migratory birds here willing to stay here and build bird nests here without flying to other places.

The green mountains and clear waters are similar to their environment, which looks peaceful and quiet, and there is also the Sanbian Lake filled with clouds.

Standing by the lake, Zhang Niu sprinkled all the rice grains brought from the kitchen, attracting countless migratory birds to fall from the air and pecked at the rice grains, a lively scene.

"This lake is so big, and there is still fog floating there, which is more visible than our lake." Xu Tian stood by the lake, looking at the nearby lake.

"This lake is bigger than our lake." Xu Tianming picked up a handful of the lake water, "It's so cool, almost the same as ours."

Everyone looked at Zhang Niu curiously, wondering how big the lake is.

Zhang Niu shook his head with a wry smile, "I don't know how big this lake is. You see the fog in front. If you want to look over the endlessly, I think it's unlikely, and I don't have a wooden boat here, so I can't explore it."

"Ah, boss, you have this lake. Haven't you seen it before?" Xu Tianming shouted. Someone has visited them to check such a lake, but they won't keep it here like this.

Before this place was packaged, there were weeds that could not be reached at all. You don’t need to mention looking at the entire lake. Moreover, it is a closed lake. If you want to go all the way from the top of the mountain, Zhang Niu doesn’t think he has such technology.

It is even more impossible for wooden boats and the like. Without doing enough preparations, Zhang Niu really dared not go forward. After all, no one can tell what the lake in the fog is.

"If you ask Fanzhuo about my affairs, he can't understand the most." Zhang Niu asked Fanzhuo to explain directly. For a while here, Fanzhuo faced the lake and knew nothing worse than him.

"The lake here of the boss cannot sail into the fog without a wooden boat, and the place you are standing now is a weed bush, which is more than one person tall. Think about it, how can you get in such a place?" said Fanzhu.

Xu Tian and the others now know that the picturesque place now seemed to be a piece of weedland before, so it was no wonder why we couldn't go into the lake to see what was going on.

"That was the problem in the past. Now that you are here, I think we will be able to enter the lake soon." Zhang Niu said with a smile. Now that they are here, this lake problem is not needed for the time being.

Standing here, you can't see the lake. Even if you stand on the upper floor of the wooden house, you can only see white mist, blocking the lake from the world and blocking everyone's curiosity.

"We will do this job by making wooden boats. We will guarantee that we will make a decent wooden boat for you at that time." Xu Tian patted his chest and said confidently.

"Whose young man in our village can't make wooden boats? His skills are excellent. He also needs to repair fishing boats every year. As long as the wood raw materials are sufficient, it is just a matter of time to make wooden boats." Fanzhu said again.

Last time, he was standing here, Zhang Niu learned that the skill of making wooden boats in Mian Chuan was able to make wooden boats, and then Mian Chuan had to go back, so Zhang Niu left the matter empty, and now he can finally start making wooden boats as he wished.

"I'll thank you here." Zhang Niu looked at the lake. "What is it like in this fog? I was so curious that it could keep the fog blocking it here. This is a rare thing."

"Don't worry, with the wooden boat, I want to see the scenery here. Is it more beautiful than our lake?" This was the first time Xu Tian saw a lake blocked by fog.

The lakes in their mountains will be covered with white mist only when the fog is heavy, and the scenery there is still white, which is a bit like a fairyland. As the sun rises, the mist will slowly dissipate.

The fog here seems to condense into a whole piece and float above the water surface. The height is not low. Unless you stand on the top of the mountain wall behind you, you may see some situations. Standing by the lake, you can only see nearly 200 meters in front of you. Later, the fog is blocked by the fog.

"It is best to build more wooden boats, which are more spacious. It is also good to add a lid. Don't be afraid of rain on rainy days, and don't be afraid of the scorching sun in summer. It's a bit like a black-sailed boat." Zhang Niu thought about the wooden boats he had seen before.

Fanzhu thought about it: "This is OK, but it will take some time."

"It's okay. The lake is here anyway. We can go down the lake whenever we make a wooden boat." Zhang Niu was not worried about this, and time was not in a hurry.

"Then there is no problem. These require early materials, and it is best to buy them in the county." The rice bucket can make wooden boats, and all these have to buy enough raw materials.

"At that time, you can choose a few people to follow the fat man to buy it in the county town. His tool truck should be able to load it." When thinking of transporting goods, Zhang Niu would think of the fat man's tool truck.

Zhang Niu didn't know anything about buying the materials. The knowledge in it was too deep, and it would be strange if he, an outsider, could understand it.

When doing the wooden boat, I agreed on how long it will take to do the wooden boat well. It depends on how much raw materials are purchased. The premise work has been done enough, and the work of making the wooden boat has also become faster.

Zhang Niu mentioned by the way that there must be at least three wooden boats to make, so that they can better get into the lake. No one knows what it looks like. It is still necessary to prepare a few more wooden boats.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with Zhang Niu entering alone. The environment inside is good. Zhang Niu would ask them to make some wooden boats, or find someone to make wooden boats together for tours.

Sitting on a boat on the rippling lake surface, enjoying the surrounding environment, looking at the fog as thin as veil may give you a feeling of intoxication.

All of this is Zhang Niu's imagination. How will it be done at that time still remains to be known. This work of doing wooden boats also needs to be postponed later. Only when the bamboo racks are built here can the ship be done.

Xu Tian and the others were originally looking for somewhere to go up the mountain wall. They were curious about the fog on the lake and planned to climb to the top of the mountain and look down at it.

Unfortunately, the mountain walls are all steep and straight, and there is no ground to climb. The surrounded mountain wall is like a Great Wall and is difficult to climb up.

In desperation, I could only wait for the day when the wooden boat was ready, and rushed into the fog to see what mystery was inside the lake. It could actually allow the fog to gather here for many years, forming a natural barrier to block the peeping people.

Zhang Niu also wanted to climb up, but like them, he encountered this problem because the mountain wall did not look high, but it was too steep and there was no protruding place to land. Moreover, the stone wall here was very smooth, and it seemed that this was formed after years of washing.

This is limited to the lower half, the top part of the mountain wall, where there are deep recesses, and there are many migratory birds that will nest in those places.

After coming out of Happy Valley, a new day began to be busy on the open space in Shibawan. Excavators were digging out the stones again, while trucks were still transporting the stones back and forth, landing these places.

The terrain here is originally open, and the place close to the pine forest is often washed by mountains and rivers, and it gradually forms large and small water holes. It is fine on sunny days, but it becomes turbid water holes on rainy days.

Now these stones are basically all landfilled in these places. At least these pits need to be filled before forming a whole open area so that the next step of construction can be carried out.

Back to Happy Xiaozhu, Fatty's truck was there, so everyone moved the bamboo to the truck and transported it to Qingyou Xiaoju strips of cement, intending to start building this trench.

I went to the quiet little house with my happy building. There were no tall trees on the roadside, and it was bare. Except for the banana trees that had just been planted, it can be said that it was completely different from the cement road leading to the Happy Valley.

It is not so good to walk on cement roads on hot days. Fortunately, Zhang Niu built cement roads and replaced them with asphalt roads. The road surface is so hot.

The height of the trench is based on the ability to pass through the truck. After all, if a truck comes in the future, the trench built cannot pass through, which is a waste of work.

Zhang Niu was still very thoughtful in this regard.


Chapter completed!