novelaction Chapter 884 Get some advice from his father
Chapter 884 Get some advice from his father
Lu Qingqing picked up the last arrow from the ground and pulled off the still relatively intact arrowhead.
He wiped the blood off in the snow and threw it into his basket.
She got up again, grabbed a handful of snow, rubbed the dirt off her hands, and then said:
"This group of refugees today is very fierce."
Dozens of people escaped, and it's estimated that more might come later.
I need to go find Uncle Wu and get the village's defensive wall built as soon as possible.
As he spoke, he slung the basket over his shoulder.
Qin Lang quickly stood up, took the heavy basket, and carried it on his back.
"Come on, I'll go with you!"
Lu Qingqing glanced at the small and light basket on Qin Lang's back and didn't take it back.
The two discussed things to be careful about and walked together toward the west of the village.
At this moment, on the path north of the village.
Sun Chengkun was leading the elderly, weak, women and children in the village to build a wall with adobe bricks.
When Bai Song arrived, the completed wall was already knee-high.
The soldiers who were standing guard with knives on the side saw him coming and rushed over.
After some communication, the two sides finally managed to exchange some information.
After learning that a battle had taken place in the eastern part of the village, Sun Chengkun and the villagers worked even faster.
Rather than risk their lives fighting those refugees, they preferred to build walls in the cold wind.
The sooner this wall is built, the less risk they and their families will have to fight with the refugees.
Bai Song walked around the path and, seeing that there weren't many adobe bricks, asked Sun Chengkun about it.
Upon learning that there were still some of these adobe bricks in the village.
But that's definitely not enough to build a wall on three sides.
The old man and his men had initially planned to block up the narrowest path first.
In this way, the village will have one less post to guard, and can only keep an eye on the other two.
We still need to find solutions for the two locations in the east and west of the village.
Bai Song suddenly remembered that when their group passed through a village earlier...
I saw an extremely thick ice wall made of ice blocks.
At that time, he even led his men over and tested the knife.
The ice wall was very solid; when you cut into it with a knife, you could only chip off some ice fragments.
He immediately shared his idea with Sun Chengkun.
Sun Chengkun was overjoyed upon hearing this, and an idea began to form in his mind.
He instructed the villagers to continue building the wall, and then called Bai Song to go back to Uncle Lao Wu's place together.
At this moment, Lu Qingqing and Qin Lang were also at Uncle Lao Wu's place, and they happened to be talking about the ice wall.
The two sides hit it off.
Lu Qingqing and Qin Lang had participated in the construction of the ice wall before, so they were quite experienced.
He then explained in detail the tools needed to build the ice wall.
The molds needed for making ice bricks require the help of an old carpenter.
Upon hearing this, Uncle Wu immediately sent someone to fetch him.
The poor old carpenter had just finished making the barricades and hadn't even had a chance to rest at home before being summoned back.
I was panting heavily after running all the way here.
After Lu Qingqing gave him a brief explanation, he knew what to do.
To be honest, this thing doesn't involve any technology at all.
He called over a few men with similar skills, gave them some instructions, and they started working.
Lu Qingqing then told Sun Chengkun about the other things needed to build the ice wall.
After Sun Chengkun wrote everything down, he went out to make the arrangements.
By this time, it had already gotten dark.
Thinking that she might have to work late into the night, Lu Qingqing called Qin Lang to go home.
They need to go back and eat something and rest, otherwise they won't be able to stay up all night.
In the courtyard, Old Man Zhuang had already prepared the meal and was waiting.
When they saw the two return, they hurriedly called them to eat.
Lu Qingqing and Qin Lang ate a simple meal and then went back to their room to rest.
About 15 minutes later, Sun Chengkun sent someone to call them over.
No one in the village had ever built an ice wall before, and they were afraid something might go wrong.
They made one ice brick after another, but hesitated to start construction, waiting for the two of them to come and take a look.
After getting up, Lu Qingqing and Qin Lang took the late-night snack that Old Man Zhuang had prepared and hurriedly went out.
The two then went to the east and west of the village respectively, leading the villagers and soldiers to get busy.
Because there are still some adobe bricks in the village, the innermost wall is made of adobe bricks.
Sun Chengkun originally thought that the wall would be just like the courtyard walls of each family.
The thickness of a single adobe brick is about right.
But Lu Qingqing insisted that the wall should be at least two adobe bricks thick.
Bai Song also agreed with Lu Qingqing's idea.
The ice wall he saw was quite thick, and he felt it consisted of at least two or three pieces.
Sun Chengkun had never actually seen the ice wall before, so after hesitating for a moment, he agreed.
After the architectural plan was finalized, construction began at all three entrances to the village.
Before long, it was completely dark.
Sun Chengkun led his men to light a fire a little further out along the path.
On the one hand, it can be used for lighting and to prevent sudden attacks by refugees.
On the other hand, this fire can also be used to boil water.
After all, a lot of snow water is needed when making ice bricks.
An hour later, a pile of ice bricks was densely packed on the ground at the entrance of the village.
The wall next to it had already been built up to the height of three bricks.
Just as everyone was busy at work, the two men in charge of boiling water began to worry as they watched the firewood dwindle.
They have been adding as little firewood as possible, only letting two or three pieces of firewood burn at the bottom each time they boil water.
In this way, although it burns slower, it does not waste firewood.
The two stayed for a while longer and looked at the pile of ice behind them.
We're clearly still far from being able to build a wall.
Having no other choice, one of them went to Sun Chengkun.
"Brother Chengkun, we're almost out of firewood!"
Sun Chengkun stopped what he was doing and ran to the place where the firewood was stored to take a look.
They were stunned to see that there were only about two bundles of firewood left.
In the afternoon, when he went to collect firewood from each household in the village, he collected a large bundle of firewood from each one.
That big bundle of firewood is enough for the family to burn for almost half a month.
Why is it so unreliable now!
Less than half of the ice bricks used to build the ice wall have been produced so far.
What to do with the rest?
Moreover, if this problem occurs in one place, the other two places are probably experiencing similar issues.
If you calculate it this way, the amount of firewood we're short is quite a lot.
When we went to collect from the villagers, they found that most of them didn't have much left.
We can't possibly use up all the firewood in everyone's homes just to build a wall.
For a moment, Sun Chengkun was at a loss.
Just as he was about to go back to his father for advice, Lu Qingqing stopped him.
"Uncle Chengkun, if you need more firewood, take some from me!"
I still have some coal at home.
Hearing her say that, Bai Song hesitated for a moment before speaking up as well.
“I also hauled some coal before, so I'll contribute some too!”
Upon hearing this, Sun Chengkun repeatedly thanked the two men.
Immediately, they called over seven or eight villagers, who then followed the two back to their courtyard.
The remaining people stayed where they were and continued working.
When Lu Qingqing led the people back to the courtyard, Old Man Zhuang was keeping watch at home with an oil lamp lit.