I am a Primitive Man
Chapter 152 – Small Stones, Field, Door
With a wooden wedge in one hand and a stone suitable for smashing things after being refined by a carpenter in the other, Shang stood up straight, looking satisfied at the now considerably smaller large stone and the scattered debris around it.
Those responsible for transporting the stones took this opportunity to load them into the wooden sleds and carried them away with hook poles.
For those larger chunks that a single person couldn’t handle, they bound them with ropes, inserted a wooden bar through the middle, and had two people carry them back to the tribe.
Stones suitable for making stone tools were set aside after Fu Jiang, wagging his tail, checked them.
After a short break, Shang observed everything with a smile. The frustration caused by the lack of stones had long been cast aside.
Shang saw the Divine Child wandering in the vacant rapeseed field with Fu Jiang and the deer. His heart was immediately filled with admiration.
He held a deep respect for this Divine Child, who resembled a child. He could always turn what seemed impossible into reality and used extremely simple methods.
After resting, Shang put her tools aside, went to another large stone nearby, and piled wood around it.
“Splash!”
“Creak, creak, creak.”
Cold water splashed on the stone, and a piercing noise filled the air, accompanied by a large amount of white mist. Faced with this scene, the people of the Green Sparrow Tribe were no longer afraid; they knew it was a normal reaction.
In the misty haze, people who had been prearranged systematically poured water toward the remembered location.
Han Cheng roamed in the empty rapeseed field with Fu Jiang and the deer.
After harvesting the rapeseed, weeds began to grow wildly. Many rapeseed plants with small thorny seeds were mixed among these thickets.
These were the seeds that fell to the ground during the previous harvest. After a short dormancy, they couldn’t wait to emerge from the soil and see the colorful world.
Regrettably, their emergence was untimely, and instead of applause, their welcome was a rough, green-stained tongue.
Deer Lord lifted its head, munching on grass mixed with a rapeseed plant. Seeing the small basket next to the Divine Child, filled with plenty of rapeseed, it swallowed the grass in its mouth with three or four bites. Then, lifting its head, it approached Han Cheng, who was bending over to pull rapeseed. It rubbed its face on Han Cheng’s hand carelessly, then extended its mouth towards the small basket.
Han Cheng had long been accustomed to the shameless behavior of the deer. Without even looking, he casually moved the basket to the side.
Han Cheng felt melancholic looking at the luxuriant grass growing on the ground.
Now, planting rapeseed for just one season was fine. These weeds would become annoying if they found suitable seeds and rotated crops for two seasons.
Strangely, these wild plants always grew more vigorously than crops on the same piece of land if left unattended.
They could easily wipe out these pests if they had herbicides like Paraquat or glyphosate.
Han Cheng thought about this but shook his head with a smile.
Forget it. After eating various pesticides, fertilizers, food additives, and even some industrial raw materials in the future, he finally had the opportunity to eat natural, pollution-free food. There was no need to think about those things now.
Of course, even if he wanted to eat, there was no way to achieve that.
Casually plucking rapeseeds, Han Cheng stood up straight and glanced from afar at the diligent members of the Green Sparrow Tribe. Suddenly, he thought of two god-level individuals in his future company who either played mahjong or wandered around. Yet, their salaries were more than double that of hardworking individuals like him.
In the past, Han Cheng, like some of his colleagues, felt the injustice. It continued until the company faced a major crisis that it couldn’t solve. The two god-level individuals effortlessly resolved the issue. After that, Han Cheng no longer felt the injustice.
He thought of this now because he suddenly realized he was somewhat similar to those two god-level individuals.
In the end, the Deer Lord succeeded. Taking advantage of Han Cheng’s distraction, it swiped a mouthful of rapeseed from the small basket. Even though it received two slaps on its belly for this, it wagged its tail happily.
Han Cheng didn’t dare to put the small basket on the ground. Instead, he constantly guarded it with his hand. The rapeseed in the basket was intended for his lunch. If it was all eaten by this shameless deer, he wouldn’t have anything to eat.
Watching the strange door in front of him, Lame scratched his head. Although he made this door, he didn’t know how to install it.
This door was significantly different from the large doors he made before.
The most prominent feature was one side of the door.
The wooden bar on one side protruded about three to four centimeters higher than the corresponding wooden bar on the other.
The elevated part was not connected to other wooden bars.
After installing such a door, how could it seal the entrance tightly without leaving any gaps?
This was only a small issue. Lame’s biggest confusion was how to install this asymmetrical, peculiar-looking door.
He came to the entrance and carefully examined it. Besides the door frame arranged by the Divine Child in advance, there was nothing else, unlike when building the large door, where tree stumps were embedded in the mud pillars on both sides to hang the door.
Lame touched both sides of the door frame, but no prominent features existed. Shaking his head, he dismissed the idea of tying the wooden door to one side of the door frame.
After pondering for a while, he felt the key in the wooden bar protruding prominently on both ends.
Thinking so, he moved the nearby door closer.
The door was made using the technique of woven wooden planks. Moreover, it was not wide, so it was not difficult for Lame to carry it alone.
After arriving at the entrance, Lame stood the wooden door upright and placed it outside the door frame, sticking it against the frame for comparison.
The wooden plank door covered the entire entrance. Since there was a doorstep below and a lintel above, Lame’s worry that the door would not seal the entrance tightly did not come true. This alleviated some of his concerns.
He tentatively let go. The door immediately tilted to one side without being fixed and with only one side touching the ground.
Lame frowned at the door that had tilted to one side. Turning his head to look at the distant large door, he saw it closed from the inside out. So, he moved the door, leaning it inside, and then made further measurements.
For a moment, he couldn’t find a solution to the problem. However, he did not despair or think of giving up. He still remembered the words the shaman said some time ago.
After installing the door, it could protect the house from wind and rain, making the living conditions safer and more comfortable. Lame believed that this would benefit the people of the tribe, blessed by the gods.
The reason it couldn’t be installed now was that some demons didn’t want the tribe to become better. What he needed to do now was to overcome this difficulty using his intelligence and strength, striking against the demons.