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LSLFBW: Chapter 80

Xi Zhou and Hu Qiao were also in front of the wall last night and heard about what happened to Ma Li.

But to them, both the terrifying-sounding Blood Bone Warriors and the City of Ten Thousand Bones that seemed to be somewhere unknown were too illusory.

The stories were no different from the rumored City of the Beast God. For beastmen like them, who would likely never go too far from their tribe, it was far less attractive than this building called a toilet that was right in front of them.

Moreover, after six or seven days of firing by the tribe members, enough bricks had been piled up in the kiln. Now was really a good time to build a toilet.

“Okay, let’s start building it now,” Qi Bai said to Hu Qiao and Xi Zhou. “You guys go and move the bricks here first. Lang Ze and I will mark the location of the toilet.”

“Okay!” Several young horned beasts rushed forward and ran towards the kiln.

The location chosen by Qi Bai was in the northeast corner of the square, near the wall.

The bushes and weeds that originally grew here had been pulled out. It was now a relatively flat piece of land.

At this time, Qi Bai was holding the stone slab with the blueprint on it in one hand, and a straw rope in the other, measuring back and forth on the ground.

Qi Bai determined the boundaries of each wall one by one while Lang Ze used a shovel to dig the soil along the marks of the straw rope.

Xiong Feng and Huan Ping, who had transformed into their beast forms, followed the two of them and dug the soil deeper. This was the foundation of the house.

The house they built this time was only three meters high, so the foundation didn’t need to be dug too deeply.

After tamping the soil, Qi Bai connected the corners of the foundation with straw ropes and wooden sticks. Above the base, some auxiliary lines connected horizontally and vertically were slowly formed.

This was the experience they had summarized when building the wall last time. It was still practical when used in building houses today. Everybody was already familiar with such auxiliary lines and knew their purpose at a glance.

Soon, the rough outline of the toilet was formed on the ground.

The winters in the Black Mountain were long and cold. In order to prevent the house from collapsing due to heavy snow, and more importantly to keep warm, Qi Bai deliberately planned the toilet wall to be two bricks wide.

Not far away, the Black Mountain Tribe’s construction team, which had been resting for a long time, resumed work by mixing quicklime and fine sand to make mortar.

Building a house wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t something that everyone could do just because they wanted to.

For example, laying bricks was a technical position. Only experienced veterans like Xiong Feng and Xiang Yu were qualified to take on the job.

Young children like Zhu Ya and Niu Lu could only work as laborers, doing simple jobs like carrying bricks and making mortar.

Therefore, the tribe members didn’t feel like these tasks were hard and enjoyed doing them.

Qi Bai watched everyone being busy with amusement. Once they started laying bricks, he became the one watching the fun.

However, Qi Bai wasn’t a person who could be idle. Seeing that he wasn’t needed here for the time being, he turned around and waved to the little guys. “Bao Xing, Sun Quan, do you want to go out with me?”

“Yes!” The children running behind the adults turned their heads together, answered loudly, and ran towards Qi Bai.

Before taking the children out, Qi Bai told Zhu Zhu.

At this time, the sub-beastmen who didn’t join the construction team were sitting not far away.

They sat together. Some were sewing animal skin clothes with bone needles, some were tanning animal skins with wood ash, and some were splitting bamboo strips to weave bamboo baskets. In short, no one was idle.

Zhu Zhu waved his hand casually. Everyone on the tribe was familiar with each other, and there was nothing to worry about.

“Brother Bai Bai! Look at this, this grass is so beautiful!” There was a four-leaf clover in the palm of Li Li’s hand.

“Mine, mine is prettier!” Bao Xing pinched a leaf that was as pointed as a maple leaf.

“What about me, what about me?” Lu Xia also stretched out her arms hard, hoping that Qi Bai could see the little flower in her hand.

Qi Bai took the plants from their hands with a smile. He carefully checked and commented on each one before putting them into the rattan basket behind him.

The children jumped with joy and continued to look for new leaves.

Qi Bai didn’t bring the children out to collect food, but to let them pick their favorite leaves and flowers.

The world in the eyes of children was much more colorful than that of adults. They could always find unique and beautiful things among a bunch of ordinary plants.

Qi Bai’s backpack was already filled with many beautiful leaves, whether they were heart-shaped, fan-shaped or round. Many of them also had shapes that Qi Bai had never seen before.

At this moment, a small hand grabbed Qi Bai’s pans. Qi Bai turned around and saw a big leaf, as well as Sun Quan who was trying to stick his head out from behind the big leaf.

He didn’t say anything, but his meaning was very clear. He hoped that Qi Bai could also praise his leaf.

Qi Bai looked at Sun Quan, who seemed to be holding a small umbrella, and gulped. Wow, this was a taro leaf.

Qi Bai quickly took the leaf from Sun Yuan, called the other children back, and asked Sun Yuan, “Where did you find this?”

Sun Yuan had a wooden face and didn’t move.

Qi Bai slapped his forehead. Then he touched Sun Yuan’s head and praised him. “The leaf you found is what I want the most. You are really amazing. Can you take us to find more of this leaf?”

It was only then that Sun Yuan nodded, turned around, and walked in front.

They followed the small figure of Sun Yuan through twists and turns and through a small forest. Then a small piece of land surrounded by tall trees appeared in front of Qi Bai.

Crystal-clear water droplets condensed on the broad leaves. The sunlight passed through the branches, reflecting a magical halo on the water droplets.

If Qi Bai had a paintbrush in his hand, he would definitely capture this beautiful scenery on the canvas now.

However, he had none of these things.

Qi Bai squatted down and started digging the soil.

Even though the first thing he dug out was a rotten taro with only half of it left, Qi Bai couldn’t help smiling. This was truly an unexpected surprise.

Qi Bai continued to dig in the place where there were dead leaves. Soon, he dug up a whole piece of taro. Most of it had sprouted, but a small part was still intact and could be eaten.

Bao Xing tugged Qi Bai’s sleeve. “Brother Bao Bai, aren’t we going to play find the leaves?”

Qi Bai laughed. “You go and play it. I’ll wait for you here.”

Therefore, the task of finding beautiful leaves really shouldn’t be left to adults. He personally was the best example. It was difficult for them to not be attracted by the food in the mountains and forests and forget their original goal.

Once they left the forest, Qi Bai was holding large leaves in his hands and his rattan basket was filled with large pieces of taro.

Qi Bai packed back all the taro he had dug out. The intact ones could be eaten directly, while the ones that had sprouted could be planted further. There was no reason to waste them.

Qi Bai turned around and looked at the forest behind him.

Qi Bai wasn’t unfamiliar with this mountain. It was right on the way to the Man-Eating River, forming a triangle with the waterfall and the Black Mountain.

It was just that it was sandwiched in the middle, so few people went there.

Who would’ve thought there would be such a beautiful piece of land and so much food to eat?

Qi Bai sat down among the beastmen and spread the leaves in the rattan basket on the ground one by one. Then he went to the place where the mortar was mixed and sifted some fine sand. He mixed it with the quicklime to make a pot of even finer mortar.

First, pile a small handful of soil on the ground, place the leaves on the soil, and finally carefully spread the mortar evenly on the surface of the leaves.

Shu Lin pulled the little bear that kept moving towards Qi Bai and put the bear on his head. “Bao Bai, what are you doing?”

Qi Bai said, “I’m going to make rubbings of these leaves and put them outside our toilet.”

Qi Bai promised Yang Luo that he would build a more beautiful toilet, so he naturally had to try his best to do it.

He really wasn’t good at painting with mortar, so he came up with this idea.

Apply the mortar to the side of the leaves when the veins were clear, and let them solidify naturally. Then remove the leaves, and the mortar would form a three-dimensional pattern.

He used to make leaf rubbings often, but he always used paints at that time. Now he changed the material to lime mortar.

In addition, Qi Bai still had some leaves left and planned to print the shapes of the leaves directly on the wall.

In this way, the combination of flat and three-dimensional patterns should be quite interesting.

Seeing Shu Lin rubbing his hands and looking eager to try, he took the initiative to hand over some leaves. The two of them sat on the ground and started tinkering with it together.

Before they knew it, the two of them were surrounded by small piles of earth.

“Bao Bai, come and take a look!”

Qi Bai heard someone calling his name, so he straightened the leaves in his hand, shouted that he was coming, and trotted over.

It had to be said that with more than twenty beastmen working at the same time, the efficiency was really unmatched by ordinary people.

The moment Qi Bai returned to the tribe, he saw that more than half of the outermost wall had been built. Now that bricks of the entire outer wall had been completed.

They needed Qi Bai because they encountered difficulties when building the sewage duct.

The sewage channel tilted downwards as a whole and flowed into a pool below.

This design allowed feces to be collected and fermented directly underground.

Of course, Qi Bai’s idea was good, but whether it could be successful in reality would only be known after it was used. In any case, the worst that could happen was that it would be like in the countryside, where the feces needed to be cleaned out regularly.

It was just that everyone had been building walls that were straight up and down. Suddenly, they encountered a slope and didn’t know where to start.

Qi Bai and Lang Ze squatted in the earth pit and studied for a long time. “Fill the bottom with soil, tamp the soil, and lay bricks on the top layer.”

Qi Bai looked at the others. “Is it okay?”

Lang Ze nodded. “Let’s give it a try.”

During this test, the sub-beastmen in the square didn’t see Qi Bai come out as the sun went down.

Yang Luo looked at the tall house and told Hu Xue and Zhu Zhu, “Let’s go to the tribe’s warehouse to get some food. We will eat together today.”

Hu Xue’s group had been watching the progress of the construction, so they weren’t surprised to hear Yang Luo’s instructions.

Dinner was ready, and everyone rushed to fill their stomachs with food. QI Bai felt that he hadn’t even tasted the food before he quickly returned to the construction site.

Connecting passages, internal partitions, and the roof.

It was just a small toilet, but everyone spent a whole two and a half days here.

Qi Bai retracted the shovel, took a few steps back, looked at the wall covered with leaves, and clapped with satisfaction.

At this time, the hunting team had just returned to the tribe. Everyone put down their prey and turned into human form before running over.

Qi Bai wanted to find Lang Ze to look at his paintings, but he found that Lang Ze wasn’t in the team.

He stopped Xi Zhou and asked, “Where is Lang Ze?”

Xi Zhou also looked around. “He was still here when we went back to the tribe. Do you want me to help you find him?”

Qi Bai shook his head. “No no, I don’t need him for anything urgent.”

However, there wasn’t much work to be done here. He just had to wait for the mortar to dry before the Black Mountain Tribe’s first public facility could be put into use.

There wasn’t anything to do, so Qi Bai thought of the small date berries that he had seen a few days ago. He didn’t know what happened to them now, so he left the tribe and found the location of the three date berry plants.

He discovered that the fruits on the date berry plants were not only ripe, but some of them had been eaten by small animals in the forest.

Qi Bai quickly picked the remaining fruits, took them back to the cave, and took out the seeds.

As Qi Bai walked into the tribe, he saw a white shadow on the stone platform. He couldn’t help quickening his pace. Sure enough, he saw a huge furry creature lying outside the cave.

The white wolf shook his big tail gently when seeing Qi Bai.

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Sherry
Sherry
16 days ago

Ahh they’re so cute! Thanks for the chapter.

Ethereal Rainbow Canvas
Ethereal Rainbow Canvas
16 days ago

Thanks for the chapter! Kids really are the best at finding interesting things, in all sort of ways, lol

Trapped2Moons
Trapped2Moons
16 days ago

I love this story! I have a soft spot for little beastmen!

thanks for the chapter <3

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