In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 166 It is not feasible for husband and wife to live together

In the temporary camp of the Lin family army in the Mobei Gobi, everyone looked at the flying snow in the sky, with deep worry on their faces.

After one night, there was a thick layer of snow on the ground.

The heavy snowfall last night directly crushed several tents, almost burying the people inside alive, so much so that they are still staying in the tents and don't want to come out.

In fact, winter has just entered and the temperature is not too low, but the freezing wind blows almost endlessly, which is the most unbearable thing.

"Don't sit still, come out and work quickly. While it's still warm now, you must build all the igloos, otherwise it will only get colder in the future."

"Huang Ben, you bring 5000 people and are responsible for building the stables."

"Zhou Meng, you take 5000 people to build toilets and warehouse kitchens."

"Madam, you and Belle will take all the women to make the snow bricks."

"Master Xu, please lead all the craftsmen to build the templates. Mrs. Lu, you are responsible for lighting the fire and cooking."

"Quick, everyone move."

Lin Rui looked at the snow on the ground, but he breathed a sigh of relief and assigned the tasks one by one.

Suddenly, the entire camp started to move, and everyone was working in full swing despite the wind and snow.

The younger girls, under the command of Hubbell, began to roll snowballs on the ground and gathered the snow into a pile. Then, under the command of Namu Zhong, the women used the pre-made molds to pack the snow. Make snow bricks of the same size.

Thousands of craftsmen and young men over there quickly built conical wooden houses in the open space using templates that had been prepared long ago.

The wooden house is one foot high and one foot wide in diameter at the bottom. It does not begin to shrink toward the middle until one meter later.

Although this kind of space can only stand up in the middle, it is not a problem for seven or eight people to squeeze in and lie down.

If it is made of ice bricks, it can be made into a semicircle with a larger space, but bricks made directly from snow can only be made into this cone shape, otherwise it will easily collapse.

Lin Rui also considered melting snow into water and then making ice bricks, but it would consume too much wood and had to give up.

After the rows of conical wooden houses were put together, the teenagers used the method of beating drums to pass the huge snow bricks over, stacked them close to the wooden houses, and then piled snow directly along the conical wooden boards layer by layer. .

Finally, drill through the hole reserved in advance, remove all the templates inside, and continue to assemble the wooden house.

With this division of labor and cooperation, the assembly line-like construction speed was very fast, and [-] buildings were built in one day.

In order to maintain everyone's physical strength and heat, hot water is supplied around the clock during work, and three meals a day are hot meals.

This made Mrs. Lu and the ladies who had never made a fire in a hurry. Fortunately, with the help of the maids, they were able to provide hot water. However, since they always stayed by the fire, they were undoubtedly most fortunate.

The stables, kitchens, warehouses, and toilets don't need to be so rigorous. They are all built with four walls of snow to form a rectangle, and then a door is dug out.

The stables and toilet warehouses also need to be placed with some wood as beams and covered with tarpaulin. When they are packed with snow, the kitchen can be left directly in the open air.

Therefore, the construction speed was also very fast. If the snow on the ground nearby had not been used up and the snow had to be collected further away, it would have been completed in one day.

However, with the efforts of 1 people, it only took three days to build more than 300 stables, toilets, warehouses, and kitchens.

After the stables were built, the war horses were locked in as soon as possible. Each stable could only house five horses.

So in order for these war horses to survive this winter, a total of two hundred horse pengs were built.

After the kitchen was built, Mrs. Lu immediately moved in with her maids. In order to prevent the snow wall from melting by the heat wave and without the need for a roof, the kitchen was built very wide and was also the largest building.

The reason why a kitchen is specially built is mainly to avoid wind, so as to save more fuel.

Of course, not all igloos are the same size. Lin Rui built a spacious and tall igloo for himself using ice bricks. The base is three feet long in diameter and one foot high. The entire igloo is made of ice cubes and water. , not only is it strong, but it is also very bright during the day, and you can move around in it while standing upright.

There is a formal wooden bed and a bookshelf inside. The door is also divided into two doors, the inside and outside. The outside is a wooden door, and the inside is a cowhide door curtain. The floor is also covered with a layer of wooden boards and cowhide.

As soon as Namuzhong and Habeier entered this crystal clear igloo, their eyes suddenly lit up.

"Rui Lang, you still have a way, you can actually think of making a house out of ice and snow, it looks pretty good."

"Sister Namuzhong, what's so nice about this? If this house really wouldn't collapse or melt, you could burn charcoal fires inside, which would be much more comfortable than a tent."

Hubbell knocked on the ice wall with her hand, then came to the bed to look at it, walked around for a while and said with a smile.

"Don't worry, it will definitely not collapse or melt. However, this igloo is all about sealing, so don't burn the charcoal fire."

Lin Rui was also very satisfied with this igloo. He waved his hand and explained that if he burned charcoal fire in it, he would probably be poisoned and die.

After hearing this, the two of them also looked forward to it. They were not too happy to have such a big house to spend the winter in this icy and snowy Mobei. Not only did not a trace of wind blow in, but they could also walk around and read in it.

They had also gone inside those small snow houses. Not only were they hunched over, but they were also pitch black inside. The thought of staying in them all winter made them shudder.

After visiting their igloos, Namuzhong and Habeier were unwilling to go out to enjoy the breeze, but Lin Rui had to go out and assign igloos to everyone.

After seven days of hard work, nearly 2 igloos have been built for living. In the past few days, everyone was crowded in and lived casually, and Lin Rui didn't care, but now they must be allocated carefully. We can no longer allow them to live together with men and women. "Commander, I want to live with my woman, is that okay?"

"Commander, I also want to live with my woman..."

As soon as Lin Rui came out of the igloo, everyone along the way clamored to live with his woman and did not want to be separated, whether they were Mongolians or Hans.

"No, if there are only two people in this igloo, not only will it not be able to live in it, but it will also not be warm. It will only be warm if there are more people. At least five people need to live in one room, so men and women can only live in separate rooms!"

Lin Rui shook his head and explained.

"Commander, how about the three of us living in the same house with our women."

"Yes, we both live together with our women too."

When the Mongolians heard that at least five people were required to live in one house, they immediately gathered their close friends to live together.

But the Han people looked at me, I looked at you, and then looked at the woman next to them, hesitating a little.

Obviously, he cannot accept that his woman wants to live in a house with other men, even if he is there and they are brothers, he is not willing to do so.

Lin Rui was so noisy by them that he had a headache for a while. In such a small space, if five big men stayed in it all day long, maybe for three or four months, it would be really torturous.

Comparing my feelings with my own, if I could stay with my woman and sleep with him every day, I would undoubtedly be much happier.

But the key point is that two or three couples live together, and the space is as small as his cat. It is crowded with people and you can use your butt to get it. Then something will definitely happen.

Maybe after this winter, the Lin family army will turn into a rogue and beastly army.

Maybe after the spring comes, all women will have big bellies and still don’t know who the baby’s father is.

Thinking of this, Lin Rui had to harden his heart and said with a stern face: "No, unless there are two women, or more than two, who can live in a house alone, others must live in separate rooms for men and women. Of course, there will be Build more igloos, and those who want to sleep with their women can apply, and the number of igloos will be tripled than before."

"The handsome and wise!"

The eyes of the Han teenagers lit up and they immediately started cheering. The Mongolian girls around them also cheered happily. They were completely different from those Han girls who buried their heads in their chests in shame.

Although the Mongolian men were depressed, they did not dare to say anything.

Immediately, Lin Rui asked the commanders of each battalion, Qianhu, to allocate their own residences to their subordinates. They would try to live in a single building for five people, with men living in the west and women living in the east. The battalion commanders and Qianhu, all hundred households lived in a single building.

In order to maintain body heat, apart from eating and going to the hut every day, I try to stay in the igloo as much as possible and cannot come out.

There is only one hot meal every day at noon, a bowl of broth and half a catty of horse meat. If the horse meat is not eaten, you can hide it close to your body and eat it in the evening.

Those thousand war horses received the same hot meal and six kilograms of grain every day, and the remaining ten thousand stones of grain were almost all prepared for them.

At first, everyone would sneak out during the day to look for their women, but as the temperature got colder and colder, basically no one wanted to run out anymore.

Lin Rui also had to cancel the patrol.

This resulted in the entire day, except at noon, not a single person could be seen at other times. The entire camp was covered with small white snow packets, like a cemetery, and as many people were there as possible.

"Rui Lang, I'm afraid it won't work like this. We are crowded into such a small room day and night. We still have books to read, but others can't do anything. Several people have started to go crazy in the past two days. .”

"Yes, husband. I heard that one man went crazy in the middle of the night. Not only did he yell, but he also destroyed the igloo and almost buried them all in it."

In the igloo, Namu Zhong took a look around as usual, and after returning to the house, she said with a worried look on her face.

Even though his whole body was wrapped in a thick leather cloak, his pretty face was still pale from the cold, and his body couldn't stop shivering.

Lin Rui, on the other hand, was lying weakly on the bed, his brows furrowed into the Chinese character "Chuan", obviously falling ill.

"Hey! There's nothing I can do about this. I can only insist on keeping the crazy ones alone together. But Belle reminded me that I am idle now anyway. There are still three or four months before spring, so why not just let it go? Mrs. Lu and the others will teach those young people how to count and read!"

Lin Rui sat up with Ha Bei'er's help.

"But there's no way to teach it? It's such a small house. If you let those ladies and maids squeeze in and teach the teenagers how to read, isn't this a sheep entering a tiger's mouth?"

Na Muzhong was stunned, and then said, there are no people patrolling outside now. If something goes wrong, I'm afraid it won't be discovered until noon.

"Right!"

Lin Rui thought about it and it was indeed the case. This was really a sheep in a tiger's mouth.

However, it is rare to have such a long free time, and it would be a pity not to take the opportunity to teach those Han teenagers culture.

After all, these young men will be his capital for conquering the world in the future. If they can all read and write, and know some arithmetic, the overall quality of the entire Lin family army will be greatly improved, and it will be easier to train senior officers.

If he hadn't really had no time before and was always fighting, he would have taken the time to let Mrs. Lu and the others teach him.

(End of this chapter)