Chapter 296: Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls Build Walls, Lin Ye Becomes a Laborer!
Regarding the bacteria that the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls might carry on their feet.
Alcohol is produced during the fermentation of wine.
This alcohol can completely kill all of them.
After sprinkling white sugar into each pottery jar,
Lin Ye sealed the jars with lids.
Each jar was filled with just over half of the grapes.
This is because a lot of gas is produced during grape fermentation.
If the jars were completely filled,
the fermented and rotten smell of this gas would blend into the wine.
This would make the resulting wine very difficult to drink.
After sealing all the pottery jars with lids, Lin Ye moved them to the deepest part of the cave.
He then took several more beast skins.
He tightly bound these skins around the pottery jars.
Even so, Lin Ye still felt it wasn’t secure enough.
Finally, he went out and brought back several buckets of the mud that the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls had dug that day.
He poured it all over these four pottery jars, burying them in the earth.
Looking at the covered mounds of earth, Lin Ye nodded with satisfaction.
He patted the dust off his hands and walked out of the cave.
By this time, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls had all returned after washing their feet.
Seeing Lin Ye walk out of the cave,
they all gathered around.
Shi, upon reaching Lin Ye, immediately spoke to him, asking,
“Ye, what were you so rushed about just now? What are those grapes for?”
“Yeah, Ye, why did you need us to wash, then blow dry, and then stomp them all with our bare feet?”
After Shi finished speaking, Ming Yun immediately chimed in,
The Cat-eared Girls, whose feet had cat paw pads, all nodded in unison and began to speak in a jumble, “Yeah, that feeling was so strange.”
“Yes, the feeling of grapes bursting under our feet was truly peculiar…”
The other Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls also stood by, looking at Lin Ye with confusion.
Lin Ye looked at the appearance of the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls.
A faint smile on his face.
Having just begun brewing wine, Lin Ye was in a very good mood. “Alright, alright, listen to me.”
Lin Ye looked at the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls who kept interrupting each other with questions.
Showing no signs of stopping.
He then spoke to interrupt them.
Upon hearing Lin Ye’s words, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls immediately quieted down.
They all stared at Lin Ye with eyes full of doubt, waiting for his answer.
Seeing that the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls had all fallen silent,
Lin Ye, with a smile, finally spoke to them, “Those grapes were like that because they are to be used for making wine!” “Making wine?”
As soon as Lin Ye said this, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls were instantly filled with question marks.
In this world, alcohol had never existed before.
So, upon hearing about making wine, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls naturally became even more excited. “What does it mean to make wine, Ye?”
After a moment of confusion, Shi was the first to ask Lin Ye.
The other Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls also looked at Lin Ye, bewildered.
Upon hearing Shi’s question, they all nodded at Lin Ye.
Seeing the appearance of the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls, Lin Ye smiled and nodded, then said, “Making wine is turning grapes into wine, and you can drink it after some time.” “Drink? Ye, is wine for drinking?” “Ye, does wine taste good?”
Upon hearing Lin Ye’s words, Sakura and Diona immediately asked him.
The other Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls, upon hearing that Lin Ye was making something to drink,
immediately looked at Lin Ye with anticipation.
Looking at the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls, Lin Ye
thought for a moment and then said with a smile,
“Of course, wine tastes good, and there are many types.”
“What is made from grapes is called wine, and many other things can be used to make wine.”
“Think about it, grapes are already so delicious, and we added so much sugar, how could it not taste good?” After Lin Ye finished speaking, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls’ eyes suddenly shone with excitement. “Wow, that’s right, the grapes are already so sweet, and Ye even added sugar, how delicious must it be!” Sakura said with her eyes full of longing.
By this time, the sky had completely darkened.
After Lin Ye explained to the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls, he took them back to the wooden house to rest.
Before going to sleep, Lin Ye asked Shi to make a few ice cubes and put them with the remaining bunches of grapes.
This way, they could be kept fresh when eaten the next day.
Now that grapes had been successfully planted, for future planting, they could just use cuttings.
The Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls were tired from a day’s work.
Back in the wooden house, they lay on their beds, chatted excitedly about wine for a while, and then all fell asleep.
The next day, upon waking up,
Lin Ye saw the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls transporting bricks towards them as he walked out of the wooden house. “Ugh~!”
Stretching, Lin Ye also began to get busy.
The foundation had been dug yesterday, and today was the day to officially start building.
He called a few Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls to move the cement out of the cave bucket by bucket.
Then, he arranged for a few Winged Girls to fetch water.
Lin Ye also dragged over two large bamboo tubes for bathing.
These were specifically for storing water.
Lin Ye first spread out a pile of cement, and then began to lay bricks in the foundation dug yesterday.
Seeing Lin Ye start working, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls
all curiously gathered around.
Lin Ye, seeing the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls,
began to teach them little by little how to place bricks in the foundation.
Lin Ye’s original plan was to teach a few Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls how to build walls.
Otherwise, for such a large house, if it were just Lin Ye alone, it might not be enough time to finish before winter.
While digging the foundation, Lin Ye had discovered that the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls had a very good sense of straight lines.
Throughout the entire day, not a single person had dug even slightly crooked.
There were only a few key points for laying brick walls.
The thickness of the cement,
and the bricks on top must cover the gaps between the two bricks below.
And it couldn’t be pressed in the middle.
Therefore, when laying the first brick of each layer, one had to think about how the subsequent bricks would be arranged.
However, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls learned much faster than Lin Ye had expected.
This kind of practical knowledge.
After watching Lin Ye demonstrate a few times, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls had pretty much learned it.
Then, one by one, they all started to work.
Lin Ye corrected a few of their mistakes from behind,
and the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls became as skilled as old workers, one by one.
What was even more commendable was that the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls could build perfectly straight brick walls, both vertically and horizontally, without a spirit level.
Lin Ye was freed from the work of laying bricks.
He was now a laborer,
dedicated to supplying cement to the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls.
With so many Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls working together, Lin Ye was a bit overwhelmed by himself.
However, the task of mixing cement was something the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls couldn’t learn.
This involved the ratio of water, river sand, and cement.
When they ran out of cement, Lin Ye would ask the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls to rest for a while.
It was almost noon now.
Lin Ye looked at the sun in the sky and said to the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls, “Alright, everyone go wash your hands and get ready to cook and eat lunch.” Upon hearing Lin Ye’s words, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls
all remembered that after dinner yesterday, Lin Ye had said that from now on, the tribe could eat two meals a day.
Remembering this, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls all cheered and then went to wash their hands.
Lin Ye, meanwhile, continued to prepare all the cement the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls would need in the afternoon before stopping.
After washing their hands, they came to the open space.
The pottery pot was simmering on the bonfire, and Shi and a few Beast-eared Girls were busy kneading dough to make noodles.
The other Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls were enjoying the grapes that had been chilled all night, eating them with relish.
