Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 285: Chapter 276 I’m Afraid Little Ming Zhao Won’t Get to Eat!

The next day, Yang Zhenshan made another trip to Nanling Village and discovered that Zhang Hu had already led people to construct an ice house.

The ice house was quite ugly, lacking any aesthetic value, essentially a structure built with blocks of ice, its exterior walls uneven and pitted.

This was normal, as without uniform molds, it was naturally impossible to construct even walls. Besides, the purpose of building the ice house was to accommodate those military households whose houses had collapsed. As long as it was livable, aesthetics were unimportant.

The floor of the ice house was covered with a lot of straw, and a bed was made inside using stones and wooden planks, likely repurposing a door.

Although it looked terrible, there was at least a place to live now.

Yang Zhenshan was very satisfied with this.

Over the following days, many households in the Tenglong Guard’s jurisdiction started building ice houses.

The ingenuity of the people was not to be underestimated. Although it was Yang Zhenshan who suggested the idea, he soon found that everyone’s ice houses were different.

Some were built like regular houses, with beams to prevent the ice house from collapsing.

Others were constructed in a semi-spherical shape, not even needing beams.

There were even clever individuals who simply dug in the snow to create snow houses!

When Yang Zhenshan saw the snow houses, he was stunned!

It seemed that the snow houses were even better!

Ice houses needed to wait for the ice to solidify, but snow houses could use materials readily available nearby, saving time and energy, and there was no difference between a snow house and an ice house.

It was then that Yang Zhenshan learned the saying, “The wisdom of one is short, the wisdom of many is long.”

After seeing the snow houses, Yang Zhenshan promoted the method of building snow houses.

With the snow houses, military households were not afraid of not having a place to live this winter.