After confirming that the surrounding environment was relatively safe, Wen Qian began searching for a suitable site for building a house.
The logging camp was located in a mountain basin surrounded by mountains on all four sides. Initially choosing this place to build a residential area was actually a good choice.
However, Wen Qian still wanted to find a more suitable place for living alone.
This place had more flat ground, and Wen Qian was more inclined to grow crops here in the future.
But she would not build her home next to the cropland.
She had a detailed map of this place, but no matter how detailed it was, it could not help her anymore.
Following the trend of the mountain, Wen Qian found a nearby river.
This small river was quite deep, although the surface was not wide.
Nearby, there was a collapsed pavilion and wooden bridge, as well as an overturned boat that had turned into scrap iron.
It seemed to be one of the original entertainment facilities. Wen Qian also saw some previously planted flowers and blueberries in the vicinity.
Speaking of which, the climate here was once quite suitable for blueberry growth, but it was unknown whether the current climate could still bear fruit.
Following the river upstream, she found a relatively wider section of the river, and then saw a relatively gentle area around it.
This place was previously farmland, so there were still quite obvious ridges and differences in elevation, forming about two to three levels of terraced fields.
Wen Qian walked along the river upstream, passing a long slope with a height difference of about three to four meters, and then reached a flat area.
It appeared to be a former farmland, surrounded by a ridge, and this flat area was planted with straight rows of the same variety of trees, whose thickness was just right for building a house.
Passing through this grove, she walked further up the slope with another three to five meters of elevation difference, where there was another larger flat area, but only covered in weeds.
Wen Qian stood behind the grove and looked at the river in front of her. Even if the water rose, such a distance and height difference would not affect the area behind the grove.
Moreover, the open farmland area behind was large enough, so Wen Qian did not need to level the land again.
The slope behind the farmland was also very gentle, and there was no need to worry about any geological disasters. At the same time, the trees above were not too dense.
But thinking about it, in a place where people lived, the trees could not be too dense. The paths she frequently walked around her old home needed to be cleared of weeds and bushes, and the mountains she often visited also needed tree felling.
Maintaining a reasonable ecological environment was mainly for the benefit of human conditions, not for the benefit of plants and animals.
With this farmland as the radius, Wen Qian continued to search outwards and eventually decided to build her house here.
So she had to start by clearing the weeds, digging the foundation, and compacting the ground.
Since it was June, her schedule should be quite ample.
It took her two days to clear the weeds and one week to dig the foundation.
After that, she used the power of space to compact the ground, dropping huge rocks from above, quickly flattening the entire surface.
Next, she would start laying the stone foundation. However, at this point, when she was building the house, she already had enough building materials.
Therefore, she planned to build a house with a heated brick bed and a fire wall for the winter.
Even in normal climate and temperature, the winters here required a lot of warmth.
She planned for the stone foundation to be about one meter above the ground. For convenience, she then built a very thick wall around this farmland and moved the small houses and walls from the logging camp over here.
She took a two-day break in between, spending two days clearing and leveling the land in the vegetable garden area at the logging camp, and then sowing seeds.
She felt that she could still harvest a batch of vegetables in the next two months, while she couldn't do anything else while building the house. Basically, there wouldn't be much of a harvest this year.
So she might as well plant a little.
After the house foundation was ready, she began building the house on top of it.
The plan was for three rooms: a kitchen, a bedroom, and a storage room.
This time, she had to separate her sleeping area from the cooking area, with the kitchen and bedroom connected in the middle by a door that could be closed while cooking.
And when Wen Qian heated the brick bed, she would do it in the kitchen to keep the bedroom clean.
The storage room had a separate entrance and did not require particularly high-quality materials, as she did not have many things to store temporarily.
The main priority was to finish the two living and sleeping rooms as soon as possible.
On the side of her kitchen, she built a very small room as a toilet, and since it was so small, she ignored it. The door was opened from the kitchen wall.
Upon entering, the kitchen was on the left, the toilet entrance was on the left, and the bedroom entrance was on the right.
This tiny room was used to place the simple toilet she had previously purchased, essentially adding another layer of walls around the fragile toilet.
Over the next one and a half months, the house started to take shape, like a bare shell. Next, she needed to refine the details.
Wen Qian laid the red brick tiles on the roof and climbed down the ladder.
Then she looked at the house with satisfaction. Next, she would build the stove, heated brick bed, and fire wall inside, and once the house was dry, she could move in.
With the remaining time, she could work on the storage room. Actually, in her plan, the house was not limited to just these rooms.
It was just that she felt building houses was too tiring, and if she built everything at once, she would almost collapse. So she decided to slowly work on the less critical rooms later.
While she was building the house, the vegetables at the logging camp were growing very well.
Afterwards, Wen Qian built a usable stove based on the information, along with the large iron pot she had purchased earlier.
Then she also set up the heated brick bed and fire wall in the room. Although it was quite troublesome to follow the diagrams during construction.
She even made a mistake in the middle, but after completing it and testing, it worked quite well.
So Wen Qian happily moved in. Of course, she carefully put her portable activity room back into her space.
This little house had been very useful during her migration process, so this precious item had to be kept safe.
After settling her eating, drinking, and sleeping arrangements, Wen Qian began selectively logging the slopes nearby.
Then she put all these trees inside the wall, leaving them for a month or two to dry, which would be just right for firewood in the winter.
This way, she didn't have to use the wood materials already in her space.
After felling the trees, she began to build a storage house. This house, aside from the doors, windows, walls, and roof, was completely bare on the inside with no preparations made.
Wen Qian passed four fire-roasted wooden poles through the upper part of the wall, which could later be used for hanging things, such as the salted fish and meat that she would prepare in the future.
After everything was done, it was September, and the winter season in this place was about to begin.
