Chapter 40: Bone Knife
The cross-sections of the two half bones that were split open were U-shaped.
Su Ran held one end of the bone and splashed some water on it, then tilted the angle and quickly polished it on the file.
As the polishing time lengthened, white water marks began to gradually accumulate on the file.
And unsurprisingly, this action once again aroused the werewolf’s curiosity.
So under the werewolf’s strong desire to learn, both ends of the first bone were quickly polished to a knife edge.
Su Ran took the bone from the werewolf’s hand and satisfyingly tossed it in her palm.
Then she patted the werewolf’s arm and gave it a thumbs up: “Gray, awesome!”
“Ao wu~”
After getting over its thirst for knowledge, the werewolf looked at Su Ran happily. Although it didn’t understand what she said, it could feel the appreciation on Su Ran’s face.
It shook its wings and looked at Su Ran: “Awesome!”
When it saw Su Ran nodding happily and saying: “Yeah! Gray is awesome!”
It became even happier.
So it imitated Su Ran’s action, raised a thumb at her: “Su Ran, awesome! Awesome! Awesome!”
Good grief, it learned so quickly to mutually flatter each other!
Su Ran looked at it with a wry smile.
The bone had already been polished into a bone knife.
Moreover, it was a bone knife that could be used from both ends, with the blade similar to a U-shaped carving knife.
The blade width of the U-shaped bone knife was about five or six centimeters wide, and the entire blade length was about twenty centimeters.
After measuring, Su Ran directly had the werewolf help saw the bone knife in half from the middle.
This way, she had two independent bone knives!
Su Ran took the bone knife and walked back to the half-dug wood stump, selecting a branch of appropriate thickness from the remaining firewood.
Then she went to the edge of the woods behind and cut a few willow branches from the willow tree.
She sawed the selected branch into two wooden sticks about ten centimeters long. After peeling off the bark from the wooden sticks, she inserted them into the groove in the middle of the bone’s cross-section.
Then she wrapped the wooden stick and the bone together with willow branches, and a simple knife handle was made. This could avoid the situation of the bone’s cross-section chafing her hand when using the U-shaped bone knife.
She tried one of the U-shaped bone knives on the half-dug wood stump, and sure enough, it was much more convenient and handy than using the tactical knife!
Most importantly, using the bone knife didn’t hurt her heart. If she used the tactical knife to dig wood every day like this, she would feel like she was wasting a heavenly thing!
After having the U-shaped bone knife, Su Ran’s work progress was like it had double speed enabled. In less than half an hour, the rough shape of a bowl appeared in Su Ran’s hand.
However, the inside of the bowl still needed good polishing, the outer bark needed to be shaved off, and the bowl’s shape needed further processing.
Of course, if she could make do, the current state wasn’t unusable.
But Su Ran naturally didn’t want to make do.
So she continued polishing the outside of the bowl.
And at this time, almost all the beastmen had finished this meal.
What was a bit different today from before was that in the previous days, Su Ran saw that these beastmen basically only came out together by the riverside to process prey, but they wouldn’t choose to eat outside.
Including the previous roast meat time, most beastmen also chose to take the meat back to their nests to eat after it was cooked.
It was also because of this that Su Ran thought the reason the beastmen took food back to their nests to eat was that they felt eating outside lacked security and their territory would be invaded.
But today was completely different from that time.
For this meal today, almost all the beastmen chose to eat directly on the river beach.
This made Su Ran start to have doubts.
So the beastmen didn’t necessarily have to eat in their own private territory?
At this time, after these beastmen finished eating, they all sat in place basking in the sun.
If ignoring their occasional glances toward Su Ran and the werewolf, it would really make people think they were enjoying this quiet and beautiful moment in nature.
The rough wooden bowl in Su Ran’s hand gradually became perfect.
After she drew the last stroke inside the bowl, she excitedly held the bowl in front of the werewolf and said to it: “Gray! Bowl!”
The werewolf was startled by her sudden excitement!
At this time, it was holding the file from the multi-tool axe, imitating Su Ran’s action and polishing the remaining half bone.
But for some reason, compared to the nearly perfect bone knife just now, the bone in its hand now had a tendency to get shorter and shorter as it polished.
This made Su Ran couldn’t help but suspect, could there be a novice period for this too?
And the werewolf was startled by Su Ran’s action, causing it to snap off another edge of the bone in its hand!
It looked at the thing in Su Ran’s hand for a long time, then said: “Cup?”
The word cup was taught to it by Su Ran yesterday.
Thermos is a cup, stainless steel mug is a cup, so this thing that can obviously hold water in front of it is also a cup.
Su Ran was stumped by the werewolf’s “cup,” shook her head, and said: “Bowl!”
Although there was no need to be so particular about the name of something with similar usage here, Su Ran still hoped the werewolf could distinguish as much as possible between the tools for drinking water and eating.
She still didn’t want to have the cup for drinking water used to hold meat. After all, there was no dish soap here, and she didn’t want to drink water with oil floating all over it.
The werewolf was obviously still a bit doubtful.
But after noticing Su Ran’s affirmative attitude, it didn’t dwell on it much.
For it, what this item was called came from Su Ran’s mouth anyway, and how to distinguish it wasn’t really important, as long as it could communicate smoothly with Su Ran.
And in the time after that, until the afternoon, Su Ran kept making the daily necessities she needed by the riverside.
Two bowls and two U-shaped bone knives were completed first, and as she finished digging the second wooden bowl, some beastmen already had their first self-made wooden bowl in hand.
Although it didn’t look as good as the one Su Ran dug, theirs took only ten minutes for one bowl, at a speed several times faster than Su Ran’s.
They didn’t even need to prepare tools, because the sharp claws on the beastmen’s hands were their most handy weapons!
Su Ran thought perhaps this was also why the werewolf was only interested in polishing the bone knife but lacked interest in digging another wood stump.
For it, digging wood obviously had no challenge and no appealing points.
Su Ran even suspected that they usually used wood to sharpen their claws.
She rinsed the animal hide that the werewolf had kneaded in the water again, prepared to take it back to dry and see what it looked like after drying.
Then she went under the willow tree at the edge of the woods and cut a large bundle of willow branches.
After that, in the afternoon, she kept weaving things.
Weaving with willow branches was much easier than with the shrubs by the seaside.
Most importantly, the willow branches were soft, effortless to weave, and long enough without needing to constantly add new branches.
When the sun slanted westward and the sky gradually dimmed, there were already two forty-centimeter-wide round winnowing baskets piled up beside Su Ran, which she prepared for holding food to be dried in the sun.
At this moment, she had just started weaving a new larger basket.
But a circle of young beastmen sat around her.
At this time, these beastmen were all looking at the willow branches in their own hands, some of which had been tormented into broken segments, which made Su Ran amused.
After having strong combat power and smart brains, these beastmen finally had a weakness.
For this kind of delicate handcraft, these little cuties seemed to collectively lack the skill, with none able to quickly grasp the knack.
While weaving, Su Ran looked at the beastman sitting beside her, who was scratching its head and ears in frustration over a small willow branch, and couldn’t help but curve her lips.
She looked up at the increasingly warm sun overhead and suddenly felt that this life seemed to be getting more and more interesting!
