Chapter 45: Stone Pot
Su Ran picked out two stones in total, one large and one small.
The larger one was rectangular in shape, about half a meter long, with width and height around thirty centimeters.
The smaller one appeared more circular.
However, after Su Ran and the werewolf dug it out from the sand and soil of the river beach together, they discovered that this smaller stone was actually more conical.
Or rather, more like a funnel.
Because the stone tapered narrower from top to bottom.
The part buried at the bottom of the sand and soil, at its uppermost section, suddenly narrowed from about thirty centimeters wide to only about ten centimeters wide.
It was somewhat like the funnel the shop owner used at the small shop when grandpa went to buy soy sauce in her memory.
She felt this stone was simply born to be smashed into a pot.
Su Ran didn’t rush to transport the stones back to the fire-making place.
Rather than hurrying to carry them back with effort, it was better to dig them into pots right here and then move them back, saving quite a bit of strength.
She glanced around, memorized the positions of these two stones, then pulled the werewolf back to the river beach edge.
Beastmen had already started eating half-cooked roast food at the river beach edge.
Previously, due to habit, they would return to their dwellings to eat food.
These past two days, because they had fallen in love with roast food, they began following Su Ran and the werewolf to make fire and roast meat downstream of the river beach.
By today, after Su Ran and the werewolf came to this side, this group of guys followed over again.
At one point, Su Ran even felt like there was a kindergarten’s tag-along behind her.
However, this also made her start considering how to teach the beastmen the method of independently using fire.
Making fire wasn’t difficult, whether making tinder or wood friction fire-making, with the beastmen’s intelligence, they should be able to learn it quite easily.
But what Su Ran was worried about was the beastmen’s fire safety issue.
Although now the beastmen also knew that water and soil could extinguish fire, she was concerned that the beastmen didn’t know the severity of the dangers that using fire could cause.
If playful beastmen or those little ones suddenly took a flame and ran off to play.
Or if they didn’t clean the surrounding environment when lighting a fire and caused a forest fire, then she’d rather eat raw meat together with the beastmen!
But after thinking it over, the quickest and most direct way to teach the beastmen about the dangers of fire seemed to still be to quickly teach the beastmen human language as soon as possible, allowing smooth communication between both sides.
But teaching language, how could it be that fast?
Su Ran scratched her head, no choice, for now she could only continue helping the beastmen make fire and then watch them extinguish it.
The red-skinned pig’s meat quality wasn’t particularly special.
The texture was similar to pork on Earth, but clearly with more lean meat.
Su Ran thought it was probably because living in such a natural world with sufficient exercise.
Because she had decided to make a stone pot, for this meal Su Ran ate very hurriedly.
She finished the roast meat in front of her quickly in just over ten minutes, then took the multi-tool axe and walked toward the direction of the two stones she had found.
Of course, the tag-along werewolf was still following behind her.
As for how to hollow out the inside of the stones, Su Ran didn’t have a specific method yet, mainly because she lacked suitable tools on hand.
The other side of the multi-tool axe was a hammer head. She had a tool for striking, but she still needed a sharp hard object to chisel the stone.
She planned to start with the smaller conical stone.
She began with the simplest part—knocking off the sharp tip at the bottom of this stone to form a suitable pot bottom.
The hammer struck the stone lightly with some force, leaving only a white mark on the stone with no other changes.
So she felt relieved and struck harder at an angle.
This time a thin fragment fell off the stone, but the overall shape remained unchanged.
She continued striking, controlling the angle to avoid knocking off too much and damaging the integrity of the stone pot’s outer shape.
As she struck, she suddenly thought that in the past she had never imagined she would one day need to do the work of a stonemason.
And while she was clanging away at the stone, the werewolf had already squatted beside her and finished gnawing a pig foreleg.
After eating the last bite of meat, the werewolf threw away the bone in its hand and went to the riverside to wash its hands.
Then it walked to Su Ran’s side and squatted down again, pointing at Su Ran’s action which had turned into forceful smashing, tilting its head to look at her: “Ran Ran, stone?”
Su Ran had just stopped to catch her breath.
She rubbed her numb palm, sighing inwardly that surviving in a primitive world meant doing everything with the most rudimentary methods.
This stone pot would take who knows how many days of her time, but she had no choice but to spend that time on it.
For clothing, food, housing, and transport, just clothing and food required her to rely on this pot.
“Stone made into pot, then boil water to drink.”
Su Ran pointed at the stone, gesturing to the werewolf: “Pot, hold water.”
The werewolf could already understand the meaning of “hold water.”
It let out a low, drawn-out “woo~” for a while, erected its tail, looking as if it understood, and also pointed at the stone and said: “Water cup, wooden bowl, stone pot, water!”
When mentioning water, it emphasized the tone to indicate that it understood the use of this thing the stone was to be made into was the same as the water cup and wooden bowl.
“Right! Hui, impressive!”
Su Ran gave the werewolf a thumbs up. Good students all need encouragement!
Sure enough, the werewolf was happy again.
Every time like this, Su Ran would envy these werewolves.
If she weren’t an outsider in this world, if she had also grown up here since childhood, she wouldn’t have to work so hard to change the existing living environment to adapt to her own body constitution.
And at this time, these changes appearing in life would turn from the helplessness of having to change into the surprise of creating a convenient life for her.
After learning the new noun “stone pot,” the werewolf got up and walked back to the place for making fire.
Su Ran thought it went back to eat things.
But after a while, she saw the werewolf coming over carrying their basket in its hand.
Moreover, it took out all the things inside the basket, laid two sweet leaf vein tree leaves inside, and brought it over.
“Hui?”
Su Ran looked up at it in doubt as it walked in, slowly stopping the action of hammering the stone in her hand.
The werewolf came over and directly took the multi-tool axe from her hand, even deftly holding it and tossing it lightly, then seriously waved the axe in its hand: “Ran Ran, stone no axe.”
Su Ran: “No axe to hammer stone? Then what to use?”
But the werewolf suddenly showed a mysterious smile on its face and said to her:
“Go!”
As soon as the words fell, while Su Ran was still thinking about how the beastman could make an expression of mystery, she was already held around the waist by the werewolf, carried at its waist, and flew toward the opposite bank of the river.
