Chapter 93: Making Tools
Su Ran felt that Gray’s gaze at her now was just like looking at a little good-for-nothing who knew nothing and had no common sense of life.
But how could she have thought that such a big bird’s nest was actually movable!
Whatever place it wanted to go, it could take it there, her portable mobile homeland?
Moreover, the trees were all different, so how to install it on a new tree with a different even footing place after moving it over!
For Su Ran’s series of questions, the bit of language that Gray had learned during this time was still not enough to support it giving a reasonable explanation.
No way, Su Ran who couldn’t ask anything had to give up.
Anyway, she would know by the time it happened.
Now, processing the wood first was the most important.
After selecting the address for building the house, Su Ran first used sheep wool yarn to outline the house’s scope in the selected place.
Her outdoor tool kit had a ruler, but it was only twenty centimeters.
Su Ran found a wooden stick that looked relatively straight, first sawed it to about one meter long, then on the sawed wooden stick, drew four corresponding straight lines, and sawed down along the positions of the straight lines with the saw blade.
After sawing, she got a thin wooden board about one centimeter thick and five centimeters wide.
Then she took out the tactical knife, placed the ruler that came with the equipment on the wooden board to compare, and used the tactical knife to engrave marks on the corresponding positions of the wooden board according to the numbers and markings on the ruler.
For convenience, Su Ran directly used centimeters as the smallest unit for the markings.
The twenty-centimeter ruler was repeatedly connected and measured on the wooden board seven or eight times.
After engraving the markings, Su Ran took charred charcoal and deepened the color of each engraved number.
Although the black of the charcoal would easily rub off, there was currently no other dyeing method, so she could only repaint it after it faded.
Su Ran thought that the plant with the strongest dyeing ability she had seen in this forest so far was only the red fruit.
She thought that when the red fruit ripened again next year, she could try using the red fruit’s outer skin to dye this ruler a bit.
The length of the ruler after engraving the markings was one meter sixteen.
Su Ran used the saw to cut off the extra sixteen centimeters, leaving exactly one meter long.
Then she took out a large roll of sheep wool yarn and first tied a wooden stick to the end of the yarn.
The house foundation was rectangular, she first hammered the tied wooden stick into the ground as one of the four corners’ fixed wooden stake.
Then, she straightened the sheep wool yarn and walked north toward the fixed point, and when she felt the distance was about right, she stopped, tied another wooden stick to the sheep wool yarn pulled to this position, and nailed the sheep wool yarn between the two fixed points taut and straight into the ground.
Then she started measuring the distance with the wooden ruler.
Su Ran placed one end of the wooden ruler against the first fixed wooden stake, and placed it along the direction of the sheep wool yarn.
Then used black charcoal to mark on the pulled sheep wool yarn according to the markings on the wooden ruler, at the one-meter length place.
After marking, she continued measuring forward from the just-made mark with the wooden ruler, and made another mark at the next one-meter place.
The overall width of the house, Su Ran calculated to be around six meters, and the length around twelve meters.
This way, the sizes of the two bedrooms and the middle kitchen would all be around four meters long and six meters wide.
As for the rooms to be partitioned inside, she would decide when measuring the sizes of the inner rooms later.
For this build, Su Ran wanted to make the house as big as possible.
When this sheep wool yarn reached six meters long, Su Ran made the final mark and pulled out the fixed wooden stake at the back.
She retied a wooden stake at the six-meter mark position and hammered it into the ground.
This way the house’s width was set.
After that, she continued using this method, pulling the sheep wool yarn to the right side of the wooden stake, making this line form a right angle with the just-pulled line.
After nailing the third fixed wooden stake, this line had already been pulled to twelve meters long.
This was the house’s length.
After these two fixed lines were done, the remaining two lines were much faster.
Su Ran quickly outlined the entire house’s footprint size and foundation shape on the ground.
And after the house’s foundation shape and size were out, measuring the required beam lengths for the house and the amount of wood needed would be much faster.
Su Ran recorded all the measured data one by one on the wooden board with charcoal.
And at this time, Gray became interested in the characters she wrote.
It squatted beside Su Ran, watching her quickly write a series of characters, its black pupils gradually dilating and rounding.
“Ran Ran, what is this?”
It pointed at the characters on the wooden board, then looked at the charcoal in Su Ran’s hand, twitched its ears, expression even more puzzled: “Ao wu?”
Su Ran was stunned and turned to look at Gray.
Although she had been teaching Gray to speak human language, she had never thought about teaching it to write.
Mainly, in her and Gray’s life, writing temporarily didn’t seem useful.
She didn’t have any grand ambitions to change the world or create history.
Even less had she thought of teaching the beastmen writing, changing their thinking, or leaving great ideas of experience records for future beastmen.
She only wanted to live her little life well with Gray.
Everything she had made so far was based on the premise of making her current life more convenient and comfortable.
But now if Gray took the initiative to want to learn, she wouldn’t refuse.
After all, learning more was a good thing.
“This is 1!”
“1~”
Su Ran wrote an Arabic numeral “1” on the ground with a wooden stick and showed it to Gray.
Gray looked at it, took a branch and also drew a vertical line on the ground, looking at Su Ran with furrowed brows:
“1?”
Su Ran felt that the expression on Gray’s face now seemed to say “one is one, what’s the point of drawing a line…”
Su Ran: “…”
But soon Gray’s puzzled expression turned to surprise.
It watched Su Ran smoothly write the number “2” on the ground, pricked up its ears straight, and used the branch to crookedly draw a number “2” on the ground.
“2?”
“Yes, writing it like this is 2, meaning two!”
Su Ran took two branches and handed them to Gray.
This was the same method she used when teaching Gray the pronunciation of “2” back then.
The same teaching method made Gray instantly understand Su Ran’s meaning.
So it used the branch to write another “1” and “2” on the ground, pointing to Su Ran:
“1, 2…”
Then tilted its head to look at her: “Then 3? Wu?”
That serious and eager-to-learn expression made Su Ran couldn’t help but chuckle.
The reason she started teaching Gray the writing of numbers first was because Chinese characters weren’t very useful in her and Gray’s life yet, so she wasn’t in a hurry.
But now that the wooden ruler was made, she could first teach it to use numbers, after all, since the tool was there, it had to be used.
And Gray’s learning progress was a bit surprisingly fast for Su Ran.
Su Ran thought it was probably because during the days they lived together, Gray had already learned from her the pronunciations from one to ten-something, so it understood the writing faster.
Babies, only one chapter updated today ha, because went for a follow-up checkup during the daytime, a bit tired, want to sleep, tomorrow normal double updates~
