Chapter 45: Striving Together with Men to Create a Beautiful Life

  What was done most smoothly was the long water bottle that was made last time. There were more than a dozen men in the tribe who went out to hunt every day, and Mo Yi'er and Chu Yan had prepared one for them. Later, they thought of the women in the picking team, so they made some more, even if it was broken, there would be some replacements.

  They had been working for less than half a day, and by noon, Moyi went into the cave to see how the grinding of the stone axe was going. In fact, they had just started not long ago, and after Moyi told him, he took the elderly people to find stones nearby that could grind the stone axe. Now there is a big pile of stones in the corner of the cave, all brought back by the old people.

  "Kasai, you guys are really working hard, aren't you tired?"

  "There's nothing, we're happy to do something for the tribe!" Kasa said with a smile, his face wrinkling into a beautiful chrysanthemum. "If you need anything in the future, just let us know, these old guys still have some strength left. Once the stone axe is polished, I and these old guys will also help you and the chief make water buckets!"

  "That's great, I was worried that we wouldn't have enough people! By the time you can help make wooden bowls and chopsticks."

  "Wooden bowl and chopsticks?" The hand of Kasa, who was grinding the millstone, stopped for a moment, already thinking about what to do.

  "Yes, eating and drinking soup will be much more convenient!" There were a few stone bowls in the tribe, Mo Yier often used branches to make chopsticks, and some tribesmen also started this habit, after all, it was very hot to grab food directly with their hands.

  "Good, the stone bowls and chopsticks are small, won't take much effort to make, just right for us! If we make them finely, we can even exchange with outsiders!" Kasa looked towards the cave entrance, her eyes full of longing.

  Mo Yu'er smiled, everything was going in a good direction again. She sat down, planning to chat with Kasa, her gaze inadvertently fell on a thin stone slab, one side of which had been cracked and presented a serrated edge, very much like a saw blade. Mo Yu'er's mind flashed with inspiration, although there was no metal, this purely natural stone saw could be used!

  Mo Yi'er held the stone slab like a treasure, bringing it to the entrance of the cave and studying it carefully. It still needed some polishing; it should have a handle that could be grasped by hand.

  "Mo Yi'er, what are you thinking about again?" Chu Yan walked over and looked at Mo Yi'er's sparkling eyes, knowing that she must have thought of something. Although Mo Yi'er had only been here for a little over a month, Chu Yan already knew her very well, showing how much attention he paid to her.

  "Yes, I'm thinking of another tool. Look at this, we hold one side and then like this..." Mo Yi said as he demonstrated the motion of sawing wood with a stone chip. "Like this, the wood can be cut open, maybe even better than a stone axe, only the stone chip is slightly thicker and not too sharp, but it's still completely usable with great force."

  Actually, Mo Yi's worries were all unnecessary. For primitive people who were used to using stone knives, this kind of stone saw was completely problem-free.

  "I'll give it a try!" Chu Yan became eager to try after listening to Mo Yuer's explanation.

  "Let's do it together!" This piece is about one meter long, and the width is roughly thirty centimeters. Including the serrated teeth, if one person holds one end, working together to saw wood, the efficiency should be higher.

  "Good!" Chu replied with a smile, and the two walked to the front of a thick branch of a large tree, starting to saw the stone slab. However, the part where they held their hands was not very comfortable, and the serrated part was not very sharp, so the effect was not very good. So Mo Yi'er called for a stop: "Let's grind it ourselves, Ka Sa is busy, we two can do it."

  "Alright." Chu Yan completely agreed. The two of them took the stone pieces and came to the cave, learning from Kasada's grinding technique to grind the stone saw.

  It's really tiring to polish, especially for someone as weak as Mo Yier. Even Xia Ci couldn't help but look at her with disdain. "Mo Yier, go rest, I'll do it!"

  "Alright!" Mo Yi'er looked at the stone slab that Chu Yan had already prepared and felt extremely depressed in her heart. It seemed that training her physical strength was inevitable!

  She walked out of the cave, found a few pieces of animal hide and sewed two small pouches, which were filled with sandbags tied to her legs. Hadn't some TV show done it this way before? After weight training, taking down the sandbags would surely make her footsteps much lighter, and her speed would also increase. The only problem was that she didn't know how to increase her strength! Eat more meat? Okay, for now, the only thing she could think of was to eat more meat, hoping it wouldn't put a burden on the tribe's food supply.

  It took three or four hours, and the stone saw finally had a rough shape. Chu Ge directly pulled Xiao Ci to experiment, apparently, Mo Yi's small strength was once again disdained.

  Mo Yi'er looked a bit stifled, holding the small plush ball to watch from the side. This little guy had just come back not long ago, and before that, he should have gone to the forest to forage! He also happened to bring back a nest of bird eggs, and it was another whole nest, Mo Yi'er was already used to it, every time he came back with something gained.

  Shi Zuo was very successful this time, at least much better than cutting wood with a stone knife. Ka Sa also walked out and said happily: "It's really good, Mo Yi'er, how did you think of it?"

  "Seeing this stone, I just thought of it." Mo Yier scratched her hair and smiled. If there is metal, a stone saw made like this would be more useful.

  While talking, the women of the harvesting team have already returned, they have a good harvest, in addition to wild vegetables and mushrooms, they also brought back a large basket of fruit. Now the harvesting team goes out to harvest using grass baskets brought back from the Haimu tribe, covered with lotus leaves, which is very useful.

  Mo Yu'er told Chu Yan that the big tree would probably start to be cut open from somewhere, and then went to help the women by the water tank process the fruit. She absolutely wouldn't tell anyone that she was actually hungry.

  The fruits were red and green, very pleasing to the eye. As she washed them, she put some in her mouth. "Wow... this one is so sour!" There was a kind of fruit about the size of an apricot that was particularly tart, Mo Yi'er felt like her teeth were going to fall out.

  Sang Zhen also took one and tasted it: "Ah... it's really too sour, don't eat it, throw it away!"

  "No, it's too wasteful, put it in when you're stewing fruit and roasting meat!"

  "Oh? You can eat it like that!" Sang Zhen laughed. Mo Yuer always had many strange and unusual ways of eating, but they were all very delicious.

  "Okay, let's get started soon. We'll pick out these fruits and add some sweet ones. If they're all sour, it won't be good to eat. A mix of sweet and sour might give it a ketchup flavor! Too bad there's no sugar here, or we could season it."