Stone Craftsman（）
"So mysterious." Flame Flower muttered, wondering if all shamans were like this. It was always unpredictable.
"..." Su Bai's ears twitched. He heard the bull-horned girl's muttering and shrugged helplessly.
He wasn't trying to be mysterious, but even if he said it out loud, the beast-eared woman wouldn't be able to understand it. Was he going to explain it from the beginning to the end? Then let him go.
"We're here. One of the two tents in front is a carpenter.”Flame Flower pointed at the simple tent a few meters away.
"Clang, bang, bang ~~"
"What about the other tent?" Su Bai could hear the sound of something being knocked inside. It was a very steady and powerful sound.
"That's where stonemasons polish stone tools.”Yan Hua said in a clear voice.
"Oh? Let's go and see the stonemason first." Su Bai said softly. When he came to the primitive society, he still did not know how stone tools were polished.
"Clang, bang, bang ~~"
The three of them approached the tent and heard the knocking sound getting louder.
Su Bai came to the tent and saw that the ground was full of broken stones. There were seven or eight stones the size of a human head on both sides of the tent door.
Uncle Hill, the shaman is here." Flame Flower shouted into the tent.
The names of the people in the tribe were very simple. Some were named after their teeth and their favorite colors, while others were named after the mountains, rivers, and trees in nature.
"Clang ~~"
The sound of knocking on the stone suddenly stopped.
A few seconds later, the tent flap was lifted, revealing a short figure, only about 1.3 meters tall.
" This…" Su Bai's black pupils quivered. The curiosity on his face disappeared and was replaced by solemnity.
Shanqiu's face was covered in dust, and his short hair was covered in brown stone powder.
What left the deepest impression was his pair of broken legs. The lower half of his calf was missing, and instead of walking, it was a pair of muscular arms that were thicker than ordinary people's big legs.
"Wu, why are you here?”
Shan Qiu grinned, revealing his big yellow teeth, and said in a hoarse voice,"If there's anything, just call someone to tell me.”
Su Bai forced a smile and said,""I've never seen how stone tools are polished, so I wanted to come and take a look.”
He really couldn't laugh. A disabled person doing one of the hardest jobs in the tribe.
"If Wu wants to see it, you can come anytime.”Shan Qiu nimbly moved his arms aside. This was the first time a shaman had come to his place. Even in the ancestral land of the tribe, the old shaman had never been to his stone chamber.
"Sorry to bother you." Su Bai stepped into the tent and saw only twenty to thirty stones of different sizes. The only empty space was between the tent curtain and the central fireplace.
"Wu, it's a bit messy here." Hill scratched his head in embarrassment.
"It's pretty good." Su Bai glanced around and said softly,"Please introduce me to them.”
"Alright." Shan Qiu quickly nodded. He nimbly supported himself on the ground and came to the place where he was polishing the stone tools. He picked up a palm-sized stone.
"Such a big stone can be ground into a spearhead or a stone throw," he said seriously and attentively.”
Shan Qiu put down the stone in his hand and pointed to a long stone not far away. He said,"That is a good stone. It doesn't have any stone eye or stone core, so it can be polished into a good stone knife.”
"What are Stone Core and Stone Eye?" Su Bai was gradually attracted. He felt that there were many ways to polish stone tools.
"The stone eye is the crack in the stone. The stone core was the sore of the stone. Some stone cores were harder than the stone itself, while others were more brittle, which greatly affected the firmness of a stone.”
When Shan Qiu talked about the stone tools, he said,"And the most troublesome thing is the stone core. If a stone has a stone core, it won't last long.”
In primitive society, there were no ironware, only stones as weapons, and they had developed a unique culture.
"How many days will it take to polish that stone into a stone knife?”Su Bai asked curiously.
"It will take about two days. The texture of that stone is easier to find, so it's not difficult to polish it.”Shan Qiu said confidently.
"That long?" Su Bai was surprised. It took longer than he thought.
"Shaman, not too long." Flame Flower had been with Su Bai for a long time and knew that Wu was a person with no common sense.
"It takes a lot of time to polish a good stone knife," she explained in a clear voice."Sometimes it takes three to four days. Only someone with Uncle Shanqiu's craftsmanship could polish a good stone saber in two days.”
"It's not as good as what the flower girl said. It also depends on whether the stone is easy to polish.”Qiu Shan felt a little embarrassed after being praised.
“………”
The rest of the time was spent in answering questions. Su Bai even spent some time watching the hill grinding stone tools.
"Alright, I won't delay your work anymore.”Su Bai said softly. He had to go to the carpenter.
Shan Qiu propped himself up with his arms and got up to send Wu off.
He saw Su Bai coming to the curtain and suddenly said: "Wu, do you have any stone tools that you want me to polish?”
"I also know how to polish bone tools." Hill added.
Su Bai turned his head and looked into Hill's expectant eyes. He smiled: "Then I want a stone knife. I want the best stone material.”
"Yes, it's definitely the best stone material.”Hill shouted excitedly.
"Then I'll wait and see." Su Bai said gently and walked out of the tent. He felt better somehow.
He looked at the bull-horned girl and said softly,""Let's go, take me to see the carpentry.”
"Yes." Yan Hua led the way.
Su Bai was walking when he suddenly asked,"What's wrong with Hill's leg?"”
"His legs were bitten off by a ferocious beast.”
Yan Hua pursed her lips and said in a deep voice,"Uncle Shanqiu used to be a totem warrior. He became a stonemason after his leg broke.”
"I can feel that he was once a very powerful warrior.”Su Bai could feel the rich qi and blood on Shan Qiu.
"If Uncle Hill's leg wasn't injured, the position of chief might not have been my father's.”Yan Hua spread her hands and said.
"What a talent." Su Bai nodded.
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" The author is slowly developing the lifestyle and occupations of the primitive society.”
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