Chapter 14 – Stoneware Crafter (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

Early in the next morning, before the sun rose, all kids in the cave woke up, and some of them had dark circles around their eyes, for not getting proper sleep because of anxiety.

Mo-Er was curious when he got woken up, for that circumstance never happened in the past. He had killed a few night swallows during last night’s practice, and on his arm there were also a few wounds with different depth. He had covered them with herbs.

Regardless of his curiosity, Mo-Er stood up and picked up his stone knife and waited for what was next. He found out that every five kids would stand close to each other, with straw ropes and little black things in their arms. They were discussing about something near the entrance as they constantly looked at Shao Xuan, fully excited.

“The sun rose! Today’s weather must be good, so we can go fishing!” said a child, staring at the sun in the sky.

“But the weather was also good yesterday, yet we could not catch any fish! Will today be the same as yesterday?” Another child poured cold water on his enthusiasm.

Most kids in the cave were no fans of unlucky words like that, so they all glared at the one who had claimed “the same as yesterday”.

Regardless of whether today was a day for fishing, they needed to eat breakfast, or else they would have no strength to work. Ever since they had some income, Shao Xuan would eat something every morning. At first, some kids felt reluctant to eat, but then they behaved tired and cranky when it came to fishing, so their harvest was not as good as the others who had eaten. So the next morning, they would set up their stone pot, just as Shao Xuan did. They had no choice but to eat breakfast, for no eating meant no strength to work, and no strength to work meant even less game, which would lead to starvation. It was just a vicious cycle.

They were quite energetic when they were well fed and watered.

Seeing that Mo-Er did not have any trouble walking around, Shao Xuan invited him to go fishing together. Mo-Er offered the night swallows he killed last night as breakfast for the group, so the other kids besides Shao Xuan had also softened their attitude towards him.

All kids left the cave, leaving their home unguarded, because there was nothing left for others to steal. They carried all the straw ropes and black floats. As for fish, no one from the tribe would try to steal the food from the orphan cave, or else he or she would be truly despised. So no one would take their fish even if they put them outside to dry. Besides the food, there was nothing in the cave that could entice others. So it was totally unnecessary to keep it guarded, and Caesar followed Shao Xuan as well.

Over twenty kids were standing behind Shao Xuan and they stared at the stone worm without blinking. When the stone worm sank into the water, they stared at the black float on the surface.

“How’s it going, Ah-Xuan?”

“Is it okay?”

“Has the fish returned?”

Some hot-tempered kids couldn’t help but whisper.

Shao Xuan fixed his eyes on the surface, and this time he did not “see” those water creatures with the long tentacles. Also the black float’s vibration was just like old times, which represented that stone worm was struggling down there.

“There should be no prob…” Before Shao Xuan could finish his words, he was interrupted by the situation on the water surface.

The black float sank suddenly and they could feel the familiar strength from the straw rope. Shao Xuan calmed his mind and promptly pulled the straw rope back together with Ba.

“Fish!”

“It’s fish!”

“The fish returned!!”