Chapter 67
~End of chapter 66
In the morning Mu Qing thought of a reaping hook.
Even if there was no iron reaping hook, a reaping hook made of bone should still be more efficient than the straight and plate knife that they were using. So, she was now looking for animal bones that could be polished and shaped into a reaping hook.
Every time a prey was slaughtered here, the remaining bones were not discarded randomly, but were piled up in a corner of the settlement. Mu Qing rummaged through it for a while, picked a bone she liked, and planned to wait for Li Mang to come back at night to ask him to work on it. Tomorrow, she would try it to see how it worked.
Chapter 67
(22.2)
She picked up the knife from the animal skin, pulled Li Mang’s hand, lifted the curtain, and made him sit on a large wooden pole at the door of the hut. Li Mang was a little puzzled, but he still sat there obediently without moving.
On the open space, there were still a few piles of dry grass that were burning to repel mosquitoes, most of the people had gone back inside their hut to rest, while the people left were lying outside in the open. Besides, they were on the border of the settlement here, so they didn’t attract much attention from others.
The moon had now climbed over the top of the trees, casting a clear and shallow light. A few days after coming here, Mu Qing found that the moonlight here was much brighter than she had ever seen before, as long as it was not a crescent moon and the night was clear, the moonlight was enough for people to see things clearly.
Mu Qing raised Li Mang’s hand and looked at it under the moonlight. His nails were thick and sharp and when she first saw it, she was startled. The scratch marks on her lower abdomen they had left had still not faded to this day. That was the masterpiece he did in the beginning.
Later, when he found out that he had wounded her, he seemed a little remorseful, and after that when he touched her body, he never scratched her again.
But every time she looked at his nails, they were as unpleasant as his messy hair, so she took advantage of the fact that she had the scissors back, and intended to trim his nails.
Translator : Laura
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