When choosing the materials for making the canoe for the second time, Ma Xiaoxiao did not cut it directly this time, but first took the thick branch cut from the tree and put it in the water to try it.

During the time when she was cutting down trees on Friday, Ma Xiaoxiao was not idle, she first chose a location by the sea, and then built a simple pergola to use as a canoe-making workshop.

As for why the canoe was not made directly on the spot as it was the first time, it also had a lot to do with how difficult it was to transport the canoe to the beach for the first time.

In short, compared to canoes, logs can be transported by rolling, which is much less labor.

Cough...... Of course, if Ma Xiaoxiao could have thought of this, the first log could actually be handled in this way, and it seems that some things do need to be summarized by the accumulation of experience.

Because of the previous experience, the production of the second canoe went very smoothly, and the only thing that made Ma Xiaoxiao dissatisfied was that this isolated island in the tropics finally ushered in the rainy season.

The non-stop rain every day not only affected the progress of the work, but also made Ma Xiaoxiao's mood more and more irritable.

After packing up the dishes and chopsticks on this day, Ma Xiaoxiao looked at the rain outside the cave that showed no signs of stopping, and finally dispelled the idea of going out for a walk and food, picked up the cat, and Ma Xiaoxiao planned to climb back to the cave where she used to sleep against the rain.

"Wait." When Ma Xiaoxiao picked up the cat and was about to walk out of the cave, Friday suddenly stopped her.

Turning his head, Ma Xiaoxiao turned back and stopped in his footsteps during Friday's words.

"You'll sleep on this stone bed in the future." Squatting down to keep his gaze level with Ma Xiaoxiao, Friday said while gesturing with his hand at Ma Xiaoxiao.

"I can sleep on the ground over there, and if you don't worry about me, you can tie me up." Under Ma Xiaoxiao's slightly puzzled gaze, Friday stretched out his hands and continued to gesture at her.

As for Friday's suggestion, Ma Xiaoxiao only thought about it for a while and agreed, because compared to the cave with better equipment, the small cave above was indeed relatively simple and humid in this season.

Ma Xiaoxiao didn't tie him up as Friday suggested, because she didn't think Friday would do anything to her.

As the sky got dark, Friday, who had been sitting at the table making tools, finally had to light Ma Xiaoxiao's homemade oil lamp.

"Here you go." After the trumpet bow and arrow in his hand that he had made based on Ma Xiaoxiao's bow and arrow was finally completed, Friday handed it to Ma Xiaoxiao, who was lying on the stone bed and doing nothing, tickling the cat.

Seeing the trumpet bow and arrow handed to him by Friday, Ma Xiaoxiao stopped teasing the cat and raised his head suspiciously.

"Works better than yours." In order to convince Ma Xiaoxiao to accept this bow, Friday directly proved that the bow he made was more durable.

An arrow was drawn from a quiver placed on the edge of the stone bed, and Friday fired an arrow at the wooden door.

After shooting the arrow, Friday handed the bow back to Ma Xiaoxiao.

Reaching out to take the bow in the other party's hand, Ma Xiaoxiao nodded at Friday, expressed his gratitude, and put the bow next to the quiver.

"Then give this to me." Seeing that Ma Xiaoxiao accepted the bow he made, Friday reached out and picked up the bow that Ma Xiaoxiao had used before on the other side of the quiver, and hung it on the stone wall next to his floor.

Although she didn't quite understand the meaning of the other party's actions, Ma Xiaoxiao didn't plan to figure out anything, she just gestured to Friday, indicating that she was sleepy and going to sleep, so she closed the animal skin curtain and separated herself from Friday in two different spaces.

On Friday, the second bow was made before the oil lamp was blown out.

Touching the two bows, one large and one small, hanging from the stone wall beside him, Friday not only grinned toothy in the dark.

In the early morning of the second day, Ma Xiaoxiao, who opened the wooden door, first met several pairs of cats' eyes.

Is this a feral cat mother who has finally found the murderer who stole her baby and has come to the door? It's just that this time has passed a little longer, blinking his orangutan eyes, Ma Xiaoxiao thought very weakly.

yelled a few times at Ma Xiaoxiao, who was standing still at the entrance of the cave, and the mother wildcat led several other children to swagger past Ma Xiaoxiao.

Turning around, Ma Xiaoxiao, who was very weak-hearted, stood still for a few seconds, and then followed the mother wildcat into the interior of the cave.

Seeing the inside of the cave, several cats that had already occupied part of the space of the stone bed and Friday, who had already raised their bows and arrows at these cats, Ma Xiaoxiao jumped to Friday's side with one arrow step, preventing Friday's next move.

Looking down at Ma Xiaoxiao, Friday shrugged his shoulders and put down the bow and arrow in his hand.

After licking each other's rain-soaked fur with her children, the mother wildcat and her children licked each other's rain-soaked hair, and then barked at Ma Xiaoxiao arrogantly with the posture of the queen mother.

Hearing the cry of the wild cat mother, Ma Xiaoxiao, who said that he had a good understanding of the various behaviors of cats, immediately turned around and got busy.

When the little flower cat named Xiao Hei by Ma Xiaoxiao went out to poop and booed back to the cave to find that the suddenly extra cats were squatting around its usual dining place to eat grilled fish, it felt that its territory was violated, and jumped on the table as soon as possible, barking its teeth and screaming in a sharp voice at the cat mother and its brothers and sisters.

For this child who mistakenly regarded herself as an enemy, the mother wildcat reacted very directly, that is, she waved her claws and directly gave this unfilial son who dared to commit so many paws.

The above scene can be said to make Ma Xiaoxiao even more empty-hearted, and quickly picked up Xiao Hei, who was scratched by a few paws of the wild cat mother, and under Xiao Hei's seemingly complaining voice, Ma Xiaoxiao very quickly brought out the largest grilled fish she left for Xiao Hei for the other party.

After successfully calming Xiao Hei with the grilled fish in her hand, the mother wildcat and her other children had eaten and drunk enough to occupy a part of the stone bed again, and they all entered a state of sleep.

Friday, who was eating on the other side of the table, could be said to have been smiling from beginning to end, watching the whole process of interaction between Ma Xiaoxiao and these cats with an extremely happy expression, and then he still picked up the tools and took the animal skin umbrella to go out in the rain to start work.