As soon as I arrived at the door, I smelled a pungent aroma coming from the house.

Zhang Tianyou rushed into the house in three steps and two steps, and was about to rush directly to the dining table.

Liu's mother, who had just set up the meal, saw Zhang Tianyou's anxious look, and quickly put down her chopsticks and blocked Zhang Tianyou's face. "You'er, wash your hands first before eating," he said, pulling Zhang Tianyou towards the basin that had already been turned.

"Hey, there's a kitten? Put him down first, you wash your hands first" Although Liu's mother saw it, she didn't think about it anywhere else, she just thought that this cat was a wild cat and stray cat picked up by Zhang Tianyou.

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"You'er, don't go out again later, I'll boil some hot water for you, you wash the mud on your body, you see you've become a mud monkey now" After Zhang Tianyou finished lunch, Liu's mother explained to Zhang Tianyou after cleaning up the tableware.

"Oh, I'm not going out, godmother is a little bit, I'll wash Xiaobai later, Xiaobai hasn't taken a bath for a long time"

"Xiaobai? Who is Xiaobai? "Mother Liu heard Zhang Tianyou say to take a bath for Xiaobai, and she was a little confused for a while.

"Xiaobai, it's Xiaobai, this is Xiaobai," Zhang Tianyou said, pointing to the ugly cat who was leaning against the door basking in the sun.

"Uh... Ha ha... Is this a white? Why doesn't there be a little white color, it is more like Xiaohuang or Xiaogray than Xiaobai" Hearing that Xiaobai in Zhang Tianyou's mouth actually said that this ugly cat that is yellow and does not slip in autumn, Duanmu Rong and Liu's mother are a little speechless, can this color also be called white?

"It's called Xiaobai, Xiaobai is good, godmother, I'll help you light the fire" For this name, Zhang Tianyou didn't explain much, and he couldn't explain too much, saying that it was sent by a big white cat, who would believe it?

"Okay, let's go to the firewood room" Mother Liu didn't worry too much about Xiaobai's name, after all, it's just a cat's name, as long as her daughter likes it, she can call it anything, even if it's called a big tiger, who cares.

"Let's go, Xiaobai, let's help the godmother boil water, and I'll wash you well later, you see what you're dirty into, it smells stinky" Zhang Tianyou said while fanning his nose with his hand exaggeratedly.

"Woo... Woo..."Xiaobai whined at Zhang Tianyou dissatisfiedly, as if to say, you stink, your whole family stinks, your whole village stinks. But no one could understand his protests.

Seeing that the protest was ineffective, Xiaobai could only be obediently carried by Zhang Tianyou and walked towards the firewood room.

In the firewood room, Liu's mother quickly filled the pot of the stove with water, and at the same time took some hay as a fire starter and put it in the stove, and then used the fire sickle to ignite the hay.

"You'er, help my godmother get some dry firewood" Seeing Zhang Tianyou holding Xiaobai, standing behind him in a daze, Mother Liu instructed Zhang Tianyou.

"Okay" Zhang Tianyou replied happily, put down Xiaobai in his hand, went to the corner of the firewood room, and brought some dry firewood.

When he put the firewood in his hand at Liu's mother's feet, he was suddenly stunned when he saw a black thing in Liu's mother's hand.

It turned out that Liu's mother was holding a piece of burned wood in her hand, and the life of the people in the mountain village was relatively simple, plus Zhang Tianyou's family had lost the breadwinner of the family, and the source of income was greatly reduced. Therefore, at the end of each cooking, if there is wood in the stove that has not burned through, Liu's mother will use water to extinguish the fire and wait for the next time.

Zhang Tianyou looked at the blackened wood in Liu's mother's hand, and felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart, I finally found out how to deal with the iron pear wood, so I slowly burned it with fire. It's so simple, why didn't I think of it? White lived for more than 20 years. If it weren't for Zhang's mother being here now, Zhang Tianyou would probably jump up happily, and the problem that had plagued him for a lot of days was finally solved.

But no matter how happy he is, he can't show too much, mainly because he doesn't want his mother and Liu's mother to worry about him.

In this way, Zhang Tianyou endured the excitement in his heart, took a comfortable hot bath with the assistance of Liu's mother, and washed Xiaobai by the way.

"Mother, godmother, I'm going out to play" When Zhang Tianyou finished taking a shower and changed his clothes, he couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart anymore, and couldn't wait to ask Duanmu Rong and Liu's mother for instructions, under the pretext of going out to play, hoping to put his plan into practice.

"Go ahead, hurry to come back early in the evening"

"Oh"

"Don't go far, don't go out of the village, don't go up the mountain..."

"Understood"

"Understood"

"Xiaobai, let's go" Before Duanmu Rong and Liu's mother finished explaining, Zhang Tianyou couldn't wait to run out of the main room, saw Duanmu Rong and Liu's mother didn't notice him, secretly got into the firewood room, and ran out of the house with the iron pear wood he found some time ago, and then ran out of the house with the fire sickle in the firewood room.

The specific "construction" site is the place that Zhang Tianyou chose early in the morning, that is, on a small hillside behind the village, there is a piece of bluestone, this bluestone should be made of sandstone, the surface is relatively rough, it is a natural "whetstone", and most of the arrows and javelins used by hunters are ground from this stone. Zhang Tianyou chose this place also to hone his weapons.

After Zhang Tianyou arrived at the selected location, he collected some hay and dry branches in the surrounding area, there are many of these things in the surrounding area, and you can find a large number of them casually.

Looking at the hill-like branches and hay in front of him, Xiao Yan wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, and said to himself, "These should be enough" As he spoke, he took out a fire sickle from his arms, ignited the branches with hay, and then carefully put the piece of iron pear wood he collected on the fire to roast, and when the iron pear wood began to catch fire, he quickly covered it with soil, and vigorously rubbed off the charcoal ash on the surface of the bluestone, and continued to burn it with fire. And so on and so forth. Zhang Tianyou was immersed in his knife-making plan all afternoon, completely forgetting the time. And Xiaobai was bored lying on the bluestone and falling asleep.

Wait until the red sun sinks, Zhang Tianyou has basically completed his knife-making plan, Zhang Tianyou's hand of the iron pear wood has disappeared, in his hand there is a smaller version of the "Japanese knife", this "knife" is a foot and a half of the long moon, that is, about 50 cm, the knife body is arc, narrow, the appearance and posture is very close to the Japanese knife, in fact, if you understand the knife, you will find at a glance that the wooden knife in Zhang Tianyou's hand is not a Japanese knife, just similar, the knife in Zhang Tianyou's hand is a little shorter than the Japanese knife.

Zhang Tianyou looked at the knife in his hand, nodded with satisfaction, looked up at the sky, and thought to himself, he was so focused that he forgot the time.

"Xiaobai, let's go, or we'll be scolded again later," he said, carrying the "knife" in his hand, and strode in the direction of home......