beauty and his beasts

CHAPTER 81: First Pot

Kevin put down the rock he was fiddling with to help Reid with the bowls.

Reid now empty handed, looked at Hao Shen with confusion, he saw that Hao Shen had wanted to carry the bowl, ‘but why did he stop and carried the sea shell instead’, but then again looking at Hao Shen's skinny arms and legs, he could not help but feel sympathy for the frail beastman ‘i mean with how frail he is, I doubt that any female would like him, aside from his skills as a witch doctor, their is nothing else he could do’.

Kevin went back to making the lid after putting down the bowl, Hao Shen's eyes followed him, upon seeing that Kevin was doing it correctly, he stopped looking at him and went ahead to do other things.

Hao Shen went to stack up the woods that Reid had brought back, after he was done stacking them up, he went to grab the gas lighter in his backpack. Hao Shen used the lighter to light up the stacked up woods, therefore making a bonfire.

After he was done with that he took the ingredients he had already prepared and washed them, before soaking them in some water.

Kevin had finished making the lid, what was left was for him to make a hollow in the pot. Hao Shen grabbed a burning wood out of the bonfire and extinguished the fire on it. There was now a coal on it that he could use to draw an outline for Kevin.

Using the coal, Hao Shen carefully made a circle on the pot, after he was done he looked at Kevin “you see this line, I want you to carve on it with your nails”, Hao Shen watched as Kevin used his nails and redrew the circle.

Hao Shen waited for Kevin to finish before carefully instructing him , he wasn't sure that this would work after all forming the hollow is supposed to be the hardest part of making the pot.

Taking a deep breath while arranging his thoughts, Hao Shen spoke with caution, “listen to me carefully, I need you to scoop out all the rocks within this circle, and while scooping the rocks out, try your very best to be as close to the outer layer of the rock, use the outline you just carved to know how close you need to get. Please be very very careful, don't puncture or pierce underneath the rock, do the same all over the rock, remember don't pierce through the rock”. Adding emphasis on his last sentence “DO.. YOU.. UNDERSTAND..”.

Kevin saw the seriousness Hao Shen was showing, he also got serious, and nodded assuringly as he started with the task.

Hao Shen saw that Kevin was taking it seriously and was glad.. but, Kevin was too slow in digging into the pot, seeing that the pot was big enough for two beast men to dig in, Hao Shen called Reid “go and do what Kevin is doing, don't act rashly and don't break the rock, be very careful, if the rock ends up broken, then your female wouldn't be able to get her medication”.

Hearing that his female wouldn't be treated, Reid payed attention to not make any mistake as he assisted Kevin.

Hao Shen sat down and watched them work.

Hao Shen had stated to feel sleepy and was even dozing off when they finish digging into the pot, on seeing that Hao Shen had fallen asleep, Kevin was reluctant to wake Hao Shen up, he didn't understand what Hao Shen was doing, he knew Hao Shen was no witch doctor, but he had been playing along with him this whole time, now that Hao Shen was sleepy Kevin just wanted to take him to the cave to rest.

But Reid had absolutely no intentions to let Hao Shen sleep, he genuinely believed Hao Shen was a witch doctor, and although he hadn't seen Vince try to treat any female like this, he believed that all witch doctors had their own methods, especially after seeing how confident Hao Shen was, it also made him confident that his female would most definitely be saved.