Chapter 5 - 5: Yes!!! I have copper
Once at the stream, the boy began to walk along the shore, picking up some stones from the ground, examining them, and although he threw most of them back, occasionally, some rocks showed green or blue hues or had yellow or golden shines in certain parts, which he put in his basket.
After spending several hours collecting stones, the boy filled the basket on his back completely, so he returned to his hut, where he unloaded everything and went back into the forest. There, he gathered a lot of clay and dry logs, repeating this operation several times and even creating more baskets to speed up the process until he had accumulated a good amount of material.
"Phew, this 'chi' is really amazing; without it, who knows how long it would have taken me to gather so much material."
With all the materials at his disposal, the first thing the boy did was cut the dry logs into pieces of different sizes, making a pile with them in the forest not far from his cabin, with the largest pieces at the bottom and the smallest at the top, which he filled with branches and dry leaves, ensuring that air could pass through the entire pile.
After finishing the woodpile, the boy took the basket again and went to the stream, where he made a large amount of mud, which he brought back to the camp. He then started covering the entire pile of logs with it, remembering to leave ventilation holes, one at the top and several at the base.
"Well, I hope the wood carbonizes well..."
With everything ready, he started a bonfire and used it to ignite the logs underneath the mud through the ventilation hole at the top of the small pile. He waited for all the logs to be properly ignited before sealing all the ventilation holes with the leftover mud. After checking that everything was as it should be, the boy went back to the forest to hunt a couple of rabbits.
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After feasting on rabbit meat and water, the boy smoked the remaining rabbit meat, salted the skins carefully, and stretched them on bamboo frames to dry in the shade. Even though they were small, they would still be quite useful if he managed to tan them correctly.