Chapter 815

Ryan gazed at Camelia's sculpture, feeling as though she stood before him. He couldn't resist kissing the sculpture and murmured, "How did you enchant me to fall so deeply in love with you?" After a morning spent crafting sculptures, Ryan lay on the grass to rest. Suddenly, an idea sparked, and he sat up excitedly. "We don't have enough containers, and bamboo can only hold so much. If we make pottery, we could have all kinds of containers," he muttered to himself. Ryan immediately got to work. He gathered mud and shaped it into a large water tank, then made a pan, two rice containers, and three bowls. He placed them in the sun to dry, and by afternoon, the mud had hardened. Ryan kept his creative pursuits a secret from the women. The next day, he returned to the pit and used a dagger to smooth the insides of the containers. It took him all day. Over the next three days, Ryan built a small kiln at the foot of the mountain with two layers—the top layer for the containers and the bot