Chapter 197: An Existence She Can’t Let Go Of
After adding salt to the soup, Su Ran let the fish soup simmer on the stove for about a minute, then used a large wooden spoon to ladle a full big bowl of fish soup filled with red mushrooms and placed it on the table.
At this time, Hui had already sat up from the nest.
This silly wolf would rather go bare-chested, shivering as he crawled out from the nest, than drape the quilt over his body.
After Su Ran put down the wooden bowl she had just filled with fish soup, she grabbed Hui’s quilt in one hand and draped it over his body.
“Don’t take off the quilt. If you get hit by the wind, your body will heat up again~”
She wrapped the quilt tightly around Hui, then took off her shoes and climbed onto the heated brick bed: “Wait, I’ll find you some clothes to wear first!”
Su Ran walked to the closet, opened the closet door, rummaged inside for a bit, and finally found a shirt of Hui’s made from red-skinned pig hide.
The animal hide used for the clothes still had the red short fur on it, with the short fur facing inside the clothes, soft and very warm.
“Hui, put this on first!”
After Su Ran wrapped him up again with the quilt, Hui just sat there blankly.. Probably because Su Ran’s tone just now was a bit stern, he didn’t dare move at all.
Su Ran was amused by the expression on his face, held the clothes and knelt beside him, reached out to pull the quilt off his body: “Take off the quilt and put on the clothes.”
“Ao wu~”
A light brown big
Hui reached out to take the clothes from Su Ran’s hand and pulled them over his head to wear.
Then, without Su Ran saying anything, he picked up the steaming fish soup on the table, drank a large bowl in a few gulps, and ate all the red mushrooms inside.
Su Ran hurriedly ladled another bowl for him. This time, it was filled with several large pieces of fish meat.
After serving the gray one, Su Ran served herself a bowl too, and the bowl was the same, filled with half a bowl of red mushrooms.
She was now especially careful about the health situation of her own body, especially since she had already been sick once at home!
Just now when she went out to catch fish, she was chilled by the cold air outside. Although she has recovered now, her body, hands, and feet still feel icy cold.
So it’s best to eat some red mushroom as well, to prevent it a bit.
The fish soup that had just been ladled out was still a bit hot. Su Ran blew on the edge of the wooden bowl and took a small sip.
Immediately after, she slightly raised her eyebrows. The fish soup had already been stewed to a gelatinous texture. When drunk into the mouth, it was smooth and thick. The fresh flavor of the fish fused with the fresh flavor of the red mushroom, and the fresh flavor was simply doubled.
After tasting a sip of the fish soup, Su Ran scooped up two red mushrooms with the wooden spoon, blew on them, and then put them into her mouth.
After chewing a few times, she couldn’t help nodding and letting out a satisfied hum.
The heads of the sun-dried mushrooms, after being stewed open, are smooth and tender, while the mushroom roots, having lost their water, have absorbed full fish soup, and with one bite, the two flavors almost burst open together in the mouth!
Su Ran gave the second bowl of soup to Hui Sheng, and it was soon eaten clean by him!
And after eating some thing, he the whole silly wolf looked clearly much more spirited!
After Su Ran finished drinking her bowl of soup, her body also broke out in a slight fine sweat.
Then after eating a large piece of fish meat, she couldn’t eat anymore.
Thus, the remaining half basin of fish soup and fish meat, along with the red mushrooms, all went into Grey’s belly.
After finishing the hot fish soup, the sweating situation for Gray was much more obvious than for Su Ran.
A layer of fine sweat covered his forehead and nose tip!
Su Ran cleared all the bowls and chopsticks from the table, then took the table down and stood it to one side.
The firewood in the stove had already burned half away, and Su Ran did not plan to add more.
There was still a little hot water left from just boiling it, so Su Ran poured a cup for herself and Gray and rinsed their mouths with Gray.
After putting down the cup, Su Ran walked to the window side, closed the window tightly, and by the way extinguished the oil lamps hanging on the window side and the end of the heated brick bed.
At this time, inside the room there was only one lamp still lit. Su Ran climbed onto the heated brick bed.
Her quilt had already been snatched away by Hui, and it was still covering Hui’s body at this moment.
Su Ran opened the door of the closet, looked for a while, turned her head to Gray and asked: “Gray, is this quilt warm?”
“Wu?”
Gray didn’t lie down, but instead covered the quilt over his legs, looking at Su Ran.
He had probably already slept for midnight, so he was no longer sleepy. Plus, his fever had subsided a bit, and his body didn’t feel so uncomfortable anymore. At this time, he was very spirited, and his pair of green eyes under the dim light appeared bright and sparkling, exceptionally clear.
“Hot woo…, but blanket, very cold.”
Su Ran nodded. She just knew it!
Gray itself was afraid of heat, but now with a fever, he still felt cold.
But her quilt was particularly thick. It was fine during the high fever, but now that he had recovered a bit, he should feel hot.
Thinking this, she pulled out the thin quilt she had used in early autumn from the closet. This quilt’s thickness was only half that of the one she was using now; it should be just right if covered with ash.
“Here, use this.”
Su Ran handed the thin quilt to Hui, then pulled the thick quilt back to her side.
“Good woo~”
After changing the quilt, the two finally lay back in the nest.
Hui laughed in a silly manner, facing Su Ran and letting out a big yawn, then pulled the pillow and scooted a bit toward Su Ran’s front, stretched out his long arm, and pulled Su Ran into his embrace.
It was clear that he was in a very good mood.
But Su Ran was extremely sleepy.
Especially after just eating, with her stomach warm and full, blood all gathered in her stomach, making her even sleepier.
She fell asleep in Hui’s embrace in less than a minute after lying down.
The room was quiet, the oil lamp that had burned for three or four hours slowly extinguished by itself in the silent night at some point.
Soon, the only sounds left in the room were the steady breathing of deep sleep and the final crackling of the firewood burning out.
The next day, it was clear after the rain.
But the temperature in the air had dropped a lot.
Su Ran and Hui both got up very late the next day.
Hui had woken up early, but he hadn’t moved at all.
After being ill, he seemed even more clingy toward Su Ran.
This situation lasted for more than half a month, until finally Su Ran couldn’t take it anymore, lost her temper, gave the clingy Hui a good beating, and then it improved.
The new season of spring gradually slipped away in such plain and warm days.
One cycle of the four seasons on this continent was roughly equal to two years on Earth.
Unknowingly, Su Ran had already been on this continent for more than three years.
She was starting to get more and more used to life here, more and more familiar with the characteristics of this continent, and more and more fond of the beastmen living together with her here, and the unrestrained, free and easy life here.
Of course, occasionally, she would also think of the people and things from her past on Earth, and those emotions and pasts she couldn’t let go of.
But she knew deep down that she would live here forever from now on, so she began to teach herself not to be sad about the past, but just to miss it.
More importantly, on this continent, there was already an existence she couldn’t let go of…
