Chapter 191: The Second Autumn Has Arrived
When Su Ran and Gray were eating, the rain was almost about to stop.
Su Ran put the bowls and chopsticks on the table, then walked to the window and pushed open the window.
The moment the window sash was pushed open, humid air surged into the room, bringing a bit of coolness.
On the distant river beach, clumps of white water mist floated in the air, making the scenery hazy with fog and shadows. Looking out from the window, it was like a ink wash painting.
Eating while looking at the beautiful scenery would also make people feel good and eat a few more bowls.
Of course, it was also possible that Su Ran and Gray were both very hungry today!
So the wonton and steamed dumplings wrapped in the morning, as well as the remaining green soap fruit and stewed beef from last night, were all eaten clean!
After finishing the meal, the rain outside the house had completely stopped.
Su Ran wore a slightly thicker piece of clothes, put on a thin mask and hat, and was held by Gray as they flew to check on the forest that had caught fire yesterday.
After flying in the air for a while, Su Ran realized that the air was still a bit cold at this moment.
The water mist in mid-air had obvious water vapor falling on the exposed skin, and soon formed a layer of water film, bringing a chill.
When they were about to fly to the location of the burning woods, from far away, they could see above the forest that in the large area of woods ahead, a huge burned open space appeared in front of them.
The open space was black, and from the air, it was printed in the green forest, looking as obvious as an ugly bald spot.
Gray flew lower with Su Ran, and because they were worried about the mud on the ground, neither of them landed. Instead, they flew low around the edge where the fire line had finally burned.
Only after flying lower could they see that the firebreak dug by the beastmen yesterday had really played a big role!
Because on the edge of the dug firebreak, there were obvious traces of being burned by fire.
And from the black soil color and the tree debris that had fallen on the firebreak and been burned off, it could be seen that the fire had burned for quite a while on the edge of the firebreak, but when it reached the firebreak, there was nothing left to burn, so it didn’t continue to spread.
At this point, Su Ran finally completely let go of her worries.
This fire was finally completely over!
On the next day after the rain, the clouds dispersed, and the forest returned to bright sunshine.
In the following days, the temperature continued to rise, and the scorching sunlight made everyone, including Su Ran, start to go out less frequently!
Su Ran still had to fetch water from the well every morning before the weather got hot and water the green vegetables in the vegetable garden behind the house once!
Because the weather was too hot, and there was an open empty space above the vegetable garden with no trees to block, if they didn’t water every day, the vegetables in the vegetable garden would dehydrate and wither at a visible speed, and finally be directly sun-dried to death.
However, no matter how hard it was, time would always pass.
When this batch of vegetables behind the house also matured, Su Ran’s second autumn in this world arrived.
Facing this winter storage season for the second time, Su Ran was no longer as flustered as last year.
She first harvested all the vegetables behind the house and spread them in front of the house to dry into dried vegetables.
Now the open space in front of the house was all paved with thick stone slabs by Su Ran.
Even the open spaces on both sides of the house leading to the vegetable garden behind were paved by her with a layer of large crushed stones. The gray-white stone slabs and stones paved a piece, and at a glance, it looked much cleaner and tidier.
The dried green vegetables were carefully strung up by Su Ran with sheep wool yarn and hung all over the roof of the storage room. With these dried vegetables, the green vegetables grown later didn’t need to be dried anymore; these were enough for her and Gray to eat.
After this batch of vegetables was harvested, Su Ran immediately planted a new batch of seeds.
In the second month after entering autumn, the weather would quickly turn cool, and the growth speed of plants would slow down. Su Ran wasn’t sure if they could do another planting after this sowing. So when sowing this batch of seeds, she planted a bit more than before.
After arranging the vegetable garden behind the house, she had to immediately start storing blue worms.
Blue worms were about to go out of season soon, but the advantage was that they were big now, and she could pick a lot at once.
Moreover, the blue worm meat that the beastmen had given to Su Ran when they were building houses before, after Su Ran dried and stored it, she hadn’t eaten much of it, and there was still a lot left at home.
So this autumn, Su Ran and Gray were a bit casual when collecting blue worms.
For example, too small ones were not wanted, ones with too light color were not wanted, ones that grew strangely shaped were not wanted…
However, for Su Ran, coming to the seaside was mainly not for picking blue worms, but mainly for making sea salt and picking oysters to make oyster sauce.
The sea salt left at home now was actually enough for her to eat until the end of winter, but if she wanted to make pickled vegetables and cured meat after a while, it would be a bit insufficient.
However, since she didn’t plan to make too many pickled products this year, even if she made salt, she didn’t need to boil too much.
At night, the Blue Star hanging in the sky suddenly disappeared again one day, and at the same time, the blue worms on the seaside also disappeared from the coast.
The feeling of autumn began to become more and more obvious, and Gray started catching new live animals back to the small animal room at home.
The animals in the small animal room now added four half-grown small four-eared oxen, ten white-headed sheep, four red-skinned pigs, and more than a dozen white wild chickens.
This time, Su Ran didn’t let Gray catch red birds back; that one bird was really too small, and after raising it for so long, when it came time to eat, it wasn’t even enough to fill the gaps between teeth!
In this room where the large animals lived, because she felt that there were a bit too many animals now and the space was a bit small, Su Ran built a slightly larger wooden house next to the position behind the small animal room using wood.
Although the walls of the wooden house were made of wood, they were made very thick, and even in winter, they could block the strong winds outside the house.
Su Ran moved the white wild chickens and red birds that were originally in the stone brick house to the small wooden house, then moved the four red-skinned pigs and the four newly arrived small four-eared oxen to the original chicken coop. After this swap, it finally felt a bit more spacious.
With more live things to raise at home, the problem of feed followed closely.
Su Ran started spending her time digging white bean fruits in the forest.
This was not only the feed for the animals at home, but also her and Gray’s food for this winter.
She would first dig the white bean fruits home with the fruits and grass during the daytime, and place them in the open space to dry.
When there was nothing to do at night, she would sit with Gray in the rain shelter, picking white bean fruits while relaxing the mood from a busy day under the moonlight.
The white bean fruit grass after picking the fruits would be piled up by Su Ran again on the right side of the house, let the sun dry it, and used as feed for the four-eared oxen and white-headed sheep in winter, stored up.
