Chapter 168: For The First Time, She Thought The Red-skinned Pig Could Squeal So Much
The reconciled dough was placed by Su Ran in a wooden basin, first cutting a piece from the top.
Then she first kneaded this piece of dough evenly, and used a rolling pin to roll it into a huge pancake shape.
After rolling it out, she evenly spread a layer of mutton fat on the pancake. Then she rolled the entire pancake into a strip, and tore the rolled strip into five or six dough pieces of similar size.
Finally, she flattened all these oil-wrapped dough pieces, rolled them into small pancakes, pan-fried them until cooked in the pot, and one oil pancake was complete.
When Gray outside had almost finished dealing with the accumulated snow, Su Ran inside the house had also almost finished making breakfast.
When Gray entered the house and saw those golden pancakes emitting the fragrance of oil, a look of curiosity appeared in his eyes, and he instinctively sniffed towards the direction of the pancakes.
“Ran Ran, what is this? It smells so good!”
“It’s an oil pancake~”
“Oil pancake?”
While Gray bit into a piece of pancake that Su Ran tore from the edge of one, he repeated it.
The oil pancake was just out of the pot, the crust on top, especially at the edges, was roasted crispy and fragrant, emitting a crunching sound with one bite.
“Mm, go wash your hands and eat.”
Su Ran nodded, urging Gray.
The food on the dining table emitted fragrance, and the two who had been busy for half the morning finally got to eat, already starving.
Gray quickly returned to the house from the kitchen.
Su Ran first ladled a full bowl of fish soup without fish meat for him, then ladled one for herself.
She first took a sip of the soup.
The fish soup was still a bit hot, but the heat brought out all the fresh flavor in the soup.
After one sip went down, the fresh flavor lingered in her mouth, and the soup water flowed down her throat into her stomach, making Su Ran feel so comfortable that all her pores seemed to open up.
“Ao wu~~”
While Su Ran was savoring the deliciousness of the fish soup that went down, Gray also contentedly let out a soft whine from his throat.
One person and one wolf’s gazes suddenly met, and then Su Ran couldn’t help but laugh first.
“Try how today’s pancake tastes?”
Because Su Ran thought today’s oil pancake was meant to be eaten with fish soup, she didn’t prepare green vegetables or stir-fried vegetables to wrap in the pancakes.
She first ate a bite of the golden-fried oil pancake plain, and with one bite, the crispy crust first made a “crunch” sound.
The aroma of flour mixed with oil fragrance, and when Su Ran was kneading the dough, she also added a little salt powder to the flour, so the pancake itself had a slight salty taste.
In the middle of the crispy crust, there was also a chewy pancake core, and eating it in the mouth, then drinking a sip of fish soup, it was simply more delicious the more she chewed!
And Gray sitting opposite Su Ran had even intuitively learned to tear the whole pancake into pieces and soak them in the soup to eat.
After eating a few bites, he didn’t forget to look up and praise Su Ran: “Ran Ran, oil pancake is delicious! Better than noodles, wo!”
When the two finished breakfast, it was almost ten o’clock.
Today was a sunny day with a bright sun hanging in the sky, shining on the woods covered in silvery white, the light refracted by the snow on the ground so dazzling that people couldn’t open their eyes.
Su Ran only stood at the house doorway and looked a few times before withdrawing her gaze from the distance. The light on the snow was too glaring, looking too long might cause snow blindness.
But after withdrawing her gaze, when she saw the ground at the house doorway, she couldn’t help but “pfft!” laugh out loud.
The two snowmen originally piled at the house doorway were gone, now two larger snowmen stood there quietly, one of them not only had a snow tail behind its butt, but also two small bumps piled on its back.
In Gray’s words, those were his wings.
After this snowfall, the woods welcomed several consecutive sunny days.
Although during snow melting, the air was still very cold, even colder than before.
But under the big sun, the melting speed of the accumulated snow was still very fast.
Su Ran and Gray cleared the accumulated snow in front of their house door a bit further forward every day.
The location of their house was on the slope in front of the river beach, if the snow melted fast, the melted snow water would likely form water flow and flow into the river below.
But now the weather was cold, although the snow melted quickly, the water flow speed couldn’t keep up with the freezing speed of the cold air, the melted snow water would freeze into ice again before it could flow away.
So much so that in the first two days, at the house doorway, those half-melted accumulated snow directly froze into ice blocks, and Su Ran even slipped and fell carelessly.
So she had to pull Gray to chip away bit by bit at these accumulated snow that had frozen into ice blocks in front of the house door, load them into a backpack, then dump them further away from the house.
At least clear the accumulated snow in the area of their daily activities.
This snowfall lasted over half a month before the accumulated snow on the river beach completely melted.
But the snow layer deep in the forest was still very thick.
And during this period, Su Ran slaughtered the large red-skinned pig they were raising at home.
This pig ate too much!
Because it was winter and it hadn’t gained much meat, Su Ran got tired of feeding it, so she simply slaughtered it for a fresh meal.
And this pig was personally slaughtered by Su Ran.
Although Gray helped in the middle, when it came to wielding the knife, it was Su Ran who did it herself.
However, it wasn’t that she wanted novelty or thought it fun to do it herself.
Rather, she had always been thinking that for any skills related to life, she wanted to try them once.
Although with Gray around, she basically wouldn’t need to use the pig slaughtering skill, she still felt she could not do it but not not know how.
Moreover, there would be more and more small animals raised at home in the future, if she could learn, she wouldn’t need to take time from Gray’s busy moments to do these things.
She had tried skinning animals herself, tried hunting herself, but only hadn’t tried handling live prey herself.
Now there happened to be a live red-skinned pig at home, so Su Ran wanted to give it a try.
Although even after trying, she still wouldn’t be able to control a red-skinned pig by herself for slaughter later, at least she would have experience, and when facing other small animals, she would have experience!
And Su Ran also wanted to teach Gray the method of bleeding animals by the way.
Previously, the animals they hunted back were mostly injured and dead, although there was heavy bleeding, many animals’ blood wasn’t completely drained.
Although Su Ran hadn’t tasted any gamey flavor from the meat due to lack of bleeding before, when cooking, the blood foam cooked from the undrained blood was something she really disliked.
It just looked very unappetizing!
When Su Ran slaughtered the pig, the noise she made made her feel like it almost echoed through the entire forest!
That was the first time she realized red-skinned pigs could squeal so loudly!
And naturally, the red-skinned pig’s miserable screams also attracted the beastmen who were holed up in their dens overwintering to watch.
