Chapter 151: Ran Ran Likes It, Keep It!
Su Ran lit a campfire on the beach, roasted by the fire for a while, and after feeling a bit more comfortable on her body, she picked up the backpack and walked toward the reef group.
There was no wind at the seaside today, but it was still very cold.
When she pried off an abalone hiding in a crevice of the reef, her fingers got seawater on them, making Su Ran feel that the seawater’s temperature now was much cooler.
However, there was still plenty of seafood at the seaside.
But most of it was still in the vicinity of the reef group.
Some small seashell-type seafood that could previously be found in the sand was now almost impossible to see.
The seafood Su Ran saw today was mostly the three kinds: scallops, oysters, and abalone.
Besides that, the other kinds were just two conches and one slightly larger octopus weighing three or four pounds.
Because the seafood now had grown to a very large size. So the two bags she and Hui brought were quickly filled up.
And just as Su Ran scooped up a pile of kelp, wanting to take it back together, Hui, who was on the reef on the other side doing who knows what, suddenly stood up, holding something in his hand and running toward her.
“Ao wu!! Ran Ran, look!”
He held that thing up with both hands and pushed it in front of Su Ran.
Su Ran looked up and met a pair of pitch-black shiny eyes.
It was actually a sea turtle!
Su Ran looked at the sea turtle grabbed in Hui’s hands.
Because its body was restrained, its four legs were sliding forcefully in the air like flippers. Its neck was stretched out long, and its mouth was opening and closing, as if it wanted to turn its head to bite the person holding it.
But because its movements were slow, the mouth slowly opening and closing in an attempt to bite looked exactly like a sloth in an anime.
Especially paired with that pair of pitch-black shiny eyes, the whole turtle looked both dumb and cute!
“Sea turtle?”
Su Ran reached out, hesitated for a moment, and gently scratched the neck of this turtle.
There was a time before when she really liked watching videos online of sea turtles being cleaned of barnacles, and she thought those sea turtles’ slow movements were very cute.
But Hui, seeing Su Ran’s obviously very happy expression, misunderstood her meaning.
He suddenly grabbed one of the sea turtle’s hind legs, lifted it upside down, and shook it in front of Su Ran: “Ran Ran, take it back and eat it!”
Su Ran:……
“Huh?”
She looked up at Hui in astonishment, reacted, hurriedly lowered her head to glance at the sea turtle that was being held upside down in his hand and seemed to have given up struggling, and waved her hands repeatedly at Hui:
“No! Hui! This one can’t be eaten!”
This was a legendary divine beast!
Su Ran hurriedly took the sea turtle from Hui’s hands.
This sea turtle was very small, about the size of Hui’s two palms, making it look even cuter.
Although Su Ran had never really had any faith before, as a native Hua Xia person, the myths and legends she read growing up made her instinctively have a mystical filter for this kind of animal.
And it wasn’t just sea turtles.
Maybe because she read too many ghost and strange tales novels when she was little.
Even seeing others eating softshell turtles before would remind her of certain eerie and horrifying novel scenes.
So when it came to eating, Su Ran had always kept her distance from this kind of animal.
Not to mention now, when she and Hui didn’t lack this little bit of meat.
“Why not eat it? This one is delicious woo~”
Hui looked at Su Ran doubtfully, his tail swishing behind him.
From his eyes, it was obvious that he had eaten this thing before.
Su Ran: “Uh…”
She herself didn’t eat it, but it seemed she had no reason to stop Hui from eating it.
But this little guy was really a bit cute…
Su Ran hesitated for two seconds, struggled a bit over whether not to let Hui eat this little guy, but ultimately gave up.
She had no reason to make Hui change these behaviors that were completely normal in his world because of her.
“It’s that I don’t like eating it.”
Su Ran stroked the shell of the little sea turtle in her hand. Perhaps sensing no malice from Su Ran, the little sea turtle was now obediently held in her hand and no longer struggled.
However, at that moment, after hearing Su Ran’s answer, Hui shook his head at her, full of certainty in his eyes: “Ran Ran likes~”
His ears on top of his head twitched, he looked at Su Ran and stuck out one finger, pointing at the little sea turtle in her hand: “Ran Ran likes it! Woo… raise it!”
Su Ran was stunned, not expecting Hui to mean that kind of like.
She had always known that perhaps due to habits formed from hunting, the beastmen could easily sense changes in others’ emotions.
But this sentence from Hui still surprised her.
Because she could feel that the “raise it” Hui said meant raising it as a pet, not like the wild chickens and four-eared oxen at home that were raised as reserve food.
In the end, Su Ran still didn’t take the little sea turtle home. She liked it, but as soon as she thought about having to prepare food for it, Su Ran instantly gave up.
She was still struggling to even feed herself now, so no need to find more trouble for herself!
The seafood brought back from the seaside was all poured by Su Ran into a large water bucket.
Now, she didn’t have many other things at home, but these wooden buckets, wooden basins, wooden jars were stacked in piles. Starting from the time she began winter storage, Su Ran had made a lot.
Anyway, they were all made of wood or stone, and they didn’t cost money.
The water bucket was filled more than halfway with water. Su Ran planned to let the seafood spit out the sand first, then freeze them.
After settling all the brought-back seafood, Su Ran returned inside the room.
When she sat down, she suddenly felt that her head had been a bit dizzy since earlier.
She felt something was wrong.
It wasn’t from being blown by the wind, was she catching a cold!
Su Ran hurriedly raised her hand to touch her forehead, but the warm temperature of the forehead didn’t reveal anything.
But better safe than sorry.
She still hurriedly climbed onto the heated brick bed, went to the closet in the back to rummage out her hiking backpack, took out a cold medicine pill and an ibuprofen pill from it, and swallowed them with hot water.
Back when she went hiking, besides the first-aid supplies in the gear bag, she had also brought some daily medicine.
Among those medicines, except for the antidiarrheal medicine which she forgot to bring at the end.
The others like painkillers, fever reducers, anti-inflammatories, and stomach medicine, she had brought a strip or a small bottle as backup.
These medicines hadn’t reached their expiration date yet and still had effect.
At this moment, Hui wasn’t home.
Because the weather hadn’t yet reached the point where they couldn’t go out, recently every day the beastmen still caught and killed food fresh, and wouldn’t touch the food stored for overwintering.
After taking the medicine, Su Ran drank a large cup of hot water. Once she felt her body warming up a bit inside, she spread out the quilt and drilled into the nest.
