Chapter 140: Exchange
After the dried vegetables storage was almost full, Su Ran didn’t rush to do other things first.
Instead, next to the shed where firewood was placed on the left side of the house, she built a small wooden house out of wood.
After building the small house, she dug out a cellar between the sleeping room and the vegetable garden, and properly reinforced the load-bearing inside it.
The small wooden house was prepared by Su Ran to store the frozen meat that would be stored up in winter.
This small house didn’t need any insulation ability, as long as it could keep out the small animals that came to steal food in winter.
The vegetable cellar was dug out to store fresh green vegetables and some wild fruit later on.
After finishing these two things, Su Ran pulled Hui to the seaside.
The two buckets of dried seafood she had stored now, though they looked like a lot, definitely weren’t enough to eat.
Thinking of Hui’s appetite, plus usually taking some out as snacks when idle, Su Ran felt that when there was time, she should still try to make as much dried seafood as possible.
By this time, she had actually started to somewhat look forward to the arrival of late autumn.
She wanted to try making oyster sauce as soon as possible.
Su Ran and Hui picked up seafood at the seaside for nearly ten days.
Before this trip to the seaside to gather seafood, because of the hot weather recently, Su Ran and Hui actually hadn’t come to the seaside for nearly two or three months.
So Su Ran wasn’t clear about the changes on this side of the seaside.
Therefore, after coming to the seaside again, Su Ran suddenly discovered that the seafood that could now be picked up at the seaside was obviously much larger than before.
Su Ran even specially took the spare seashells stored at home and compared them with the shells of the current oysters and scallops, finding that these shells were obviously more than two sizes larger than before.
“In another thirty days, or a month, they will be even bigger!”
Hui looked at the excited Su Ran who was holding two large scallops up in front of it and gesturing, and also laughed, then gestured with her hands while saying to her.
“Really?”
Su Ran subconsciously asked, but she already believed it in her heart, because she remembered that on Earth, many seafood were at their fattest and most delicious in autumn and winter.
And this time while collecting seafood, Su Ran no longer transported them back with the shells attached.
Before, because she was thinking of building houses, every time she came out to pick up seafood, she would conveniently bring back the seashells.
But now that the needed houses had all been built, there was no need for so many seashells anymore.
And with less space taken by seashells, the animal hide bags could hold much more seafood meat.
Now Su Ran and Hui had clear division of labor.
Because the weather was still somewhat hot, Hui disliked it very much, and even just sunning for a while would cause its body to start blistering.
So usually, Su Ran carried the backpack and wore the conical hat to pick up shellfish on the beach.
After the backpack was full, she sent it to Hui who was sitting under the rain shelter at the seaside, poured it to it, and let it remove the outer shells and the internal organs and other guts inside.
And the removed guts, Su Ran didn’t throw away either, but packed them back in an animal hide bag to feed the red birds and wild chickens raised at home.
Those that couldn’t be eaten at once were also dried, to improve the diet of these birds in winter.
The diet of these poultry animals was very varied, and thus very easy to raise.
Now in Su Ran’s chicken coop, more than twenty wild chickens and red birds had been successively caught inside, plus the previous ones, totaling more than forty.
And among these more than forty birds, it was obvious that more than ten had bodies much larger than the other twenty-plus.
The reason was that during this time while processing food that needed storage, Su Ran threw a lot of scraps to them.
To the point that the first batch of more than ten wild chickens and red birds now each had round and plump bodies.
Su Ran even felt that with their current body sizes, even if the feathers on their wings grew back, they probably couldn’t fly anymore!
Now the seafood meat that Su Ran and Hui could process each day could basically fill two large animal hide bags.
And the filled seafood internal organs were about a whole bag.
Hui would take a bag of seafood at noon each day, fly inside the forest to send one bag home.
These seafood meats had already been cleaned by Su Ran when taken back, so after Hui brought them back, they could just be poured out on the long table to spread out and dry.
During this time, the beastmen in the settlement, because they knew Su Ran’s food storage methods, also had many more beastmen coming to the seaside to pick up seafood like Su Ran and Hui.
And these beastmen, like Hui, disliked the current sunlight, so most of them would hunt prey or rest inside the woods during daytime, and only come out from the woods to the seaside after it started to cool down in the afternoon.
To the point that now inside the forest by the seaside, there were traces of beastmen almost everywhere.
This also made the wild beasts originally living nearby disappear completely.
So during this time, Hui was also very reassured to leave Su Ran alone at the seaside when going back to send seafood meat.
Besides some shellfish that Su Ran used to see often at the seaside, and occasionally small octopuses, small jellyfish, small sea cucumbers, recently the sea urchins in the rock crevices had also increased.
It’s just that the shell color of this kind of sea urchin was light purple.
But this didn’t affect its great taste, and it was very convenient to eat; after removing the internal organs, it could be eaten raw directly.
Unfortunately, this kind of seafood couldn’t be dried, so it could only be eaten a bit during this season to satisfy the craving.
Now whenever Su Ran and Hui were at the seaside each day, they would conveniently pick up a lot, eating while busy.
And Su Ran now felt an inexplicable sense of satisfaction in her heart.
Before, in the original world, those seafood whose prices would make her run far away just by looking, and which she wouldn’t even think of eating except during holidays, were now almost all eaten by her here!
Some were even eaten to the point of getting tired of them!
Su Ran’s dried seafood was made into another five large animal hide bags’ worth.
After that, she no longer deliberately came to the seaside to collect seafood to take back, but only brought some back to eat fresh when occasionally passing by the seaside.
Only the leftovers would then be conveniently dried a bit more.
At the same time, while collecting these seafood meats at the seaside, Su Ran didn’t forget to boil some sea salt every day.
Now the sea salt stored in her storage room already filled two and a half wooden buckets that were full person-height and nearly one meter wide.
In the small storage room behind her house, there were also two full large basins of sea salt made before.
But what Su Ran didn’t expect was that the sea salt she boiled at the seaside every day would actually attract the beastmen’s attention.
Until the first beastman brought a white-headed sheep to the door, and told Hui that it wanted to exchange the white-headed sheep for sea salt, Su Ran couldn’t help but be stunned!
