Chapter 78: Midnight Wolf Howl
Su Ran always felt like she seemed to have forgotten something, but she was always just a little short of remembering what it was.
Later, she simply stopped thinking about it and let nature take its course.
After making sausages for a day, the next day Su Ran took out all the seafood that couldn’t be finished eating.
She found a few thick tree trunks as thick as bowl mouths and cleaned off all the branches and small twigs on them.
Then she padded a few large stones on the open space in front of the rain shelter, placed the several tree trunks tightly side by side to serve as a simple long table.
After processing and washing all the seafood, she spread a layer of sweet leaf vein tree leaves on the long table. She put the washed shellfish meat, crab meat, and so on onto the sweet leaf vein tree leaves to let the sunlight slowly dry them.
The trees at the bird’s nest tree were too lush.
During the day, even at noon, there were only a few rays of sunlight that could pass through the gaps in the leaves, so the things being dried could only be placed on the open river beach.
However, there was one drawback to the river beach: it was a bit far away.
Su Ran was a bit worried that small animals might take the opportunity to cause trouble while she was sleeping at night.
But for now, there was no other good way temporarily.
She could only speed up the plan to build the house as soon as possible.
After processing the seafood, she still had a large pile of fruit that hadn’t been dealt with.
Although fruit could be stored a bit longer than seafood, with the current weather, it would last at most three or four days.
Finally, Su Ran decided to use half of these fruits to dry into dried fruit, and the other half to make into jam.
However, while washing these fruits, Su Ran discovered a few kinds of fruit among them that she had never seen before.
There were small peach fruits that were particularly particularly sweet, pink and looking like water honey peaches, but only as big as lychees.
Black date fruits with hard fruit flesh that were also particularly sweet to eat, but with particularly large pits.
And red meat fruits with bright red flesh and a sour-sweet moderate taste.
Among the wild fruits that Gray brought back, this kind of sour-sweet red meat fruit was the most numerous.
While the commonly eaten youyou fruits and red fruits, in such a large pile of wild fruits, didn’t even fill one wooden basin.
Green soap fruits were also plentiful.
But the flesh of the green soap fruits was noticeably harder than before, and after roasting, they were also drier to eat.
Su Ran decided to wait a bit longer and then grind some green soap fruit powder to see.
If green soap fruit powder could be used like flour, then she could make staple foods like noodles and dumplings, and it wouldn’t be far from returning to days with rice and dishes.
Thinking of these, she felt very happy.
Su Ran made two kinds of jam from these wild fruits in total.
Purely sweet small peach fruit jam and sour-sweet red meat fruit jam.
The made jam was packed by her into sealed stone jars, a total of four jars, two jars of each flavor.
These jams, the small peach fruit jam was generally used by her to mix with water to drink, while the red fruit jam was used as a food ingredient.
Su Ran didn’t expect that Gray actually really liked the sour-sweet red fruit jam.
On one occasion when she made a few egg pancakes and spread some red fruit jam on the egg pancakes for Gray to taste.
After that, for several days in a row, Gray would ask Su Ran to make a few egg pancakes spread with jam to eat together.
As a result, the number of green-skinned eggs in Su Ran’s basket bottomed out in just a few short days.
However, this did make her generate the idea of farming wild chickens.
But because she had been keeping the house-building matter in mind, feeling that there really was no time to take care of farmed wild chickens temporarily, she could only put it aside for now.
For the remaining wild fruits, she kept a bit of the easy-to-store black date fruits in the nest, left all the green soap fruits to roast and eat, and washed and sliced the rest, placing them together with the seafood on the rain shelter side to dry.
The skins of these kinds of wild fruits were all very thin, and the sugar content in the flesh was also sufficient. After drying, they were chewy to eat, and soaking them directly in water was also very tasty.
Su Ran liked to directly use small peach fruit jam and red meat fruit dried fruit to soak in water to drink.
Gray, however, preferred to eat the dried fruit directly as snacks.
After processing all the food that Gray brought back, Su Ran looked at the large expanse of seafood dried fruit and drying animal hides spread out on the river beach.
Suddenly, she had a feeling that she had welcomed a bountiful harvest.
This made her feel very reassured.
After finishing these things, Su Ran decided to start preparing stones for building the house the next day.
She planned to use black-flowered Malan grass to dig out stone bricks to build the house.
Stone bricks would require a lot, but she now had plenty of nothing but time. To save time, Su Ran set the size of the stone bricks to four times the size of normal bricks.
Then she and Gray doing a little each day wouldn’t take too long.
But what Su Ran didn’t expect was that plans couldn’t keep up with changes.
The matter that had always been forgotten by her suddenly came.
That night, Su Ran and Gray both slept very early.
Because there were too many things to do during the daytime, at night Su Ran slept very soundly.
Then at midnight, she was suddenly startled awake by a long wolf howl that rang right by her ear!
That wolf howl exploded right by her ear, the long howl in the silent night seeming to carry endless sadness.
Hearing that sound, Su Ran inexplicably felt a deep sense of sadness well up from the bottom of her heart.
The wolf that made the sound seemed to be enduring a huge sadness.
That sadness slowly transmitted out from the nest, as if carrying the desolation of the night, penetrating the entire forest.
After opening her eyes, Su Ran was dazed for a moment before slowly regaining her senses.
She blinked and suddenly discovered that the one who made this call was no one else but Gray, who was with her!
But clearly, when going to sleep that night, Gray was happy and there was nothing wrong.
She reached out to touch beside her and found her side empty, with no sign of Gray at all!
What happened?
The nest at midnight was pitch black, and Su Ran couldn’t see anything.
Thinking that something had suddenly happened to Gray made Su Ran’s heart start to race uncontrollably.
She quickly sat up, but just as she stood up, her movement suddenly paused.
Under the animal hide covering her, between her legs wearing shorts, a warm current suddenly surged out.
And that already somewhat sticky feeling told her that this had been going on for a while!
Su Ran finally remembered the thing she hadn’t been able to recall no matter what.
Her big auntie that had been delayed for more than a week finally came.
This was still Su Ran’s first menstruation after coming to this world.
Because it came too suddenly, she even sat in place stunned for a while before remembering how to handle the current situation.
However, this also made a sudden flash of inspiration in her mind.
Could it be that Gray went crazy outside in the middle of the night because he discovered she was on her period?
She was thinking when suddenly she heard a slight “patta” sound from the bird’s nest entrance.
Immediately after, a series of heavy footsteps stepped into the nest and quickly walked to her front.
The next second, before Su Ran could react, she felt herself being fiercely pulled into a warm embrace!
