Chapter 38: Trade For Salt?
Under the beastmen’s watch, Su Ran spent nearly twenty minutes sawing down two sections of tree trunk.
However, after sawing them down, she didn’t immediately start making tableware.
Because the roast beef was ready.
She and the werewolf together took down the fully cooked beef and placed it on the laid-out sweet leaf vein tree leaves, starting to prepare breakfast.
Of course, the time now was nearly ten in the morning, so this was already a roast meat meal that couldn’t be told if it was breakfast or lunch.
Before eating the roast meat, Su Ran first cut yesterday’s roast ox leg into several large pieces and put them in one of the baskets to hand to the werewolf.
She looked at the werewolf, pointing at the surrounding beastmen with her hand, and said, “Gray, share it with everyone to eat~”
Since edible salt had already been made, it was natural to start popularizing it among the beastmen.
It took the werewolf a good while to understand Su Ran’s meaning.
It turned its head to look at the surrounding beastmen, hesitated only briefly for a moment, then began walking toward the other beastmen as Su Ran meant.
Su Ran discovered that as long as it was something beneficial to the beastmen, the werewolf was actually always very willing to share with the other beastmen.
Because most of yesterday had been spent by Su Ran burning salt, it had also watched Su Ran finely sprinkle salt powder on the roast meat today.
It had already eaten salt-roasted white-headed sheep, so it naturally knew the allure of food with a salty taste.
So when Su Ran asked it to share the salt-added roast beef with other beastmen, even though this prey was hunted by itself, it wouldn’t refuse.
Of course, the other beastmen wouldn’t take the werewolf’s meat for nothing.
When the werewolf came back, the meat in the basket was almost twice as much as when it had just taken it out.
Su Ran almost suspected that it was willing to give out the roast meat precisely because it knew it would get twice the return!
The werewolf, having already eaten salt, wasn’t as excited this time eating the roast beef as last time.
In comparison, the beastmen around who occasionally made various noises because they ate something delicious were clearly much more excited.
The roast beef’s meat was slightly tougher in texture than the white-headed sheep and dwarf deer’s meat, but it was also more flavorful when chewed.
Su Ran thought this meat was very suitable for making jerky, not living up to the four-eared ox looking like the cattle on Earth.
At this time, while she and the werewolf were eating happily, suddenly a shadow covered the two’s top of head.
Su Ran looked up and saw a tiger-type beastman standing in front of the two, very directly placing down a large piece of meat whose animal couldn’t be identified, then roaring “ao ao” at the werewolf.
Soon after, the werewolf turned its head to look at Su Ran, pointing at the tiger-type male: “Ran Ran, salt, wu~”
Su Ran raised her eyebrows, calmly asking the werewolf, “It wants salt?”
The werewolf couldn’t understand Su Ran’s entire sentence, only catching the word salt in it.
It looked at Su Ran somewhat annoyed, pointing at the tiger-type beastman, then at the beast meat on the ground, still only able to repeat: “Meat, salt!”
So Su Ran took out that jar of sea salt from her pocket, teaching the werewolf word by word: “Meat~trade salt~”
She pointed at the meat chunk on the ground, then at the sea salt in her hand: “Trade~salt~”
“Trade~salt?” The werewolf seriously repeated Su Ran’s words; due to its care for Su Ran, it now had great interest and patience in learning Su Ran’s speech and actions.
So now, whenever Su Ran showed she wanted to teach it something or do something new, even if it was in an extremely relaxed lazy state, it would immediately focus its attention and get serious.
And clearly now, Su Ran wanted to teach it this phrase.
It watched Su Ran put the meat chunk the tiger-type beastman placed on the ground into their own basket, then tear a sweet leaf vein tree leaf and roll the leaf into a funnel shape.
Then Su Ran poured a bit of salt into it.
Su Ran didn’t pour much.
Because she had a feeling that other beastmen would come over soon to trade for salt, but the salt in her hand wasn’t much.
Then she handed the leaf containing the sea salt to the tiger-type beastman.
After the tiger-type beastman took it, it glanced at Su Ran, then turned its head to softly growl at the werewolf before leaving with its tail swishing.
However, after the tiger-type beastman left, Su Ran only then remembered, did this beastman know how to use salt?
If it poured it all onto the roast meat at once, then the salt powder she had worked so hard to make would be wasted.
Thinking about it, she still wasn’t reassured and finally got up to chase after it.
And the werewolf behind her, seeing her action, immediately “shua!” erected its tail and followed along.
By the time Su Ran came back after demonstrating the use of salt to the tiger-type beastman and the beastmen grilling meat with it, the werewolf was still tightly grabbing Su Ran’s hand, mumbling something in its mouth.
Su Ran couldn’t understand, but she could guess it was some nagging about her getting too close to other male beastmen.
And following the tiger-type beastman, sure enough as Su Ran thought, other beastmen began coming over one after another to trade for salt.
Some beastmen even, when coming over, directly said to Su Ran: “You, chirp, meat~trade salt?”
Although spoken haltingly, it was enough for Su Ran now.
She even began fantasizing about later in this world being able to communicate fluently with the beastmen.
Otherwise, if she kept living in a social environment where no one could understand what she said and she couldn’t communicate with others, she felt she would go crazy sooner or later!
The one trading salt with her now should be a male peacock beastman.
It stood under the sunlight, its head of long wavy hair like satin shining with peacock blue luster.
No ears could be seen on its head; Su Ran thought of bird ears and figured its ears were probably hidden under the hair.
And behind it, there was also a pair of wings.
The wings were the same peacock blue as the hair. They looked smooth and beautiful, the light refracted from the wings shimmering with faint golden lines.
And coming with it was the little female white fox Yao Yao.
Seeing the intimate actions occasionally revealed between the two beastmen in front of her, Su Ran suddenly realized!
This peacock beastman was actually Yao Yao’s companion!
Or rather, a companion not yet mated.
Because she had seen that Yao Yao lived together with a male fox beastman and a female dog beastman, which should be her family.
So what was the reason she and the peacock beastman weren’t living together yet?
Could it be that the unions between male beastmen and female beastmen here had some kind of ceremony or such?
Su Ran left some doubt in her heart.
However, at present, she looked at the peacock male’s face that looked quite like an ultimate demon male lead from comics, then at Yao Yao’s equally beautiful, charming, and delicate little face, and inwardly mused that the children these two would have must be so good-looking!
The peacock male’s that head of dazzling hair and gorgeous wings.
The fox female’s that pair of cute fox ears, and the fluffy big tail behind her.
Just these points alone had already laid the foundation for the future little beastman’s unparalleled beauty!
