Chapter 100: Hui Likes Ran Ran The Most
After the house was roofed, the happiest one wasn’t Su Ran, but instead it was Hui.
It held Su Ran and flew down from the roof, and after putting Su Ran on the ground, at Su Ran’s urging, it curiously turned its head to look at the house behind it.
At this look, it was stunned in place!
The house in front of its eyes had high roof and wide rooms.
The walls piled up with grayish-white stone bricks were also grayish-white in color.
And in the middle of the bricks, thick dark green-black lines were mixed in the stone bricks, and under the sunlight, they seemed to faintly show a bit of hidden blue tone.
That was the color of blue worm internal organs.
And what made people feel the brightest was that patch of roof stacked with white seashells, which from any angle looked beautifully fantastical.
With a shake of sunlight, the luster on the seashells seemed like flowing colorful gauze shimmering with light, making people subconsciously think of the extremely brilliant aurora.
Not to mention Hui, even Su Ran, upon seeing the completed roof for the first time, was stunned with wide-open eyes by its beauty.
Isn’t this just the fantastical little house from a fairy tale world…
And at this time, Hui was foolishly standing in front of the house, its green eyes with black pupils already dilated to fill the entire eyeball.
Because of the shock, its mouth was slightly open, and its tail behind was drooping on the ground, forgetting to shake.
It stared at the building in front for a long time, so long that Su Ran had already lifted her steps, preparing to let it stay there and slowly be shocked while she went inside the house first to take a look.
But the next second, she was suddenly grabbed by Hui and tightly hugged into its embrace!
“Ran Ran!!”
Hui tightly hugged her and shouted loudly, its voice full of excitement and joy.
“Ran Ran is awesome!!”
It said loudly, and the next second, it suddenly put its hands under Su Ran’s armpits and lifted her up like a child.
A pair of eyes filled with pitch-black pupils sparkled as it looked at Su Ran and said: “Hui likes Ran Ran the most, Ran Ran is the, most awesome!”
After saying that, it hugged Su Ran back into its embrace, its erect nose tip gently rubbing against Su Ran’s face: “Hui, likes Ran Ran the most!”
Su Ran listened to its most straightforward confession, pursed her lips, and touched Hui’s erect ears on top of its head:
“I like Hui the most too!”
After the main structure of the house was completed, the remaining work was much simpler.
Su Ran first used the remaining stone bricks to lay a layer of ground inside the house.
Originally she wanted to use cement, but because the remaining burned crushed seashells were not many.
And to make more, she would have to burn another batch.
Just thinking about burning another batch would extend the timeline for completing the house.
After being continuously busy for almost two months and already mentally and physically exhausted, Su Ran directly passed on this option and instead chose to first lay a layer of stone bricks on the ground inside the house.
Anyway, whether using stone bricks or cement, the final difference was just about appearance.
If really necessary, this ground could be redone later when there was time.
After laying the ground, Su Ran spent the next three days building a stove and an earthen kang in the bedrooms on both sides.
These two things weren’t difficult for Su Ran.
Because from childhood to now, not only had she seen others build kangs, but even once when her dad rebuilt the earthen kang at grandmother’s house, she had helped out on the side.
Normally, according to the size of the pot, the stove should be square.
But Su Ran built the part behind the stove a bit longer by thirty centimeters, to make space on the side of the stove for putting things when cooking food later.
After building the stove, Su Ran began building the heated brick bed.
The heated brick bed was four meters wide, actually built against the walls on both sides of the bedroom.
But the length was two point three meters for the heated brick bed in the west bedroom, and four meters long for the one in the east bedroom.
Because there was no extra storage room left behind the east bedroom, the kang on this side also needed to be built a bit longer.
However, Su Ran had already decided to leave about one point five meters of space behind this kang, and then separate it with wooden boards, which could be used as a cupboard inside.
She already had quite a few animal hides stored now, which could be directly put in there later.
But even so, the length of the heated brick bed was a bit long under normal circumstances.
Generally, two meters length for a heated brick bed was enough.
But considering that Hui itself was nearly two meters tall, if the heated brick bed was directly built to two meters, it would be a bit short.
At night when sleeping, Hui would probably have to put its feet against the wall to sleep.
After starting to build the heated brick bed, Su Ran first piled up a row of the outermost kang wall with stone bricks.
When piling this row of kang wall, she also built a small heated brick bed hole near the end of the kang.
This heated brick bed hole was for use when winter comes and the weather is too cold, then at night one could directly bring firewood into the house and burn a fire in the bedroom to heat up the kang.
Or it would also be convenient for her to build a stove inside the house in winter.
After the kang walls were piled, Su Ran then piled another row of brick walls inside, right against the back wall, as high as the front kang wall.
After these two rows were done, Su Ran first piled a return air vent at the position of the smoke channel, and used homemade cement to coat the outside of the return air vent completely, sealing the small gaps above.
Then she began to build stone brick stacks inside the kang walls.
Building a stack of stone bricks every about half a meter or so in front and back positions, with cement sticking in the middle of the stone bricks, a total of three stacks ten rows high. This was to lay the stone slabs as the kang surface on top, piled underneath.
And after these stone bricks were piled, one could directly lay stone slabs on top, then apply layers of cement on the stone slabs.
When applying to the four edges of the earthen kang, she especially carefully coated several times to prevent incomplete sealing, which would cause smoke to fill the room when lighting a fire later.
After the kang surface was laid, this house could be considered completed.
Afterwards, one just needed to install the doors and windows, make the furniture needed inside the house and move it in, and then it could be lived in.
When Su Ran finished laying the kang surface, the time was just past one in the afternoon.
The stone pots to be installed on the two stoves had been dug long ago, and the size of the stoves was made according to the size of the stone pots.
Su Ran and Hui together installed the stone pots, and then Su Ran carried two loads of firewood into the house.
The newly built kang couldn’t be slept on yet, and needed to first burn dry the still-wet cement on top.
Su Ran also took advantage of the fire now burning in the stove to have Hui catch a few slightly smaller fish, marinate them with seasonings, wrap them in sweet leaf vein tree leaves and mud, throw them into the stove hole to bake for a while to use as snacks.
After doing these, Su Ran pulled Hui along to install all the doors and windows.
The door frame and window frame had been installed when building the house.
But because there were no materials to make door hinges, and even if there were, Su Ran wouldn’t know how to do it, so the doors and windows she made were more like ancient styles.
That is, installing a door slot at the doorway, and when closing the door, directly inserting several door panels into the door slot, a bit like the shop doors of ancient stores often seen in films and TV dramas.
Actually at the very beginning, Su Ran wanted to directly make sliding doors.
But thinking about it, the house door was only a bit over one meter wide, and if installing sliding doors, one side of the door would always block the way.
Then later if she wanted to move any things into the house, it simply wouldn’t fit, and she couldn’t trouble herself by going through the window!
However, the house door was made as a wooden board door, but the door leading to the kitchen inside, because the opening was larger, fully over two meters wide, Su Ran directly made it like a sliding door.
As for the small balls installed above and below for sliding, they were directly stones ground round.
Su Ran felt that if there really were immortals in this world, someday she really would have to pay respects to the mountain god here.
After all, the stones here had really helped her a lot!
