Chapter 101: Moving Into The New House
Su Ran only installed two doors on the main door of the house and the kitchen, and then installed a sliding door on the closet on the earthen kang in the east bedroom.
Three doors, one to block the wind, one to block the smoke, and one to block the view.
As for the remaining two bedroom doors and the storage room behind the west bedroom, Su Ran planned to directly make three door curtains out of animal hide to cover them when she had time.
After installing several doors, it was time to install the windows.
Inside the house, Su Ran had left a total of four windows.
One each in the east and west bedrooms, a small one in the rear storage room, and one behind the kitchen.
The method for making the windows was even simpler.
For the windows in the east and west bedrooms, Su Ran made them as originally planned, the type that opens up and down, requiring a piece of wood to prop up.
For the ones behind the kitchen and storage room, she directly made them sliding type.
The only drawback of making sliding doors and windows is that the small round stones used for sliding at the bottom might get damaged easily and need frequent pulling back and forth.
But Su Ran thought that since there was nothing else for her to do here usually, she could just make them slowly to pass the time.
The newly built earthen kang in the room had been burning for an afternoon, and it felt completely dry to the touch.
But Su Ran was still not reassured and planned to wait two more days before moving in.
Taking advantage of these few days, Su Ran quickly made a complete set of furniture she needed.
From the kitchen utensils table for bowls and basins and cutting board, to the cabinets and dining table in the bedroom, and then to the cupboard in the rear storage room for tools.
Probably because she had experience building the rain shelter and roof beams, Su Ran was now increasingly skilled at making wooden utensils using mortise and tenon structure.
During this time, Gray was not idle either.
Under Su Ran’s command, it got A Huo and A Jin to help dig out the entire rain shelter built downstream of the river beach and move it to the left side of the house here.
Su Ran had dug pits in the ground in advance. After Gray and the others moved the rain shelter over, they directly inserted the pillars into the dug pits and buried the pits.
Besides the main house, Su Ran originally wanted to build a separate storage room to store firewood and some tools.
But now that the house was just built, Su Ran was really too tired to move.
Moreover, it was now midsummer, and Su Ran was a bit anxious, wanting to go out and see some new changes appearing inside the forest.
Recently, Gray had brought back two more kinds of wild fruit from outside, and many fruits in the forest had very short seasons. She was afraid that if she didn’t go, she would miss the time to discover these new foods.
So Su Ran temporarily stored the firewood and tools in the rain shelter.
As for the dried food stored in bottles and jars, she took it to the small storage room inside the house.
After moving the rain shelter, Gray also conveniently called A Huo and the others to move the bird’s nest over.
Gray hadn’t forgotten to bring Su Ran’s rope ladder as well.
It hadn’t told Su Ran before moving the bird’s nest.
So when Su Ran looked up and saw a semi-circular black thing flying over from the sky, she was shocked and thought aliens had landed on the Beastman Continent!
It wasn’t until the thing flew closer that she could see it was actually a bird’s nest, and then Su Ran suddenly understood.
Then she subconsciously looked for Gray’s figure, and sure enough, on one side of the bird’s nest, she saw Gray flying while lifting the bird’s nest with one hand.
Su Ran had always been very curious about what Gray meant when it said, “bring the bird’s nest over.”
And now she finally saw it!
The place Gray chose to place the bird’s nest was a bird’s nest tree that happened to grow behind their house.
The thickness of this tree was similar to the bird’s nest tree they lived in in the woods before, except the branches and trunks above were somewhat different.
Su Ran followed the beastmen flying in the air lifting the bird’s nest and ran toward that tree, curiously watching their actions.
She saw several beastmen first place the bird’s nest between several tree trunk branches, letting the trunks hold the bird’s nest in place.
At this time, the bird’s nest was still somewhat tilted.
Because the shape at the bottom of the bird’s nest was made to perfectly fit the branch growth positions of the previous bird’s nest tree.
Now on a different tree, these recessed shapes at the bottom didn’t match the current bird’s nest tree trunk.
Faced with this situation, Gray and the others’ method of rebuilding the bird’s nest was also very simple and rough.
Standing under the tree, Su Ran saw Gray, Qing Yu, A Jin, and several others directly pulling out one by one the branches on the trunk that were blocking the bird’s nest from fitting in.
Once the bird’s nest could be fully placed down tightly against the bird’s nest tree trunk, they used branches to patch up the gaps they had just created.
In less than half an hour, the large bird’s nest had moved to its new home.
After installing the bird’s nest, Gray carefully tied the rope ladder as well, then held Su Ran and flew into the bird’s nest.
The things in the bird’s nest had already been moved by Su Ran to the house under the tree.
Now inside, except for a dry grass bed covered with animal hide, it was empty.
Except for an extra animal hide blanket, it was exactly the same as when she was first brought back by Gray.
Su Ran paced around two circles in the bird’s nest, looked up at the current state of the bird’s nest, and a full sense of security rose in her heart.
Su Ran was a very nostalgic person.
This bird’s nest had been sheltering her from wind and rain not long after she came to this world, and unknowingly, she had already regarded this bird’s nest as home in her heart.
Even now that she had a new dwelling, as long as she could see this bird’s nest, it made her feel very secure.
She lightly jumped twice inside the bird’s nest, and the ground woven from thick branches under her feet had a slight rebound.
Then she walked to the entrance of the bird’s nest and looked outside.
The bird’s nest faced the river beach in front, and with one glance, she could see the curving river ahead and the lush trees opposite.
The exceptionally open view made her feel like her mood suddenly opened up a lot.
That night, Su Ran and Gray moved into the new house.
Su Ran first laid a layer of animal hide mat filled with dry grass on the heated brick bed.
Then on top of the mat, she laid a thick layer of sewn-together four-eared ox hide.
After laying it, she stepped on it, lay down and rolled two circles, and only after feeling that the thickness wouldn’t be hard enough to make Gray feel like its wings were being pressed when lying down did she satisfiedly call Gray over.
“Gray, come here.”
She lay on the heated brick bed covered with animal hide, patted the spot beside her, and shouted to Gray standing outside the room.
Hearing the sound, Gray turned around, and after seeing Su Ran’s action, its eyes lit up! The tail behind it slowly erected, then it directly jumped in from the open window outside.
After jumping in, it took another stride and jumped onto the heated brick bed.
After lying down beside Su Ran, it spread the arm on the side not touching Su Ran and slid it up and down in the spot next to it.
After feeling the spacious space beside it, it looked at Su Ran and softly “woo~”‘d, its eyes filled with a feeling of novelty.
After wooing, it suddenly flipped over and rolled a circle on the spacious heated brick bed beside it, then turned back to Su Ran’s side.
“No, no discomfort!”
Its eyes sparkled as it looked at Su Ran, side-lying half pressing her and holding her in embrace, its face full of happiness:
“Woo~, wings, comfortable! Legs, legs can stretch out too, Gray likes it!!”
Ah!! In other words, the house-building part was too hard! Finally finished writing it!
This can also be considered a small conclusion for this story, and afterward it’s the part where Su Ran gradually goes out to explore.
The interactions with the beastmen will also speed up la la la la~~
