Chapter 103: Keeping A Proper Distance Adds Freshness
At this time, there were two backpacks and one basket placed in front of Su Ran.
The green soap fruits in the basket and backpacks were all full.
The sea salt in the stone pot on the stove had almost formed.
Su Ran used the shovel to flip it a couple more times, then scooped all the salt powder into a cloth bag she had made beforehand.
After packing it up, Su Ran stood up, took a large wooden basin, and walked toward the seaside.
On the nearby light blue sea surface, a light brown head was bobbing up and down with the waves.
Seeing her approach, that light brown head floated up from the seawater, slowly revealing its sturdy body, then happily ran from the water to Su Ran’s side.
Because the weather was too hot, Gray’s shorts had been changed to slightly shorter small briefs made from red-skinned pig animal hide.
The length of the shorts only reached a little below the base of its thighs, perfectly exposing its thick and solid thigh muscles.
And now, because it was wet from the water, the animal hide was soaked and clinging to its thighs, making the outline in the middle bulge prominently.
At this moment, its whole body was covered in water droplets. Feeling uncomfortable from the water, it casually shook its head vigorously to shake off the water droplets, then used its hand to comb the hair in front of its eyes back, revealing a smooth and full forehead.
Tsk…
Su Ran looked at the werewolf who was grinning and coming close to her face, and couldn’t help but feel her heart pounding!
That is to say, this big-tailed wolf’s face really made one unable to resist abandoning their bottom line and going for it once…
“Ran Ran?”
Gray had no idea about the internal struggle in Su Ran’s heart.
Its pair of green eyes looked at her innocently: “Go back?”
“Not going back.”
Su Ran shook her head, walked to the seaside to fill the wooden basin with some seawater, then came back, bent down to pick up the four fish that Gray had thrown onto the ground and were still flopping around, and tossed them into the wooden basin.
Among the four sea fish, there were three varieties, each weighing a little over two jin.
Su Ran didn’t know many types of fish, so she also didn’t know if these kinds existed on Earth.
At this moment, the sand on the beach was all hot, so Gray unusually asked Su Ran for a pair of shoes to wear on its feet.
Otherwise, the temperature of the sand was so scorching that one couldn’t stand at all.
The shoes were newly made by Su Ran during this time.
The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and her previous sneakers had long worn out.
She made two pairs each for herself and Gray to wear first.
The two pairs for Gray were flip-flops.
Because Gray would only wear shoes out of fear of burning its feet when on the beach,
But once inside the forest, shoes became a burden for it.
However, now under Su Ran’s “education,” it already knew that after washing its feet at night, it must wear shoes when walking on the ground.
Otherwise, Su Ran wouldn’t let it into the house to sleep!
As for Su Ran’s own shoes, they were somewhat similar to the layered-soled cloth shoes she had before.
The soles were made by cutting three layers from the thickest and hardest four-eared ox cowhide and sewing them together, while the uppers were made from slightly thinner white-headed sheep hide.
Originally, she wanted to use even thinner red-skinned pig hide, but after trying, she found that red-skinned pig hide was too thin; not only could it not hold shape, but it was also easily scratched by branches underfoot when worn.
Su Ran had no experience making shoes and could only guess based on the shoes she had seen before.
Although the shoes she made were very ugly, they were still comfortable to wear.
Better than nothing.
Her current life was already much better than when she first arrived in this world.
And all of this came from the werewolf in front of her…
Su Ran looked at Gray, who eagerly took the wooden basin from her hands, and couldn’t help but smile.
Then she raised her hand to pat Gray’s arm, and by the way, felt the slightly bulging biceps, saying to Gray:
“Just leave the wooden basin here. Any more fish caught should also go into the basin, otherwise the fish will die and won’t taste good.”
After saying that, she turned back to glance at the woods behind her, then said to Gray: “You continue soaking in the water. I’ll go for a walk in the woods and be back soon.”
In the days after finishing the house, Su Ran couldn’t wait and dragged Gray to run around the woods near the seaside for several days.
Besides picking green soap fruits, she also wanted to look for other recently grown, previously unseen but edible foods.
As a result, after several days, she actually found two.
These two foods were both found in this patch of woods near the seaside; they were newly discovered wild fruits she hadn’t eaten before.
One was white, but it looked a bit like tamarind, and the taste was also very similar to tamarind.
However, the tamarind she had eaten in the south before, even if sour, would have a slight sweetness.
But the ones discovered here were excessively sour.
Later, Su Ran directly used it as vinegar!
Then she discovered that after removing the seeds, smashing it with a stone, and soaking it in water for a while,
The sour water extracted could be used to mix cold dishes, especially with kelp or blue worms, and the taste would be particularly good.
Su Ran later directly named this wild fruit vinegar fruit.
Vinegar fruit was borne by a vine plant.
The vines weren’t thick, just like ordinary weeds. They grew curving on the ground, covering a large area.
After eating food made with vinegar fruit, the next day Su Ran came with Gray and picked all the remaining vinegar fruits in the woods that looked about the right size with full pulp shapes, and brought them home.
After bringing them home, she took some directly into the house to store away from light, while the other part was placed under the sunlight to dry.
She wanted to see if the dried vinegar fruit could be preserved for a long time, and after drying, she planned to keep some to see if she could plant them later.
And it wasn’t just vinegar fruit that she did this with; even the picked green soap fruits were treated the same.
Su Ran only ground two-thirds of the picked green soap fruits into powder, while the rest were directly placed by her in the storage room behind the house.
She thought that after some time, she would see if unopened whole green soap fruits would keep better.
Besides vinegar fruit, there was another kind of purple wild fruit; the fruits were oval-shaped, with a length only about the size of a finger.
The taste of this fruit was very strange.
A bit spicy, a bit sweet, and a bit of an indescribable bad smell.
After biting into that plant, Su Ran thought for a long time before she remembered.
The taste of this fruit was just like the combination of onion and raw ginger!
When she looked at the fruit’s appearance more carefully, she found that even the outer skin of this fruit was very similar to purple onion—
The purple fruit flesh was wrapped in two layers of thin outer skin, and inside, after biting open the purple flesh, it was white.
She just didn’t know if this onion with ginger flavor had the same warming effect as ginger!
After Su Ran said she was going to the woods, Gray’s expression changed slightly.
Su Ran could guess what its next sentence would be just by looking at its expression.
She quickly reached out to cover its mouth, shaking her head slightly at Gray: “I can go by myself~ Just at the edge of the woods, I won’t go far.”
Joking aside, no matter how good-looking this face was, having it dangling in front of her every minute and second would still get annoying!
Especially since the other party would always act like a child, with a face full of reluctance to stop until figuring out every different action she made.
Su Ran thought: Appropriate distance is what keeps the freshness~
