Chapter 105: Still Just Lightly Liking To Eat It
Su Ran didn’t pick up these white beans at the seaside.
Because there were white beans everywhere near her and Gray’s house, so when the time came, she could just find some in the woods near the house.
After discovering the white beans, Su Ran continued wandering in the woods for a while.
Then, probably getting impatient from waiting, just as she was still not fully satisfied, Gray chased over from the seaside following the scent she left behind.
“Ran Ran?”
It jumped down directly from the tree, landing steadily beside Su Ran.
Then it leaned in front of Su Ran, hugged her, habitually rubbed against her face, and kissed her.
For beastmen, licking and rubbing were actions that expressed intimacy more than kissing.
But Su Ran really couldn’t stand being licked with saliva all over her face every day.
Although Gray didn’t have bad breath and often chewed mint grass to clean its mouth, the feeling of being licked wasn’t pleasant either.
So over this period, under Su Ran’s strong protest, she finally got Gray to change its favorite licking action to kissing.
Although occasionally when excited, Gray would still forget Su Ran’s protest and give her a licking face ritual, but once in a while was much better than every day!
At this moment, a light kiss from Gray’s lips landed just below Su Ran’s eyes, and as it was about to continue the action, it suddenly stopped!
The next second, it frowned, and the expression on its face became serious.
Then it bent down and sniffed near Su Ran’s neck and shoulder.
Su Ran was stunned by its sudden action.
Until she saw Gray pull her hand up, its nose tip almost touching it as it sniffed hard, did she suddenly remember.
Just now she had touched the two-tailed beast’s tail, so there should still be the scent of the two-tailed beast on her.
“Ao wu~”
Gray sniffed at Su Ran’s palm for a good while, then looked up at her with a frown, its black pupils slightly dilating.
“It’s…”
Su Ran reached out and touched the animal hide bag at her side, and when she felt it, she remembered she hadn’t brought that two-tailed beast’s tail with her.
Just as she was thinking about how to describe that animal to Gray, her vision blurred, and when it cleared, Gray had already jumped away from the nearby tree!
“Ah…”
Su Ran looked in the direction Gray ran off, reaching out her hand.
She watched that figure disappear lightly into the woods.
It wouldn’t go catch that two-tailed beast, would it?
But that two-tailed beast looked like it didn’t have even two taels of meat on it, just enough for her to eat alone.
Su Ran withdrew her outstretched hand, her fingers twitching.
Then she shrugged, picked up the entrenching pickaxe, and walked toward the direction Gray had run off.
And before she had walked far, she saw Gray quickly leaping back through the branches.
When it got close, she saw it holding a limp black-brown animal in its hand.
This animal had only one tail, clearly the two-tailed beast from before.
“Ran Ran, like?”
Gray held out the lifeless two-tailed beast in its hand toward Su Ran, its gaze full of expectation and inquiry.
Su Ran: …
What should she say?
She didn’t really like this two-tailed beast that much.
If it was because this two-tailed beast had led to finding white beans, then she did like it and was quite grateful to it.
But she didn’t like eating it.
Yet the wolf in front of her clearly had an expression waiting for her praise…
So otherwise…
Just like eating it a little bit…
“Mm…”
Su Ran looked at the two-tailed beast held in front of her and nodded lightly.
Then she remembered something.
She pulled the animal hide bag from her waist to the front, untied the strap, took out the white beans inside, and showed them to Gray: “Gray, white beans, edible.”
She placed one white bean in Gray’s hand, then pointed at the two-tailed beast in its hand: “This one, two-tailed beast eats white beans, white beans, I can eat too.”
“Wu?”
Gray pinched the white bean to its fingertip, glanced quickly at Su Ran. Then under Su Ran’s affirmative gaze, it put the white bean in its mouth.
It chewed slowly a few times, suddenly frowned, lowered its head, and spat out the fragments from its mouth.
“Not tasty!”
It looked at Su Ran, its eyebrows furrowing even tighter, but still asked her doubtfully: “Ran Ran likes?”
“Uh…”
Under Gray’s serious gaze, Su Ran slowly nodded.
White bean fruit raw and raw sweet potato had a very similar texture, which she actually didn’t like.
But she didn’t know yet what it tasted like cooked; if cooked it was tasty, then it would be different!
Su Ran decided to go back today and boil some white bean fruit to try!
After Gray returned, Su Ran didn’t continue exploring deeper into the woods.
They walked back to the rain shelter together.
On the way back, they picked up a few large blue worms from the reefs they passed.
Back at the rain shelter, Su Ran first put the blue worms she brought back into the backpack, then put the bag of sea salt produced today into the small bag slung at her waist.
This small bag of salt today weighed about two jin.
Actually, she and Gray had previously boiled two large wooden jars of sea salt.
But Su Ran was thinking that when winter was approaching, she wanted to make some pickled vegetables and cured meat, which would require a lot of salt, so she couldn’t wait until then to make it.
So now, every time they came to the seaside, she boiled some conveniently.
After packing the sea salt, she squatted down, shouldered the backpack full of green soap fruit, and picked up the small basket in her hand.
As for the remaining backpack, Gray would carry it.
Once Su Ran was picked up by Gray again, she immediately reached out and hugged Gray’s neck.
When they got home, it was around four in the afternoon.
The temperature in the air had dropped quite a bit compared to noon.
The sound of water flow came from the river beach, making the area seem even quieter.
Today Gray didn’t need to go out hunting, because half of the morning’s red-skinned pig was left.
At this moment, it was taking the blue worms brought back from the seaside, along with other small seafood, to the river beach to clean.
Meanwhile, the moment Su Ran got back, she split all the green soap fruit she brought back in half and laid them out to dry on the long table newly set up beside the house.
This table was set up by Su Ran after starting to collect green soap fruit.
The method of making it was also very simple.
Directly stack stone bricks on both sides to form walls about half a meter high, and on the top ends of the brick walls, add half bricks sticking up as stops.
The tabletop was directly made from tree trunks.
Su Ran specially found some small tree trunks only a dozen centimeters thick, then had Gray place these trunks side by side on the brick walls.
The two broken bricks protruding from the top of the brick walls could perfectly hold the wood in place so it wouldn’t roll off.
Because the trees used for the tabletop grew tall, this table was also very long.
The table placed beside the house was over ten meters long.
And the benefit of the table being so long was that things Su Ran wanted to dry, like green soap fruit, or seafood like blue worms and scallops, could now all be spread out!
