Chapter 111: Staying Inside The House And Not Going Out
“Gray, keep the animal hide, can the meat be eaten?”
Su Ran pointed at the beast corpse on the ground and asked Gray.
Gray followed the direction of her finger to look at the beast on the ground, suddenly his face turned ugly as he pulled Su Ran back a step, shaking his head vigorously: “No! Meat, bad taste, ptoo ptoo ptoo!!”
Su Ran: “Uh…”
Alright.
She looked at the beast’s massive body with some regret; this meat seemed quite plentiful.
But previously she indeed hadn’t seen any beastman hunt this kind of animal, so it seemed this animal’s meat really wasn’t tasty.
However, although the meat couldn’t be eaten, the animal hide could still be kept.
This animal’s fur looked very nice, with short reddish-brown hair that had a glossy sheen.
Moreover, it was large enough, so Su Ran thought it could be used to make an outer coat for wearing outside in winter.
At Su Ran’s request, Gray skinned this feline animal.
Then the two of them dug out the several chili fruit saplings and green soap fruit saplings that Su Ran had found earlier.
After digging them out, the two walked back under the green soap fruit tree on the other side.
Just now Gray had been picking green soap fruit here and had already filled two large animal hide bags.
But then it suddenly saw that beast, and when it clearly saw that beast making an attacking action toward Su Ran, it instinctively threw the bag in its hand, which flew toward that beast.
Now the green soap fruit in the bag was scattered all over the ground.
After Su Ran came back, she and Gray picked up all the green soap fruit on the ground and put them back into the bag.
Once the bag was full, they would have to go back to the river beach once, deliver the things first, and then come back later.
Su Ran pulled Gray to the red fruit tree sapling they had found when they first landed in this forest, dug out that sapling as well, and put it into the backpack.
Then she wrapped one arm around Gray’s neck, and used the other arm to hold two green soap fruit saplings that were too tall to fit into the backpack.
Then Gray carried her flying back to the river beach.
After returning home, Su Ran first planted the several saplings and chili fruit saplings behind the house.
The green soap fruit trees were all planted at the edge of the woods, while that red fruit tree was planted directly in front of the house on the west side.
Su Ran thought that once this red fruit tree grew up, in summer she could sit under it to enjoy the shade.
After finishing these, she poured all the newly picked green soap fruit onto the long table outside, then cut them open one by one to dry in the sun.
While she was doing these things, Gray followed behind her.
Wherever Su Ran went, it followed.
Even when planting the fruit trees, when Su Ran told it to go cut open the green soap fruit first, it stubbornly refused to leave even one step.
It made Su Ran both amused and exasperated.
But Su Ran could guess that it had been scared by that beast today, so she didn’t insist on making it do other things.
After settling all the things brought back this trip, Su Ran and Gray went to the places of those two green soap fruit trees two more times, picking a total of four large bags plus two backpacks of green soap fruit.
By the time they returned the second time, it was already four in the afternoon.
There were still a few hours until dark, so they could actually make another trip.
But Su Ran gave up on continuing to pick fruit and instead told Gray to catch a red-skinned pig.
Recently the weather had been extremely hot, especially at noon when the sunlight was so scorching it seemed like it would evaporate all the moisture in the forest.
Not to mention Gray, even Su Ran felt lazy and unwilling to move in weather where just panting brought a full body of sweat.
And when the weather got hot, besides making people listless, the appetite also gradually worsened.
Gray’s face was visibly much thinner.
So Su Ran thought of catching a red-skinned pig to stuff some sausage; besides mealtimes, it could also be given to Gray as snacks.
Moreover, now there were finger onions among the ingredients, so Su Ran felt the sausage made now would definitely be much tastier than before.
Before going out to hunt, Gray gave Su Ran a whole lot of instructions.
Although Su Ran didn’t understand the meaning of half the sentences in its instructions.
But after Gray finished, she still put on a serious face, nodded to Gray: “I know, I’ll stay inside the house and not come out!”
Then after receiving an enthusiastic nuzzle from Gray, she watched Gray’s figure fly farther and farther away and breathed a sigh of relief.
Heaven knows if she didn’t say that, how long this wolf would nag her!
Su Ran helplessly held her forehead!
Then after Gray’s figure completely disappeared, she immediately took out tools and walked toward the riverside.
Joking aside, if she had to stay in the house until it came back, they might as well skip dinner!
Of course, Su Ran wasn’t completely disregarding safety and running around on her own.
Mainly, this river beach area was the beastmen’s territory, and the scents here weren’t just from Gray alone.
Even at Su Ran’s house, which was some distance from where other beastmen lived, ones like Xiao Ju, Yao Yao, and A Huo would come over for a stroll when they had nothing to do.
The evening before last, those little beastmen from the settlement curiously ran over here and played until bedtime before going back.
So with these beastmen’s scents around, other beasts wouldn’t dare come this way at all.
Otherwise, those beastmen wouldn’t feel safe letting their little beastmen run around on their own.
After all, little beastmen’s attack power was still very weak.
Su Ran carried a backpack and a large wooden basin in her hands as she walked to the riverside.
Today for making sausage, besides red-skinned pork, she also wanted to make some fish sausage, to try a different flavor.
Before coming out to catch fish, she had also soaked some dried seafood, planning to add it to the minced meat for the sausage later.
For these seafood, Su Ran was actually considering processing them further into seasonings.
Right now, the things she had for seasoning were only sea salt, vinegar fruit, chili fruit, and finger onion.
Besides that, there were wild fruits like small peach fruit, red fruit, and red meat fruit that could be used to add sweetness.
She basically had no hope for anything that could replace soy sauce.
Even if this world had soybeans, she wouldn’t make it; at most she could make soybean paste.
But among the existing ingredients, she felt there were two seasonings she could try making.
That was trying to make some homemade MSG from kelp, or some oyster sauce from oysters.
But recently the weather was really too hot, and making these two seasonings required making fire to simmer them; the weather was already unbearably hot, and standing by the campfire would surely cause heatstroke.
So definitely couldn’t do it now.
Su Ran planned to wait until autumn when it was a bit cooler to make these two seasonings.
As for now, the existing seasonings were enough for her to make sufficiently delicious food!
Sorry sorry, only one chapter today, went out shopping during the daytime, wind blew and gave me a headache, brain in chaos
