Chapter 116: Ran Ran, It Will Rain Tonight
The green soap fruits on the table, except for those now packed into the backpack by Hui, the rest were all just picked back by Hui today and laid out to dry.
After seeing Su Ran walk over, Hui immediately put down the backpack in its hands and walked over very “enthusiastically” to give Su Ran a loving hug.
Su Ran didn’t struggle either, directly resting her chin on its shoulder to look at the green soap fruits on the table behind it.
These green soap fruits, when looked at with the naked eye, were basically all dried through.
The green soap fruits picked back now, Su Ran stored them all by grinding them into powder.
Because if stored whole, the space at home would be somewhat insufficient.
Now the ground in the west room of the house was already half filled with green soap fruits.
Therefore, Su Ran also wanted to dig a cellar, so that in winter, it could be used for storing things.
She patted Hui’s back, and when it put her down, she conveniently kissed its side face, earning an excited kiss from the big-tailed wolf.
After looking at the green soap fruits, Su Ran walked towards behind the house.
Recently, because she had to engage in the battle of major life events with Hui, she hadn’t had time to give much attention to these little cuties behind the house.
Up to now, it had been several days since she carefully observed the growth of these plants.
And after a few days without seeing, the small vegetable garden behind the house had also gone from just planting a bit of fruit and vegetables in some corners at the beginning to now being planted over one-third of the area.
Among these plants, there were newly transplanted green soap fruit trees and small peach trees, as well as finger onions and chili fruits.
There were also a few vinegar fruits, and youyou fruits that had passed the fruiting season, even a small patch of transplanted housheng vegetable.
Among these few housheng vegetables, two had grown old and started blooming small flowers, which at first glance really looked a lot like lettuce!
And when Hui transplanted these plants, it had also carefully learned from what Su Ran did before, planting those small seedlings in places close to the forest edge.
And it also set up frames for the vines to facilitate climbing.
At this time, the vegetable garden was a lush green, looking full of vitality.
After inspecting her small vegetable garden, Su Ran nodded in satisfaction.
“Hui is awesome, all planted and alive oh~”
She didn’t stint on her praise, then rewarded Hui with a loving snuggle.
Then she walked out of the vegetable garden and into the woods behind.
There were willow trees in the woods, and she wanted to get some willow branches back to weave conical hats.
It had now been nearly two months since entering summer, and up to now, the weather showed no sign of cooling down at all, even trending hotter.
This made Su Ran a bit worried about how hot the summer in this world would get.
Would her stored food go bad before the weather cooled down!
Su Ran took the newly cut willow branches back to in front of the house, sat in the rain shelter, and started weaving a conical hat.
While Hui took that backpack of dried green soap fruits into the room, put it on the heated brick bed in the west room, dug out the white fruit flesh inside, and then ground it into powder with the stone roller.
After finishing with these green soap fruits, it walked out of the house and looked up at the sunlight in the sky, which was no longer as glaring as at noon.
It walked to Su Ran’s side, squatted down, and said to Su Ran: “Ran Ran, tonight, it will rain.”
“Ah?”
Su Ran stopped her weaving of the conical hat, also looked up and turned sideways to glance at the sky outside the rain shelter.
At this moment, the blue of the sky was very faint, with no clouds.
Although the glaring intensity of the sunlight had lessened a lot compared to just now, if a person was directly exposed to it under the sun, it was still easy to get sunburned.
But since Hui said it would rain, then these things outside the house would all have to be put away before sleeping at night.
Su Ran sped up her weaving of the conical hat, then urged Hui to go hunting.
While she quickly put away the things outside at home.
The green soap fruits laid out to dry on the long table definitely had to be collected.
She packed these green soap fruits into the backpack, then put it in the west room bedroom.
Actually, using this bedroom to store food was a bit hot in this weather.
Su Ran thought that in the next day or two, she would move all those whole green soap fruits without shells from inside the house to the bird’s nest behind.
The bird’s nest was under tree shade all day, could block wind and rain, and was very cool.
Then she covered the fire pit used for lighting with a large unwanted animal hide.
The four edges of the animal hide were held down with stones and wood to prevent rainwater from flowing in and making the inside wet.
Finally, she carried two more piles of firewood into the house, in case it didn’t stop raining tomorrow and they still had to go out to get firewood.
Hui soon returned from hunting.
Now its hunted prey was no longer limited to large animals.
Small animals like dwarf deer, wild chicken, two-tailed beast, it would also often catch and bring back to eat.
Actually, Su Ran really liked eating these small animals because their meat quality was more tender and tastier than large animals.
Today, it brought back one four-eared ox, two wild chickens, and two dwarf deer.
If it really rained tomorrow, these few animals would be enough for their meal tonight, plus two meals tomorrow.
And Su Ran had also picked a basket of white bean fruits from the woods!
The four-eared ox was still to be made directly into roast meat.
For such large chunks of meat, currently, making it directly into roast meat was still the quickest and most convenient way to eat.
But when autumn comes and she makes oyster sauce, Su Ran can directly make stewed beef!
The seasonings she had on hand now were too few, so the taste of stewed meat always felt like it was missing something!
By the time they finished dinner in the evening, the sky really started to look a bit overcast.
But it still felt like it would be a long time before it actually started raining.
Su Ran had already bathed during the daytime, so she didn’t need to bathe again at night.
While Hui went to the riverside to wash up, soon returned to the house, and closed the door.
It was only seven o’clock in the evening now, and Su Ran had already slept a bit in the afternoon, so naturally she wasn’t sleepy.
She propped up the window opposite the heated brick bed with a wooden stick, and through the window, could only see the shadowy woods outside.
Because it was overcast, there was no moon tonight, no starlight, and no sparkling river surface visible.
At this time outside the house, it was quiet, occasionally hearing a distant birdsong.
Although now in life, she could discover more traces of birds active nearby, Su Ran still rarely saw what the birds in this world looked like.
Probably because the places where these birds lived were too high, most of the time she could only see a black shadow flying overhead.
Actually, in spring, when she first came to this world, during those few days living in the cave on the back side of the mountain by the seaside, she had heard sounds similar to birdsong.
But also because she never saw what those birds looked like, and after living here for a long time, she subconsciously forgot about these birds.
But now she suddenly remembered a kind of red bird she had rarely seen before; that bird’s call sounded very much like the bird call she heard in spring.
And she felt that that bird actually looked more like a chicken…
