Chapter 125: Clipping Wings
Su Ran felt that she was really stupid!
Clearly, she had an expert at building bird’s nests right by her side, yet she still had to huff and puff there for half a day without accomplishing anything.
Sure enough, with Gray’s help, her bird’s nest was built in the blink of an eye.
Su Ran touched the wooden sticks that couldn’t be broken even with forceful bending, but her mind was still confused.
She didn’t even see clearly how Gray interlaced those thin wooden sticks one by one.
After the bird’s nest was built, Su Ran used wooden sticks to bind a wooden plank into the shape of a door.
Then she used willow branches twisted into a rope to tie the wooden door to one side of the entrance left in the bird’s nest.
By tomorrow, she would use stone bricks inside the bird’s nest to build a half-meter-high small nest for these red birds to sleep and lay eggs in, and then the bird’s nest would be complete.
After finishing the bird’s nest, Su Ran and Gray returned to in front of the house and quickly coated all the processed fish with sea salt, then placed them on the long table to dry in the sun.
There were too many fish, so many that they couldn’t all fit on the long table.
Finally, Su Ran found some woolen thread and hung the remaining fish on the drying pole, and that was the end of it.
By this time, it was already ten o’clock at night.
Not to mention Gray, even Su Ran hadn’t stayed up this late for a long time since coming to this world.
…Of course, special situations during intimate times don’t count!
So the two went to the riverside, quickly washed up, and then walked back inside the house under the moonlight.
Finally, Gray closed the door and lowered the window board, and the river beach finally returned to calm.
The next day, Su Ran and Gray woke up two hours later than usual.
Gray woke up a little earlier than Su Ran, but probably influenced by her, he also started developing the habit of staying in bed.
After waking up, he didn’t get up immediately, but instead turned sideways to hug Su Ran, burying his face in her neck hollow, while his big tail behind him lazily swished back and forth on the animal hide blanket spread on the heated brick bed.
Until Su Ran woke up and had lain enough, the two finally got up together and went to the kitchen to make breakfast.
For breakfast, they ate the remaining half of the four-eared ox from yesterday.
Su Ran originally wanted Gray to roast it all, but Gray cut off the rib section and wanted Su Ran to make stir-fried ribs, apparently because he thought the stir-fried dwarf deer from yesterday was delicious!
So the cow’s thigh and foreleg parts were taken to barbecue, and Su Ran made stir-fried cow ribs.
This time, for the stir-fried meat, Su Ran added chili, as both she and Gray wanted to eat spicy food.
Besides the chili, Su Ran also added the remaining fish balls from yesterday into the pan just before the stir-fried cow ribs were done.
These foods couldn’t be stored for long now and had to be eaten as soon as possible.
In addition, Su Ran boiled half a basin of white bean fruit.
Actually, the white bean fruit boiled last night wasn’t finished, but after being left inside the house overnight, it couldn’t be eaten anymore and had to be thrown away.
For this morning’s meal, Su Ran didn’t make too many things.
After finishing breakfast together with Gray, Gray took the tableware to the riverside to wash the dishes, while Su Ran took a scallop knife and went into the west room to start clipping the wings of the red birds in the room.
But actually, the way Su Ran clipped the red birds’ wings was more accurately described as cutting or slashing the wings.
Because Su Ran didn’t have suitable tools in hand; her only small pair of scissors could only cut gauze and couldn’t even cut animal hide.
She could only press the red bird to the ground and use the scallop knife to slowly cut off the feathers at the tip of its wings bit by bit with the blade.
After clipping the wings of the first red bird, Su Ran untied the grass rope tied to its feet.
And the moment it was untied, she saw the red bird turn around as fast as a little red firecracker and rush to the innermost part of the heated brick bed!
That panicked, desperate escape looked no different from surviving a disaster.
It flapped its wings while running.
And this was exactly what Su Ran was most worried about.
She watched the red bird’s actions closely, and after seeing it flap for a long time without flying half a meter high, she finally felt relieved!
It seemed that the method of clipping red birds’ wings was feasible!
Su Ran immediately extended her magic hand to the remaining few red birds.
While cutting the wings, she also thought that later she would have Gray catch a few live white wild chickens and raise them the same way.
That way, with chickens laying eggs and eggs hatching chickens, she could have a steady supply of chicken meat and eggs to eat!
After clipping the wings of all the red birds, Su Ran caught them all and put them in the bird’s nest behind the house, enclosing them.
Then she moved over stone bricks and started building a small nest to shelter the red birds on the north side of the bird’s nest.
Because Su Ran was still thinking of building a larger, more formal chicken coop later, when building this small nest, she didn’t use the cement made from blue fish internal organs, but directly stacked the stone bricks together to form the shape of the chicken coop.
This small nest was very low, so there was no worry it would collapse without cement.
After stacking the nest’s walls, she covered the top with a few whole wooden boards, and that was the nest’s roof.
Finally, Su Ran found some dry loose weeds, sheep wool that hadn’t been spun into thread yet, and the feathers from the wings that had just been clipped from these red birds.
After mixing these things together, she spread them flat in the bird’s nest, and the small nest was complete.
After the small nest was built, Su Ran went to in front of the house, found some small wild fruits left at home and strips of fish meat, threw them into the pile of red birds, and then put in a stone bowl filled with water.
Red birds have a varied diet; wild fruits, wild grass seeds, and small fish and shrimp are all their food.
Of course, Gray told her about these living habits of theirs.
Su Ran was stunned when she heard Gray casually mention the red birds’ food preferences.
Because she hadn’t expected that beastmen observed the living habits of forest animals so carefully.
After all, for these small animals, unless it was to eat them, generally no one would observe their living habits!
After arranging these red birds, Su Ran returned to in front of the house.
The blue worms brought back yesterday had all been cleaned by Gray and were drying on the long table.
But because they were dried whole, Su Ran still needed to cut all these blue worms today.
Otherwise, whole ones were too big, drying slowly, and cutting them smaller would make them easier to store later.
While Su Ran was cutting these blue worms, Gray had already finished washing the dishes.
He took two animal hide bags, said something to Su Ran, and flew off to the seaside to catch blue worms by himself.
Compared to Su Ran, Gray knew much better about the in-season periods for every kind of animal and plant here, as did the other beastmen.
Recently, Su Ran had already noticed that beastmen were going to the seaside and bringing back blue worms to eat more and more frequently.
They probably already knew that the season for eating blue worms would be over soon.
However, what Su Ran cared more about was, after the blue worm season passed, did that mean this continent was also entering the next season?
