Chapter 138: Stockpiling Season
More than a month passed, and the main frameworks of Su Ran’s storage room and small animal room had all been built.
And at this time, the injuries on Gray’s body had completely healed.
So on a certain occasion, after this wolf pulled Su Ran into an intense and sweet night, the next day as soon as Su Ran woke up, she immediately announced the decision that Gray could stop recuperating and move freely.
When Su Ran crawled out from the animal hide blanket, she couldn’t help but hammer the wall in frustration.
No matter in which world, you can’t let energetic males hold back!!
Whether they would hold back some problem, Su Ran didn’t know, but as their companion, she would definitely suffer!
Su Ran held her waist, shedding tears inwardly.
Although she wasn’t uncomfortable during that process, the difference between being comfortable once and comfortable all night was too great for her small and slender body to bear!
However, after Gray’s injuries were completely healed, Su Ran’s daily workload finally got some sharing.
Gray only took one day to bring back all the wood needed for the several houses.
Then it helped Su Ran process all the wood into the sizes she needed.
Although it still didn’t quite understand how the positions for the mortises to be dug out on the wood were determined.
But it already understood the relationship between the mortise and the tenon, and could help Su Ran quickly dig out the needed shapes at the positions Su Ran had marked.
And for Su Ran, that was already enough.
After all the wood was processed, Gray called A Huo and A Jin and Qing Yu to help install all the roofs.
Su Ran also took some new seashells, climbed onto the roof using the wooden ladder she made herself, found each of the seashells that had been stepped on and broken on the roof before, knocked them out, and replaced them with new seashells.
Once the roofs were on, the storage room and small animal room were considered built.
After building these two houses, Su Ran used wood to rebuild two new rain shelters.
The positions of these two rain shelters: one was outside the wall on the left side of the house, right next to the east bedroom.
Su Ran planned to use it to store the stockpiled firewood.
And the other was built in the original position, in front of the east bedroom, directly facing the storage room.
To store a bit more things, these two rain shelters that Su Ran built were slightly larger than the previous ones.
And the rain shelter built in the original position, Su Ran planned to use as a leisure or work sunshade.
She was also thinking that when it rained, she could comfortably brew tea inside, enjoy the rain, and have some poetic and picturesque moments with Gray.
Although in this wolf’s eyes, poetic and picturesque probably wasn’t as attractive as a piece of dried blue worm, but in Su Ran’s eyes, having that atmosphere was enough!
After these main things were all built, Su Ran rebuilt the long table for drying food.
As for the connecting piece in the middle of the clothesline for drying clothes, this time she replaced it with rope twisted from animal hide.
The animal hide rope was strong enough and wouldn’t suddenly break under the weight of heavy animal hides that got wet from drying.
After all the things that needed to be built were built, Su Ran finally felt that her and Gray’s time should enter “stockpiling season”!
Now, half a month had passed since she piled up the storage room, which meant Su Ran had been in this world for six and a half months, nearly seven months.
And in this half month, although the temperature gradually dropped, during daytime it was still somewhat hot, only the nighttime temperature was much cooler.
However, during daytime, the air under the tree shades inside the forest had also cooled down compared to the stuffiness of the previous period.
The first food Su Ran started stockpiling was the white bean fruits that could be found everywhere inside the forest.
The current white bean fruits hadn’t changed much from when Su Ran first discovered them.
Even their size was still small.
Su Ran had already tried the method of drying white bean fruits and then storing them.
Then she found that the stored white bean fruits after drying had a slightly fuller texture when eaten compared to fresh white bean fruits.
Just like the fresh, watery, tender texture of fresh peanuts dug out from the soil and eaten directly after shelling.
Compared to the rich, fragrant texture of fried peanuts.
The dried white bean fruits, when eaten, obviously had much less of that watery texture, and thus a slightly stronger sense of satiety.
Su Ran sewed many large animal hide bags to hold the white bean fruits.
However, now after digging these white bean fruits, she didn’t immediately pick the fruits off the grass roots.
Instead, she put the white bean fruit grass with the fruits on top directly into the animal hide bags, and after bringing them home, spread them out first on the open space in front of the house to dry for a day.
When returning in the evening and finishing dinner, she would use the time just before dark to pick the white bean fruits off these white bean fruit grasses and place them on the long table for proper drying.
After Su Ran’s small animal room was built, Gray caught her two four-eared oxen of large and small sizes, and more than a dozen red birds and wild chickens.
Su Ran tried drying the white bean fruits and the stems and leaves of the white bean fruit grass completely and feeding them to these small animals at home.
Then she found that both types of animals ate the completely dried white bean fruit grass and white bean fruits.
It was just that the four-eared oxen ate from the fruits to the stems and leaves, while the red birds and white wild chickens only ate the white bean fruits in the grass pile that were discarded by Su Ran because they were too small.
Besides white bean fruit grass, dried round-leaf grass and some low shrubs were also eaten by the four-eared oxen.
And those more than a dozen red birds and white wild chickens would eat green soap fruit powder.
This was discovered when Su Ran, with a try-it-out attitude, mixed green soap fruit powder with water and fed it to these birds.
Now the winter feed for the four-eared oxen, these red birds, and white wild chickens didn’t need to be worried about!
The green soap fruit powder Su Ran had stored before filled a total of twelve large animal hide bags.
And the unprocessed green soap fruits were piled full on the floor of the west bedroom.
If the severe winter period was only five or six months like summer, just these green soap fruit powders plus green soap fruits would actually be almost enough for Su Ran and those “chickens” to eat.
But if Gray was added, it wouldn’t be enough.
And besides green soap fruits, the dried abalone, oysters, scallops and other seafood she had stored had already filled two wooden buckets as tall as her thighs.
This was still what remained after she and Gray frequently took them out to eat.
She also still had a lot of dried blue worms on hand.
In the last few days of the blue worm season, she and Gray spent almost every day stuck at the seaside, just to collect more blue worms to make dried blue worms.
So even though she and Gray ate them very frequently, the dried blue worms Su Ran now had in the storage room still amounted to more than twenty bags.
In addition, Su Ran still had four large bags of dried fruit, and the dried fish filled two full bags.
Su Ran planned to make some more dried fish and dried seafood after stockpiling enough white bean fruits.
In winter when it’s cold, making soup with these things was the most suitable!
