Chapter 141: Snow-white Fluffy Fibers
There were quite a few beastmen who came to the settlement one after another to exchange salt with Su Ran.
Actually, the beastmen had already learned salt making.
Even because the beastmen really couldn’t learn knitting things, Su Ran also used sheep wool yarn to crochet some woolen fabric, layered several together as filtering tools, and gave them to them to distribute and use.
But probably because the beastmen had little patience for things besides hunting, especially things that required maintaining attention for a long time, so now many of them chose to directly exchange salt with Su Ran.
Su Ran didn’t refuse either.
When she had surplus salt powder, she didn’t mind exchanging it with the beastmen for some other things.
This could also lighten some of the burden on her and Hui’s other work.
Moreover, she later discovered that the beastmen weren’t only exchanging salt with her.
Besides her and Hui, some beastmen in the settlement had also realized the benefits of salt intake for the body, so they also made large amounts of sea salt.
And these beastmen who patiently made sea salt were mostly those whose original beast forms were herbivorous.
For example, Xiao San and Bai Bai.
And they were also the ones that the beastmen without patience for making sea salt would proactively exchange salt powder with.
Su Ran was very pleased to see this phenomenon.
She had a feeling.
Although beastmen had always had the habit of bartering before, it didn’t happen often, only appearing in very rare cases.
But now, perhaps after this frequent “trading” of salt powder, this trading behavior would become frequent from then on.
The behavior of “transaction” would also have a great influence on the beastmen’s lives because of this.
Su Ran only took out the two basins of sea salt from the storage room in the back and exchanged them with the beastmen.
When more beastmen came later, she just said she had none left.
In the eighth month after arriving in this world, the temperature on this continent gradually returned to around twenty degrees.
The weather suddenly cooled down very noticeably.
And that day, Su Ran suddenly remembered a kind of wild fruit she had seen before.
It was that unpalatable wild fruit that grew on the opposite bank of the river, near the black-flowered Malan grass.
That fruit had no poison, but it was very unpalatable.
At that time, after tasting it, she felt it was inedible, so she didn’t pay it any more mind, only thinking to check back after some time to see if that fruit would change.
However, later busy with other matters, she forgot about it!
Now that she remembered, she wanted to go take another look, and also see if she could find any new food on the opposite bank of the river.
So that day Su Ran carried two animal hide bags and flew to the opposite bank of the river with Hui.
The opposite bank of the river was basically unchanged, only that the black-flowered Malan grass visible along the way had mostly withered and died.
The leaves of the dead black-flowered Malan grass were not yellowish-brown, but grayish-black.
Su Ran poked these withered Malan grass leaves with a branch and found that after the Malan grass withered and died, it had already lost its corrosiveness.
Moreover, she found some black beans-sized black small beans on the stems and leaves of many dead Malan grass.
Those should be the fruit of the Malan grass.
Su Ran didn’t touch these fruit.
The role of black-flowered Malan grass for her was to help corrode some things she couldn’t change the shape of by herself.
As for its other effects, Su Ran had no interest and didn’t want to try.
If she were careless and caused harm to herself through a negligent attempt, it wouldn’t be worth it.
Hui carried Su Ran and landed directly at the spot where they always came to find black-flowered Malan grass.
Su Ran followed her previous memory, pulling Hui toward the direction of the woods where she had seen it before.
After walking for more than ten minutes, in a patch of green woods, a large area of withered yellow suddenly appeared.
And these withered yellow things were fruits each as big as a grapefruit.
The color of the fruit’s exterior was withered yellow, and the texture of the skin also matched that feeling.
It was wrinkled and shriveled, as if it was about to crack open dry.
Su Ran circled half around the nearest tree in front of her, finally confirming that this was the patch of fruit trees she and Hui had found the first time they came to the woods here.
She just didn’t know the fruit would grow this big in the end.
No wonder back then in early spring, the fruit on this tree could grow as big as a pear.
Hui had already picked one fruit from the side.
Its palm supported the bottom of the fruit and directly yanked it off the branch.
But after the stem on the fruit broke, it didn’t hold steady, the fruit bounced once in its palm, and it hurriedly moved its palm to catch it.
But the fruit, when falling back into its palm, bounced up again because of the force from its upward catching palm, and fell straight to the ground!
At this point, Su Ran slightly raised her brow looking at the fruit that fell on the ground.
It seemed this fruit was very light?
Otherwise, it shouldn’t have just bounced up again from being touched by Hui’s slightly forceful hand in a hurry to catch it, right?
“Ao wu~”
Hui picked up that fruit from the ground, held it in his hand and shook it vigorously, his face showing curiosity.
But it didn’t open the fruit, instead directly handing it to Su Ran.
Su Ran reached out to take it, and at the moment Hui let go, her brows moved slightly.
Indeed very light.
She gently bounced the fruit in her hand in her palm.
This fruit was about the size of a large grapefruit, but its weight was not even half of a grapefruit peel without the pulp.
Su Ran rubbed the fruit skin with her finger; the texture of the skin was indeed very dry, so dry that with just a slight force from her finger, she poked a hole directly in this outer skin.
Su Ran simply followed this hole and used her fist to knock the whole fruit open.
And when she separated the two knocked-open halves of the shell and saw what was inside the fruit, Su Ran instantly widened her eyes in surprise!
When she realized what the thing inside was, she almost excitedly threw away the two fruit halves in her hand!
Only to see that inside the two withered yellow fruit shells, each half was stuffed full of snow-white fluffy floss-like material.
When Su Ran saw these two clumps, she exclaimed in surprise: “Cotton?!”
“Wu?”
Hearing the new word Su Ran suddenly uttered, Hui doubtfully looked down at her, then followed her gaze to the fruit in her hand that had been split open.
Thinking for two seconds, it tried to speak: “Cot-ton?”
The werewolf’s voice carried a hesitant cuteness; Su Ran looked up with a smile at him, then stuffed one half into his embrace.
Hui hurriedly reached out to take it.
Then Su Ran took the half in her hand and pulled out the half clump of floss-like material from inside the fruit shell.
The floss-like material was connected inside to the fruit shell, but it was also very easy to tear off.
After tearing off, faint wisps of white threads could be seen left on the fruit shell.
Su Ran threw away that empty half shell, her fingers gripping this handful of soft stuff.
Soft, fluffy, and after holding for a while, it gave a warm feeling.
The smile on her face gradually grew larger; wasn’t this just cotton!
