Chapter 145: She’s The One Taking Advantage!
After scooping out all the oyster meat cleanly, Su Ran took out a large wooden basin again.
On the wooden basin, she laid a filter cloth crocheted from white-headed sheep wool. Then she scooped out all the oyster juice boiled from the two pots and poured it all over the filter cloth for filtering.
After the oyster juice in the two pots was fully filtered, she poured all this oyster juice into the stone pot on the stove in the west bedroom.
Because the oyster juice still needed to be simmered over low heat until thick, the stove hole underneath had to keep a fire burning.
But if she continued simmering the oyster juice on the stove in the east bedroom, it would make the heated brick bed too hot.
Then she and Hui wouldn’t need to sleep inside the room at night.
Because by then, the temperature on the heated brick bed could directly scald off the hide on her and Hui’s bodies.
Moreover, after this pot was done, there was still a bag of oysters to boil. By then, the stone pot in the east bedroom would still be needed.
So to keep the heated brick bed under them from getting too hot when she and Hui slept.
While simmering the oyster juice, she definitely couldn’t use this stove on the east side!
The two large stone pots of oysters had boiled out more than half a pot of oyster juice in total.
And at this time, this oyster juice could only be simmered over low heat slowly.
Taking advantage of this time, Su Ran took out some freshly boiled oysters, chopped them into small pieces with a knife, put them in a basin, carried it to behind the house, and first fed the group of red birds and wild chickens.
She also picked up the eggs from the bird’s nest along the way.
Now in the chicken coop, she could basically pick up more than thirty eggs every day.
Among these eggs, the green-skinned eggs from the white wild chickens were a bit larger, while those from the red birds were much smaller.
However, although she picked up many eggs every day, she also ate many at once.
After all, the werewolf’s appetite was there; in one meal, it alone could eat more than thirty, not counting the other food it ate at the same time.
After picking up the eggs, Su Ran sat by the stove hole guarding it, slowly adding fire inside, and watching the situation in the pot.
Hui was not at home now.
Recently, the temperature had dropped sharply, so Su Ran thought she could try pickling some meat with salt first.
Besides meat, she also wanted to try pickling some wild cabbage and housheng vegetable.
So at this moment, Hui had gone out hunting for the meat Su Ran wanted.
The oyster juice in the pot slowly started bubbling; Su Ran added fire while stirring the increasingly reduced oyster juice in the pot with a spoon.
After it was about right, she added salt powder and Sweet Leaf Vein Tree Leaf Powder to the oyster juice, while using green soap fruit powder to replace starch.
Finally, as the oyster juice became thicker and thicker, she quickly raked out the wood from the stove hole underneath, then quickly scooped the finished oyster sauce from the pot into the prepared large wooden basin to cool.
After this pot of oyster sauce was done, Su Ran used the same method to simmer the remaining bag of oysters.
These two full animal hide bags of oysters, starting from noon, were simmered until nearly four in the afternoon before being completely finished.
The simmered oysters were first put in a wooden basin to cool; after they were completely cool, Su Ran put them into a stone jar for storage.
The oyster sauce from the two simmerings filled nearly one full jar.
Su Ran figured that with Hui’s appetite, this amount of oyster sauce should be enough for the two of them to cook with for two months.
After storing the jarred oysters in the storage room behind, Su Ran walked out of the house.
In the half day she spent making oyster sauce, Hui had already successively hunted six prey back.
At this time, it was processing a red-skinned pig that hadn’t been skinned yet by the riverside.
Now that the weather was gradually getting cold, the time of sunset had also shifted forward quite a bit.
It was now past four in the afternoon; the sun had slanted to the west, casting a golden light in the woods.
From afar, Su Ran could only see the golden sunlight shining on Hui’s sleek back, giving its entire body a layer of dazzling halo.
Even its head of light brown hair seemed to turn golden under the sunlight!
Tsk!
Su Ran looked at the tall, muscular, sexy man in the distance and suddenly smiled.
Although she was the one who was “stroked” back, it seemed like she was still the one who got the advantage!
She went back inside and took out a large wooden basin, with an axe and kitchen knife ground from stone placed inside.
She carried the wooden basin to Hui’s side.
At this time, on the open space by the river, four already processed and skinned prey were placed.
But these four prey were not directly placed on the ground.
To avoid dirtying these processed prey, Hui had actually built a new long table right by the river beach using stone bricks and tree trunks.
And to fit large prey like the red-skinned pig and four-eared ox, it even knew to make the table wider.
Hui had already noticed her movements when Su Ran was walking this way.
It stopped its actions, turned to look at Su Ran, and after she approached, surprisingly received a light kiss from her like a dragonfly skimming water.
After the soft touch left its face, Hui’s big tail behind it—which had increasingly astonishing fur due to seasonal changes—quickly drooped and swung once, letting out a low “Ao wu~”
It took a step toward Su Ran, but stopped upon noticing the blood splatters all over its body.
Su Ran had of course noticed this too.
She was a bit annoyed; she had forgotten to make two aprons earlier.
Today there were suddenly many prey to process, so there would be a lot of blood stains on the body.
It was fine before, because before Hui was always bare-chested, and could just take a bath after processing prey.
But now it wore clothes every day!
Like this, the clothes Hui was wearing now would probably take a lot of effort to wash clean!
But there was no time for that now.
Su Ran sighed and put the wooden basin in her hands on the long table Hui had built.
She had come to cut the meat.
The oyster sauce was already made; she couldn’t wait to make some stewed large bones, stewed meat, and braised meat to eat!
The prey on the long table now were three red-skinned pigs and one four-eared ox.
Su Ran chose the four-eared ox.
She had Hui directly detach one large leg from the four-eared ox and chop it into small pieces with the axe.
Then she also had it chop out the entire spine from its back.
She planned to make stewed large bones for Hui today!
The chopped bone and meat—one large leg plus the entire spine—filled a full large basin.
After Hui helped Su Ran carry this large basin of bone-in meat back inside, Su Ran washed the stone pot on the west room stove.
The heated brick bed in the east bedroom was already hot enough, so for cooking tonight, she still had to use this pot on the west side.
Su Ran’s method for stewed large bones was very simple.
First, put the cut bone-in meat into cold water to blanch, and after the meat is blanched, scoop it out and wash off the blood foam stuck to the meat.
Then wash the pot clean, heat oil and add finger onion and star anise, plus a few dried chili fruits.
After these ingredients release their fragrance, directly add the large bones, stir-fry a few times, and pour in oyster sauce.
