Chapter 149: The Disappearance Of Blue Star, Like A Signal
The windows with animal hide window cloths installed were, besides the several rooms in the main house, just the two small windows in the storage room.
However, for the two small windows in the storage room, Su Ran did not redo the window boards.
She and Gray did not live in there.
Occasionally when going there to get things, she would push open the window board from inside, then prop it up outside, which was not too much trouble.
Moreover, when getting things, actually just opening the storage room door would let outside light shine into the room, making it almost possible to see the things inside clearly.
As for the small animal room behind the house, Su Ran did not install window cloths on it.
When building these two small animal rooms, Su Ran had left about ten square ventilation holes, each ten centimeters long and wide, on the walls in front of and on the side of the house for every room.
And besides these ventilation holes, there were no other windows inside the small animal rooms.
However, even so, when outside daylight shone into the room through these ventilation holes, it was enough to let people see the situation inside the room clearly.
These ventilation holes did not need to be blocked in winter.
These wild survival small animals were inherently very cold-resistant.
They could live well in the wild, so inside a room with high walls on all four sides, there was even less need to worry about them having problems.
After solving the winter indoor lighting problem, Su Ran and Gray fully threw themselves into the busy work of winter storage.
The salt-cured meat stored in the small wooden house already amounted to four large barrels.
In addition, Su Ran had pickled two barrels of wild cabbage using the pickled cabbage method.
She did not know if she could succeed in making this pickled vegetables, so she only made two barrels.
And now, besides these two barrels of pickled vegetables, under the windows of the bedrooms on both sides of the house, and on the open space in the vegetable patch behind the house, large patches of wild cabbage and housheng vegetable were neatly laid out on the ground to dry at this time.
These drying green vegetables were to have the dew and other water stains on them dried off, then stored in the cellar behind the house.
These green vegetables stored in the cellar were the green vegetables to be stored for this winter.
Two days after the house’s window cloths were installed, Su Ran and Gray went to collect oysters for a few more days, then boiled a bit more oyster sauce at home.
Including the jar of oyster sauce boiled before, Su Ran now had a total of seven jars of oyster sauce stored at home.
And besides oyster sauce, she had made two basins of sea salt.
Recently, a lot of sea salt had been used for curing meat, pickling vegetables, and making oyster sauce. With only a little over one barrel of sea salt left at home for winter, Su Ran always felt a bit uneasy.
Busy days passed day after day.
When the first patch of yellow fallen leaves appeared in the woods, the Blue Star that hung above the forest every night quietly disappeared.
The disappearance of Blue Star was sudden.
When Su Ran noticed, the woods full of greenery had almost completely changed to autumn colors.
And the disappearance of Blue Star seemed like a signal.
From this time on, the beastmen became noticeably more active and busy.
They officially entered hunting season!
And after the beastmen entered hunting season, seeing their daily hunting state, Su Ran suddenly felt that the food she had collected during this time was simply incomparable to the piles of prey the beastmen brought back every day!
Nowadays, every morning early, before Gray went out for the day’s hunting, he would go to the riverside in front of the house and carry water more than a dozen times to fill the two large wooden buckets made of wood in the house with water, as the day’s water use.
Because now, after the beastmen went out hunting and returned, the water in this river could no longer be used.
The prey corpses piled up like small mountains on the river beach every day would dye the river water on the side near the settlement completely blood red.
If viewed from high altitude, one would see that the previously crystal-clear river water was still clear and transparent on one half as before, while the other side was scarlet like hellish magma.
Recently, the stock of prey at Su Ran and Gray’s home was also rising sharply.
Su Ran even felt that the area of the newly built small wooden house for winter meat storage might not be enough to store the prey Gray hunted back.
So she called Gray to move the several barrels of cured meat and pickled vegetables from the small wooden house out and put them all in the room in the storage room for storing tools.
The tools in the storage room did not take up much space, making it just right for storing this cured meat.
And the prey that Gray had recently hunted back was also not put into the small wooden house.
Because although the recent weather was cold, it was only just at the state of initial freezing.
Putting the meat into the small wooden house at this time might instead insulate it.
So Su Ran had Gray first put all this meat under the two rain shelters at home.
On this continent, whether male beastmen or female beastmen, their combat power and hunting ability were almost equal.
Su Ran had already witnessed this one day when Yao Yao herself came running lightly with a dead red-skinned pig slung over her shoulder, delivering the red-skinned pig to Su Ran as thanks for teaching her to make salt-cured meat.
So in hunting season, except for the young little beastmen and the elderly beastmen, almost all the beastmen in the settlement went out in full force.
And during the time Gray was busy hunting and stockpiling food, Su Ran was not idle either.
Although in terms of combat power and stamina, she could not compare to beastmen.
But she had experience and knowledge of overwintering in the countryside of modern society in winter, so she did not feel inferior about her body’s weakness.
Recently, Su Ran walked a bit into the depths of the forest behind the living place.
Because the forest was full of traces left by beastmen hunting recently, there was no need to worry about safety issues in these woods.
However, when going out, Su Ran still habitually brought the multi-tool axe and bow and arrow for self-defense, and conveniently to hunt if she encountered prey.
In the depths of the woods, she set up a few traps. Worried about injuring the beastmen, the traps she set were not lethal, mostly rope snares or deep pit traps.
And what could be caught were also small animals like wild chickens, two-tailed beasts, dwarf deer, and such.
For these animals that fell into the traps, when Su Ran found them, most were still alive.
So for some prey that were not seriously injured, or not injured at all, Su Ran would directly take them home to raise.
Any storage method could not compare to freshly killed live animals.
In nearly two months, the number of small animals raised in Su Ran’s small animal room had almost doubled compared to before.
And among the small animals raised later, two-thirds were the results of Su Ran setting traps in the woods herself.
