Chapter 152: After Eating Red Mushroom, The Warmth In Her Body Is Gone
Under the current environmental conditions, no matter what disease it is, it could all be fatal for Su Ran.
So now for her, the most important matter is to first protect herself well and not let the already appearing symptoms continue to worsen.
So before falling asleep, Su Ran hazily thought that when Gray came back, she could only trouble it to handle all of tonight’s dinner.
When Su Ran fell asleep, it was only three in the afternoon.
And when she opened her eyes again, it was already dark outside.
She was woken up by Gray.
In a half-dreaming half-awake state, she could feel herself being held in a warm embrace, and the familiar green soap fruit scent in that embrace quickly made her realize that Gray had returned.
Then, she felt warm and soft lips continuously kissing her face and forehead lightly.
At the same time, by her ears, there was a gentle purring sound, like it was softly comforting her.
Afterward, she fell asleep again.
When she opened her eyes again, it was completely dark outside.
Inside the room, an oil lamp was lit, its small flame only illuminating a small patch of light on the set table.
Su Ran lifted her head and met Gray’s gaze, which looked relieved.
In the dim light, every tiny emotion in its eyes, which seemed to glow on their own, could not be hidden.
Su Ran moved a little, wanting to sit up from inside the quilt.
But as soon as she moved, a gust of cold wind drilled in from the gap outside the quilt, making her shiver immediately.
Inside the quilt, the animal hide clothing on her body was already sticky, as if she had sweated all over.
“Ran Ran was very hot just now, discomfort?”
Gray felt Su Ran shiver from the cold and quickly tucked the shaken-open quilt tightly around her again.
Its ears on top of its head were tensely standing straight up, brows furrowed, worriedly looking at Su Ran.
“Mm…”
Su Ran looked at it and opened her mouth to hum, but the sound that came out was full of hoarseness.
This sound made her throat a bit sore; she wrapped the quilt around herself and sat up from Gray’s embrace, only feeling dizzy and a bit painful in the head, with a stuffy nose too.
In short, she had all the symptoms of a cold, and it was very uncomfortable.
At this time, Gray let go of her smoothly, turned around and walked to the already set dining table, ladling a bowl of soup over.
Judging by the color of the soup, it should be meat soup.
When Gray brought it over, there wasn’t a single piece of meat inside; instead, there were a few pieces of red mushrooms of uneven thickness floating on top.
Su Ran stared at the red mushrooms in the bowl in a daze—this wasn’t the mushrooms that Bai Bai had sent as a condolence gift when she first had menstruation here?
“Ran Ran, eat this red mushroom, and the heat on your body will be gone.”
It handed the soup bowl to Su Ran, and seeing Su Ran staring blankly at the bowl, it added:
“Eat the mushrooms first before dinner, okay~”
This was because it was afraid Su Ran would misunderstand and think it didn’t want her to eat other food.
Su Ran held back a smile and glanced at it, but didn’t take the soup bowl from its hand; instead, she asked it, “Is there any hot water?”
“Yes, does Ran Ran want some?”
Gray nodded quickly.
“Mm.”
Su Ran nodded: “Help me fill the basin for washing my face with some hot water, and bring my towel over.”
Her body was all sweaty and sticky.
Especially the sweater inside, which was crocheted from sheep wool, sticking to her body—it was both prickly and sticky.
She wanted to wipe her body first and then change clothes.
While Gray went to fetch the hot water, Su Ran wrapped the quilt around herself and got up, walking to the front of the cabinet to take out a set of clean clothes from inside.
Then she sat back on the edge of the kang, first taking off the clothes on her body inside the quilt.
After Gray brought the towel and water over, she was still wrapped in the quilt, only stretching her hand out to soak the towel in the hot water, wring it dry, then bring it inside the quilt to wipe the sweaty areas on her body.
This towel was also crocheted from white-headed sheep wool.
Because the back wool of white-headed sheep is black, the color of the towel, as well as the clothes Su Ran crocheted, were all black.
After wiping with the wet towel, Su Ran quickly dried herself off with a dry towel.
Then she put on clothes, and finally draped a thick blanket over herself before moving from the nest to the dining table, ready to start eating.
The food on the dining table was very abundant.
Half a roasted white-headed sheep was roasted golden and crispy; a large patch of golden mutton fat was left on the plate under the mutton.
A large plate of roasted seafood, roasted with shells on, with obvious juices roasted out, making one’s mouth water just looking at it.
Besides that, there was a basin of boiled white bean fruit, two roasted blue fish, and a large basin of soup.
But this soup wasn’t meat soup, it was wild chicken soup.
Probably because the color of the red mushrooms had been boiled out, it looked a bit like meat soup.
At the very edge of the dining table, there was also a small plate of fresh, washed sweet leaf vein tree leaves.
Those were picked by Su Ran and Gray from the woods when the leaves started turning yellow. Part of them were dried and ground into powder, and part were stored in the cellar.
Su Ran first drank a full large bowl of wild chicken red mushroom soup as Gray requested.
Gray still wasn’t very good at stewed or stir-fried dishes, but now its roast meat and soup were already done very well.
Like the fish soup it made before, Su Ran liked it a lot too.
And today’s chicken soup was the same, or even more delicious possibly because of the addition of red mushrooms.
She just didn’t know if the red mushrooms, which had medicinal effects, could be eaten a lot.
If eating a bit more had no bad influence on the body, they could be used as regular mushrooms for stir-frying.
Probably because of being sick, Su Ran’s appetite wasn’t very good.
After one bowl of chicken soup, she already felt somewhat full.
Actually, she wanted to eat a roasted oyster.
But thinking that seafood was cooling, and afraid of stomach discomfort if she ate it now, she hesitated for a while and gave up.
In the end, she only drank one bowl of chicken soup and gnawed half a chicken leg before she couldn’t eat anymore.
Gray looked at her appetite, which was clearly much less than usual, and watched her worriedly.
Su Ran smiled reassuringly at it: “I’m not hungry, I’ve already eaten my fill~”
“Ao wu~”
Gray swished its big tail, but its tightly furrowed brows didn’t relax because of Su Ran’s comfort.
Because of worrying about Su Ran, Gray didn’t eat well this meal either.
Clearly it wasn’t full yet, having eaten only half its usual amount, and already wanted to clear the table.
But when taking the food away, Su Ran saw it and quickly called it to stop.
She forced it to eat the chicken in that basin of chicken soup, and also made it drink a full large bowl of red mushroom chicken soup before stopping.
Su Ran watched Gray drink the soup and slightly felt relieved; although Gray showed no signs of illness, it was still better to prevent it.
Moreover, it had just eaten the chicken meat in that soup too, so using the red mushrooms as a side dish, as long as not too frequently and in moderation, should be fine.
Su Ran actually felt that the nature of this red mushroom seemed a bit like ginger on Earth, just with a different taste.
