Chapter 155: Probably The Feeling Of Being In The Heat Of Romance
The sun set between the woods, and the sky outside began to turn gray and hazy.
The moment the sunlight disappeared, cold air instantly spread from all directions.
At the river beach in the evening gray tones, white cooking smoke continuously rose from the roof of Su Ran’s small house, blown higher and higher by the evening breeze until it became transparent and vanished.
After a busy afternoon, the sausages made today from two portions of red-skinned pork were finally all boiled, and Su Ran took them out one by one to hang on the drying poles outside.
Then she called to stop Gray, who wanted to go out hunting, because the time today was already a bit late, so she told Gray not to go out hunting tonight.
Now with the freshly boiled sausages, Su Ran also planned to cook all the internal organs from these two red-skinned pigs today and eat them.
Later, catch a few fish from the river and grill them, then go to the small wooden house to cut a leg from a red-skinned pig or four-eared ox to make stewed meat, and that would be about enough.
Because the weather has been cold recently, she and Gray have both preferred stewing methods for meat dishes lately.
Doing it this way and eating it hot makes the whole body feel very comfortable.
Listening to Su Ran, Gray first went into the small wooden house and cut out a red-skinned pig leg with hindquarter meat.
Then outside the house, it chopped the hindquarter meat into small pieces before taking it into the house and handing it to Su Ran.
Then it took the tool for catching fish—
A backpack woven unsuccessfully by Su Ran, full of many holes.
And walked toward the riverside.
Su Ran inside the house first separated out half of the internal organs to be eaten tonight and blanched them in the pot.
Before, for eating these internal organs, Su Ran mostly grilled them directly or wrapped them in leaves and mud and baked them.
But today, she wanted to try the effect of cooking them directly with the stewed meat.
However, to prevent wasting food in case it didn’t taste good, she only used a portion of the internal organs this way, while the rest were still prepared like grilled fish, by barbecuing.
Gray quickly scooped up several large fish at the river beach and brought them back.
By the time it brought them in, these fish had already been gutted and cleaned very thoroughly.
Su Ran marinated these fish and the internal organs to be grilled with seasonings.
Probably because the fish need to overwinter too, the fish living in the river now were much fatter and longer than in spring and summer.
Gray took the marinated fish and internal organs to the barbecue grill outside, lit the fire, and started grilling.
Su Ran then blanched the chopped red-skinned pork in the house before stewing it directly in the pot.
After the red-skinned pork was stewing, she took off her animal hide apron, walked into the room, and lay down on the heated brick bed.
Because she had been cooking things all along, the temperature on the heated brick bed was very hot, even feeling a bit scalding to the touch.
Su Ran lay prone on the heated brick bed, closing her eyes and feeling a bit lazy.
She had taken the medicine she brought once in the morning and once at noon, and her body felt much stronger than when she first got up in the morning.
At night, she didn’t plan to take medicine, but instead intended to eat some red mushrooms later.
Because she didn’t know if the medicinal properties would conflict, during the daytime when taking medicine, Su Ran hadn’t eaten any red mushrooms.
Now, five or six hours had passed since her last dose, her cold symptoms had also lessened considerably, and she felt it should be fine to switch the medicine to red mushrooms.
Moreover, she wanted to try switching to red mushrooms for the next two days.
Mainly to test how many days it would take for the cold symptoms to improve if only eating red mushrooms.
The medicine she brought wasn’t much to begin with, and it would eventually run out or expire, so she needed to test the medicinal effects of the foods on this continent that could serve as substitutes while she still had medicine.
In case the effect wasn’t good, she could still use the medicine on hand to remedy it.
Thinking this, she reached out and took the cushion stuffed with cotton from beside her, placed it under her face, lay on it, and closed her eyes.
The stewed meat still needed a while to be ready, and she was feeling a bit sleepy now.
Probably still because of being sick, her body was still a bit weak.
Su Ran lay prone on the kang without falling asleep. After more than ten minutes, she heard footsteps coming in from the house doorway.
She was already very familiar with these footsteps; just listening, she knew it was Gray’s steps.
However, the footsteps were clear also because there was no door blocking the way from the entrance to the bedroom.
Su Ran thought she should make a door curtain for the door of this sleeping room.
It wasn’t needed in summer, but in winter, a thick door curtain was necessary.
Mainly because if the outside house door was always open, cold air would directly come in from outside.
At this moment, Su Ran suddenly realized the downside of making the house door a sliding door.
Opening and closing it frequently was too troublesome, but not closing it made it very cold.
She had only lain in the room for this short while, but the heated brick bed under her felt scorching hot, while cold air on her back drilled straight into her clothes—it was like ice and fire!
While Su Ran was still lying there thinking about the door curtain, Gray had already walked from the house doorway into the room.
Seeing Su Ran lying on the heated brick bed, it subconsciously called out worriedly: “Ran Ran?”
Hearing this, Su Ran lazily moved the foot she had dangling outside the kang edge: “Mm?”
Hearing the laziness in Su Ran’s voice, Gray slightly relaxed.
It sat beside Su Ran, thought for a moment, shifted its body inward, pulled over the animal hide blanket at the foot of the kang, and covered Su Ran with it.
Although the animal hide blanket was only a thin layer, it could block the cold air coming in from outside, and Su Ran instantly felt much warmer.
She turned over to lie on her side, opened her eyes, and saw Gray sitting beside her looking at her eagerly; her heart suddenly stirred.
Probably that feeling of being in the heat of romance!
Just making eye contact was enough to make her heart race uncontrollably!
She reached out her right hand toward Gray.
“Woo~”
Gray’s tail, resting on the kang edge, swung once, a brilliant smile appeared on its face, and it quickly lay down beside Su Ran, pulling her into its embrace.
Gray’s build, compared to some fierce beast types like tiger or bear beastmen, actually appeared a bit slimmer.
But this slimness, contrasted with the even smaller Su Ran, obviously seemed much more robust.
Su Ran was held by Gray with one arm around her back, embraced in its arms.
Gray’s arm, which didn’t look excessively robust, could almost completely shield her entire upper body securely in its embrace.
The two stayed like this in an embracing position, quietly lying in the room for a while.
Su Ran was circled in Gray’s embrace, warm both below and to her sides.
The warmth made her sleepier and sleepier.
Until she felt Gray slowly releasing her and getting up to go out, she suddenly woke with a start and opened her eyes.
She also sat up from the heated brick bed, about to move, but was pressed back down by Gray:
“I’ll bring it in. Ran Ran, don’t come out.”
