Chapter 159: Reluctant To Leave The Old Home
Su Ran’s cold finally completely recovered after eating various red mushroom soup and fried mushrooms, roasted mushrooms for several days.
The medicinal effect of the red mushrooms was somewhat better than Su Ran had expected.
After the cold was completely cured, she carefully stored away the remaining small basket of red mushrooms at home.
A winter here lasts nearly five or six months, and these red mushrooms at home are the only medicine available during this period.
Even if tempted to take out two to eat, it was not allowed.
After the snowfall a couple of days ago, the forest had fully entered winter.
The river in front of the house had frozen over in just a few short days, with the ice layer thick enough to safely support people and animals walking on it.
Now, when Grey goes to fetch water every day, he has to walk to a slightly deeper spot in the middle of the river, first use a stone axe to break the ice layer at least twenty centimeters deep, and enlarge the ice hole, in order to reach the river water beneath the ice layer.
And even so, this is not yet the coldest time on this continent.
If a bit more time passes, the ice layer should freeze even thicker, and it should soon reach the thickness Grey mentioned for “eating ice.”
Now, from in front of the house to the riverside, Grey and Su Ran had trampled out a small path. At this time, there was still some accumulated snow on both sides of the path that had not fully melted.
This day was a clear sunny day.
Early in the morning, after finishing breakfast, Su Ran came out from inside the house and went to the storage room to get tools.
Since the start of winter, she and Grey had been completely idle.
Su Ran had originally thought that this winter she would just eat and drink and do nothing, relaxing and resting well.
But after resting like this for a few days, Su Ran felt that it was impossible to rest and relax properly.
Because there were things to be busy with outside the house, and things to be busy with inside the house…
She even had a feeling that if she stayed this “idle” all winter, she might not make it to next spring before being completely drained by the energetic big grey wolf at home!
So this morning, even though her whole body was still very sore and weak, she persisted and struggled to crawl out of the warm and comfortable nest.
One must know that getting up early on a cold winter morning is how difficult a thing.
But no matter how difficult, compared to the lustful wolf at home who recently seemed a bit addicted to “exercise,” just getting up early in the cold air to put on clothes didn’t seem so unbearable.
Su Ran took the bone shovel and the stone hoe, and went behind the house.
She wanted to dig a toilet.
Before, when building the house, it was only after the house was completed that Su Ran realized the toilet had not been built.
But at that time, after busily building the house for several months, she was completely exhausted and had no mood to rework it, so she decided to put it aside for the time being.
And later, when she started busying with winter storage, she had even less mind to think about these non-urgent matters.
Mainly because at that time, this river beach where she and Grey lived had only them.
Su Ran was lazy for a moment, and thinking anyway no one would see, she and Grey would dig a pit and bury it with soil after using the toilet, so it dragged on until now.
And now, not only were there more beastmen living around.
Mainly, the winter wind really freezes the butt!!
Especially recently at night, every time Su Ran went out to use the toilet and came back, she felt her butt was going numb from the cold!
Although building a toilet, even inside the toilet, might not be much warmer, but it could at least block some wind!
So after the cold was cured, after being pinned down by Grey in the house for two or three days of lovemaking, Su Ran finally made up her mind. Even though it was now midwinter, she decided to start work now and quickly find something to do to avoid that wolf who seemed a bit addicted to “exercise”!
The location for building the toilet, Su Ran had already decided on long ago.
She had originally wanted to build the toilet behind the small animal room, but later felt that position was too close to the bird’s nest in the tree behind.
The bird’s nest in the tree was now also used by Su Ran as a small storage room, filled inside with food and things to use.
If the toilet was built here, winter would be fine, but in summer, there would always be some smell.
And even if there was no smell, Su Ran would still feel uncomfortable having it so close.
Because in summer, she would occasionally go with Grey to live in the bird’s nest.
That was the place where she and Grey first lived together, and in Su Ran’s heart, it was like an old home that made one nostalgic.
And it wasn’t just her who thought that way; she felt Grey had the same thought.
Because after the house was built, every time she and Grey went back to live in the bird’s nest, Grey was always exceptionally excited during nighttime exercise!
In the end, Su Ran set the toilet’s location on the west side of the vegetable garden, corresponding east-west with the small animal room.
She first dug a small pit on the ground about the right size range, then Grey dug deeper down.
After the pit was dug, they began to build the walls.
Building this toilet took two days and used up the last bit of seashell powder at Su Ran’s home.
The toilet’s walls were made of stone bricks, while the top was made of wooden beams and straw.
Su Ran also installed a wooden door on the toilet.
At least in winter, it could block some of the cold wind from outside.
After the toilet was built, Grey immediately went in to try it out.
But when he came out, he seemed a bit dissatisfied.
“Ran Ran, can’t bury with soil, there will be smell.”
He frowned, thought for a moment, and continued, “Summer, very stinky…”
Su Ran was stunned, looking at Grey’s serious face, suddenly realizing she had indeed overlooked this point.
Using the toilet was quite different from the previous method of burying with soil after using the toilet.
Beastmen’s sense of smell is sensitive; before, after using the toilet, they would bury the excrement with soil, which isolated the smell.
But now with the toilet, there’s no way to bury it, especially in summer—beastmen with keen senses of smell probably couldn’t even enter the toilet!
Su Ran subconsciously bit her lip, thinking.
Could her newly completed toilet be declared out of use right away?
Probably seeing Su Ran’s difficulty, Grey, who had just given his user feedback, walked closer, hugged her: “Ran Ran don’t worry, winter no smell woo, spring I go find woo… green grass, then no smell.”
“What green grass?”
Su Ran was stunned, curiously looking up at Grey.
Grey tilted his head and thought for a while, then hesitantly explained: “Inside the forest, green very fragrant very fragrant grass, but now none woo~”
