Chapter 161: Planting Box
“Ran Ran, caught it!”
Gray’s hand was carrying a red-skinned pig that was only as big as a white-headed sheep, clearly still underage, and ran back.
The little pig was covered in blood, but it was still struggling fiercely, and it seemed it wasn’t wounded in a fatal spot.
“Ran Ran, this one is very small, we can take it back to raise, woo~”
“Mm, raise it first.”
Su Ran nodded and carefully looked at the spot where the little red-skinned pig was injured.
The wound was on the pig’s butt, and it wasn’t deep; it was wounded by an arrow from Su Ran. The arrow tip had only grazed over the pig’s butt, leaving a wound half a palm long.
The little pig was too small; eating it now would be a bit wasteful. It would be just right to raise it until the end of winter and then kill it to eat.
Su Ran had a backpack full of more than half soil on her back, then she hugged Gray’s neck, and together with this little red-skinned pig and Gray, they returned home.
After getting home, she first took out yellow mushroom powder and applied some medicine to the wound on the little red-skinned pig’s butt, then put it inside the small animal room.
The little red-skinned pig, which had just arrived in the new environment and still carried wildness, was very vigilant about the things around it.
This animal was also very smart; it quickly found the entrance to the small animal room. After discovering that Su Ran and Gray had both left, it began frantically ramming the door panel, wanting to crash its way out from inside.
The door panel was rattled by its fierce actions, scaring the few animals in the same room into silently hiding in the farthest corner inside the house, quietly watching it perform in front.
But the small animal room’s door panel had been specially made very thick by Su Ran during construction; even Gray would need to exert some effort to break the door panel.
So after twenty minutes, when Su Ran came to deliver food to the few animals, she saw the little red-skinned pig that had just been brought back today, panting heavily and lying on its side on the ground. When it saw her come in, it glared fiercely at her and howled viciously.
But the second howl hadn’t even made a sound before it was attracted by the smell of the hot pig food that Su Ran had just poured into the stone-made pig trough, drawing its attention.
This stuff smelled much more delicious than the scarce and cold food it had to dig up here and there in the snow during the big winter.
The pig food that Su Ran brought was actually not just for pigs to eat.
Including those few two-tailed beasts and four-eared oxen and dwarf deer, they would also eat a little, but Su Ran gave them less because they still had that dry grass and the white bean fruits in the dry grass to eat.
While the red-skinned pig could basically only eat this.
The main ingredient of the pig food was mostly white bean fruit.
But Su Ran would always add a whole chopped-up green soap fruit inside, and also the not-so-good vegetable leaves picked out when eating green vegetables normally, as well as the radish peels that were shaved off, would all be added in by her.
Once the things were added, she would use a scallop knife tied into a cross-knife shape with a long handle to poke and crush all the food added in the bucket bit by bit, then add hot water and stir, and it would be done.
But now with one more little red-skinned pig, the amount of food needed for feeding had increased quite a bit.
The original big red-skinned pig was already adult and wouldn’t grow much more; Su Ran thought that one day she would just slaughter it and not keep it, otherwise it would just waste the stored white bean fruit for nothing.
After dealing with the few small animals, Su Ran returned to the front.
She first got some water from inside the room to rinse the wooden bucket used for feeding the pigs, took off her apron, and then walked to Gray’s side.
Gray was sitting under the rain shelter, holding a half-meter-long wooden stake and working hard to dig the wooden planting box that Su Ran wanted.
Su Ran needed two planting boxes in total.
One to plant housheng vegetable and wild cabbage to be eaten, the other to plant a bit of finger onion, chili fruit, and other vegetables for seasoning.
The soil dug from inside the forest was placed by Su Ran on one side, but this soil wasn’t enough for two planting boxes, so Su Ran went to the woods behind the house to dig some more soil back.
But obviously, the soil near the forest edge was different from the soil deep in the forest that didn’t see sunlight for years.
The soil here didn’t look as black as the soil in the woods, so it didn’t give the feeling of being that fertile.
And probably because it was near the river beach, there were many small stones in the soil; after digging the soil back, she still had to pick out the more obvious stones inside.
After the tree stump planting box was dug, it still couldn’t be used immediately because Su Ran was worried that after planting the plants, long-term watering would cause the wooden planting box to rot and leak, so she needed to apply a layer of cement inside the planting box for simple waterproofing.
The seashell powder at home had already been used up before, so Su Ran specially burned some seashells.
The planting box’s area wasn’t big, and the burned seashells were few, so it was soon ready.
And when making homemade cement, Su Ran just mixed and stirred seashell powder and blue worm glue, and it was done.
However, because blue worm glue had a good film-forming effect after solidifying, she used quite a lot of blue worm glue.
Su Ran applied the prepared homemade cement bit by bit to the inner side of the planting box.
And while she was applying the cement, Gray squatted beside her, carefully picking the stones out of the soil that Su Ran had newly packed back from the nearby woods.
It picked seriously; even though Su Ran had already said there was no need to be so meticulous and that a few particularly small stones were fine, it still carefully didn’t want to let a single small stone go.
Finally, after Su Ran finished making the planting box, she took a winnowing basket, put all the remaining soil into the winnowing basket, shook it back and forth to bring the stones in it to the surface of the soil layer, then grabbed all the stones on top out at once.
By now it was already four in the afternoon, the sun had set, and the air was starting to get cold.
The planting boxes that had just been brushed with cement couldn’t be used yet; Su Ran had Gray take both planting boxes back inside the house first, and wait until the cement inside was completely dry tomorrow before filling them with soil.
And she packed all the processed soil back into the backpack outside for convenient use tomorrow.
“Gray, what do you want to eat tonight?”
Su Ran went inside the house to wash her hands and asked the werewolf following behind her.
“Woo~ beef noodles woo~”
Gray answered without any hesitation; it seemed it had been thinking about this bowl of noodles for a long time.
Su Ran curved her lips and turned back to look at Gray, who was full of expectation: “Then go cut a four-eared ox leg.”
Thinking about it, she added, find another two-tailed beast too, then take some seafood, and make a spicy seafood two-tailed beast!
“Okay woo~”
Gray agreed and went out to the small wooden house to get the meat.
Su Ran then took out half a radish from the small basin next to the cutting board, washed it, and started peeling the radish.
This was what was left from cooking yesterday; today it could be just right to use in stewed beef soup.
After processing the radish, she also took out a few eggs and bird eggs, washed them clean and put them in a wooden basin with clear water, then took them to boil on the stove inside the room.
She planned to make them into tiger skin eggs after they were boiled, then put them into the stewed beef.
