Chapter 162: Morning, A Jin Came Woo
Su Ran wrote another number on the wooden board she used to record dates.
Then she blinked at that number.
365 days.
She had been in this world for a year, a full twelve months.
Days passed one by one, time flowed like water, and in these twelve months, she hadn’t even finished one year on this continent.
The current climate had already entered deep winter.
It was already hard to see traces of small animals inside the forest, and the river in front of the house had frozen with at least a one-meter-thick ice layer.
Now, whenever Su Ran and Hui wanted water, they needed to first break the ice layer, bring the ice blocks home, melt them with fire, and only then could they use it normally.
When the forest entered hibernation time, the beastmen in the settlement also rarely came out.
In fact, since entering winter, except for the few beastman families living nearby, Su Ran had hardly seen any other beastmen.
Even Xiao Ju and Yao Yao hadn’t been seen for a long time.
And on this day, it snowed heavily again inside the forest.
When Su Ran woke up in the morning, she was so cold that she kept burrowing into Hui’s embrace.
When the stove fire in the room was burning, the smoke went directly out through the smoke channel inside the heated brick bed, so if the stove fire burned all day, the heated brick bed in the east bedroom would actually stay hot all day.
And to avoid burning the animal hide blanket used as the mat on the heated brick bed, Su Ran would generally roll up the large cotton felt at the stove opening, rolling it all the way to near the head of the bed, leaving only enough space for her and Hui to lie down and rest.
When it was time to sleep at night, she would put the felt down again.
This was to make it easier for the layer of animal hide blanket on the heated brick bed to dissipate heat.
And just right, the heat from the heated brick bed dissipating through the animal hide blanket would spread into the room, warming the air inside the room, almost the same effect as heating.
But because of this, sometimes at night when going to sleep, the heated brick bed was still very hot, hot enough to keep Hui awake.
So later, basically around six in the evening, Su Ran would stop the stove, leaving time for the heated brick bed to dissipate heat.
When it was after seven, she would put the cotton felt down again.
Then Su Ran would lay a layer of soft mattress on top of the cotton felt. With this thickness, it could perfectly block the temperature of the heated brick bed that was still a bit hot for Hui at this point, while also allowing the temperature under the felt to slowly dissipate, ensuring that when they woke up the next morning, the nest was still warm.
However, because of the snow, although the nest was still very warm today, the head exposed outside the nest was especially cold.
Su Ran’s nose tip was frozen icy cold by the cold air in the room.
She shrank her entire head into the nest, pressing tightly against Hui’s chest.
When her icy cold cheek pressed against Hui’s scorching hot chest, Su Ran clearly felt the werewolf in front of her body shudder violently from the cold of her face!
“Ao wu~”
It instinctively let out a soft howl, lowered its head with half-open eyes to look at Su Ran, clearly not fully awake yet.
No wonder, last night it had been addicted-like, keeping Su Ran busy for most of the night; it would be strange if it could be clear-headed.
However, although the whole wolf wasn’t awake yet, it still instinctively pulled Su Ran tighter into its embrace, and its large tail under the quilt stretched from behind to the front, wrapping around Su Ran’s waist.
The “exhausted” little couple hugged together and took another nap.
They slept until the sun was high, and the temperature in the nest beneath them began to drop, then Hui, who had been perking up its ears even in sleep, quietly moved the tail that was wrapped around Su Ran inside the nest.
The tail stretched out from the nest, gently patted the bed surface outside the quilt, and after a few seconds, it slowly opened its eyes, its light green eyes blinking in the pitch-black room.
“Wu~”
It let out a low hum from its throat, slowly propped up its body, then raised its head and glanced toward the window.
Then it got up, quietly put on clothes, tucked the quilt properly for Su Ran, and walked outside with light steps.
When it removed the door panel at the house door, the sky outside was still overcast.
The heavy snow that had fallen all night still hadn’t stopped, and the snow on the ground had already covered more than thirty centimeters deep over the door panel.
And in the vast white world, A Jin, wrapped only in an animal hide, with a red-skinned pig slung over each shoulder, was quietly standing ten meters in front of the house doorway, seemingly waiting for Hui or Su Ran to open the door.
Some snow had already fallen on its body, but not too much; it looked like it had just walked here from the settlement side and hadn’t been standing outside for long.
It should be that as soon as it arrived outside the house, Hui had noticed its arrival.
And when Su Ran woke up, A Jin had long since left.
At this time, the stove inside the room had already been lit, and Su Ran was woken up by Hui.
When she woke up, she found her body very refreshed; Hui must have wiped her down after getting up in the morning.
While Su Ran was getting dressed, Hui had already brought breakfast over.
A basin of boiled white bean fruit, five boiled eggs, and the leftover red-skinned pork and stewed white-headed sheep soup from last night.
In the mutton soup, Hui had probably added some stored internal organs and boiled them; the flavor was a bit bland, but the freshness was still very rich.
After Su Ran got up and washed up, she sat at the table and ate breakfast with Hui.
Back when they had just arrived here, since Su Ran ate much less than Hui, she would almost always finish eating well before Hui every mealtime.
Until later, she felt that this seemed a bit off.
Every time they cooked, it was done together by the two of them.
When eating, it should naturally be the two of them eating slowly together, slowly sharing the fruits of their hard work, which would make both of their hearts feel more satisfied.
Because eating together with family is itself an important way for people in human society to communicate feelings with each other.
Even though Hui was slightly different from humans in species, this difference wouldn’t matter at all in terms of emotions.
So from the moment Su Ran realized this, she began to deliberately control her eating speed.
Although she would still finish before Hui, at least she wouldn’t finish before Hui had eaten enough to feel full.
After finishing breakfast, Su Ran sat on the heated brick bed without moving, waiting for Hui to finish.
And after Hui finished the last piece of red-skinned pork, it put down the chopsticks and wiped its mouth with the small cloth Su Ran had prepared for each of them.
Then, it looked at Su Ran somewhat hesitantly.
Su Ran was puzzled by its gaze and couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow: “What’s wrong?”
And after hesitating, Hui slowly spoke:
“In the morning, A Jin came wu~”
“A Jin traded two large red-skinned pigs for a basin of seafood wu~”
