Chapter 165: Xiao Ju’s Belly Is Already Bulging
Xiao Ju was pregnant, so Su Ran naturally had to go visit her.
And for a visit, she couldn’t go empty-handed.
Su Ran thought about it, Xiao Ju loved seafood, but seafood was always cooling in nature, she didn’t know if it would have any influence on her body and the baby in her belly.
So she went into the two rooms for storing food to look around, and had Hui hold her to check on the bird’s nest tree in the back.
In the end, she decided to take some dried fish that had been sun-dried in autumn for Xiao Ju, and a few large frozen fish would be about enough.
She put about ten strips of dried fish into the backpack on top of the bird’s nest, the fish were all caught from the river in front of the house, each one had a very large body.
Su Ran generally liked to use them for stewing soup or stir-frying spicy, but she estimated Xiao Ju would prefer eating them directly.
After packing the dried fish, Su Ran was carried by Hui and flew down from the bird’s nest.
Before, when in the settlement, the rope ladder tied to the bird’s nest tree had been put away by her.
Now if there was no matter, she almost never went up to the bird’s nest, and the rope was always tied outside, exposed to wind and sun, very easily damaged.
Su Ran cherished the things that originally belonged in the backpack.
So generally, if she could not use them, or could find substitutes, she wouldn’t take out those modern products to use.
“Hui, go get three more frozen fish.”
Su Ran put the backpack on the ground and said to Hui.
“Okay~”
Hui obediently turned around and walked toward the small wooden house.
Su Ran went into the house, first adding some firewood to the stove.
This stove was built very well, almost no smoke escaped, the fire could burn very strongly, the only shortcoming was no coal, it used too much firewood.
Su Ran and Hui now could burn a whole adult bird’s nest tree every half month almost.
So she was still glad that fortunately they lived inside the forest, what they didn’t lack most was firewood.
After filling the stove with firewood, Su Ran cleaned the ground around the stove, then found a hat and gloves to put on before walking out of the house.
Outside the house, Hui was also putting three crucian carp into the backpack, seeing Su Ran come out, it picked up the backpack with one hand and reached out to Su Ran: “Ran Ran, go?”
“Mm.”
Su Ran responded, put the other hat she was holding onto Hui’s head, then tiptoed to reach out, pulling Hui’s two fluffy ears out from the small holes intentionally left on top of the hat.
Then she handed the pair of gloves in her hand to Hui, and after watching it put them on, she hooked her arm through Hui’s arm: “Let’s go!”
“Wu?”
Hui was hooked by Su Ran and walked two steps, a bit discomfort with Su Ran’s sudden new action.
But still followed Su Ran’s force and walked forward, while walking, looked at Su Ran puzzledly, opening the other arm still holding the backpack: “Ran Ran, come up?”
The snow on the ground was already up to Su Ran’s knee height, it wanted to directly hold Su Ran and fly to the settlement side.
But Su Ran refused.
“No~ We’ll walk there.”
Having stayed in the house like a cat for over two months, even when building the stove, it was inside the house, Su Ran had long wanted to come out and move around, what’s more it was her favorite snowy day.
She pulled Hui along the small path in the woods toward the settlement, feet stepping in the deep snow, making crunching sounds.
The air was very cold, but between breaths one could feel the clean freshness.
The snow at this time still showed no sign of stopping, large snowflakes falling, occasionally on a snowflake one could clearly see the exquisite snowflake patterns on it.
Su Ran and Hui hadn’t walked long in the woods before snowflakes had covered their bodies. And Su Ran’s body also began to slightly sweat because walking in the snow was laborious.
Because of the snow, this small path that originally only needed a few minutes to walk, Su Ran and Hui took over ten minutes.
When arriving under Xiao Ju and A Jin’s bird’s nest tree, Su Ran first patted off the snowflakes on herself and Hui.
And just as she was patting the snow off Hui, suddenly a light golden head popped out from the bird’s nest tree above her head.
Two seconds later, an orange-golden head also poked out.
“Mi wu!”
Seeing Su Ran, Xiao Ju’s golden eyes lit up, immediately calling out crisply.
Su Ran also happily waved at it, then hugged Hui’s neck, following Hui to fly into Xiao Ju and A Jin’s bird’s nest.
After entering the bird’s nest and standing steady inside, Su Ran was surprised to find that Xiao Ju’s belly was already slightly bulging.
At this time she had an animal hide blanket wrapped around her body, looking inside the bird’s nest, the sleeping place was also covered with thick blankets.
The method of making animal hide, the beastmen had already learned from Hui in summer, but hadn’t really used it much.
Until now in deep winter, these animal hides they had made out of momentary curiosity finally came in handy.
“Ran Ran, fish!”
After Su Ran and Hui entered the bird’s nest, Xiao Ju immediately smelled the fishy smell of dried fish and frozen fish in the backpack.
She held Su Ran’s hand, pointing with the other to the backpack Hui had put down, eyes full of expectation.
“It’s dried fish and frozen fish, for Xiao Ju~”
Su Ran raised her hand and tiptoed slightly, touching Xiao Ju’s soft little ears on top of her head.
And Xiao Ju looked at her with sparkling eyes, upon hearing Su Ran say it was for her, immediately raised her brows happily, excitedly lifted Su Ran under the armpits to her own height, and affectionately rubbed cheeks with her.
“Ran Ran, mi wu mi wu! Good!”
She was really happy, of course, happy about having fish to eat again.
And Su Ran was startled by her action.
Even though a beastman’s body was healthy and strong, but there was a cub in her belly!
But before she could react, Hui beside her was unhappy.
He probably also considered that Xiao Ju was now pregnant with a baby, although he didn’t directly grab Su Ran back from Xiao Ju’s hands, but after Su Ran was held in Xiao Ju’s embrace in a daze for a few seconds, he already started ao wu ao wu discontentedly on the side.
Xiao Ju ignored Hui’s displeasure, only gently putting Su Ran down after she started struggling.
“Ao wu~”
The instant Su Ran landed, Hui immediately pulled her behind himself, looking displeased at A Jin beside Xiao Ju.
But A Jin had a silly look, smiling helplessly at Hui.
Su Ran and Hui didn’t stay too long at Xiao Ju’s place.
After delivering the things, Su Ran curiously looked closely at pregnant Xiao Ju for two rounds, and after satisfying her curiosity, pulled Hui out of the bird’s nest and returned home along the same path.
On the way back, one could see under every bird’s nest tree with nests built, and beside the entrances of those caves, piles of prey frozen like small mountains.
Beside the cave entrances, besides frozen meat there were also many wild vegetables and wild fruits clearly frozen solid piled there, those were food stored by the beastmen for winter, piled in large patches outside like that.
