Chapter 175: Xiao Ju Will Be Very Fierce, Boo
After digging the two wells, Su Ran still found time to make two well windlasses for drawing water using wood.
Then she wrapped two-finger-thick ropes woven from sheep wool yarn around the well windlasses, and tied a fixed wooden bucket for drawing water to the other end.
But this well windlass was generally only used by Su Ran when she was drawing water.
Gray still preferred the method of lifting directly by hand, because compared to turning the well windlass circle by circle, it was obviously much faster for him to lift by hand himself!
And to irrigate the fields, besides digging the two wells, Su Ran also made a wooden pipe herself that could channel water into each vegetable pond.
It was called a wooden pipe, but it was actually more accurately described as a half-sided wooden pipe.
Su Ran found several branches that were a bit thicker than a bowl’s opening and a bit longer.
First, she used the saw blade to vertically saw these branches from cylinders into two half-cylinders each, then hollowed out the center from the saw-cut cross-section side of these half-cylinders, making them look like half pipe sections.
Su Ran sighed inwardly that this continent did not have bamboo, or plants with hollow stems similar to bamboo.
If there were, the main stem of the bamboo could be directly split open, and the bamboo joints inside opened, and it could be used directly.
After hollowing out the half-cylinder wooden pipes, Su Ran fixed the two wooden pipes at the positions of the two well openings respectively, and the other ends of the pipes were connected to the front of the first pool on each side of the vegetable garden.
Su Ran, on the side of the entire vegetable garden close to the well openings, immediately used soil to enclose a narrow pool horizontally across the entire vegetable patch, and the other ends of the two already fixed wooden pipes were placed inside this pool.
Her idea was that when irrigating, she would pour water into the wooden pipe at the end near the well opening. Su Ran half-buried a path of stones under the wooden pipe, with the stones’ heights sloping from high to low, allowing the water flow to smoothly pass through the wooden pipe, or wooden trough, into that narrow pool.
Once the water flow entered the newly enclosed narrow pool in front, for whichever vegetable pond Su Ran wanted to irrigate, she would use the shovel to dig an opening in the dam in front of that pool, and the water from the front narrow pool could smoothly flow into the vegetable pond.
After finishing the pool in front for gathering water, Su Ran thought that when blue worm season came, she would make some homemade cement again.
Now without blue worm glue, unable to make cement, she could only first lay a layer of stones on the ground in the pool to slow down the speed at which the water directly seeped into the ground after flowing in.
Once blue worm season arrived and cement could be made, the water-gathering pool for channeling water in front could be built into a real small pool using cement and stones, so that the water flow moving inside would be smoother.
About half a month after sowing the seeds in the vegetable garden, they began to sprout and grow one after another.
Another month later, the tender housheng vegetables and wild cabbage could already be eaten.
Su Ran took great care of this vegetable patch; at this time of flourishing grass and flying orioles, she went to the vegetable patch almost every few days to pull weeds and check the growth of the seedlings.
This day, Su Ran was preparing to make dinner.
Probably due to changes in living habits, Su Ran and Gray’s dietary habits unknowingly changed from two meals a day to three meals a day.
However, this way, their dinner time was pushed back by two hours.
From a little after four in the afternoon to around six in the evening.
Today, there was no wood left in the wooden shed at home; while preparing to cook, Gray went to the forest and dragged back another withered tree.
Su Ran took this opportunity to go to the riverside and fish up two fish with the fishing line.
It had been a long time since they had grilled fish; she planned to make fish soup in a bit and grill one fish to eat.
And just as she finished cleaning the two fish she had fished up and returned inside the house, telling Gray about how to prepare these two fish.
Gray took with one hand the blue fish that Su Ran handed over to be grilled, and casually said to Su Ran, “Ran Ran, Xiao Ju gave birth to little baby woo~”
“Ah?”
Su Ran looked up in surprise, momentarily not reacting to what Gray said.
After a while, with her mouth slightly open, she took a deep breath, her tone unable to hide the surprise: “Xiao Ju gave birth?!”
“Yes woo~”
Gray nodded.
Su Ran was stunned, carefully thinking it over in her mind, then realized that it was indeed so.
From the time she learned Xiao Ju was pregnant until now, it had been about six months, and when she learned of Xiao Ju’s pregnancy, Xiao Ju was already slightly showing.
So now it must be at least seven or eight months.
Gray had also said that beastmen pregnancies lasted a little more than one season, and one season was about six months, a little more than that.
The timing matched.
“Gray, should we go give Xiao Ju something?”
Su Ran now had some understanding of how people interacted with each other.
To say that the beastmen had completely lost their bloodthirsty and killing instincts was not entirely correct.
Like last year, those beastmen who newly joined the settlement had to use combat as a stepping stone to enter the current settlement.
It was a one-time proof.
But aside from that, in daily life, life among the beastmen could be described as harmonious, loving, and calm as water.
Beastmen would play around together, frolicking and biting with play as the premise.
But aside from that, Su Ran had lived here for almost a year, yet never seen beastmen truly fighting to the death over any conflict.
For neighbors and friends living together, beastmen mostly maintained a way of interacting that kept distance but was sincere.
Just like the first time Su Ran had her menstruation, when Xiao Ju and Yao Yao, like Gray, thought she was injured, they silently brought her wild fruit, seafood, and other food to visit.
But aside from that, unless Su Ran called them over, they would not often run over to disturb Su Ran’s life.
Su Ran felt that it was probably because her and Gray’s home was their territory.
For Xiao Ju and the others, entering another beastman’s living territory was in itself a kind of trespassing behavior.
If it were in the world of wild beasts, this kind of trespassing behavior would be a very dangerous thing. And this sense of danger also existed in the beastmen’s mindset.
So when facing many matters, including a beastman’s passing, injury, or other important events, beastmen would react to show concern, but not give too much or too prolonged attention.
Because paying attention for too long would be a kind of offense in terms of mental boundaries.
And now, Su Ran thought, based on how previously when she had her period, Xiao Ju and the others thought she was injured and brought her food.
Now that Xiao Ju had given birth to a baby, it should also count as a major event worthy of visiting with a gift.
So logically, she should go visit Xiao Ju and bring a gift to congratulate.
But if according to the beastmen’s way of thinking, now that Xiao Ju had just given birth, it was a time of weakness; going over at this time, would it make A Jin and Xiao Ju feel discomfort?
Su Ran thought this and asked Gray.
As expected, Gray looked at her and shook his head: “Cannot go Ran Ran, little baby will be afraid woo~ Xiao Ju will be very fierce woo~”
