Chapter 176: Changes In The Body
Since she still couldn’t go visit Xiao Ju and Little Baby now, Su Ran made the two fish she caught that evening into fish soup, then had Gray deliver it to Xiao Ju.
Of course, Gray also couldn’t enter Xiao Ju’s bird’s nest, but had to call A Jin out from under the tree and let A Jin take the fish soup up.
It wasn’t until more than a month later that Su Ran saw Xiao Ju and A Jin’s child for the first time.
Little Baby was a female cat beastman.
This little one perfectly inherited Xiao Ju’s outstanding appearance.
Her hair and ears had the same orange-gold short fur as Xiao Ju, and the gleaming golden color shone under the sunlight as if coated with a layer of sparkling gold foil, making her whole body sparkle.
Besides the cat beastman features on her body, the little one also inherited A Jin’s wings.
However, those two little wings hadn’t grown feathers yet and looked like two plucked bald chicken wings shrunk against her back.
When Su Ran saw them for the first time, she subconsciously thought of roast chicken wings…
Xiao Ju cat baby was carried in a basket that Su Ran had given her, brought to Su Ran’s house to meet her.
Xiao Ju had laid a thick layer of dry grass at the bottom of the basket, and on top of the dry grass was an animal hide blanket.
The little one lay on the blanket, her bright golden big eyes wide open, innocently looking at the scene before her. The orange-gold little triangular ears on top of her head twitched this way and that with the sounds made by the people around.
This made even Su Ran, who originally wasn’t overflowing with love for children, feel her heart melt into a puddle of water!
The reason Xiao Ju brought Little Baby to find Su Ran was to ask Su Ran to help name Baby.
“Ran Ran, Baby, meow?”
Now Xiao Ju had learned the term “Baby” from Gray. She squatted in the rain shelter, her big sparkling eyes like Baby’s blinking at Su Ran.
Su Ran was using her finger to flick back and forth on Xiao Ju cat baby’s little tail. With her teasing actions, the little one’s thin little tail swished back and forth, its short fluff brushing against Su Ran’s fingertip, smooth and soft.
“How about calling her Feifei!”
Su Ran looked at Xiao Ju and asked.
She really had no talent for naming things!
Names like Xiao Ju, A Jin, and Gray were all based on their physical features.
The features on this Xiao Ju cat baby in front of her were almost exactly the same as Xiao Ju’s.
Except that she had a pair of wings on her body, which would allow her to learn to fly when she grew up.
So Su Ran’s first thought was “Feifei,” but this “fei” didn’t feel quite right for a girl, whereas the “fei” with the grass radical felt better.
Moreover, the season of the little one’s birth was exactly when flowers and grasses were in fragrant bloom.
“Fei, Fei?”
“Meow?”
Xiao Ju repeated after Su Ran, her long tail behind her buttocks slowly erecting, the tip hooking.
And so, the little one’s name was decided just like that!
The spring sun was warm and gentle, and the vegetation in the forest was rapidly reclaiming this continent.
Time slipped away unnoticed, and the purple berry fruit planted by the rain shelter quickly went out of season after two months.
After the purple berry fruit went out of season, just as Gray said, it really grew flower buds and bloomed into large clusters of white flowers.
Each of these flowers was layered petal upon petal, snow-white, larger than Su Ran’s palm, making them seem like they grew on two different species from the tiny purple berry fruit on the shrub!
This cluster of purple berry fruit trees wasn’t that large when planted, but when blooming, looking at it from nearby gave the illusion of being in a sea of flowers.
But it was really beautiful, and Su Ran really liked it.
The flowering period of these purple berry flowers was long, and they were very dense on each cluster, so Su Ran could clip a few every few days to put in a flower vase and appreciate inside the house without feeling heartbroken.
She even had the thought of planting a sea of flowers in front of the house.
And with that thought, she really did it!
However, she didn’t specially spend time on it. Whenever she went out and encountered beautiful wild flowers, she dug them up and planted them next to the purple berry fruit cluster, letting the sea of flowers spread bit by bit toward the river beach and the forest on the side.
In just half a month, she unknowingly planted a large area.
Among these brightly blooming flowers, Su Ran left some space between every row of flower clusters.
Because the wild flowers dug up now mostly bloomed in spring and would enter the fruiting and seeding stage by summer.
By summer and autumn, there would be fresh flowers blooming in their respective seasons, which she could transplant into these open spaces, letting a sea of flowers bloom in front of her house every season.
Shortly after the purple berry fruit tree bloomed, the youyou fruit and red fruit in Su Ran’s vegetable garden, as well as the green soap fruit tree, gradually began to bear fruit, and after about half a month, they started maturing one after another.
Green soap fruit would take a long time to fully mature, but at this point, the fruits could already be eaten as fruit.
Normally, though, Su Ran wouldn’t eat the green soap fruit now. Between eating fruit and having a meal, she would of course choose to eat the green soap fruit as her staple food.
It’s just that because green soap fruit is from a fruit tree, it takes several years for the tree to reach fruiting age.
The two green soap fruit trees Su Ran transplanted back last year were still saplings, and the ones newly transplanted earlier this year were a bit older but mostly not yet at fruiting age.
Those two green soap fruit trees that could bear fruit directly were ones Gray found in the nearby woods after the weather warmed up two months ago, carrying them back with great effort.
Now, the varieties of edible wild fruit and wild vegetables were gradually becoming more abundant, and not just wild fruit and wild vegetables—the animals that had hidden deep in the forest for a winter were also migrating back one after another.
Su Ran started going hunting with Gray.
The bow and arrow that had been set aside for a winter was taken out again. Without practicing archery all winter, Su Ran still quickly regained her feel and even shot more accurately than last year.
At this moment, Su Ran picked up a two-tailed beast she had shot, weighed it, and nodded in satisfaction.
She felt that her improvement in archery skills was mainly due to her strength having increased quite a bit.
Having lived in this world for a year, which was two years in her original world, her body had long since changed with her living environment and habits.
The first change was that her height had grown a bit more.
Su Ran measured herself with a ruler, and she had grown about six centimeters.
She had originally been one meter sixty-eight, but now she had suddenly grown to one meter seventy-four.
Similarly, after her height increased, her bone structure seemed to have grown a bit too.
Although still within the range for a girl’s frame, Su Ran could clearly feel that her shoulders were a bit broader to the touch than before.
