Chapter 181: It’s All Su Ran And Hui’s Territory Now!
Su Ran felt that the dried blue worms stored this year were definitely enough for her and Hui to eat for a whole year.
Because the beastmen collected blue worms to build houses, and after taking the internal organs, many beastmen who didn’t like seafood very much gave the collected blue worms to Su Ran.
As a result, Su Ran and Hui ended up slicing blue worms at home for a whole week straight.
Even so, many were still ruined.
Fortunately, later the beastmen had collected almost all the blue worm internal organs, so they stopped collecting blue worms.
And just as Su Ran hadn’t caught her breath yet, the task of formally teaching the beastmen to build houses arrived.
However, once she really started teaching the beastmen to construct houses, Su Ran actually felt it was much easier than teaching them to make homemade cement or to burn seashells.
Because for building houses and stacking stone bricks, Hui along with A Jin, A Huo, Qing Yu, Yao Yao and the others had already come to help when Su Ran was building houses.
So now they could actually directly teach these skills to the other beastmen.
And Su Ran only needed to teach the beastmen the method of measuring the foundation and how to use the ruler, then watch from the side afterward, correcting any incorrect operations by the beastmen at any time.
Excluding the time to prepare stone bricks and homemade cement, the beastmen only took two days to build the overall framework of Xiao Ju and A Jin’s new house.
Their house wasn’t built under the original bird’s nest tree where they lived, but on the river beach near Su Ran and Hui’s house.
Su Ran’s house was located on the slope behind a small bend in the river channel, going upstream from the river beach in the settlement.
And Xiao Ju and A Jin’s house was also built on this river bend, on the other side of the slope from Su Ran’s house, separated by a small woods.
Including this small woods, the straight-line distance from Xiao Ju’s house to Su Ran’s house was about sixty or seventy meters.
And Su Ran’s house was about thirty meters away from this small woods.
Actually, Su Ran could tell that Xiao Ju deliberately chose this location for the new house because she wanted to be a bit closer to her and Hui.
So if Xiao Ju and the others were willing, building houses within this thirty-meter range would be fine with Su Ran, and the area was large enough too.
However, Xiao Ju ultimately didn’t choose such a close spot.
Because for the beastmen, on flat ground, this thirty-meter distance minus the size of the houses would shorten the distance between the two families to just over ten meters or even a few meters.
And a distance of just over ten meters on the ground was really too easy for the beastmen to accidentally invade someone else’s private territory.
Although everyone usually got along peacefully, even united and friendly, if others kept entering their territory without reason, it would really make the beastmen feel very uncomfortable!
Now between Su Ran’s house and Xiao Ju and A Jin’s house, there was a thirty-meter open space and a twenty-meter woods separating them.
Xiao Ju had already built a house on the other side of the woods, so this open space on Su Ran’s side was even less likely to have other beastmen living there.
In other words, this open space was all Su Ran and Hui’s territory!
Realizing this, Su Ran subconsciously felt a bit pleased.
After all, who would complain about having a larger territory at home!
After Xiao Ju’s house framework was built, on the next day, Su Ran began teaching the beastmen the steps to make the roof beam section using mortise and tenon structure.
This step was a bit more difficult than building the main framework; the beastmen spent three days just figuring out the installation position for each processed piece of wood.
However, after figuring it out the first time, the second time they could quickly analyze the installation method for the new roof beam connection parts themselves!
And after the roof beam section was completed, the work of adding the roof, building the heated brick bed, installing doors and windows, and so on, became much simpler!
These tasks took only a day and a half, and under the joint “research” of dozens of beastmen, everything was completed.
By this point, Xiao Ju and A Jin’s house was successfully completed in just one short week!
After the house was finished, before Xiao Ju and A Jin moved in, A Jin spent a few days delivering a share of prey to all the beastmen who had built the house together.
Including Su Ran and Hui.
This was their reward to everyone.
And after personally participating in building Xiao Ju and A Jin’s house, the beastmen who wanted to build houses had mostly memorized the steps for house construction.
However, they didn’t immediately disperse to build their own houses.
Instead, they selected another beastman family and gathered together to build another house from scratch once again.
This was only their second time hands-on building a house, but the beastmen were already able to extrapolate on their own, expanding Su Ran’s taught three-room house into a four-room house.
The foundation and framework were almost entirely done by the beastmen themselves; only when it came to the roof beams did they proactively call Su Ran over to help.
Although this house was a bit larger than Xiao Ju and A Jin’s, the construction speed wasn’t slower.
It even finished half a day earlier than Xiao Ju and A Jin’s house.
This made Su Ran marvel once again at the beastmen’s intelligence and learning ability!
After this, the beastmen hardly needed Su Ran’s help when building houses.
Although Su Ran was still uneasy and would always go to the beastmen’s house-building sites to check in the first few days.
But in the end, she found that the walls were straight, the foundation was solidly rammed, and the beastmen followed the house-building steps she taught strictly, step by step!
Moreover, the beastmen didn’t build their own houses separately, but as if they had planned it, several families built together, helping each other to erect the houses.
And the result of this approach was that the completion time for all the houses was advanced considerably.
After discovering this, Su Ran completely set her mind at ease.
The beastmen’s thinking was clearly more logical than she had imagined, more adept at analysis, and better at adaptation.
She really seemed to have nothing to worry about!
However, thinking of this, Su Ran also felt a bit doubtful.
Since the beastmen’s intelligence had reached such a level, why did their current life still remain so primitive and barbaric?
Or was it that they had only just begun transitioning from primitive life?
Su Ran had been puzzled by this question for a long time. She had also observed in the settlement for a long time, but never found a satisfactory answer.
But later she stopped thinking about it!
Even if she found the answer, it wouldn’t affect her life much; at most, her quality of life would improve a bit.
But actually, Su Ran felt that things were already very good now.
Everything else was irrelevant; for Su Ran now, as long as she could live steadily with Hui, she was already very satisfied!
