Chapter 182: This Home Is Starting To Look The Part!
While the beastmen were constructing the house, Su Ran also made some homemade cement and smoothed the ground in several rooms of the main house into cement ground.
Otherwise, winter is fine, but in summer, just sprinkling some water on the ground inside the house keeps it damp all day.
After redoing the ground, Su Ran also modified all the windows.
The animal hide window cloth fixed to the window frames last winter had long been taken down. And now, Su Ran also removed the original window boards.
She sawed the window board in half from the middle, hollowed out all the wood in the middle of the two half window boards, leaving only a rectangular wooden frame.
Then, Su Ran cut the newly processed animal hide window cloth to the size of the two window sashes and carefully pasted it flat onto the wooden frame with blue worm glue.
After pasting, the window sashes were modified. At a glance, the new window sashes were almost no different from normal windows, except that what was installed on the windows was not glass, but thin animal hide that let light through.
After reprocessing the window sashes, the installation method for the windows also needed to be changed.
Su Ran changed the original window sashes that needed to be propped up upward with wooden sticks into a style that could be pushed outward from both sides, and the hinges and nails connecting the window frame and window sashes were made of stone.
The hinges for the windows that Su Ran made were the old-style hinge hinges, because she only remembered this type of hinge.
Once the hinges were actually made, Su Ran directly installed such outward-pushing doors on the main house’s front door, the two bedroom doors, and the outside storage room and small wooden house.
On the two door panels at the house doorway, Su Ran also dug out two windows in the upper part of the doors, then pasted on animal hide window cloth.
This way, even when closing the house door in winter, light could still come into this space in the corridor!
However, Su Ran did not modify the house door of the small animal room, keeping it as the original sliding door.
Because Su Ran felt that the sliding door was a bit safer than this push-open style of house door.
Especially for the room of the four-eared ox, it could prevent these slightly larger animals from easily bumping the house door open.
Although the few animals at home had already gotten used to the current lifestyle and hadn’t done any more violent behavior, when catching new animals later, that house door would still be bumped.
It must be known that when Su Ran previously made the house door for the small animal room, the door panel itself was made much thicker than the house doors of the other rooms.
Even so, on the first night after Gray caught this new four-eared ox at home, that thick door panel was still cracked by the four-eared ox.
So if the small animal room’s house door were changed to the hinge style, the four-eared ox’s strength would probably knock the entire door off at once!
After all the doors were replaced, Gray stood at the house doorway, repeatedly pushing the house door open a few times, then pulling it back to close.
The tail behind him hung toward the ground, with the tip curled upward, swaying left and right.
“This door is good~”
He opened the door and fixed it in place, then turned his head to look at Su Ran.
The method for fixing the door sash was to nail a nail each on the two side walls on the outside of the door.
Then tie a rope on the nails, with the other end of the rope tied to a stone hook, and use the hook to catch the handle on the door to prevent the door from closing by itself due to wind.
Su Ran looked at Gray whose face showed a satisfied expression, smiled, and didn’t speak.
She went inside the house and handed the broom made by binding shrub branches to Gray.
The bottom of the shrub broom also had a circle of thin red-skinned pig hide sewn on, so it could sweep the dust on the ground into a larger area without leaking out through the gaps in the shrub branches.
“Gray, sweep up the wood shavings on the ground and throw them out.”
Su Ran handed the broom to Gray. After Gray took it, he turned and went to the kitchen, took out the basket that was always placed in front of the stove for holding wood, picked up some larger wood fragments from the ground, and put them into the basket.
Then she put the basket in front of the stove inside the house, to be burned directly when cooking later.
After all this was done, Su Ran clapped her hands, walked outside the house, turned around to look at the house in front of her, put her hands on her hips, and exhaled.
She nodded in satisfaction. This home was looking more and more proper!
In the afternoon, with nothing to do, Su Ran pulled Gray to go to the seaside.
There was still a lot of sea salt powder stored before last winter, even enough for her and Gray to eat until the end of this summer, but there wasn’t much oyster sauce left.
Su Ran planned to pick some oysters today and make some more.
With a backpack on her back, she was lifted into the air by Gray holding her butt with one hand.
Midway in flight, Su Ran tightly hugged Gray’s neck and looked down at the forest under her feet.
Summer had arrived, inside the forest was full of vitality, and the endless sea of trees underfoot was the same as when she first arrived here.
When flying over a certain part of the sea of trees, Su Ran even saw a flash of red under a huge tree canopy.
That was a group of red-skinned pigs.
However, she and Gray did not stop.
They had just finished lunch not long ago, and it was still a long time until dinner, so there was really no need to drag a pig weighing over a hundred pounds to the seaside.
Today, Su Ran and Gray did not go to the beach they usually went to, but to the long rocky beach that was completely occupied by blue worms, which Gray had taken her to see last time.
Because recently the beastmen were building houses and needed a lot of blue worms, the seafood in the reef group where she and Gray originally went was swept by the beastmen almost every day.
The beastmen picked up the blue worms and conveniently took the seafood in these crevices back to eat.
After arriving at that rocky beach, Gray held Su Ran tight, found a relatively flat stone, and slowly landed.
In just less than half a month, these blue worms at the seaside had grown a size larger than before.
Before stepping on the stone, Gray first swept off the blue worms crawling on the stone with his tail, then stepped onto the stone.
After Su Ran stood steady on the black reef, she first looked around the surroundings of this sea area.
The reef group here is very large. Standing on the ground and looking around, the end of the reef group is already out of sight.
Behind the beach is also a forest, but the area of the forest is much larger than the place they used to go to often.
Standing at the seaside and looking back, the continuous mountain range behind the forest is already very far away.
“Ran Ran, here!”
While Su Ran was still observing the surroundings, Gray somehow got a wooden stick from somewhere and handed it to her.
The instant Su Ran saw the wooden stick, she immediately understood and reached out to take it.
Now the top of the reef is full of blue worms; almost every step will crush a few underfoot.
The internal organs of the blue worms are sticky, and if one accidentally steps on and bursts them, the shoes and stones will stick together.
Gray can fly slowly, which is fine, but Su Ran cannot, so she can only walk while using the stick to push the blue worms in front down!
