Chapter 185: Crawling Over!!
A month later, most of the beastmen’s houses were built.
The reason they could build so quickly was not only because the beastmen’s physical strength and speed were astonishing, but also because the beastmen mostly only built main houses for sleeping like Su Ran’s, and did not additionally build storage rooms, small animal rooms, and so on.
They at most built two small wooden houses for storing things.
And the beastmen who chose to build stone brick houses on the ground like Su Ran mostly also selected locations on the river beach like Xiao Ju when building their houses.
Now on the river beach to the right of Su Ran’s house, which originally only had a few beastman families, there were now twelve families.
This included Yao Yao, Qing Yu, and A Huo, Bai Bai, and them.
Having more neighbors around the residence had both advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage was that compared to the previously sparse population on this river beach, now living here, Su Ran felt a bit more secure.
Even Hui felt more at ease letting her roam around outside on her own than before!
However, the disadvantage was that with more people, it always felt less free and easy than when there were fewer people before.
Su Ran actually still preferred the free and easy feeling of before when it was just her and Hui living here.
Now, even if she wanted to take a bath, she needed Hui to take her further upstream, to a place away from the residence to wash.
Su Ran hugged a large pile of animal hide blankets from inside the house and threw them onto the wooden floor of the rain shelter.
Then she picked up these animal hide blankets one by one and hung them on the clothesline.
The weather was nice today, perfect for drying clothes and bedding.
After all the animal hide blankets were hung up, she went back inside the house and took out the thick cotton quilts she and Hui used in winter.
There was no more space on the clothesline for the quilts, so finally Hui set up a temporary wooden clothes rack next to the clothesline, and Su Ran draped the large quilt over it.
The weather was getting hotter day by day, and the plants in the vegetable garden in the afternoon were growing very well.
The second planting of radishes, housheng vegetables, and wild cabbage could already be harvested a little bit to eat.
Moreover, Su Ran recently discovered a new type of leafy greens.
However, this leafy greens was not some new plant species she discovered, but the radish greens on top of those radish heads.
Su Ran had eaten radish greens before in her original world, raw, stir-fried, or made into filling, all were fine.
So now that the radishes in the vegetable garden had grown up, she also picked some leaves.
She first let the small animals try eating them, and after confirming no problem, she picked some back herself, chopped them into filling, added minced meat, and made dumplings or scallion pancakes to eat.
And after the radishes in the vegetable garden ripened, Su Ran also began trying various radish-based foods, like radish filling steamed dumplings, radish filling pancakes, fried radish balls, radish soup.
This kind of radish here did not have the peculiar taste unique to Earth radishes, but instead had a faint green grass flavor.
Especially these fresh radishes, which were very juicy and crisp.
And what Su Ran didn’t expect was that Hui, who usually didn’t like eating green vegetables much, actually really liked radish steamed dumplings and fried radish balls without any minced meat!
However, he only liked them made with fresh radishes; the steamed dumplings Su Ran made in winter with stored radishes, Hui didn’t like much.
After drying the quilts, Su Ran took a small basket and turned to go to the small vegetable garden behind.
There were many vegetables and wild fruits in the vegetable garden that needed picking.
The round red chili fruits had already grown to the size of eggs. The small peach tree transplanted back also had branches full of fragrant small peach fruits.
The finger onions were growing thickly, and crop after crop; Su Ran even felt that the frequency of picking finger onions was faster than cutting leeks!
The dried onions she planned to grind into onion powder, already dried, had piled up two full large winnowing baskets.
In addition, there were red meat fruits, vinegar fruits, black date fruits, and other small fruits that Su Ran picked a lot of.
However, what she cared about most in her heart was still those green soap fruit trees.
The two mature green soap fruit trees transplanted back before had survived very well, and now their fruits had filled the branches, just a bit fewer compared to wild fruit trees.
But this year was the first year they were transplanted back, so Su Ran was not in a hurry.
And those small fruit trees she transplanted back had also grown very well, but at that size, it would probably take another two or three years to bear fruit!
Besides these transplanted green soap fruit trees, there were also fruit tree seedlings that Su Ran planted seeds for herself, which then sprouted and grew.
Among these fruit tree seedlings, there were green soap fruit trees, cotton trees, small peach fruit trees, and black date fruit tree seedlings; at this time, these small seedlings had all grown to the height of Su Ran’s thighs.
Su Ran threw a black date fruit into her mouth; it was sweet, with tight flesh, and when chewed in the mouth, it even had a hint of honey fragrance.
This black date fruit was very tasty, but there were too few to find, and the fruit pits were too big, making them a bit troublesome to eat.
When Su Ran returned to in front of the house carrying the already full basket, she unexpectedly saw Xiao Ju leading Feifei, crawling toward her step by step.
That’s right, crawling over!!
Su Ran was so surprised that she didn’t even hear Xiao Ju’s “mi wu mi wu” coquettish cries toward her!
In her eyes, she only saw a round little white ball unexpectedly crawling over from the distant grassland, bit by bit!
This was the river beach!
The crushed stones on the river beach could easily scratch the delicate skin of this little one who was not yet five months old without much force, right?
And Xiao Ju standing behind Feifei following her, after Feifei struggled for a long time but only crawled less than ten meters, had a calm expression on her face.
She even leisurely wagged her slender tail behind her, without any worried expression.
Feifei the little kitten moved forward another less than ten meters by herself, then she looked up and saw Su Ran, who had unknowingly walked up and was standing in front of her.
The little one seemed to be stunned for a moment, and after reacting, she reached out toward Su Ran, her golden eyes looking at Su Ran:
“Meow~”
Su Ran: “…”
So cute!!
This golden hair, golden ears, golden tail, and golden eyes clear as water!
She couldn’t help bending down to touch Feifei’s head.
The little baby’s hair was soft and fine, slippery and soft to the touch.
“Meow~”
Seeing that Su Ran only touched her but had no intention of picking her up, Feifei hurriedly meowed at Su Ran again.
Having crawled so far, she was a bit tired too…
Unlike Xiao Ju’s constant “mi wu mi wu” cries, Feifei this little kitten’s cries were softer and even more irresistible to Su Ran.
In the end, Su Ran got Xiao Ju’s permission and picked up the little one whose knees were covered in dirt from crawling, hugging her into her embrace.
