Chapter 194: Wrapped Himself Up Into A Ball!
Once a person has a thought, they will begin to eagerly expect it.
Su Ran’s imagination and expectation for her and Gray’s baby extended from early winter to the beginning of her third spring in this world.
Or perhaps, she was not just expecting her “and Gray’s” baby.
She was also expecting that in this world, a person related to her by blood would appear, making her sense of belonging to this world a bit stronger.
At this time, spring arrived, and everything revived.
Su Ran had more things to be busy with.
Her attention finally began to be drawn to other things.
Gray, who had always been with Su Ran, naturally keenly sensed the restlessness Su Ran had since winter, but he had never figured out the reason for Su Ran’s restlessness.
Fortunately, Su Ran seemed normal now!
At this time, spring was warm with blooming flowers, and the ice and snow melted.
The river beach soon restored its vibrant appearance.
The purple berry fruit tree planted next to the rain shelter had begun to bear fruit, but the time was still short, and the fruit had not yet matured.
Gray gradually resumed going out for hunting, and Su Ran also successively dealt with the few extra small animals at home.
In the end, only ten female white wild chickens, one rooster, one male and one female pair of large four-eared oxen, and one small four-eared ox born suddenly in winter remained.
The small four-eared ox’s birth startled Su Ran!
Perhaps because the weather was too cold in winter, the food the cow ate was not fresh enough and lacked nutrition, so the calf grew very small inside the cow’s belly.
And Su Ran had no experience, so during that time she did not notice that the cow at home was pregnant.
So that day, she had just gone to feed dry grass to the two oxen and the several white-headed sheep living with the oxen, and as soon as she opened the door, she was greatly startled by the messy scene inside the room!
When she saw the small calf still kneeling on the ground, covered in wetness, she was stunned for two seconds.
Gray, who came carrying two buckets of warm water to feed the small animals, saw the small four-eared ox but looked unsurprised, and softly said to Su Ran, “Ran Ran, four-eared ox’s baby woo~”
“You knew the four-eared ox had a baby long ago?”
Su Ran put the dry grass in her hand into the feeding trough, watching as he placed the water in front of the four-eared ox that had just given birth.
“Knew, a long time ago, belly got big woo~.”
Su Ran: “…”
Why hadn’t she noticed…
Although the small four-eared ox came suddenly, Su Ran was still very happy.
Moreover, it was born in winter, which allowed Su Ran to have milk to drink during this winter.
And it was not just milk; Su Ran also boiled milk tea with the newly dried wild cabbage flower tea and small peach fruit dried this year.
The rich milk fragrance had no trace of gaminess, only a faint sweetness mixed with the special aroma of small peach fruit and the floral scent of wild cabbage flower.
Su Ran felt it was not inferior to the milk tea in milk tea shops on Earth; in fact, because of the special flavor of the small peach fruit, she thought the one she made even surpassed the milk tea shops!
Simply exquisite!
If the wild cabbage flower tea was the first drink Su Ran made in this world.
Then this milk tea with added small peach fruit and wild cabbage flower could absolutely be considered the first processed and mixed beverage born on this continent!
Gray loved this milk tea even more than Su Ran.
If not for fear that there wouldn’t be enough milk for the small four-eared ox, he could almost drink a large barrel of milk tea boiled from milk in a single day!
Starting from this spring, Su Ran decided to formally attempt long-term animal farming.
The reason was that she began wanting to domesticate these animals.
For example, the white wild chickens.
Although Su Ran had clipped the feathers on their wings, these guys were still full of wildness; not only did they always want to escape, but during feeding, they would sometimes exhibit aggressive pecking behavior.
Although it did not cause much harm, over time, with more white wild chickens, it would become extremely annoying.
And these captured white wild chickens, if they could hatch chicks, and after one or two generations of rearing, be domesticated, then at least Su Ran wouldn’t need to watch them so closely.
When picking eggs each time, she also wouldn’t need to put on a long coat in advance to block the wild chickens’ sharp beaks’ attacks.
As for those slightly larger four-legged animals, Su Ran temporarily did not plan to raise more.
Four-eared oxen, white-headed sheep, red-skinned pigs; she planned to raise one pair of each first, and after they bred the next generation, then expand the farming.
After spring arrived, the frozen soil began to thaw; stepping on the ground, one could easily feel the softness of the soil underfoot, distinctly different from the hardness in winter.
After the purple berries ripened, Su Ran began tilling the land with Gray, preparing to plant the first batch of vegetable seeds in the vegetable garden this year.
The green vegetables stored before last winter lasted until a month before the end of that winter for her and Gray.
Because last winter was noticeably a bit colder than the first year, and seemed to last longer.
So to prevent it from happening again this year, Su Ran planned to till all the open space from the other side of the small animal room to the woods nearby on the right during winter, and plant them all during the last sowing in autumn.
However, if planting them all, Su Ran’s stored seeds would not be enough.
Even adding the seeds newly saved in summer might not suffice, so at that time, she would still need to go out to the forest to dig some green vegetables to transplant.
That evening, it rained.
This was the first rain since the start of spring this year.
The rain was neither heavy nor light.
Gray went out hunting in the afternoon; although when he left, Su Ran saw the sky and thought it would rain, so she got out the raincoat for him.
But when Gray left, he still forgot the raincoat placed on the rain shelter floor.
As a result, when he returned, he was completely soaked like a drowned rat!
Early spring rainy days were still a bit cold; after this rain, the temperature that had just risen not long ago began to drop again, just like the previous year’s already extended winter being delayed once more.
It even felt like a cold snap in spring!
As a result, Su Ran’s planting plan had to be postponed by a few days.
However, the main impact of this rain was that Gray, who returned in the rain, was blown by the wind at high altitude for an unknown time, then drenched by the extremely cold rainwater, and suddenly developed a fever at midnight!
Normally when sleeping, because Gray always felt hot, either when sharing a quilt with Su Ran, he would leave most of his body exposed outside.
Or he would take a slightly thinner animal hide blanket to cover himself.
But tonight, sleeping until midnight, Su Ran was suddenly frozen awake by cold air!
After waking up, she found her cotton quilt had been completely pulled away. And Gray, who pulled away her cotton quilt, unusually wrapped himself into a bundle with the thick cotton quilt!
