Chapter 198: With Rain This Heavy, Could There Be Flooding?
It was Su Ran’s fourth autumn on this continent when Yao Yao also became pregnant with a baby. Before winter arrived, she gave birth to a pair of dragon-phoenix twins.
The two dragon-phoenix twin babies looked exactly the same, but their beast forms were different.
Among the two babies, the female one inherited Yao Yao’s beast form and was a white fox female baby.
The male one, on the other hand, was a male baby with a peacock beast form.
Besides Yao Yao and Qing Yu, to Su Ran’s surprise, Xiao San and A Huo had gotten together at some point without her knowing.
The two young beastmen quickly moved in together.
Meanwhile, huge changes were gradually taking place in the beastmen settlement.
The beastmen’s way of living gradually turned into stone houses like Su Ran’s.
Many beastmen families began raising animals year-round, and beastmen families with herbivorous beast forms also started reclaiming land near their residences to learn planting.
However, they still didn’t quite understand seeding methods, so most were still using transplanting.
In the bird’s nest forest, the settlement’s former residence gradually became empty as one bird’s nest after another was moved away.
In contrast, the slope near the river beach was becoming increasingly lively day by day.
Su Ran and Hui’s days remained as peaceful as ever.
But amid the peace, there was an indescribable sense of harmony between them that other beastmen couples didn’t have.
If put in simple terms, this sense of harmony could be described with one phrase—supporting each other through thick and thin.
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In the first spring after Yao Yao’s baby was born, Su Ran and Hui, as usual, turned over the vegetable garden behind the house first, then scattered seeds.
The various fruit trees and cotton trees that Su Ran had transplanted in the first year were now beginning to bear fruit.
The fruit tree seeds she had sown and planted had also grown. Now, from behind the vegetable garden and behind the small animal room, they extended continuously to the open space on the right.
All the way until nearly reaching the forest next to Xiao Ju’s house, they had grown into a lush expanse.
The small animal room in front of the fruit tree grove, due to the increasing number of small animals being raised, had a new three-room building constructed in front of the original three rooms.
This new building was a bit larger than the original small animal room. Each of the three rooms was twice the size of the original small animal rooms.
After the house was built, Su Ran moved all the small animals from home to the new house.
Of the original three small animal rooms, two were used by her to store feed for the small animals.
The other one was used to store tools needed for tending the vegetable garden, making it convenient to grab them while working in the vegetable patch.
The fruiting period of purple berry fruit is very short, from maturity to end of season in less than three months.
Next to the rain shelter in front of the house, it was no longer just the initial purple berry fruit trees that were planted.
Now extending to the open space on the right, Su Ran had planted many various wild fruits and wildflowers.
Most of these wild fruits were perennial shrubs that could flower and fruit year after year.
What Su Ran had to do was prune the branches and leaves of these shrubs every year; otherwise, they would grow taller than a person and block the sunlight on the side of the house.
The wildflowers now planted among the shrubs were also carefully selected by Su Ran.
These wildflowers bloomed in rotation over three seasons, and the flowers could be dried into flower tea or used in dishes.
They could be admired and eaten, so it wasn’t wasteful.
After spring passed, the purple berry fruit trees next to the rain shelter bloomed with clusters of large patches of white flowers.
The pure white flowers swayed on their branches, forming a stunning sea of flowers on the right side of the house.
The purple berry flowers had a very clean and clear fragrance. Now at the peak of flowering, the crisp floral scent almost filled the entire river beach in front of the house.
Even Su Ran and Hui fell asleep every night to the thick floral scent.
After the purple berry flowers bloomed, summer quickly followed.
The weather grew hotter day by day, and Su Ran and Hui entered days where they rarely went out except morning and evening.
For some reason, this late summer felt exceptionally hard to endure for Su Ran.
Perhaps this year’s summer temperature was indeed a bit higher than the previous two years. Not to mention Hui, who now refused to go out if there was direct sunlight, even Su Ran could hardly bear the outdoor heat. Except for using the toilet, she absolutely wouldn’t go out until evening!
Even just the time to go out to the toilet left her feeling breathless from the heat when she returned.
Looking out from the room’s window, the air over the nearby river surface was distorted and deformed by the sunlight, as if water vapor could be seen evaporating!
After seeing that scene one time, Su Ran couldn’t help but start feeling panicked.
She always thought of the big fire that year!
It hadn’t been this hot that year, and with weather like this, forest fires would be even more likely.
Fortunately, this situation was changed by a heavy rain near the end of summer.
That rain poured for three days and four nights, as if to pour back all the water vapor dried up by the entire summer.
As the rainwater fell, the temperature dropped sharply. Su Ran was so cold she directly changed into a sweater.
Her mood also shifted from the initial surprise at seeing the rain to worry by the third day.
She couldn’t help going to the window side to look at the river water below the slope outside. The turbulent water flow had clearly risen much higher than before, making her worry if this unusual heavy rain would cause a flood.
Su Ran’s unusual behavior quickly caught Hui’s attention.
When she ran to the window side again to check the situation outside, Hui put on slippers, walked behind her, reached out, and pulled both windows back to close them.
The indoor light immediately dimmed.
“Hui?”
Su Ran turned her head to look at him in doubt, momentarily not reacting to his sudden action.
Hui also looked at her with a puzzled expression:
“Ran Ran, what’s wrong? You’re acting strange, woo~”
Su Ran was stunned, about to answer, but suddenly fell silent.
She had indeed been acting strange recently!
Or rather, not just recently—it had been over half a month, very strange.
Her mentality had been very unstable, with fluctuating emotions, inexplicably irritable and angry several times, scaring their silly werewolf into tucking his tail!
She had always thought it was because the weather was too hot then, making her body uncomfortable all over, leading to her irritable emotions.
Including her loss of appetite during that time, which she thought was also due to the hot weather.
But now that the weather had cooled down, her heart was still restless and irritable.
“It’s nothing.”
Su Ran shook her head at Hui, but still felt it was better to voice her worries.
Having someone share the emotional burden always lightened one’s mood a bit.
“Hui, with such heavy rain, could there be a flood?”
“Woo?”
Hui’s language system now fully kept up with Su Ran’s thinking.
Hearing Su Ran’s words, he paused, then immediately shook his head: “No, Ran Ran. This rain won’t cause a flood, woo~. The year before last, there was also such heavy rain, and it wasn’t even as much as the spring snowmelt water, woo~.”
Reminded by Hui, Su Ran suddenly remembered!
Right, the summer the year before last, that rain had lasted even longer than this one, and in the end, nothing happened.
Realizing this, she immediately felt relieved.
The next second, she couldn’t help rubbing her head, thinking her mentality recently was really too strange.
Could it be because she was getting older, with hormonal changes in her body?
