Chapter 201: Extra Chapter
Su Ran and Hui’s baby was born in winter.
The baby is a male wolf-type beastman, but without Hui’s pair of big wings.
On the day of birth, the birth process went unexpectedly smoothly beyond Su Ran’s expectations.
Perhaps because she had been working for several years, her physical strength had increased, and plus her body had indeed developed a bit more later, blossoming a little.
This birth, for Su Ran, although it was also very painful, did not hurt for as long as she had imagined!
As for the things needed during birth, Su Ran had prepared them two months in advance before her calculated due date arrived.
She specially used the new cotton harvested this year to make two clean quilts. Two quilts, one to use during birth, and one to change into after birth.
The material for these two quilts, she did not use animal hide, but rather cloth woven from cotton and cotton thread twisted from cotton, combined to make them.
Three or four years ago, after Su Ran decided to make cotton thread, she made a spindle out of wood herself.
The one she made was the simplest handheld small spindle, hooking out a wisp of cotton, then spinning it quickly to twist the cotton into cotton thread.
However, the cotton thread she hooked out was a bit thicker.
Then she made a loom according to her own imagination.
But actually, it could not really be called a loom.
Su Ran had never seen a real loom and did not know the correct way to weave.
She just used a wooden frame to fix the cotton threads, then placed the cotton threads tightly parallel one next to the other, and used a shuttle to pass between each cotton thread, interweaving the cotton thread on the shuttle with the cotton threads on the wooden frame.
If there were gaps between the cotton threads, you could see that these threads were woven together in an infinite looping lattice pattern, somewhat like gauze, just woven more densely.
Over two or three years, in her spare time, Su Ran had only produced a total of ten pieces of cotton cloth, each ten meters long and three meters wide.
She also tried dyeing three of them with juice from red fruit and purple berry fruit. Although the colors were very plain, they were better looking than pure white and much more dirt-resistant.
After weaving these cloths, Su Ran had never been willing to take out the cotton cloth to use.
She was just thinking that she wanted to use these cloths when giving birth to the baby.
So after knowing she was pregnant with the baby, Su Ran first cut a whole large piece of cloth, and made the clothes for the baby to wear right after birth, the diapers to use, as well as small quilt and small pillow.
Because the baby was born in winter.
Although it was already the end of winter, it was still somewhat cold at that time, and right after winter ended came summer, so both thin and thick clothes needed to be made several pieces.
After making the clothes for the baby to wear, Su Ran naturally also made a few cotton cloth clothes for herself and Hui.
However, for her and Hui, there were only the undergarments worn close to the body, equivalent to long johns.
First, making all clothes from cotton cloth would waste a bit of cloth, and Su Ran could not bear it.
Second, even if cotton clothes were made, they were not as warm as animal hide cotton clothes.
But the undergarments made from cotton cloth were indeed much more comfortable and softer than animal hide undergarments, and would not be pricked by the occasional hard hairs on the animal hide, which always itched.
Su Ran’s birth was in the evening.
Probably women’s sixth sense at work, although Su Ran was not sure how long beastmen pregnancies lasted, she had a faint feeling that it should be in those few days.
At that time, Hui had long stopped letting her touch any matters at home. He only allowed her to slowly stroll in the yard when bored, and not even go to the river beach.
And that day, they had just finished making dinner, and Hui had just brought dinner to the table.
Su Ran got up and came out of the room, preparing to go to the toilet.
But when walking to the path on the right side of the house leading behind the house, she suddenly noticed something wrong!
It was not that she wanted to go to the toilet, she was going into labor!
So there was a flurry of chaos.
Giving birth in this world, the hardest part was that besides Hui, there were no other beastmen around Su Ran to help, so Su Ran could only rely on herself and Hui!
When discovering she was going into labor, probably from discovering the pregnancy until now, she had already rehearsed countless times in her mind the situations she would face during birth, so although Su Ran was nervous, she was not too panicked.
She called Hui outside the house, and Hui appeared before her in the blink of an eye.
After Hui carried her into the room, she first had him lay a thick animal hide blanket on top of the original felt mat on the heated brick bed. Then she took out the cotton mattress that had been newly made and sunned in the sunlight every noon these past few days, padded it on top, and only then lay down.
On the quilt that had been sunned by sunlight at noon, it still carried the full scent of sunlight, which smelled comforting for an instant.
But soon, it was covered by pain!
The contractions in Su Ran’s belly came in waves.
When it hurt, it really hurt! But even so, Su Ran still ate a big bowl of stewed beef and two large pieces of spicy fish chunks in the intervals between contractions.
And compared to Su Ran who was personally experiencing what it meant to be in pain and happy at the same time, Hui, facing this situation for the first time, panicked.
Originally he was quite calm.
He followed Su Ran’s instructions, boiled hot water in the special small stone pot on the stove, took out the small quilt and small pad made for the baby by Su Ran, as well as the towel, scallop scissors and other things to be used later, placed them on a clean piece of cotton cloth for standby.
But after he prepared these things, he saw Su Ran bite into a piece of fish meat, and her facial expression suddenly stiffened! Then it became pained, and even when he touched Su Ran, Su Ran was in too much pain to dare move, let alone let him touch!
He immediately panicked, and his eyes turned red!
So after the baby was born, Hui, seemingly calm following Su Ran’s guidance,
used the scallop scissors that had been boiled in advance in the small stone pot on the stove to cut the baby’s umbilical cord, then wrapped the baby up with the small quilt that Su Ran pointed to—
It is worth mentioning that the way Hui moved the baby onto the small quilt was by directly holding it upside down by the feet and placing it on.
It made Su Ran so angry she wanted to kick him, but unfortunately her body still hurt too much and she dared not move!
After handling the baby, Hui soaked a cotton cloth towel in hot water and wiped Su Ran’s body once.
The actions of wiping Su Ran’s body were very gentle, as if Su Ran were something fragile, with careful movements.
Then he laid a new cotton mattress on the other side of the heated brick bed, moved Su Ran onto it, turned back to throw the cotton mattress and animal hide blanket that had been under Su Ran and were now dirty onto the ground, then moved Su Ran back to the head position of the heated brick bed.
Then he sat in front of Su Ran, staring fixedly at her.
Su Ran had just gone through a birth and was already very tired, about to fall asleep.
But feeling Hui’s intense gaze, she could not help opening her eyes to look at him.
By now it was completely dark outside, the oil lamp was lit in the room, and under the flickering firelight, Hui’s three-dimensional outlined features became much softer.
In his deep green eyes, even under the light, they were still completely red, and seeing Su Ran look over, he even raised his arm to wipe the tears from his eyes.
Su Ran was stunned, guessing Hui’s feelings, amused but more touched.
She stretched out the hand closest to Hui from under the quilt, tugging at his animal hide pants.
Feeling Su Ran’s action, Hui’s hand movement paused, and he immediately lowered his head and came close:
“Ran Ran, does it hurt?”
His voice was a bit hoarse, the remaining tears in his eyes glistening under the light.
Su Ran looked at his moist eye corners and smiled:
“I want a kiss.”
Hui was stunned, not expecting Su Ran to say that.
But without a word, he lowered his head and pressed heavily onto Su Ran’s still somewhat pale lips.
In the rapid breathing, Su Ran felt dazed.
Actually, at that moment, she was also a bit scared.
During one wave of pain, she really thought she was going to leave this world.
After a while, Hui reluctantly followed Su Ran’s request and moved their now quietly sleeping baby into Su Ran’s embrace.
Then he also lay down beside them, stretching his long arm to embrace both Su Ran and the baby.
Outside the cold wind whistled, inside the house, the family slept soundly and peacefully.
……
One year later, late spring, all things growing.
Su Ran and Hui’s baby could already walk on his own.
The little guy’s name was Yu, meaning his life would be as radiant as the sun rising.
After growing a bit, Yu’s appearance began to show more distinct features.
The little guy inherited the wolf-type beastman traits from Hui.
Big triangular ears, fluffy big tail, and those light green eyes with big black pupils.
However, his fur was different from Hui’s light brown fur, but like Su Ran’s, pure black.
Su Ran even thought that Yu might be the first wolf-type beastman in this settlement with completely pure black fur.
And because of the pure black fur, the little guy looked even more mini and cute.
Besides the fur and beastman features, the facial features on Yu’s face also became more pronounced as he grew.
Even at just twenty-four months old now, you could already see that small upturned nose and pair of small thin lips, simply Hui’s replica, a proper little handsome guy!
Su Ran looked at her little guy at home every day, often thinking that if on Earth, her little Yu Yu doing child modeling would absolutely be a total fashion darling!
Especially the white skin the little guy inherited from Su Ran.
Contrasting with that ink-black hair, it made the little guy even more red-lipped, black-haired, skin like snow.
Su Ran felt that even though the little guy’s skin color was inherited from her, her own skin did not seem as white as the little guy’s!
Now Yu had been walking for half a year already, exactly the age of being naughty and active, but also prone to getting into danger playing by himself.
Often Su Ran was not paying attention for a moment, and he would run far away.
Once, Su Ran watched with her own eyes as Hui returning from outside landed directly by the riverbank, grabbed Yu who was about to pounce into the river water by one foot, and carried him back upside down.
It left Su Ran momentarily unsure whether to be angry at the baby or at Hui!
This day, after dinner, Su Ran laid a large animal hide blanket on the slope in front of the house.
She also put a plate of dried blue worm and dried wild fruit made last year that were not finished, brewed a pot of wild cabbage flower tea, sat on the animal hide blanket, watching Yu frolicking in the small “playground” she and Hui had made for him just a few days ago.
Called a small playground, it was actually just a few small swings, two slides of different shapes, a small rope bridge, and a few huge thick tree stumps hollowed out.
Two normal-sized swings, those were made by Su Ran for herself and Hui.
The remaining three swings, as well as the slides and rope bridge, to prevent the little baby from falling and getting hurt, Su Ran made them very low.
Actually, at first glance, it looked a bit shabby.
But for little Yu Yu who had never seen these, it was simply too awesome!
The little guy could play by himself on these things for half a day.
Even Hui could sit on the swing and swing for half an hour by himself!
Now approaching summer, daytime was getting longer, by this time they had finished dinner a while ago, but outside it was still bright.
After Hui washed the dishes, he came out of the house and walked straight toward Su Ran.
In his hand he held an animal hide blanket.
When he got close, Yu who had just climbed onto the slide saw him, his eyes lit up, calling “Daddy, Daddy” repeatedly,
slid down the slide, then held onto the slide to stand up, toddled over to Hui with his little short legs and arms outstretched.
Hui stopped by the animal hide blanket where Su Ran was sitting, watched the little guy run over and pounce on his legs.
Then under Yu’s expectant gaze, he bent down to grip his little thin legs, lifted him up, and swung the little guy upside down in mid-air back and forth twice.
With his swinging, the air filled with the little guy’s happy hee-hee-ha-ha laughter…
And Su Ran’s silence…
Su Ran: ……
What kind of hobby do these father and son have!!
After swinging Yu twice, Hui put him aside and ignored him.
And Yu also knew that if he disturbed Daddy and Mommy’s time together after playtime today, Daddy would beat him!
So he no longer clung to Hui, but toddled to in front of Su Ran, held her face with his little chubby hands, tiptoed shakily, quickly pecked her face with a “muah”, then happily ran back to play by himself.
“Hmph!”
A light hum came by Su Ran’s ear!
She did not even need to turn her head to know that this wolf beside her was displeased with their little cub again!
After expressing his dissatisfaction, Hui sat right next to Su Ran, then handed her the animal hide blanket in his hand.
Recently in the evenings, the temperature was not that cold anymore, Su Ran started liking to take Yu outside to play a while after dinner before going back.
But Su Ran mostly sat still outside, and after sitting a long time, it would still get a bit cold, so she needed a blanket to cover and block the wind.
Su Ran took the blanket from Hui’s hand, covered her legs with it, then leaned her head on Hui’s shoulder.
After a while, the posture of leaning her head on Hui’s shoulder turned into sitting in Hui’s embrace, leaning back against his half-reclined position.
Yu at this time had abandoned the slide he was happily playing on earlier, and ran to try walking the rope bridge.
But his strength was not enough, the ropes shook badly, after trying for a long time, not only did he not walk up, even his second foot did not step on.
Su Ran leaned in Hui’s embrace, watching the little guy wanting to go up but not daring, finally could not help bursting out laughing “pfft”!
Then, the little guy’s black ears twitched, his little feet slowly moved down from the rope, and he turned to look at Su Ran.
Upon seeing the smile on Su Ran’s face, his eyes lit up, a brilliant smile bloomed on his fair little face, and he immediately ran toward Su Ran:
“Mommy, Dad, hug~”
The end~ A bit reluctant… but this time it’s really finished~
Su Ran and Hui will live happily in that world forever~
Hereby thanking everyone for the continuous encouragement, support, and love!
For the new book, it’s already in preparation, probably opening in about a week, little cuties who like apocalyptic themes welcome to follow~
We’ll meet again, until next time~
