Chapter 37: Processing Animal Hide
She had to admit that Su Ran really liked this atmosphere of doing things, chatting, and playing carefree with familiar friends under the clear sky and gentle breeze, then watching the little children run around wildly without restraint.
Although the beastmen in front of her now were not yet familiar with her. But the pure enthusiasm and friendliness among the beastmen made it easy to overlook the slight unfamiliarity between each other.
At this moment, Su Ran had just finished cleaning the dwarf deer hide in her hands, and Xiao Ju and the little white fox were squatting inseparably by her side, watching her shave off the fat from the dwarf deer hide.
Besides those two, today there was also a squirrel female beastman with brown little ears and one…
Su Ran thought it should be a piggy girl.
Because this little female, although having a height of one meter seventy-five, was white and chubby. She had a baby face completely mismatched with her height, and her face still carried baby fat.
A pair of pink big ears on top of her head were erect straight up because she was focusing on the novel thing.
Su Ran quietly paid attention, and behind the girl grew a thin little tail curled into a circle. If not looked at carefully, it was easy to overlook.
At this time, including the white fox female, the three little females had already gotten their respective names from Su Ran with Xiao Ju’s help.
White fox female Yao Yao—because she perfectly inherited the beauty and allure that a fox should have, Su Ran felt that names like little beauty or little white really didn’t match this little beauty’s face.
Anyway, how to say the language here was all up to her to explain, at least she felt that the name Yao Yao had no derogatory meaning.
And the little squirrel female’s name was Xiao San, because the fluffy and huge big tail behind her really looked like an umbrella when erected behind her, and even the tip of the tail, when erect, could cover over her top of head and shade on her top of head.
As for that piggy female’s name, it was Bai Bai, because this piggy girl’s skin was really very white, even somewhat white to the point of glowing.
And besides getting their own names, the few little females also learned from Su Ran words like “animal hide,” “white-headed sheep,” “red-skinned pig,” and “water, fire, earth, tree, stone,” etc.
During the time Su Ran was concentrating on processing the animal hide, the beastmen’s fully self-service roast meat first experience had all come online.
For a moment, Su Ran even felt that the temperature near this river beach had risen a few degrees because of the increase in campfires.
After the last bit of fat on the dwarf deer hide was scraped off, Su Ran washed the animal hide in the water again, then picked it up and slammed it on the stone.
The soaked deer hide splattered out a big puddle of water when slammed.
Next, Su Ran prepared to scrub this deer hide one more time using the green fruit pit.
Although the deer hide had been soaked in the stream water and had no odd smell, psychologically, she still felt it should be formally scrubbed once to count as clean.
When pickling the remaining roast beef just now, she had already collected all the green fruit pits used for pickling the beef.
At this moment, she picked up the stainless steel mug placed on the stone by the campfire to heat water, and the mug was filled with half water.
Su Ran went to the riverside again to scoop half a mug of river water into it, lowering the water temperature a bit.
Then she took out two green fruit pits, smashed them into pieces with a stone, threw the mashed fruit pits into the mug, and stirred hard with a branch.
After doing these, she laid the animal hide as flat as possible on the stone, and slowly poured the fruit pit water on the smooth side of the animal hide.
But she didn’t pour it all at once, because there was still the other half with hair.
After pouring the fruit pit water, Su Ran filled the mug with water again and placed it by the campfire to continue heating.
Then she began grabbing the animal hide and rubbing it vigorously.
Su Ran’s knowledge of rubbing animal hides was almost zero.
She only knew that in modern society, when processing animal hides, it seemed necessary to add something into them.
But what exactly it was, she didn’t know, and probably even if she knew, she couldn’t find it here.
She could only slowly try based on her own guesses.
The dwarf deer hide wasn’t thick, just the hair was thick, and rubbing it was still somewhat laborious.
Especially Su Ran’s little hands, after rubbing a few times, began to feel sore.
This was much more tiring than just scraping fat off the animal hide.
She shook her sore wrist, exhaled heavily, and just wanted to lift her hand to continue rubbing when suddenly the animal hide in front of her was taken away by a pair of big hands.
The sharp nails on the hands let Su Ran immediately recognize it was the werewolf.
She looked up, and sure enough saw the werewolf on the side, holding that animal hide in his hand and studying it for a few seconds, then looking at her and saying: “Ran Ran animal hide… gray?”
As he spoke, he imitated Su Ran’s action and rubbed the animal hide on the stone.
Was this wanting to help her rub the animal hide?
Su Ran hesitated for a moment, of course she was happy if the werewolf was willing to help, but she was a bit worried that the werewolf’s sharp nails would puncture the animal hide.
But looking at the werewolf’s eager eyes, she finally agreed.
Anyway, this animal hide was probably going to be a failed product in all likelihood, there wasn’t much difference between her doing it and the werewolf doing it, and it just saved her time to do other things.
At this moment, only she and the werewolf were still at the riverside, the four little females had long run back to their own family’s campfire to help.
With her hands free, Su Ran thought to make some other needed things during this time.
She thought for a moment and finally decided to first make some bowls and basins or the like that could hold rice or water.
And now, the most suitable materials she could find for making basins were none other than the branches and trunks of the trees nearby and the stones by the river.
Trees were relatively easy to hollow out, easier to complete in the making process, but if wanting to use as a pot, the limitations were a bit big.
For stones, the stones surrounding the campfire were picked from the riverside.
Those were the stones Su Ran had placed under the campfire at the very beginning two days ago to surround it; she took them out and examined them carefully, finding that although these stones had all undergone high-temperature burning, none had cracked or shattered.
Using riverside stones to hollow out a pot should still be quite suitable.
It’s just that the stone’s texture and the size of a pot destined her to spend a lot of time and effort, so she decided to have the werewolf help try when the time came.
As for now, she would first make some wooden pots, bowls, ladles, and basins!
She took down the multi-tool axe from her back; the multi-tool axe was called “multi-tool” because its functions included hammer, axe, file, saw blade, Phillips screwdriver, and other tools all in one, equivalent to carrying a small toolbox on her back.
At this moment, Su Ran took down the multi-tool axe, then pulled out the saw blade folded on the axe handle, looked at the tree trunk previously thrown by the river because it was too thick to burn, selected one, and placed the saw blade on the tree trunk.
