Chapter 46: Black Maran Flower
The plants on the opposite bank of the river grow completely different from those on the bird’s nest tree side.
The shrubs here are all very short, almost only reaching the ankles. Moreover, the trees growing here are mostly a kind of tree about ten meters tall, with black smooth tree trunks, leaves about three fingers wide, and very long green leaves.
After landing, the werewolf put Su Ran on the ground, then pulled her straight ahead.
Along the way, it walked while looking around, as if searching for something.
Su Ran was a bit curious, not knowing what thing the werewolf wanted to find to do the hollowing out stones work.
However, after walking a bit further, Su Ran’s attention quickly shifted from the werewolf to the woods in front.
The trees in that woods were not tall, about four or five meters high, and in this current spring season, they were already covered with a large area of wild fruit the size of pears.
However, when Su Ran pointed at the wild fruit on the tree for the werewolf to see, the werewolf immediately wrinkled its face, making a “pthoo ptoo ptoo” expression.
Su Ran was stunned; it seemed this fruit was hard to eat.
But it should be non-toxic, after all, from the werewolf’s reaction, it had eaten it before.
She looked at the wild fruit on the tree and reached out to pick one down.
Then she saw the expression on the werewolf’s face wrinkle even more, but it had no intention of stopping her.
Su Ran’s brows moved slightly; she lowered her head, wiped the fruit with her clothes, and tentatively took a bite.
Really just one bite!
After Su Ran chewed twice, her face immediately scrunched up!
Sour and astringent, and dry!
No wonder the werewolf doesn’t eat it.
Su Ran looked down at the wild fruit in her hand: green fruit skin, white fruit flesh, the fruit flesh had very little moisture, so it felt very dry.
She threw away the bitten wild fruit in her hand, deciding to temporarily give up adding this kind of wild fruit to her recipe.
But she decided to come back and check during summer and autumn.
Because she felt it wasn’t necessarily that this fruit couldn’t be eaten; the sour and astringent taste now felt more like it wasn’t ripe yet.
Then she no longer looked at this wild fruit forest, but was pulled by the werewolf and stopped about thirty meters inside the wild fruit forest.
A large patch of wild grass grew on the ground there; Su Ran felt that wild grass looked a bit familiar.
She leaned in to look and found this wild grass grew almost exactly like the Malan grass in the countryside fields on Earth, the only difference being that this Malan grass had black flowers.
Black flowers?
This color looked unsafe at first glance.
While Su Ran was still looking down, the werewolf beside her had already bent down and started directly pulling up the black-flowered Malan grass under its feet.
In just a few minutes, the basket was filled full of Malan grass.
Then the werewolf stood up, pointing proudly at the basket full of Malan grass: “Grass aw… stone, awesome!”
Su Ran’s brows raised; she slowly straightened her body. What did that mean?
She looked at the werewolf and slowly pointed at the Malan grass in the basket: “Use this grass to hollow out stones?”
“Mm!”
Catching the words for grass and stone, the werewolf nodded heavily.
Use grass to hollow out stones?
Su Ran stood in place, taking a good while to believe she hadn’t misheard.
How can grass hollow out stones? This grass couldn’t even withstand a person’s nails.
And while she was full of question marks looking down at this basket of Malan grass under her feet, the werewolf directly squatted down and pulled a leaf from a black-flowered Malan grass.
Then it found two stones nearby, placed one underneath, rolled the thin long Malan grass leaf into a roll on top, and smashed it into mud with the other stone.
After that stone smashed down, the werewolf’s hand never touched that Malan grass leaf again.
Su Ran watched its action, and her heart stirred, vaguely guessing the use of this grass.
Sure enough, after one leaf was completely turned into mud, the werewolf rubbed the two stones together a few times, spreading the grass mud on the stone.
Then after waiting about ten seconds, it took that light yellow fruit shell and scraped hard on the spot where the stone was coated with grass mud.
Instantly, the top of that stone was like soft cement, easily scraped off by the fruit shell, and a pit immediately appeared on the stone.
Su Ran: “…”
She had guessed the general use of this grass, but didn’t expect it to be so immediate!
Was this corrosion or softening…
But this could indeed be considered a surprise.
No need to say days; as long as there was enough of this grass, she could easily hollow out several big stones today.
Su Ran soon returned to the river beach on the opposite side with the werewolf.
Then Su Ran couldn’t wait to carry that basket of black-flowered Malan grass and run toward those two big stones.
She directly placed two Malan grass on that rectangular stone, found a smaller stone, and smashed it on top.
Once the time for the grass mud to corrode was about right, she used a slender stone to scrape off all the parts of the stone that had been corroded into a puddle of hard mud.
A large stone half a meter long, Su Ran basically dug it out in about an hour and a half.
After hollowing out the inside of the stone, she dug down ten centimeters on the stone walls around the stone pot. Otherwise, the stone pot would be too deep, and if she wanted to cook food, like stir-frying, it would be a bit troublesome.
After finally smoothing and polishing the inner walls of the stone pot, Su Ran tried lifting this freshly made pot herself.
The stone, having lost most of its weight, she still couldn’t pick up and carry, but she could now lift it and roll it around on the ground.
In a very good mood, she continued to dig out the other cone-shaped stone as well.
At the same time, she found a withered tree that took two people to hug, sawed off a section, and had the werewolf help dig out a large basin.
Then she used the wooden basin to fill both stone pots with water, pulled a large handful of green grass from the grassland, bundled it into a ball, held the upper half of the grass ball in her hand, and carefully washed both stone pots thoroughly.
The first handful of green grass, as soon as it touched the water in the stone pot, turned black almost immediately after just two scrubs inside.
Scared, Su Ran quickly threw away the grass ball in her hand.
The corrosiveness of this black-flowered Malan grass is really very strong.
But Su Ran was still a bit unwilling to give up.
So she refilled the stone pot with water and scrubbed it repeatedly several times.
Afterward, it was clear that the time for the later green grass to change color became longer and longer, until finally, after several minutes with no reaction, Su Ran finally breathed a sigh of relief.
So she used the wooden basin to scoop water one last time to fill both stone pots, then grabbed a handful of grass and threw it in, preparing to check the state of this grass ball tomorrow morning.
If this handful of grass shows no change tomorrow, then it should be fine.
Sorry everyone, I went to the hospital for a check-up today, didn’t get home until dark, ran out of time, single update today|ω｀)
