Chapter 47: Red-skinned Pig Animal Hide
Around three in the afternoon, Su Ran had two stone pots and one large wooden basin.
Afterward, she had the werewolf go to the downstream river beach where they had made fire a few days ago and retrieve the white-headed sheep and four-eared ox hides that had been soaked in the river there yesterday.
Then Su Ran washed those two hides, along with today’s red-skinned pig hide, once more.
All three hides had been skinned by the werewolf, and they were clearly very clean.
There wasn’t a single tear on any of the whole hides, and not even excess grease was left on them.
Su Ran felt that with the werewolf’s skill, these two hides actually didn’t need to be soaked and rinsed to remove grease anymore.
She first scooped out the red-skinned pig hide that the werewolf had put in the water that morning.
She was a bit curious why the werewolf had specifically emphasized the red-skinned pig hide.
Based on the things the werewolf had gradually brought back to her these past few days, or taken her to find, it was clear that it had a certain understanding of the properties of these collected things.
It could also clearly analyze what Su Ran wanted, so most of the things it brought back accurately met Su Ran’s needs.
So this red-skinned pig hide must have something special about it.
The entire hide of the red-skinned pig was very large, even two sizes bigger than the hide of that small four-eared ox.
Su Ran took out the floppy pile of hide and placed it on a stone by the riverside, then grabbed a handful of hide in her palm and forcefully squeezed out some of the water soaked into the fur.
Then she flipped out one corner of the hide, unfolded the corner, and observed it carefully.
She then discovered in surprise that this red-skinned pig hide was extremely thin!
Because it was thin, it also felt very soft in her hand.
If she had to compare it to something similar, this thickness was very much like the thickness of the artificial leather used for spring and autumn thin leather shirts.
It felt almost as thick as a layer the thickness of her nails.
Moreover, the red short fur on the red-skinned pig hide felt very smooth to the touch.
It wasn’t the kind of fine downy fur clumped together, but distinct short hairs that, even when not yet dry, showed a smooth sheen.
In summary, this fur was very suitable for making clothes to wear on the body.
In winter, after cleaning the hide, it could be directly cut and made into clothes, with the side with the short fur made the inner side against the body, to be worn as inner thermal clothing.
And if it was hot in summer, as long as the short fur on the hide was scraped off, it could be made into short-sleeved shirts and shorts to wear.
Su Ran couldn’t help flipping the red-skinned pig hide in front of her back and forth several times, feeling more and more that the properties of this hide perfectly matched her requirements.
Actually, the dwarf deer, white-headed sheep, and four-eared ox hides from before were also pretty good.
The dwarf deer hide had good elasticity and could also be used to make clothes.
The four-eared ox hide felt very thick, with dense fur, very suitable for making into blankets or quilts, and that thickness was also very suitable for making into shoes.
The white-headed sheep hide had a more moderate thickness, but Su Ran cared more about the sheep wool on the white-headed sheep.
That long wool hanging from the sheep’s back to the ground was practically born to be spun into woolen thread.
But for now, the white-headed sheep could be put aside; she needed to first collect some red-skinned pig and four-eared ox hides and fur to make changeable clothes and bedding quilts.
It wasn’t mealtime yet, and half of the morning’s red-skinned pig was still left, so the werewolf didn’t need to go hunting anymore.
So it squatted by the riverside, imitating Su Ran’s actions, and helped together to clean and rub these hides using green soap fruit pits.
Su Ran soaked the now fully dried dwarf deer hide back in the water.
After it softened, she took the deer hide out of the water, found a stick a bit thicker than her arm, and while forcefully pounding it on the hide, kept splashing water onto the hide.
After pounding this not-very-large hide for more than half an hour, she picked it up, shook it, and set it aside to take back to the bird’s nest later to dry.
Su Ran was actually considering smearing black-flowered Malan grass leaves on the hide to see if it could soften the hide.
But thinking of the strength of that juice which could even corrode stones, she began to hesitate.
When the werewolf used black-flowered Malan grass, it was always very cautious to avoid getting the grass leaves’ juice on its hands, showing how strong the toxicity of this Malan grass was.
She still shouldn’t hold any fluke mentality.
After pounding all the hides, Su Ran relit a campfire.
Afterward, she wanted to quickly scald these hides in boiling hot water.
But the two stone pots made today still couldn’t be used.
She looked at the several hides that had been pounded and washed, and with no other choice, could only hang them to dry overnight and wait until tomorrow morning.
In the evening, Su Ran and the werewolf ate up the remaining half of the red-skinned pig completely.
After a whole day of labor, Su Ran felt her appetite had become very good.
Although she had only been on this continent for a little over a week, Su Ran could still feel that the daytime here was much longer than when she had first arrived.
And the beastmen’s rest time seemed to closely follow sunset.
After the last ray of afterglow sank below the horizon, even the little beastmen who had been playing the second before all ran back to their dwellings on their own initiative.
Demonstrating the phrase “sleep when it’s dark” very vividly.
At this time, Su Ran also extinguished the campfire.
She put the several hides into the basket, then used willow branches to separately tie up the two small stacks of wooden sticks she had sorted out during the werewolf’s eating time while eating, and stacked them on top of the hides.
When returning to the bird’s nest with the werewolf, aside from the two stone pots and the wooden basin made today, she held the entire basket in her embrace, then the werewolf held her, and they flew back into the bird’s nest together.
The sky hadn’t fully darkened yet, but the temperature had already begun to drop little by little.
After returning to the bird’s nest, Su Ran first hung up the several hides again, then carefully went outside to the tree trunk where the climbing rope was tied and untied the climbing rope.
She planned to use this rope and the tree sticks she had brought up to make a rope ladder.
Otherwise, with just the rope, she could only slide down the bird’s nest tree but couldn’t climb back up.
Moreover, the way up and down with a rope ladder was much safer than relying on that single rope.
She brought the rope back into the bird’s nest and directly sat at the bird’s nest entrance, dragging over the wooden sticks she had brought back.
Then, borrowing the faint light still outside, she began tying the wooden sticks one by one onto the rope.
