Chapter 52: Salt Making Teaching
The place where Gray landed with Su Ran was the spot where they last roasted meat by the seaside.
The wooden grill set up during the last roast meat time and the stones circled to surround the campfire were still there.
While the werewolf went to find firewood for making fire, Su Ran first built a slightly higher stone platform by the seaside using stones, to place the stone pot on it, making it convenient to make fire below.
Then she picked up the stones used to surround the campfire during the last making fire time and observed them carefully.
Then she discovered that two stones inside had cracks from being burned.
While the other stones had no cracks, white streaks appeared on them.
Su Ran scraped her nails on the white ripples, but nothing came off.
It seemed this was a substance inside the stones that had been burned out by the high temperature of the fire.
So these stones were definitely not suitable for making stone pots.
She threw away these few stones under the roast meat rack, got up, and walked toward the reefs by the seaside.
The gravel on the rocky beach near the seawater were mostly black, completely different from the grayish-white stones Su Ran had just thrown away.
Today she wanted to test the heat resistance of these reefs. If the reefs were heat-resistant, she would make a few more stone pots here to keep as spares.
The werewolf dragged back another withered tree, and Su Ran quickly lit the campfire.
She called the werewolf to help lift the stone pot onto the newly built stone platform, then took out the wooden basin from the basket and began adding water to the stone pot.
She had Gray hold the hat of the stormsuit with both hands, pouring water from the wooden basin little by little into the hat, watching the water seep in a bit, then pouring in a little more.
Today for the first time burning salt, she didn’t use too much seawater.
She had to make the salt needed for this roast meat meal first, then make extra.
And just as she and Gray were squatting together slowly adding water to the stone pot, Gray opposite her suddenly made two “Ao wu ao wu” sounds from its mouth, and its tail behind thumped the ground twice.
Su Ran felt this action of its looked a bit familiar.
She thought for a while before remembering that the first time they ate roast meat and were discovered by the beastmen, the werewolf had made this reaction because it felt the food in its hand was being coveted.
But this time Gray only moved like that twice, then put down its tail, with no further reaction.
Soon after, a large group of beastmen carrying prey emerged from the woods in twos and threes.
Su Ran was not at all surprised that these beastmen had also run over to this side.
After all, when Gray was telling her they were going to the seaside, other beastmen nearby were listening too.
These beastmen might seem simple and cute usually, but when it came to things they paid attention to, they were very shrewd.
But Su Ran didn’t mind the beastmen coming over; she even welcomed it a bit.
After all, when the beastmen wanted to take tinder and salt from her, they would bring something as exchange, not taking it for free.
Moreover, Su Ran also wanted the beastmen to familiarize themselves with the process of making sea salt during this time.
She couldn’t possibly always boil sea salt for so many beastmen herself; otherwise, she wouldn’t need to do anything else every day.
So now directing this group of beastmen, she was not polite at all.
Su Ran first put the teaching targets on the most familiar Xiao Ju and Yao Yao.
She handed the task of filtering seawater into the stone pot to them.
While Gray was reluctantly called by her to pick some green fruit and red fruit.
Before the werewolf left, it was very dissatisfied that Su Ran let Xiao Ju and Yao Yao take over its job of filtering seawater, making it leave to pick wild fruit.
It looked at Su Ran, its tail behind drooping tightly against its thighs, its tall body leaning against Su Ran, its whole body conveying a feeling of:
“I’m not happy~ I’m so aggrieved~”
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At the same time, its mouth was mumbling toward Su Ran:
“Ao wu~ Gray no, Ran Ran no~”
Until Su Ran tiptoed to kiss its cheek, softly comforting it with two sentences, it finally turned back three steps at a time, picked up the basket, and went into the woods.
Su Ran took this time to go to the reefs again and find some kelp.
She felt the kelp here seemed a bit more than last time.
Besides kelp, she also tried searching on the reefs and the nearby beach to see if she could find some seafood like shrimp or crabs.
And she really found some.
Although it was just a few scallops.
Su Ran didn’t know many types of seafood and couldn’t tell if these scallops were different from those on Earth, but she was very sure this scallop was edible.
Because Xiao Ju had already started salivating crazily at the scallop in her hand.
Those golden eyes showed only greed, no curiosity; clearly the little cutie knew this kind of scallop.
Su Ran opened the found scallops one by one, cleaned the sand inside, then spread them out on stones by the campfire to roast over the fire.
Meanwhile, the seawater in the stone pot for salt making had been filled, steam gradually rising from the pot, but it would still take a while to boil.
Nearby, other beastmen had already exchanged for fire source from Su Ran and started roasting meat.
And some curious beastmen, during the exchange, barked doubtfully at her boiling seawater, looking like they were waiting for her to explain the use of the seawater so they could do the same.
Su Ran quickly pointed at the seawater in the pot and said: “Salt, burn~ salt~”
But before she finished, Xiao Ju had enthusiastically leaned in, pointing at Su Ran one moment, at the seawater the next, then at the stormsuit hat on the side, “Mi wu mi wu”-ing at the inquiring beastman.
So Su Ran saw that the rabbit-type beastman who came to ask had its ears on top of its head erect high one moment, slightly bent down halfway the next, then suddenly straightened.
On its fair face, the thinking expression was exceptionally clear and vivid.
After the rabbit-type beastman who got the sea salt making method left, Gray and A Huo returned from the woods together.
From far away, one could see A Huo carrying two prey on each shoulder, and the wild fruit Gray picked filled a full basket.
When reaching Su Ran, A Huo placed a white-headed sheep in front of Su Ran, then softly “Ying~~”ed at her.
The next second, Gray’s displeased “Wu wu” came from behind.
Scaring A Huo to shrink its shoulders instantly, tail drooping as it bounced away from in front of Su Ran.
That bristled appearance made Su Ran burst out laughing.
But thinking back to the first day she arrived at the bird’s nest tree, when A Huo was pinned down and rubbed by Gray, she could understand its fear of the werewolf.
Probably it hadn’t been short of martial education from Gray usually, and always lost, so it was so afraid of the werewolf!
