Chapter 53: Cup, Hui Wants!
The first pot of salt has already been boiled out, and Su Ran has also completed the exchange with the other beastmen.
Now the second pot of salt has also started boiling.
The scallops placed on the stone have been fully cooked, emitting a rich seafood aroma.
While the roast meat isn’t fully cooked yet, Su Ran first takes the scallops off the stone and shares them with the werewolf to eat.
She first cuts half a piece of scallop meat, blows on it at her lips, then hands it to the werewolf next to her who has already been swallowing nonstop.
Gray’s eyes widened hugely the moment he saw Su Ran pick up a scallop.
The round black pupils seemed to shimmer with watery light.
At this moment, seeing Su Ran’s action of turning and offering the scallop meat toward him, the tail behind him immediately erects high, then begins to wag rapidly.
However, when Su Ran brings the scallop meat to his mouth, he suddenly hesitates again.
He looks at the scallop meat in front of him continuously emitting a rich fragrance, then looks up at Su Ran, suddenly raises his hand, and pushes the chopsticks made from a shaved branch in Su Ran’s hand toward Su Ran’s mouth: “Ran Ran, ao wu?”
Su Ran is stunned, then watches as Gray pushes the chopsticks toward her mouth again.
The warm scallop meat has already touched her lips, and she instinctively opens her mouth, with the scallop meat smoothly pushed into her mouth.
The fresh scallop meat is thick and delicate; after chewing a few times, the fresh sweetness inside the shellfish meat immediately fills the mouth, carrying a faint salty freshness even without salt.
Seeing her eat it, the werewolf opposite happily wags his tail again.
Su Ran watches the werewolf happily shaking his head and wagging his tail, thinks about the deeper meaning behind this series of actions, and can’t help but purse her lips and smile.
Then she picks up the other half piece of scallop meat in her hand and offers it over; this time Gray doesn’t refuse, lowers his head, and swallows it in one bite.
The tail behind him wags rapidly; after chewing twice, he suddenly straightens his tail, his ears on top of his head also erect high, a series of rapid panting sounds come from his throat, and he looks at Su Ran and says loudly: “Ran Ran, scallop, delicious!”
The word “delicious” was just taught to him by Su Ran, and of course, she also taught him the word “bad-tasting” at the same time.
For the werewolf, roast meat is delicious, scallops are delicious, but kelp is bad-tasting.
And the wild fruit discovered at the black-flowered Malan grass that day was even more bad-tasting!
Su Ran found a total of seven scallops this time, and these roasted scallops were not shared with the other beastmen.
Because this kind of thing is not hard for the beastmen to find; they go out for a bit and find a big pile, more than what Su Ran found!
For example, in Su Ran’s basket right now, there are still many cleaned scallops that haven’t been roasted yet.
These were all found by the werewolf himself after coming back, smelling the aroma of the half-cooked roasted scallops, and going out again.
Moreover, what the werewolf brought back wasn’t just scallops; inside there were also two palm-sized crabs and a few oysters.
Su Ran feels that the marine creatures in this world seem pretty much the same as on Earth; at least she can’t see any difference between these oysters, scallops, and so on and those on Earth.
She places the remaining seafood on the stones by the campfire to wait to be roasted together. Then she calls Gray over and moves the already edible roast lamb from the grill to another rack away from the fire source.
Seafood can’t be a meal; otherwise, even if two baskets of oysters and scallops are brought, Gray still wouldn’t be full.
To fill the belly, one still has to eat meat.
However, while eating a whole leg of lamb in her hand, Su Ran thinks that perhaps in the evening, she can develop another way to eat food.
Meal after meal of roast meat, even if liked and delicious, gets tiring.
Now she has the pot, and the basin too; she also plans to dig out two stone jars.
She eats the last piece of leg meat in her mouth; the fatty and tender, somewhat greasy leg of lamb makes her involuntarily stuff a piece of kelp into her mouth to cut the greasiness.
She decides that after finishing this not-so-early breakfast, she’ll have Gray catch a white-headed sheep and bring it back.
This white-headed sheep’s body full of fat meat would be a waste not to use for rendering animal oil!
After Su Ran is full, she starts continuing her own work.
She saws off a wooden stake about twenty centimeters long and fifteen centimeters wide.
Then she saws the wooden stake into two segments each: one about seventeen or eighteen centimeters long, and one about three centimeters long.
On the three-centimeter segment, there is still a branch about two fingers thick left; she deliberately saws it to thumb length to use as a handle.
Then Su Ran starts using the U-shaped bone knife to hollow out shapes in the two pieces of wood.
She wants to make a slightly larger wooden jar to hold salt. Otherwise, the chewing gum jar is too small, can’t hold much at a time, and she always has to run to the seaside.
She first uses the U-shaped bone knife to dig out the smaller piece of wood, preparing to make it into the jar’s lid.
Making the lid doesn’t require hollowing out; just shave a circle along the edge of the wood, thinning the middle to one centimeter thick.
At that time, for the jar body below, as long as the jar body is left with one centimeter thickness, it will perfectly fit the lid that’s one centimeter shorter in diameter, and also achieve a sealing effect.
Just at this moment, Gray finishes eating too, so Su Ran directly hands over the task of hollowing out the remaining piece of wood to him.
Then in no more than ten minutes, Su Ran gets a semi-finished jar.
Afterward, she carefully polishes the inner wall of the jar Gray hands over, shaves off the rough edges inside to make it smooth and flat, then takes the lid on the side and covers it on.
The lid is still a bit tight when covered; she turns the jar around, finds a slightly protruding spot, and shaves it down a bit more.
This time it’s perfect.
The lid covers very tightly; the branch on the side used as a handle is also polished with the file on the multi-tool axe, so it doesn’t feel prickly to touch.
To open the lid, just lift up by holding that branch segment used as the handle, and the lid can be easily opened.
Gray sits next to Su Ran, quietly watching her fiddle with the wooden jar in her hand for a long time.
After seeing her repeatedly fit the jar’s lid and body together then take it off, take it off then fit it back, he suddenly “ao wu~”s next to Su Ran’s ear.
He takes the freshly made wooden jar from Su Ran’s hand, picks up the lid himself, opens and covers it a few times, then his eyes sparkle as he turns to look at Su Ran:
“Ran Ran, cup!”
Then a look of anticipation appears on his face; he slowly approaches Su Ran, rubs his cheek against Su Ran’s side face, his whole body exuding a fawning demeanor, and says to Su Ran: “Cup, Gray wants!”
Su Ran: “??”
She lowers her head to look at the wooden jar held in Gray’s hand like a treasure; before she can react, the werewolf reaches out again, his fingertip touches Su Ran’s thermos placed on the ground nearby, and he slowly says: “Cup, Ran Ran’s.”
After speaking, he grabs the wooden jar in his hand tightly: “Cup, Gray’s, ao wu?”
