Chapter 63: Animal Hide Clothing
Under Gray’s tense gaze, Su Ran picked more than half a jin of chili fruit, wrapped it in leaves, and put it into the backpack.
Then after walking forward another distance, Su Ran discovered a kind of edible broad-leaf vegetable.
This wild vegetable looks from afar like a green flower the size of a plate. Su Ran tore off a leaf and tasted it; the leaf flesh was very thick, and the taste was a bit like lettuce.
Her eyes lit up—this was definitely leafy greens!
Su Ran hurriedly dug up another one, two in total, enough for her to eat tomorrow.
As for the remaining ones, let them grow in the ground first, and pick them when it’s time to eat.
Su Ran looked up at the sky above her head where churning fire clouds were faintly visible; the weather was obviously getting hotter, and nothing could be kept anymore.
She put the two wild vegetables into the backpack together and continued pulling Gray deeper into the woods.
But after that, there were no more discoveries.
Su Ran felt a bit unsatisfied, but today she found another edible ingredient and chili that could be used as seasoning, which was enough to make her happy!
She checked the time; it was already five in the evening, so she called Gray and returned the same way.
On the way back, she also picked a big handful of those blue wildflowers.
This flower’s petals overlap one on top of the other, with a total of eight petals; the entire flower is two sizes smaller than a peony flower, but the petals curl slightly inward like a chrysanthemum.
Su Ran put the flowers into the backpack behind her, planning to dig a flower vase after returning and put it in the bird’s nest.
After walking more than forty minutes, Su Ran and Gray finally returned to the river beach.
Although very tired, Su Ran’s mood was very good.
She said to the werewolf following beside her, “Gray, find some wood branches.”
At the same time, she quickly collected firewood nearby at the edge of the woods.
The firewood to be used for making fire tomorrow was quickly collected.
But Su Ran had the werewolf find a few slightly thicker pieces of wood, which were also laid out one by one on the river beach.
She planned to use these pieces of wood to build a shed for firewood after they were mostly dried in the sun.
In the following days, Su Ran and the werewolf went to the seaside a few more times together and burned two cans of sea salt.
In between, she made a few bone needles, then cut off all the long hair from the white-headed sheep hide, and boiled it together with a few animal hides in the stone pot.
Boiling the white-headed sheep and four-eared ox hides and sheep wool was for sterilization; they were boiled in hot water for more than ten seconds and quickly fished out by her.
But for the red-skinned pig’s hide, she boiled it a bit longer; after boiling, she used the tactical knife to scrape off all the red and white hairs on the entire pig hide.
She wanted to use this red-skinned pig hide to make clothes; now the weather was getting hotter day by day, and she couldn’t keep wearing clothes with fur.
After finally processing the animal hides, during the two days of drying them, Su Ran slowly combed open the black long wool from the collected white-headed sheep using the small wooden comb from her backpack.
In the following days, the werewolf hunted a few more white-headed sheep, so Su Ran got much more sheep wool.
At this time, the small comb’s efficiency was really too low, so she simply carved a large fine-tooth wooden comb from wood.
After combing open all the sheep wool, she twisted it bit by bit, like twisting cotton thread when she was a child, into several large balls of sheep wool yarn.
Once the needle and thread were all prepared, Su Ran began making clothes.
Because she had previously altered underwear for Gray, for trousers, she had some experience.
But for the top, she was momentarily at a loss.
When she was little, she had seen the elders at home make large floral cotton jackets, but now recalling, she could only vaguely remember the four main large pieces of fabric for the front chest and back, and some small pieces of fabric cut into bits, but she completely couldn’t remember what they were for.
No way around it, she could only use the most stupid method.
Su Ran laid the animal hide flat in the bird’s nest, then removed the outer shell of the stormsuit, took off the hat, and laid the stormsuit flat on the animal hide.
Then she used the charcoal previously brought into the bird’s nest to draw lines along the edges of the clothes.
After drawing the shape of the clothes, she removed the stormsuit and continued using charcoal to make some modifications to the clothing details drawn on the animal hide.
She wanted to make a hooded sweatshirt-style clothes, so she directly reduced the drawn collar part.
Adjusting the size of the clothes a bit smaller according to the stormsuit’s size was about right.
The scissors from the tool kit could only cut gauze, paper, and such; they were completely useless on animal hide.
So Su Ran directly used the tactical knife to cut the animal hide along the drawn lines.
After cutting, she began sewing.
The bone needle’s eye and the stitches from sheep wool yarn were inevitably a bit larger than normal needle and thread, but thinking of the quality of the needle and thread from the equipment, Su Ran preferred to use this.
She deliberately sewed the stitches very densely; after sewing once, Su Ran looked carefully and found it actually quite good.
Except some places where the stitches were a bit crooked, but since it was for her to wear herself, and other beastmen didn’t know this thing anyway, those ugly spots didn’t matter.
Just making this one piece of clothing took Su Ran nearly a whole day, but the effect was pretty good anyway.
Especially when Su Ran put on the finished animal hide clothing and saw Gray’s sparkling eyes full of admiration, she childishly felt a sense of pride like showing off from the bottom of her heart.
She secretly despised her own childishness in her heart, then while it was still not dark in the evening, sewed herself a strapless bustier.
The red-skinned pig hide had some elasticity; the bustier sewn to fit snugly perfectly supported the two little cuties on her chest.
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After finishing these two things, it was completely dark.
But Su Ran was still very energetic.
Before going to sleep, she planned to use the remaining animal hide tomorrow to make a vest for Gray too.
Long-sleeved and short-sleeved shirts the werewolf probably wouldn’t be used to wearing, but a vest should be okay.
If Gray really didn’t wear it now, it could be saved for wearing in winter!
Worst case, she could wear it herself.
In the next two days, aside from making fire and eating, Su Ran stayed in the bird’s nest making clothes for herself and Gray.
But as she guessed, the vest she made for Gray was only worn by it for two days before it took it off.
Gray shook his head at Su Ran while pointing at the sweat beads flowing on his body.
With a “I’m so hot” look, he muttered: “Gray, water, so much water…”
Making Su Ran both amused and exasperated; she took the vest and put it away, while not forgetting to correct him: “This is called sweat~ Gray, you’re sweating!”
