Chapter 65: Yellow Mushroom
It was probably because she had something on her mind that the next day, early in the morning when Gray got up to prepare to go hunting, Su Ran woke up startled alongside him.
It was only six in the morning, but the sky outside was already bright.
The feeling of summer was growing stronger and stronger, and Su Ran even suspected that at this time now, it was actually already summer in this world.
The change of seasons made her start to pay attention to the passage of time.
A few days ago, she had deliberately begun recording the changes in dates. As for the recording method, it was the simplest one: she sawed off a stone slab, and then every day that passed, she wrote the corresponding number on it.
Today was the twenty-sixth day since she arrived in this world.
Seeing Su Ran get up, Gray walked over with some worry on his face.
“Ran Ran, sleep, Gray go hunting red-skinned pig.”
It stood in front of Su Ran, lowered its head and rubbed against her face and neck, then picked up her two hands and examined them carefully.
Last night, Gray had unintentionally grasped Su Ran’s palm, accidentally touching the blisters on Su Ran’s hand and the wound at the base of her thumb, and Su Ran couldn’t help but let out a soft cry, so it discovered the injury on her hand.
Then last night this silly wolf had been acting guilty and worried the whole time. Even its favorite roast meat didn’t taste good anymore, and it even needed Su Ran to coax it for a long time.
But after finishing dinner later, the werewolf held Su Ran and flew back to the bird’s nest, then it suddenly flew out again.
By then it was already dark, and Su Ran looked at the quiet woods outside, guessing whether the werewolf had gone off somewhere to secretly feel guilty because it saw the few small blisters on her hand, and she almost couldn’t resist going out to look for it, but fortunately it came back not long after.
And the werewolf that returned had a handful of yellow mushrooms in its hand.
It gave all the mushrooms to Su Ran, keeping only one to put in its mouth and chew up.
Su Ran watched Gray’s actions and thought this mushroom must have some special texture, so Gray had specially gone to find it and bring it back to comfort her injured “little heart.”
But Gray stopped her from eating the mushroom, and the next second, it spit the chewed-up mushroom from its mouth onto its finger, then grabbed Su Ran’s blistered hand and applied it to the blisters and the cracks at the base of her thumb.
When the mushroom bits were applied to the wound, there was no feeling at first.
But after a while, the blisters and wound began to have a tingling, prickly little pain.
That pain felt a lot like alcohol being applied to a wound, but much milder.
Su Ran raised her hand to look at the mushroom bits applied to it—could this actually be medicinal material?
After applying the mushrooms, Gray went over and picked up an empty wooden jar placed at one side of the bird’s nest.
That corner now had a pile of things, from pots, bowls, ladles, and basins to large jars and small jars, all made together by Su Ran and Gray in the recent days.
And not just on this side—on the opposite side of this pile of things, the other side of the bird’s nest, there were also several jars, basins, bowls, and backpacks and wooden baskets placed similarly.
Su Ran didn’t dare put all these things on one side; she was really afraid that if the weights on both sides were uneven, the bird’s nest wouldn’t stay balanced and would fall from the tree!
After Gray brought the jar over, it opened the lid and pointed the jar mouth at Su Ran’s other arm that was holding the mushrooms, gesturing for her to put the remaining mushrooms into the jar.
“Ran Ran, put in, woo~ use again!”
“Use again tomorrow?”
Su Ran smiled as she looked at it and asked.
“Mm, tomorrow, use again.”
Gray nodded, and its soft ears atop its head, now relaxed, bobbed along.
“Okay.”
Su Ran nodded in agreement, but she didn’t put the mushrooms into the jar.
She used her arm to push back the jar in Gray’s hand, then had Gray bring over a winnowing basket and put all the mushrooms in her embrace onto the winnowing basket.
Then she pulled out the needle and thread kit from her bag, took out a needle, threaded it, and began stringing the mushrooms one by one onto the thread.
After stringing them all, she hung the mushrooms inside the bird’s nest near the entrance. It was too dark now, so she could only take them outside to dry tomorrow morning.
“Need to dry them first, can’t put them straight in oh~”
After hanging them, she said to the werewolf.
Since these mushrooms had medicinal value, they definitely needed to be preserved well. Putting them directly into the jar like this, with the current weather temperature, they would surely rot and spoil in just a few days.
So she had to dry the mushrooms first, then grind them into powder and store them to keep them for a long time.
Because whether it was her, Gray, or the other beastmen, none of them could predict when they might get sick or injured, and there were no pharmacies here to buy medicine anytime.
And she estimated that no matter how different the plants’ characteristics were, since they were all mushrooms, the growth cycle of mushrooms in this world probably wouldn’t be very long either.
So since they could still be found now, she had to collect as many as possible while they could still be gathered, in case during the long winter later, they wanted them but couldn’t find any!
Gray naturally saw through Su Ran’s intention to collect mushrooms.
Su Ran felt that although it hadn’t even been a month since Gray picked her up until now, their mutual understanding and rapport with each other was already growing rapidly.
So before sleeping, with Su Ran held in Gray’s embrace, covered with a white-headed sheep hide that had been cleaned and still carried the fragrance of green soap fruit pits, as she was drowsily falling asleep, she heard the werewolf lower its voice and rub against her ear:
“Tomorrow, Gray, I go, find more woo~”
“Okay.”
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The yellow mushrooms’ effect was really good. After one night, the few small blisters on Su Ran’s hand had shriveled up, and the smallest one was already gone without a trace.
And the cracks at the base of her thumb had also healed, leaving only a thin brown scar line.
Gray grabbed her two hands and examined them carefully. Seeing that the wounds on her hand had improved, the worry on its face eased a bit.
But the next second, it still directly carried Su Ran back to the grass pile laid with animal hide, its two sturdy arms wrapping around her as it repeatedly and forcefully kissed her face from forehead to lips to chin.
In short, it was making moves to stop her from climbing down the tree.
With no other choice, Su Ran lifted her legs onto the animal hide, pretending to continue resting, and only then was the werewolf satisfied, saying to her repeatedly: “Ran Ran, great! Awesome!”
Then it walked to the bird’s nest entrance, picked up a backpack, and strapped it to its chest.
Because having the backpack on the werewolf’s back would interfere with its wings unfolding, whenever flying without carrying Su Ran, Gray had learned to wear the backpack on its chest.
After the werewolf went out hunting, Su Ran of course couldn’t obediently stay in the bird’s nest waiting for it to return.
As soon as Gray left, she immediately got down from the animal hide, first taking down the string of mushrooms that had been hung at the bird’s nest entrance last night, walked out of the bird’s nest, and hung them on the bird’s nest tree outside.
Then she went back into the bird’s nest, put the entrenching tool and multi-tool axe into the backpack, strapped on the backpack, and climbed down the bird’s nest tree.
