Chapter 67: Teaching Complete
The miserable screams of the white-headed sheep completely intimidated the beastmen.
Especially those few little ones, several of whom were already so frightened that they buried their heads tightly in their parents’ embrace.
However, at this time, not a single beastman left.
It seemed they could all guess that Su Ran did this for some important purpose.
The cries of the white-headed sheep in the campfire gradually weakened until they completely stopped.
Seeing that the beastmen were mostly scared, Su Ran called over Gray, as well as Xiao Ju from the beastmen crowd and her lion beastman companion—
Later, Su Ran named that lion beastman A Jin.
Besides those two, Su Ran also called over A Huo, the red fox male beastman from the beastmen crowd, as well as Yao Yao and the peacock beastman.
Su Ran demonstrated for them.
She picked up the wooden bucket nearby, ran to the riverside to fill it with water, then ran back and poured it on the campfire.
The few beastmen she named to learn, though puzzled at first, followed her back and forth filling water and pouring it on the campfire.
Gradually, the flames on the campfire weakened a bit, and some beastmen slowly figured something out from Su Ran’s series of actions, starting to join the extinguishing fire team.
About ten minutes later, the campfire was completely extinguished.
When Su Ran poured the last bit of water on the already soaked muddy ashes, even the “sizzle” sound from the charcoal meeting cold water was gone.
At this moment, everyone’s gazes involuntarily fell together on the completely dead white-headed sheep.
After seeing the state of the white-headed sheep, they all changed color.
The outer skin of the white-headed sheep was almost entirely burned into charcoal.
But it still maintained the complete shape of its body.
And its body was now curled up, clearly shrunken a bit compared to the beginning.
This “dangers of fire” lesson was, for Su Ran, extremely successful.
Though there were some minor accidents later—
Some beastmen didn’t dare to use fire for a long time after this.
But some beastmen successfully understood what Su Ran meant and learned the wood friction fire-making method from her.
As for why she taught them wood friction fire-making instead of directly giving the beastmen tinder or a flint.
It was because Su Ran felt that the existence of tinder was still too dangerous for the beastmen now living in the woods.
Even if the beastmen could strictly follow the rule not to bring tinder to dangerous places.
But if, when no one was paying attention, a small animal accidentally touched the tinder and carried it out of the safe range causing a forest fire, that would be utterly not worth it.
And the reason for not giving them flint was that this thing was very precious to Su Ran.
It was her selfishness.
Although she could also learn wood friction fire-making, under the condition that she had this skill, when she also had tools that could achieve the goal faster than this skill, she wanted to properly save her only two flint tools.
If she gave the flint to the beastmen and they accidentally lost it, she would be heartbroken.
After teaching the beastmen the making fire method and letting them know the terrifying side of fire, the beastmen who used to follow behind Su Ran and the werewolf during every meal suddenly disappeared.
Although everyone still defaulted to making fire and preparing food at the river beach closest to the water, since each beastman family’s eating time was inconsistent, the number of beastmen Su Ran and Gray encountered during meals went from dozens at the start to just over ten.
This relieved Su Ran of much of the pressure from being watched.
Though she also liked liveliness, the feeling of relaxed playful liveliness was different from always being watched and scrutinized.
In the morning, Su Ran roasted a little less than half of the red-skinned pig that Gray hunted back.
Then she used the stone pot to make a mildly spicy stewed pork with the remaining half piece of meat.
The chili fruits that Su Ran picked back at the beginning, Gray didn’t dare touch at all.
Later, seeing Su Ran happily eating roast meat skewers coated with chili fruit juice, it couldn’t resist tasting one out of greed.
But this taste directly made it so spicy that it drank up Su Ran’s entire large thermos of water.
After drinking, it ate about ten youyou fruits and red fruits to barely recover a bit.
Actually, that time Su Ran considered Gray’s aversion to chili fruits and didn’t put much on the meat skewers.
Just roughly two chili fruits coated on a large skewer.
But perhaps because it had never eaten spicy before, she didn’t expect Gray’s reaction to the chili fruits to be so strong.
However, after that, Gray seemed to have opened a new door to the world of taste.
Though it still couldn’t eat too spicy, every time it saw Su Ran eating, it always couldn’t resist wanting to eat too.
After eating, it would frantically drink water and eat sweet wild fruits.
But Su Ran was still a bit worried that doing this would ruin its stomach.
After all, its reaction to spicy was so strong, so she began intentionally limiting the frequency and amount it ate chili.
Like today’s stewed beef, she only put three small chili fruits in it, which was just the right spiciness for Gray.
While when Su Ran ate it herself, she could hardly taste the chili and needed to add more separately.
The red-skinned pig Gray hunted back this time was an adult pig, very large in size, and Su Ran and Gray couldn’t finish it in one meal.
So the remaining half was saved to eat at dinner time.
After finishing breakfast, resting for ten minutes, Su Ran continued the rain shelter construction project.
The framework of the rain shelter was fully complete, and Su Ran began filling its top.
She first dug grooves on the two already joined beams serving as the front and back, just like splicing the shed’s base pillars and beams.
But this time the grooves were hollowed out, allowing the shaped wood to be directly inserted into the beams.
After vertically fixing five pieces of wood this way on the two-meter-long beams, Su Ran began filling dense branches between the beam pillars.
She trimmed the branches to roughly the same length, weaving them densely one by one, binding them to the shed’s beams with willow branches.
After binding one layer, she laid dense dry grass under the already bound layer of branches, finely binding the dry grass to the branches.
This was about it.
Actually, after flipping the shed upright, the top still needed another layer of dry grass, but after finishing the previous work, time had again reached nearly dinner preparation time.
This let Su Ran, who had just stepped one foot into the working world as a newbie, experience the feeling of being so busy she forgot time.
After a day of high-intensity physical labor, Su Ran’s palms began to burn with pain again.
She lifted her hand to look at her blistered palms, teasing herself inwardly that her skin was indeed too delicate!
