Chapter 70: “ran Ran, Meatball, Delicious!”
“Dong dong dong dong dong…”
The dull sound of striking the wooden board continued to ring out by the river beach. A Huo and Qing Yu each held a scallop knife with a wooden handle for use as a kitchen knife, quickly mincing the minced meat.
Tonight Su Ran decided to make fried meatballs to reward the beastmen for helping her build the shed, so she had Hui hunt a red-skinned pig directly when he went hunting.
While mincing the minced meat, this action that the beastmen had never seen before aroused their curiosity again.
Facing the eager eyes of the beastmen, Su Ran had no choice but to take out both scallop knives and let them take turns trying.
Meanwhile, Su Ran was washing the housheng vegetable that she had just gone to the woods with Xiao Ju to find by the riverside.
She planned to use a quarter of the red-skinned pig to make fried meatballs, and adding a few housheng vegetables to the minced meat would be perfect.
By the time she had chopped all the housheng vegetable into pieces, the beastmen over there had just finished the minced meat.
Su Ran had Hui go back to the bird’s nest to fetch two wooden basins, then mixed the chopped minced meat and housheng vegetable evenly together and put them into the two basins.
Then she added mutton fat, chopped sweet leaf vein tree leaves, salt powder, and a small amount of water to the minced meat one by one, finally beating three green-skinned bird eggs into each basin, then began stirring.
The male beastmen were obviously a bit more interested in the food making process than Xiao Ju and Yao Yao.
While Su Ran was preparing the minced meat, the four male beastmen spontaneously ran to Su Ran’s side, watching her actions intently.
Meanwhile, Xiao Ju and Yao Yao had already run under the rain shelter to play and frolic.
After the minced meat was prepared, Su Ran had Hui help set up the stone pot, light a fire underneath, and scoop several large spoonfuls of oil into the stone pot.
Once the oil heated up, she began using her clean hands to put the meatballs into the pot one by one.
As the meatballs went into the pot one by one, Hui, who had been staying by Su Ran’s side, once again showed his eagerness to learn, pointing at the meatballs in the pot and asking Su Ran: “Ran Ran, what is this?”
While using a wooden strainer to stir the already formed meatballs in the pot, Su Ran answered Hui without turning her head: “Meatball, fried meatball.”
After she answered, before Hui could speak, Xiao Ju, who had run back at some point, squatted next to A Jin and said crisply: “Mi wu… fried, fried wan zi.”
Her soft yet accented pronunciation made Su Ran couldn’t help but smile, but she still corrected her: “It’s fried meat~ball~”
Xiao Ju shook her ears, her tail swayed behind her, looking at Su Ran and blinking: “Fried, fried~ meat~ball~”
“Right.”
Su Ran affirmed this pronunciation, and at the same time, the first pot of meatballs came out fresh.
Su Ran scooped out the fried meatballs and poured them into the wooden basin prepared nearby, then glanced at the campfire beside her and said: “Hui, keep an eye on the roast meat over there, it hasn’t been turned for a while.”
As soon as she spoke, Hui was stunned. He turned to look at the animal roasting on another campfire, suddenly “Ao wu~” once, and rushed over hurriedly.
Although Su Ran’s meatballs were fresh, those two basins of meat clearly weren’t enough for so many beastmen. The main food was of course still roast meat!
Over there on the roast, besides the red-skinned pig that Hui had hunted, the other three male beastmen had each hunted an animal and brought it back.
They were all now roasting on the campfire over there.
When Hui returned to Su Ran’s side again, she had already fried a full basin of meatballs by her hand.
He stood next to Su Ran, eyes shining as he looked at the golden, oily meatballs in the large wooden basin.
Just as he was about to speak, he was stunned when he looked up and saw A Huo with oil still on his mouth!
He immediately let out a dissatisfied “Ao wu~” and turned his gaze to the others, sure enough seeing the other beastmen’s shiny lips.
So the next second, a wail even more shrill than the previous dissatisfied cry came from the werewolf’s mouth: “Ao wu”!
While crying out, he slightly arched his back, clenched his two hands into fists, his ears on top of his head flattened back, and his gaze at Su Ran was full of grievance.
Su Ran, who already understood Hui’s little temper, immediately saw the reason for his dissatisfaction.
She quickly grabbed two meatballs from the basin and stuffed them into Hui’s mouth, blocking that mouth that was about to continue howling.
Hui’s ao cry was blocked in his mouth by the meatball. His cheeks bulged as he resentfully glanced at Su Ran, his ears drooping on top of his head to show that although he had gotten food, he was still unhappy.
His closed mouth moved, and he slowly chewed the meatball in his mouth twice.
Su Ran had been watching his reaction. Seeing him swallow the meatball, she asked him expectantly: “Hui, is it tasty?”
“Wu~”
Hui slowly stuck out his tongue to lick his lips, his ears on top of his head twitched, as if carefully thinking for a moment, then answered: “Wu~ not tasty wu…”
While saying this, he carefully glanced at Su Ran, that glance looking utterly guilty no matter how you saw it.
Su Ran raised her brow at his little expression and curled her lips without speaking.
Then as she turned back to scoop the newly fried meatballs, her peripheral vision caught a wolf paw quickly grabbing a handful of meatballs from the basin and retracting.
He had even learned to say the opposite!
Su Ran held back her laughter, feeling very happy inside.
After slowly learning human language, with more exchanges with Su Ran, Hui’s words, actions, and emotional changes increasingly showed characteristics of human behavior.
This made her feel more and more like she had family who understood her in this world where she was alone.
After the meatballs were fried, the six beastmen plus Su Ran sat together for the first formal group meal since Su Ran came to this world.
What surprised her was that the beastmen who didn’t like stir-fried meat or stewed meat really liked today’s fried meatballs.
Even Hui, who ranked roast meat second on the recipe, first scrambled with Xiao Ju and the others to finish the two large basins of fried meatballs before slowly starting to eat the roast meat.
Su Ran picked up a remaining meatball from her bowl and put it in her mouth.
After double-frying, the crispy outer skin, and once bitten, the juicy tender meat inside.
The fried meatballs’ scorched fragrant outer skin and the tender meat inside carrying the fresh scent of sweet leaf vein tree leaves not only differed in texture, but even their aromas had distinctions.
No wonder the beastmen liked them.
For a moment, the river beach echoed with “mi wu mi wu, ying ying ying, ao wu ao wu” sounds of admiration or surprise.
At seven in the evening, the last ray of light in the sky shone in the woods, and the sky had turned dusky.
After eating and drinking their fill, at Su Ran’s call, Xiao Ju and Yao Yao also got up and slowly walked back together toward the bird’s nest tree.
On the way back, Xiao Ju and Yao Yao joyfully surrounded Su Ran, occasionally making affectionate actions, provoking dissatisfied low growls from Hui.
And when the other beastmen had all returned to their dwellings, Hui swung his tail as he walked beside Su Ran, suddenly reaching out to hold Su Ran’s hand hanging at her side, leaning down to her ear and saying:
“Ran Ran, meatball, tasty!”
Babies, no yang but got attacked by flu, fever headache sore throat, everyone take this as a warning and be sure to protect yourselves!!!
Also, this chapter has been disinfected when posted()
