Chapter 84: Ran Ran, Time To Go Back To Sleep
Su Ran did not disturb Gray’s light sleep to catch up on rest.
Because of her special days these past few days, Gray had always been in a tense emotion of worry and fear. Besides the tension, he had to force himself to stay spirited to take care of her, so now the whole wolf looked listless.
Sleeping can also replenish qi and blood, so Su Ran naturally was willing to let him sleep a bit longer.
More than three hours later, Su Ran set down the third completed winnowing basket in her hands and stretched a big lazy yawn.
During this time, she also returned to the bird’s nest once and changed a sanitary napkin.
On the way back, she had to tangle with Gray, who was startled awake and wanted to follow, for a while before getting the chance to go back alone.
But after she went back and changed, just as she took the soiled sanitary napkin she wanted to wash and stepped out of the bird’s nest, she locked eyes with Gray, who had stealthily flown back at some point and was guarding outside the bird’s nest.
It made her involuntarily feel a bit awkward deep down.
At this moment, Su Ran stood up, stepped down the stairs of the rain shelter, and stood outside the shed to loosen up her muscles and bones.
And while she was stretching her back and shoulders with both hands behind her, Gray, who had been dozing on the tree behind her, also yawned, spread his wings, and slowly descended to the ground beside her.
He curiously watched Su Ran’s actions, then imitated her by stretching a lazy yawn, and with a smile on his face, looked at Su Ran: “Ran Ran, I’m going hunting.”
Su Ran’s action paused, and she smiled and nodded at him: “Sure.”
It was great that the male at home had the awareness to provide for the family~
Su Ran watched the figure of Gray spreading his wings and flying far away, sighing sincerely from the bottom of her heart.
At least when it came to food, as long as Gray was around, she didn’t have to worry about going hungry.
In the evening, they ate roasted white-headed sheep.
Because white-headed sheep had a lot of fat, unless it was for refining oil, Su Ran’s usual way of cooking white-headed sheep mutton was to roast it directly.
Otherwise, if made into stewed meat or something, it would be a bit too greasy.
Besides the white-headed sheep, the fish caught that morning also completely lost its life under Su Ran’s multi-tool axe.
This fish was a full two sizes larger than the one eaten that morning, at least six or seven pounds, and the scallop knife simply couldn’t cut through the bone on its back, so Su Ran had to use the multi-tool axe.
Su Ran cut off the entire fish head.
Then she used the fish body to make braised fish without soy sauce.
But she added a sweet-and-sour red meat fruit for flavoring, and also added a few dried oysters and scallop meat that had been soaked in the afternoon and dried these past two days, stewing them together to enhance the freshness.
As for such a large fish head, she made it into a spicy fish head that only she could eat.
The chili fruits for the spicy fish head were fried by her in mutton fat.
The moment the chili fruits went into the pot, the intense, aromatic, and spicy smell that burst out choked Gray into jumping more than ten meters away from Su Ran’s side in an instant.
Until that intense smell had dissipated to almost undetectable, he cautiously walked back with red eyes.
After coming back, he craned his neck to peek into the bright red stone pot, but that huge body of his actually couldn’t help but tremble at the sight of that pot of chili fruits, which made Su Ran burst out laughing.
For the evening meal, one person and one wolf ate until they were stuffed.
Especially Su Ran; today’s spicy fish head satisfied her, who already loved spicy food, immensely.
The current season had fully entered summer.
Daytime was getting longer, and the time it got dark was getting later.
At this moment, the sky above had dimmed a bit, the somewhat scorching daytime temperature had faded, and in the woods, a slight evening breeze had risen.
Looking along the river into the distance, one could see a corner of the woods in the distance interspersed with a few streaks of fiery red evening glow.
Su Ran lay on the animal hide blanket spread on the ground, one hand pillowed behind her head as she looked at the sky above, the other hand on her slightly bulging belly, continuously circling and gently rubbing.
She had really eaten a bit too much in the evening; even lying down, she still felt stuffed.
Not far upstream of the river beach, faint firelight was coming over.
That was the other beastmen also making fire to eat dinner.
Because when Su Ran first made fire, she chose this position downstream of the river beach, and later built the rain shelter here too, so afterward, except when bathing, every time she did other daily activities at the river beach, she habitually chose this position downstream.
And unlike her, the beastmen who had always been accustomed since before to process prey on the river beach opposite the small path out of the woods, after learning to make fire, still preferred to do activities like making fire a bit further upstream.
Of course, this might also be because they saw Su Ran always making fire at that downstream position, plus building the rain shelter, and the beastmen had already designated that place as the living territory of Su Ran and Gray.
After finishing dinner, Su Ran and Gray blew the evening breeze by the river for a while longer.
Until the sky gradually darkened and the brightest star on the horizon every evening gradually brightened, Gray stood up from the animal hide blanket, lowered his head to Su Ran, and said: “Ran Ran, time to go back to sleep.”
Hearing this, Su Ran opened her eyes and sat up from the blanket.
Then she ruffled her hair.
Su Ran felt that because she always washed her hair with green soap fruit pits, her semi-long hair remained quite smooth.
Now the hair tie on her head had been changed to a rope twisted from white-headed sheep wool yarn.
The previous elastic cord had long been broken when Gray curiously picked it up to play with it once.
Su Ran had also made a comb out of wood herself, which she used to comb her hair every morning and evening.
At the beginning, Gray was also very curious about her wooden comb.
But after imitating Su Ran’s action and using it once, he lost interest.
Because Su Ran’s hair quality was different from the beastmen’s, this thing was useless to him.
Like Gray and Xiao Ju’s hair, even if just washed with plain water, it was smooth, sleek, thick, glossy, and lustrous.
Every time Su Ran noticed, she was endlessly envious.
She expected that the reason the beastmen’s hair was so smooth was related to the air environment, food quality, and such here.
That way, after living here long-term, she might also be able to have hair with such full luster.
This was Su Ran’s only expectation as a girl in this world regarding her own appearance.
On the way back, Su Ran was still carried and flown back by Gray.
At this moment, the beastmen weren’t asleep yet.
The little beastmen under the tree were still endlessly playing and frolicking on the ground.
This time after coming back, Gray didn’t directly carry Su Ran into the bird’s nest like usual, but landed directly on the tree trunk outside the bird’s nest.
Because their bird’s nest entrance was blocked by a four-eared ox whose neck was still dripping blood, obstructing the way.
And through the bird’s nest entrance blocked by the four-eared ox, Su Ran seemed to vaguely see inside the bird’s nest near the entrance, a small mountain piled up of wild fruits, with just a tip poking out…
