Chapter 98: Dependence
The tools for laying stone bricks were made by Su Ran herself in advance.
She imagined the way workers cutting bricks she had seen before, trying to hold the brick in one hand and a wooden shovel in the other to put cement on the ground.
Because she was not skilled, she did it very slowly.
And this work, at this time, Su Ran still didn’t dare to teach Gray to do it.
Because she herself was not yet skilled, if she taught Gray and then Gray piled them up crookedly, after the house was built, she would probably have to sleep with her eyes open every day!
So she could only slowly pile them up one by one herself.
So after an entire daytime passed, she had only piled up three and a half layers of the foundation’s basic shape.
And even so, by the time it ended near evening, Su Ran was already sore in the waist and back.
But fortunately, at this time, Gray had already finished making dinner by himself on the side.
Su Ran didn’t let Gray do the bricklaying, so during daytime, Gray moved all those stone bricks that had been made before and placed in the original spot to the vicinity of Su Ran.
After moving them, it was arranged by Su Ran to make a few super large stone slabs.
Those were to be placed on the foundation after the foundation was piled up.
And these “tasks” were all completed by it very quickly.
Even after finishing, it still had time to stay by Su Ran’s side, resting while handing her stone bricks.
What Gray hunted tonight was a dwarf deer and four wild chickens, plus two green soap fruits, and some wild fruit.
After coming back, it also caught a fish in the river.
Su Ran originally thought that fish was for it to roast and eat, but when she went over to eat, she found that Gray had actually made a bowl of fish soup.
And the taste of this soup was much better than the last time.
The fish’s freshness and the soup’s aftertaste were both there, and the flavor was neither too salty nor too bland.
Su Ran politely drank a large bowl.
However, when picking up the bowl, her hand kept shaking, and at the beginning, she spilled quite a bit of the soup.
Scared, she quickly put the bowl on the table, almost flipping it over!
This was because her wrist had moved too much today, a bit overworked.
Su Ran rubbed her wrist, where the soreness became more severe after a brief rest, and gradually felt the soreness in her arm also starting to intensify.
When Su Ran almost dropped the bowl, Gray was also startled!
At this time, seeing Su Ran looking uncomfortable while rubbing her wrist, it put down the roasted green soap fruit in its hand, grabbed Su Ran’s wrist that she kept rubbing, and looked at it carefully.
After looking for a long time, it couldn’t see anything on that slender wrist, but seeing Su Ran’s expression, it seemed she was in a lot of pain.
“Ran Ran wrist, hurt?”
Its eyes instantly filled with worry and tension.
Su Ran drew back her hand, rubbed her wrist with both hands mutually, then rotated her wrist a few times, before nodding to Gray: “A bit painful…”
“Woo…” Hearing Su Ran’s words, Gray immediately became even more tense!
It quickly pulled over one of Su Ran’s hands, imitating what she had just done, gently rubbing her wrist with its fingers.
“Ran Ran rest, tomorrow let Gray do.”
While rubbing, it looked up at Su Ran and said, its light green eyes suddenly filled with guilt and heartache.
“Okay, tomorrow Gray will do it.”
Su Ran smiled back at it and didn’t refuse.
Because tomorrow she really had to teach it, how long would it take if she did it herself!
This dinner was almost entirely fed to Su Ran by Gray.
The soup bowl was held by Gray to her mouth for her to drink. The roasted chicken legs were also handed to Su Ran’s mouth by Gray to feed her; Su Ran basically didn’t move her hands from start to finish.
If ignoring the unbearable discomfort in her wrist, this feeling of being waited on was quite comfortable.
After finishing dinner, Su Ran forced herself to walk to the riverside to take a bath, and after washing, she lay on Gray’s body, letting Gray carry her back to the bird’s nest.
And after getting back, as soon as Su Ran’s body touched the animal hide blanket, she fell into a deep sleep.
This sleep lasted until the next day when the sky was bright.
Gray had already made the morning roast meat and come to call her before Su Ran woke up.
After waking up, as soon as Su Ran turned over, she couldn’t help but let out a painful groan!
That muscle soreness from overexertion, after sleeping, all came out!
Su Ran thought that with the amount of activity in these days, her muscles shouldn’t have such a strong reaction to exercise anymore.
But after a whole day of constantly bending down, squatting, and standing up yesterday, when she woke up today, her body was still aching incessantly.
At this time, Su Ran felt that the daily exercise amount from before, compared to yesterday’s labor intensity, couldn’t even match half of yesterday’s exercise amount.
Su Ran rubbed her neck and sat up from the animal hide blanket; the soreness in her back and thighs made her able to move only bit by bit, very carefully.
Especially the slight soreness in her wrists and arms, which felt numb and itchy, but no matter how she rubbed, she couldn’t reach the depths.
Uncomfortable enough to make her heart feel irritated too.
Even in a certain instant, Su Ran felt a wave of grievance from the bottom of her heart, and suddenly the thought of giving up arose.
“Ran Ran, hurt?”
Gray had immediately become tense from the moment Su Ran let out that groan.
Now seeing Su Ran’s grimacing expression, it quickly climbed onto the dry grass bed and came close to Su Ran’s face.
Its green eyes glanced at Su Ran’s hand supporting her hip bone, with worry in its eyes.
“Hurts…”
Su Ran pouted at Gray, the grievance in her heart not yet faded, and her facial expression at this time looked like she was childishly acting up.
She looked at the werewolf who came close, couldn’t help but let out a long sigh, then suddenly fell onto Gray’s body.
The amplitude of her fall perfectly landed in Gray’s embrace.
In the instant of falling, Su Ran immediately felt that when she fell onto Gray’s body, this silly wolf was startled and its whole body trembled forcefully.
Then it reached out and hugged her tightly.
Su Ran was amused by Gray’s startled reaction and couldn’t help laughing out loud.
Then, while Gray was trying hard to pull her off its body to check the situation, she deliberately opposed it, using hands and feet like an octopus clinging to its body.
At this point, Gray seemed to gradually realize Su Ran’s mischief.
It stared unblinkingly at Su Ran who had hung all four limbs on its body, and after a few seconds, its warm palm gently stroked her thin back twice.
Then, it let out a long sigh in a very helpless tone, “wooing~~” at Su Ran.
But Su Ran just rested her head on its muscular solid shoulder, one hand habitually lifted to grab one of its fluffy ears and rub it in her hand, then relaxedly closed her eyes.
Clearly, her body that was extremely fatigued just moments ago, now in this posture of being protected and held in Gray’s embrace, Su Ran suddenly felt that the fatigue in her body had lessened quite a bit.
A strange sense of motivation also suddenly rose in her heart.
Humans are inherently social animals, so Su Ran naturally feared loneliness.
And now, Su Ran felt that after depending on Gray like this, she could no longer have the thought of leaving it.
