Sisters in the Deep Forest Valley: Many Fun Things

[Friendly reminder: Try not to read this chapter late at night. Although the author isn't very good at writing horror, I still found it a tiny bit creepy~]

Lin Lanshan plunged into the pile of silver.

"Sis, hold me down! I feel like I'm floating! We have so much money now!"

"This silver has been touched and bitten by countless people. And the silver you shoveled from under someone's feet today—don't you find it disgusting to bury your face in it?"

Lin Lanshan quickly sat up. "Oh right, there are also these pieces of jewelry."

"It's beautiful, but I feel like we won't have much of a chance to wear it out." She took out the small box that the county magistrate's wife had given her from her spatial storage.

Lin Chunyi leaned closer to look, her eyes widening at the sparkling jewelry inside the small box.

"White jade, jadeite, and agate, they're so beautiful! All of these together must be worth several hundred taels of silver. The magistrate's wife is so kind, she's given too much."

She casually tied her loose hair into a bun with a hairband.

Then she took out the butterfly hairpin inlaid with small rubies, held it up a bit, and inserted it into her hair.

He shook his head left and right. "Lanshan, what do you think? Does it look good? Hehe~"

"Wait a minute, let me find you a mirror. You look so good in this! Like a young lady from a wealthy family!"

I've realized we've been living too roughly before; our hair was either tied into a ball with a rope or coiled up with a wooden hairpin..."

Lin Lanshan took out two small mirrors, each about the size of a palm, from under her pillow and gave one to her. She then put on her hairpin as well.

Lin Chunyi looked at herself in the mirror, admired herself for a while, and said:

“It would be inappropriate to immediately resell the gifts given by the county magistrate’s wife.”

Let's keep it for now, and wear it whenever we want. If we need it later, we can sell it.

"That makes sense!" Lin Lanshan put on the earrings and slipped the bracelet onto her right wrist. "I look so beautiful!"

She suddenly remembered something and asked:

"By the way, sis, A-Shu and A-Hua's household registrations still show them as being from Zezhou, right? Won't they be sent back?"

Lin Chunyi paused as she put money into her purse, then said:

“We found them temporary accommodation and lent them money; we’ve already helped them more than enough. As for their household registration, that’s something we can’t help with.”

Whether they go or stay is up to them.

"Indeed, we had a really good haul this time. We earned several hundred taels of silver, took on an apprentice, and even picked up two children, hahaha. We even killed a..." person.

Did something slip in that shouldn't have been heard?

The atmosphere in the bedroom instantly shifted from joyful to somber.

Lin Chunyi remained silent, tidied up the things on the bed, and said softly, "It's late, go to sleep."

"Ah."

They blew out the candle, got into bed, closed their eyes, and forced themselves to sleep.

……

In the still of the night, surrounded by withered trees, crows on the branches cackled mournfully, each cry more pitiful than the last.

Lin Chunyi woke up and found herself lying here.

The moonlight was bright, stretching out like a long line, illuminating the scene before her eyes little by little.

She felt somewhat relieved that she could see the road clearly. So she softly called out, "Lanshan?"

Apart from the cawing of crows and the rustling of the cold wind against the leaves, there was nothing...

I had no choice but to sit up from the ground, "creak, creak, creak".

She was startled and turned around sharply. She realized that the sound was coming from the broken branches and leaves beneath her.

Lin Chunyi stepped onto the ground, walking out of the woods and towards a brighter light.

We kept walking and walking, and after who knows how long, we were still in the woods.

"How come this forest is so big? No, this place looks so familiar..." she murmured to herself, her eyes vacant as she stared at the large, crushed, withered leaves in front of her.

Isn't this where she was lying when she first woke up? Has she been in the same spot the whole time? Where is this?

Lin Chunyi didn't know what was wrong with her head; she seemed unable to think. She could only keep walking across the patch of fallen leaves.

A strong gust of wind blew by, and she instinctively closed her eyes and shielded them with her arms.

"Puff, puff, puff! Why is the wind blowing so hard!"

Lin Chunyi wiped the dirt and dust off her face and mouth several times before opening her eyes.

The leaves on the ground were all blown away, revealing clean soil.

"This place...it feels so familiar. It looks like someone dug up the soil here. Who did it? Is something hidden in here?"

She tilted her head in confusion, then squatted down and reached out to touch the soil that was a different color from the one next to her.

It seems to have a salty, fishy smell.

She grabbed a handful and brought it closer to smell; besides the salty, fishy smell, there was also a metallic rusty smell.

The soil in her hands quickly turned from yellowish-brown to red before her eyes, and also became moist.

Lin Chunyi flung it away, leaving her hand covered in red liquid.

Her voice trembled as she stared at the color on her hand, then took several steps back. "This, this is blood! There's so much blood in this soil!"

At this point, the ground also began to turn red.

She didn't have time to think, and ran in another direction, wanting only to escape this eerie place as quickly as possible.

But she ran out of the woods, came back to the same woods, and returned to this... red ground.

This time, however, the ground was cratered into a large, dark pit, and nothing could be seen.

Her legs, which had been running, suddenly stopped moving. Her eyes, uncontrollably fixed, stared straight at the pit.

"Uh...uh...no..." A low, hoarse voice pleaded from the pit.

It felt like it was coughing up from the throat, mixed with a sticky liquid.

"Who is it? Are you just playing tricks? Show yourself if you dare! Come out now!"

The endless, withered forest, the inescapable blood-red earth, and the eerie sounds were driving Lin Chunyi to the brink of collapse.

She roared wildly, trying to suppress her inner fear and to drink the contents of the pit to expel the poison.

"No...no, don't kill me! Please, don't kill me!" A bloody hand reached out from the pit, then another bloody hand. The two hands trembled as they clung to the edge of the pit and stood up.

He was a man whose clothes were cut in many places and stained with blood.

He stood in the pit, his eyes wide open, staring and pleading with Lin Chunyi.

Lin Chunyi was so shocked by the scene that her mind went blank.

Kill, kill who? She didn't kill anyone. "I didn't kill anyone, I..." Did I kill someone?

Suddenly, a hole appeared in the man's neck, from which a lot of blood gushed out.

He clutched his neck and screamed menacingly, "Why did you kill me! My child is only a month old, he's so small, so small!"

You killed me! You, you killed my whole family! You vicious murderer! You deserve to die a horrible death!

Lin Chunyi had forgotten her fear and kept denying it: She didn't kill anyone, she wasn't the murderer!