Sisters in the Deep Forest Valley: Many Fun Things

When the two returned home under the scorching sun, it was past noon. They put the fish into a wooden bucket and poured in water.

Then I ate the leftover food I had put in my space yesterday, cleaned up the dishes, went into the bedroom, and fell asleep immediately.

He slept for an hour and a half.

At Shenshi (3-5 PM), the sun was setting in the west, and the sky was faintly glowing with golden light.

Two or three fish in the bucket were already belly-up, so Lin Chunyi quickly changed the water and called her sister to help her deal with them.

Catching fish is fun for a moment, but killing them is a nightmare.

Everyone knows the steps, but no one has ever killed anyone before. The two sisters stared at each other, holding knives, trying to persuade the other to make the first move.

Lin Chunyi thought to herself:

Okay, bear! There has to be a bear... Pshaw! A sister has to act like a sister! I'll go first!

She had her sister deal with the fish that had already been cut off, while she grabbed a wriggling live fish and placed it on the cutting board to hold it down.

He slapped the fish's head hard with the knife several times until it stopped moving.

Then, with his eyes closed, he stabbed it in.

"puff"

The sound of the knife piercing the fish's belly made her shudder. She opened her eyes and saw blood gushing from the fish's belly, splattering onto her hand.

In an instant, her hand trembled, and she dropped the fish and knife to the ground, screaming:

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

Seeing her sister's reaction, Lin Lanshan was even more hesitant to make the cut, her hand trembling like a leaf.

Inhale, exhale...

Half an incense stick has passed...

Lin Chunyi rallied her spirits, her hands trembling, and had her younger sister help her gut the fish, remove the entrails, gills, and scales...

Two fish, three fish... My hand slowly became steady.

Lin Lanshan's hands were covered in fish blood as she skillfully removed the fish's internal organs, joking with her sister:

"Sis, I feel like I've become a cold-blooded fish butcher. Now I'm not only not afraid, I even feel quite relieved, hehe..."

So awesome?

"Alright, from now on you'll be in charge of killing chickens, ducks, and game, executioner."

...My sister's lips were colder than my hands.

All thirteen fish have been processed; the two largest ones will be grilled and eaten later!

The remaining fish, after being marinated with a little salt and ginger, will be stored in my space for braised fish tomorrow night!

The remaining eleven were coated with coarse salt, strung together, hung up, and dried into dried fish.

"Sis, are the peaches almost ripe?"

Let's go take a look tomorrow.

There is a peach orchard in the valley.

When the peach blossoms bloom, the air is filled with fragrance, and the pink petals paint the entire valley with color, making it look like a fairyland.

When peaches are ripe, their enticing aroma and sweet flesh leave a lasting impression.

……

At dawn, the sun slowly rose into the sky, and the two sisters arrived at the peach grove from their memories.

One, two, three...

Thirty peach trees, each laden with greenish, fuzzy peaches, the unripe peach flavor barely perceptible.

How many peaches must there be!

Lin Lanshan swallowed hard and said to her sister, who was staring in disbelief at the peach grove:

"Sister, even if we clear out all the space, we still can't fit all these peaches in."

Ugh... We can't finish it, we simply can't finish it.

"Lanshan, do you know what the meaning of life is?"

I was talking about Peach, and she suddenly started talking to me about life.

"What is it?"

Lin Chunyi tugged at the corners of her mouth and smiled at her younger sister:

"It's all about... as long as you haven't worked yourself to death, you can work yourself to death! Now that we've seen so many peaches, we can't let them rot on the ground. Once they're ripe, we'll carry them all back and dry them into peach preserves to eat as snacks!"

Lin Lanshan narrowed her eyes slightly: Okay, you're quick with your words, I'll give you credit!

Then I silently counted the peaches:

A peach tree bears at least twenty peaches, so thirty peach trees would produce six hundred peaches.

Each one has to be washed, peeled, sliced, and then dried...

Even two oxen couldn't finish it!

Am I suffering from heatstroke? I feel dizzy and lightheaded. Hehe, hehehehe...

Having decided on Peach's fate, the two went home.

"Lanshan, we'll be busy from now on. Let's make some more cooked food and store it in our space tomorrow. When we're tired and don't feel like cooking, we can just eat it."

Winter is just a few months away, so I need to check the books to see if there are any vegetables that can be planted in August or September. I need to plant them quickly so I can have some to eat during the winter.

The next day, Lin Lanshan started the fire, and Lin Chunyi began making noodles.

First, make brown sugar cakes.

Put three bowls of wheat flour in a wooden basin, add a spoonful of vegetable oil, and then add boiling water and stir until it forms a doughy texture.

Transfer the dough to a cutting board and knead until smooth and no longer sticky, then roll it out into a rectangular sheet.

Put a spoonful of wheat flour and vegetable oil in a small bowl, mix them into a slightly thick paste, pour it onto the dough, and spread it evenly.

Roll up the dough from the bottom into a cylindrical shape, and divide it into twelve equal portions.

Next, crush the brown sugar and mix it with wheat flour and sesame seeds to make a sugar filling.

Take a dough ball, pinch both ends tightly, and roll it out into a wrapper that is thicker in the middle and thinner at the edges.

Place the sugar filling on the filling, wrap it into a bun shape, and roll it out into a slightly thin round cake.

Pour a thin layer of oil into the pan and start cooking the pancakes until both sides are golden brown.

Then came the cured meat pie.

Wash a piece of cured pork and cut it into small pieces. Chop a small piece of ginger and a handful of scallions and put them in a wooden basin.

Add five bowls of cornmeal and two bowls of wheat flour, a pinch of salt, and some warm water, and stir into a thick batter.

Drizzle a ring of vegetable oil around the edge of a hot pan. Once the oil is hot, pour a spoonful of batter in and spread it out. The batter will slowly set in the oil.

Then flip it over and fry the other side until both sides are golden brown. Then you can pick it up with chopsticks.

I made a total of twenty cured meat pies, each one bigger than the palm of my hand.

Once the pancakes were ready, Lin Lanshan couldn't wait to grab a cured meat pancake.

"Sis, let me taste it for you first. Ouch, it's a little hot... but it's so delicious!"

Lin Chunyi also took a bite of a brown sugar cake. It was sweet, crispy, and delicious!

"Sister, let's go to town after we're done with our work. Let's see if we can sell the jewelry we brought for some money, and buy some things we still need at home."

“Okay, I was just thinking of steaming some buns and dumplings, but I haven’t been able to remember how to make the old-fashioned leavened dough. I’ll borrow or buy some sourdough when I pass through the village.”

"Sis, let me have a couple of bites of your brown sugar cake..."

The two put the rest of the pancakes into their spatial storage while they were still hot, and then shared the two pancakes they had.

Lin Lanshan also said that she would make more meat pies in the future, as brown sugar pies can only be eaten occasionally as a dessert because they are too greasy.

……

This house was built when my grandfather was alive. It is surrounded by three-meter-high brick walls on all four sides, covering a total area of ​​nearly 500 square meters.

The area from the wall to the outer perimeter of the house is called the outer courtyard, which is about 120 square meters.

The corners of the outer courtyard were planted with thorny trees and insect-repelling plants transplanted from the mountains, while the other open spaces were cultivated into vegetable gardens.

It's August now, and the Foreign Languages ​​Department only has some garlic sprouts, scallions, pumpkins, and other vegetables—very few at all.

The large open space inside the house is called the inner courtyard, which is about eighty square meters.

On the right side of the inner courtyard are two peach trees that were transplanted from the peach orchard, and their peaches ripen later than those in the orchard.

There is an osmanthus tree on the left, and under the tree there is a stone table and several stone benches.