Sisters in the Deep Forest Valley: Many Fun Things

It started raining heavily outside.

"Crackling and popping..."

It hit the eaves and then fell onto the stone pavement.

Lin Chunyi, who was still sleeping in bed, felt a chill, curled up into a ball, and snuggled up to her younger sister, who was warm and cozy.

"Hiss~ Cold~"

Lin Lanshan was woken up by her sister and mumbled sleepily:

"Ah, are you cold? Cover yourself with the blanket..." and then pulled the blanket up a little higher.

"My stomach hurts a little."

"Stomach ache? Did you catch a cold? Try drinking some hot water first." Lin Lanshan took out a thermos from her spatial storage and opened it for her sister.

Lin Chunyi's face was a little pale. She opened her eyes, took a sip of hot water, and suddenly her body stiffened.

Oops!

She quickly propped herself up and got out of bed, glancing at the spot where she had been lying out of the corner of her eye.

Luckily, it didn't get dirty.

He hurried to the outhouse.

Lin Lanshan chased after him to the outside of the outhouse and asked anxiously:

"What's wrong, sister?"

"Lin Lanshan, I think I've started my period..." Lin Chunyi said to her sister outside the door with a mournful face.

Lin Lanshan paused for a moment, then said:

"Oh? You've started your period? It seems like you haven't had it since we arrived..."

"Because this is the first time."

"You're already fifteen years old, why are you so late?"

Lin Lanshan was somewhat surprised, but after regaining her composure, she said again:

"How are you now? Is it still in a lot of pain?"

"It's alright, after all, my body is in good shape now. Go and get my menstrual belt and a change of pants."

"Oh, and could you boil some more water for me? Ugh, so annoying!"

After giving the pants to her sister, Lin Lanshan used a small stove to boil a pot of water.

When Lin Chunyi returned, she took her own washbasin and washed her pants with warm water.

"Sis, what do you want to eat? I'll make it."

"Just do something, I'm not feeling well right now, I just want to go back and lie down for a while."

"Whatever, whatever. You're in this state, and it's raining today, so of course you need some hot soup. You sleep a little longer, I'll go make dinner."

Lin Lanshan arrived at the outer courtyard alone with an umbrella. Most of the tomatoes there were still half green and half red.

She looked around and picked the reddest one, then went back to the kitchen.

Lin Lanshan decided to make dumpling soup for breakfast today.

Wash and peel the tomatoes, then dice them. Slice two cloves of garlic.

Heat the fire in the pan, then scoop out half a spoonful of lard. The lard melts and starts to smoke.

Sprinkle some fine salt, add sliced ​​garlic and sauté until fragrant. Add tomatoes and sauté until they are half-crushed and half-granulated. Then add two ladles of water and start making tomato soup.

She took a bowl, added some water, cracked an egg into it, and whisked everything together. Then she poured it into a large bowl of wheat flour soup. She used chopsticks to stir it into small, evenly sized lumps.

At this point, the tomato soup in the pot started to bubble, so I put all the small dumplings into the pot.

She added another piece of firewood to the stove and continued cooking.

Once the dough pieces have floated to the surface of the soup, pour in a bowl of freshly beaten egg.

Add some salt and soy sauce, simmer for a while, then remove from heat. The hot dumpling soup is ready to serve.

Lin Lanshan brought two bowls of tomato and egg noodle soup to the bedroom.

"Sis, wake up, it's time to eat."

Lin Chunyi had already smelled the aroma and was leaning against the bedside waiting for her meal.

"Try it and see if I make it well." Lin Lanshan moved the kang table over and placed it on the bed.

He handed the rice spoon to his older sister, looking at her expectantly.

Lin Chunyi blew on the rim of the bowl and drank a few spoonfuls.

"It's sour and salty, the broth is rich and delicious. Your cooking skills are getting better and better. Eat up, it'll get cold soon."

"Hehe, then you should rest and rest these few days, I'll cook."

After breakfast, Lin Lanshan cleaned up the dishes, brewed a small pot of brown sugar ginger tea on the stove, poured it into two thermos cups, and placed them by the bedside.

Then I crawled back into bed and asked my older sister, who was reading a book next to me:

"I don't know when this rain will stop, and I can't do any work. What should I do?"

Lin Chunyi looked up from the book and said:

"Just lie down. We rarely get to lie down like this. It's a good opportunity to rest for a few days. Come on, let's read a book together."

Lin Lanshan leaned over, just as her sister had turned to the page on raising chickens in "The Complete Guide to Animal Husbandry".

"Sis, do you want to raise chickens?"

Lin Chunyi replied:

"Hmm... If we raise a laying hen, we won't have to buy eggs or look for wild eggs anymore."

He added:

"Besides, it's just the two of us in the mountains, and it feels a bit lonely after a while..."

“A hen…isn’t a pet. We can buy a puppy, something fluffy, that can come hunting with us.” Lin Lanshan became interested when talking about keeping pets.

Lin Chunyi shook her head and said:

"I want the kind of thing you see in novels, where you pick up a wolf cub or a tiger cub, raise it, and then ride it around in the mountains."

Her eyes started to sparkle.

Lin Lanshan was speechless. "Sister, wake up... those are wild animals. Even if you raise them from cubs, you can't guarantee they won't devour their owners. It's too dangerous."

He also said:

"I just can't understand the feeling of killing someone's parents, finding their child, taking the parents' flesh and skin, and then taking the child home to raise..."

Lin Chunyi thought about that scene, her expression somewhat complicated.

"Okay, you have a point. Then we can raise one too..."

They lay in bed like that for four days until Lin Chunyi's period ended.

The rain, sometimes heavy and sometimes light, lasted for seven days.

And so November arrived.

Lin Chunyi opened the door, stretched, and said:

"Finally, the sky is clear! The weather is so nice. The ground is dry too. Let's go out and have a look today."

Lin Lanshan walked out lazily, "Before I go out, I need to catch up on the skills I've fallen behind on these past few days."

"Come on, your bones must be stiff from lying around all day. Let me loosen them for you. Hehe..."

Okay, after not practicing for a few days, my body really feels stiff.

They practiced their moves for an hour and then ran for half an hour.

Hmm! That feels right now, my whole body feels so much better!

The two sisters went out with baskets on their backs and cut the thickest bamboo in the bamboo forest.

They dragged it to a large meadow under a small waterfall, found a large rock, and put the thing down.

Lin Chunyi gathered a lot of withered grass and dry branches and piled them up.

Lin Lanshan, standing nearby, cut the long bamboo into three sections.

"Sister, let's make these thick sections at the bottom into cups. We only have small teacups at home, and we always use bowls to drink water, which is so inconvenient."

"Okay, you start it up first, I'll start the fire."

After Lin Chunyi started the fire, she sat down next to her sister and used a machete to make four cuts on one end of each of the two bamboo poles that had been cut down.

Sharpen the cut section with a knife to a point, and stuff a stone slightly larger than the bamboo tube inside.

The eight bamboo tips were then stretched open.

Then tie strips of cloth to secure the stone inside, and the harpoon is done!

Lin Lanshan cut out three thick bamboo sections, each about a hand's length long, and smoothed out the bottom and rim of the cup.

I scraped the inside of the cup with a bamboo knife and cleaned it thoroughly. The three bamboo cups were now finished.