Sisters in the Deep Forest Valley: Many Fun Things

I'll finish all the important chores around the house these next few days.

Build a house for the peaches, chickens, and geese, and then repair the threshold of the inner courtyard so that the carriage can pass through easily.

Next, we need to transplant the vegetable seedlings from the outer yard, and the sweet potatoes should be planted as well.

If they don't complete these things beforehand, they won't be able to properly practice their lightness skills and weapons.

If you want to speed, you can't reach it.

If you want to learn something new, the first thing you need to do is to be able to concentrate without distractions.

"Sister, do you know how to build a house?"

"Obviously, I won't."

So they vacated the largest storage room, which was about 40 square meters and located near the entrance.

It is divided into three areas: Peach's house, the house of two chickens, and the house of two geese.

"Sis, can we teach them to poop where they're supposed to? I don't want to be a poop scooper every day."

You might get temporary pleasure from spending money, but cleaning up after your pet is like going through hell!

"Let's teach them first. If it doesn't work, we'll think about whether we can get them a toilet too. Then we can just flush it with water."

Now, we've laid out nests for them in their respective homes. The chickens and geese are still small, so we'll put out thicker nests to keep them warm at night.

I filled their respective food and water troughs with food and water, and then began to teach them over and over again not to poop in the places where they were eating, drinking, and sleeping.

The next step was to address the threshold, which was attached to the courtyard wall using blue bricks.

Lin Chunyi came up with the simplest, yet most troublesome, solution.

By knocking open the gaps on both sides of the threshold, this whole blue brick threshold becomes a movable threshold.

The two men squatted on the threshold, each holding an axe.

"Sis, is this okay? Are there any taboos here?"

After pondering for a moment, Lin Chunyi said:

"Some families have removable door sills for easy carriage access. They take them off and put them back on every day, and nothing happens. We're not doing anything wrong. It's fine, we can take them off!"

They each knocked on one side, and after a whole day of hammering and knocking, they finally managed to open up both sides and the bottom.

This whole blue brick threshold can now be moved.

"Sis, this threshold is so heavy!"

"It's okay, we don't move things every day, just treat it as a way to build up our strength."

The two sisters then worked together to move the carriage inside and placed it in the storage room next to Peach's house.

Finally, just move the threshold back.

After lunch, we began transplanting the seedlings.

Lin Lanshan counted the strawberry seedlings in the field, her face full of disbelief.

"Sis, the survival rate of these strawberries is so low. We sowed fifty seeds, and only eighteen of them grew into seedlings! We used up half a bag of six seeds, and we can't believe that only a few survived."

Lin Chunyi sighed:

"Why don't you count the blueberry seedlings again..."

Blueberries fared even worse; out of fifty seeds, only nine sprouted!

Since there are only a few sparse seedlings left, I dare not touch their precious bodies.

That saves us the trouble of transplanting them; let them continue to grow in this field.

Then, carefully transplant the other seedlings.

Corn, watermelon, lettuce, etc... It took another two days.

The next important task is to cultivate sweet potato seedlings!

Like the potatoes, they only brought five. So, they left two in their storage space.

Sweet potato porridge, candied sweet potatoes, sweet potato cakes, roasted sweet potatoes... Here we come!

It's only the beginning of May, and they've decided to use the soil cultivation method to grow seedlings.

First, water the land lightly to keep the soil moist. Then dig a shallow trench, place the sweet potatoes horizontally in it, and cover them with soil.

After about a month, once a string of sweet potato vines has grown, the seedlings are considered ready. That's when you really start planting sweet potatoes.

With most of the important chores at home done, the two could finally settle down and focus on learning martial arts and weapons.

"Sis, we need to plan our practice time properly each day."

The kung fu passed down from our ancestors, mountain running, sparring, weapons...

Lin Chunyi quickly went through it in her mind.

“Every morning I practice two sets of kung fu at home, and after breakfast I spar. In the afternoon I learn weapons in the valley, and after learning weapons I run up the mountain with a heavy load, and then I go home for dinner.”

Each task should be arranged reasonably, and none should be neglected or abandoned.

At first, you might not be able to manage your time well because of the new practice exercises.

Once they are familiar with it, we can gradually increase the duration and amount of practice.

"Then let's cook a few more meals today, and officially start tomorrow."

The two sisters rested for a while before going into the kitchen.

I lit the fire, cooked rice, stir-fried vegetables... and even rendered some lard from the newly bought lard.

The pork cracklings were chopped up along with the last two cabbages in the cellar, and a lot of dumplings were made and cooked.

The next day, the two resumed getting up early. Mornings were for practicing martial arts and sparring.

At Shenshi (3-5 PM), the valley is flat.

The two sisters sat on a rock, carefully memorizing the basic weapon moves they were going to learn.

They couldn't hide their excitement; they were finally able to learn something new!

Lin Chunyi took out a nine-section whip.

Her nine-section whip is four and a half feet long. The steel sections of the whip are not whole sections, but rather small sections, like a dragon bone whip, which can move slightly.

There is also a double-edged dagger at the end.

This kind of whip is easier to control and simpler to swing.

Whip techniques include swinging, sweeping, wrapping, circling, and throwing, allowing for long-range control and killing of enemies.

Lin Chunyi wrapped the whip around her hand and gripped the handle tightly.

He flung it out suddenly, then spun around, whipping it in a circle before crashing to the ground.

The whip struck the ground with a loud thud, leaving a deep mark on the ground.

On the other side, Lin Lanshan's two short knives were about a foot long, each with a steel ring on the handle.

Learning to use two swords is a bit more difficult because it requires coordination between the left and right sides to make different variations.

Lin Lanshan held the swords in both hands, coordinating her movements with her steps, slashing upwards and downwards, then flipping sideways in mid-air before plunging both swords into the ground.

Both of them learned from the methods in the book and gradually figured out how to use their own weapons.

An hour later, the sun was about to set. The two put away their weapons and regulated their breathing.

"Don't bite off more than you can chew. Let's take it slow. Let's rest for a bit, then go for a run in the mountains."

After Lin Chunyi finished speaking to her sister, she began to tie cloth bags around her legs, and Lin Lanshan did the same.

They made this cloth bag a few days ago when they had some free time.

It is filled with dry sand, and the method is similar to making sandbags.

They made many different weights.

When they first started hiking, they only tied about five kilograms of cloth bags to their arms and legs.

"Alright, sis, let's see who can finish running through the valley first, get ready..."

Lin Lanshan stretched her slightly heavy body, eager to try.

"start!"

The two darted out and ran around the valley...

And so, more than half a month passed, and it was already late May.

In the valley, Lin Chunyi and Lin Lanshan stood on the ground in front of two very familiar, tattered scarecrows.