Sisters in the Deep Forest Valley: Many Fun Things

They had some short blue and purple feathers left. They used a few copper coins and some scraps of cloth to make a shuttlecock.

The two played shuttlecock in the yard for an entire afternoon.

At dawn, Peach and Reunion & Peace began calling out to their two owners, one after the other, to wake them up...

Before they raised them, the first thing Lin Chunyi and Lin Lanshan did every morning after getting up was to practice martial arts.

After getting them, the first thing I do every morning is to let them out of their "prison" to find food.

Yes, grains and vegetable scraps have become occasional supplies, so they have to go out and find their own food every day.

Lin Chunyi opened the fence in front of their house.

"Go on, go on, don't come back after you've eaten your fill, just remember to go home and sleep tonight. You crow every day on the hour, even the roosters don't work as hard as you."

"Sister, once the wings of the Reunion and Peace Fly have grown longer, this fence probably won't be able to hold them back."

Lin Chunyi said through gritted teeth:

“Look where they can fly. A few times we ran through the mountains and found them gone, thinking they'd been eaten by something. We were so worried we searched the whole valley. Turns out they'd all just slipped home to sleep…”

They were caught several more times later.

The two sisters then came up with a plan:

When running uphill, call out to them every now and then to prevent them from getting lazy and running away.

With a home, even the mules, chickens, and geese that run far away know how to find their way home.

After watching them leave, the two began practicing martial arts and getting ready for their work for the day.

The sweet potato vines have grown tall, and yesterday they cut fifteen thick, healthy stems.

Then cut every five nodes, leaving only the sweet potato leaves from the first two nodes and cutting off all the remaining leaves.

These three nodes without leaves are where sweet potatoes will grow later.

In the end, more than fifty sweet potato seedlings were cut out.

Before the sun had even risen, the two sisters hurried to the outer courtyard to plant seedlings.

Dig six rows of shallow ditches on the land that has already been fertilized.

Sprinkle cold wood ash into the ditch, then lay the sweet potato seedlings flat in the shallow ditch, arranging them neatly.

Leave the leaves exposed, cover them with soil, and then water them.

Lin Chunyi turned her waist and said to her younger sister:

"Finally, we've planted the sweet potatoes, and now we don't have any more tiring work to do."

"Shall we go for a walk in the mountains tomorrow? There must be a lot of wild fruits ripening lately. Let's bring Taozi and the others along this time. They're so clever and fast, they should be fine."

"Go ahead and take him. He's been training in the valley for so long, it's time to take him out for a spin. But I suddenly remembered something, something very important, about you."

"What is it?" Lin Lanshan asked, puzzled.

"Didn't I say last year that the 'Tofu Beauty' has come to our house? Aren't you going to confirm your identity?"

"..."

Lin Lanshan gripped the dung ladle in her hand, feeling an extremely strong urge.

Lin Chunyi, seeing her younger sister staring at the manure scoop in her hand, then glancing at herself, broke out in a sweat and said:

"...It's not that urgent, I just suddenly remembered. How about we make some tofu sometime? Don't you want Mapo Tofu or Pan-fried Tofu?"

"Why not just buy it in town? Making tofu is such a hassle; you need a stone mill and gypsum to do it."

"Does homemade food taste better? I'd also like to try making dried bean curd sticks and tofu skin."

Okay, Lin Lanshan gave in.

The two decided to go to town next time to buy a stone mill and gypsum to make tofu.

The weather in June is unpredictable.

Yesterday the sun shone brightly, and today it pours rain.

The two sisters couldn't go to the mountains, so they could only stay at home and sleep.

Three days later, the rain stopped and the sky cleared.

The air in the entire valley was filled with the moist scent of earth and grass.

Peach and the others can finally go out. They were so bored at home for days.

As soon as the door opened, they all rushed out and disappeared.

As soon as Lin Chunyi and her sister stepped out of the outer courtyard, they discovered that the soil on the ground was still uneven.

If you go out and come back, you'll be covered in mud.

Lin Chunyi sighed and said:

"It rarely rains here, so I forgot about that. If we want it to be clean, we need to fix the roads first. Perfect timing, let's fix the roads while the ground is still sticky."

The two retreated and went back to their room to clear out the items in the space.

Then he changed into old wooden clogs, slung a basket over his shoulder, grabbed an axe, and went out again.

They're going to collect lots of stones today to build a pebble path.

The two sisters picked up pebbles along the way and came to a stream where they saw the "escaped prisoners" from their home.

The peaches were eating grass as usual, Tuan Tuan Yuan Yuan was looking for insects, and An An Kang Kang was swimming...

Go into the water?

Lin Lanshan roared:

"Hello, come on up. Have your wings grown strong enough to go into the water? It just rained a few days ago, and the water is so cold. What if you get sick!"

They had finished speaking, but they were already swimming in the water, their heads submerged.

An'an suddenly stretched her neck out of the water, with a small fish in her mouth, and swam towards the shore.

The two sisters were stunned. Do geese catch and eat fish? Aren't they herbivores?

six……

For some reason, Lin Lanshan recalled the scene of her first time catching fish, clapped her hands and said:

"You're awesome."

Kang Kang also took a fish ashore.

"Well, you two are both quite impressive." They've learned to catch fish on their own at such a young age.

Lin Chunyi, standing to the side, couldn't stop laughing:

"I didn't expect you guys to have this trick up your sleeve. Where are our fish? Why aren't any of ours here?"

He walked towards An'an Kangkang and reached out for a fish.

An'an and Kang Kang craned their necks to look at their owner, then shook their feathers and handed over the fish in their mouths.

Lin Chunyi was truly stunned. She put the two small fish on the ground, then hugged them and said to her younger sister:

"My goodness, I never thought we would one day live the life of being raised by a goose."

"You guys eat, I was just teasing you." He patted their heads.

"Giggle, giggle," An'an Kangkang finally picked up the fish from the ground and started eating.

"It's a bit ridiculous that they can understand human speech. Look at Peach and Tuan Tuan Yuan Yuan..."

Lin Lanshan was shocked time and time again.

Peach, with a blade of grass in its mouth, and Tuan Tuan, with an insect in its mouth, came over to compete for attention.

Is this still a farming world? Or is this a cultivation world? The two sisters were dumbfounded.

Lin Chunyi tentatively asked Taozi:

"Are you a demon who cultivates?"

"..."

Peach's tiny eyes were filled with confusion: "Eat up, mine is the best!"

Okay, it doesn't seem so.

Then they looked at Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, and placed the insects in front of the two sisters.

They chirped, "Chirp, chirp: There's mine too, mine is the best!"

Whether they're super cute or not, I don't know, but the two sisters found them to be just too adorable! So well-behaved!

Lin Chunyi and Lin Lanshan patted and hugged each of them's heads, then let them go off to play.

The two continued collecting stones, carrying the smaller ones and breaking the larger ones into pieces before carrying those as well.

Once their space and two large baskets were full, they began paving the road with pebbles.