Sisters in the Deep Forest Valley: Many Fun Things

Start placing pebbles from the outer courtyard entrance, making sure the width is enough for two people to pass through.

Continue laying the paving until you reach the nearest stream to your home, and you're done.

The sun had already set when the two finished paving the pebble path. Lin Chunyi was very satisfied. "Let's go to the mountains to find some wild fruits tomorrow."

Lin Lanshan nodded, then waved and shouted for Taozi and the others to go home.

The two sisters treated them like royalty, boiling water and washing the mud off their bodies.

Then I dried them with their special cloth before letting them go back to their own home to sleep.

bedroom.

"Sis, we need to bring snake repellent pills when we go out tomorrow. With this weather, snakes should be coming out by now."

Lin Chunyi took out the two snake-repelling pills from last year, opened a new one, and said:

“Break this in half and make five small cloth bags for the peaches to wear as well.”

Lin Lanshan was somewhat puzzled:

"Aren't geese supposed to eat snakes? Let's not worry about that, okay? Besides, we don't even know if they can smell this; after all, we're all animals..."

"Chickens and geese are birds, not beasts! These pills are for repelling snakes, centipedes, and poisonous insects, so it's fine. Just wear them just in case. With their small bodies, how big of a snake could they possibly handle? What if it's as big as the one we encountered last time?"

The two sisters remembered the giant snake they encountered on their way home from their first trip down the mountain, and a chill ran down their spines.

Lin Chunyi took out five different colored scraps of fabric: red, blue, purple, and so on.

Each person took a needle and a spool of thread and sewed together five small cloth bags.

Then put the insect repellent pills, which have been broken into several pieces, into a cloth bag and tie it tightly with a thin string.

The next day, as dawn broke.

The two sisters packed their baskets, bows and arrows, and weapons. They also put on their snake-repelling and insect-repelling pills.

Then they took out the peaches and the symbols of reunion and peace, and tied cloth bags around each of their necks.

The peaches were fine, remaining quiet the whole time. The reunion and peace were unhappy, shrinking back and turning away.

Lin Chunyi yelled at each of them before they quieted down and obediently got tied up.

Before leaving, the two sisters said very seriously to Peach and the others:

"You can come with us into the mountains, but you must stay close to us and not run around. If you get eaten by wild animals, you won't be able to come back. Also, you're not allowed to tear off the cloth bag; if you lose it, you'll be in for a beating."

A group of little guys with colorful cloth bags hanging around their necks chirped, "Uh-huh," "Giggle," and "Chirp," and agreed!

Lin Lanshan then opened the outer courtyard gate. "Let's go, let's set off, into the deep mountains...!"

Lin Chunyi and Lin Lanshan walked in front, Tuanyuan Ankang followed closely behind them, and Taozi brought up the rear.

A large group headed into the deep mountains.

The sunlight streamed down, turning the dense forest a vibrant green. Countless wildflowers, grasses, and wild fruits lined the path.

Black nightshade fruit is poisonous...

Pokeweed fruit, unfortunately it's purplish-red and poisonous...

The fruit of the wild hawthorn tree is edible, but it hasn't started bearing fruit yet...

Lin Chunyi held a copy of "Common Wild Fruits in the Wild" in her hands. Whenever the two sisters saw wild fruits, they would flip through the book.

They found several Japanese jujube trees!

Unfortunately, the small white five-pointed star flowers have just bloomed, and it will be a long time before the fruit ripens.

That can't be right. It's already the end of June, and there aren't any wild fruits to eat yet?

At this time, the family is reunited and at peace. They run to the green leaves on the ground to peck at the red fruits and eat them, while the peaches stretch their necks to reach down.

Lin Lanshan leaned closer to take a look and said, "Sister, they're eating snake venom."

Snakeberry is also known as wild strawberry, and its fruit resembles that of a wild strawberry. It has five yellow petals and three leaves with serrated edges.

The whole plant can be used to make medicine, and when eaten, it has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.

Lin Chunyi looked troubled and said:

"This thing... we can actually eat it. It's just that the old folks used to say it's a fruit that grew after a snake crawled over it. I can't really accept that, so I'll pass."

Lin Lanshan also felt a little nauseous.

"Forget it, I can't stand anything related to snakes anymore. Let's pick some peaches and 'Reunion and Peace' to take back. Look, they seem to like them quite a bit. It's just that it seems like we can't get many peaches, hahaha."

"But seeing wild strawberries... it reminds me, there should be prickly berries around this time of year. Let's look carefully later, they look quite similar to wild strawberries," Lin Chunyi said after a pause.

Berry: Raspberries, thorn berries, and other berries are often called thorn berries.

The raspberry mentioned is also called raspberry.

The two squatted down and began picking wild strawberries, feeding a handful to Taozi after picking two handfuls.

Peach happily shook her head.

This entire patch, except for the ones that had already been eaten during the Reunion and Peace Festival, was picked clean by the two of them.

"Let's go find the prickly pear."

The main group continued forward, passing through grass and bushes.

Along the way, Tuanyuan Ankang and Taozi were especially excited. Tuanyuan Ankang took a bite here and a stomp on the ground there.

The peach tree grows tall, so it bites at the tall branches, leaves, and wildflowers.

"Sister, these little fruits look just like lily of the valley flowers, they're so pretty!"

Lin Chunyi stared at it for a moment, feeling a sense of familiarity. She flipped through the book and exclaimed excitedly:

"These are persimmons, and the small berries that look like lily of the valley are wild blueberries! They'll be ripe in about a month!"

"These are blueberries? Then we don't have to worry about those few dying blueberry seedlings at home anymore, hahaha!" Lin Lanshan's face was beaming with joy.

They begged and pleaded with the blueberry seedlings to survive.

Then three more trees died!

The two carefully noted down the location and continued on their way.

They searched all the way to a hillside and finally found the prickly pear among the tall bushes.

Among the heart-shaped leaves are tiny red and yellow berries—these are prickly berries!

The two sisters picked a few red ones and ate them; they were sweet with a hint of sourness.

Now the peach's size gives it an advantage; it can eat the leaves and fruit together.

"Peach, be careful when you eat it, there are thorns on the branches."

Seeing how happily Sister Peach was eating, Tuanyuan Ankang became anxious.

They all stretched their necks and flapped their wings, desperately hopping and leaping towards the fruit, wanting to take a bite.

You can't get it! You simply can't get it!

They chirped anxiously, "Chirp chirp," "Caw caw caw."

Lin Lanshan raised her hand and said, "Stop, don't make a fuss! I'll pick them for you first, okay?"

Unable to bear the noise any longer, the two sisters picked a bunch of fruit and placed them on the ground so that Tuanyuan Ankang could eat them.

They only started picking what they wanted to eat.

Raising pets is not easy, the sisters sighed.

Fortunately, there were plenty of prickly pears, enough to feed their whole family for several meals.

The bright red ones are ripe; pick them all.

We picked and ate at the same time, and it took us more than half an hour to finish picking all the wild raspberries.

It's still early, let's keep going and look for something else.

When they reached the middle of the mountain, they smelled a pleasant fragrance of flowers.

Clusters of slender, golden and silvery-white flowers bloom on the green vines.

It's honeysuckle, which is a good thing.