Sisters in the Deep Forest Valley: Many Fun Things

The two sisters simply pulled up all the lettuce, cut off the roots still attached to the soil, and threw them into the ground to compost.

Then throw the outermost layer of old leaves into the peach and reunion food trough.

Let's give them a surprise when they come back!

Lin Lanshan brought over two small wooden stools, and the two sisters sat on the ground peeling the skin.

The two of them spent most of the hour peeling more than thirty lettuce plants, then left the peels on the ground.

Then I carried a basket full of slippery lettuce to wash it clean and brought it back to the kitchen.

The best way to eat lettuce is definitely in a cold salad!

After the two assigned tasks, Lin Chunyi shredded six lettuce stalks, added minced garlic, salt and other seasonings, and made a cold salad.

Lin Lanshan cut twenty lettuce stalks into long, thin strips, sprinkled them with salt to draw out the moisture, and then placed them in a winnowing basket to dry.

The remaining five were cut into rolling cuts, and the other five were cut into diamond-shaped slices.

I'll keep them all in the space, saving them for later stewing cured pig's trotters and stir-frying.

After cleaning the lettuce, it was time to go out and practice my martial arts.

As soon as the sun set, the two sisters took Peach and the others home on time.

"Uh-huh", "Giggle", "Coo-coo"

After a long day of "working" outside, Taozi and Tuanyuan Ankang said:

Going home and having a late-night snack before bed, how wonderful!

By the way, Tuantuan and Yuanyuan have grown up and their voices have changed.

Now I keep making cooing noises all day long... like I'm looking for a master.

Lin Chunyi cooked a pot of thin porridge, and the two sisters ate it with chive dumplings and cold shredded lettuce for dinner.

In early July, even the valley, which is cool in winter and cool in summer, began to get hot.

After dinner, the two sisters, dressed in modern short-sleeved shirts and shorts, sat under the osmanthus tree to cool off.

Lin Chunyi lay sprawled on the stone table, listlessly fanning herself with a feather fan, and said weakly:

"It seems like it got hot earlier this year than last year. I remember when we first arrived it was already mid-July, and it wasn't this hot then."

"It's really hot... Sis, now that you mention it, I just remembered. It's almost been a year since we came here!"

Moreover, Lin Lanshan belatedly realized that she had stayed here for a year.

Her memories of her past life have become somewhat hazy.

Lin Chunyi also sighed:

"A year has passed, time really flies..."

The topic of lamenting the passing of spring and the coming of autumn is not suitable for summer, and the two sisters quickly snapped out of their sweltering heat.

They went back to the kitchen and cooked a large pot of mung bean soup, which they then hung in the well.

The vegetables planted in the outer courtyard a few months ago are not yet ripe. Those planted recently haven't even sprouted true leaves yet.

That's perfect, I'll take some chilled mung bean soup to the mountains tomorrow and see if I can make any money there.

They need to go down the mountain in a few days to buy some things in town and give the tax money to the village chief.

Before his death, Lin's father asked the village chief's family for help, hoping they could take care of Lin Chunyi and Lin Lanshan when they came down the mountain.

The village head also pays the taxes on behalf of the villagers.

They paid them one-fifth of the rent for the land they had rented to their family as compensation.

This continued until the two sisters reached adulthood and were able to handle their own affairs.

The two sisters are currently orphans, have no male relatives, and are not yet of marriageable age.

So now they only need to pay the poll tax for minors and the land tax.

The two sisters calculated the money they had to hand over this year, and Lin Lanshan sighed deeply.

"Sis, looks like we need to work harder to earn money. After all, we'll be paying the single tax in a few years, and the two of us will have to pay it for twelve years..."

“In some dynasties, if a person did not marry by a certain age, they would be forcibly assigned a spouse, and in the most serious cases, they would even be imprisoned! But we only need to pay money, which is considered good.”

Is it illegal to be single? Yes.

In ancient times, being single was a crime!

(In this book, women aged 18 to 30 in Jing Kingdom who do not marry are required to pay a single tax every year, which is five times the poll tax.)

If someone is over thirty and still unmarried, they will be deemed to have no chance of getting married, and the government will no longer interfere.

As for getting married here... neither of them had even considered it.

How could that be?

With secrets like soul-swapping and spatial abilities, let alone marriage!

Even when making ordinary friends with outsiders, the two sisters have to be extremely cautious.

Moreover, the living conditions for women here are extremely difficult...

The three older sisters I met when I went to the county last time are an example.

In modern times, it would be absurd for outsiders to say that a married woman who dresses too extravagantly is disgracing her husband's family.

Even if you don't slap her face until it's swollen, you should at least curse her ancestors for generations!

At this vibrant age, one should be living a free and bold life...

However, they married early and lived cautiously, watching their mothers-in-law and husbands' expressions.

When they are verbally abused by outsiders, they can only suffer in silence. They even have to beg those people not to ruin their reputation.

I'm getting angrier the more I think about it! What a load of rubbish!

Marriage is a joke! They'd rather pay decades of single tax than end up in a rotten grave!

Moreover, they were unwilling to leave the valley, nor were they willing to let outsiders into it.

Although the mountain doesn't belong to them, they are genuinely considering working hard to earn money to buy it and make it truly their mountain.

None of this is the point!

The key point is that they now feel a great sense of crisis about the money left in their household!

They need to earn more money to continue living a carefree life in the valley.

So, the two sisters, who were known as hunters but not hunters, finally decided to start hunting seriously!

Summer and autumn are rainy and warm, with plenty of food. Therefore, during this time, the largest and most active wild animals are the most numerous.

Ideally, they would encounter a few tigers, black bears, or deer, allowing them to earn a large sum of money.

He paid twelve years' worth of single tax all at once.

As for fear and worry, they don't exist.

Lin Chunyi and Lin Lanshan might not be very confident in dealing with cunning and unpredictable people.

But the wild animals in the mountains...

As long as they're not in large groups, they feel confident they can handle it without fear!

the next day.

The two sisters packed their gear and set off early in the morning.

Peach and Tuanyuan Ankang have very sharp eyes and ears, and they immediately followed behind them, "Uh..."

Lin Lanshan made an X with her hands, refusing:

"Stop, everyone be quiet. We're going hunting in the deep mountains; we might encounter tigers and black bears. Are you going to follow them and provide them with food?"

Peach and Reunion & Peace hung their heads and called out twice, their voices filled with dejection.

Lin Chunyi patted Taozi's head, then patted Tuanyuan and Ankang's heads, comforting them:

"Run a little more, try to run even faster. Next time I take you, at least I won't have to worry about your lives all the time."

The two sisters left the valley and headed straight for the westernmost part.

That place is frequented by large wild animals.

"Lanshan, be careful, pay attention to your surroundings."

"Ah."

They no longer joked and played around as usual; instead, they all wore serious expressions, their bodies tense, and all five senses were fully activated.

The sounds of their breathing, heartbeats, and footsteps, along with the chirping of cicadas in the trees and the fluttering of startled birds...

Everything was heard very clearly.

The further west they went, the more nervous they became.