Sisters in the Deep Forest Valley: Many Fun Things

Chapter 103 Straight to the Point: Two Minor Foreshadowing Elements

All it takes is a simple mouthful of three or four pieces, then a quick chew...

Ugh! What is this? It tastes awful! I'd better give it to my younger siblings; they have better appetites.

Then, carefully avoiding the thorns, it bit the nearby branches and leaves, tearing off five or six rose hips that fell to the ground.

A family reunion and peace awaiting their elder sister to feed them from a low place.

The two owners and the eldest sister all ate it and then spat it out. Is this fruit still edible?

Of course you can! Just pop it in your mouth!

Then, this scene appeared:

Two long necks twisted and turned, shaking their heads as if they were about to take off; two necks that were barely visible couldn't shake their heads, so they just kept shaking them...

Lin Lanshan grabbed a few pieces of dried peach and fed them to the animals, saying, "I'll teach you to be greedy. You eat whatever you see every day."

"Let's go back. We'll come again after the Mid-Autumn Festival," Lin Chunyi said, taking a few pieces of dried peach from her younger sister's hand and eating them.

"Sister, the Mid-Autumn Festival is in four days. There are a few more members in the family this year. How about we have a feast for them too?"

She chewed on the sweet and sour fruit, thought for a long time, then patted her sister's shoulder and said in a serious tone:

"This is the first Reunion Festival since Taozi and Tuanyuan Ankang arrived! We must prepare a big feast for them too."

How about this, you contribute one of your crisp peaches; peaches love this the most.

As for Tuantuan and Yuanyuan, let's make them a big grass cake.

"An'an and Kang Kang will be fine; I'll just make them some crucian carp soup."

"?" Lin Lanshan was increasingly confused as she listened, feeling as if her older sister had suddenly been possessed by something evil. "You've encountered a ghost in broad daylight!"

It's clearly just a matter of two bunches of tender grass and two fish, listen to what you're saying, is that even human language?

"Hahaha, by the way, let's grind some tofu and put it in the fish soup later, I want to eat some too..."

Wait, why didn't you object when I asked you to contribute a crisp peach to the peach vendor?

Lin Chunyi pointed at her younger sister, somewhat incredulous, "I asked you to give me a crisp peach and you wouldn't. In your heart, am I not even as important as a new family member?"

Then she covered her face with her sleeve and started to fake cry.

Lin Lanshan, hands on her hips, said, "Come on, Taozi treats me like her master, but you treat me like a donkey. I don't care about her."

"You're talking nonsense! I'm clearly still using myself like a donkey! Let's go, it's time to go back and dry the strawberries~"

……

They carefully picked out the pickled strawberries with chopsticks and laid them out one by one on a winnowing basket in the yard to dry.

There was some strawberry juice left over from the pickling, not much. We diluted it with some cooled boiled water, enough for them to drink for a day.

While the dried strawberries were drying in the sun, the two sisters weren't idle. They went down into the cellar to check if any of the vegetables and fruits they had picked over the past few days showed signs of spoilage.

The cellar now contains just as much stuff as it did when they first arrived.

Just talking about food:

There were piles of rice and flour, weighing nearly a thousand pounds. There were also several bags of beans and millet.

The various cured meats they had previously consumed were gradually used up, but they continued to add a lot more, including pheasants, wild boars, rabbits, and fish.

Then there were the vegetables and melons they grew: potatoes, corn, winter melon, tomatoes, peppers, and ten watermelons.

Every time the two of them came in and saw all the food in the room, they felt extremely at ease.

Lin Lanshan shook her head and said, "Sister, our space is still too small. If we had a cellar as big, we could store everything at once."

"From now on, we won't need to make any more cured meats, dried meats, or jams. We can just store everything fresh, and grab whatever we want to eat!"

"Check everything carefully, then go back to sleep. You can dream about anything..."

The size of our space was determined by God, based on the combined capacity of the suitcase and two bags we brought.

Even if God really wanted to increase our size, there's no suitable reason. How to increase it, and in which direction?

"Your dreams are unreliable now." Lin Chunyi checked each bag of grain, starting from the innermost one.

Lin Lanshan muttered under her breath, "Then God has to give you a reason for doing things. Just like how we woke up one day and found ourselves in this world, and then we woke up the next day and there was another reason."

The two sisters probably just complained casually, but they never expected that one day in the future... their lives would really change.

Although, for what they saw and experienced at that time, the change in space wasn't particularly surprising...

end of September.

Two jars of dried strawberries, already dried and packed, are ready for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

As usual for the festival, they brought pastries, fruits, and flowers and first went to sweep the graves of the Lin family.

Gently putting down the flowers they had picked by the roadside, the two sisters thought to themselves: The Lin family must be reunited once again.

But when they thought of their parents, they really didn't know how to describe how painful it was.

Since they came to this point, apart from vaguely sensing that their parents are still alive and well... they haven't even seen them once in their dreams.

As expected, the osmanthus flowers didn't bloom this Mid-Autumn Festival.

The two sisters were inexplicably not in a good mood either. They gave their pets an extra meal and just spent the holiday quietly like that.

……

And the third day after the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The two sisters were sleeping soundly in their bedroom when the osmanthus flowers in the courtyard quietly bloomed.

A cool breeze carried the fragrance of flowers into the room, and the two of them were awakened by the scent.

"Lanshan, what a strong fragrance! Are the osmanthus flowers in bloom?" Lin Chunyi got out of bed in her pajamas, put on her shoes, and went to open the door.

"Let's go out and take a look." Lin Lanshan followed closely to the door.

A gust of wind outside blew a few osmanthus blossoms onto them. The two women then grabbed handfuls of the tiny blossoms from their hands.

Lin Lanshan sniffed the flower in her palm, then looked at the trees full of golden yellow blossoms in the yard, and said happily:

"They're really blooming. Sis, don't you feel that the osmanthus flowers are blooming more and smelling better this year than last year?"

"Is this what they call 'accumulating strength for a future breakthrough'? Uh... that's it!" Lin Chunyi had barely finished speaking.

The flower lying in my palm was carried away by another gust of wind, disappearing without a trace.

"The wind is too strong; mine was blown away too. Let's go back and put our clothes on; the weather is finally starting to cool down."

Neither of them paid attention to the flowers that had left them, nor to the wind that kept blowing against them. They simply went back and put on an extra coat because it was getting cold.

The osmanthus flowers they had been talking about for days finally arrived, though they slipped through their fingers again.

Like some things in life, they may come late, but they will eventually arrive and eventually leave again.

Lin Chunyi, who was dressed inside, decided to do something big today. "Lanshan, there's not much sun today, and the wind is so strong. Let's make some spicy pork jerky!"

"Pork jerky? Great! I've been waiting for this for days!"