Sisters in the Deep Forest Valley: Many Fun Things

Chapter 304 The Sound of Firecrackers

In the courtyard, Lin Lanshan was holding a large pile of firewood, standing in the middle of the pebble path, smiling brightly.

Lin Chunyi expressed that she could not understand this at all.

firewood?

This, this really is firewood, there's no pun involved, it's the firewood they usually use for cooking!

What's going on? Is she planning to have a bonfire barbecue in broad daylight, and then the two sisters dance and eat barbecue around the crackling fire?

There was definitely a sound!

The way it's eaten is quite novel, huh?

But such a small noise doesn't really qualify as firecrackers...

Lin Chunyi pointed at the firewood in her hand and asked incredulously, "You? Huh? This isn't the firecrackers you prepared yesterday after working all afternoon and getting your face all blackened from all the banging, is it?"

Lin Lanshan said with a straight face, "Nonsense, your face is the one that got blown black! That was just some charcoal ash you accidentally got on it!"

After she finished speaking, she chuckled and said mysteriously, "Oh no! Don't be impatient! Once I light it, the firecrackers will appear!"

Lin Chunyi walked down into the yard with some skepticism and watched as her sister divided the firewood into two piles and then piled them up in the shape of a campfire.

Unlike the cone-shaped structures she often built in the mountains before, this time she built a "well" shaped structure.

It's like stacking two horizontally and two vertically, building them up higher and higher.

After stacking two piles of firewood, she went to the woodshed and brought over a bunch of easily ignitable dry pine needles, stuffed them into the holes in the firewood, and then lit them.

Two piles of firewood slowly ignited into red flames from the mouth of the "well".

As the firewood began to burn, the fire grew larger.

"Sis, move away, I'm about to start setting off firecrackers." Lin Lanshan rubbed her fingers together, looking excited.

Lin Chunyi took two steps back.

She waved her hand and said, "Step back a little more, or you might get hit if it explodes!"

Could it really explode? Is it that dangerous? So Lin Chunyi listened to the advice and took several steps back.

Lin Lanshan excitedly shouted, "Are you ready?"

The weight of the ceremony made Lin Chunyi feel a little nervous. She swallowed hard, her eyes fixed on the two bonfires in the middle of the courtyard, then nodded solemnly and replied, "Ready, all set!"

Happy New Year...

Before Lin Lanshan could finish shouting "Happy New Year," Taozi and Tuanyuan Ankang came running over excitedly.

"Ugh!" Warming up by the fire!

"Gah gah!" I want to warm myself by the fire too!

"Gurgle!" So warm and cozy~

They walked around the campfire once, found their own spot, and prepared to lie down on the ground.

Lin Lanshan slapped her forehead and said, "How could I forget about you troublemakers! Get up, get up, this is not a place for you to sleep. Stay away, or you'll scare something bad out of you!" Then she chased them away.

"Peach, may you be healthy and happy, and may your family be reunited. Come here, I have some delicious food here! Whoever gets here first can eat first~" Lin Chunyi called out to them from a distance.

delicious?

They all had very sharp ears; upon hearing this, they immediately got up and ran quickly in her direction.

There's no need to worry about the silly egg. It hasn't seen much firelight before, and just looking at it from a distance makes it feel dangerous, so it only dares to hide behind the kitchen door.

However, out of curiosity, it quietly peeked out to see what they were doing in such a cold place.

Lin Lanshan looked around the campfire, making sure everything was cleared out and it was safe.

So!

She took out many thin sticks from her spatial storage and quickly and accurately threw them into the two bonfires one after the other, then shouted:

"Happy New Year!"

Then he dodged and jumped a great distance away.

If it weren't for her good eyesight, Lin Chunyi almost wouldn't have seen what her sister had thrown in.

Her eyes widened, and she said, "Bamboo...bamboo pole?"

Burning bamboo poles? Wait, I feel like I've seen this somewhere before...

"Boom!"

"Boom boom boom!"

"..."

One loud bang after another came from the campfire.

Although it didn't make the crackling sound of firecrackers, the sound was certainly impressive!

Even the ringing was done at regular intervals, and it rang continuously for quite a while.

Lin Lanshan clapped her hands and said happily, "Great! The louder the firecrackers, the more prosperous the coming year will be!"

Lin Chunyi couldn't help but clap her hands and said in surprise, "These firecrackers are great! How did you come up with this idea? I didn't even think of it."

"These fresh bamboo stalks, when burned, will explode—the very same kind of firecracker used to usher in the new year!"

Moreover, the timing of the explosions was controlled to ensure that the sounds were continuous, one after another!

It seems she put a lot of effort into this yesterday afternoon.

"It's all thanks to my good memory. Yesterday, I was thinking about firecrackers, and I just casually looked around the yard and saw some dry bamboo in the woodshed."

"Hey! I just remembered being scared by firecrackers when I was a kid back in my hometown, hehe~" She grinned, laughing silly.

Lin Chunyi was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing:

"I remember now, it's because one year, the little boy next door who you often bullied tricked you into throwing the bamboo poles you had just cut into the stove. He said that because you were helping your hardworking grandma with cooking, everyone would praise you for being sensible and would even give you a reward..."

Haha, but I remember this was when you were five or six years old, it's been ten years already, I didn't expect you to still remember it.

"Hehe, I have a good memory~" Lin Lanshan replied, touching her nose.

After saying that, he couldn't help but mutter to himself, "Everyone was stunned by the explosion, how could I not remember it vividly!"

Tsk, just because he made her cry a few times, that kid really holds a grudge, he even scared her with firecrackers!

She was really stupid back then, and she believed his nonsense! In order to give her grandmother a surprise, she secretly went to get bamboo and stuffed it into the stove.

As a result, she had only put it in for a short while, and hadn't even had a chance to tell her grandma that she had helped her with the chores.

Then we heard a loud "bang" from the stove!

She was so frightened that she sat down on the ground.

After that, I had nightmares for several days in a row, dreaming that I was blown up by bamboo...

However, it had been quite a few years, and she had almost forgotten about it. It was only yesterday, when firecrackers were mentioned and bamboo was seen, that she suddenly remembered it.

Most people can no longer recall their childhood memories; they are often blurry.

Even when I try hard to recall, only fragmented images vaguely appear in my mind, refusing to surface.

But what's amazing is that...

Those hazy memories don't simply disappear over time. They're merely locked away by a closed door, secured by the "key" of keywords unique to a particular memory.

When the "key" reappears, the door will open automatically.

Memories, like the tide that quietly surges ashore in the morning, are fierce and rapid, unfolding before your eyes frame by frame, whether you want to see them or not.

The picture quality was so clear, and the sound was so realistic, it was like watching a short movie...