Sisters in the Deep Forest Valley: Many Fun Things

Chapter 118 The Dangers of Night

"Uh!", "Caw! Caw!", "Gurgle! Gurgle!"

Peach and Reunion & Health said: Got it, the work is here, and there will be delicious food again!

They shook their heads and swayed happily as they bit into the pine cones and began their hard labor.

The two sisters continued working, climbing up two taller pine trees nearby to collect pine cones.

With the experience gained from the first tree, they became more and more adept at the second, third, and so on, and their speed increased.

In less than half an hour, a large pile of pine cones had fallen to the ground.

Peach and Reunion were picking up the pine cones below, running around in circles, but they couldn't keep up with the speed at which the pine cones were being knocked down.

"Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!"

Lin Lanshan was standing on a high branch of a red pine tree, picking pine cones, when a soft sound came from beneath her feet.

She crouched down to look, and saw that it was the three little squirrels from yesterday on the lower branches, chirping at her.

Could this be the same tree they were sitting on yesterday...?

How embarrassing! Wasn't she just attacking the rats right in front of their doorstep?

"Little squirrels, do you remember me? I gave you strawberries and dried peaches yesterday."

Try this today, it's delicious. As for all these pine cones, you can't possibly finish them all, so I'll help you share some.

She took a fresh cucumber from her spatial dimension, broke off a large half, and divided it into three pieces, giving them to the children.

It seems the little squirrels do remember her. They all hopped over, took the cucumber from her hand, and started munching on it around her.

She sat down as well, and the three of them, one person and three mice, sat together leisurely eating cucumbers.

In June of this year, she and her sister planted ten cucumber seedlings in the outer courtyard. They produced a lot of fruit, and now they are ripe.

They picked some and put them in their space to eat as fruit.

These are old varieties of prickly cucumbers, each about a foot long.

The first bite has a slightly astringent taste, followed by a crisp and refreshing texture, filling your mouth with the fragrant juice.

Lin Lanshan finished eating in a few bites, then threw the cucumber root back into her spatial storage, leaving it for Taozi and the others to eat.

Then he gently tapped the squirrels' heads with his finger, "Isn't it even tastier than your pine cones? It's worth it, isn't it?"

"Alright, I'm going back to work now, you guys stay away." She stepped onto another branch and continued knocking down pine cones.

The little squirrels also understood that they were obligated to help others.

They squeaked a few times, then, clutching the cucumbers they hadn't finished eating, quickly climbed down the tree. They were going to pick pine cones from other trees to store up for winter food.

The two sisters started climbing trees and collecting pine cones in the morning and continued until the afternoon, even eating their lunch in the trees.

……

It was nearly 5 PM.

As Lin Chunyi continued hitting the pine cones on the branches near the top of the tree, she realized that she could no longer see their shape clearly.

He then looked up at the sky.

Before we knew it, it was almost dark.

She muttered to herself, "How come it's dark so quickly? I feel like I haven't hit many trees yet."

As we all know, when people are very focused, they really don't feel the passage of time...

We can't continue; it's too dangerous in the mountains after dark!

She shouted to her sister, who was engrossed in picking pine cones in another tree, "Lanshan! It's getting dark, let's go down."

"Oh, it's already dark? Okay, okay, I'll go downstairs right away," Lin Lanshan said in surprise.

He then untied the rope binding him, untied the other end of the rope from the tree trunk and threw it into his spatial dimension, before slowly sliding down the tree.

After the two came down, they found that there were still quite a few pine cones on the ground that they hadn't picked up.

The two bamboo baskets were already full, and the basket on the back was more than half full.

Peach and Reunion and Peace are huddled together, sprawled out in a big ball.

They hadn't rested all day, working non-stop. They were so tired they couldn't carry anything more.

"You've all worked hard today. Take a rest for a while, and then we'll go home." Lin Chunyi walked over, took out a few cucumbers from her spatial storage, and shared them with the animals.

It can both fill your stomach and quench your thirst!

Then he turned to his younger sister and said, "Let's do the rest ourselves." He then dragged the still empty basket, squatted down, and started putting the baskets into the baskets one by one.

As Lin Lanshan picked them up, she couldn't stop smiling: "So many pine cones, enough to last until next year."

"Sis, we stocked up on way more delicious food this year than last year! We can eat our fill of these little things all winter long, hehe."

"And that's not all. In about half a month, the Japanese jujube, dog jujube, and chestnut will also be ripe."

By the way, the sweet potatoes we planted in our foreign language department are almost ripe; they'll be so delicious when roasted, they'll be dripping with honey-like oil..."

"Sis, stop talking! What you're saying makes me want to go back and dig up the sweet potatoes right now. Sigh, I'm already looking forward to winter." She swallowed hard.

Winter is a controversial season.

Its coldness is so intense that it inspires fear in people.

But it is also the most relaxing season for people who have been working hard for the past six months.

So if at this time, everyone could wear a warm cotton-padded coat, have thick blankets on their beds, have a cozy charcoal fire burning in the room, and have a cellar full of food...

Actually, winter can be incredibly blissful.

The two sisters used flashlights to collect all the pine cones on the ground. Then they tied two bamboo baskets and two carrying baskets together with rope and hung them on Taozi's back.

Lin Lanshan patted its back and called out to Tuanyuan and Ankang, "Alright, let's go home."

By this time it was completely dark.

Apart from the bright crescent moon in the sky, which struggled to emit some faint light.

It gave the two sisters a little direction on the road ahead. Beyond that, they couldn't see anything else.

This was the first time they had stayed so late in the deep mountains. A little apprehensive, they just wanted to get back to the valley as quickly as possible.

Because the mountain forest at night is eerily quiet, as if something could suddenly burst out.

They hurried back the way they came. They had only gone about half a mile when they heard the sound of squirrels overhead, and there was more than one.

"Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!"

The two looked up and saw three little squirrels perched on a low branch, squirming at them.

They called out as they hopped and leaped from branch to branch, raising their front paws in the direction they had come from, looking quite anxious.

Behind……

The two sisters quickly turned around to look, but it was quiet; there was nothing there except for a large expanse of pine trees.

But the three little squirrels on the branch were still screaming and running around.

Even after looking around, there was nothing there, not even a sound. They realized that something was definitely wrong.

Lin Chunyi picked up Tuanyuan and Ankang and placed them on Taozi's back.

Then, frowning, he said, "Lanshan, be careful. These squirrels are probably trying to warn us about something."

"Make sure the peaches are quiet, don't make a sound. Let's turn back to back and slowly walk away from here."

Facing the direction the squirrels were pointing, with her back against her sister, she walked backwards towards home.

Eyes fixed intently on what was being shone with the flashlight.