Sisters in the Deep Forest Valley: Many Fun Things

Chapter 138 Digging sweet potatoes

In the bedroom at night, a not-too-dim oil lamp illuminated a table.

Two little sisters were sitting on a stool, drooling, as they opened a beggar's chicken covered with pumpkin leaves.

The steam and aroma from the golden-brown chicken skin wafted into their noses, eliciting two slurping sounds.

"Snapped!"

Lin Chunyi slapped Lin Lanshan's hand, which was already outstretched and unable to control itself.

Ignoring her sister's pouting lips, she scolded, "Can't you see the steam rising from above? And you just reach out your hand!"

This beggar's chicken is huge, it's not like you're going to eat less of it. Either use chopsticks, or wait for it to cool down a bit!

Every time food is involved, she goes completely mad. Lin Chunyi often suspects that her sister must have been a beggar who never had enough to eat in her past life...

"Oh~" Lin Lanshan picked up her chopsticks and easily picked up a piece of meat from the whole chicken. Then she blew away the steam and put the tender chicken meat, along with the soft and sticky skin, into her mouth.

A satisfied expression immediately appeared on his face.

"I'm going to catch all the wild pheasants in the mountains and make them all into beggar's chicken! Hahahaha!" This was her highest praise for the taste of beggar's chicken.

"Really? Then you'd better do your best!" Lin Chunyi picked up a piece of meat and put it in her mouth, scoffing at her sister's boast.

Because Lin Lanshan would always say similar things whenever she ate something delicious. But after a few days, she would stop saying those things and stop eating them altogether.

She understands the allure of good food and is used to it!

"Sis, I'm serious!"

Once it had cooled down a bit, Lin Chunyi tore off a chicken leg, took a big bite, and then said perfunctorily:

"Okay, I got it. Do you want the other chicken leg?" If not, she would take care of it for him.

Her mouth was full of meat, and the words she spat out were all in short bursts.

"Of course I want it! Let me do it myself!" How could I let someone else help me with something like this! Lin Lanshan held down the chicken with one hand and pulled off the chicken leg with the other.

The two sipped the chicken soup and slowly finished the whole beggar's chicken, including the chicken feet stuffed inside and the sweet chestnuts...

The next day, the two sisters carried basket after basket of completely dried old firewood from the woodshed to the oven to burn and make charcoal.

Then, they took the peaches and the wish for reunion and peace to the deep mountains, where they gathered and chopped new firewood.

The two sisters simply picked up their wood-chopping knives and began chopping and splitting. Several little ones, forced to take the initiative, then busily carried the wood into the basket.

Although they don't have hands, they can easily carry twigs and sticks, saving the two of them a lot of time.

The two people and their five pets quickly filled the woodshed to the brim again.

They also went around to the grove of trees near the outer edge. They discovered that the lone jujube tree was already full of ripe fruit, just waiting to be picked.

Without saying a word, the two sisters helped to greatly reduce the burden on the trees whose branches were bent over by the fruit.

As for the culprits whose baskets were overflowing with torrents, they naturally swallowed a small portion of it, taking the majority home with them.

Meanwhile, at the oven, the two sisters, while busy in the mountains every day, also took time to chop firewood into short sections and burn it into charcoal.

At first, they couldn't control the time and temperature, and some firewood was burned to ash, while some firewood was only partially charred.

After getting to know each other, the two sisters busied themselves with chopping wood and making charcoal. In just half a month, they had enough black charcoal to get through the winter.

Early Cold Dew, late Winter Begins, and Frost's Descent is the perfect time to harvest sweet potatoes...

One morning, the two sisters opened the bedroom door and were blown back into the room by a gust of cold wind, so they had to put on another layer of clothing.

Upon reopening the door, Lin Chunyi shrank her neck uncomfortably, yawned, and said, "Lanshan, it's getting colder. We need to hurry up and dig out the sweet potatoes."

It's been hot for most of the year, so the sudden cold has left them a little disoriented.

"Okay, let's do it today. I'll go prepare the ingredients for the dumpling soup now. Let's do our morning exercise first, and then we'll start digging after breakfast."

Sweet potatoes dug up after the first frost are especially sweet and delicious, so we have to hurry! After saying that, Lin Lanshan walked towards the kitchen. On such a cold day, tomato dumpling soup is just right for breakfast.

"Didn't we agree to pick jujubes today?" She followed him to the kitchen.

Not only sweet potatoes, but also jujubes are harvested after the first frost, when they taste the sweetest.

"Fruit is nothing compared to sweet potatoes! Sister, whether we can have hot and sour sweet potato noodles next year depends on this year's harvest. The sooner we dig them up, the sooner I can have peace of mind."

They're now just one noodle away from having hot and sour sweet potato noodles!

After breakfast, the two of them took small hoes and bamboo baskets and went to the sweet potato field in the outer courtyard.

Large swaths of sweet potato leaves have already turned from green to yellow. The vines beneath the leaves are so old that they can't be snapped off.

Excavate!

Lin Chunyi parted the leaves, swung her hoe down to turn over the soil, and revealed a little bit of the pinkish-red sweet potato skin.

She exclaimed excitedly, "Yes! There's a sweet potato! I dug one up with my first hoe, hahaha..."

What do you call this? A great start!

Full of energy, she continued digging to the side, revealing more and more peach-colored sweet potatoes. In total, she dug out five sweet potatoes from the nest of this one sweet potato stalk.

They planted more than fifty seedlings, so wouldn't they be able to dig up more than two hundred sweet potatoes...?

Lin Lanshan then picked up a long vine with several sweet potatoes as thick as a wrist hanging from it. "Sister, I have six in this bunch, haha!"

There look like there are more than two hundred of them. They're definitely going to be eating hot and sour sweet potato noodles next year!

There are also roasted sweet potatoes, sweet potato porridge, sweet potato cakes, candied sweet potatoes, and all sorts of other delicious foods that can't escape their stomachs.

The two sisters dug for a whole morning, turning over the entire plot of land, before they finally managed to dig out all the sweet potatoes.

Of course, there were also quite a few that were accidentally cut in half by them.

There are quite a few sweet potatoes in this area, with the smallest batch having five and the largest having eight!

So they stopped counting them one by one, put down their hoes to catch their breath, and looked with satisfaction at the large expanse of sweet potatoes spread out on the ground.

Lin Chunyi put her hands on her hips and said, "Let's leave these sweet potatoes here to air out first, then we'll move them to the cellar. We'll eat the ones that were broken off later."

Lin Lanshan nodded, "We've ruined quite a few of them, sis. Pack them up and we'll roast them all!"

"I'll go back and boil some tea, I'll be right back." As soon as he finished speaking, he hurriedly returned to the kitchen.

Their enthusiasm for the new oven hasn't faded yet; lately, no matter what delicious food is available, their first decision is always to bake it.

Eating too many sweet roasted sweet potatoes at once can be cloying and may even cause internal heat.

Therefore, Lin Lanshan cleverly believed that there would be no problem if she ate it with bitter tea!

The two were briefly separated; one was in the field packing sweet potatoes and tidying up leaves and vines, while the other was in the kitchen boiling water and brewing tea.

With everything ready, the two went out. Today was another day of grilling!

Passing by the stream, Peach was imitating An'an and Kang Kang's actions, stretching her neck into the water. Perhaps she was learning to hold her breath?