books44 Chapter 19 Two Slingshots
Chapter 19 Two Slingshots
Remember to water it occasionally, and then wait for it to mature.
Having learned from their previous experience, they sowed all the seeds and planted them in half a day.
In the evening, Lin Chunyi began rendering lard.
She first cut the pork fat into small pieces and rinsed it with warm water.
Then pour everything into an iron pot, add water to cover the lard, drizzle in a spoonful of white wine to remove the fishy smell, and then blanch it.
Once the water boils, remove the lard, rinse it several times with warm water, and then pour it back into the pot.
Add hot water until it is level with the lard, then start cooking.
When the lard begins to shrink and turn yellow, add ginger slices and scallion segments and continue cooking.
Finally, when the lard shrinks into small, golden-brown lumps and the pork fat turns golden and translucent, it's done.
Lin Chunyi asked her younger sister to bring over two clean, dry earthenware jars, and said:
"Put in a pinch of Sichuan peppercorns, a handful of soybeans, and a spoonful of fine salt."
The younger sister brought the prepared earthenware jar and placed it on the table.
She filtered out the oil residue and scooped the oil into the earthenware jar, letting it cool naturally.
It's ready when the lard turns white and solidified.
"Sis, the pork cracklings smell so good! How are we going to eat them?" Lin Lanshan looked at her sister expectantly.
"Eating pork cracklings on their own is a bit greasy. Try eating two pieces first."
Lin Lanshan took a piece of pork crackling and ate it. It was delicious!
I took another piece and ate it. It was delicious...
I took a bite of the third piece, and it was so greasy!
"It's too greasy, isn't it? Let's put this pot of pork cracklings into our spatial storage. When the cabbage grows bigger, we'll make cabbage and pork crackling buns!"
Lin Lanshan nodded and said:
"Okay, let's use the lard to mix with rice after it cools down! And add some mushroom meat sauce too."
Lin Chunyi remembered that she still had a lot of mushroom meat sauce in her space, so she decided to steam more rice tomorrow to make lard rice.
They covered the earthenware jar with its lid and placed it in the kitchen, also putting the pork cracklings into the storage space. After dinner, they went to sleep.
In the morning, they saw that the lard in the two earthenware jars had solidified, turning into a rich, milky white color.
They took out the steaming hot rice that had just been steamed from the wooden bucket, added two large spoonfuls of lard, a large bowl of meat sauce, a handful of chopped green onions, and a little bit of salt, and stirred it evenly.
Each person filled a bowl, and the rest were put into the space.
The rich aroma of lard melts into each grain of rice, topped with minced meat, mushrooms, and chopped scallions. Take a generous spoonful and pop it into your mouth—it's absolutely delicious!
Lin Lanshan was still chewing rice, and her speech was unclear.
"Sister, I suddenly remembered the hidden arrow I used to kill the giant snake that day..."
"What happened to the hidden blade?"
She swallowed a mouthful of rice and continued:
"We fired a total of six arrows, but only four of them hit the serpent. We were probably just lucky that we fired a lot of arrows, which is why we only managed to hit a few."
Lin Chunyi understood. The family now had two bows and arrows, and two hidden arrows. But they didn't really know how to use them.
"Then let's start practicing our aim properly from tomorrow."
The two sisters in the original body had learned archery from their father, but they could only draw the bow and shoot arrows; their accuracy was still poor.
The Lin sisters, Chunyi and Chunyi, have only practiced their physical skills since they arrived, and haven't thought about archery at all.
So starting from the second day, after practicing their skills each day, they would take out their slingshots.
Cut down flowers, cut down grass, cut down trees, cut down mounds of earth.
The slingshot was made by Lin's father a long time ago.
When Lin Lanshan was a child, whenever her father went hunting, she would always insist on going with him.
Lin's father cut down two thick tree branches, smoothed them, and tied them with deer sinew and sturdy cloth to make two slingshots. Each of the two sisters had one.
Lin's father told Lin Lanshan that when she was able to shoot down birds in the sky with a slingshot, he would take her hunting.
Unfortunately, Lin Lanshan wasn't patient enough. After hunting for a while without catching any birds, she threw them into the storage room and went off to chase butterflies and dragonflies.
Now that the two slingshots have been brought out again, the two sisters feel a mix of emotions.
These memories were also imprinted in the minds of Lin Chunyi and Lin Lanshan, who came from the modern era.
Just thinking about it makes me feel like I've experienced it all over again.
The feelings of longing, yearning, happiness, joy, sadness, and all other emotions that existed in her heart were no different from those that the two sisters in the original body had felt.
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They gradually increased the distance between them, from five meters at the beginning to ten meters, twenty meters...
It's getting farther and farther away, and also more and more accurate.
Ten days have passed, and Lin Lanshan can hit a mound fifty meters away with her slingshot within five attempts. Lin Chunyi, on the other hand, can do it within three attempts.
Next, we'll practice hitting things that allow us to move around.
We don't raise chickens or ducks at home, and the birds in the sky are too far away and too small to be of any use, so it's too difficult for us to catch them for now.
What should we fight then?
Lin Lanshan came up with a really mischievous idea: the two of them could throw pebbles at each other...
Lin Chunyi: Okay, a new kind of sparring, huh...
The two of them each collected a bag full of tiny pebbles, no bigger than a fingernail.
So, the war began!
They started throwing stones at each other frantically, and then had to dodge the stones.
The two continued throwing things at each other while wincing in pain.
Several more days passed, and the two became more and more accurate and faster.
Lin Lanshan was physically strong and her speed increased very quickly, always leaving her sister no time to dodge.
Lin Chunyi's predictions were more accurate. Although she threw fewer stones at her sister, she managed to hit her with almost every one.
The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival...
The two sisters cleaned the entire house inside and out.
From the main hall and two bedrooms, to the two side rooms.
Then, the kitchen, the two storage rooms, and the outhouse were all cleaned up!
The osmanthus flowers are in bloom, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is here.
When Lin Chunyi woke up in the morning, she found that her younger sister was not in bed. She called out to her loudly:
"Lin Lanshan? Where are you?"
"Sister, I'm in the yard." The voice came from the inner courtyard.
She's always so slow and reluctant to get out of bed, why is she up so early today?
It was already late September, and the mornings were starting to get chilly. Lin Chunyi put on her coat and went out into the yard.
Her younger sister, wearing a coat, stood under the osmanthus tree, staring blankly at the osmanthus blossoms.
"Why are you standing here daydreaming so early?"
Lin Lanshan heard her sister come out, turned around and said to her:
"Sister, the fragrance of osmanthus is so strong, it woke me up, haha, so I came out to take a look. Look, all the osmanthus flowers on the tree are in bloom."
Lin Chunyi looked up at the sturdy osmanthus tree, its branches laden with golden blossoms blooming amidst the green leaves.
Small and exquisite, each flower exudes a rich fragrance.
"Sister, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival. What do you think Mom and Dad are doing? Do they still remember us? Have Father and Mother Lin reunited with the original owner of this body and her two sisters?"
Lin Chunyi stood there stunned for a moment before blinking, her nose suddenly feeling a little sore.
The whole tree is filled with the fragrance of osmanthus blossoms...
Can it be blown to Mom and Dad's side?
Can we tell them that we're doing okay?
Can you tell them...
Do we miss them?
Lin Chunyi stepped forward and tightly grasped the hand of her only relative in this world.