Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

"Sheep and alpacas are both worth 4000G each. They can be sheared every seven days. The wool can be shipped directly or processed into yarn through a yarn processing machine and then sold. The price of yarn balls before G level is higher than the price of wool. If sheep and alpacas reach G level or above, it is not recommended to process them into yarn balls. The price will be higher if the wool is sold directly."

"G-grade?" Lin Xia couldn't help but interrupt Mu Qi and asked in confusion, "Is it the same as chickens, and is the grade affected by intimacy?"

"Yes!" Mu Qi said with a smile, "You can increase the animals' intimacy with you by talking to the cattle and sheep, brushing their fur, and feeding them yourself every day. Grazing for more than 5 hours a day will also help increase the animals' intimacy with you! However, before getting the G-type product, it is not recommended to graze for too long, you know!"

Mu Qi blinked and smiled at Lin Xia.

Yes, if the animal grazing time exceeds 1000 hours before obtaining the gold product, then the animal's product will directly skip the gold product and jump to the platinum product, which will then affect the appearance of the legendary X-type product.

"By the way, Lin Xia!" Mu Qi reminded Lin Xia seriously, "There is one more very important thing I want to tell you. I don't know if Rick told you when you bought the chicken that the upper limit of the intimacy between animals and their owners can be increased?"

Lin Xia recalled carefully and found nothing, so she immediately asked Mu Qi for advice.

"It's like this. The animals you buy directly from us are all medium-sized. They can only produce something when they are raised to adulthood. And because these animals are not raised by you from childhood, their intimacy with you is only 5 stars at most."

Mu Qi patiently explained, "Only if you nurture animals from birth will their intimacy limit be higher than 5 stars, and their highest limit depends on the limit of their mothers. I don't know if you understand?"

Lin Xia was already dazed after hearing this. Mu Qi looked at Lin Xia's misty eyes and continued with a smile, "Well, let me give you an example, and you'll understand. The upper limit of the cow you just bought from me is 5 stars. When it grows up, breed it and make it pregnant. The upper limit of the intimacy of the child it gives birth to will be 6 stars. The upper limit of the intimacy of each animal born will be one star higher than its mother, and the highest intimacy can reach 10 stars! Moreover, the intimacy of a newborn animal to you is 3 stars! Do you understand now?"

After listening to this, Lin Xia nodded repeatedly to show that she understood.

"Regarding the golden products, that is, G-type products, that can be obtained after winning the championship, the winning of cattle and sheep is somewhat different from that of chickens." Mu Qi continued, "As long as you raise chickens well, they can win the championship if they defeat their opponents at the cockfighting festival. In other words, the championship of chickens mainly depends on their performance on the day, but it is different for cattle and sheep. The selection of cattle and sheep champions mainly depends on whether the owner takes good care of the cattle and sheep, and the owner's degree of care will be faithfully reflected in the cattle and sheep they raise.

Only when your cattle and sheep have an intimacy of 8 stars or above can you win the championship. Cattle and sheep below 8 stars cannot win the championship! You can’t cut corners here!”

After listening to this, Lin Xia was filled with emotion. The cattle and sheep that were bought for the first time did not need to participate in the selection, because no matter how well they were raised, their upper limit was only 5 stars, which was a death sentence from the beginning. Then they could only rely on breeding to obtain pure-blooded animals, and then they could get higher-level products in the future!

Suddenly, Lin Xia thought of her own chicken. It only had 5 stars. Even if it won the championship, it could only lay intermediate eggs and could not jump to advanced eggs, right?

Lin Xia told Muchi about her doubts and got his affirmative answer. Damn, it seems that the chickens will have to be bred again and again! The original chickens can only be sold back to the Clucking House at a low price, or...eat them?

Thinking of this, Lin Xia suddenly remembered that chicken was edible, but what about beef? What about mutton?

"Grandpa Mu Qi, I don't know, well, besides producing milk and wool, can cattle and sheep also..." Seeing that Lin Xia was hesitant and couldn't get to the point, Mu Qi simply asked for her: "Do you want to ask if we can eat meat?"

Lin Xia was shocked. Is this old man so amazing?

Mu Qi looked at Lin Xia's shocked expression, laughed happily, and said, "Publi from Lilia's family came to tell me early in the morning, asking how you could be so heartless to want to eat her chicken! Haha..."

Lin Xia... Who wants to eat her chicken? We have our own chicken, okay? Hum...

"After she said this, she also said that besides wanting to eat chicken, you must want to eat other meats, and asked me to be careful with my sheep and cows. So when I saw your embarrassed expression just now, I guessed it!" Mu Qi said with a smile.

Lin Xia said embarrassedly: "When I was in my hometown, everyone ate meat. But when I came to our Kuangshi Town, I found that although there are animals here, almost no one eats meat. I didn't dare to ask because I was afraid that you would be angry!"

"Well, we do eat less meat here, but we don't completely stop eating it. It's just that Dart is not very good at cooking meat and can only make a few fish dishes. And the cooking skills of other people in the town are not as good as Dart's!" Muchi explained, "Over time, no one wants to eat meat dishes. If you really want to eat it, you will take a boat to the city across the sea, where there are restaurants that cook meat dishes.

However, when the old rancher was around, he would go hunting in the forest behind the mountain, and occasionally cook some dishes. His cooking skills were pretty good. At that time, Sebala was so greedy that he made a lot of hunting tools for the old rancher for free, and exchanged them for some meat. He insisted that Dart help him cook, and even invited us to eat together. The result is imaginable... Later, he asked the old rancher to help cook it! "

Lin Xia was filled with envy when she heard Mu Qi talk about the time he ate meat.

"I have no objection to you wanting to eat beef and mutton, but the cows here are mainly for milk production, and the sheep are mainly for wool production, so they may not be suitable for eating. I'll ask around for you later. I vaguely heard Huo An say that there is a kind of cattle in the Flower Farm, called yellow cattle, whose meat is especially delicious and fragrant. There is also a kind of sheep produced in Mongolia, whose meat is also very delicious. See if you can ask him to help introduce them to you, and then raise them for you to eat!"

"Okay!" Lin Xia exclaimed in surprise, "Thank you!"

Lin Xia happily looked forward to eating beef and mutton in the future, and she also started to buy dairy cows and sheep from Muchi. She didn't plan to raise alpacas for the time being because they are only for wool production, which Lin Xia was not very interested in!

But when he was about to pay, Mu Qi asked a soul-searching question: "Lin Xia, how much grass did you grow? Is it enough for the cattle and sheep you bought?"

Lin Xia...

Lin Xia hasn’t planted any grass yet, not even a single one!

Knowing that Lin Xia didn't grow grass, Mu Qi asked with difficulty: "Are you going to raise grass now? Although you can buy grass directly, the cost is still a bit high. It's better to grow grass yourself! Besides, cattle and sheep will need fresh grass for grazing in the future."