Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

After lunch and a short rest, Lin Xia did not go out again. Today, she decided to stay in her own ranch to avoid encountering a large-scale dog-food scene. Lin Xia said she could not afford it!

In the afternoon, Lin Xia watered the crops with the dwarfs. Now the dwarfs can water nearly 10 acres of land every day. It was pitiful at the beginning, as each person could only water 2 acres. After so many days of work practice, their proficiency has steadily improved.

Every day, five dwarfs can irrigate about 5 acres of land, and Lin Xia is currently planting a total of 50 acres of land, which means that Lin Xia has to irrigate 61 acres of land by himself, which is much better than before.

While watering the plants happily, I chatted with the dwarfs and asked them to finish their work today and not come tomorrow.

why?

Haha, because Lin Xia looked at the weather forecast this morning, it will rain all day tomorrow, so the dwarfs who are watering can have a day off tomorrow, and Lin Xia can also go to the tea party. As for the dwarfs who are harvesting, Lin Xia said that she can do it, after all, the mature crops are in batches, and there are not so many, unlike the watering, which is 61 acres!

After watering, Lin Xia went fishing. His proficiency in using the fishing rod was almost reaching the level of Mithril upgrade. Lin Xia put some of the small fish he caught today in the breeding pond in the ranch, and some in his refrigerator, starting to reserve ingredients for future cooking.

In order to save money, all the crops produced in the ranch were sold. Although the money is still not much now, it is enough for the time being, and the seeds have been stored. In the future, spending money will not be as fierce as before. Therefore, at the end of spring, Lin Xia plans to start stockpiling the crops produced.

The crops grown at Linxia Ranch are mainly cucumbers, potatoes and radishes. The harvest quantity varies depending on the type. And it seems that the quality of the crops grown is also different because the fertility of each plot of land is different. Of course, most of them are the most common 3-star quality crops, and only occasionally there is a 1% chance of 5-star quality, and the shipping price will also increase due to the quality.

Let’s put quality aside for now and ask someone later to see if the overall grade of the field can be improved, starting with the quantity of each crop.

First, cucumbers. Each acre of land can yield 9 portions of cucumbers, and each portion of cucumbers is about 10. The sizes of cucumbers produced vary according to the soil fertility. One-star cucumbers are smaller than two-star cucumbers, and they are not as round and beautiful, but the quantity is 1. A cucumber occupies 2 unit of storage space (including refrigerators and backpacks). Now Lin Xia's backpack inventory has a total of 10 slots, and each slot can hold 1 items of the same type.

The storage cabinet at home can hold even more things. It has a total of 6 layers, each with 24 compartments. Each compartment can hold 999 items of the same kind. Of course, it can only hold non-food items, such as wood, stone, flowers, animals feed, etc.

The refrigerator is currently just an ordinary model, with only 3 layers, each layer also has 24 grids, and each grid can hold 999 pieces of the same food. For the current Lin-Poor-Xia, it is still enough.

Each portion of radishes also has 10 pieces, and each portion of potatoes has 15 pieces. Lin Xia took a look and found that two cucumbers or two radishes weigh about 1 jin, and 3-4 potatoes weigh about 1 jin. It seems that cucumbers and radishes are very juicy and weigh a lot.

In the remaining spring, cucumbers can be harvested twice. Lin Xia will not sell the 2 mu of cucumbers, but store them for later use! 8 mu of cucumbers can be harvested twice, and a total of 8*72=2 cucumbers can be harvested, 144 cucumbers, which should be enough to eat until the next spring when cucumbers are planted. Cucumbers can be used in many ways, such as eating raw, mixing with vegetables, stewing, making soup, or even making facial masks, haha. Lin Xia is very happy!

There are 23 acres of radishes planted, and they are being harvested and planted one after another. The last crop can be planted on the 26th, so there is no shortage. Lin Xia plans to save 500 radishes. Radishes are also very good. They can be pickled, made into spicy and sour radishes, radish stews, radish braised pork, etc. They are also very good, especially in winter, eat radishes in winter and ginger in summer!

A total of 30 mu of potatoes were planted, and Lin Xia planned to store 999 potatoes, which is one storage compartment. There are many ways to eat potatoes, not only can they be used for cooking, but also as a staple food.

It’s not Lin Xia’s fault that he started storing food now. It’s because Lin Xia is the only one in the entire Mineral Town who farms. Other villagers buy food through grocery stores. Before Lin Xia came, grocery stores bought ingredients from other places, of course, according to the season. Only seasonal ingredients can be bought in each season.

If... Lin Xia laughed in her heart, if she saved the food now and sold it in other seasons, especially in the winter when vegetables are in short supply, how much money would she make?

Lin Xia plans to give it a try, but there is no guarantee that there will be food reserves in other places. After all, Lin Xia’s refrigerator is not the only one with a fresh-keeping function!

Lin Xia’s backpack, refrigerator and storage cabinet all have a fresh-keeping function, which means that the food will be in the same condition when you take it out as you put it in. It’s simply amazing. So as long as the fish you catch are alive and put into the refrigerator, you can take them out and put them back into the pond to keep them. Isn’t it amazing!

However, the refrigerator only has a fresh-keeping function, not a freezing function, which means that you can't make chilled food or ice cream! This is a problem, but now Lin Xia's refrigerator is the most basic model. Who knows, there may be a multifunctional refrigerator with three doors at the back, right?

Lin Xia was thinking happily! At the same time, she had thought about the amount of spring food to store this year. If she could really make more money in winter, she could continue to stock up more next year and sell off-season vegetables, haha!

In addition to storing large quantities of 1-star quality vegetables of each type, Lin Xia also stored the few 2-star quality vegetables he received. 1-star and 2-star are of different grades, so they occupy different storage slots. So, each vegetable only occupies 2 slots. Now Lin Xia has plenty of storage slots.

After dinner, Lin Xia inspected the condition of the animals. Now Lin Xia already has 1 adult chicken with a maximum of 5 stars, 2 adult chickens with a maximum of 6 stars, and is hatching the 4th chicken. The chicken coop is already full.

Today, Gotz has come to expand the chicken and rabbit coop. Once the expansion is completed, we can raise 8 small animals. Then we can buy Angora rabbits.

Currently, there is a cow and a sheep. Lin Xia first mated the adult sheep she bought, Mee Mee, and it has become pregnant successfully. It is expected to give birth in 21 days.

Moo Moo is still a medium-sized cow and cannot produce milk or get pregnant. Even if she could get pregnant, there is no second pregnancy feed box for the cow in the current animal house. We can only make two animals pregnant at the same time after the expansion. Pregnant animals need to have a dedicated position to serve pregnant women.

After a cow is bought from a cattle and sheep farm, it needs to grow for another 7 days before it becomes an adult cow and can produce milk. If it is a newborn calf, it will take 14 days to become a medium-sized cow, and another 9 days to become an adult cow. Therefore, the cow that was bought was only a medium-sized cow for 2 days.