Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

It rained for two consecutive days, and the sun finally came out today. It’s more comfortable on sunny days!

Lin Xia harvested the mature crops in the field yesterday in the rain, and planted the last crop of radishes at the end of spring. This marks the end of this year's spring planting work.

Today the dwarfs resumed their normal watering work, but this time, Lin Xia directly called the remaining dwarfs to come over to water. They only watered for 3 days, which happened to be until the 29th. There was no need to water on the 30th. Even if they watered, they would not be able to harvest on the 1st of summer.

After Lin Xia took care of the animals at home and greeted Gotz who was busy expanding the chicken coop, she headed straight to the back mountain. It rained the past two days, so Lin Xia didn't go to the back mountain. She was really wet, and going up the mountain was not such a pleasant experience.

But it is still very nice to go to the mountain after the rain. Lin Xia kept picking mushrooms, fungus, bamboo shoots, wild vegetables, and herbs. . . She had a lot of fun picking them.

Lin Xia also picked a lot of spring-specific flowers - moon tears and tricolor flowers. Now that she has a large storage cabinet, Lin Xia can collect more flowers and plants and put them in the cabinet. Most of the residents in the town like these flowers and plants, and they can be used as social gifts.

Since buying the vase from Huo An, Lin Xia has never left it idle. She puts different flowers in it every day to add color to the house. Moreover, the moon grass in the vase can increase physical strength by 10, and the tricolor flower can reduce fatigue by 7!

The seasons here change very quickly, and each season lasts only 30 days, so many things seem to be accelerated. For example, the growth of crops and animals, a year here is only 1/3 of the original world. But life is quite fulfilling, and there are new expectations every day.

In the few days left before the end of spring, Lin Xia planned to store up the seasonal supplies she had picked, as it would take quite a while until the next spring. You can only buy seasonal ingredients here, unlike before the pollution, when seasonality was no longer obvious. Fruits and vegetables were available all year round, and it was impossible to tell which season they were from based on seasonal ingredients.

However, this kind of life where you only get the corresponding supplies when the season comes is also quite interesting. But Lin Xia just can't help but stock up, and stocking up gives people an incomparable sense of satisfaction.

Lin Xia happily collected various ingredients, flowers and plants, and chopped down all the branches and roots she saw. She gave flowers to the goddess and cucumbers to the kappa.

Speaking of Kappa, after Lin Xia got the incredible fruit from Kappa, she didn't plan to give Kappa any more gifts. After all, every time the goddess received a gift, she would say thank you to Lin Xia in a beautiful manner and say that she liked the gift Lin Xia gave her very much. Anyone who saw or heard this would be extremely happy. The receiver is happy, and the giver is also satisfied.

But Kappa, although not handsome, looked doubtful after receiving the gift, and said nothing, which made people feel upset. But Lin Xia thought about it later and decided to forget it. They were both gods of the back mountain, so she couldn't be too partial to one over the other. Besides, the gift was not expensive and was within her ability, so she just gave it to him.

After visiting the back mountain, Lin Xia also went to the mine to replenish his ore reserves. Most of them were ores of gold or higher level, including mithril (needed to upgrade farm tools), diamond (needed to make various processing machines), and origami (needed to make jewelry). The chances of knocking gold, silver, and copper ores were very high, so Lin Xia collected them all in accordance with the principle of not wasting, preparing to sell the silver and copper, and keep the gold or higher ores as gifts.

Currently, the ones who like ores are the Saibala grandfather and grandson and Huo An. However, Huo An is quite picky and only likes ores with a gold content or above. He won't care about those below gold. However, the Saibala grandfather and grandson really love forging, so they like any ores.

After visiting the back mountain, Lin Xia went home and cleared out the items in her backpack. She stored what needed to be stored at home and shipped what needed to be shipped. Among the fruit trees she planted, only grapes still bear fruit, but the amount of honey has increased. She can collect 2-3 pieces every day. When she is lucky, there will be honey on all 5 trees, and Lin Xia also put them in the refrigerator one by one.

After lunch, Lin Xia started to walk around the town again, visiting neighbors and giving them freshly harvested mountain products. Everyone was very happy. Some neighbors taught Lin Xia several cooking recipes, all of which were unique to their town. Lin Xia wrote them down one by one. At the same time, everyone told Lin Xia that spring was almost over and crops should be harvested as soon as possible, and new crops should not be planted, otherwise they would not be harvested in time and would be in vain in summer.

Although Lin Xia had everything planned out in her mind, she still felt warm at heart and was particularly touched when she saw the kind-hearted advice from these lovely villagers.

I staggered to Zack's cabin. As soon as I entered the door to greet Zack and Huo An, I was startled by a figure that suddenly rushed in front of me!

"Lin Xia~"

It turned out to be Huo An with a mustache. He excitedly shouted to Lin Xia: "You are really my lucky star!"

Lin Xia???

Huo An: "I didn't expect so many people would ask me to buy the umbrella you snatched away from me last time! Wow, you are really good at bringing goods~"

Lin Xia: "What do you mean by 'pluck'? That's really rude! I paid for it." Although it wasn't much, the umbrella was forgotten in a corner by Huo An and no one cared about it. But Lin Xia saw it and wanted it.

But Huo An, a profiteer, praised the umbrella to the skies, saying, "This is a famous oil-paper umbrella from a flower-growing country, an intangible cultural heritage. Look at the ribs of the umbrella, they are made of the finest purple bamboo. Have you heard of purple bamboo? No? Have you heard of the purple bamboo forest where Guanyin lives? It is made of the bamboo there. Bamboo brings peace and prosperity, which means continuous advancement. Do you understand?"

Look at the umbrella cover, don't think it's just ordinary paper. It is made of cotton paper by professionals using unique mountain mulberry bark, gauze bark, wild plant skin, plant gum, etc. as raw materials. It goes through 21 ancient handicraft workshop processes. The umbrella cover is soft, smooth, transparent, breathable and elastic, white and strong, moisture-proof and moth-proof.

The painting on the umbrella is even more amazing. This is a painting of the moonlight over the lotus pond by Tang Botu, the most famous painter in the flower-growing country. Look at the painting skills, the coloring, and the artistic conception. . . The entire oil-paper umbrella has to go through 81 processes and takes about 15 days to complete.

Then he asked for a sky-high price of G, which was more expensive than a refrigerator.

Could Lin Xia agree to this? Of course not, so she returned the money: "Look at your umbrella. You didn't take good care of it. You just threw it in a corner. The umbrella is covered with dust. I can't see any painting skills or coloring. I don't know how long you have kept it. Can it still be used? Even if it can be used, how many days can it be used? Will it break when you use it?

Don't talk to me about artistic conception. Do you think I am a person with artistic conception? I don't want an umbrella to be displayed at home, but to serve as a rain gear. Anything else is not practical. Think about it carefully. If you don't sell it to me, this umbrella will continue to gather dust in the corner. . . "

Huo An's face turned pale and blue, and he kept muttering "What a waste of resources, a pearl covered in dust~".

Finally, the deal was concluded at a price of 1000G!