Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

After saying goodbye to Gray happily, Lin Xia prepared to leave the hotel.

As soon as I went downstairs, I heard Lin's slightly annoyed voice: "Stop arguing!"

Hmm? What's going on? Lin Xia smelled the melon again, but this time, in order not to fall into the melon field, Lin Xia decided to stand farther away.

After looking around, I found that the mayor and his son Harris had also come, but they were not sitting together. Sabara and Muchi were still chatting as if nothing had happened. Bakir was gone. He must have gone home.

Just as I was thinking this, I heard the voice of the quarrelers again. Dart: "Lin~ Shut up!"

Dick: "Lin, don't stop me!"

"Ah~ Lin Xia, please, please stop them from quarreling!"

Lin Xia!!!

It seems that I am not standing far enough away! After being a witness last time, am I going to be a peacemaker today?

Lin looked at Lin Xia eagerly and clasped her hands together: "Thank you, please!"

Lin Xia walked over helplessly and weakly advised: "You guys~"

Dart: "What are you doing, Lin Xia!"

Dick: "Get out of the way! Lin Xia!"

Lin Xia was angry and asked, "Why are you quarreling? Tell me the reason first?"

Dart was stunned: "Ah? The reason for the quarrel? If you want to tell me the reason, it's of course...Huh?"

Dick was also confused: "...what was the reason?"

Lin Xia was speechless. She didn't know what they were arguing about and why they were so excited!

Lin was also furious: "I can't stand you guys! You've forgotten the reason and are still arguing. What's the fun of that?"

Dart was embarrassed: "Oh, it's really a headache, I completely forgot about it. Lin Xia, I'm sorry, let's not argue anymore."

Dick also chuckled: "Yeah, I won't argue anymore."

Lin also thanked Lin Xia: "Lin Xia, thank you so much. I just came out of the kitchen and found them arguing. I was anxious and came to you. Thank you so much. I will give them a good scolding."

Lin Xia said it was okay.

Lin: "Dad, you are such a fool. Stop it. You are the owner of the store. Do you think it is appropriate to argue with customers in the store?"

Dart said to Lin Xia embarrassedly: "You actually forgot the reason for the quarrel... Am I getting old? I'm sorry to cause you trouble, Lin Xia!"

Dick: "Oh, sorry, sorry. I accidentally got too excited. The fact that you can still quarrel shows that you are still young."

Lin Xia: ... So this is the kind of lively atmosphere you like! I've learned something!

Lin Xia said goodbye to the three people and prepared to leave the hotel. When she passed by Mayor Thomas, she heard him muttering, "Great, the quarrel is finally over. I can have a happy meal now."

His son Harris also breathed a sigh of relief: "Oh, for a moment I thought it would be something like this."

When passing by Saibala and Muchi, the two were much nicer, not affected by the quarrel at all, eating, drinking and chatting normally.

It’s no longer news that the two of them quarreled!

Lin Xia left the hotel speechlessly. Now the hotel has left a shadow on Lin Xia. She should stay away from it in the future and stop thinking about eating melons.

It was almost 9 o'clock in the evening when I got home. I looked at Xiao Ma and Ah Huang again. They both opened their eyes when Lin Xia approached, and then went back to sleep when they realized it was Lin Xia. Ah Huang even wagged his tail symbolically.

Lin Xia went back to her room to rest with peace of mind.

The next day was Sunday. Three stores in the town were closed today. One was a grocery store with good benefits and treatment, one was the Giggling House, and the other was actually the Sea House!!!

You said that you only open your store in the summer every year, and you have the nerve to close it every week for a break. You really have no shortage of money!

Lin Xia cried with envy!

After breakfast, Lin Xia went out and ran into Rick from the chicken farm: "Good morning, Lin Xia!"

"Good morning, Rick. What's the matter with you coming to see me so early?"

"It's like this. Tomorrow is our annual cockfighting festival in Mineral Town. Your family raises chickens, so I came to ask if you want to participate?"

"But I've only raised my chickens for a few days. Can I still participate?" Lin Xia was worried!

"Ah~ You can participate, but the chances of winning are not very high. Because you have only been raising the chickens for a few days, and the tacit understanding between you and the chickens is not high. The key to winning a cockfight is the tacit understanding between you two!"

Lin Xia thought about it and decided not to participate and wait until next year!

After seeing off the regretful Rick and quickly taking care of the small animals, he went to the back mountain with the new hunting equipment he had acquired yesterday. Just in case, he also brought a lot of various ingredients available at home, as well as a lot of chicken and rabbit feed and grass to make bait.

Thanks to the man-chicken fight yesterday, Lin Xia had a smooth journey to the forest. He saw a flat ground with a diameter of 5 meters every few meters. There were only scattered soft and dry weeds that had been cut, which made it convenient for Lin Xia to dig a hole.

Lin Xia chose a flat land that looked good, without thorns and tree roots, took out the shovel, and started digging a hole. Lin Xia wanted to dig a slightly deeper and larger hole, bury a few sharp branches at the bottom of the hole (no other way, poor, no other sharp tools, how about nailing a board?), then cover the hole with thin branches, and then spread a layer of weeds on it, and then put some grass on it. This pit is mainly used to catch larger prey, to ensure that once it falls in, it can't run out even if the sharp branches can't break through the defense.

Lin Xia used a broken iron shovel to dig the hole again and again. While digging, she cursed Huo An in her heart, saying that this iron shovel was not easy to use at all and it was a waste of effort!

Later, Lin Xia took out the hoe and dug alternately with the two tools, barely digging a pit with a diameter of about 2 meters and a depth of more than 2 meters. The excavated soil was first put into a cloth bag and put in the backpack. After looking at the bottom of the pit, Lin Xia was quite satisfied. Except for the pain in his hands and arms and the great loss of physical strength, there were no other problems.

Just when Lin Xia was about to go out to pick up sharp branches, she found out - it was all over, she couldn't get out!

The pit is more than 2 meters deep, and Lin Xia is only 1 meters tall (including shoes). . . . . . How can we deal with this?

Lin Xia looked at the sky above her head. She had no choice but to take out the bag of mud she had packed earlier and use it as a cushion while she climbed out. But after she got out, she couldn't take the bag of mud back.

Lin Xia thought about it, rummaged through the things in her backpack, and finally, she had no choice but to do this.

Lin Xia first searched for some strong and thick pointed branches and put them in her backpack, then took out the second item in the hunting set - the rope. She first found a relatively strong tree, tied one end of the rope to the tree, and then tied the other end to her waist, then walked in the opposite direction. After the rope was taut, she kept pulling hard to test the toughness of the rope.

There is no way. If Lin Xia doesn’t test it first, she will feel uneasy. What if the rope breaks while Lin Xia is climbing the pit and she falls down? It will be no joke!

After Lin Xia dragged and tugged the rope back and forth, it was still okay and could at least bear Lin Xia's weight.

Lin Xia untied the rope on the tree, found the nearest tree to the trap, and tied the rope to it. After using the rope to get down into the pit, he first put away the mud bag. It was worth keeping because the mud bag was quite useful.

After inserting the sharp branches into the bottom of the pit one by one and knocking them to make them firm, he checked the surroundings to make sure there was nothing missing, and then climbed up with the rope. During the climb, Lin Xia was still a little nervous, fearing that he would become the first prey of the trap. Fortunately, everything went well!

Then, Lin Xia laid branches with leaves around the mouth of the trap. He didn't lay them too firmly, in case he couldn't fall in.

He laid another layer of weeds to cover the gap, then placed a handful of grass in the middle. After thinking for a while, he placed a handful of chicken and rabbit feed.

Lin Xia didn't know if these things would be popular with prey! She just hoped that it wasn't a pheasant that was attracted, otherwise it would be a waste of effort!

Why? Of course, it’s because pheasants are light, so even if they go to the trap, they may not fall into it; secondly, even if they fall into it, they can fly!

After setting it up, Lin Xia checked the surroundings again, eliminated his traces as much as possible, spread out the surrounding weeds to make it more natural, and then made a mark on a tree trunk next to the trap to avoid forgetting the trap after the grass and trees grew back and having to look for it for a long time.

It would be ok to search for a long time, but if you accidentally fall into it, that would be really terrible!