Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

The sour aroma of rice awakened Lin Xia from her deep sleep! Lin Xia stretched herself, jumped out of bed with full energy, and came to the "Hogwarts" dining table to enjoy the standard meal No. 2 - rice balls!

Although it was just the simplest vegetarian rice ball, Lin Xia still felt happy. She ate all the rice balls with great care and started her daily routine.

First, I confirmed today's date from the tie uncle on TV - Spring 3rd, Wednesday; then I changed the channel and learned from the sister in uniform about tomorrow's weather - sunny; I also played a few guessing games with the goddess on TV, but my luck was as bad as ever. I only got a bag of meatball powder (sold at the grocery store for 100) to put in the shipping box later. Now, even the best cook can't cook without the rice!

Go to the toolbox and replace the sickle with a hoe and the hammer with a sprinkler. Keep the axe and continue to accumulate proficiency and wood! There are still 6 pheasant eggs in the backpack and no place to put them. They can only occupy one space in the backpack. There is no refrigerator at home, which is quite inconvenient.

After going out, she collected the honey and put it into the shipping box. Then she came to the 4 mu of land that she had cleared yesterday. Lin Xia spent 2 hours to hoe the land. Then she went to the small pond beside the field and filled the sprinkler. The initial sprinkler only had a capacity of 30 portions of water, which meant it could only irrigate 30 grids. Lin Xia spent another 30 minutes watering the land and then set off for the grocery store.

It took 40 minutes to get to the door of the grocery store, and found two people sitting on the bench next to the grocery store. One girl had long blond hair, was stylishly dressed, and was very beautiful; the other was the young man from the chicken farm! The two of them sat on the bench early in the morning, because... Hehehe... Lin Xia smiled secretly and didn't go forward to disturb them. As usual, she looked at the sign at the door first:

Grocery Store - 9am to 5pm, closed on Tuesdays and Sundays.

What? This grocery store actually has two days off a week? What a great treat!

Lin Xia muttered as she walked into the grocery store. It was called a grocery store, but it was actually a one-stop supermarket. It was divided into several areas, including food, agricultural products, daily necessities, and gift packaging. It was very comprehensive.

Lin Xia went straight to the crop area and saw various seeds suitable for spring planting: radishes, potatoes, cucumbers, as well as forage seeds suitable for planting in all seasons except winter, and a sign that read: To be updated

Lin Xia... It seems that new crop seeds will only appear after certain conditions are met!

Lin Xia came to the food area again, and saw the food she had eaten in the past two days: bread and rice balls. These two can be eaten directly or used as raw materials for other dishes. For example, bread can be further processed into jam bread, toast, etc. by adding different jams; rice balls replace rice and are semi-finished products. They can be processed into different rice dishes with other ingredients, such as curry rice, porridge, mushroom rice, etc. Thinking of mushroom rice, I can't help but recall that my mother would occasionally make mushroom rice and bamboo shoot rice for Lin Xia according to the game menu. Although I was a little uncomfortable eating them at the beginning, now I think back, I really miss them.

Lin Xia then checked other foods, including chocolate, wheat flour, meatball powder, oil and other basic ingredients. Except for curry powder, wheat flour and oil, which were 50g per bag, the others were 100g per bag, which was still very cheap. Lin Xia's target was wheat flour.

Speaking of wheat flour, this is a gift that several important NPCs will like and will never go wrong.

For example, the dwarves, 7 dwarves of different colors, their preferences are different, some like almost everything (such as the blue dwarf Zhuo Ka Ke), some don't like most of it (such as the cyan dwarf Aqua), but they all like wheat flour and honey very much. Unfortunately, there is only one honey per day, and the shipping price is 100G, which can be exchanged for 2 wheat flours of the same effect. Of course, Lin Xia chose wheat flour!

There is also the church priest Carter, who is also a very important NPC, because in the backyard of the church, you can pick 2 pine mushrooms, 1 mushroom and 1 poisonous mushroom in the autumn. Mushrooms and poisonous mushrooms are not bad, they can also be picked in the back mountain, and the shipping price is not high. But pine mushrooms can only be picked behind the church, and each one is 500G. But in order to enter the backyard of the church, you must reach a very high friendship with Carter. And the priest also likes wheat flour very much.

There is also an old lady named Ailian, who also likes wheat flour. If you have a certain level of friendship with her, she will help you knit socks in winter. If you hang these socks at home, you can get a mysterious gift on Christmas Eve. Haha, just thinking about it makes Lin Xia excited. However, she is short of money now, and winter is still a long way off, so Ailian's gift can be put on hold.

So Lin Xia purchased 8 bags of wheat flour, spending 400G; the remaining 3000G was used to purchase seeds. The prices of seeds were also different, cucumbers 200G/bag, radishes 120G/bag, potatoes 150G/bag. Lin Xia allocated seeds like this:

Cucumbers can be harvested until the end of the season after sowing once, so I only plan to buy 2 bags, spending 400G, and plant 2 plots of land this year; radishes and potatoes need to be re-sown after harvesting, so I need to buy more. I bought 9 bags of radishes, spending 1080G; I bought 10 bags of potatoes, spending 1500G, and finally I had 20G left.

My wallet is empty again, but it doesn't matter. I'll have money after I settle my bills in the afternoon. Lin Xia went to the counter to pay. The grocery store owner was a thin man who looked unhealthy. He smiled shyly and said, "Hello! Are you new here? I haven't seen you before?"

Lin Xia smiled and replied: "Yes, I am the new owner of the ranch, my name is Lin Xia!"

"Hello, Lin Xia!" the boss replied happily, "I'm the boss here, my name is Jeff! I have a very complete range of products, you can come and have a look often, and if there are new products in the store, I will send you a notification. Haha!"

"Okay! Thank you, boss!" Lin Xia was very happy. The service here was really good. "Boss, how much do you think these things would cost?"

"Okay, let me calculate it!" Jeff tapped on the calculator and said happily, "The total is 3380G. Thank you for your patronage!" Lin Xia settled the payment directly through the system.

Wheat flour occupies one item slot in the backpack, while crop seeds occupy the tool slot in the backpack, but Lin Xia’s tool slot is full... What to do?

At this time, Jeff's considerate voice came, "Hey, is your backpack full? Then I'll take it straight home for you!"

The service was so thoughtful! Lin Xia was so moved that she burst into tears!

Just as he turned around and was about to leave, the beautiful girl who had been sitting on the bench at the door came in. Seeing Lin Xia, she said in surprise, "Oh, there's a new guest?"

Jeff immediately introduced, "Karen, this is the ranch's new owner, Lin Xia." Then he said to Lin Xia, "Lin Xia, this is my daughter, Karen. She usually helps me in the grocery store because my health is not very good and I can't handle it alone."

"Hello, Karen, nice to meet you!" Lin Xia greeted Karen while thinking to herself, this town is not big, and she hasn't met many people yet, but she has already seen two people with poor health.

"Hello, Lin Xia!" Karen said enthusiastically, "I haven't been to the ranch over there since the old ranch owner passed away. I hope you can run the ranch again. I will come to visit you then!"

"Okay, you're most welcome!" Lin Xia said with a smile.

"Oh right!" Karen suddenly said, "You just started running a ranch, so you must have encountered a lot of difficulties, right?"

"Yes, ranch management is very different from what I imagined." Lin Xia said with emotion.

"Wait for me." After Karen finished speaking, she turned around and came to Jeff and said something. Jeff, who already looked unhappy, looked even more miserable. After hesitating, he nodded. Then, Karen happily praised, "I knew that Dad was the most generous."

Karen walked towards Lin Xia with something in her hand and said, "Lin Xia, everything is difficult at the beginning, but don't be discouraged. We will help you. This is the seed we gave you, take it!"

Lin Xia quickly took it and found that it was the most expensive forage grass seed. She was very touched and said, "Thank you, I will do my best!"