Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

After a pleasant lunch with Dutt and Sabara, Lin Xia left the blacksmith shop holding her umbrella.

The rain in summer is different from the rain in spring. The wind is strong and the rain is heavy. It is not suitable for walking in the rain, so Lin Xia hurried to Anna's house.

As soon as I entered the room, Anna and Mana were already in the room. When they saw Lin Xia, they greeted her warmly.

"Good afternoon, Lin Xia. It's raining heavily outside, right?" Anna asked with concern.

"It's not small." Lin Xia replied as she put away her umbrella.

"Lin Xia, hello. Every time I see your umbrella, I'm very envious. Fortunately, Huo An's umbrellas are about to arrive, and I must choose a few beautiful ones." Mana said enthusiastically while looking at the umbrella in Lin Xia's hand.

"Haha~ If you choose a few more, Huo An will be so happy!" Lin Xia replied, "But it is indeed much more convenient to have an umbrella on a rainy day."

"The students in the snack classroom are here, so let's start the class." Anna said happily.

"Teacher Anna, thank you for your help~ Hehe..." Mana said mischievously.

"Okay, I understand, little Mana. Hehehe..."

Lin Xia: ……

As expected, they are two of the three square dance group~

"Let me think... How about making pudding today? It's a very popular snack among children, right?"

Anna began to teach seriously, "The ingredients are eggs and milk, and you also need a pot, an oven, and sugar. You can add fruits, honey, and chocolate according to your personal preferences. Since these are all common ingredients, it's simple, right?"

Lin Xia and Mana nodded.

Anna then began to demonstrate the actual operation to the two of them, and soon, a plain pudding was ready.

“People in our town also like to eat pumpkin pudding and sweet potato pudding. This is how to make pumpkin pudding. Just replace the fruit with pumpkin.

But sweet potato pudding is a little different. You need to replace the milk with cream and add steamed sweet potatoes. You can try it at home. "

After Anna finished her demonstration, it was Lin Xia and Mana's turn. Lin Xia took out apples, grapes, and honey from her backpack. Under Anna's guidance, the two of them each made a fruit pudding.

After finishing, the three began to taste it and commented on their own shortcomings. At the same time, Lin Xia also contributed the salted peanuts she made as snacks.

On a rainy afternoon, it is such a great pleasure to quietly enjoy desserts and snacks with good friends in a comfortable living room.

After spending a leisurely and enjoyable Saturday, Lin Xia once again welcomed a scorching Sunday.

Early in the morning, Below Zero Ranch welcomed a new life again—Chicken No. 5 (8-star chick) broke out of its shell.

There is only one empty space left in the chicken and rabbit house, so Lin Xia plans to buy a black chicken and raise it so that she can eat meat at any time!

But the chicken and rabbit house is a bit too small. It can only hold 8 small animals at most. I haven't raised ducks and geese yet. I wonder if it can be expanded.

I'm going to see Goetz today, so I'll ask him about it.

Today is another wave of tomatoes to harvest, and Lin Xia handed them all over to the dwarf.

She first went to inspect the traps in the mountains. She didn't go yesterday because it rained, but she would go today.

But maybe because of the rain, the animals didn't come out for a walk much, and the traps were empty.

But it is impossible for prey to fall into the pit every day. What a stupid animal that would be!

You have to keep a normal mind, comfort yourself while repairing the trap.

If you really want to catch more and better quality prey, you still have to take the initiative and use weapons.

After I came back, I inspected the cornfield. The corn plants were growing very strong. There were 4-5 corn cobs on each corn stalk, but they were of different sizes.

Some of the corns seemed ripe for picking in Lin Xia's opinion. They could be boiled, steamed, or peeled and stir-fried to make delicious dishes. However, in the eyes of the people in the small town, it was not the right time yet because the dwarfs had not picked the corn.

People here pick corn cobs that can be used as seeds. Such corn can be processed into chicken and rabbit feed, or the kernels can be shelled to make popcorn, etc.

So Lin Xia personally went into battle and picked more than a hundred tender corns, which she could boil for breakfast in the morning or stir-fry the corn kernels.

After picking the corns, I immediately went back to the house, took out 10 corns, peeled them, washed them, and steamed them in a steamer.

Steamed corn is stickier than boiled corn, and boiled corn does not taste as good as steamed corn.

Lin Xia was planning to treat Gotz to lunch today, so she made some other dishes, and there were still 2 servings of braised pheasant left, so she brought one for Gotz to try.

Using the existing ingredients in the refrigerator, Lin Xia prepared a dish of spicy and sour shredded potatoes, smashed cucumbers, scrambled eggs with bamboo shoots and black fungus, a tomato and egg soup, and some salted peanuts. For the staple food, she prepared jam bread, bamboo shoot rice, and freshly baked young corn.

At present, Lin Xia can only make two kinds of jam, one is grape jam and the other is apple jam. She learned both from Mana. Her family is an orchard, so she is particularly knowledgeable about jams and fruit juices.

Grape jam is made by washing wild grapes, crushing them into a paste in a pot, adding sugar, salt and honey and simmering over low heat.

The making methods of applesauce and strawberry jam are similar to that of grape jam, except that there is one more step, which is to use a knife to chop the apples or strawberries into pieces so that they can be crushed into a puree during cooking.

Lin Xia also asked about how to make ketchup, but Mana said she didn't know how. Anyway, the method of making ketchup is different from the above three methods. Lin Xia secretly tried it according to the above method, and successfully got a failed dish.

Without mentioning the past, after finishing, Lin Xia put everything into her backpack and prepared to go out.

When passing by the mailbox at the door, I found an email notification. When I opened it, I found that I had won the prize again - Ben's favorite thing - special wine.

Lin Xia was extremely surprised. This time she would not be foolish enough to look for Ban again. Of course, she was not short of money at the moment, so she did not need to sell it to Huo An at a low price (Huo An: I gave you a high price, definitely not a low price!).

She would save it, and when she had enough money, she would go to Ben to buy the special items.

On the way to Gotz's cabin at the foot of the back mountain, Lin Xia kept thinking about the opportunity of winning the prize. She vaguely felt that among the similar things she had done after winning the prize several times, in addition to giving gifts to the goddess and kappa, the other was shopping.

But if you give gifts to the goddess or the kappa, they will each give gifts in return, so this shouldn't be the case.

Then it should be related to shopping, but the objects and types of her shopping are different each time, and she has shopped before, so she is not sure what part of the shopping process triggers the winning mechanism. She can only experiment it when she has free time in the future.

When I arrived at Gotz's house, I saw Gotz holding a bundle of bamboo and about to enter the house!

"Hey~Gotz, what are you busy with?"

"Oh, it's Lin Xia~ You're here! Come in quickly. I have made the pointed bamboo you asked for. Come and see if it fits the bill!" Gotz happily invited Lin Xia into the house.

After following Goetz into the house, he found that his good friend, the small town policeman Harris, was also there.

Speaking of Harris, he would spend an afternoon at Goetz's house almost every day without fail, just like punching in at work.