Blending of Planes: I am leisurely farming

In the afternoon, Sean found a restaurant to eat, crossed the river and walked towards the southeast of the town.

"No. 102 Yingchun Road, this is it." Sean looked at the wooden building in front of him with a museum sign on it and walked in.

"Hello! Welcome to the Stardew Valley Archaeological Research Office. I'm Gunther, the curator here." A middle-aged man in a blue uniform greeted while sitting behind the desk.

"Hello, I'm Sean Oak, the farmer who just moved here yesterday." Sean stated his identity and purpose. "I just arrived and don't know much about the whole town. I thought I would come to the museum to see if there are any local records or other reading materials to deepen my understanding of Pelican Town."

"Go inside, the third bookshelf on the left, the book you are looking for is in that area. Remember to put it back when you are done reading it, and don't take it out of the museum. It's rare to see young people willing to come to museums nowadays." Gunther pointed inside and said, "There are people inside, please keep quiet."

Sean said goodbye to Gunther with a grateful look and walked inside.

Passing through a row of bookshelves, a reading area surrounded by bookshelves appears before your eyes.

Unexpectedly, there were quite a few people sitting here, including a young woman about Sean's age and seven children who looked about five or six years old. The group seemed to be conducting a teaching activity here.

"Teacher Penny, Teacher Penny, a strange brother has come." The chubby little boy sitting in the innermost seat was the first to notice Sean, and was excitedly raising his hand to write a report.

The other six children all turned their heads and focused their attention on him.

"Vincent, don't be distracted during class. Everyone should finish the exercises that have just been assigned, and I'll check them later." The young woman sitting with her back to Sean said in a gentle but unquestionable tone, then stood up and walked towards Sean.

The ends of her orange-red bob were fluffy and curled, and the hair on her temples was wrapped around her ears and behind her head, revealing her white ears.

The yellow cloth jacket that had faded a little from washing could not conceal her calm and quiet temperament, and her light green eyes revealed a firm look.

"Sorry, I'm Penny, the librarian here. Children are naturally lively." Penny stretched out her slender white right hand and tucked two strands of hair that had become restless due to the movement of standing up back behind her ears, and said in an apologetic tone.

Penny, looking at the intellectual woman in front of him, Sean searched the memories in his mind.

Ah, it’s the daughter of that alcoholic and bad-tempered woman Pam. I didn’t expect that the timid and thin girl has grown up now.

Sean had a particularly deep impression of Pam when he was a child.

The woman used to work as a bus driver in the city. After being abandoned by her husband, she returned to Pelican Town and lived in a house converted from a scrapped bus.

She was an alcoholic all day long and had a bad drinking habit. She would yell at anyone after drinking. When Sean was a child, he would avoid her for fear of getting into trouble. She could be said to be the "ghost-stricken" person in the town.

"It's okay. Children should be more lively. It was me who let him barge in without my warning. Are you conducting a teaching activity?" Sean asked curiously.

"Yes, since there is no kindergarten in the town and it has always been taken care of by everyone, after the director's approval, I thought about using the idle space here to provide some free preschool education for children of school age."

There was a sense of self-reliance in Penny's gentle tone, "Are you looking for a book? I have read almost all the books here. If possible, I can help you find it."

"Then I'll trouble you. I want to find some records about Stardew Valley, especially the records about Stardew Valley in the war a hundred years ago."

"Let me look for the war that took place a hundred years ago." She walked to the third row of bookshelves on the left, stood on tiptoe and picked up a book on the top shelf. "I found it, this is it. Not many people know that Stardew Valley was one of the places where the war took place a hundred years ago. How did you know that?" Penny handed over a book with a cowhide cover.

"I just returned to Stardew Valley, and Aunt Robin mentioned that my ancestors had some connection with the war a hundred years ago, so I came here to learn more about it." Sean took the book with yellowed pages and the cover peeling off at the corners due to aging.

"You just got back. Are you Grandpa Oak's grandson?" Penny's eyes sparkled. "Grandpa Oak helped my family a lot when I was a child. He often shared the crops from the fields with the townspeople."

"Yeah, I just arrived yesterday. By the way, you can call me Sean, Sean Oak."

"Sean, yeah, I remember that." Penny nodded heavily.

"Squeak, creak~" There was the sound of some chairs being moved.

"I'm sorry, I've been away for a long time, and the kids can't maintain discipline. I have to go back." After saying goodbye, Penny returned to the central reading area.

Sean just stood by the bookshelf in an empty corner and started flipping through the books.

Just like the records in history books, the details were not mentioned at all, with no mention of the causes or the triggering factors. Suddenly, conflicts broke out in many places around the world, and the Kingdom of Docli, to which Stardew Valley belonged, also went to war with its neighboring Kingdom of Liado.

On the front line with mountains as the border, Stardew Valley, as the passage between the mountains, became the main battlefield. The conflict lasted for several years and disappeared without a sign.

After the war, the Kingdom of Docli and the Kingdom of Liado suddenly announced the establishment of the Doclia Federal Republic by uniting dozens of countries around them. The Kingdom of Docli, where Stardew Valley is located, also automatically became the current Docli State, and the capital of the state, Delan City, is located more than 230 kilometers southwest of Stardew Valley.

After the war, the garrison was disbanded, and some veterans and refugees settled here, forming the prototype of today's Pelican Town.

There is only a short sentence about Sean's ancestors.

Because Lieutenant Oak fought bravely and made many military achievements, he was granted 700 acres of land in the northern part of Stardew Valley to be passed down from generation to generation.

Not getting the desired results, Sean put the book aside and started searching the bookshelf again.

As time passed, Sean, who had gained nothing, put the books back to their original places one by one.

Just as I was about to put the first book back on the top shelf, a piece of paper fell out from the torn cover and slid a meter on the ground.

Sean looked around, picked up the paper carefully, took a book from the bookshelf, put it in there and started reading.

[I am probably crazy. My former comrades have become strangers. The radio reported that we have won the war with our neighboring country and are currently attending the negotiation ceremony as the victorious party.

I looked at my comrades' limbs that looked like they were bitten off by wild animals, and their skins corroded by special substances, but there were no wounds caused by guns and shells. I tried hard to recall the details of the war, except that I was ordered to be transferred here to fight with neighboring countries. The other details were like waking up from a dream the next day. I only remembered that it happened but could not recall what happened specifically.

I asked my comrades, but they turned a deaf ear to these abnormal phenomena, as if the war had never appeared in their lives, and quickly returned to their daily lives. Only I was trapped in the shadow of the war and couldn't get out.

I have had nightmares for the past few days. In my dreams, we cooperated with neighboring countries to resist the invasion of monsters. Everything in the dream was so real, as if I had experienced it myself.

Today, I vaguely saw the towering spire on the high ground near the coal mine forest in the southern part of Stardew Valley. I saw countless monsters roaring in the other side of the world. Is my memory real? Are we really fighting with humans? I can hardly distinguish between imagination and reality.

I'm crazy.

So the war a hundred years ago was to resist the invasion of monsters? How did this large-scale tampering of memory come about? Why did the country block this information? Are the creatures that appear in the coal mine forest now also the monsters from a hundred years ago?

Sean thought about it, calmly stuffed the paper back into the cover, and put the book back to its original place.

It was time to go back. Sean walked out of the bookshelf area and Penny was still checking the children's homework. As if she noticed Sean's gaze, Penny raised her head and looked at Sean.

Their eyes met, and Sean smiled and greeted them silently, while looking out to indicate that he was about to leave.

Penny was amused by Sean's winking expression. She nodded slightly, looked away with blushing cheeks, and bent down to guide the child's exercises.

After leaving the museum, Sean went straight to the clinic.

"No problem, all indicators are normal." Dr. Harvey said to Sean holding the test results.

"The report shows that you are very young and healthy. If you must find a reason, your cell metabolism is abnormally vigorous, which may lead to insufficient energy supply to the brain. I suggest you try to supplement more energy. If the symptoms do not improve, I suggest you go to the city for another checkup."

"Thank you." Sean took the diagnosis report from Harvey and left the clinic.

Good news: I am in very good health. I can feel my strength increasing and my coordination has improved. With current scientific methods, my abnormality should not be detected, so I don't have to worry about being captured and sliced.

Bad news: The level of that being is indeed very high. For someone who has no power to resist, I don’t know whether it is a blessing or a curse to be involved in the disputes between such beings.

It's just a waste of time, Sean joked to himself, just take it one step at a time.

It was already evening when we returned to the farm.

Sean opened the refrigerator and took out the ingredients, put the washed rice into the rice cooker, cut the peeled potatoes into cubes and washed off the excess starch, and took out the curry bag he bought last time.

Curry potato rice bowl is today's dinner.

"Knock knock knock~" There was a gentle knock on the door.

"I'm coming." When I opened the door, I saw Penny standing outside, her orange-red hair looking even more dazzling against the setting sun.

"I just sent the kids home, and I just happened to say hello as I passed by. I hope I'm not disturbing you." Penny looked into the house.

"No, come in and rest your feet." Sean turned sideways and made room.

"No, my mother is still waiting at home. I am very happy to see Grandpa Oak's farm come back to life."

Looking at the slender figure disappearing into the dusk, Sean sighed, what an intellectual and strong woman.