Blending of Planes: I am leisurely farming

In the afterglow of sunset, a cart was parked next to a seat in the town square.

There were pedestrians walking or pushing bicycles in groups of three or four on the road, and a few pedestrians rode the old-fashioned horizontal-bar bicycles through the town.

The only thing they have in common is that they are no longer young. Young people are appearing less and less here. This is a town that is gradually dying out.

In the distance, the only pub in the town, the Star Bar, has lit up its lights and is about to usher in the busiest time of the day.

Under the lit lights is the age of the sparsely populated, increasingly aging town.

Sean, who was sitting on a chair to rest, sighed a little, recalling what happened when he visited an acquaintance just now.

There is now half a bag of bamboo shoots, a head of cabbage, a long strip of bacon wrapped in a plastic bag and a can of pickled radish on the cart.

There is no need to say much about bamboo shoots and cabbage.

The bacon was stuffed into Sean's car after some shoving and pushing when he visited Mayor Lewis, and he also asked Sean to come over often.

Through this visit, Sean learned that Lewis's wife had passed away a few years ago, and his only son had started a family in the city. Now Lewis lived alone in Pelican Town and became an elderly widower.

Sean seemed to see the figure of his own grandfather in Lewis, who also lost his wife and his children left home, leaving him alone.

How many elderly people like this are there in the whole town?

"Ah~" Sean sighed, "This damn traffic, if only we could get through the mountains, this natural barrier blocking the road would become a smooth road."

The imaginary Sean unconsciously held the jar with his hand.

This jar of pickled radishes was a gift from Penny. When Sean came out of the mayor's house and passed by the modified simple trailer, he was hesitating whether to go over and say hello to Penny. After all, Penny's mother Pam left a great impression on him in his childhood.

It was Penny who saw Sean when she went out to get water from the pool in front of the trailer and was the first to greet him.

At this time, Penny was preparing dinner. It was getting late, so Sean simply greeted her. At the same time, he picked up the bamboo shoots and forced them into Penny's mouth without giving her a chance to refuse.

As a return gift for the bamboo shoots given by Sean, this jar of pickled radishes also came into Sean's hands.

Thinking of Penny's shy expression when she handed over the pickled radish, Sean showed a smile.

Sean stood up, pushed the cart and continued on his way to Pierre's grocery store.

Suddenly, a red-roofed building with lights inside caught Sean's eyes, and a dusty memory emerged from his mind.

"The Romans? They are at home now? How could I forget about them?" Sean muttered.

The Romans are famous travelers in Pelican Town. They are wealthy and travel and explore around the world all year round. When Sean was a child, they came to Stardew Valley for adventure and fell in love with it. Through the introduction of Sean's grandfather, they bought a piece of land in the town and settled down here.

Because of this relationship, Sean was very familiar with the Romans when he was a child. When they returned to Stardew Valley after their trip, he would often pester them to listen to their stories about their trip. These stories greatly enriched Sean's knowledge as a child at the time.

"It's been a while since grandpa passed away. This is a rare opportunity so I should go say hello."

Sean stopped the cart, walked to the door under the light, stretched out his hand and knocked gently.

"Is Uncle Roman here?" Before he finished speaking, the door, which was not yet closed, let out a crack of light under Sean's knock. As the cold wind blew in from outside, the door gradually opened, and the bright light in the house drowned Sean completely.

"Emily, someone is looking for our father." A lazy and gentle female voice came from inside the house.

Sean looked over when he heard the voice and saw a fashionable young woman with golden wavy hair sitting on a beautifully crafted sofa in a luxuriously decorated living room, applying a facial mask.

She turned and called to the inner room, then glanced at Sean and said, "Come in and sit for a while. There's a chair over there. My sister will be here soon."

As she spoke, she started to take care of her skin and ignored Sean.

There was no response for a long time, and a quiet atmosphere surrounded Sean. A sense of embarrassment surged in Sean's heart. He didn't know whether to stand or walk.

"Haley, you don't even entertain the guests. What are your parents going to say to you?" A young woman with navy blue hair, center-parted bangs and a C-shaped inward-curling bob came out from the inner room and saw Sean standing awkwardly at the door. She said to the woman on the sofa.

The woman on the sofa curled her lips when she heard this, moved her body and did not reply.

“What can I do for Roman?” The blue-haired woman turned around and saw the somewhat unfamiliar Sean, and asked with a bit of caution.

"Is Uncle Roman not at home?" Sean asked the question in his mind when he saw someone paying attention to him.

"My grandfather and Uncle Roman are old friends. I just moved here a few days ago. I passed by here today and saw the lights on in Uncle Roman's house. I thought Uncle Roman was back from his trip, so I wanted to come over and say hello." Seeing the caution in the other party's eyes, thinking that it was almost evening and there were two young women living here, Sean quickly explained his purpose, "Sean Oak, just call me Sean. My grandfather, Solo Oak, was originally the farmer here."

After hearing Sean's words, the woman's vigilance faded a lot and she said, "Emily." The girl in front of him introduced herself.

Emily turned sideways and pointed at the woman in the living room and said, "Haley, my sister. She is like this. Once she starts to do maintenance, she doesn't want to talk to anyone."

Haley on the sofa rolled her eyes when she heard this, as if she blamed her sister for saying bad things about her in person, but she still raised her hand as a greeting to Sean.

"My parents went on an adventure to another continent a few years ago. They probably won't be home until late summer," Emily explained.

Sean nodded when he heard this, looked at the sky which was gradually getting darker, and tactfully chose to leave.

"When did Uncle Roman have two beautiful daughters? They look about the same age as me, but the time doesn't match. Besides, one has golden hair and the other has ocean blue hair. They can't be illegitimate daughters from outside, right?" Sean's thoughts gradually declined after he left.

It is not impossible that Uncle Ron, who travels everywhere and is humorous and witty, might meet a beautiful woman one day and have a one-night stand with her.

"Pa" Sean slapped himself, stopped his random guesses, and walked into Pierre's grocery store.

After a while, Sean came out of Pierre's grocery store after delivering the goods, holding a shriveled sack.

Winter bamboo shoots weigh 10g per kilogram, and half a sack weighed 8 kilograms. In addition, the quality was good, so the price was increased by 88%, and g went into Sean's pocket.

It wasn't easy, but he finally made some money. This was the first money Sean had earned since he came to this world.

He held the money tightly in his hand, unzipped his clothes, stuffed the money into the lining of his clothes, and then used his consciousness to communicate with the space and transfer the money to the portable space.

As a commemoration, Sean plans to keep this money forever.

The days in winter seem to be always so short. Before six o'clock, it is completely dark.

In the cold wind, Sean pushed his cart in the unlit wilderness. Only the lights of two or three houses in the distance provided direction for Sean.

Sean deliberately took a detour here. He walked straight west from the south of the town, passed Mani's farm, and then headed north to reach his own farm.

Along the way, you can see the entrance to the coal mine forest in the distance, which is the purpose of Sean's detour.

Sean found a suitable high slope, climbed up, and looked towards the coal mine forest to the west.

As far as the eye can see, under the cover of night, sandwiched between two mountains, the entire dark coal mine forest extends into the mountains in a funnel shape. The entrance to the coal mine forest is at the tip of the funnel-shaped root canal.

Now the entire entrance is blocked by a two-meter-high wire mesh. Outside the wire mesh stands a 10-meter-high wooden watchtower. A searchlight is installed on the top of the watchtower, continuously projecting light into the depths of the forest. Looking closely, there are figures walking around in the watchtower from time to time, monitoring the situation in the forest.

The security was tight, completely different from the loose situation Sean had imagined, with just a barbed wire fence and two people guarding it.

This watchtower completely dispelled Sean's idea of ​​sneaking over the barbed wire. Sean complained that he didn't know how this watchtower was built in the wilderness.

Sean had no choice but to take the long view and walked towards his farm.