A farming master in Stardew Valley

Chapter 192 How about I cooperate with you?
When the machine completely sucked in the lottery ticket, the lights on the screen suddenly began to flash. They were colorful and looked very vulgar, just like the light balls in discotheques in the 1980s and 1990s, full of light pollution.

"Snap this button."

Lewis, who was standing by, saw Leon covering his eyes and thought that Leon didn't know how to operate the machine, so he immediately reminded him.

Lyon took a slap when he heard that. Of course he could understand how to operate such a simple machine at a glance. He didn't move but just covered his eyes because he was dazzled by the lights.

As the button was pressed, the icons on the screen began to spin rapidly. A golden frame was locked in the center of the screen. Countless icons passed through this frame, and finally a reward of a pack of green seed icons stopped in the center of the golden frame.

This means that Leon has drawn this packet of seeds. At the same time, a basket pops up from under the lottery machine, and a packet of seeds with the same icon lies on the basket.

"Carrot seeds*40 (seeds): sow in spring, mature in nine days."

"I've never seen seeds before." Faced with this reward, Leon was a little surprised. After all, with his understanding of Stardew Valley, he had never seen carrot seeds appear in the game. He didn't expect to see this new thing now.

"Seeds, hahaha, you're lucky. Looks like you'll be busy again." Lewis on the side teased Lyon.

As a spectator throughout the entire process, he was quite satisfied with the machine. Lyon's complete lottery process proved that there was no problem with the machine.

"Yes, it seems that I was born with the holy body of farming."

Leon still remembered the general appearance of the various items that flashed by when the icon rotated. The number of seed types among them was not high, but even with this proportion, he still drew the seeds.

Unfortunately, Lewis didn't understand Leon's witty remarks, and in order to avoid appearing stupid, Lewis asked, "What kind of seeds are they?"

"Carrots," Leon replied.

"Carrots, this is a rare thing. The Fingil Republic doesn't have carrot seeds, but the Gotlo Empire across the Gem Sea is rich in this kind of thing." Lewis exclaimed when he heard this.

"Is this seed valuable?" Lyon asked.

"In fact, carrots are the parsnips of the Gotlo Empire. After all, the two have the same growth cycle and the yield is quite high, so the price difference is not much. But because they are rarely seen in the Republic of Fingir, the price of carrots should be higher than that of parsnips." Lewis explained.

"Oh." Lyon was a little disappointed when he heard this. Although he also felt that carrots could not be sold at a high price, there had to be some hope, right? Now, after Lewis's explanation, this hope was gone.

Seeing this, Lewis patted Leon’s shoulder and comforted him: “Don’t be discouraged, maybe you can get some good things when you come to the lottery next time.”

Leon looked at Lewis with resentment. If Lewis hadn't urged him to try out the lottery machine, he would have saved the ticket for a lucky day.

But the pumping was already done, and Leon didn’t say anything more. He took the seeds and said to Lewis: “Then I’ll go back and plant it first.”

"Yeah, yeah, farm work takes priority." Lewis naturally wouldn't drag Lyon into a chat. While expressing his understanding, he also enthusiastically sent Lyon out the door.

After leaving Lewis's house, Leon got on his bike, stuffed the seeds into his backpack, and rode towards the farm. However, after passing Pierre's grocery store, Leon checked the commission board to see if there was a commission. There was indeed one, listed on the commission board. The client was Robin, who needed 200 pieces of wood to replenish her inventory.

When Leon saw the commission, he picked it up and put it in his pocket. Then he returned to the farm to cultivate, sow seeds and water the crops. After planting all the forty newly harvested carrots, he returned to the house, took out two hundred pieces of wood, and rushed to Robin's house.

"Dong dong dong."

As soon as the knock on the door sounded, Leon saw Robin opening the door. Seeing that it was Leon, Robin greeted him happily: "Hi! Leon, I finally see you. I thought you had forgotten me, the first acquaintance you met in Pelican Town."

“The first acquaintance I made was Lewis,” Leon teased Robin.

"Hahaha, so that's the case. So, Leon, you are looking for me, your second acquaintance, to build something on the farm?" Robin responded to Leon's joke cooperatively and asked enthusiastically.

"If so, I can prepare and start working right away. After all, I've been looking forward to the order from Red Star Farm for a long time."

"I'm here to submit a commission." Leon took out the list that Robin had posted on the commission column from his pocket and explained.

"Lyon, since this is your first time accepting a commission, you only need to remember the contents written on it. You don't need to take it off." Robin explained to Leon.

"If I don't take it down, what if someone sees it and steals my business?" Leon answered confidently.

"Hahaha, that makes sense." Robin laughed again and reminded Leon.

"I didn't realize you had quite the business sense. However, I need to gather this batch of lumber quickly so I can start renovating the miners' dormitories in the eastern mining area sooner. So if you don't gather it for me within two days, I won't wait for you."

"The wood is ready, but are you ready for the reward?" Leon teased Robin with a smile.

"Ah? Already prepared? Oh, by the way, you have your own farm, so you should have a lot of logs stored. One standard log can produce about ten pieces of wood. But if it's just a raw log, I'll have to process it again, so the price might be lower."

Robin said, then added: "By the way, I still have to go to your farm to get the materials, so the transportation costs have to be included. Therefore, the price will be lower. Do you understand?"

"It's not logs, it's real wood." Leon said, and directly took out a piece of wood and handed it to Robin: "They are all of this standard. Do you think it's okay?"

"Of course, this is standard-sized wood, and it's even better than anything I've ever processed. It seems you're quite knowledgeable about carpentry, so we can talk more in the future."

When Robin saw the appearance of the wood in his hand, his eyes lit up and he was very satisfied with the wood sample provided by Leon.

"Aren't you curious about where I got the wood?" Lyon saw that Robin was only focusing on the wood and ignoring his magic of taking things out of the void, and suddenly became curious.

"Maru told me about the time we observed meteorites on your farm, more than once. Of course I know about your amazing ability." Robin chuckled and said, "How about you demonstrate it again? I'll pretend to be surprised and cooperate with you."

(End of this chapter)