A farming master in Stardew Valley

Chapter 501: Looks familiar, I seem to have heard it somewhere before
Without wasting any time, Lyon took out a pile of bones and the scroll. As for the dinosaur eggs, Lyon thought it would be better to keep them for now. After upgrading the second-level chicken coop and having an incubator, he would hatch and raise them. When the baby dinosaurs started laying eggs, he would take one out and donate it to the library.

"Oh? Prehistoric bones? This is something good!"

Looking at these big bones, Gunther immediately became interested. He took out a magnifying glass from his arms and observed them carefully for a moment, then sighed with a hint of regret.

"What does these bones make up?" Leon asked.

"It's impossible to piece it together. These bones are parts of several creatures," Gunther explained.

After hearing this, Leon could understand it. After all, the sizes of these bones were very different, some were big and some were small. It was obvious that they did not come from the body of a living creature.

"I originally thought that the first donations we would receive would be various special minerals, but I didn't expect that most of them would be antiques. It seems that you have a talent for archaeology, Leon." After collecting and organizing these prehistoric bones, Gunther exclaimed.

"We haven't got the minerals yet, but there should be quite a few. Don't worry." Leon comforted Gunther, then pointed to the dwarf scroll that Gunther had ignored and reminded him.

"Mr. Gunther, I have collected all four volumes of my Dwarven Scroll. Don't you want to say something?"

"Okay, okay, hey, why are you in such a hurry?" Gunther looked at Leon helplessly, then picked up the Dwarf Scroll III, walked to the showroom with Leon, and placed it next to the other three Dwarf Scrolls.

After putting the volume away, Gunther took Leon back to the front desk, fumbled under the counter, and finally pulled out a yellow dictionary and handed it to Leon.

"Although I don't know how you knew that I would give you the Dwarven translation tutorial if you collected all four scrolls, I still have to give it to you."

"Hehe, thank you Mr. Gunther for your support." Lyon took the dictionary without hesitation. Before he could open it, the dictionary dissipated into starlight and merged into Lyon's body.

"Special ability, Dwarven language proficiency activated."

Starlight entered his body, and the system prompt sound followed. In Leon's mind, there were also some more memories about writing and communicating in the Dwarven language.

The disappearance of the Dwarven translation tutorial did not scare Gunther, as he seemed to have known about this situation for a long time.

"Dwarves aren't common. Most of them died in the Elemental War. The remaining dwarves are mostly scattered around the world or live underground. So you might not see many opportunities to use this language. You should be mentally prepared."

"It doesn't matter. It's not a bad thing to master one more language, right?" Leon did not explain to Gunther that there was a surviving dwarf in Pelican Town.

"Well, are there any other antiques you want to donate?" Gunther nodded and asked casually.

"Well, since you said so, let's donate these too." Leon took out the harvest from the mine from his backpack, a red crystal, a fire crystal, a quartz and an aquamarine. These were all found when mining today.

"Okay, I was wrong before. Leon, you may be more familiar with the mine than some old miners." Looking at these mineral gems, Gunther was a little surprised, because he knew very well how deep underground the origin of these things was. So when he saw these, he understood that Leon's exploration of the mine was far beyond his imagination.

"Since so many items have been donated at once, enriching the collections in the exhibition hall, I can't let Mr. Lyon's efforts go to waste."

After collecting the donations, Gunther bent down again, rummaged under the counter for a moment, and then handed Lyon two large bags of seeds.

"Let me see what kind of seeds this time."

Leon took the seed packet and the system immediately gave instructions.

"High-quality melon seeds * 50 (seeds): sow in the summer, mature in 36 days. Because they are high-quality seeds, the chance of producing a high-quality crop is higher."

"High-quality carambola seeds*10 (seeds): sow in summer and mature in 39 days. Because they are preferred seeds, the chance of producing high-quality crops will be higher." "It's a gift from an old friend, the last batch of high-quality seeds. Summer is almost here, so I'll give them all to you to plant." Gunther added to Leon.

"Thank you. That's exactly what I need. But I have a humble request. Could Mr. Gunther introduce me to that old farmer? If possible, I'd like to buy some of these seeds from him."

Leon thanked Gunther sincerely and put forward his own ideas.

"I can't help you because he has been dead for a long time." Gunther replied, shaking his head.

“Well, what a pity.” Hearing that such a master of farming had passed away, Leon felt regretful: “But this senior should have lived for a long time.”

"No, he passed away in his 80s," Gunther complained.

Hearing this, Leon was stunned.

Logically speaking, an old farmer who can produce so many high-quality seeds should at least be a big man who can stably cultivate high-quality crops. If he uses high-quality crops all year round, his lifespan should be much longer than that of ordinary people. How could he die so casually?

"Could it be that he has never eaten high-quality crops? Otherwise, how could he leave so early?"

"Who knows? After all, not everyone is willing to keep such a precious thing for themselves to eat." Gunther replied with a complicated expression.

"Someone forced us?" Lyon guessed when he saw this.

"No." Gunther shook his head.

"For the children?" Lyon continued to speculate.

"No." Gunther continued to shake his head.

"Born to be stingy, and willing to endure hardship?" The first two questions were wrong, and Leon only thought of this possibility.

"That's not right." Gunther shook his head for the third time, and then seemed to feel that this was not very good for his neck. He didn't let Leon guess and started to explain directly.

"Just think that he brought this upon himself. After all, he's not someone who keeps to himself."

"Is that so? I didn't expect that." Lyon was a little surprised to hear this explanation, but he also felt it was quite reasonable.

After all, in addition to various crises and illnesses in life, the human gene of adventurousness is also a fatal point, especially in the West. There is a reason why there are so few people.

Just combined with the information Gunther said, Leon felt inexplicably familiar with this old farmer whom he had never met.

A master farmer who could grow high-quality crops, select seeds, and give them away, but only lived to be over eighty years old and loved to commit suicide. These conditions combined made Leon feel like he had seen him somewhere before.

"Okay, I have to go to my appointment. You should go back and rest early. Don't you feel sweaty?"

Just as Leon was wondering where he had heard such a thing, Gunther put his things away and urged Leon.

Leon came to his senses after hearing this, and left the library with an embarrassed look on his face. Then he rode his bike back to the farm, took his clothes and started to take a shower.

(End of this chapter)