A farming master in Stardew Valley

Chapter 668 Peppercorns!
"Last time you gave me coconut wine, I was planning to treat you with this aged wine, but I was helping you in the kitchen and forgot about it. This time I'm giving it to you, so I won't tie a bow on it or prepare a hand-woven flower basket. Do you understand what I mean?" Sophia stared at Leon and whispered.

"Let me keep it for myself, okay?" Leon smiled and helped Sophia express her thoughts, teasing her at the same time.

"But a bottle of this stuff is 1WG, I really can't bear to part with it."

"What's there to be reluctant about? I still have some here. Apart from the ones reserved for the Far Travel Chamber of Commerce, the remaining quantity is not small. If you really like it, I can give you a bottle every month." Sophia looked at Leon speechlessly and complained.

"It's too precious." Leon helplessly reminded Sophia: "If the value of the gifts given to each other is too different, it will be difficult for people to accept them with peace of mind."

"Anyway, I'm going to give it to you. If you don't want it, I'll smash it." Seeing that Leon actually wanted to refuse, Sophia widened her eyes and threatened Leon with her hands on her hips.

"No, it's a waste, thank you." Leon quickly put the bottle of aged wine into his backpack, then stroked Sophia's hair to comfort her.

"Remember, stay and drink by yourself, don't give it to others, otherwise don't come to me again in the future." Sophia emphasized again.

"Okay, okay, I can't bear to give it away. It's such an expensive thing." Leon promised.

"Yeah." Sophia finally regained her smile. "You said you'd treat me to dinner tonight, so don't go back on your word."

“Of course.” Leon agreed with a smile: “Just order whatever you want to eat, I’ll make it for you.”

"I don't know what you can cook. Just look at you. As long as it tastes good, that's fine." Sophia thought for a moment, but couldn't think of anything in particular she wanted to eat, so she gave the choice to Leon.

"Then I have to think about it carefully, but before that, eat a strawberry to fill your stomach." Leon took out another maple syrup strawberry and handed it to Sophia, then took out his mobile phone and sent a text message to Abigail.

I plan to ask Abigail if she will be back for dinner in the evening, and ask her what she wants to eat.

Abigail replied quite quickly, but the content was not what Leon wanted to see. This girl didn't plan to come over in the evening and wanted to stay at home.

Confused, Leon asked why, but Abigail just responded with a frightened expression and nothing else.

"Little bastard." Leon complained speechlessly. He probably understood what Abigail meant and felt quite helpless.

"I'll cook at your place tonight so you don't have to run back and forth."

After confirming that Abigail would not be back tonight, Leon did not plan to go back to cook. Sophia also had a kitchen, so he could just have dinner here.

"Were you texting with Abigail just now?" Sophia guessed as she watched Leon fiddling with his hands.

"Yeah." There was nothing to hide about this matter, so Leon admitted it directly.

Sophia pursed her lips when she heard this, and her face fell: "Does she often come to your place for dinner in the evening?"

"Yes, she is my girlfriend, you don't know." Leon explained with a smile.

"Oh." Sophia responded casually, and then stopped talking, lowering her head, not knowing what she was thinking.

Leon also noticed that Sophia was in a low mood and had a headache. He hadn't noticed it before, but now from Sophia's behavior, he understood that this girl seemed to have some other thoughts about him.

"Let me see what's in your fridge first, and then decide what to make tonight."

But this kind of thing is something that can be seen but not said out loud, so Leon could only find an excuse to slip away first.

After leaving the wine cellar, there was a door just across from the kitchen. He glanced at the stock in the refrigerator. It was basically the same as last time, except that the ingredients that had been consumed before were replenished. There was no other change, but this time Lyon planned to change his thinking.

If you ask what you want to eat most in the summer when you are in the air-conditioning, Lyon’s first choice is always hot pot, so Lyon plans to have a hot pot feast tonight.

On the one hand, it provides more choices, and on the other hand, it allows Sophia to relieve her mood with the help of the spicy impact.

Once you have made up your mind, you naturally have to do it. Since there is no ready-made base, Lyon needs to prepare it himself. So after deciding to make hot pot, Lyon said hello to Sophia, then went out to purchase the ingredients for the hot pot base.

If you want to know where in Pelican Town has the most comprehensive selection of meat ingredients, it has to be John, this tough butcher who doesn't like to talk much. He basically has whatever you want.

"I can understand the beef butter, but what are you going to do with the beef bones?" Even though he didn't like to talk much, he couldn't help but ask another question when he heard that Leon wanted the beef bones that no one mentioned.

"Cooking." Leon explained.

"Forehead"

If John didn't know that Lyon was a farmer, he would have suspected that Lyon was too poor to buy meat, but since Lyon said so, he could only provide the corresponding ingredients according to Lyon's requirements.

John pulled out a large bone stick from a storage box filled with various bones and placed it on the table.

"2G."

"Is it so cheap?" Lyon asked in surprise.

"That's the price the bone recyclers pay," John explained.

"Then give me a few more." Beef bones are good things. Not only are they fragrant when used to make bone soup, but the bone marrow is also an extremely delicious and high-quality ingredient. John is selling them at a low price, so Leon naturally won't be polite.

"Do you want all these big bones?" John confirmed.

"Yeah." Leon nodded.

Then John dug out four more from the box: "That's all."

"That's enough. Give me some butter, and cut a pound of beef shank and a pound of lamb shank." Lyon continued.

"Ah."

John responded and started to prepare something for Leon. After paying the bill, John watched Leon leave with the meat and bones. He scratched his head and thought for a long time but couldn't figure out what Leon could do with the beef bones.

After buying beef bones, beef tallow and meat, Leon went to Pierre's grocery store to buy chili peppers. However, Pierre didn't have much chili peppers, and Gus had bought them all in the morning.

Fortunately, Lyon and Gus had a good relationship, so Lyon went directly to Gus and asked him for some chili peppers. He was surprised to find that Gus also had Sichuan peppercorns.

"You actually use this kind of spice?"

Gus was quite surprised to see Lyon holding the dried peppercorns as if they were treasures.

"Well, Gus, where did you buy this?" Leon asked Gus excitedly. After all, he had previously thought that there were no peppercorns in this world.

"I got it from a friend who makes spices. He purchased it from the Gotlo Empire. I think it's very unique, so I brought some back to develop new recipes," Gus explained.

"Can you give me some?" Lyon asked, rubbing his hands.

"Take whatever you want."

Gus answered nonchalantly that he didn't use this thing very often because he still hadn't figured out what to use this spicy spice with a strange numbing feeling. He just occasionally ground a little bit of it into powder when processing fish to remove the fishy smell, and he didn't dare to use more.

"Thanks. Next time you can buy this thing, please bring some for me." Lyon added.

"No problem. When you are free and come over for dinner, you have to teach me the applications of this spice. I see that you seem to be quite familiar with it. I want to learn how to use it with you." Gus suggested.

"Of course." Lyon agreed without hesitation. If Guts could use peppercorns, then maybe he could eat pickled fish at Guts's place in the future.

"I have some other spices here. Can you take a look at them to see if they are familiar to you?" Gus was quite happy to hear Leon's answer. What he was most interested in now was cooking. Before in Stardew Valley, he seldom talked about cooking with others because most people were not very good at or interested in it. Now with Leon here, it's different.

"Okay, but let's do it next time. I'm in a hurry to go back and cook." Leon explained.

"Okay, there's plenty of time anyway. I'll wait for you." Gus was not in a hurry. He smiled and sent Lyon out the door. He didn't even take the money for the chili and peppercorns that Lyon took away. He stuffed it back into Lyon's pocket.

(End of this chapter)