A farming master in Stardew Valley

Chapter 723 Cantaloupe and Watermelon

After leaving the greenhouse and the living area, Leon just walked out the door and saw Pierre standing by the door with an anxious look on his face.

When Pierre saw Leon coming out, he immediately lowered his voice and asked, "Do you know what's going on?"

"Your secrets have been exposed, Pierre. It's time to turn yourself in." Leon advised Pierre seriously.

"It is so." Pierre's face was filled with sorrow when he heard this. He was not only worried about the money he had saved with great effort, but also worried about what would happen to him in the future.

"Actually, there is a way to get through this. Do you want to hear my suggestion?" Seeing Pierre's look, Leon was speechless, but he still planned to help Pierre.

"What proposal?"

Upon hearing this, Pierre's eyes widened and his ears pricked up as he asked Leon.

"When are Abigail and Caroline's birthdays?" Leon asked.

"Abigail in August, in the fall, and Caroline in September, in the winter," Pierre answered immediately.

"Well, it's only April now, it's a bit early. What about your wedding anniversary?" Leon asked.

"Next month." Although Pierre was confused, he answered truthfully.

"That's perfect. Go to Caroline and sincerely apologize, saying you shouldn't have hidden the secret money. Then she'll probably ask you what you want to do with it. You can answer that you're planning to buy her a gift for your wedding anniversary."

Having said that, Lyon hesitated for a moment, and finally added.

"Maybe Caroline will believe it, but she might also suspect you're lying to her. So if you really choose this explanation, then on your wedding anniversary, you'll have to prepare a gift for her that's worth that much money, or even more expensive, to prove it. So you have to consider whether to use this explanation."

"We must use it. After all, I can't say that the money is for buying Doug's autographed baseball. Caroline will kill me if I do that." Pierre's eyes lit up after hearing this suggestion, as if he had found a life-saving straw.

"Then you keep up the good work. I should go back to farming."

Seeing that Pierre was so receptive to advice, Leon didn't say much. This was the old couple's own business and had little to do with Leon. This was all he could do.

"Thank you, Leon, you are a genius." Pierre praised Leon, but then his expression changed.

"No, you are so experienced in pleasing women. Abigail won't be fooled by you in the future."

"I don't need to hide any private money, and Abigail is not stupid." Leon looked at Pierre speechlessly and complained.

"I'm watching you, kid." When it came to matters concerning his precious daughter, Pierre rarely showed any toughness.

"I used to be a boxer. You better be careful and don't let me find out about your problem."

"Yes, yes, but you have to solve your own problem first," Leon said helplessly to Pierre. "Yeah." Pierre nodded, then walked around Leon and went to the living area behind the shop, obviously going to explain Leon's idea to Caroline.

Leon shook his head and looked at the empty shop. Before leaving, he helped close the door and turned the sign at the door to "Closed".

As for staying to help look after the store? Leon hadn't considered it. On the one hand, God knows how long Pierre and Caroline would argue. On the other hand, Leon didn't know the prices of Pierre's goods other than seeds and fertilizers. Staying to look after the store might cause unnecessary trouble.

It would be more reliable to help Pierre close the store temporarily. Everyone in the town is an acquaintance, and they probably won't push the door in when they see the sign saying the store is closed.

Riding his bicycle back to the Red Star Farm, Lyon took out a hoe, doubled the vacant land, added fertilizer, and then buried the melon seeds one by one in the soft and moist soil.

These melon seeds are quite large, a bit like watermelon seeds, but they are white in color and are rounder and fuller, not as flat as watermelon seeds.

When he was still playing games, Lyon had wondered whether melon was a cantaloupe or a watermelon.

After all, it is really hard to verify the prototype of this pink-skinned fruit in reality. After all, there is no pink variety. Leon thinks it must be a new thing fabricated by the game author.

The melons planted before have now sprouted. Judging from the leaves and vines of the melon seedlings, Lyon is sure that this thing is not a watermelon vine, but more like a cantaloupe vine, so Lyon speculates that this thing should be a variant of cantaloupe.

However, before it is ripe, Lyon is not sure whether his guess is correct. When the melon is ripe, he will just open one and taste it, and he should be able to get a conclusion.

What’s interesting is that although Lyon doesn’t have an accurate answer to the specific prototype of the melon, he made an unexpected discovery while looking for melon seedlings. That is the type of mysterious seeds that Rasmodes had sent from the mermaid. Lyon already knew the answer.

Those eighty seeds with their own clods of soil have now grown into large vines crawling on the ground. The familiar long, opposite, forked leaves, and the round, green melons with black stripes on the skin hanging on the vines, what else could it be but watermelons?
In fact, Lyon felt that it looked familiar before, but before the fruit was hung, he was not sure whether it was a watermelon.

Later, because of the installation of iridium sprinklers, Lyon did not pay much attention to these plants that looked like watermelon vines. It was only when he was looking for melon seedlings that he noticed that the tender fruits after they were hung were small watermelons, which completely confirmed their identity.

I just don't know whether the watermelons produced by these eighty watermelon vines are the familiar red-hearted high-quality watermelons that were bred and improved by Ms. Wu, or the half-red and half-white raw watermelons commonly seen abroad.

All of this will only be known after these watermelons are fully ripe.

After planting melons on all the vacant land, Lyon did not just leave.

It has been three or four days since the last time the soil was turned over and fertilizer was applied. In order to improve the quality of these crops after they mature, Lyon may turn over the soil and add fertilizer again. After all, it was Linus's suggestion, so it must be very effective.

Lyon discovered that the quality of the carrots, parsnips and strawberries harvested today had indeed improved compared to before. For example, the excellent Silver Star quality carrots and parsnips accounted for an astonishing proportion, reaching one-third of the total harvest. However, the improvement in the high-quality Venus quality harvest was not very obvious.

But any improvement is a good thing. I'm free anyway, and loosening the soil and adding fertilizer is not a troublesome and tedious task. It can make these crops grow better and bring higher returns, so there is naturally no reason to give up.

Of course, the most important point is the farming experience gained when harvesting crops of excellent quality or high quality, which is much higher than that of ordinary quality. This is the case in the game, and the reality should not change. With more experience, you can upgrade to level 8 farming sooner and unlock real barrels.

Lyon believes that hard work pays off, at least when it comes to farming. As for those idiot experts who claim that farmers are not important and land is the key, Lyon can only say go eat shit.

(End of this chapter)