Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

I got up late in the morning and didn't wake up until 8 o'clock. It seems that I was quite exhausted yesterday.

After washing up and having breakfast, Lin Xia started her daily routine.

Today will be the last pineapple harvest this summer. After this wave of harvest, the remaining pineapple roots can be cut off and the land can be cleared in advance.

After the pineapples are harvested today, there will no longer be a need for so many dwarfs for watering, so Lin Xia plans to hire a dwarf to take care of the animals.

Now the types and numbers of animals have increased. Although it does not take time to take care of them in the house, it is very energy-consuming for Lin Xia, especially brushing the wool of cattle and sheep.

This is not like in the game, where you can just press an operation key and an animal is ready. Now you have to brush an animal from all sides. Although the brush is convenient, it can't handle the large size and large number of animals.

By bringing in the dwarves to help, whether it is taking care of animals or collecting animal products, Lin Xia can free up a lot of time to do other things.

Lin Xia found the dwarfs. Today was the day to harvest pineapples and peanuts. Lin Xia coordinated three dwarfs to be responsible for today's harvesting, and the remaining four dwarfs were responsible for watering.

First, tell the four watering dwarfs that the pineapples do not need to be watered, and other crops should be given priority. After the pineapples are harvested today, if you have time, start cleaning the pineapple plants.

Then he talked to the dwarf, Aqua (green), who was temporarily assigned to help with the harvest today, about caring for the animals.

"Aqua, after we finish harvesting today, starting tomorrow, can you help me take care of all the animals on the ranch?"

"Sure!" Aqua said happily but worriedly, "But Aqua has never taken care of an animal before, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it well!"

Aunt Lin Xia smiled: "It's okay, Aqua, I'll tell you, it's very simple! Tomorrow morning, I will describe and demonstrate it to you in detail."

"No problem! Then how many days does Lin Xia need me to take care of the animals?"

"Well, take care of it for a week first. Then someone else will get familiar with the job. I'll have more and more animals in the future, and I'll definitely need your help for a long time!"

"You'll start taking care of the animals for a week tomorrow, Aqua, remember that!"

When we arrived at the animal house, we found that the wool processing machine commissioned by Saibala had been completed and installed.

After Lin Xia took care of the animals and fed them grass, she took out the wool and rabbit hair that she had previously accumulated and processed them into yarn.

The first time I did it, I was quite nervous!

The operation of the processing machine is relatively simple. Put the animal hair into the processing machine compartment, close the compartment door, select the thickness and color of the wool to be processed on the operation panel, press the start button, and the machine will start working.

The sound was so slight that only Lin Xia, who was close to the machine, could feel the slight vibration of the machine, letting her know that the machine had started working. Such a small noise avoided disturbing the animals, and Lin Xia was very satisfied.

In less than 1 minute, on the other side of the processing machine, the processed wool yarn appeared in the finished product warehouse.

Lin Xia picked up the wool and looked at it. For the first time, Lin Xia put in S-shaped rabbit hair and chose white as the color and coarse thickness. Lin Xia wanted to knit a scarf with rabbit wool, and coarse wool was easier to knit.

There is only one ball of rabbit hair yarn, weighing 8 taels. It feels very good and smooth. The snow-white yarn looks particularly beautiful.

Lin Xia then processed the remaining wool and rabbit hair one by one. She chose white and thick yarn for the rabbit hair. There were three parts of wool in total, and she chose black, bright red, and pink respectively. She started processing them with normal thickness and produced a total of 3 kilograms of yarn.

After checking it out, I found that the quality of the yarn was still good. However, except for the rabbit yarn, all other yarns were taken out by one pound and put into the shipping box.

The price of yarn balls is still reasonable and is more valuable than unprocessed animal hair.

S-shaped yarn, regardless of whether it is rabbit hair or wool, is 530g/jin; while the same grade of animal hair, rabbit hair is 240g/jin, wool is 400g/jin, and alpaca hair is 420g/jin.

However, I heard from Muchi that the higher the grade of the animal, the higher the price of the sheep and alpaca wool will be if sold directly rather than processed into yarn, because high-quality wool and alpaca wool can be directly processed into higher-grade textiles, such as woolen cloth, yarn, blankets, felt, etc.

Therefore, it is not recommended to process wool and alpaca wool that reaches type G or above into yarn.

The price of rabbit hair is always lower than that of wool yarn, so processing it into wool yarn and selling it would be a better choice.

After leaving the animal house with 4 balls of rabbit hair yarn (a total of 3 jins) and 2 jins of wool yarn, Lin Xia saw the white dragon strolling in the pasture. She blew the whistle, summoned it to her side, brushed its fur, and fed it animal snacks.

Then they came to the chicken and rabbit shed. Because Lin Xia got up late today and did not ring the bell, the chickens and rabbits stayed in the shed today. The big rooster that had just arrived yesterday did not leave at this moment. Instead, it enjoyed walking around surrounded by a group of hens.

Lin Xia was so angry when she saw this scene. How could she be so disappointing? Women should be reserved, don’t you understand?

The hens said they didn't understand, but Lin Xia forced them to separate. When the grazing bell rang, the chickens and rabbits seemed to be summoned and walked out of the house one by one to find food in the yard. Now only the confused rooster was left looking at Lin Xia.

Lin Xia ignored it at first and picked up all the eggs laid by the hens on the ground. She then looked at the pregnant rabbit No. 2, who was about to give birth tomorrow, and bought some feed for it.

Only one of the two incubators is hatching eggs now, which are black chicken eggs. The other one is empty. It has to wait for the 9-star-capped Cluckaw 6 to grow up before hatching the 10-star-capped chicks.

After Lin Xia finished her work, she said to the rooster, "You saved me yesterday, and I brought you back to treat your injuries. Now we are done with each other."

After hearing this, the rooster thought there was nothing wrong and nodded.

"But I helped you kill the wild boar family yesterday as you requested, and you haven't given me the ginseng and cordyceps you promised me! You have to know that yesterday, because of your injury, I gave up picking, and even risked my life overnight, crossing the forest, and rushed back to treat your injury. The loss was not small!"

After hearing this, the rooster thought it made sense, so he looked at Lin Xia as if to say: What do you want?

Lin Xia glanced at it and continued, "So, in order to make up for my loss and comfort me for the shock I received yesterday, you must compensate me well. In addition to the cordyceps and ginseng that we agreed on yesterday, do you have any other good things to compensate me?"

After hearing this, the rooster paused for a moment, stretched out its claws, left three more marks on the ground, and then looked at Lin Xia.

Lin Xia: ……

What does this mean? I don't understand, so I can only guess.

"You said you would give me three times the amount of what was promised above?"

The rooster rolled his eyes after hearing this!

Lin Xia: "Then give me three other good things?"

The rooster turned its butt towards Lin Xia and rolled its eyes in displeasure.

Lin Xia could only return to reality: "Is that a total of 3 ginseng roots?"

This time the rooster turned around, looked at Lin Xia and nodded.

This chicken is not easy to fool!

But it doesn't matter, these things are okay. Needless to say, the variety of Cordyceps found by the rooster is definitely top quality. I will go to Duote to identify it today and see how much it is worth.

The ginseng I saw yesterday was quite big. Although it hasn't been dug out yet, its quality is definitely good. Now I hope Gongji can find two more of similar ones. I'll be rich.

Wipe your saliva. This time we killed a total of 15 wild boars and a big crocodile, which is also a considerable harvest!

Apart from spending a lot of potions and getting a little scared, everything else on this trip can be ignored.

It is true that wealth and honor are achieved through risk!

"Oh oh oh~"

Suddenly, Lin Xia was brought back to reality by the crowing of a rooster. Looking at the dissatisfied rooster in front of her, she asked, "What's the matter? What else do you want?"