Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

Lin Xia ordered the most basic food for a year (5 days) starting from Spring 120th. Because it was a full year, the price was 7200G after a 60% discount. After the apportionment, the daily food expenses were G.

今天是夏28号，林夏一共食用了26天+28天=54天，还剩余66天，合计3960G。

"Dart, with the remaining money, you can help me to prepare a set meal in your store. Just provide me with one meal a day, and only provide enough for one month." Lin Xia said to Dart after thinking it over.

Dart asked worriedly, "You are so busy every day, do you have time to cook for yourself?"

Lin Xia: "Breakfast is simple, bread and rice balls are ready-made, and making porridge or fried rice is also simple; I plan to eat the set meal you provided at noon, so I still have more time to make dinner. In the future, I can make more dishes at one time, package them and store them, so I won't delay eating them!

Today I will ask Gotz to help me build a smart kitchen. Once the smart kitchen is completed, cooking will be much easier!"

Dart was surprised: "You are going to build a smart kitchen! Then I won't worry about you eating on time, haha~"

Lin Xia smiled and said, "Even if I have a kitchen, my own cooking skills and ingredients are still limited. I will have to come to your place for a feast in the future!"

Dart smiled and said, "Come on, my new dishes are always free for you and Huo An!"

"By the way, there are only a few days left in this month. I'll help you arrange the meal until the end of autumn, and you can cook all-day meals by yourself in the winter. It happens that there is not much work to do in Mineral Town in the winter, so it's a happy thing to study food at home by yourself!" Dart added.

Lin Xia agreed with great gratitude.

After having lunch at Dart's place, Lin Xia immediately set out to find Huo An to buy seeds.

In Huo An, we mainly buy autumn seeds in advance. There is no need to buy summer seeds in advance as they are available at any time. Moreover, out of the 99 bags of pineapple seeds purchased by Lin Xia, only 35 bags were planted this year, and only 99 bags of 5 bags of peanut seeds were planted. As for the 99 bags of rice seeds, not a single bag was planted (the fields did not meet the standards).

I checked the autumn seeds here at Huo An and found the following:

Green pepper (multiple harvests): 150G/bag

Sunflower (one harvest): 300G/bag

Chinese cabbage (one harvest): 300g/bag

As for rice and wheat, they are not considered for the time being.

Lin Xia bought 3 bags of each of the three crops, spending a total of G.

Huo An smiled and said, "Is there anything else you need? Take a look, I have all good stuff!"

Lin Xia: "I have to spend sparingly. Did you forget that I still owe you the installment payment? If you spend money now, be careful that you won't have the money to pay you back later!"

Huo An immediately became serious: "Then you have to plan carefully. Is it necessary to buy so much seeds at one time? You have to calculate your farmland clearly. It's useless to buy too much. If you don't have enough, you can always buy more..."

Lin Xia: I’m impressed by you, you idiot!

"Where's Zack?" Lin Xia had to interrupt Huo An's nagging.

"He's in the kitchen. Do you have something to talk to him about?" Huo An asked lazily.

"I want to ask him if he has gone diving recently. What kind of cool things are there underwater? I want to try it too!"

"You are so poor, why don't you think about making money as soon as possible? What are you doing?"

Lin Xia was unhappy: "Can't poor people relax once in a while? You are discriminating, it's wrong."

"Lin Xia~ Are you looking for me?" At this time, Zack walked out of the kitchen and interrupted the meaningless argument between Lin and Huo.

"Yes, Zach!" Lin Xia immediately ignored Huo An, "Have you gone diving recently?"

"Yes, yes. I basically go there every morning and afternoon to play. Especially with the suit Huo An gave us last time, diving is more convenient!" Zach said excitedly, "Lin Xia, that suit is quite useful. You can also try it! Diving is fun!"

Lin Xia listened with great interest and asked, "We are near the sea. Logically, in addition to fish of various sizes, there are many other seafoods that can be eaten. Why is there nothing for sale here?"

Huo An interrupted and said, "It's just that there are none in Mineral Town. There are plenty in other places! However, there should be some in Mineral Town later."

Zack nodded after listening to him, and Lin Xia also reacted. In the past, the residents of the small town had a single and fixed diet, but since a few days ago, Dart broke the tradition and promoted new recipes, more new ingredients will surely appear in the future.

However, Lin Xia still wanted to go to the sea to experience some fresh air. After all, it was so hard to get so close to the sea, she couldn't waste it!

So I made an appointment with Zack to come see him tomorrow morning and ask him to take me to try it out.

After Lin Xia finished talking to Zach, she turned back to Huo An and said, "Huo An, after wearing the clothes you gave me last time for a while, I have some experience. Would you like to take note of them and improve them for the researchers when you go back?"

"Huh? You got feedback so soon?" Huo An immediately perked up. "Go ahead and tell me. I'll write it down!"

"Let me start with the good parts. The clothes are really excellent in terms of environmental simulation, odor isolation, and material toughness!"

Huo An listened carefully and was ready to respond to Lin Xia's "but" at any time.

“However, the appearance of the clothes still needs to be improved, otherwise it would be a bit wasteful to put another layer on the outside of the clothes every time;

The toughness of the material can only deal with damage from branches and vines. If it encounters dangerous animals, it is basically defenseless. If the effect in this aspect can be strengthened to the level of bulletproof vests, it would be even better.

Finally, it is not very convenient to wash this dress. The material is special. When it gets dirty, I dare not rub it vigorously. I can only rinse it in water and then dry it. "

After Huo An listened carefully, he said, "I will tell the researchers your feedback truthfully. Please continue to pay attention. If you have any comments, please write them down for me."

Then he glanced at Zach and said, "You too, don't ignore everything else every time you encounter diving. If there is any problem, give feedback in time!"

Zach nodded in agreement.

"As for the issue of clothing's defensive power, researchers have actually been conducting experiments all the time, and it won't be solved in a short time. But the cleanliness and style of clothing can be studied as soon as possible. I'll tell you when the results come out!" Huo An said to the two with a smile.

"By the way, as a reward for giving your trial suggestions, Lin Xia, I'll give this to you!"

Lin Xia was happy. What a good thing. She quickly took the thing handed to her by Huo An. After taking a closer look, she found that it was a flashlight-like thing about 20 centimeters long. What was that?

Lin Xia looked at Huo An in confusion.