Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

After returning home, Dart's carefully prepared lunch appeared on the small round table: twice-cooked pork, corn and chicken, miso sauce, and the staple food of grape toast.

The diced chicken should be made from the pheasant that Lin Xia sent over yesterday. The taste is pretty good, but the meat is not as tender as the domestic one.

However, if chicken dishes become popular, I believe the Chicken House will add a business selling chicken in the future. I hope Popli won’t be too sad then!

Lin Xia thought irresponsibly, and after finishing a hearty lunch, he came to the field. Today, 5 acres of peanuts and 10 acres of onions have been harvested. Lin Xia said to the orange dwarf Napi who had finished harvesting, "Napi, today's work is done, you can go back first. There is only one day left tomorrow, so please do your best!"

Napi happily accepted the wheat flour given by Lin Xia and went back.

So Lin Xia began to collect the peanut vines and onion stems and leaves into the space, and then transferred them to the warehouse of the crop workshop for storage, in order to save raw materials for future pig feed.

The 15 acres of vacant land were also reclaimed for use, and the peanuts, tomatoes, and onions that the dwarfs had harvested and left in the crop warehouse in recent days were moved to their own space. The fresh peanuts were placed outside to dry as usual, and the tomatoes and onions were stored in the refrigerator.

I put all the shrimps, crabs and other seafood that I caught from the sea in the morning into the refrigerator, and also put a clam with black pearls there for the time being, to be taken out later when I have time.

After cleaning up the space on the watch, Lin Xia took some bamboo baskets and storage bags and rushed to the back mountain. All the remaining mountain products had to be picked and absolutely nothing should be wasted.

So, Gotz, who was upgrading the kitchen at home, watched Lin Xia go in and out, and then ran out again, looking energetic and with shining eyes.

Before leaving the ranch, Lin Xia passed by the chicken and rabbit hut and took a look inside. He wanted to bring Da Zhuang to help, but when he saw that Da Zhuang was now half-naked, he thought better of it and let him rest for a few days. He was really a good owner who cared about his pets.

While feeling moved by himself, he hurried to the back mountain.

Before, Lin Xia had already tamed the grape trees, apple trees and other places on the back mountain. Now it was the final time to harvest the grapes. Lin Xia saw the grape trees and started picking them like fallen leaves in the autumn wind. With the help of the telescopic picking tools made by Goetz, Lin Xia didn't even have to climb the trees.

The apple trees are still in their prime season and will continue to bear fruit and mature until the end of autumn, so Lin Xia only picked the ripe fruits.

I don’t know if it’s because of the difference in growing time, but most of the grapes and apples in the mountains are of better quality than those grown on Lin Xia’s own ranch. Many of them are more than twice the size of Lin Xia’s. Only a few, probably because of insufficient light, are about the same size as Lin Xia’s.

Lin Xia opened the game panel and clicked on several fruits of different sizes. Sure enough, some fruits of high quality that were visible to the naked eye were rated 3 stars, while those of ordinary quality were the most common 1 star.

Lin Xia separated the apples by quality and placed them in a space. When making juice and cakes, she would use the apples of ordinary quality first, and the good quality ones could be eaten directly or given as gifts.

林夏将自己知道的葡萄树和苹果树进行了地毯式的采摘后，总共得到3星葡萄158串，2星葡萄222串,1星葡萄189串，3星苹果35个，2星苹果23个，1星苹果56个。

Lin Xia only picked the 1-star grapes and apples that were easy to pick, leaving the hard-to-pick ones to the small animals in the forest, but she picked as many fruits as possible above 1 star.

After picking all of them, Lin Xia went back to the slope where the Panax notoginseng was found in the spring. After growing for a whole summer, the Panax notoginseng had grown a lot and it was not far from the harvest season. There would definitely be a big harvest in the fall!

Lin Xia happily continued to move towards the trap and checked the trap. There was no gain in the past two days, so she maintained the trap and left.

During this shopping trip, Lin Xia not only collected the fruits that were supposed to be collected, but also inquired about the mountain products in the woods. Fortunately, she found seven chestnut trees, three hazelnut trees, a dozen pine trees with pine nuts, and two walnut trees. She was in a very good mood!

Step on the spot well and leave it for autumn.

I returned home happily, sorted the grapes and apples according to quality and put them in the refrigerator. At the same time, I put a whole grid of grapes, apples and honey in the watch space, so that I can satisfy my cravings at any time or give them as gifts.

Including the grapes and apples that Lin Xia had accumulated before, he now had 3 bunches of 262-star grapes, 2 bunches of 585-star grapes, and 1 bunches of 989-star grapes. These were almost all the grapes harvested from the back mountain and his own home during the entire spring and summer. It was quite a lot!

Apples are only in season now, so the quantity is not large, 3 57-star apples, 2 78-star apples, and 1 109-star apples. Lin Xia used to like apples very much, not only are they delicious, but they are also durable in storage.

There are currently 1 grape tree (fruiting in spring and summer), 1 apple tree (fruiting in summer and autumn), and 3 orange trees (fruiting in autumn and winter) planted on the ranch. The ranch only has enough space to plant 5 trees, and each tree will randomly produce honey every day, with at least one bottle, and at most every tree will have 5 bottles.

Although the amount in each bottle is not much, only 100g, Lin Xia is very satisfied. Honey is not a staple food, and even if it is 100g, it is enough for drinking or cooking, and it is not a pity to give it to others.

Moreover, the small bottle that comes with each bottle of honey is super cute. It's a pity that the used bottles are like the tableware for holding dishes at home. As long as they are put into the backpack space, they will be recycled by the system. However, if you fill them with water or other liquids and then put them into the backpack, they will not disappear, which is also quite magical.

After Lin Xia finished releasing the milk, she sorted out the milk and eggs she had harvested in the past few days.

Moo Moo, the cow that can produce ordinary milk, is still pregnant and cannot produce milk for the time being, so the milk in the refrigerator is still the milk it produced before it became pregnant. Now there are only 3 10L barrels of S-type milk and 2 20L barrels of M-type milk. Lin Xia basically uses this milk to make cream, butter, cheese or other cooking.

Then, the fancy milks that I had recently started to harvest were all placed in the personal space, including 2 and a half buckets each of S-shaped coffee, strawberry, and fruit milk. As for the missing half bucket of each, of course it was drunk by Lin Xia, haha!

Then there are eggs. Now there are the largest number of M-type eggs, 88 in total, and only 56 S-type eggs. This is because S-type eggs are now used for hatching and cooking. Later, the upper limit of the chicken's intimacy will be increased, and the intimacy of newly hatched chicks will be directly 3 stars. Lin Xia has no shortage of feed, so in addition to normal feeding every day, he also feeds the feed as a snack to each chicken and rabbit, causing their intimacy to grow very quickly.

Therefore, the number of S-shaped eggs is relatively small, while the number of M-shaped eggs is increasing rapidly.

Also, the big chickens in the early stages are affected by the intimacy cap. Even if they are full of hearts, their intimacy will always remain between 5-7 stars, causing them to only lay M-shaped eggs. None of the subsequent chickens have reached an intimacy of 8 stars.

The newly bought black chickens have also started laying eggs. So far, we have harvested 4 S-shaped eggs and put another one into the incubator, so there are 1 left.

Lin Xia transferred the black chicken eggs into the refrigerator, leaving only one grid in her personal space for the M-shaped eggs for use. This way, the eggs only took up one grid. As for the fancy milks, since there were not many in number but their properties were different, they were placed directly in the area grid.

Then I started looking at the amount of yarn.